You're Favourite Beatles Album

[Wolfie]

What's your favouite Beatles album and possibly any thoughts on why?

Here's their Discography -

Please Please Me - 1963
With the Beatles - 1963
A Hard Days Night - 1964
Beatles for Sale - 1964
Help! - 1965
Rubber Soul - 1965
Revolver - 1966
Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band - 1967
Magical Mystery Tour - 1967
The White Album - 1968
Yellow Submarine - 1969
Abbey Road - 1969
Let it Be - 1970


Personally, Sgt Peppers just shades it for me as my favourite Beatles album. The White Album and Revolver are also both classics and narrowly miss out.

It was a landmark album at the time but the likes of "A Day in the Life", "Getting Better", "She's Leaving Home" and "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" are as fresh 40 years on.

In keeping with the practice at the time, Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane were actually taken off the album and released as a single earlier 1967. They were intended to be definite inclusions on the record until the record company pressured George Martin into releasing them as a single.

The key track was "A Day in the Life" - a segue of two songs, one half written be Lennon another half written by McCartney that are linked by a rising orchestral cresendo. This song best defines the albums innovation, influence and brilliance.

[Block G Raptor]

Rubber Soul or the White Album

[kingdom hoop]

It's like asking to pick between Miss World finalists.

If pushed I'd pick the White Album as I know it'll last the longest. :D

[noby]

"Tough one. I think I’d have to say ‘The Best of the Beatles’."


Personally, I couldn't choose.

[jebus]

White Album
Sgt Peppers
Abbey Road

would be the top 3

[Macy]

I think they're the most overrated band ever - give me the Stones, The Who, The Small Faces, The Kinks above them anytime.

However, The White Album would be my favourite, even though their best song is on Abbey Road.

[stann]

Rubber Soul for me I think. No I'll go with Revolver.

Feck ya noby, here was me thinking I'd be the height of wit until I read the whole thread. :D

[gustavo]

Revolver for me , pure quality from start to finish

[Anto McC]

White Album

[BohsPartisan]

1.Revolver
2.White Album
3.Pepper
4.Rubber Soul
5.Abbey Rd
6.Hard Days Night
7. Let It Be
8. Please Please Me
9.With the Beatles

Help is Mediocre, MMT and YS are so so novelty albums. (MMT is a minialbum anyway)
Beatles For Sale is an awful album. I wouldn't even use it as a frisbee.

I disagree with Macy. The Who, Small Faces, Kinks and The Stones, while al quality acts never really hit the perfection of the Beatles at their best. The Who are one of my fav bands for their first three albums which are absolute quality but after that they were hit and miss. Small faces were a great singles band and Ogdens is a fantastic album. The Stones were great but never realy challenged themselves creativity wise. Kinks were different. Best lyrics around, redefined songwiting from that perspective but still not the quality of the others over all.

[NeilMcD]

I love Revolver and I think Hard Days Night is a great album also. Tomorrow Never Knows is unbelievable considering it was released in 1966.

I would go

Revolver
Sgt Peppers
The White Album

[The Good Son]

The definitive answer to this question from the man who knows-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyZspqjtG2k

[jmurphyc]

Revolver for me. My favourite song would be Day In The Life though.

[Risteard]

White Album
Sgt Peppers
Abbey Road

would be the top 3
Definitely.


If pushed I'd pick the White Album as I know it'll last the longest. :D
Agree completely.
Never gone along with the less is more thesis and am very dissapointed when my favourite bands bring out 10song albums.

[Wolfie]

Definitely.


Agree completely.
Never gone along with the less is more thesis and am very dissapointed when my favourite bands bring out 10song albums.

Yeah - some of the appeal of the White Album is the myriad of musical styles that appear. Could arguably have been edited down but each band member wanted all of their songs included. Glad it wasn't though - its the bloody White Album FFS.

With tensions appearing within the group - Lennon and McCartney were writing and, on occasion, recording separately which I think partly contributed to the melting pot of styles that is the album.

[chuckie]

1.White Album
2.Revolver
3.Let It Be

MMT was only a novelty but the cd version has some great songs on it like I am The Walrus and Baby You're A Rich Man

[Billsthoughts]

Help is Mediocre, .

Ha! I was going to pick it as my fav beatles album. By a country mile. give me a perfect pop song over experimental dirge anyday of the week.
another girl ? The Night Before? your Going to lose that girl? Youve Got To Hide your love away???? Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmm!:)
Oh and Neil tomorrow Never Knows is not that interesting if you really study the music of the time. Its not like they pulled it out of nowhere. and its tuneless ****e anyways.

[BohsPartisan]

Ha! I was going to pick it as my fav beatles album. By a country mile. give me a perfect pop song over experimental dirge anyday of the week.


Hide your love away is a great song alright. The title track is good but after that its pretty mor. For perfect pop see Rubber Soul - Drive My Car, Norwegian Wood, Michelle. proper.
Personally I don't think you could say The Beatles did anything you could call "dirge" other than Revolution 9 on the White Album. The reason it falls from number one for me is that there is a bit of filler. If they hadn't made it a double it could have been the best album of all time.
Tomorrow Never Knows is far from tuneless. There is a melody in here. Yeah its more complex than your average pop tune but thats what makes its great.
I guess different strokes eh. Some people like Glenn Millar some like Ornette Coleman.

[NeilMcD]

Ha! I was going to pick it as my fav beatles album. By a country mile. give me a perfect pop song over experimental dirge anyday of the week.
another girl ? The Night Before? your Going to lose that girl? Youve Got To Hide your love away???? Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmm!:)
Oh and Neil tomorrow Never Knows is not that interesting if you really study the music of the time. Its not like they pulled it out of nowhere. and its tuneless ****e anyways.

There is not right or wrong its called taste. Some people prefer strawberry ice cream some prefer banana ice cream its all subjective. But one day you will get over your rather sad fixation with my posts.

[Billsthoughts]

Hide your love away is a great song alright. The title track is good but after that its pretty mor. For perfect pop see Rubber Soul - Drive My Car, Norwegian Wood, Michelle. proper.
Personally I don't think you could say The Beatles did anything you could call "dirge" other than Revolution 9 on the White Album. The reason it falls from number one for me is that there is a bit of filler. If they hadn't made it a double it could have been the best album of all time.
Tomorrow Never Knows is far from tuneless. There is a melody in here. Yeah its more complex than your average pop tune but thats what makes its great.
I guess different strokes eh. Some people like Glenn Millar some like Ornette Coleman.

to be honest you dont sound like youve even listened to it.

[TonyD]

Revolver the no 1 Beatles album for me. Their songwriting at it's peak, having developed from the early style and not yet become too self indulgent. Of their early work Hard Days Night is pretty damn good ( the ONLY Beatles album to consist of purely Lennon & McCartney songs, fact fans.) I also think Let It Be is very underrated. particularly the re-issued Naked version. Normally I'd say you shouldn't mess with such things, but the new version is a significant improvement on the original.

[Wolfie]

Revolver the no 1 Beatles album for me. Their songwriting at it's peak, having developed from the early style and not yet become too self indulgent. Of their early work Hard Days Night is pretty damn good ( the ONLY Beatles album to consist of purely Lennon & McCartney songs, fact fans.) I also think Let It Be is very underrated. particularly the re-issued Naked version. Normally I'd say you shouldn't mess with such things, but the new version is a significant improvement on the original.

Yeah - Let it be (Naked) was the track listing and song versions that had been originally agreed and arranged by the band - before Phil Spector got a hold of them basically.

I remember reading that the band had effectively split before "Let it be" was released. John Lennon had got Phil Spector in to finish it which resulted in the addition of strings to "The Long and Winding Road" and some tweaking of the tracks running order.

None of this had the consent of Paul McCartney and was obviously something that bugged him for 35 years.

[shakermaker1982]

1: White album/revolver
2: Rubber soul
3: Help
4: Abbey Rd

[Wolfie]

Recently got "Abbey Road" Re-mastered.

Most of these re-issue projects are just money making hype but I genuinely think the album is all the better for the Re-Master.

There's definitely an improvement in sound quality. The likes of "Mean Mr Mustard" has a lot more vibrancy as a result.

Tempted to get the White Album despite already owning it...............................

[twoenz]

The best has to be Abbey Road for me. Just the way the album takes off half way through (the second side) and just keeps going. Ah....

[Neish]

Favourite Beatles album?
"I' think I'd have to say "The Best of the Beatles"