Favorite Beatles album?

[oustemnow]

Poll question: Favorite Beatles album?

Keep in mind, I'm listenting to Let it Be right now, and I'm fairly inebriated, so the poll questions may be skewed. At any rate, Sgt. Pepper shall not appear, as it is one of the most overrated albums of all time.

[MissouriTeacher]

1. Probably Abbey Road for me.

Although everything from Revolver on is a classic.

[Fridays Child]

2. Blackbird singin' in the dead of night...

The White Album Rules!!!

[CanuckAmok]

3. No Sgt. Pepper? Anything which drives Brian Wilson mad Can't be all bad...

[oustemnow]

7. LOL did you see the Beach Boys TV biopic they did a few years ago?

The scene where Brian realized that the refridgerator had been locked shut was particularly entertaining.

"Mer! Mer! Someone locked the refridgerator!"

That said, I feel very sorry for Brian. Murray was, from what I understand, a real prick to him.

[lynndew2]

26. I saw Chicago and the Beach boys live in '73

It was GREAT when the Beach Boys did Back in the U.S.S.R. as the encore song.

[DBoon]

18. It was 20 years ago today

That Sgt Pepper was considered the ultimate '60s art rock concept album. Seems very dated now - the source of much pretentious '70s progressive rock (Tull! Yes! ELP!).

Now the White Album seems much better - the polished pop that the Beatles excelled in.


BTW, wasn't the White Album white because the original cover didn't make it past the record company censors?

[oustemnow]

22. possibly thinking of Yesterday and Today

which originally bore the infamous "butcher" cover.

As far as I know, the "White Album" cover graphics were dur to a newfound interest in minimalism.

[JackSwift]

27. No, it was all white

with even the lettering "blind embossed" (raised with no ink)

You are thinking of the Yesterday and Today (American release only) with the butcher cover.

[MrBenchley]

29. It was twenty years ago today...

Where IS Sgt. Pepper?

[arwalden]

4. Well THAT'S Not Very Fair....

Wouldn't it be interesting to know who (if any) think the Sgt. Pepper album is any good?

Overrated or not... What if someone actually LIKED it? You're DISENFRANCHISING them of their vote!! ;-)

-- Allen

[madrchsod]

11. yes i`m with you!!! no disenfranchising!!

although rubber souls my choice ,i`ll always remember listening to sgt.pepper for the first time while tripping on physilo and smoking veitmesse grass....those were the days

[NightTrain]

5. Excuse me--the Beatles recorded several LPs before "Help!"

How about "Please Please Me?" "Meet The Beatles?" "A Hard Day's Night?" "Beatles '65?" "Rubber Soul?" Any one of those albums beats the hell out of "Revolver" and all that drug-induced bullshit music that followed it!

[arwalden]

6. Mr. Moonlight... I'll Follow The Sun...

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[oustemnow]

8. Shite! I forgot Rubber Soul!

I'll add it right now. And, while A Hard Day's Night is quite sophisticated given their stage of development, most of their early stuff was pop fluff (though relatively intricate pop fluff).

[madrchsod]

9. rubber soul

brings back memories of my lovely little blonde girl friend that i was madly in love with -then she had to move away...ah girl....

[arwalden]

10. So Why Is "Rubber Soul" Listed TWICE??

Just wondering. It looks strange.

[oustemnow]

12. Whoops; dammit, Ar, you're right

well, the second RS slot is gone now, and since there were no votes recorded in it, no harm, no foul, I guess.

BTW, I've moved on to the Pixies' Trompe Le Monde in listening material now.

[Quahog]

17. I went with Revolver

I was really just a kid when that came out, but I remember walking around my neighborhood in Palo Alto and every house with a teenager in it had that record drifting out of the windows that summer. It's the only Beatles album I own on cd.

Having said that, I prefer the Pixies "Bossanova" to anything the Beatles ever recorded. Although instrumental versions of their songs don't work very well in department stores.

[oustemnow]

20. Bossanova? Are you insane?

It's Dolittle, Trompe Le Monde, Surfer Rosa or nothing.

Kidding, of course, though I do think Bossavona was the Pixies' Let it Be.

I'd start a Best Pixies Album poll, though I think the replies would be about 1.5.

[bobthedrummer]

13. Not to complain too bad but Sgt. Pepper deserves to be on the list

I voted for the last album that could be performed by them, the post Bob Dylan influenced Rubber Soul, a gem! But Sgt. Pepper would have my vote over that.

[arwalden]

14. SEE???

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[skjpm]

16. you don't like Pepper because it's Paul's album

There's a very dismissive attitude about Paul, and all his work is basically derided now just because it's not hip. Sgt. Pepper was Paul's concept and mostly his songs, with George offering 1 and John offering 3 1/2. It's a brilliant album--like Eliot's The Waste Land, it's a series of monologues by people lost in an empty society, finding their way out through drugs and other stimulants.

Incidentally, along with the middle section, the line "I'd love to turn you on. . ." and the orchestral crescendo were Paul's contribution to A Day In the Life, making it at least 50% his song.

[ForrestGump]

15. "Abbey Road," hands down. Does better as a cohesive album

than does the white album and also happens to contain some of the best stuff that they ever did.

My top three would probably be "Abbey Road" followed by "The Beatles" (white album) and that followed by "Let It Be." I realize that some of their mid-60s stuff was arguably stronger than "Let It Be" (especially "Revolver" and "Rubber Soul", but I've got a soft spot for the 1969 recordings and the 'jammy' atmosphere of back-to-basics. The rooftop show, too, was classic.

[DBoon]

19. Rubber Soul = acid rock?

And wasn't Rubber Soul the first album the Beatles did after trying LSD, making it an early example of "acid rock"?

[oustemnow]

21. Revolver was more the acid rock album

recorded after a famous dentist dosed them. see "Dr. Robert," which was originally on the British version of Revolver. Rubber Soul was more the pot album, recorded after Dylan turned them on to pot.

By the way, there's a new DKs live album coming out, called Mutiny on the Bay, billed as the first "official" live DKs album.

Also, I have to say again, love youre screen name; Minutemen forever!

[Jeebo]

23. "Overrated"? OVERRATED?

I voted for the White Album and would have even if Sgt. Pepper's had been one of the options. Sgt. Pepper's is my second favorite Beatles album. And if you're going to conduct these little polls, you SHOULD NOT project your own biases onto it. Wasn't there somebody a few years ago who chose Sgt. Pepper's as the greatest rock album of all time? I LOVE the Sgt. Pepper's album and believe it was an excellent choice.

Ron

[RushIsRot]

24. I didn't vote because

Sgt. Pepper was not included.

[nuxvomica]

30. Me, neither

:P If you create a poll, you must give all the reasonable options. Otherwise it's just not scientific.

[mulsh]

25. Meet The Beatles

Something New. Beatles at the BBC. Their bootlegs. Hear what all the excitement was about. There's a good reason john lennon kept referring to "that dead beatle sound" in his later interviews.

[JackSwift]

28. Abbey Road

Because it is to rock and roll what the Sistine Chapel is to frescos. It doesn't mean much, but the sound is beautiful.

The Beatles didn't record any album that was not excellent, and many of them were great. Sgt. Pepper is my second favorite Beatles album and most rock critics put it at number one of any rock album for good reason: it is perfectly done, revolutionary and a lot of fun. Not to include it in the poll deserves many, many flames.

[newyawker99]

31. Abbey Road..............hands down!

My all-time favorite album.