The Beatles Best Album

[Seducer of the Homeless]

what's your favourite? (i am guessing all will answer post-Rubber Soul)

also, do you prefer Lennon or McCartney

 

[Anthile]

Revolver.

 

[Seducer of the Homeless]

Magical Mystery Tour

Lennon

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Rubber Soul.

Followed by Sgt. Pepper's. But Rubber Soul is the best.

 

[Grove]

Sgt. Pepper followed by the B side of Abbey Road.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Why are John Lennon and Paul McCartney choices in the poll?

nvm, I didn't read the first post. Neither, I prefer Harrison.

 

[Toad]

I prefer McCartney. My favorite song: Let it be.

 

[Beat Mango]

Abbey Road.

 

[Dormouse]

It's impossible to choose just one album as there are so many songs I love individually.

I'm of the opinion the White Album deserves some love, though.

 

[flow]

I second Abbey Road. My favorite song is 'In My Life' (and I prefer Lennon).

 

[Seducer of the Homeless]

whoever put Yellow Submarine, salute! their second/third best (tied with Sgt Pepper). then it is Rubber Soul and The White Album imo

 

[Vegard Pompey]

To elaborate on my opinion: Rubber Soul isn't as dull as the preceding albums, and it's more coherent and not as wildly experimental as the later albums. Revolver is bullshit and full of experiments that don't work too well, for an example that backwards soloing on I'm Only Sleeping is really awkward. The experimentation works better on Sgt. Pepper's because of how circus-ey and bombastic it is. By the time of the White Album, I guess the Beatles had realized how popular their experimentation was, because that album sounds like they were just jerking off and fucking around and throwing shit at a wall hoping some of it would stick.

Abbey Road, I dunno, it just failed to grab me.

My favourite songs are Michelle, She's So Heavy and Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite.

 

[Seducer of the Homeless]

"they were just jerking off and fucking around and throwing shit at a wall hoping some of it would stick."

isn't that art? isn't that progressive? that is in the true nature of creativity and by that point they were completely free to do whatever the hell they wanted. isn't that what all artists strive for?
no offence, but are you sure you are not a J type? INTJ?

anyway, i agree on Abbey Road, it just...never stuck out.

favourite song I Am The Walrus or Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (Lucy...for personal reasons), possibly Strawberry Fields Forever

 

[Vegard Pompey]

"they were just jerking off and fucking around and throwing shit at a wall hoping some of it would stick."

isn't that art? isn't that progressive? that is in the true nature of creativity and by that point they were completely free to do whatever the hell they wanted. isn't that what all artists strive for?
no offence, but are you sure you are not a J type? INTJ?

I very much doubt I'm a J type. I think there's a good and a bad type of experimental, and though I can't say where to draw the line, The Beatles represent both sides of it to me. Good experimentation is expressing yourself outside the confines of convention, bad experimentation is just experimenting for the heck of it. Something like that is how I see it.

favourite song I Am The Walrus

This song, this one song, is to me, The Beatles at their absolute worst. I feel like it embodies the whole "being weird for the sake of being weird"-ness that I mentioned.

 

[Seducer of the Homeless]

i understand you are not a fan of Lewis Carroll then...

Semolina pilchard, climbing up the Eiffel Tower.
Elementary penguin singing Hari Krishna.
Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the Walrus!
Goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob g'goo!

JUBA JUBA JUBA!
JUBA JUBA JUBA!

 

[Anthile]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVF66GVj8zU

 

[Seducer of the Homeless]

hahaha!

 

[Inappropriate Behavior]

Revolver

I should add that I never felt the Beatles were as great as 'advertised' but they are/were darned good.

Oh and RINGO!

 

[Toad]

Paul McCartney has such a pretty face. In the music video for "Let it be" I feel at ease looking at him. I don't know why. His face just reminds me of simpler times I guess.

Why do people say Yoko Ono broke up the beatles?

 

[EditorOne]

I remember getting bored with high school French one night and turning on the radio and there was somebody singing "Michelle, ma belle, sont les mots que vos tres bien ensembl, tres bien ensemble." Whoa! I know what he said! Kept me plugging away at the French.

It's kind of hard to explain why the early songs are the ones some of us geezers like the best. They were clean and simple and took American doo wop and kicked it up a notch.

I thought John Lennon was headed back toward pure, simple rock and roll in his songs when he was killed. Always liked him more than McCartney, who came to seem a bit too smug and smarmy, although my understanding of his attitude and feelings is of course suspect. But he did seem a little too pleased with himself for my taste.

 

[Tunesimah]

Revolver.

Many of the songs resonate with me lyrically and musically, most of the Beatles output only do one or the other.

I'm much more interested in experimental Beatles than conventional.

 

[Lear]

Abbey Road, for the B side alone.

Lennon, grittier and activist. Could anyone imagine McCartney writing Give peace a chance?

 

[Taprobane]

An activist who sang 'imagine no possessions' whilst he had £100 million in the bank. It's easy to be idealistic in such circumstances.

Give me Harrison any day.

 

[Puffy]

Sgt. Peppers it was the first album I heard and I fell in love with it subsequently. Favourite song is probably A day in the life. And Lennon's my fav of the two.

 

[Lithorn]

I agree with Lear. Abbey Road, the b side. I love the Golden Slumbers medly
Rubber Soul is second
I'm a George fan

 

[brain enclosed in flesh]

I vote for Lennon and Yellow Submarine because it's the first one that totally rocks. Love 'Hey Bulldog', Only a Northern Song, It's all too much, etc. This is a tough decision for me, however, because my theme song, I'm Only Sleeping, is on Revolver.

One of the best songs ever ever ever written.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCT6x0EdLpU

There are few people in the world's existence that I have loved more than John Lennon. He's up there with Oscar Wilde in my litany of saints.

Damn I hate ranking stuff, Sed. They're all good!

 

[snafupants]

1. plastic ono band is so honest its painful - not to mention the blood curdling screams on the opening track in particular and severing ties on "well well well" and "god", love it, iconoclast till the end. robert christgau had it right in concluding lennon might be the sweetest sounding vocalist in rock. but if i have to choose a beatles album, rubber soul for that crisp clean sound, integration of novel instruments, experimentation, meaningful lyrics, and song arrangement. 2. in my mind, its incredibly cloying to overly incorporate an orchestra in rock music, as sergeant peppers so readily did - the lyrics too were surreal for the sake of being surreal, which is phony to me. 3. i see your frank zappa and raise it a jeff beck.

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