Best Beatles Album Ever?

[red dog 1]

Note:
While "Abbey Road" was the last album the Beatles recorded,
"Let It Be" was the last album the Beatles released.

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	Please Please Me (Debut album - 1963)
	1 (6%)
	A Hard Day's Night (1964)
	0 (0%)
	Help (1965)
	0 (0%)
	Rubber Soul (1965)
	1 (6%)
	Revolver (1966)
	2 (13%)
	Sgt. Pepper (1967)
	3 (19%)
	Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
	0 (0%)
	The White Album (1968)
	1 (6%)
	Abbey Road (1969)
	8 (50%)
	Let It Be (1970)
	0 (0%)
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[IcyPeas]

1. difficult choice

I voted for Revolver, but "Help" and "Rubber Soul" are favorites too.

[onehandle]

2. Gah!

This question always makes my brain hurt.

This time I will say Rubber Soul (the British collection).

I can throw a monkey wrench into this and tell you that my favorite sequence of songs is from the Yellow Submarine sound track.

Only A Northern Song, All Together Now, Hey Bulldog, and It's All Too Much make for an incredible psychedelic mini-album.

Cueing them up on my iPhone as we speak...

[malthaussen]

21. I prefer "the other side of Abbey Road,"

Of which incidentally, George Benson made a fantastic album himself.

But your Yellow Submarine sequence is not without merit.

-- Mal

[Miles Archer]

3. I always go for Revolver, because I've always believed it to be the best.

Not so with other performers and bands. Over time I'll reconsider my initial reaction and allow for changing tastes, but Revolver is still the one.

[benld74]

4. White Album, mainly because I possess a white vinyl, white label, white album

[red dog 1]

6. Does it have a serial number on the front of the jacket?

[benld74]

24. I'd have to look, its been awhile since Ive seen the thing

[hifiguy]

5. I find myself listening to all of Abbey Road, Revolver and Rubber Soul

the most often.

Abbey Road by a nose. It hangs together so well as an album even after 45 years.

[red dog 1]

7. Abbey Road is my co-favorite

along with Sgt. Pepper.

[pintobean]

8. And, in the end...

http://www.myvideo.de/watch/3412362/Chris_Farley_Interview_Paul_Mc_Cartney_SNL

[red dog 1]

13. Thanks for that

[calimary]

15. Abbey Road and maybe Revolver.

Hard to pick just one.

[olddots]

9. too tuff a choice

now I better do some research .................

[Mr.Bill]

10. White Album because

of the variety of the music on it. It's really four solo albums by each of the Beatles.

Ironically, the actual name of this album which has very few songs which all four Beatles perform on, with virtually no writing collaboration and many guest artists, is "The Beatles". Those two words are embossed on the cover although most people know it as "The White Album".

[red dog 1]

12. The White Album sessions "were not entirely happy ones due to some tensions arising

within the group...At one point after a criticism from Paul, Ringo Starr walked out and didn't return for a couple of weeks....John had become disillusioned with the group and wanted to leave....Many of the songs were 'pseudo-solo' or at least by less than the full group.
This was a consequence of how they were starting to be more interested in their own individual talent.
During Ringo's absence, drums were handled by Paul on 'Dear Prudence' and all three remaining Beatles on 'Back In The U.S.S.R."
http://www.thebeatlesrarity.com/2012/09/26/collectors-corner-the-beatles-aka-the-white-album/

[Paladin]

11. "Rubber Soul," largely because of "Norwegian Wood."

But "The White Album" really fucked with my head when I was in college.....

[Art_from_Ark]

18. My brother always hated "Helter Skelter"

because of its unfortunate and unintended connection with Charles Manson.

[red dog 1]

20. I disliked that song from the first time I heard it, and that was

long before that homicidal maniac Manson ever "commented" on it.

[ballabosh]

14. I have to go with Abbey ROad

I admit there's some weak songs on side one, but side two blows me away every time I hear it - and the album contains two of George's masterpieces.

Revolver is probably the best album musically due to no weak songs and the white album could have been a great album if (as G. Martin said), they pared it down to a single album. Please Please Me has the best duo of opening and closing songs. Sgt Pepper has the very best closing song of any album ever.

I don't dislike any album, because I am a Beatles geek, but I'll stick with AR.

[Art_from_Ark]

17. Yeah, "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" in Abbey Road is pretty weak,

as is "Octopus's Garden". But Side Two more than makes up for that.

[malthaussen]

22. Eh, I love "Octopus's Garden."

Nothing wrong with a little Beatle sillyness. This is why we have horse races.

-- Mal

[red dog 1]

26. I love "Octopus's Garden" too

(Ringo couldn't let Lennon & McCartney have all the fun writing Beatles songs)

[ballabosh]

27. It's not a masterpiece

But it's Ringo. How can anyone not like Ringo?

[red dog 1]

29. I just learned that George "had a huge hand" in writing Octopus's Garden with Ringo.

The first song for which Ringo received sole songwriting credit was "Don't Pass me By",
which is on the "White Album"

[Contrary1]

16. Because of the end:

[melman]

19. A Hard Day's Night

Perfect from top to bottom. Every song is a killer.

[malthaussen]

23. About the Beatles I can truly say...

... my favorite album of theirs is whatever one I am listening to.

-- Mal

[lunamagica]

25. This.

But if I had to pick, the medley on Abbey Road...wow

[ballabosh]

28. And this

[Major Nikon]

30. 20 Greatest Hits

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_Greatest_Hits_%28Beatles_album%29

[nirvana555]

31. Abbey Road and Sgt. Pepper are the two I normally go with. Tonight I was in an

Abbey Road mood...and I like Maxwell's Silver Hammer!

[red dog 1]

32. I like Maxwell's Silver Hammer too

Paul wrote it.