I keep The Beatles Red and Blue albums on all my devices. Thats almost 60 songs. I don’t have the original Beatles albums except on old & badly scratched vinyl.
I’m hosting the party with beer,wine and soda pop. Which Beatles album shall I play?
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Blue all the way. The songs were just more interesting at that point
I had both back in collage, the blue one got played way more than the red one.
I’d play the White.
Definitely Red. If I hear a couple of songs on Blue one more time (when I can’t control the music) I’m likely to head to a tower with a Nerf gun. Red is solid rock & roll.
Gotta be Red. The songs on Blue might be better but the Red songs are comparatively forgotten, are instantly accessible (for the youngsters), and yet they formidably kick ass.
I agree. I have the Complete Blue album on Google Drive. There’s several songs I always delete (by renaming the file name extension) after copying it to a new Android phone. I just don’t enjoy hearing the psychedelic material very often.
I would play the entire album at a party. My guests might enjoy songs they haven’t heard in a long time.
But “more interesting” isn’t necessarily what you want most for background music at a party.
Agreed. For personal listening, I’d be more likely to listen to the Blue album. But, for a party, the poppier, more accessible Red album would be my choice.
For those unfamiliar with what’s on them:
Nobody wants to hear “The Long and Winding Road,” “Let It Be” or “Across the Universe” at a party. Or ever.
Red, all the way.
Why not both? 60 songs on red and blue at an average 3 minutes per is 3 hours. Your party won’t be any shorter than that, will it?
Play the red first, then the blue, and your party guests can experience the musical and sociopolitical journey that the Fab 4 did.
Yeah, play them in order, red first then blue.
Play the red first, then the blue, and your party guests can experience the musical and sociopolitical journey that the Fab 4 did.
Assuming you have the proper ingredients in the punch, of course. 
Red for the English and the Irish, blue for the Scots, let everyone else pick a side.
Red has the version of Help with the James Bond-ish intro, so definitely red.
Fair enough. I sorta misread the thread. I, for some reason, thought it was a Beatles party, specifically to listen to Beatles music. Just a general party with Beatles music on in the background, go with Red.
Allen Klein picked the songs for both. Most of them are obvious choices (most of the hit singles, for starters), but I quibble with his taste in some respects. Mainly, he clearly liked “Rubber Soul” more than “Revolver.” For shame!
And why oh why “Octopus’s Garden,” but no “I Saw Her Standing There,” no “Rain” (nor even “Tomorrow Never Knows,” nor “Here There and Everywhere”…). “Old Brown Shoe”? I guess…I like this rather funky George number, but doesn’t belong on this album.
Anyway…I went with Red, just for the joy permeating it. (I got the see-through blue vinyl of the Blue Album for my ninth birthday…)
True that. I Saw her Standing There is my fave Beatles song by a distance - Woooo! It’s flat out criminal that it isn’t on the Red album. But despite that, Red it is.
j
PS: earplugs is too extreme but… In legend, everyone in England spent the late sixties and early seventies asking each other “Beatles or Stones??” Had this ever happened to me I would have answered…Kinks, of course.
The songs on the Blue album are better overall. But the songs on the Red album are better for playing at a party.