the beatles poll
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Topic: the beatles poll
Posted By: martinprog77
Subject: the beatles poll
Date Posted: January 06 2009 at 04:09
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so,which one do you prefer ?
to me probably the white album ,just because I'm listen to it right now [ what an album !!!!!! ]  ------------- Nothing can last there are no second chances. Never give a day away. Always live for today. |
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: January 06 2009 at 04:18
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1. Revolver
2. The White Album
3. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 4. Abbey Road 5. Magical Mystery Tour 6. Let It Be |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: January 06 2009 at 04:27
Rubber Soul would complete my personal Beatles top 5, but it wasn't included as an option. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: January 06 2009 at 04:30
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1. Abbey Road 2. Rubber Soul 3. Magical Mystery Tour 4. Revolver 5. Let It Be 6. Sgt. Pepper 7. White Album ------------- http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=42652" rel="nofollow - It's on PA! 
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Posted By: Anthony
Date Posted: January 06 2009 at 04:30
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1 Abbey Road
2 Sgt. Pepper
3 Revolver
4 White Album
5 Magical Mystery Tour
6 Let it be
5 and 6 should be switched if we're talking about the original Magical Mystery Tour E.P. instead of the extended American version that became the CD version. ------------- Future prosperity lies in the way you heal the world with love (Introitus - The hand that feeds you) |
Posted By: Daniel1974nl
Date Posted: January 06 2009 at 04:31
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Very difficult.........Cos it is after all Revolver that gave us Pink Floyd....St. Pepper the idea of a concept album and Rubber Soul (not in the list) that inspired (among others) Genesis. But ultimatly I voted for The White Album cos its by fasr the most experimental......and most creative...Also is the influence of George Harrison also much much stronger here...and for me he is the only true Beatle.......and the one that eventually made The Beatles the most influential band in the history of music.
Lennon and McCartney only wanted to make popsongs and write political lyrics..........but it was Harroson that wanted to expound the borders....and majke music in the first place......I think The Whilte Album stands out as a proof for that....even now about 40 years later.
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Posted By: King Crimson776
Date Posted: January 06 2009 at 04:49
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Revolver Sgt. Pepper's White Album Abbey Road Rubber Soul
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: January 06 2009 at 06:51
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If I only had one it would be The Beatles, mainly because of the humour and the dazzling array of styles. Revolver is a close second.
MMT isn't really a Beatles LP, it's a compilation of an EP and some singles.
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Posted By: Alberto Muñoz
Date Posted: January 06 2009 at 09:56
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The white album for me -------------  |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: January 06 2009 at 10:06
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Honestly I only like (really like) Abbey Road, simply brilliant side B is almost an epic.
The rest...............I like Sgt Peppers a bit but nothing spectacular IMHO and Let it Be has it's moments.
Iván ------------- 
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: January 06 2009 at 10:34
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The White Album, two LPs and a nice eclecticism.
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Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: January 06 2009 at 12:48
| None. I'm not questioning their importance when it comes to the history of music but I am one of the few that have never gotten into them. |
Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: January 06 2009 at 14:47
Abbey Road's awesome, it's their Magnum Opus.
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Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: January 06 2009 at 14:47
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I'm glad to see that no one voted Let It Be yet... -------------
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Posted By: Chelsea
Date Posted: January 06 2009 at 15:16
I voted for |
progrocker2244 wrote:Posted By: Stool Man
Date Posted: January 06 2009 at 15:33
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White album, I love it - sounds like a compilation rather than the work of a band.
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Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: January 06 2009 at 21:08
| Abbey Road. One of the finest albums ever recorded. |
Posted By: BroSpence
Date Posted: January 06 2009 at 23:27
| Abbey Road for sure. Whitey has too many Paul tunes. Revolver is great, and so is Sgt, and Mag, and Let, but Abbey does it for me. |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: January 07 2009 at 04:53
It's worth listening to Let It Be ... Naked, which is a big improvement on the Spector version. It's still a rather dismal addition to an otherwise splendid discography, though - Abbey Road should have been the final release. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: Toaster Mantis
Date Posted: January 07 2009 at 05:09
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Revolver, that album was an inseparable part of my childhood and more so than for example Magical Mystery Tour which I also grew up with.
------------- "The past is not some static being, it is not a previous present, nor a present that has passed away; the past has its own dynamic being which is constantly renewed and renewing." - Claire Colebrook |
Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: January 07 2009 at 06:18
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Abbey Road - considering that at the time it was recorded the band was falling apart, it feels very polished and together... not a naff tune on it (even Octopus's Garden can be excused)... and the second side ( on the CD from Here Comes the Sun, onwards) is sublime.
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Posted By: Philip
Date Posted: January 07 2009 at 06:55
| Abbey Road, with good advantage! |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: January 07 2009 at 07:37
No, it can't.
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: January 07 2009 at 11:28
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Even though The White Album has some great songs, there's a fair amount of filler, too; no, for me, Abbey Road is by far my favorite Beatles album despite Octopus's Garden, which is thankfully (almost) eclipsed by the sheer quality of the rest of the songs. ------------- 
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Malve87
Date Posted: January 07 2009 at 12:57
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this was though...in the end I voted for Sgt. Pepper's... "A day in the life" alone is worth the vote
Anyway Abbey Road is very close... ------------- ] 
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Posted By: JLocke
Date Posted: January 07 2009 at 14:32
Heheh . . . thank you for posting this; it's gotten be back into my Beatles-listening phase. 
I tell ya, my 'favorite' Beatles album always changes. Whenever I listen to Revovler all I can do is think: "Ahhh! There's nothing like this!", but if I then put in the white album, I have the same thoughts, then with Sgt. Pepper, Abby Road, and so forth . . .
But I suppose my true favorite Beatles album resides somewhere within those four.
Currently, I voted for the white album, because thinking about Dear Prudence, Rocky Raccoon, Piggies, Helter Skelter, Revolution, etc. I'm in musical heaven. Can't get much better than these songs, can you? Simple but complex, beautiful yet trippy all at the same time.
Though, you won't hear George Martin praising the white album. He basically thinks like Wakeman does about Topographic oceans: that there wasn't enough substance to warrant a double-lp release.
I couldn't dissagree with Mr. Beatle #5 more on this view, but oh well. He's entitled to his opinion.
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Posted By: PJaypt
Date Posted: January 08 2009 at 19:43
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Can't you people make easy polls? LOL I haven't voted yet, I've got to listen to them again! Gooooooood! Today, I'm going for the WA, but from Help to Abbey Road, they're all a must (and I have them all). Can I vote again tomorrow, please? ------------- And after all we're only ordinary beings |
Posted By: Abrawang
Date Posted: January 08 2009 at 21:53
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For me it's Sgt Pepper's by a mile. No weak cuts and plenty of great ones. Lucy in the Sky, She's Leaving Home, Mr. Kite, Within You Without You and that closing collection of Good Morning, Sgt Pepper's and A Day in the Life; just can't be beat.
I agree with the poster who said that only Side 2 of Abbey Road is a classic. No need to say much of Octopus Garden, and Come Together always struck me as unremarkable and boring. Even She's So Heavy, my fave Beatles song when it came out, graudally seemed too repetitious over the years.
A single Greatest Hits version of the White Album would have been interesting. Cuts I Iike a lot are Guitar Weeps, Bungalow Bill, Happiness Gun, USSR, Piggies, Rocky Racoon, Glass Onion, Cry Baby Cry, Long Time & Savoy Truffle. I was less impressed with some of their popular numbers like Helter Skelter, Yer Blues, Ob-la-di, Me & My Monkey & Birthday. Then there's junk like Do It in the Road and the phenomenal amusical void of Number 9.
Revolver is also very good. I just don't think it's best songs stand up to the best of Sgt Pepper's, plus it has cuts I'm not crazy about like Yellow Sub, Dr Robert & I'm Only Sleeping. ------------- Casting doubt on all I have to say... |
Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: January 08 2009 at 23:34
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yeah, Abbey Road , with White and Pepper not far behind. Special mention to Hey Bulldog on Yellow Submarine ------------- I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth. |
Posted By: Avantgardehead
Date Posted: January 09 2009 at 06:56
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Magical Mystery Tour is dreadfully underrated. The biggest concentration of their best songs, I think.
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Posted By: jimidom
Date Posted: January 09 2009 at 12:17
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OK... I noticed that Let It Be wasn't getting any love. So I cast my vote for it. Talk about underrated! The title track as well as "Across the Universe" and "The Long And Winding Road" are more than enough to make this a great album, but throw in gems like "Dig a Pony", "I've Got a Feeling", "One After 909", and "Get Back", and it becomes a classic. ------------- "The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - HST |
Posted By: Carlos
Date Posted: January 09 2009 at 15:02
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Sgt. Pepper's
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Posted By: dougiezerts
Date Posted: January 09 2009 at 19:00
| The White Album. All over the place, musically. I've heard that it was basically several side projects the guys were doing, and I believe it. |
Posted By: Cactus Choir
Date Posted: January 09 2009 at 19:46
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Abbey Road, the last thing they recorded together and a great way to go out. I could just as easily have voted for Revolver or Magical Mystery Tour. Was never a big fan of the White Album as too many of the songs sound like half-arsed pastiches. ------------- "And now...on the drums...Mick Underwooooooooood!!!" "He's up the pub" |
Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: January 09 2009 at 20:54
Let It Be Naked is better, but it still doesn't hide the fact that the music isn't all great. -------------
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Posted By: manofmystery
Date Posted: January 09 2009 at 21:11
your not alone brother
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Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: January 11 2009 at 04:13
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The Mystery Tour.......roll up! ------------- I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there..... |
Posted By: peskypesky
Date Posted: January 11 2009 at 07:11
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This is a hard one. Picking my favorite is a little easier than ranking them though. I chose the White Album because of the vast range of material....it covers just about the entire range of rock music....from the most delicate beauty (i.e. "Julia", "Mother Nature's Son", "Blackbird") to primal savagery (i.e. "Helter Skelter", "Why Don't We Do It In The Road?", "Yer Blues") and everything in between. As for ranking them...I give up.
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Posted By: peskypesky
Date Posted: January 11 2009 at 07:15
You're right about that. It is dreadfully under-rated. It has more great songs than Sgt. Pepper, that's for sure. As we all know, Sgt Pepper is not one of the strongest Beatles albums in terms of song-writing. It's the over-all concept and the production that gives it such a legendary status. Magical Mystery Tour is almost wall-to-wall masterpieces of songwriting.
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Posted By: Floydian42
Date Posted: January 11 2009 at 14:12
| I haven't listened all through Let it Be or Magical Mystery tour, but I've heard the rest and my favorite is Abbey Road. I love so many songs on that album, the best being "Because." That song is just so good. |
Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: January 11 2009 at 15:10
| I'm a big fan of The White Album. It was my introduction to what the Beatles played beyond what got radio airplay. After that, probably Abbey Road. |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: January 11 2009 at 20:37
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Abbey Road
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 06:28
That's a good point actually. Of all the songs on The Beatles, there aren't that many that are generally known to the public in the way that Let It Be and Hey Jude are. Beyond "Back in the USSR" and "Ob-la-di ob-la-da (via the Marmalade version) not that many spring to mind as being radio favourites. That's probably one of the reasons I like it so much.
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Posted By: Floydian42
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 17:27
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Did anyone else get into them via Across the Universe? (The Movie) I had only ever simply heard there pop songs before then, and never understood what it all was about. But I think that movie explained not only the extraordinary song writing, but also showed how is displayed the times. The movie had it's faults, but after seeing it I immediately purchased Abbey Road and The White Album. |
Posted By: PinkPangolin
Date Posted: January 13 2009 at 03:40
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It's close between Revolver and the White Album, but the White Album wins for me - it's a lesson from the bizarre. Just listen to "Yer Blues" - WOW! What was that about?????????? Poor poor sad guy...  |
Posted By: Einsetumadur
Date Posted: January 13 2009 at 09:03
"Abbey Road" - because it has those nice guitar sounds, so wishful and great compositions and even a little bit of prog on side 'B'. 
------------- All in all each man in all men |
Posted By: frankbostick
Date Posted: December 28 2009 at 15:24
| Oh boy, it's very difficult, but the poorer is Let it be. |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: December 28 2009 at 15:28
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1. Abbey Road 2. Revolver 3. Sgt. Pepper 4. The White Album 5. Magical Mystery Tour Then a big drop off to Let It Be. Let It Be... Naked was better, but still not up to those album's standards. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: December 28 2009 at 15:56
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1. Let it Be 2. MMT 3. Revolver 4. SP 5. White 6. Abbey Road ------------- ...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell" |
Posted By: JROCHA
Date Posted: December 28 2009 at 16:48
| They are all amazing, but the White album gets my vote right now right now! |
Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: December 28 2009 at 16:49
Agreed*. Its probably underrated because its not an actual album. It was originally released as a double EP without these five songs: Hello Goodbye, Strawberry Fields Forever, Penny Lane, Baby You're a Rich Man & All You Need Is Love. 1. Magical Mystery Tour (11 track LP-version) 2. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 3. Abbey Road 4. Revolver 5. The White Album 6. Let It Be *I think all Beatles albums have a couple of real flaws and both Your Mother Should Know and Baby You're a Rich Man are quite mediocre tracks + Hello Goodbye and All You Need is Love are classics, but far from being among my favorites. ------------- Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: December 28 2009 at 18:13
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The album as a whole is underrated, but I think "The Fool On The Hill" is incredibly underrated in particular. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: Tsevir Leirbag
Date Posted: December 28 2009 at 18:27
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1. Revolver
2. The Beatles
3. Sgt. Pepper's
4. Abbey Road
5. Magical Mystery Tour ------------- Les mains, les pieds balancés Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers, Un marin mort, Il dormira - Paul Éluard |
Posted By: The Block
Date Posted: December 29 2009 at 08:22
Even though The White Album was the first Beatles album I had I haven't listened to it in more than 6 months. Revolver and Abbey Road are amazing though. If it were favorite prog Beatles album I would definitly go with Abbey Road since it is much more proggier on the "B" side with a 17-minute epic. But, since it is favorite Beatles album I will say it is a tie between the two:
Notice how Let it Be didn't even make the list? It not totally bad, but it doesn't deserve to be in with these albums. -------------  |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: December 29 2009 at 09:50
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Abbey Road! ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Mladen_Serbia
Date Posted: December 29 2009 at 10:38
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1. Sgt. Pepper 2. Let it be 3. Revolver 4. Abbey road 5. Magical mystery tour 6. The White album |
Posted By: Rando
Date Posted: December 31 2009 at 15:21
It was the first rock album I listened to that had so many keyboard sounds, (probably a mellotron in there), sitars, strings, harps, and found sounds. Along with Magical Mystery Tour were the two albums that let me to Prog later on.
Althought I love The White album & Abbey Road, were too bluesy and earthy for me, I preferred to stay in the Sgt. Pepper & MMT fantasy.
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Posted By: Kashmir75
Date Posted: December 31 2009 at 21:19
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Three words. The. White. Album. I didn't even like the Beatles until my mum gave me this album. I had only heard their earlier radio hits before this. The White Album is my fave Beatles record because it just shows what the Beatles could do outside of radio friendly fodder. It's very uncommercial in some ways. A huge influence on both prog, and even heavy metal. It covers so many bases, so many genres that it can be hard to accept its the same band on all tracks. It's their ultimate artistic statement, IMO. Let It Be is not a good final album, really, but I wouldn't want to be without the title track and 'Across the Universe'. ------------- Hello, mirror. So glad to see you, my friend. It's been a while... |
Posted By: PinkFloydManiac1973
Date Posted: January 02 2010 at 20:25
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1. Abbey Road
2. Revolver
3. White Album
4. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
5. Magical Mystery Tour
6. Let It Be
If Rubber Soul was in the poll it would either be 2 or 3. ------------- "The lunatic is on the grass..." |
Posted By: camilleanne
Date Posted: January 02 2010 at 23:57
Its abbey road for me, ------------- The planet is fine the people are f**ked. -George Carlin- |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: January 03 2010 at 09:53
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1 The White Album (One of my favourite albums not just Beatles) ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: FusionKing
Date Posted: January 03 2010 at 19:14
| Revolver..It contains my most favourite Beatles song 'Tomorrow Never Knows'. |