Favorite Beatles album? CD*?

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Abbey Road, Sgt. Pepper’s

And Ringo’s singing on With a Little Help From My Friends is rather good. For Ringo.

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“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.

23

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.

24

Another one for Revolver, but I’ll give props to my runner-up: Beatles for Sale (tied w/Abbey Road).

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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… :wink:

26

The White Album followed by Introducing The Beatles.

27

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.

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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).

29

Rubber Soul, with Abbey Road a close second.

30

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.

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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.

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1.) Rubber Soul
2.) Abbey Road
3.) A Hard Day’s Night
4.) Revolver

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.”

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The White Album, Disc II (especially Helter Skelter, Long Long Long, and Savory Truffle).

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Wow, samarm, those are my three favorites, in exactly that order. :cool:

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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.

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I vote for Rubber Soul.

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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”.

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  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

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  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 . . . :smiley:

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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?