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KingCrInuYasha 
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Posted: July 10 2014 at 12:52 |
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How about the era before they hit the recording studio when they were a great live band performing at the Cavern in Liverpool? |
Oh yeah, that. A sin that there aren't any recordings of them during that period.
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Posted: July 07 2014 at 16:31 |
There were other Beatles albums before Abbey Road? I have heard rumors to that effect over the years. 
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Posted: July 07 2014 at 01:35 |
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Posted: July 07 2014 at 01:33 |
KingCrInuYasha wrote:
I always though of the Beatles of having 4 eras.
Era 1: Please Please Me, With The Beatles, A Hard Day's Night
Era 2: Beatles For Sale, Help!, Rubber Soul, Revolver
Era 3: Sgt. Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour, plus the songs recorded for Yellow Submarine
Era 4: The White Album, Abbey Road, Let It Be
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How about the era before they hit the recording studio when they were a great live band performing at the Cavern in Liverpool?
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Posted: June 19 2014 at 15:13 |
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I always though of the Beatles of having 4 eras.
Era 1: Please Please Me, With The Beatles, A Hard Day's Night
Era 2: Beatles For Sale, Help!, Rubber Soul, Revolver
Era 3: Sgt. Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour, plus the songs recorded for Yellow Submarine
Era 4: The White Album, Abbey Road, Let It Be
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Posted: June 08 2014 at 07:37 |
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They kind of break into only two phases for me....
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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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Posted: June 07 2014 at 07:23 |
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the one with Sgt. Pepper as a part of it
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Posted: May 01 2014 at 07:08 |
If you had bulked the white album with the subsequent album - which I would find only natural - then perhaps that era. Cannot see why the white album should constitute an era by itself.
They didn'r deviate much from the formula white album onwards - shuffle the songs and you will hear this.
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Posted: April 28 2014 at 12:35 |
I still believe that Abbey Road is a masterpiece, a level that no previous album achieved.
It's musically strong, enhanced by the beautiful "Here Comes the Sun" by the forgotten Beatle, and absolutely adventurous.
This album alone is an era for me,
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Posted: April 28 2014 at 06:57 |
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All - each and every album they put out was wonderful for different reasons, even those early beat-pop albums are totally charming!
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Posted: April 28 2014 at 05:16 |
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66-68
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Posted: April 28 2014 at 04:20 |
I agree with npjnpj's point of view concerning the eras.
My favourite album is Revolver, followed by Sgt Pepper, Abbey Road and The Beatles.
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Posted: April 28 2014 at 03:12 |
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Can't vote on ths one, reason being that I disagree with those eras.
To me, there were only two, those being: 1) before Rubber soul and 2) Rubber Soul and after. In that case, it's the second era for me.
From Please Please Me up until Help!, any songs could have been on any of those albums, comletely interchangable. In fact, looking at the US releases, they actually were.
Startiing with Rubber Soul there was a continuous progression, each track belonging clearly to its own album. If you want to take it to extremes, I suppose you could say that each album from this phase was its own era.
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Posted: April 27 2014 at 05:26 |
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I wouldn't bother voting. There are classics here and there. Period.
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Posted: April 27 2014 at 04:37 |
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Abbey Road (a deliberate album that turned out fantastic).
Magical Mystery Tour (an accidental album that turned out fantastic).
A Day In The Life for possibly the single greatest ...song? The Beatles did. This one was ground breaking. There's no chorus but this is the dark side of the sunshine of Pepper.
The rest have great songs (All Your Loving, Guitar Gently Weeps), some not so great (Rocky Raccoon) and many brave moments (Revolution #9).
Oh yeah, voted for the '69 era despite it being great (Abbey Road) and very average (the two versions of Let It Be - for the first time The Beatles sounded short of ideas. There's good material but they sounded like many other bands at times. Of course those strings didn't help....Then they upped their game and finished with Abbey Road. Should have been a new beginning but wasn't.
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Posted: April 21 2014 at 06:26 |
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I think it's 66-68.
Edited by charles_ryder - May 01 2014 at 07:31
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Posted: April 30 2013 at 17:52 |
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65-66
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Posted: April 30 2013 at 17:31 |
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Sgt. Pepper is their greatest accomplishment IMO. After that, I'd say Revolver is their second best and Abbey Road third.
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Posted: April 30 2013 at 14:48 |
Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:
ABBEY ROAD is better than everything they did in their career. |
I have that feeling too. Except for that a progger like me likes the epic-like side 2 with some brilliant short pieces glued together, there are some ace songs on side 1 as well. Sergeant Pepper's my nr. 2, had to be ground breaking in those days, but from a progger's point of view it's not that special anymore, except for some very good imaginative songs. Voted for the last period though, purely on the strength of Abbey Road.
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