i think i've over-listened to the whole canon really but i'm speaking from a reliable (walking talking) source about the jazz chords.

Also off For Sale - I love the grim desperation of Baby's In Black' and the paranoid despair of 'I Don't Want to Spoil the Party'. But you can keep 'Eight Days A Week' thanks...

I actually curiously like all the originals on that album, or at least seven out of the eight (was never too keen on "What You're Doing"). Every Little Thing has a sublime, almost haunting chorus. I like Eight Days A Week a whole lot too, I think it's one of their best earlier hits.

I like Beatles For Sale. I think its pretty underrated. No Reply, I'm A Loser, Baby's in Black, Rock and Roll, and I'll Follow The Sun are all great. Mr. Moonlight is a throwaway though. Eight Days A Week is a tad overrated, but I like it.

You have a lot of studying to do on the Beatles' cultural significance.

Alright, so we've gone beyond musical significance and are now on the topic of cultural significance. I will give a full response in not too long ;). Good topic, though.

The Beatles were both musically and culturally significant, even before they reached their creative peak.

Launching the whole british invasion is not something you can just shrug off, and you can't just say "someone else could have done it", because that not only dosen't matter, no other British band had the kinda appeal that The Beatles had. The Stones, The Who, The Kinks, they would have been considered too raw, The Beatles were just the right band to break into the American mainstream, I honestly don't think anyone else would have done it.

Yes, of course much of this is undeniable boo boo but the larger question rests on the meaning of "significance" that is to be assumed when talking about culture, or whatever. That's where the dispute lies. Were the Beatles "culturally significant" in the same way as say, Bob Dylan, or the Grateful Dead, or Jefferson Airplane, or acts such as the likes of the Fugs or Zappa? Completely different kind of significance entirely. The question is the extent of their own part in the great cultural revolution of the 1960s. Of course there were incidents here and there, but in the larger scheme of things, their influence in that particular very specific regard doesn't amount to all that much.

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Its got to be Abbey road or White Album, their creative peak is here. Abbey Road I went for.

However you are dead right about the US invasion of British PoP, it was all down to these guys

The White Album, Sgt. Pepper's and Magical Mystery Tour for me...

I love that someone added the No opinion option.

Who has no opinion and yet wants that to be known?

Yes, that does seem to be the most entertaining aspect of the poll.

From my experience there's always someone on a forum who whines when they have "nothing to vote for".

Of course, but just in general, who has no opinion about something, but takes the time to weigh in. Imagine having a conversation with your mates about who is a better drummer Mo Tucker or Meg White and one bloke says "You know I have no opinion on this matter" What is that?

How is Sgt. Pepper tied for 4th?? That doesn't seem logical. o_0

I think that's because the songs on the single left out of Sgt. Pepper were better than the songs on the singles from the other albums (which were also left out of the albums)

Rubber Soul - excluded Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out
Revolver - excluded Paperback Writer/Rain
Sgt. Pepper - excluded Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane

When judging albums back then you should also take into consideration the singles that were recorded during the sessions but left off the albums. If Starberry Fields and Penny Lane had been included in Sgt. Pepper it probably would've been praised even more than it is today.

After listening to alot of the Beatles lately I've decided the White Album is my favorite.

Ethan got something right finally




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Jalen is fair with people and I thinks makes his case well.
But I like Hard Days Night!
If I fell In love with you is great!
So is the title track.
So is Can't buy me love.
Seriously.

Rubber Soul still #2?

What was your favorite before Rubber Soul?

Revolver, which is tied with Rubber Soul right now. The problem with Rubber Soul is what I love I love, what I don't love I don't love...at all.

Where does Abbey Road (my personal favorite for nearly 10 years now) fit in and what drops it below the others?

It's probably my fourth favorite. I mean I like it alot, Something is one of my favorite Beatles songs but I've heard stuff like Come Together so many times I can't enjoy the album as a whole anymore. I can't really enjoy Rubber Soul as a whole either but I just connect with it more I guess.

I got Rubber Soul for my tenth birthday when I was really into the Beatles and it was over my head then and even now that I can appreciate it it's still on of my least favorites even though I really like a few tracks. Weird how your first impression can be so strong sometimes.

Even more funny is the tele phone in's that have that option.
And People DO RING IT!
like £2 a minute.
Ah ha ha

I reckon this is a great Album if you care not to be so fulorn and grown up and lighten up and love and be free and young in spirit!

All of them!

But if I have to pick, it's definately a tie between the White Album and Sgt. Pepper's

Why does the forum says that the last post in this thread was 04:01 this morning, yet when I enter the thread I see that the last message was the 29th of July?

When someone votes in the poll it'll bump it like a new post.

White Album, above all others. Then Abbey Road. Then, forgive me, but I do like the LOVE album. I don't know if you can call it real Beatles because it's all so synced and overprocessed and shizz like that, the sound seems to catch me though. I don't know if that's being an ignorant Beatles fan or not.

Me, so that I don't have to click "Poll Results" every time I visit this thread.

I don't think many Beatles fanatics are too keen on Love but i think it's brilliant, all the tracks flow brilliantly into each other and often feel like a breath of fresh air. There's some great mixes too, in particular for me it's For The Benefit of Mr Kite/She's So Heavy, brilliantly trippy.
I'd go as far as to say it's the best starting point for someone looking to get into the Beatles.

I agree with you! That tracks actually on right now ha. Don't know who picked the transitions but whoever it was, props to them. Good head music :p.

Love is an excellent Beatles compilation... It's completely seamless, I would have loved to see the actual show.

I would've loved to see the show on shrooms. ;)

George Martin and his son.

I agree that it's awesome, but I wouldn't introduce someone to the Beatles with that album. I'd give them an original album first, like Revolver or something.

It's not like people need "introduction" to The Beatles. Nearly everyone in the western world has heard at least Yesterday, All You Need is Love and Hey Jude and has some sort of opinion about them. If they want to expand their field, sure, Revolver will be a fine starting point, but the introduction was taken care of involuntary by the time they could comprehend music more or less.

Eh, I disagree. If I'd heard Happiness is a Warm Gun or Helter Skelter I wouldn't have put off listening to the Beatles until High School.

i think Rubber Soul. Its the Beatles doing folk and its meloncholic tone just makes it such a great listen. I also think its the album that marked the transition from the manufactured pop of their earlier albums into the mature, innovative experimentation of their larer work, you can see they had more creative freedom than ever before with this album

help was their first real transition album in my opinion