Final Beatles Poll
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Topic: Final Beatles Poll
Posted By: thehallway
Subject: Final Beatles Poll
Date Posted: October 03 2011 at 16:09
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Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: October 03 2011 at 17:18
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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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Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Date Posted: October 03 2011 at 19:23
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Well Sgt.Peppers out so guess I'm gonna go with a little album called Abbey Road! ------------- 
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Posted By: rod65
Date Posted: October 03 2011 at 20:19
| 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. |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date 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!  ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date 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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Posted By: thehallway
Date 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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Posted By: Alitare
Date Posted: October 04 2011 at 09:42
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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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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: October 04 2011 at 15:08
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Revolver is my favourite Beatles album. Abbey Road comes at #3 in my book, just after "The White Album". ------------- 
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: October 04 2011 at 19:34
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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.  ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: TODDLER
Date Posted: October 05 2011 at 11:46
| Abbey Road |
Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: October 05 2011 at 17:17
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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. ------------- Can you tell me where we're headin'? Lincoln County Road or Armageddon. |
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: October 05 2011 at 18:12
| Didn't see this coming. |
Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: October 05 2011 at 22:07
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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... ------------- Can you tell me where we're headin'? Lincoln County Road or Armageddon. |
Posted By: Formentera Lady
Date Posted: October 06 2011 at 08:36
Agreed. ------------- http://theprogressiveweb.blogspot.de" rel="nofollow - Visit me in Second Life to talk about music. |
The Dark Elf wrote:Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: October 06 2011 at 11:31
| Abbey Road, no doubt. Absolutely great stuff on that album. |
Posted By: thehallway
Date Posted: October 06 2011 at 15:49
Uh oh....
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Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: October 06 2011 at 16:32
All good but the best is.......All Things Must Pass...... by George Harrison ------------- ...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR] |
Posted By: Bosh66
Date Posted: October 07 2011 at 05:51
| 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. |
Posted By: thehallway
Date Posted: October 07 2011 at 09:52
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So Abbey Road is the winner! \0/ \0/ \0/ \0/ ____/\_____/\______/\_____/\_____ (< the Beatles celebrating).
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: October 07 2011 at 11:21
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How many songs are we talking about? I don't have all their albums so I can't pull up the number on my computer's player.
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Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: October 07 2011 at 19:25
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Maybe 100-150. If you remove those they did not write from the total, it'd be somewhat less. ------------- Can you tell me where we're headin'? Lincoln County Road or Armageddon. |
Posted By: Alitare
Date Posted: October 07 2011 at 19:42
| John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band was amazing - I prefer it over Imagine. |
Posted By: thehallway
Date Posted: October 08 2011 at 02:58
I think it's more like 200, even without the non-originals. ------------- http://www.thefreshfilmblog.com/" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: earlyprog
Date Posted: October 08 2011 at 08:34
| Add another 20 or so songs if you take those they wrote for others into consideration. |
Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: October 08 2011 at 19:03
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Official count: Please Please Me: 7 songs With The Beatles: 8 songs A Hard Day's Night: 13 songs Beatles For Sale: 8 songs Help: 12 songs Rubber Soul: 14 songs Revolver: 14 songs Sgt: 13 songs MMT: 11 songs White Album: 30 songs! Abbey Road: 17 songs Let It Be: 11 songs I don't count Yellow Submarine because that's how I am. Give 'em another 10. We get wha? Close to 150. ------------- Can you tell me where we're headin'? Lincoln County Road or Armageddon. |
Posted By: Alitare
Date Posted: October 08 2011 at 19:24
| What about all the solo works, too? Harrison, Lennon, McCartney, Ringo (i guess); would these be counted? I mean, Plastic Ono Band, All Things Must Pass, Band on the Run, Imagine, Ram, and (what? Choose Love? Golly!) Are all integral works in the Beatles/post-Beatles canon. |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: October 08 2011 at 19:37
Never thought I'd live to see you post something like that Alitaire. Inestimable kudos to you  ------------- 
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Posted By: Alitare
Date Posted: October 08 2011 at 19:53
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I've changed a lot, musically. Used to be Megadeth, AC/DC, The Eagles, Van Halen, Metallica, and Def Leppard. Now it's The Beatles, Tom Waits, Stevie Wonder, Bob Dylan, maudlin of the Well, and Pink Floyd. |
Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: October 08 2011 at 21:03
This is good to hear. Beatles, Waits, Dylan, Wonder. It's all remarkable music. I remember when one of my roommates showed up with Stevie's Music of My Mind back around 1973. We laughed and thought he (roommate) no longer had credibility and had lost his mind. We then learned to change our own minds. He went on to do extensive synth programming for Stevie. I would like to think that this site would teach all of us...do not be close-minded. Unless it involves Passion Play, in which case we're welcome to hurl stones. ------------- Can you tell me where we're headin'? Lincoln County Road or Armageddon. |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: October 08 2011 at 21:15
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I believe that Abbey Road is not only the best album in the list, but the best Beatles release by far. I don't count it as having 17 songs, always counted the 8 tracks between "Because" and "The End" are really a multi-part epic that The Beatles sold as a individual tracks to avoid the risk of an almost 18 minutes minutes suite (As Pete Townshend did), being that their success was based in short songs. Iván ------------- 
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: October 08 2011 at 21:25
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Posted By: rogerthat
Date Posted: October 08 2011 at 23:53
I guess it's something to do with our generation...that we get initiated into bands like the first mentioned and then get around to something more like that next bunch. Although...Beatles was my first exposure to Western music and I got to Pink Floyd very early, so my hard rock/metal 'phase' too was not as long as for some others. But I only decided to seriously listen to Stevie Wonder because a musician friend who again likes bands from both those bunches highly recommended I should. I felt stupid for having ignored him for a long time.  It's equally hard to get friends to listen to S Wonder because they have pre conceived notions about what ballads should and should not have, and keyboards are not too high up on that list (long guitar solos are preferable). |