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    Posted: February 27 2021 at 08:06
Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Why was who's next left off? I imagine the who would have had more votes if it was on there instead of the who sell out.


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Those are some top tier Beatles albums, and as someone who generally prefers to listen to The Who over The Beatles, I had to choose Beatles for this one.
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Why was who's next left off? I imagine the who would have had more votes if it was on there instead of the who sell out.
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Originally posted by Hrychu Hrychu wrote:

Revolver/ Sgt Pepper / Abbey Road

These are in my opinion the top 3 best Beatles albums!

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With some reluctance I'll vote for The Who. None of those Beatles albums do as much for me as Quadrophenia, although Abbey Road and Revolver are great albums. I've heard Sgt Pepper enough now.
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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

interesting...

Beatles made better albums... the Who were a better band..

in fact it gets down to something that certain bands shared. Not surprisingly my top 3 bands alltime all share.

the ABB, JA, and the Who.

anyone sharp enough to note what they share..
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The Liverpool ones.
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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

interesting...

Beatles made better albums... the Who were a better band..

in fact it gets down to something that certain bands shared. Not surprisingly my top 3 bands alltime all share.

the ABB, JA, and the Who.

anyone sharp enough to note what they share..
More than one lead singer in the band.
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Revolver/ Sgt Pepper / Abbey Road

These are in my opinion the top 3 best Beatles albums!
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Revolver alone will do it
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Hi,

I was thinking that The Beatles had already paved the road when The Who showed up ... as such, The Beatles would be the more valuable of the two. But I think that The Who gave it more personality that was not as strict and "composed" as The Beatles were until the WHITE ALBUM when they showed the fracture and the breaks and GM was probably not putting his hand on it. And all this showed on the LET IT BE album as well.


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I wish I could vote for 1 Beatles album (Revolver) and 1 Who album (Sell Out).
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I prefer the Who over the Beatles, but for this poll the Beatles just comes out on top. Stick Who's Next into the mix though and I would've voted the other way.
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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

interesting...

Beatles made better albums... the Who were a better band..

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I would agree to this, only in that you could not see the Beatles in concert like we could The Who. If the Beatles had done a bunch of concerts that neared anywhere close to the songs they did on top of the building, they would probably have a lot more respect and appreciation. They could still play together and then some!

As far as the studio is concerned, I would have to say that the Beatles, were much more interesting and better because they had GEORGE MARTIN ... and if you really want to learn something about GM, try listening to the redone Goon shows in the BBC, and pay special attention to the sound effects ... all of them done (for the most part) with GM, who stated in his special that doing comedy really helped because what you have to do is make it work even better. And he did albums for Peter Sellers where you can see a wonderful blend of comedy, voices, style and sound ... and I'm not sure it could be done with an amateur at hand.

Some folks don't think that GM was that valuable, but when you see his special, there is reason to believe that he was the 5th Beatle, and a much more important person in the studio than anything else, specially helping put it all together.

The Who, became the darlings of the concert scene when Keith started copying Legs Larry Smith (Bonzo Dog Band) who used to smash and kick the drums at the end of their show. And it helped give The Who some notoriety ... but the fans ignored the BDB ... but in case you are bored, you really ought to go listen to Roger Ruskin Spear's version of that one WHO song ... it's better than the original by miles!!!
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interesting...

Beatles made better albums... the Who were a better band..

in fact it gets down to something that certain bands shared. Not surprisingly my top 3 bands alltime all share.

the ABB, JA, and the Who.

anyone sharp enough to note what they share..
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The Who for me. I really dig two of those Beatles album but never really succumbed to Sgt Pepper’s supposedly masterly ways.
The Beatles is a band I cherish far more for what they did to ‘open up’ the world of music and what one indeed could do with it...rather than actually jumping up and down about the actual meat and potatoes of the music. I always prefered The Stones and The Who.
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Both sets are great but it's hard to top those Beatles albums.
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Revolver goes through the stratosphere as well as Quadrophenia. The rest I pretty much agree with although I wouldn't said that A Day In The Life is dated. My take:
Revolver 5 to Sell Out 4
Pepper 5 to Tommy 3.5
Abbey Road 3.5 to Quadrophenia 5
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The Who. Quadrophenia and Tommy make coherent concepts (ok Tommy can be  a little out there). But it does have See me Feel me and few numbers match the emotonal and compositional quality once he and his band have the idea.

Sell Out is a good comparison to Pepper. The genius of Pepper is after the holiday camp cartoon fantasy is the placement of A Day In The Life - on it's own an incredible piece. But it's bleak realism after the Carry On iness of the rest gives the album a gravity at last. But Sell Out is a radio station to a holiday camp and the Psychedelic fantasy of Armenia does the reverse of the Beatles by taking the relaism away and going full out trippy. Townshend's rare ballads demonstrate an exquisite melody not even he managed. Now go directly to The Kinks.

Revolver may be the best Beatles record. But Quadrophenia with tunes, performance, story cohesion and the outstanding Love Reign O'er Me puts it in the stratosphere - if it wasn't there already. It captures a spirit of a time but it doesn't date. Day In The Life does, but in a good, appropriate way. Bit like a movie when Oliver Reed or Michael Caine turn up as McCartney pokes his cheery nose in Lennon's dark lyric and serves to only highlight the cynical appraisal of Lennon's work.

Abbey Road is pretty good. But Mean Mr Mustard and Polythene Pam...? Bit lightweight here. Lucky it's not being pitched up against the Stones' Let It Bleed where Midnight Rambler and Gimme Shelter's devastation blows away the Abbey Road. Good stuff on side 1 though. Lennon utterly original and in fine form. McCartney should have let him re write his pop suite then there might be some fireworks instead of this safe little cartoon world.

Revolver 4.5 to Sell Out's 4.5
Pepper 4  to Tommy's 4.5
Abbey Road 3.5 to Quadrophenia 5.
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