(This question is open for eveyone-but might be more for the older Beatle fans like myself--simply because we had more time to live with each individual LP)




Most of us love ALL their work, for better or worse...BUT which album by The Beatles do you treasure the most in a  sentimental sense..for example, it may bring back fond personal memories for you when you see the cover or hear the songs on this particular album, and so forth...

for me, it's Rubber Soul. Anytime I see the cover I'm literally transported back to late '65 (and early '66 when, at 13, I got the record for my b-day) It's the record that made me even a deeper Beatle nut than I was. R.S. is such a personal album for me....not only is it a beautiful work of art, but it's my personal time machine as well.

Same here.....Rubber Soul woke me up when I was a teenager.

thx, H.G. and ahhhhh THX for adding THE COVER !!

:)

Ran right out and got this jacket.  (Wish it would fit me now, but another has replaced it)

Yesterday and Today ( even though it was a U.S release ) does it for me. My older bother had the record albums, and I used to get into his collection and that was the one I played over and over. Of course later I got my own collection, first on tapes then later cds. But, of course with the cds Y&D was not released.

The White Album for me and Rubber Soul :)

DaveRam :)

Quoted from Pasta Cheif

Yesterday and Today ( even though it was a U.S release ) does it for me. My older bother had the record albums, and I used to get into his collection and that was the one I played over and over. Of course later I got my own collection, first on tapes then later cds. But, of course with the cds Y&D was not released.

and that reminds me, Pasta...wouldn't ya just love getting the original "Butcher's" cover of "Y&T"?...I never did get my hands on one(but hope to someday)..I just had the standard "Paul in steamer chest" cover like everybody else had in 1966...but even THAT is nostalgic now...

obviously loving them all, i find myself playing magical mystery tour most followed closely by abbey road and past masters 2

I like to mix them up. Probably Abbey Road is my favorite Beatles album. Hard to say. I generally play whatever track(s) I'm in the mood for.

Quoted from 829

and that reminds me, Pasta...wouldn't ya just love getting the original "Butcher's" cover of "Y&T"?...I never did get my hands on one(but hope to someday)..I just had the standard "Paul in steamer chest" cover like everybody else had in 1966...but even THAT is nostalgic now...

Yeah that's the one he had, the standard cover. But, how I miss those album jackets.

Simple: "IT'S" ...

Sgt Pepper Lonely's Hearts Club Band, the album i discovered the beatles & i CAN'T
LIVE WITHOUT IT!!!!! :) :)


:)

Quoted from Andy Smith

Simple: "IT'S" ...

Sgt Pepper Lonely's Hearts Club Band, the album i discovered the beatles & i CAN'T
LIVE WITHOUT IT!!!!! :) :)


:)

I agree, hehe. It's the album I always have in my room and I listen to it all the time.

Well... for me it's LOVE because that's the CD that got me into them  :)

Hooray! I love Love. I think it was the second album I bought, along with Abbey Road.

white album absolutely

that will never change

abbey road is a distant second

A Hard Day's Night. The first album I ever owned, way back in...*#?* And still my favourite Beatles album.

Rubber Soul still does it for me.

I got into the Beatles in April 2006 when I heard Love Me Do play in a restaurant. So after that, I dug out my dad's "One" album and listened to the whole thing straight through. That was it for me, I fell in love with that CD and the Beatles. It was the first one I ever listened to, and it got me hooked, and I pretty much listened to it every day from then on. I remember that a lot of the songs sounded very familiar, having listened to them without knowing it in the car on vacation or something years before. So when I listen to the One album, I like to think about the very first time and that whole time period when I was just learning everything new about the Beatles. I loved the booklet inside, and was instantly trying to learn the lyrics to all the songs. That album did me in. Not necessarily my favorite, but I'm probably attached to it the most. There's a difference, I guess 'cause it was the album that brought the Beatles into my life.

But as for the original albums, Rubber Soul and Abbey Road were the first ones I ever bought a little over a year ago. I loved them both instantly, and couldn't stop listening to them. I thought they were the greatest. And also last summer, I hadn't bought A Hard Day's Night yet, but found that my dad had the record so I listened to that every day, even though it was very bad quality 'cause our needle isn't too great. I was into my whole Hard Day's Night kick, watching the movie endlessly and replaying the album over and over and over... I also have some fond memories of sitting on the couch on a snow day off of school and just listening to the Beatles almost all day, watching the snow fall. Heaven...

Revolver

i know this is old, but sergeant pepper's. this is because i have GREAT (yet often simple) memories. for example: i have memories of me skipping around the pool as soon as i could skip holding the alum slipcover over my head while singing along with Lucy. great times

GREAT MEMORY!!! I think I am attached to pepper's too, that's why its my name!

i also remember sitting out in the sum with my brother each eating an entire half a watermelon (a lot for 3/4 year old to eat!) and chewing (and swallowing ) a large amount of watermelon flavored gum while having peppers blasting. it is just a memory now.

I'm sure we could find you some watermelon flavored gum somewhere....  ;D ;)

i love that stuff but why oh why do i remember the flavor?

I think its cause its the strongest.

idk...i have had pretty strong gum in my lifetime. i think its because i was also eating watermelon

My favorite album is Please Please Me....followed closely by Hard Day's Night.  To me, those are the best albums  :)

without even thinking about it, revolver.
I love every song on it.
she said, she said, i'm only sleeping, eleanore rigby, tomorrow never knows, taxman, here there and everywhere, good day sunshine.
my favorite album cover too.
if they ever reissue it, I  hope they add paperback writer and rain on it.
;)

Quoted from awc1967

if they ever reissue it, I  hope they add paperback writer and rain on it.
;)

i think they probley would. every re-issue of albums usually adds the singles on now  :)

Quoted from Andy Smith

i think they probley would. every re-issue of albums usually adds the singles on now  :)

Oh, what a happy thought! But the Beatles catalog moves in mysterious ways. I'll believe it when I see it, alas.

Quoted from harihead

Oh, what a happy thought! But the Beatles catalog moves in mysterious ways.

When it moves at all. ;D  But I can't imagine the Apple/EMI guys passing up a chance to cash in with a couple of extra compilations. But maybe the example Paul's McCartney Collection offers some slight hope.

As to the question of which album...? Dr Ebbetts' UK singles collection. It's got the A and B sides of all The Beatles' singles in the original mixes, expertly transferred from 45s. It's The Beatles as they presented themselves on what was the major vinyl medium of the day. :)

Quoted from harihead

Oh, what a happy thought! But the Beatles catalog moves in mysterious ways. I'll believe it when I see it, alas.

very true.
apple has never been in a very big hurry to do anthing.
my apple wish list is gathering dust, lol.
let it be dvd
hollywood bowl cd
live at shea dvd
rock show dvd
john lennon live in newyork city dvd

but i wait.
:)

the past masters, anthology 2, abbey road and magical mystery tour

in terms of compilations, i'm more attached to the Red & Blue albums recently!  :)

White Album all the way. the funny thing about it is that it was one of the last Beatles alubms I got into. I got into the band through my dad's old LPs (Sgt. Pepper, Abbey Road, Yellow Submarine, and Let It Be). then I started buying some CDs like Rubber Soul, Revolver, and Magical Mystery Tour. and this was my Beatles collection for many years. remember, this is before the anthology and the internet so I didn't really know the Beatles' discography or anything like that...though I have heard my dad mention the name 'White Album' as well as the 'number 9' stuff before. so when I came across the White Album in a store one day....dude....I WAS SHOCKED! I looked at the back of the CD, and saw there were 30 songs on it ,most of which I have never heard of. Rocky Raccoon, Helter Skelter, Blackbird and Revolution were familiar titles, but the rest were all brand new to me. I still remember my first run through it. I flipped my lid half way through Back in the USSR...and I really haven't been the same since.

The White Album. It's the one that I can listen to again and again without getting bored of it.

Abbey Road.I cannot stop listening.Sounds very good and I like the drums and bass,powerful.The guitars are rock again and the orchestal arrangements suit perfectly.They have already learnt almost everything they need to know about recording in a studio to produce a great album.Mature masterpiece

Abbey Rd holds dear to me, though I particularly like Rubber Soul onwards and A Hard Days Night.

I think for me it would be Help!

Magical Mystery Tour followed by Revolver.

I like all their albums.
But their weirder songs stick out in my mind the most.
hah

Says something about me.

Abbey Road too

I really like Magical Mystery Tour.

For me, back in 1975-76 when I first discoved the Beatles, it has to be the collection, "The Beatles 1962-1966".  That was my first ever Beatles record and I wore it out on my little record player.  Now............I just LOVE "LOVE" cd.  To me, it's the Beatles brought back "live and well" in the 21st century..........what they would sound like now........

Quoted from aspinall_lover

For me, back in 1975-76 when I first discoved the Beatles, it has to be the collection, "The Beatles 1962-1966".  That was my first ever Beatles record and I wore it out on my little record player.  Now............I just LOVE "LOVE" cd.  To me, it's the Beatles brought back "live and well" in the 21st century..........what they would sound like now........

lol you wore the little poor record out!! Awhhh haha  ;)
The "LOVE" album and show is pretty amazzingg, I do agree.

Please Please Me is my fav album but I really love the Help! album also.

Quoted from HeatherBoo

Please Please Me is my fav album but I really love the Help! album also.

That is their first album, is it not!
I do agree, it is wonderful to listen to.
A lot of their lovey songs are on there.  :P

What is your favorite song?

Yup it sure is.  And I had come to the conclusion that if I could only listen to one Beatle song for the rest of my life I would have to pick "I Saw her Standing There".

LOVE=LOVE

and what I took from it was Love


HEY could the title of the album be a metaphor for the last line in The End?

Quoted from HeatherBoo

Yup it sure is.  And I had come to the conclusion that if I could only listen to one Beatle song for the rest of my life I would have to pick "I Saw her Standing There".

hah Oh really.
Not a bad choice my friend, not a bad choice at all...

But why that one?
Why do you like it over all the other ones?

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I prefer their "rock & roll" songs more.  Their earlier stuff.  I mean don't get me wrong, I love all their music earlier and later.  That song to me is their best..I just love the way it sounds, the story... I could picture the whole thing in my mind.  And I can break it down and dance to that song!  I never get tired of it no matter how many times I hear it.  And I LOVE the count-in in the beginning.  ONE TWO THREE FAH!!!  Just hearing that alone gets me pumped up!!!  8)

Quoted from HeatherBoo

I prefer their "rock & roll" songs more.  Their earlier stuff.  I mean don't get me wrong, I love all their music earlier and later.  That song to me is their best..I just love the way it sounds, the story... I could picture the whole thing in my mind.  And I can break it down and dance to that song!  I never get tired of it no matter how many times I hear it.  And I LOVE the count-in in the beginning.  ONE TWO THREE FAH!!!  Just hearing that alone gets me pumped up!!!  8)

Wow.
You really do "love" that song.
haha
But I ain't mad at cha girl.
Its w-o-n-d-e-r-f-u-l.

Quoted from HeatherBoo

ONE TWO THREE FAH!!!  Just hearing that alone gets me pumped up!!!  8)

me too, i get all excited! its amazing how the energy of those early songs make you
feel so good!!  :)

yes, thats a good way to put...The energy in their earlier songs I think it was I love the most  8)

Please Please Me and Let It Be  

lets go through this.

1 - just because it resparked my interest for the Beatles, we got it originally for my dad's birthday, I've since taken over it.
Let It Be - it reminds me of driving with my dad on Sunday mornings and driving around the city after a close friend died
White Album - a friend of mine lent it to me when I was going through a really hard time
Sgt Peppers - my parents got me it for my 17th birthday and it has since remained my favorite album
Beatlesmania/The Beatle's Second Album/Long Tall Sally/Help!/Something New/Beatles '65/Twist And Shout - my dad played these albums while my sister and I were growing up.

I would have to go with Revolver.

Thats a hard decision.

When I see them in my mind with mopheads, i go for Please Please Me. When I see them in their hippy-image i go for Let It Be. How I like the hippy-image, guys!

i like all the albums. i have like at least 7 songs on each album that i love. i can like listen to the beatles all day.

I like Abbey Road.

I'm really liking "Magical Mystery Tour" at the moment.

I'm most attached to Help!, it being my favourite album and one of the first Beatles albums I got (and also because I love the movie and it reminds me of it ;D ). But right now I'm very much liking the White Album 8)

Thats a good album as well!
You got to love "Help!"
hah

BUT which album by The Beatles do you treasure the most in a  sentimental sense..

Oh, goodness.  Great question.  I ask your indulgence:

First place: Beatles VI and Meet the Beatles.  A tie.  I've mentioned on other threads -- the harmonies on This Boy and Yes It Is -- I thought they were written by computers.  Not a bright boy.  But I couldn't conceive how that could be done by a mere person.

Then, in flawed order:
MMT -- the first album I ever bought (around 1970?) after I scratched the **** out of my brother's.  
Help! -- Dwight Northrup had it, and we started our band because of it and the film.  
Revolver -- Side 1 is sent from above.

I think I was then given 62-66 and 67-70 for Christmas and my birthday (weeks later) when they came out.  My brothers didn't have all the old ones, so I heard "Drive My Car" and "Old Brown Shoe" and others for the first time.

Then my brother came home from the Army, bringing Pepper, Abbey Road, White Album, and Let It Be.  Good Lord.  Those years of discovery ... I've very seldom experienced anything so ... meaningful.

Amazing stuff.  Thanks for the chance to go back through it.  Peace, wal

67-70, because it was the first Beatles album I ever bought.

The White Album, just because there are so many great tracks, including Blackbird (my second fave song after I Feel Fine), Mother Nature's Son, Everybody...Monkey (my nine year old daughter's favorite Beatles song), Dear Prudence, I Will.  Revolver would be a very close second.

Revolver.

When she was about 14 my school friend broke her leg, (horrid accident, I was there when it happened, v traumatic) and the whole class clubbed together to get her something. I was nominated to get her something she'd like. I knew just the thing! We had enough to get her a cassette of Revolver, so she could listen to it in hospital. She was really pleased! Since then it's been a great album for me. I love the cover, great art. The songs are sooooo good, George was stepping out from behind John and Paul, there's so much wonderful music on there. I think it points where they were going as well.

Rubber Soul and Please Please Me

Please Please Me,solely,as it was the 1st Beatle lp I ever owned.My brother bought it in 63 and gave it to me about 10 yrs later.And its on the gold Parlophone label.But really,I cannot get over Revolver.It has everything.I only wish Yellow Submarine wasnt on it(sorry,Ringo fans) and there was another Lennon track on it.Even Rain.

I really like Rubber Soul... it's just i don't know why it just hit me i love it! :)

Sgt. Pepper's

The White Album and Revolver they both remind me of summer and school holidays, don't know why.

At the moment, either Sgt. Pepper's or the White Album.
I guarantee you this choice will change in two hours.

Still, Please Please Me.