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    Posted: January 16 2013 at 09:18
Abbey Road is very "proto-prog" album. I'd say, the best from The Beatles catalog, very strong and mature.

White Album is kind of collection of studio outtakes. There are gems, and there are mediocre songs. The material is very uneven, and doesn't have common style or idea


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"I want you, I want you so bad", Come on now, it's Abbey Road. Gwen Stefani about it(get it)

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The White Album by a hair... there are some tracks that I don't like on the album, but overall there's more than a full-length album's worth of tracks that I do love.
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The White Album is best I think simply because it had a lot more different things on it being a double album and a lot more experimentation, i would say. I listened to Abbey Road a lot more growing up though and I would say it's more memorable, the medley is especially spectacular. either way, it's the psychedelic beatles that I'm really in love with.
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1.Abbey Road (5/5)
2.Let It Be (5/5)
3.Yellow Submarine (4.5/5)
4.The Beatles (4.5/5)
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Abbey RoadWink
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The White Album for me
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They never released a bad album...but for the purposes of this poll, I chose Abbey Road.
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The one with the cover showing the four Beatles walking on that famous road.
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That's very funny LOL
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Originally posted by RoyFairbank RoyFairbank wrote:

White Album is more ambitious than Abbey Road IMO, edgier more adventurous.

Another thing, the "filler" in White Album is nothing of the sort. Those songs are the main point of the album, the "regular" songs are the filler.
I agree. The White Album is easily the best late Beatles album.  I think of it as a compilation album, as there are solo tracks, and many other tracks have fewer than four Beatles involved.  It's like a handful of different bands all working together somehow.
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^ Amazing beautiful song, great vocals, masterpiece of a song.
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Originally posted by HolyMoly HolyMoly wrote:

I've been listening to Let it Be a lot more lately.  The Long and Winding Road is my current favorite there.  I remember not liking that song when I was a young kid because it was too sad.

That was the very same reason why I loved it. It was such a long time ago, I must have been playing that thing more than 2-3 times in a row. I really can't remember.


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All the beatles stuff is great. White Album is more ambitious than Abbey Road IMO, edgier more adventurous. That's not to say Give Me Your Money/The End sequence is not divine.

Another thing, the "filler" in White Album is nothing of the sort. Those songs are the main point of the album, the "regular" songs are the filler.

Rocky Raccoon, Cry Baby Cry, Bungalow Bill, some of my favorite songs on the album, and most interesting.
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Sim story here Holy.....when I was young LiB was the one I played least.  I was a huge Beatle fan but pretty much ignored that album.  Now in middle age, it seems like the single most important one to me, the most honest one and emotional one.  It's got gut and it trades whimsy away for a raw sound, along with some killer songs.  Abbey Road may be the goodbye most people prefer but to me it puts the masks back on....and I think it has a fair bit of fluff around it's best moments.

I love the film too with Paul at the piano, and the footage of the guys jamming live on the rooftop.  Damn that's great!    




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I've been listening to Let it Be a lot more lately.  The Long and Winding Road is my current favorite there.  I remember not liking that song when I was a young kid because it was too sad.
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Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

John Lennon and George Harrison?

I thought the same

Sad to say I only had one of the post Beatles albums and that was Wings - Band On The Run band on the run band on the run.  Another flood victim. 
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

John Lennon and George Harrison?

I thought the same
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Abbey Road, no doubt!
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