Best Ever Albums

Re: Favourite/Best Beatles studio album?

Fischman — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 16:12:08 GMT

Author: Fischman

Posted: 12/16/2016 21:12

Only Revolver makes the cut for me as an album. After that, it's individual songs only, and not a whole lot of them.

Re: Favourite/Best Beatles studio album?

RoundTheBend — Fri, 5 Feb 2016 17:23:48 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 02/05/2016 22:23

Probably how I'd rank them:
Abbey Road
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Revolver
Tie: The Beatles and Let It Be
Magical Mystery Tour

I have a really hard time choosing between all of these as being the best though. They all are top albums for me, but in my chart it was Abbey Road, possibly for nostalgic reasons.

I also think Help! and Rubber Soul were markers in them exploding as song writers. So while good, I don't find them great.

Their debut is better I think then all the other stuff released after debut and Help!... even if some of the songs are awful. Somehow the awesome and couple awful make up for a bunch of mediocre.

Re: Favourite/Best Beatles studio album?

badseed — Fri, 5 Feb 2016 15:36:04 GMT

Author: badseed

Posted: 02/05/2016 20:36

1. Revolver
2. The White Album

3. Abbey Road
4. Rubber Soul

5. Help!
6. A Hard Day's Night

7. Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band

8. With the Beatles
9. Please Please Me
10. Beatles for Sale

11. Magical Mystery Tour
12. Let it Be

Re: Favourite/Best Beatles studio album?

Anonymous — Fri, 5 Feb 2016 15:05:31 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/05/2016 20:05

Re: Favourite/Best Beatles studio album?

GregJohns — Fri, 5 Feb 2016 10:34:12 GMT

Author: GregJohns

Posted: 02/05/2016 15:34

My favorite album of all time is the Capitol version of "Rubber Soul", but I think their best is "Sgt. Pepper".

Re: Favourite/Best Beatles studio album?

xhitmanx — Fri, 5 Feb 2016 09:50:31 GMT

Author: xhitmanx

Posted: 02/05/2016 14:50

Revolver is one of my top 3 favorite albums ever.

Re: Favourite/Best Beatles studio album?

jbray — Fri, 5 Feb 2016 09:45:42 GMT

Author: jbray

Posted: 02/05/2016 14:45

boyd94 wrote:

If the White Album was reduced to a single LP, I think that would've taken it.

There's no way to do it. If you cut it down, you have to take off songs that other people would love. The best part of the White Album is its sprawl. Like I bet you would cut off "Long, Long, Long" or "Birthday" but I would consider those essential to what makes that album great. And you might think that "Revolution 1" or "Piggies" were essential, but if forced to cut the disc, I would sacrifice those. It's a totally different set of highs and lows depending on the taste of the listener.

Here's my top four:
Revolver (This was my vote)
The Beatles (The White Album)
Abbey Road
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

I'm kind of shocked at how many people are surprised that Abbey Road is being favored. It is literally an album where fans of solid songs or well thought out sequences of songs have a side they can love. It's a well thought out, well made record. It goes down easy (for the most part) and gets better the more you listen to it. That's the perfect recipe for an album that people would like. It could also be argued as Paul McCartney's best Beatles album given the numerous angles his songs pull off from start to finish.

Last thought: "Mean Mr. Mustard/Polythene Pam/She Came in Through the Bathroom Window">"Golden Slumbers/Carry that Weight/The End" although none of it is as mind-blowing as "You Never Give Me Your Money"

Re: Favourite/Best Beatles studio album?

boyd94 — Fri, 5 Feb 2016 06:18:07 GMT

Author: boyd94

Posted: 02/05/2016 11:18

Whilst Abbey Road, despite its tumultuous production background, feels like a very polished and well-constructed album in the modern sense (the LP still being a relatively new release format), I have to say I just appreciate the manic energy of Revolver a little more.

There's the hints of the early pop, but the real gems are the rock'n'roll album tracks throughout, and then it finishes on Tomorrow Never Knows. The fact that this song was made in 1966 just blows my fucking mind. Every single track is just a joy (except Yellow Submarine, but there's still 13 songs besides that).

If the White Album was reduced to a single LP, I think that would've taken it.

Re: Favourite/Best Beatles studio album?

LordMark — Fri, 5 Feb 2016 05:05:16 GMT

Author: LordMark

Posted: 02/05/2016 10:05

The White Album is my favourite Beatles album, and my favourite album of all time.

Re: Favourite/Best Beatles studio album?

Grzywa — Fri, 5 Feb 2016 02:24:21 GMT

Author: Grzywa

Posted: 02/05/2016 07:24

dihansse wrote:

the Beatles are the most essential band in rock history!

The more people say that, the less I care about such statements. I'd rather enjoy them as The Beatles than The Greatest or The Most Essential Band.

Back to the subject, must be Abbey Road. The medley has grown on me over the last year, precisely because of its messy structure pretending coherence: reflects their decline and still leaves tons of fun to discover. I particularly love Mean Mr Mustard, would fit somewhere in Blur's britpop-trilogy. Modern Life Is Rubbish, perhaps.

Re: Favourite/Best Beatles studio album?

dihansse — Fri, 5 Feb 2016 00:46:50 GMT

Author: dihansse

Posted: 02/05/2016 05:46

I can't help it: to me it is Help!
- Because when I was young I fell in love with the movie and with the title song
- Because it contains some great songs
- because it is the pilotaflevering album between their more naive first albums and their more elaborate albums after that.

But heck: I love them all: for me the Beatles are the most essential band in rock history!

Re: Favourite/Best Beatles studio album?

Facetious — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 23:49:23 GMT

Author: Facetious

Posted: 12/01/2012 04:49

swedenman wrote:

It's very refreshing to see that, even though the overall charts are wonkity as hell, there's still no denying that Abbey Road is the best Beatles album.

What are your favourite tracks from Abbey Road?

Re: Favourite/Best Beatles studio album?

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 23:47:22 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 12/01/2012 04:47

It's very refreshing to see that, even though the overall charts are wonkity as hell, there's still no denying that Abbey Road is the best Beatles album.

Re: Favourite/Best Beatles studio album?

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:00:31 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 12/01/2012 02:00

The one called "Well-Known Pleasures", which is 40 minutes of silence. It was recorded in early 1966 but was never released. However, The Djawdge has shown me many unreleased Beatles works, as he was the producer of all of them.

Re: Favourite/Best Beatles studio album?

sheep21 — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:57:49 GMT

Author: sheep21

Posted: 11/30/2012 21:57

Revolver and White Album are pretty much equal by my standards but I said Revolver

Re: Favourite/Best Beatles studio album?

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:30:30 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 11/30/2012 19:30

So I'm the only one who voted Please Please Me. 🙄

Re: Favourite/Best Beatles studio album?

PTLegz — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:27:50 GMT

Author: PTLegz

Posted: 11/30/2012 19:27

Abbey Roaaad!

Re: Favourite/Best Beatles studio album?

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 10:26:52 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 11/30/2012 15:26

Abbey Road barely beats the White Album and Let it be(the only albums I remotely like by them).

Re: Favourite/Best Beatles studio album?

Facetious — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 10:17:29 GMT

Author: Facetious

Posted: 11/30/2012 15:17

deadhouse wrote:

People criticize the White Album for being too sprawling and disjointed; however, I think that is exactly what makes it so brilliant. Prior Beatles albums are so damn cohesive (not really a bad thing I guess) and this totally turned the tables. For a band often called out for being chameleons and music thieves, the Beatles explored a whole lot of new territory with the White Albums. It is most deserving of the eponymous title because it is the most "Beatles" Beatles album. This is where, through a stream-of-consciousness-styled exploration, they finally shed many of the overbearing influences and let the "true" Beatles seep through the cracks of the mind. (Not proofread)

True. That's why it's now my favorite instead of Revolver.

Re: Favourite/Best Beatles studio album?

deadhouse — Sun, 4 Mar 2012 14:31:51 GMT

Author: deadhouse

Posted: 03/04/2012 19:31

People criticize the White Album for being too sprawling and disjointed; however, I think that is exactly what makes it so brilliant. Prior Beatles albums are so damn cohesive (not really a bad thing I guess) and this totally turned the tables. For a band often called out for being chameleons and music thieves, the Beatles explored a whole lot of new territory with the White Albums. It is most deserving of the eponymous title because it is the most "Beatles" Beatles album. This is where, through a stream-of-consciousness-styled exploration, they finally shed many of the overbearing influences and let the "true" Beatles seep through the cracks of the mind. (Not proofread)