# I'm Hosting the party and playing The Beatles - choose Red or Blue **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [March 2, 2022, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hosting-the-party-and-playing-the-beatles-choose-red-or-blue/960358 "2022-03-02T17:28:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2022, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hosting-the-party-and-playing-the-beatles-choose-red-or-blue/960358/1 "2022-03-02T17:28:53Z")
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? _Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hosting-the-party-and-playing-the-beatles-choose-red-or-blue/960358/1))_ > **[1962–1966](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962%E2%80%931966)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > > 1962–1966, also known as the Red Album, is a compilation album of hit songs by the English rock band the Beatles, spanning the years indicated in the title. Released with its counterpart 1967–1970 (the "Blue Album") in 1973, the double LP peaked at number 3 in the United Kingdom. In the United States, it topped the Cash Box albums chart and peaked at number 3 on the Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart while 1967–1970 reached the top spot. The album ... > **[1967–1970](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967%E2%80%931970)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > > 1967–1970, also known as the Blue Album, is a compilation album of songs by the English rock band the Beatles, spanning the years indicated in the title. A double LP, it was released with 1962–1966 (the "Red Album") in April 1973. 1967–1970 topped the Billboard albums chart in the United States and peaked at number 2 on the UK Albums Chart. It was re-released in September 1993 on CD, charting at number 4 in the United Kingdom. > The album was in... ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2022, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hosting-the-party-and-playing-the-beatles-choose-red-or-blue/960358/2 "2022-03-02T17:31:34Z")
Blue all the way. The songs were just more interesting at that point ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2022, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hosting-the-party-and-playing-the-beatles-choose-red-or-blue/960358/3 "2022-03-02T17:32:07Z")
I had both back in collage, the blue one got played way more than the red one. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2022, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hosting-the-party-and-playing-the-beatles-choose-red-or-blue/960358/4 "2022-03-02T17:37:56Z")
I’d play the White. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2022, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hosting-the-party-and-playing-the-beatles-choose-red-or-blue/960358/5 "2022-03-02T17:38:27Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2022, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hosting-the-party-and-playing-the-beatles-choose-red-or-blue/960358/6 "2022-03-02T17:40:00Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2022, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hosting-the-party-and-playing-the-beatles-choose-red-or-blue/960358/7 "2022-03-02T17:42:37Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2022, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hosting-the-party-and-playing-the-beatles-choose-red-or-blue/960358/8 "2022-03-02T17:54:34Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Blue all the way. The songs were just more interesting at that point But “more interesting” isn’t necessarily what you want most for background music at a party. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2022, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hosting-the-party-and-playing-the-beatles-choose-red-or-blue/960358/9 "2022-03-02T17:57:44Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > 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: > **[1962–1966](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962%E2%80%931966)** > > 1962–1966, also known as the Red Album, is a compilation album of hit songs by the English rock band the Beatles, spanning the years indicated in the title. Released with its counterpart 1967–1970 (the "Blue Album") in 1973, the double LP peaked at number 3 in the United Kingdom. In the United States, it topped the Cash Box albums chart and peaked at number 3 on the Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart while 1967–1970 reached the top spot. The album was re-released in September 1993 on compact disc,... > **[1967–1970](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967%E2%80%931970)** > > 1967–1970, also known as the Blue Album, is a compilation album of songs by the English rock band the Beatles, spanning the years indicated in the title. A double LP, it was released with 1962–1966 (the "Red Album") in April 1973. 1967–1970 topped the Billboard albums chart in the United States and peaked at number 2 on the UK Albums Chart. It was re-released in September 1993 on CD, charting at number 4 in the United Kingdom. > The album was instigated by Apple Records manager Allen Klein duri... ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2022, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hosting-the-party-and-playing-the-beatles-choose-red-or-blue/960358/10 "2022-03-02T17:57:50Z")
Nobody wants to hear “The Long and Winding Road,” “Let It Be” or “Across the Universe” at a party. Or ever. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2022, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hosting-the-party-and-playing-the-beatles-choose-red-or-blue/960358/11 "2022-03-02T17:59:26Z")
Red, all the way. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2022, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hosting-the-party-and-playing-the-beatles-choose-red-or-blue/960358/12 "2022-03-02T17:59:47Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2022, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hosting-the-party-and-playing-the-beatles-choose-red-or-blue/960358/13 "2022-03-02T18:09:04Z")
Yeah, play them in order, red first then blue. ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2022, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hosting-the-party-and-playing-the-beatles-choose-red-or-blue/960358/14 "2022-03-02T18:11:31Z")
> 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. 🤩 ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2022, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hosting-the-party-and-playing-the-beatles-choose-red-or-blue/960358/15 "2022-03-02T18:55:13Z")
Red for the English and the Irish, blue for the Scots, let everyone else pick a side. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2022, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hosting-the-party-and-playing-the-beatles-choose-red-or-blue/960358/16 "2022-03-02T19:11:27Z")
Red has the version of Help with the James Bond-ish intro, so definitely red. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2022, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hosting-the-party-and-playing-the-beatles-choose-red-or-blue/960358/17 "2022-03-02T19:17:33Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2022, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hosting-the-party-and-playing-the-beatles-choose-red-or-blue/960358/18 "2022-03-02T19:20:36Z")
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…) ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2022, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hosting-the-party-and-playing-the-beatles-choose-red-or-blue/960358/19 "2022-03-02T19:35:32Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > …why oh why “Octopus’s Garden,” but no “I Saw Her Standing There,” 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. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2022, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hosting-the-party-and-playing-the-beatles-choose-red-or-blue/960358/20 "2022-03-02T19:35:37Z")
The songs on the Blue album are better overall. But the songs on the Red album are better for playing at a party. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-hosting-the-party-and-playing-the-beatles-choose-red-or-blue/960358.md?page=2)