Pet Sounds
Best Beatles Album? | |||
Please Please Me | 0 | 0% | |
A Hard Day's Night | 0 | 0% | |
Help! | 0 | 0% | |
Rubber Soul | 3 | 9.09% | |
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | 8 | 24.24% | |
Revolver | 3 | 9.09% | |
The Beatles (The White Album) | 7 | 21.21% | |
Abbey Road | 10 | 30.30% | |
Let It Be | 2 | 6.06% | |
Other | 0 | 0% | |
Total: | 33 |
pokoko said: I'm not much of a fan, to be honest, and I think they're far from the best rock band ever, but The White Album is my favorite of their albums. |
So, they kinda pretty much invented almost everything rock, pop and even some other genres have to offer and they are far from best band? Care to explain?
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Jumpin said: Fuck. My ammendment: Sgt Pepper = best singles; Abbey Road = Best Album; and there are a lot of really great songs scattered across other Albums. I'm going to listen to Rubber Soul, White Album, and Revolver to make sure I didn't fuck up twice. |
Lol, so you are the one who did the necrobumping? I thought I knew this thread from before :P
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farlaff said:
So, they kinda pretty much invented almost everything rock, pop and even some other genres have to offer and they are far from best band? Care to explain? |
Not to mention that almost every major pop movement in the rock sphere is a bit of a statement saying: "OK, enough of this baffling convoluted bullshit and lets get back to this X thing the Beatles were doing with a modern spin." And most of the minor ones were this well.
The real question is which Beatle was the most influential?
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farlaff said:
Lol, so you are the one who did the necrobumping? I thought I knew this thread from before :P |
Well, I had good reason! =)
Also, not a huge necrobump, it was about halfway down the front page.
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Can't believe I'm the only one to vote for Revolver. Amazing album and wayyy ahead of its time. Ok fair you could say that about a few of them (Sgt Peppers is a very close 2nd for me) but Revolver in particular.
gord352 said: Can't believe I'm the only one to vote for Revolver. Amazing album and wayyy ahead of its time. Ok fair you could say that about a few of them (Sgt Peppers is a very close 2nd for me) but Revolver in particular. |
I'm going to listen to that one tonight along with the other albums I haven't done that with yet, before the sun comes up (I'm a night person since Covid, although I mostly was before). I know the songs, but until recently, the only album I ever really listened to top to bottom was Sgt Pepper. Then Abbey Road kind of blew that one away for me. I mean, I love certain songs on Sgt Pepper, but the Side A tracks are all decent to great, and then Side B Abbey Road Medley just crushes it. Tack A Day in the Life onto the end of Abbey Road, and it's a strong argument as the best album ever released.
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Im going to be that guy and say none of them. I dislike The Beatles a whole lot.
OK, I listened to all the Beatles albums from Rubber Soul down to Abbey Road.
1 (tie) The White Album
1 (tie) Abbey Road
3. Sgt. Pepper
4. Rubber Soul
5. Revolver
I need to listen to Help, Hard Days Night, and Let it Be still. I think I'll pass on the earlier Beatlemania stuff.
To explain my ranking a bit:
Rubber Soul was a great album from top to bottom, but the songs still lacked some of the playfulness of the later albums.
While I appreciate the experimental nature of Revolver, I found it a little abrasive for my liking. I feel like they could have re-visited these songs and tightened them up a little, and maybe toned down on some of the randomness in them. Tomorrow Never Knows felt like it could have been one of their best songs ever, but was a bit gimmicky sounding, while songs like Back in the USSR and Revolution with similar energy sound much more pleasant.
Sgt Pepper reminds me A LOT of exactly what a tightened up Revolver would sound like, plus it feels like an adventure through some kind of cosmopolitan city and feels very interconnected. I think a lot of hip hop albums took inspiration from this, the story that this album tells. Some really big singles on there, but I feel like the White Album outclassed it, musically, with the sole exception of A Day in the Life. Although, I forgot how interesting this album was as a top to bottom experience.
The White Album is just epic in scale, it reminds me a lot of Rubber Soul, except heavily expanded and with a more playful, edgy, and mature sound to it. I think the song writing on this marks the peak of the Beatles. This one has a TON of my favourite Beatles songs on it, I didn't even realize.
Abbey Road is still at the peak, it is a tighter overall album than the White Album, and is more accessible, I am not really sure it feels all that different from the White Album, just a more crushed down version of it. It has a better ending.
Anyway, that's my initial impression. I'll have to listen to them while high next and get a more informed take.
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TheTitaniumNub said: Im going to be that guy and say none of them. I dislike The Beatles a whole lot. |
This is probably what you like:
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