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Beatles forums => Polls => Topic started by: Jimothy17 on August 06, 2014, 11:39:18 PM
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Obviously, all the albums are genius in their own ways. Yellow Submarine is not included :)
For me it's option 5, Help!, Rubber Soul, Revolver.
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This is quite tough. While I vote for the standard Rubber, Revolver, Sgt pepper, I actually rate Help highly as well so tend to think of it as a four album streak. Help has a few filler songs like Dizzy Miss Lizzie, You Like Me Too Much and Another Girl, but it also contains four absolute classics in the title track, You've Got to Hide Your Love Away, Ticket to Ride and Yesterday as well as some really good songs like You're Going to Lose that Girl and I've Just Seen a Face. So it's pretty well packed with good tunes.
I still plump for Sgt Pepper because of its overall conception (not just the music but the package) and it has some great songs too, but it's not by much.
The original three albums and last three albums also aren't bad as a streak of records either.
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Oops. Working on my phone I ended up hitting the wrong vote button (fumble fingers). So the vote registered for the last three should have been for the Rubber to Sgt triumvirate.
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I find myself increasingly drawn to the early stuff, not least because I have such fondness for all the rock 'n' roll guys from the 50s (Chuck, Eddie, Larry, Carl, Jerry Lee etc. are pretty much all I play).
So, for me, it's the first three LPs, and even more so since seeing 'A Hard Day's Night' recently at the cinema and last year's 'Live At The BBC Volume 2' CDs.
However, it's more clear cut with regard to The Stones; overwhelmingly my favourites are 'The Rolling Stones', 'No. 2' and 'Out Of Our Heads'.
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Sorry for being thick but I clicked the wrong option :-[
I clicked "Rubber Soul", "Revolver" then "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" in that order (the transition from perfect pop group to rock innovators par excellence) but realised too late that the poll takes your single final click before voting as being the start of the three album run. So I'm the one (so far) who (wrongly) voted for Sgt Pepper / MMT / White Album which annoys me even further coz in my book MMT was an EP not an album (until 1976) and deserves to be there less than Yellow Submarine does.
Hey ho!
I'm glad Moog spoke up for "Help!" though. Side One is arguably the best side of vinyl they ever produced; with the exception of "I Need You" (which I do like) every track is nothing short of fantastic. Shame that side two is so woeful and seriously dilutes the quality of the album overall.
Pleased to see OBS voting for the first three albums too. Too many people these days get all artsy-fartsy over White Album and Abbey Road and are too dismissive of the early work. But those first albums overflow with joy and energy and it's too easily forgotten just how fresh and original the lads were in '63-'64. They were like friendly, refreshingly funny aliens from another world!
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Sorry for being thick but I clicked the wrong option :-[
I clicked "Rubber Soul", "Revolver" then "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" in that order (the transition from perfect pop group to rock innovators par excellence) but realised too late that the poll takes your single final click before voting as being the start of the three album run. So I'm the one (so far) who (wrongly) voted for Sgt Pepper / MMT / White Album which annoys me even further coz in my book MMT was an EP not an album (until 1976) and deserves to be there less than Yellow Submarine does.
Hey ho!
I'm glad Moog spoke up for "Help!" though. Side One is arguably the best side of vinyl they ever produced; with the exception of "I Need You" (which I do like) every track is nothing short of fantastic. Shame that side two is so woeful and seriously dilutes the quality of the album overall.
Pleased to see OBS voting for the first three albums too. Too many people these days get all artsy-fartsy over White Album and Abbey Road and are too dismissive of the early work. But those first albums overflow with joy and energy and it's too easily forgotten just how fresh and original the lads were in '63-'64. They were like friendly, refreshingly funny aliens from another world!
Yep. As I'm getting older (meaning of course wiser) the first three albums do loom larger. The second one in particular probably suffers a bit from throwaway covers but still the overall quality, from the first raw album to the brilliant Hard Days Night are too often dismissed as early Beatles ( like that's a bad thing)
I find myself listening to AHDN as much as I do revolver or abbey road.
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Oops. Working on my phone I ended up hitting the wrong vote button (fumble fingers). So the vote registered for the last three should have been for the Rubber to Sgt triumvirate.
Sorry for being thick but I clicked the wrong option :-[
I clicked "Rubber Soul", "Revolver" then "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" in that order (the transition from perfect pop group to rock innovators par excellence) but realised too late that the poll takes your single final click before voting as being the start of the three album run. So I'm the one (so far) who (wrongly) voted for Sgt Pepper / MMT / White Album which annoys me even further coz in my book MMT was an EP not an album (until 1976) and deserves to be there less than Yellow Submarine does.
Moog and Mr Mustard, I've cleared the votes you made in error. Go ahead and vote again in this poll.
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Moog and Mr Mustard, I've cleared the votes you made in error. Go ahead and vote again in this poll.
Thanks muchly HG
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Thanks muchly HG
Piece of p*ss, mate. ;)
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My fondness for the early stuff goes back to about seven years ago when I consciously went back to the 50s to listen (and read and watch) exclusively, to what the Beatles and Stones would have listened to.
Six months ONLY listening to - wonderful - Skiffle was like going to a Health Spa for an all-over M.O.T.!
As a result of this, I now see the 60s as 1956-1969/70, The Beatles activities in 1958 to be just as important as 1968, and my musical preferences have shifted wildly towards the 50s and early 60s.
A further advantage is that the Record Industry, in terms of fleecing the punters, has largely left rock 'n' roll alone, meaning that you can get quality releases by all the rock 'n' rollers for reasonable prices.....i.e. the best releases do not involve 5 CD box sets with a DVD and a hardback book for three figure sums.
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Rubber Soul Revolver & Pepper
its a no brainer for me ;)
creativity par excelance
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In the poll, I selected - quite predictably, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper.
However, I grew to know the band from their U.S. Capitol releases and I've always thought of Rubber Soul-Yesterday & Today-Revolver as the greatest 3-LP run in Rock music history.
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Moog and Mr Mustard, I've cleared the votes you made in error. Go ahead and vote again in this poll.
Many thanks HG ;)
Voted properly this time! 8)
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Whisper it.....but I'm not sure 'Sgt. Pepper's' has aged so well (still better than anything released in the last 40 years mind!), and it's not because it's the psychedelic one, because I think that other psychedelic albums ('Forever Changes', 'The Who Sell Out', 'Satanic Majesties') have aged better.
And 'Rubber Soul' I'm going to revisit soon but, when it comes to the received wisdom of what were The Beatles' gems ('AHDN', 'Rubber Soul', 'Revolver' 'Pepper', 'White', 'Abbey Road'), I've always considered it to be the weakest.
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In the forty odd year old hangover which inevitably followed the Summer of Love, no artefact had further to fall than the LP which best crystallised and defined it, Sgt Pepper. Being so much of its time and (unlike, say, Forever Changes) so widely heard and universally applauded, it could only really jade with the passing decades...whereas some albums mature like wine and acquire a growing patina of respect, the once brilliant butterfly wings of Pepper were always destined to fade and tarnish as the years went by.
But for me it is still a fabulous cavalcade of sound and colour and together with my all time favourite Beatles album (Rubber Soul) they certainly eclipse the critically celebrated (but for me - dare I say it - slightly overrated) Revolver which they bookend.
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In the forty odd year old hangover which inevitably followed the Summer of Love, no artefact had further to fall than the LP which best crystallised and defined it, Sgt Pepper. Being so much of its time and (unlike, say, Forever Changes) so widely heard and universally applauded, it could only really jade with the passing decades...whereas some albums mature like wine and acquire a growing patina of respect, the once brilliant butterfly wings of Pepper were always destined to fade and tarnish as the years went by.
But for me it is still a fabulous cavalcade of sound and colour and together with my all time favourite Beatles album (Rubber Soul) they certainly eclipse the critically celebrated (but for me - dare I say it - slightly overrated) Revolver which they bookend.
For me its impossible to pick the better of the 3 (I lean toward Revolver) its a period imo that the Beatles ceased to be screaming girls pop idols singing about she loves me he loves her I love you you love me etc and morphed into serious creative artists, writing astoundingly great songs (like Norwegian Wood/Here There & Everywhere/She Said She Said/A Day In The Life) no more cover versions, no more formula ditties, more music on an artistic level
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For me its impossible to pick the better of the 3 (I lean toward Revolver) its a period imo that the Beatles ceased to be screaming girls pop idols singing about she loves me he loves her I love you you love me etc and morphed into serious creative artists, writing astoundingly great songs (like Norwegian Wood/Here There & Everywhere/She Said She Said/A Day In The Life) no more cover versions, no more formula ditties, more music on an artistic level
It is hard to go past those three for the reasons you say. In terms or preferring one over the others, song for song I find RS and Revolver to tie pretty much. Sgt Peppers is an album I always prefer to list to as a whole. I'm less likely to pick individual songs. Even the magnificent A Day in the Life works best as the end of the suite of songs.
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I wince a little bit when I hear words like 'artistic' attached to pop music.
Maybe, it's not so much 'Pepper' that I'm negative about but all the garbage that it inspired. Curiously, The Beatles themselves left 'Pepper' pretty much after they'd made it.
It's the one issue that I agree with punks on.
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It is hard to go past those three for the reasons you say. In terms or preferring one over the others, song for song I find RS and Revolver to tie pretty much. Sgt Peppers is an album I always prefer to list to as a whole. I'm less likely to pick individual songs. Even the magnificent A Day in the Life works best as the end of the suite of songs.
Yes I know what you mean moog, but Rubber Soul got them away from the formula stuff of Help & AHDN, although they were great in their day (and still are of course).
Most bands fell into cabaret nostalgia acts when the fabs got into theyre serious artistic and creative stage, they ended up playing theyre hits in nightclubs, , they simply couldnt write like Paul & John, most of the 'invasion' bands like Hermans Hermits etc just couldnt adapt to 'the next stage' of Rock .............The Beatles led it.
It was the time when popular music became an art form, Pepper & Revolver are more than simply pop music !
The Beatles were creating a sort of musical revolution.
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Rubber Soul, Revolver and Sgt Pepper's are my three favorite Beatles albums (in that order), so that's my vote.
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'The next stage of rock' (that sounds truly awful!) created far more turgid records than gems, and The Beatles, Dylan and The Stones quickly, and rightly, went back to their roots in 1968 and all three made better records.
'Sgt. Peppers' has, just in the last 24 hours, taken a further tumble by being included in a Top 100 Prog LPs (urgh! can you imagine?) list.
It's at no. 72 and is mercifully the only LP I own on the list, but that isn't going to stop me having a good look at its position on my CD shelf.....and a long shower with plenty of shower gel!