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DaveRam
June 8, 2008, 10:41am Report to Moderator

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Do you think The Beatles were right not include singles as a rule on their albums ?
One of the things i've  heard  said by people is  they don't like The Beatles as there are no hits on there albums .
The only time i think they got it wrong was with The White Album , i think Hey Jude should have been included ?


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The notion that the albums that didn't contain singles were lacking 'hits' is unfortunately an ignorant one.  Sgt. Pepper's didn't have 'hits?'  

Many of the most famous Beatles songs (In My Life, Ob-La-Di, Lucy in the Sky, A Day in the Life, Back in the USSR, to name just a very few) weren't released as singles.  But they were still hits.
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The only one they didn't do that for was Abbey Road...the singles were included on the album.


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Quoted from Mr. Mustard
The notion that the albums that didn't contain singles were lacking 'hits' is unfortunately an ignorant one.  Sgt. Pepper's didn't have 'hits?'  

Many of the most famous Beatles songs (In My Life, Ob-La-Di, Lucy in the Sky, A Day in the Life, Back in the USSR, to name just a very few) weren't released as singles.  But they were still hits.


Yes, they were hits but not in the most technical sense. All the songs you named were not hit singles, but are big classics. It's similar, but it's not the same. Of course, I would say that much of the times a big rock classic is more important than a forgettable big hit.


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The only one they didn't do that for was Abbey Road...the singles were included on the album.


Well, "Come Together" and "Something" were released as the single from Abbey Road but over a month after their original release on the album. I guess I've read somewhere that, as always, the Beatles didn't planned to release those songs as singles, but as they don't have any new songs to release for the Christmas season of 1969, they finally choose those two. John was the one who picked "Something" I think.

The only time they wanted to release a single from an album was, I guess, "Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby", the same day as Revolver.


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Maybe it just worked out way....



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