POLL: Favorite Beatles Album?

Favorite Beatles album?

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AudioAce said:
The White Album is just so beautiful to me. Has some of their best songs and is an amazing package and i couldn't imagine how crazy people went for it when it first came out.
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It is absolutely beautiful. I think sometimes people struggle to see the forest for the trees with this one, because it's such a monumental work that veers from the avant garde to pure pop perfection and everywhere in between. Some of the most beautiful "pop" songs ever written are in there in my opinion. Can't imagine what it was like to be around when they first dropped it.
 
pijo said:
It is absolutely beautiful. I think sometimes people struggle to see the forest for the trees with this one, because it's such a monumental work that veers from the avant garde to pure pop perfection and everywhere in between. Some of the most beautiful "pop" songs ever written are in there in my opinion. Can't imagine what it was like to be around when they first dropped it.
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I remember the exact instant I first heard this album, and I can honestly only say that about a handful of albums.
 
scotthilk said:
I remember the exact instant I first heard this album, and I can honestly only say that about a handful of albums.
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How wonderful. That's a cool thing to think about too - the albums you can truly remember that first instant of discovery. You're right, I don't think there would be too many that I could honestly say that about. This wouldn't be one for me as growing up The Beatles were pretty much omnipresent thanks to my mum, so I grew up with their music always around but never really knowing what album was what etc until later on.
 
scotthilk said:
Crazy! I am glad it was released as an official album in the USA and is considered to be "Core Catalogue" though. A double EP in England? Why not just call it an LP?!
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So the EP was released in England a fair while before it came to the US. It was only Side A of what we consider as the album now. It was a tie in with the Magical Mystery Tour TV special which was shown on ITV.

As the songs were strong, and the demand huge, Capitol released it in the US but turned it into an abum by whacking a bunch of non-album singles on the end to fill it out.

In the 80s when they were revisiting the catalogue for its first CD release they decided to make the US version part of the core album catalogue. It’s also why it’s the only one of the current core catalogue to have a throwback Capitol label rather than Parlophone/Apple one, it’s becuae it was never released in that state In the U.K.
 
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scotthilk said:
I remember the exact instant I first heard this album, and I can honestly only say that about a handful of albums.
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pijo said:
How wonderful. That's a cool thing to think about too - the albums you can truly remember that first instant of discovery. You're right, I don't think there would be too many that I could honestly say that about. This wouldn't be one for me as growing up The Beatles were pretty much omnipresent thanks to my mum, so I grew up with their music always around but never really knowing what album was what etc until later on.
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Wow that’s cool! Although I can’t for a good reason. They are my dads favourite band and he always had music on in the house so they were such a definite part of the background soundtrack to my childhood that pinpointing an exact point for any of them is impossible...
 
Revolver for me is the bridge between the early and late Beatles, containing both something like Yellow Submarine (one of the few Ringo tracks not on perma-skip) and Tomorrow Never Knows. I think it's their absolute peak. I'd place Abbey Road next but it's dragged down by the execrable Maxwell's Silver Hammer. If they'd put Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane on a proper album (say, with a track like In My Life, which is one of their absolute best) then that would have been a world beater but I can't really take Magical Mystery Tour as a serious album. Just my twopenn'orth...
 
Joe Mac said:
Wow that’s cool! Although I can’t for a good reason. They are my dads favourite band and he always had music on in the house so they were such a definite part of the background soundtrack to my childhood that pinpointing an exact point for any of them is impossible...
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That's exactly how I remember it too - the background soundtrack to my childhood. We were lucky kids - could do a lot worse!
 
Poly-Rythmo said:
Revolver for me is the bridge between the early and late Beatles, containing both something like Yellow Submarine (one of the few Ringo tracks not on perma-skip) and Tomorrow Never Knows. I think it's their absolute peak. I'd place Abbey Road next but it's dragged down by the execrable Maxwell's Silver Hammer. If they'd put Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane on a proper album (say, with a track like In My Life, which is one of their absolute best) then that would have been a world beater but I can't really take Magical Mystery Tour as a serious album. Just my twopenn'orth...
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Tomorrow Never Knows is such a fantastic track and so far ahead of its time - it would not be out of place on a Chemical Brothers album, I know they credit its influence.
 
pijo said:
That's exactly how I remember it too - the background soundtrack to my childhood. We were lucky kids - could do a lot worse!
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Oh yeah! That said my dad is a music nut so whenever he was in there would be music playing whilst we were with our toys etc. I could name you lots of other good. and plenty of very bad, stuff too. The Beatles stood out though because they were his favourites (i distinctly remember him going out and buying all the CDs in one go, not long after he got a CD player, and my mum going nuts about how much he’d spent) because they were on so often and becuae fhey stood out as being so good!
 
Joe Mac said:
Oh yeah! That said my dad is a music nut so whenever he was in there would be music playing whilst we were with our toys etc. I could name you lots of other good. and plenty of very bad, stuff too. The Beatles stood out though because they were his favourites (i distinctly remember him going out and buying all the CDs in one go, not long after he got a CD player, and my mum going nuts about how much he’d spent) because they were on so often and becuae fhey stood out as being so good!
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So cool! My mum had the Beatles Box, or I should say still has the Beatles Box - I remember that box so well, the packing crate design with all the records inside. Even back then the box itself was slightly falling apart from love and overuse. My mum grew up in England and was a teenager in the late 60s but was never able to really indulge and explore her love of music until she was older. My siblings and I bought her a ticket and airfares to go to Melbourne to see Paul McCartney on his last tour over here and it made her so happy :)
 
For the record, here is my ranking of all their albums from the Rank thread

Revolver
Abbey Road
Rubber Soul
Sgt Pepper
A Hard Day's Night
White Album
Help
Magical Mystery Tour
Please Please Me
Beatles For Sale
Let It Be
With The Beatles
 
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