# Favorite Beatles album? CD\*? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 11, 2002, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-beatles-album-cd/141941 "2002-12-11T03:56:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![I\_am\_Sparticus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@I\_am\_Sparticus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_am_Sparticus)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-beatles-album-cd/141941/21 "2002-12-11T14:16:31Z")
Abbey Road, Sgt. Pepper’s And Ringo’s singing on With a Little Help From My Friends is rather good. For Ringo. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-beatles-album-cd/141941/22 "2002-12-11T16:42:10Z")
“Revolver” was already my favorite Beatle album, but the CD version is even better, since it includes some great songs that weren’t on the initial American release. So, the best Beatle album actually got BETTER. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-beatles-album-cd/141941/23 "2002-12-11T17:35:15Z")
The OP didn’t ask which was the **best** album; just what’s my **favorite** album. Big difference. I know I really sound like a fossil, but my favorite is **With the Beatles**. I love the covers, especially the way Lennon takes on _Money_ and _You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me_, and I love the originals - _It Won’t Be Long_, _All My Loving_, _I Wanna Be Your Man_, and _Don’t Bother Me_. I like to think about the lads back in 1963, before they crossed the pond; before they had any notion of what a firestorm they would create, just plying their craft of writing songs and covering old favorites. This album always warms my heart. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-beatles-album-cd/141941/24 "2002-12-11T17:43:53Z")
Another one for _Revolver_, but I’ll give props to my runner-up: **Beatles for Sale** (tied w/_Abbey Road_). ---
**Author:** ![Lilacs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Lilacs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lilacs)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-beatles-album-cd/141941/25 "2002-12-11T18:43:58Z")
I’m not a big ringo fan, but I actually like “What Goes On” Revolver/Rubber Soul/1st Disc of the White Album/Help! if only for “You’re Going to Lose That Girl”…for some reason that song makes me want to just dance and sing… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-beatles-album-cd/141941/26 "2002-12-11T19:01:28Z")
**The White Album** followed by **Introducing The Beatles**. ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-beatles-album-cd/141941/27 "2002-12-11T20:30:28Z")
**White Album** But… I find myself putting on the “middle period” albums more often than anything else: **Beatles For Sale** **Help!** **Rubber Soul** True, they have the highest concentration of “stinkers” but there’s something about the remaining songs that really appeals to me. ---
**Author:** ![SirRay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@SirRay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirRay)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-beatles-album-cd/141941/28 "2002-12-11T21:57:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by riserius1 \* > \*\* As far as “Yellow Submarine” the original was much more of a “soundtrack” with half original songs(4 + YS and all you need is love) and the rest being orchestral score by George Martin. The new release eliminates the orchestral scores(they’re not bad, but c’mon!?)and adds the remaining songs that were used in the film itself. Much more of a "Beatle"experience, IMHO. \*\* Does that mean the song for ‘The Sea of Sound’ is on the Album now - the one playing while they travel past oscilliscope patterns and ears on boxes in the movie? (I have the older release, which has the fairly uninspired [to me] orchestral incidental music). ---
**Author:** ![marinwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@marinwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marinwood)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-beatles-album-cd/141941/29 "2002-12-14T03:46:39Z")
_Rubber Soul_, with _Abbey Road_ a close second. ---
**Author:** ![syncrolecyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@syncrolecyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/syncrolecyne)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-beatles-album-cd/141941/30 "2002-12-14T06:50:12Z")
_A Hard Day’s Night_ I respect all the later albums, but to me, that record is what defined the Beatles as a band. It’s pure Beatleness. ---
**Author:** ![Grit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@Grit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grit)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-beatles-album-cd/141941/31 "2002-12-14T07:26:55Z")
I know when you consider the problems occuring within the band at the time it is probably more a collaborative solo album but “The White Album” is my favorite hands down. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-beatles-album-cd/141941/32 "2002-12-14T19:34:40Z")
1.) Rubber Soul 2.) Abbey Road 3.) A Hard Day’s Night 4.) Revolver > [@](#): > > Revolver. I think rock critics in the past have been overinfluenced by the cover art and alleged “theme” of Sgt. Pepper’s to realize that in content, the album doesn’t go anywhere that Revolver hadn’t a year earlier. Amen, brother or sister. Sgt. Pepper, aside from “A Day in the Life” is vastly overrated in this coyote’s opinion. I agree with you that Revolver is much superior. As a bit of psychedelia, “She Said She Said” is superior to anything on Sgt. Pepper with the exception of “A Day in the Life.” ---
**Author:** ![Orange\_Skinner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3be4f8/32.png) [@Orange\_Skinner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orange_Skinner)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-beatles-album-cd/141941/33 "2002-12-15T00:42:18Z")
The White Album, Disc II (especially _Helter Skelter, Long Long Long,_ and _Savory Truffle_). ---
**Author:** ![LindyHopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2002, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-beatles-album-cd/141941/34 "2002-12-15T00:49:37Z")
Wow, **samarm** , those are my three favorites, in exactly that order. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![wikkidpis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f05b48/32.png) [@wikkidpis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wikkidpis)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-beatles-album-cd/141941/35 "2002-12-16T21:41:16Z")
just to resurect & hijack: I’m not sure of my favorite, A.R. or White Album, I guess, but I sure know which one was the worst: “Something New”. The only bad Beatles album. ---
**Author:** ![fatmac98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3ec8ea/32.png) [@fatmac98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fatmac98)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-beatles-album-cd/141941/36 "2002-12-16T21:51:50Z")
I vote for Rubber Soul. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-beatles-album-cd/141941/37 "2002-12-16T22:25:03Z")
I used to hire ad people. A resumé for a copywriter had the line, under “Additional Personal Information”: ``` ..."3) And I believe that Western Civilization started going downhill as soon as the Beatles started taking drugs". ``` I’d agree. Beatles For Sale for me. Kicks off with John passionately entreating “It happened once before / when I came to your door / No Reply”. ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-beatles-album-cd/141941/38 "2002-12-17T01:19:18Z")
1. White Album 2. Abbey Road 3. With the Beatles (simple, basic, excellent) 4. Magical Mystery Tour (most acts would love to have an album like this in their catalog) 5. Sgt Pepper’s then – Revolver, Hard Days Night, Beatles for Sale, Help, worst – Beatles '65 good but overrated – Rubber Soul ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Bongo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a9adbd/32.png) [@Winston\_Bongo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Bongo)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-beatles-album-cd/141941/39 "2002-12-17T17:00:49Z")
1. Abbey Road. The second side ALONE would qualify as one of the best albums by anyone, ever. Side one’s only weakness is “I Want You/She’s So Heavy,” which isn’t bad at all but goes on WAY too long. (And no, I don’t consider “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” a weakness; sure, it’s fluff, but it’s GREAT fluff!) 2. Revolver. Another almost perfect album – “I Want to Tell You” is its only weak song – but you HAVE to get the original, uncut version. How anyone could cut three great songs from a Beatles record is beyond me. (Well, I take that back – you could probably cut several off the White Album with no harm done.) 3. A Hard Day’s Night (not the LP). I put it as #3, but only because it lacks the sophistication of the other two. As pure, stripped-down, non-psychedelic Beatles fun, it’s flawless. 4. The White Album. True, it has the largest collection of crappy songs of all their albums, but it also has some of their best songs ever. It ranks this far down because it doesn’t hold together as a whole. 5. Sgt. Pepper / Rubber Soul. In my opinion both are somewhat over-rated, but still better than most other bands’ best albums. Not that I’m going to change anyone’s mind or anything . . . 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Algernon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-beatles-album-cd/141941/40 "2002-12-17T21:11:30Z")
Head and shoulders better than the rest of the pack, is my vote for **Abbey Road**. I once heard an interview with Ringo where he was asked what was the Beatles best album. His response was something along the lines of “well, the establishment always says it’s Sgt. Pepper, but if there was any justice they’d pick Abbey Road as the best.” My second place vote goes for **Let It Be**. Did I miss some rule? No one has voted for this album yet? It’s not considered a compilation, is it? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-beatles-album-cd/141941.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-beatles-album-cd/141941.md?page=3)