I always thought Happiness Is a Warm Gun sounded like Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody.

There are around 5-6 songs on the record that I can take or leave. If I was brutal, I could cut the White Album down to the 15 tracks (approximately) I really like a lot. I felt a little differently about it when I was younger. I was less critical and more easy-going about music.

Here goes:

Back in the U.S.S.R.
Dear Prudence
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Happiness Is a Warm Gun
Martha My Dear
Blackbird
Rocky Raccoon
I Will
Julia
Mother Nature's Son
Helter Skelter (personally dislike, but it's a general favourite)
Revolution
Good Night
Hey Bulldog (recorded during the White Album sessions)

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The songs I really, really like from The White Album:

Back in the U.S.S.R.
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Happiness Is a Warm Gun
Martha My Dear
Blackbird
Birthday
Yer Blues
Mother Nature's Son
Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey
Sexy Sadie
Helter Skelter
Revolution 1
Honey Pie
Savoy Truffle

I couldn't decide whether to include Piggies. Dear Prudence, Julia, I Will and Good Night are nice, but don't make my cut.

Just heard Love for the first time today, and to be honest, I almost preferred it to the studio albums. Some incredible work by Sir George Martin.

Sgt. Pepper's. Never been a huge Beatles fan. But I have always liked this album. I can listen to every track and not grow tired of it.

Surprised to see Abbey Road up there. Ding dong maxwells silver hammer knocks it down a few pegs in my book. Revolver is a more solidly great album.

A lot of people diss Paul's goofy songs, but I tend to like them. They always add a lot more variety to their albums.

My personal favorites are Stg Pepper's, Abbey Road and Revolver. I like the transition between the songs in Abbey Road, is sounds as a single music piece.

Has to be Revolver for me, still like to play my Dad's scratchy vinyl copy.

Sgt. Pepper was so over the top and unexpected it has to be their best album. The press proclaimed the Beatles dead and out of creative ideas prior to them releasing Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane which in my opinion would have made the album untouchable if they had been included on it. Capitol wanted some new material so the two songs were released earlier then what the band wanted them to be and they made promotional movies to accompany them for their North American fans.

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i vote for Let It Be (1970).....

Another vote for Abbey Road. Side two is simply perfection.

Let It Be used to be my least favorite album of theirs, but it's odd charm has really grown on me. I've had some good memories with it.

I dig all of the LPs, although I have always been particularly enamored of "Beatles '65" (Not on the poll list). It's a really nicely balanced album of originals and well chosen & compelling covers. A lot has been made of The Beatles' love of R&B, but their influences didn't begin or end there. The inclusion of two Carl Perkins songs [well sung by Ringo ("Honey Don't") and George ("Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby")] prove that more attention should be payed to their RAB side. The originals (I feel right in pointing out "I Feel Fine", "She's A Woman", "I'm A Loser" and "Baby's In Black" in particular) are extremely well thought out and executed. Then there's John's covers of "Mr. Moonlight" (Roy Lee Johnson) and "Rock And Roll Music" (Chuck Berry). What's not to like? A great album, overall.

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The Beatles do absolutely nothing for me. I've listened to quite a few of their albums, some of them multiple times over and I don't 'get' it. There is like one song I really love and the rest are just alright.

I'm guessing the one song of theirs that you like is this:

I hated them in the 60s cause it's all my older sister would listen to. I ignored them in the 70s because I was all wrapped up in Zep/Sabbath/Purple, etc. I finally "got" them in the mid 80s.

To think about what those four dudes (who were in their young 20s when they started) accomplished in the short span of only 7 years is mind blowing.

McCartney was only 23 and Lennon 25 when The Beatles recorded Revolver!!!!!

I didnt quite know what to make of magical mystery tour when i saw the movie. I think they were a little to heavy on the psychedelics when they made that lol

I think they were hoping to roll film and all sorts of wacky things would happen and that didn't really work so they had to do all the music video stuff. Reminds of that movie where a group of people drove a segway across the country, ended up being pretty damn boring. But I love Magical Mystery tour, movie and album.

Brilliant album, but those costumes are inexcusable, even if they were tripping.

After staring at the Sgt. Peppers album cover for a very long time, I've come to the conclusion that Paul was mega baked

Not as baked as John.

And the Ringo double is just very sullen

Sergeant Pepper does it for me if only for the story surrounding it.

And the weird run out groove.

Has to be Abbey Road right? The last recorded beatles album. Its just a great album, the way all the songs at the end just kinda mesh into one. And the last song on the album( if you discount her majesty) called "the end" is that not just the perfect way for the beatles to go,its like there saying goodbye and thank you to all their fans. Just perfect

+1000

Actually, my favorite Beatles LP is "Beatles '65". It just moves me. Since it wasn't listed, I went with the White Album. Probably, because even though it is the beginning of the disintegration of the band it shows that they were still capable of brilliance.

Says the Beefheart fan. F/cking hilarious man.

Um

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vs.

https://scontent-lax1-1.xx.fbcdn.net...c6&oe=560EEDB7

I think we have a clear winner (btw that vacuum cleaner is the one that Frank Zappa allegedly used to pleasure his wife).

No, winner.

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It's revolver for me.

Rubber Soul. First Beatles album I listened to, minus their early stuff.

To me, the white album.

Sgt. Pepper. It definitely isn't their best, but I love it the most.

Aren't best and favourite the same thing?

Sgt. Pepper here.

Hmm.