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Padraic 
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 Topic: favorite beatles album?
Posted: April 06 2006 at 21:00 |
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I was in a Beatles mood, so on the 3 hr. drive back home from a
business trip, I had Sgt. Pepper and Abbey Road in the car. While
I recognize the importance of Sgt. Pepper in modern music history, to
me Abbey Road is the true Beatles masterpiece. Wanted to see what
you all thought, I included some albums as explicit choices, but if for
some reasons "Please Please Me" is your favorite, let us know!
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Ben2112
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Posted: April 06 2006 at 22:27 |
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My two favorites have always been Abbey Road and Revolver. Revolver because it just contains so many different styles (same as with the Album before--Rubber Soul--which probably should have gone on the poll too) and it contains some brilliant pop gems (Taxman, Eleanor Rigby, I'm Only Sleeping, etc.) and a wonderful introduction to psychedelia in Tomorrow Never Knows; and Abbey Road due to the incredibly cool side two suite, and the gorgeous vocal harmonies, which may never have been equaled to this day. I picked Abbey Road for the poll.
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Posted: April 06 2006 at 22:42 |
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Abby Road is wonderful.
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marktheshark
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Posted: April 06 2006 at 23:43 |
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To me Revolver is the one. All the rest are masterpieces too in their own way, but Revolver was the zenith of their experimental phase. The songs are more "black and white" with a more stark contrast between them. We go from George's Indian influenced Love To You right into the novelty of Yellow Submarine. The juxaposition is so jarring on this album you can't keep up with it, especially in 1966! Even the cover is stark, not a single color photo on it.
The Beatles certainly went through some darker periods as trying to stay as a band later on, but this was the first of the their dark periods with touring becoming more and more intolerable. They were being torn between writing pop songs and experimenting in the studio at this point. LSD was introduced to at least John and George at this point. So the result here is some pop songs done experimentally (or some of which). Not a single song from this album was performed on their last tour for good reason (unless you want to count Paperback Writer which was from the same sessions).
To me this album is the crux of the biscuit in terms of their songwriting abilities. The production may be more rough than the latters, but I think that's what makes this album even more interesting.
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SirPsycho388
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Posted: April 06 2006 at 23:58 |
My top three favorites are Rubber Soul, Revolver, and Abbey Road. Though I love most Beatle albums... the next two being The White Album and Sgt. Pepper.
But i gave my vote to Abbey Road... side 2 is amazing!!!
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Posted: April 07 2006 at 00:14 |
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I'm gonna go with Sgt. Pepper. All of their albums from Rubber Soul to
Abbey Road were masterpieces IMO though. Revolver is my second favorite.
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Posted: April 07 2006 at 04:02 |
Magical Mystery Tour ...
it was a little bit of a cobbled together effort because it included Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane (which had been recorded before Sgt Pepper's but left off) ...
but in the end I simply cannot resist an album that contains Fool On The Hill, I Am The Walrus, All You Need Is Love, Strawberry Fields Forever, Penny Lane and some relatively uncelebrated gems like Blue Jay Way, Baby You're A Rich Man, Hello Goodbye and the title track ...
even Flying and Your Mother Should Know have wonderful memories for me ... are to be warm and toasted ...
Sgt. Peppers next and Revolver third ...
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Posted: April 07 2006 at 06:50 |
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"Rubber Soul"
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Posted: April 07 2006 at 09:15 |
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"Revolver"
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Posted: April 07 2006 at 09:24 |
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Abbey Road for me.
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Posted: April 07 2006 at 10:11 |
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Sgt. Pepper for me. Such a wonderful flow of songs, styles and ideas. And IMHO where prog rock begins.
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Posted: April 07 2006 at 11:29 |
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1.Sgt Pepper
2.Revolver
3.The White Album
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Posted: April 07 2006 at 11:33 |
1- Abbey Road
2- White album
3- Sgt. Pepper
4- Magical Mystery Tour
5- Revolver
6- Let it be
7- Rubber Soul
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Posted: April 07 2006 at 11:49 |
Gotta be Abbey Road for me.
Then SGT Pepper,
White Album,
Revolver,
Rubber Soul,
Let It Be
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Posted: April 07 2006 at 11:56 |
1. Magical Mystery Tour
2. Sgt. peppers
3. Abbey Road
4. Revolver
5. White Album/ Rubber Soul
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Posted: April 07 2006 at 12:20 |
1. Revolver
2. Abbey Road
3. Sgt. Pepper's
I count the White Album separately and Magical Mystery Tour will always be an EP for me (MMT was released in Brazil in the same format as in the UK).
I don't like Let It Be that much - naked or dressed. 
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Padraic
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Posted: April 07 2006 at 14:22 |
No love for "Let It Be"? Interesting.
 marktheshark wrote:
We go from George's Indian influenced Love To You
right into the novelty of Yellow Submarine. The juxaposition is so
jarring on this album you can't keep up with it, especially in 1966!
Even the cover is stark, not a single color photo on it. |
I had the same feeling when listening to the following songs (which occur all in a row) on Sgt. Pepper's:
She's Leaving Home
For the Benefit of Mr. Kite
Within You Without You
When I'm 64
and it occured to me that this was the beauty and the shattering
revelation of this album (although I agree with you, the
experimentation had already begun on Revolver). Four songs with
drastically different sounds; the sad yet beautiful strings on "She's
Leaving Home" to the loopy, carnival atmosphere of "Mr. Kite" to the
Indian sounds on "Within You Without You" to the soft-shoe of "When I'm
64" - the Beatles broke down whatever barriers existed on creating
music here by saying, "It can be anything you want" - and more
importantly, it came out great! In other words, there didn't need
to be any limitations on making good music, it in some sense allowed
for the wonderful creativity we have in the music to come. Other
groups and artists had already been making strides in "proto-prog",
exploring and breaking musical boundaries, but because of their
popularity, when the Beatles did it, it took on a greater
magnitude. This is why I consider this album as the foundation
(or to be more equitable, one of the cornerstones) of progressive music.
Thanks all for participating in the poll.
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dralan
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Posted: April 07 2006 at 15:22 |
Check my avatar  All these albums are classics, but Id say Revolver followed closely by Sgt. Pepper. The songs on Revolver are so mind-blowingly different from one another, displaying many influences yet being so original and totally new at that time. And at the same time somehow they all flow together perfectly. This album still floors me today when I listen to it.
Edited by dralan
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Posted: April 07 2006 at 17:16 |
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Abby Road, The White Album, And Sgt Pepper.
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marktheshark
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Posted: April 07 2006 at 17:38 |
NaturalScience wrote:
No love for "Let It Be"? Interesting.
marktheshark wrote:
We go from George's Indian influenced Love To You
right into the novelty of Yellow Submarine. The juxaposition is so
jarring on this album you can't keep up with it, especially in 1966!
Even the cover is stark, not a single color photo on it. |
I had the same feeling when listening to the following songs (which occur all in a row) on Sgt. Pepper's:
She's Leaving Home
For the Benefit of Mr. Kite
Within You Without You
When I'm 64
and it occured to me that this was the beauty and the shattering
revelation of this album (although I agree with you, the
experimentation had already begun on Revolver). Four songs with
drastically different sounds; the sad yet beautiful strings on "She's
Leaving Home" to the loopy, carnival atmosphere of "Mr. Kite" to the
Indian sounds on "Within You Without You" to the soft-shoe of "When I'm
64" - the Beatles broke down whatever barriers existed on creating
music here by saying, "It can be anything you want" - and more
importantly, it came out great! In other words, there didn't need
to be any limitations on making good music, it in some sense <span style="font-style: italic;">allowed</span>
for the wonderful creativity we have in the music to come. Other
groups and artists had already been making strides in "proto-prog",
exploring and breaking musical boundaries, but because of their
popularity, when the Beatles did it, it took on a greater
magnitude. This is why I consider this album as the foundation
(or to be more equitable, one of the cornerstones) of progressive music.
Thanks all for participating in the poll.
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I can see what you mean by the diversity shown in Pepper, especially in those 4 songs. But by the time they went for Pepper they pretty much had the studio trickery down to where it sounded a bit too slick. Where Revolver had a more darker and sharper edge to it. And Pepper was very seamless as well as more colorful sounding too.
Out of all the other rock albums at the time (Are You Experienced, Surrealistic Pillow, Disraeli Gears etc.) Pepper was no doubt the most innovative and revolutionary. But out of the Beatles catalog up to that point, I always thought it to be just a tad overrated compared to Revolver. But that's just my opinion. No big deal though, Beatlemaniacs like myself don't generally have very big disagreements with each other like a country/western buff going up against a progger! 
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