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thehallway 
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Posted: October 03 2011 at 16:09 |
If your favourite was already knocked out, tough!
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akamaisondufromage
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Posted: October 03 2011 at 17:18 |
Yep my favourite has been blown out of the the water by Blue Meanies! So my second fave gets a shot in the arm.
Revolver.
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Fox On The Rocks
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Posted: October 03 2011 at 19:23 |
Well Sgt.Peppers out so guess I'm gonna go with a little album called Abbey Road!
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rod65
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Posted: October 03 2011 at 20:19 |
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Side Two of Abbey Road is, in my opinion, one of the best musical listening experiences out there. Whenever I put it on, I am amazed that so much can be packed into a single side of vinyl.
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: October 03 2011 at 23:54 |
Of the three, had to go with Abbey Road, with Revolver second. I still think The White Album is the best though! 
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to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology...
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: October 04 2011 at 06:46 |
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Of those Abbey Road before Revolver. A Hard Day's Rut, not essential.
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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thehallway
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Posted: October 04 2011 at 07:26 |
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This being a prog website, I don't expect A Hard Day's Night to get any votes.... but it is a good album.
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Alitare
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Posted: October 04 2011 at 09:42 |
Abbey Road - one of the greatest albums in the history of mankind. Side one is a string of hits of unimaginable proportions, and side two is a labyrinth of ideas. White album was lovely, but much too sprawling, and Sgt. Pepper was a tad limited in select areas, even if it was their most concise. Revolver was too primitive for me, and Let it Be was...well, they could've put more effort into it is all I'm saying. But Abbey Road, boy! That's one for the ages.
Although, for me, pretty much every Beatles album from 1965-1970 is essential. I've changed a lot in the past two years or so. Used to hate them.
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someone_else
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Posted: October 04 2011 at 15:08 |
Revolver is my favourite Beatles album. Abbey Road comes at #3 in my book, just after "The White Album".
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: October 04 2011 at 19:34 |
I have to kind of figure that no matter what albums made up the final three choices that the proportions will stick to something like 1:5:11. And we're still not happy if our personal choices didn't make it.  Get him!!! You'll need some Help when we're done with you buddy. 
Edited by Slartibartfast - October 04 2011 at 19:36
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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TODDLER
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Posted: October 05 2011 at 11:46 |
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Abbey Road
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jammun
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Posted: October 05 2011 at 17:17 |
Abbey Road.
However, the other two contenders are so good, and I did not even vote for them in the initial polls. I know, to all the naysayers out there, they are overrated. But this was the band that punched through the mediocrity that was r&r in the early '60s. Blew it up. And rewrote rock history. Abbey Road is a fine album by any measure.
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Can you tell me where we're headin'?
Lincoln County Road or Armageddon.
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Horizons
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Posted: October 05 2011 at 18:12 |
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Didn't see this coming.
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jammun
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Posted: October 05 2011 at 22:07 |
For everyone who voted for any of these, please please me and go listen to that Beatles version of Baby It's You.
If you want to hear the real brilliance.
It's a raw band, but it's all there. I don't even know if Ringo can play drums at this point in the timeline. Listen to the beat, listen to the guitars, listen to the vocals. 1963. Just WASTING any comers. Just WASTING. Freaking bar band that's been playing this stuff for years, and figured out how it should really be done.
Go listen to With.... Ignore everything except Hold Me Tight. The beat, the vocals, the stunning guitar underpinnings. Go listen to a Lesley Gore song from the era. sh*t, listen to You Really Got a Hold On Me, hey been done already. Yeah?
The later stuff will get the prog vote. Do not dismiss the early songs. Glad to see Hard Days Night made it to the finals. Anytime At All do you hear those piano chords solidifying the bottom end? Maybe that's just George Martin, I dunno. C'mon, out' my way. What a fine rock band! Get all sophisticated later, but this was a pure rock band that could and did just waste the competition.
Sorry I get emotional...
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Can you tell me where we're headin'?
Lincoln County Road or Armageddon.
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Formentera Lady
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Posted: October 06 2011 at 08:36 |
 The Dark Elf wrote:
Of the three, had to go with Abbey Road, ... I still think The White Album is the best though! |
Agreed.
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Moogtron III
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Posted: October 06 2011 at 11:31 |
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Abbey Road, no doubt. Absolutely great stuff on that album.
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thehallway
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Posted: October 06 2011 at 15:49 |
Uh oh.... 
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Chris S
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Posted: October 06 2011 at 16:32 |
All good but the best is....... All Things Must Pass...... by George Harrison 
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Bosh66
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Posted: October 07 2011 at 05:51 |
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Abbey Road - the obvious winner here, although Revolver is also a decent enough candidate. A Hard Day's Night is a great little rock and roll record, but was never going to win on a site like this.
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thehallway
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Posted: October 07 2011 at 09:52 |
So Abbey Road is the winner! \0/ \0/ \0/ \0/ ____/\_____/\______/\_____/\_____ (< the Beatles celebrating).
Now to do a poll containing every single Beatles song........
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