Best Beatles album?

MeAgain · Nov 2, 2019

Asmodean said: ↑

Same here. And never got into the Stones either (adding that since there was some rivalry between fans of these bands: you're either a Stones or Beatles fan. I've never been either). I appreciate both but even though I'm a rock fan neither is even close to my top 10
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The best Stones album was Their Satanic Majesties Request.

newo · Nov 2, 2019

MeAgain said: ↑

The best Stones album was Their Satanic Majesties Request.

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No, Sticky Fingers!

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^^^

DrRainbow · Nov 14, 2019

I have heard very little of their music but from what I have read is that the last album was not as popular.

newo · Nov 14, 2019

DrRainbow said: ↑

I have heard very little of their music but from what I have read is that the last album was not as popular.
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Whose last album? Beatles or Stones?

DrRainbow · Nov 14, 2019

newo said: ↑

Whose last album? Beatles or Stones?
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Beatles.

newo · Nov 14, 2019

Their last released album was Let It Be. Actually a very good album, but not The Beatles best.

ChoosChins · Nov 14, 2019

Asmodean said: ↑

Same here. And never got into the Stones either (adding that since there was some rivalry between fans of these bands: you're either a Stones or Beatles fan. I've never been either). I appreciate both but even though I'm a rock fan neither is even close to my top 10
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Sacrilege!!! The Rolling Stones are my absolute favourite band ever but the Beatles are a very close second. I'm getting married in two weeks and my fiance finally revealed after five years that he hates the Rolling Stones lol. Still going to marry him!

hotwater · Nov 14, 2019

themnax · Nov 14, 2019

truth; i thought they were ok, but never understood why such a big deal was made about them.

i don't remember what was on which album either.
and i do remember how big of a deal was made. i remember the landing in new york, the screaming girls, the first appearance on ed sullivan, all that.

i just remember being in high school. voices and guitars didn't sound that interesting to me.

hotwater · Nov 15, 2019

themnax said: ↑

truth; i thought they were ok, but never understood why such a big deal was made about them.

i don't remember what was on which album either.
and i do remember how big of a deal was made. i remember the landing in new york, the screaming girls, the first appearance on ed sullivan, all that.

i just remember being in high school. voices and guitars didn't sound that interesting to me.
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I fear you may have forgotten to remove the cotton from your ears .....~ Sigh ~

themnax · Nov 15, 2019

hotwater said: ↑

I fear you may have forgotten to remove the cotton from your ears .....~ Sigh ~
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sorry but personal taste is personal taste, and mine is what it is and not what it is not.
like i said, i thought they sounded ok, but i never understood what was supposed to be so great about them.
at least not during their first couple of years of their music hitting the charts in the u.s.
latter on, shortly before, and even individually during and after the break up,
some of their work started to become a little more interesting.
but during that first couple of years, after the landing and the ed sullivan gig,
nothing they did spoke directly to what i would find interesting.

morrow · Nov 15, 2019

Rubber soul.. mad, sad and beautifull

06-The Beatles - Rubber soul (Full album) - YouTube

Then

Revolver.. old new and a bit of everything.. at the time

The Beatles - Revolver (Full Album) - YouTube

My least favourite.. yellow submarine... sorry, but that's my opinion..

MeAgain · Nov 18, 2019

themnax said: ↑

truth; i thought they were ok, but never understood why such a big deal was made about them.

i don't remember what was on which album either.
and i do remember how big of a deal was made. i remember the landing in new york, the screaming girls, the first appearance on ed sullivan, all that.

i just remember being in high school. voices and guitars didn't sound that interesting to me.
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The Beatles were revolutionary on a number of fronts.
Here's a few quotes:

According to author and film-maker Hanif Kureishi, the Beatles are "the only mere pop group you could remove from history and suggest that culturally, without them, things would have been significantly different".[12]
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Music historian Bill Martin cites such notions as part of modern culture's inability to fully "understand them as a force", and says that although rock music has been defined by "synthesis and transmutation" since it began, "what was original about the Beatles is that they synthesized and transmuted more or less everything, they did this in a way that reflected their time, they reflected their time in a way that spoke to a great part of humanity, and they did all of this really, really well."
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Starting in 1963, according to historian David Simonelli, the Beatles initiated the "original golden age" of British rock 'n' roll and reversed a tradition whereby domestic acts were a "pale imitation" of the original American purveyors of the style.[28]
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On 9 February, the Beatles gave their first live US television performance on The Ed Sullivan Show, watched by approximately 73 million viewers in over 23 million households,[64] or 34 per cent of the US population.[65] The Nielsen rating service reported that it was the largest audience number ever recorded for an American television program.[65] Music journalist Neil McCormick, writing in 2015, described the Beatles' debut on the show as pop music's "big bang moment",[66] while Stanley calls it "arguably the most significant postwar cultural event in America", adding that "Their rise, the scale of it and their impact on society, was completely unprecedented."[67]
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Russian historian Mikhail Safonov wrote in 2003 that in the Brezhnev-era Soviet Union, mimicking the Beatles' hairstyle was seen as highly rebellious. Young people were called "hairies" by their elders, and were arrested and forced to have their hair cut in police stations.[94]
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Tom Petty, who joined the Sundowners in Gainesville, Florida after seeing the Beatles' US television debut,[135] recalled: "Within weeks of that, you could drive through literally any neighborhood in Gainesville and you would hear the strains of garage bands playing ... I mean everywhere. And I'd say by a year from that time, Gainesville probably had 50 bands."[72]
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From 1963 to 1967, the Beatles increasingly broke with established rock and pop conventions.[151] Adding to their sophistication as composers was the application of modal mixture, wider chord palettes, and extended form.[citation needed] One of the hallmarks of the Beatles' experimental period is their use of the flattened subtonic chord (♭VII).[152] Although it was already a staple of rock 'n' roll, the Beatles further developed and popularised the chord's function in popular music.[153] Another is their subversions of pop's standard AABA form.[154] Few electric beat artists wrote songs with bridge sections until the group's breakthrough, after which the practice became ubiquitous.[155]
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Music critic Tim Riley identifies the Beatles as pop music's "first recording artists", whose body of work represents "very intricate art".[187] Luhrssen and Larson say the Beatles "[made] it mandatory that serious rock bands aspire to be artists, not merely entertainers".[188]
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Simonelli describes Rubber Soul as "the first serious effort by a rock and roll act to produce an LP as an artistic statement",[196] while author Christopher Bray deems it "the first long-playing pop record to really merit the term 'album'" and the LP that "turned pop music into high art".[197]
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On and on.....

hotwater · Nov 20, 2019

Deleted member 313194 · Nov 21, 2019

Was asking my folks this question as my old man is a big fan.
We have both abbey road and the best of the beatles albums one and two.
The best of the beatles is awesome.

Deleted member 313194 · Jan 23, 2020

This was played at my uncles funeral

Dude111 · Mar 28, 2021

It is hard to pick........ The beatles did excellent stuff all thru!!!!!!

Tman58 · Mar 29, 2021

Ohhh tough choice but I would have to go with Revolver

Grandeur · Apr 2, 2021

Not into Beatles myself.

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