Your Top-5 favorite Beatles albums

[Mikey]

We haven't done a Beatles album poll for a while.

(note, i'm listing some American albums because I was brought up on them and to me these are official albums)


1. Magical Mystery Tour

2. Meet the Beatles

3. Sgt Pepper

4. Yesterday and Today

5. Abbey Road

What's your top 5 Beatles albums ?

[txteach]

1. Abbey Road
2. Revolver
3. The White Album
4. Sgt. Pepper
5. Beatles for sale

This was a hard list to come up with since I love all of their albums.

[toys2cool]

I don't any, I only have the greatest hits cd :grin: so that one

[Joe90]

Sorry...

Can't narrow it down to 5 Albums.

[MIB41]

Abbey Road
The White Album
Revolver
Magic Mystery Tour
Let it Be (Yes, I know it wasn't a "true" band release, but I love those songs)

*** Sgt Pepper has always been an album that is commerically saturated by each generation, so I tend to listen to more of the other records. It's clearly a great record, but I hear too much of it. It also makes me think about Peter Frampton and Bee Gees because my wife and kids loved that goofy movie. I can't say a word...:ugh_y:

[Blue Meanie]

1) White Album
2) Pepper
3) Abbey Road
4) Rubber Soul
5) Revolver

[wilbs518]

Revolver
White Album
Sgt Pepper
Abby Road
Rubber soul

[WannabeMego]

1. Revolver
2. Abbey Road
3. Sgt. Peppers
4. Let it Be
5. Rubber Soul

[david_b]

1) White Album
2) Pepper
3) Abbey Road
4) Rubber Soul
5) Revolver

Wow.. Another GREAT poll... If we're going with the UK (non-US, except Mystery Tour) releases.., I'd say

1) White Album - Was Revolver, but I change opinions regularly..
2) Pepper - The MONO version's so much better than the Stereo release
3) Revolver - Along with Rain and Paperback Writer, Sonic psychedelia
4) With the Beatles - Best for pure energy!
5) Abbey Road or Let It Be - Both had great moments..

With Mystery Tour as a contender with Pepper.. 'I Am The Walrus'.. C'mon.. Need I say more..?

[kingdom warrior]

1. Sgt. Pepper
2. Rubber Soul
3. Revolver
4. Abbey Road
5. The Beatles- White Album

[Hulk]

Red, Blue, White, Some other colors...

[huedell]

1. Sgt. Pepper
2. Rubber Soul
3. Revolver
4. Abbey Road
5. The Beatles- White Album

I don't know exactly how I'd order them but KW's comes the closest that
I've seen here.

[UnderdogDJLSW]

I'm going to veer off on a tangent because there are some tracks and interpretations on some of these "modern" albums that I like:

1) Abbey Road
2) Sgt. Pepper
3) Rubber Soul

4) Love - Not really a Beatles album, more like a soundtrack, but I "love" the re-mix of Lady Madonna and Hey Jude on this.
5) Anthology - I like the raw stuff, makes them seem more human to me. Also, specifically like the demo for Something and the original version of Ob-La- Di, Ob-La-Da.

[david_b]

I'm going to veer off on a tangent because there are some tracks and interpretations on some of these "modern" albums that I like:

1) Abbey Road
2) Sgt. Pepper
3) Rubber Soul

4) Love - Not really a Beatles album, more like a soundtrack, but I "love" the re-mix of Lady Madonna and Hey Jude on this.
5) Anthology - I like the raw stuff, makes them seem more human to me. Also, specifically like the demo for Something and the original version of Ob-La- Di, Ob-La-Da.

I like all the subtle differences as well. I preferred the UK Revolver mixed version of 'Dr. Roberts' over the US 'Yesterday and Today' version of Dr. Roberts because the background harmonies on the middle part are mixed much louder, much like the additional backwards guitar on 'I'm Only Sleeping' on the UK Revolver. I grew up enjoying the 'high-hat' intro to 'All My Loving' on the German import of 'With the Beatles'; it wasn't until later that I discovered that that's the only release with that intro.. Hearing it without that intro now is lacking.

I FINALLY downloaded a copy of Mono Pepper off a pirate site and it ROCKS. A lot of songs are either sped up or have more sound effects than the Stereo version (like Paul yelling over the crowd on the Pepper reprise, not heard on the stereo version..). John Lennon himself had always maintained that you never heard the REAL Pepper until you heard the Mono version.

david_b

[kingdom warrior]

I grew up enjoying the 'high-hat' intro to 'All My Loving' on the German import of 'With the Beatles'; it wasn't until later that I discovered that that's the only release with that intro.. Hearing it without that intro now is lacking.

Yeah i dig this version too......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNVL6TXRyOQ

[Mikey]

I grew up with this intro on HELP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VZduwHhIac

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[clemso]

Let it Be
Abbey Road
Revolver
Hard Days Night
Sgt.Pepper

[BendyZaius]

If we are talking British releases (the best "albums" I think)

Rubber Soul
Beatles for Sale
Hard Days Night
Revolver
Abbey Road

I really love the change in mood that came between "With the Beatles" and "Beatles for Sale". You could tell things were wearing on them during that year as the tone of the songs become much darker. Songs like "I'm a looser", "Baby's in Black" and "No Reply" really show this. Even the cover photo is very somber. Love it!

[Mikey]

For me, the American albums will always be the official albums.

To this day if you asked me what album did She Loves You appear on, i'd answer The Beatles Second Album without even thinking.

[kingdom warrior]

For me, the American albums will always be the official albums.

To this day if you asked me what album did She Loves You appear on, i'd answer The Beatles Second Album without even thinking.

Yeah I'm the same..I grew up with the American Versions not the Uk versions.

Capitol Really Milked BeatleMania by adding albums :smiley1:


I always though the biggest mistake the Beatles made was not adding Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane to Sgt Peppers those songs belong on that album.....

When I got My Sgt.Pepper CD the first thing I did was burn my own copy and added those two tracks into the middle of the album.......

[Mikey]

I always though the biggest mistake the Beatles made was not adding Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane to Sgt Peppers those songs belong on that album.....

I have to disagree.
Sgt Pepper is a great albums, but it doesn't have any huge hits ... which if it did they would overshadow the album as a whole.

As an example I think The Wall (part-2), Run Like Hell and Comfortably Numb overshadow the entire Floyd Wall album ... especially to casual fans.

[nvmbrsdoom5]

Though I mainly grew up with the American versions of the LPs, I've pretty much come to accept the British versions now as the "proper" ones from listening to the cds for so long now.

So going with that, here's my list--

1. Revolver (not only my fave Beatle album, but my favorite album of all time period. I consider it to be a "perfect" album.)

2. Rubber Soul

3. Help

4. Abbey Road

5. Beatles For Sale & A Hard Days Night (tie)

[david_b]

I always though the biggest mistake the Beatles made was not adding Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane to Sgt Peppers those songs belong on that album.....

I have to disagree.
Sgt Pepper is a great albums, but it doesn't have any huge hits ... which if it did they would overshadow the album as a whole.

As an example I think The Wall (part-2), Run Like Hell and Comfortably Numb overshadow the entire Floyd Wall album ... especially to casual fans.

I'd agree with you. If you added Penny and Fields.., you'd have to consider adding 'It's All Too Much', which was George's initial contribution to Pepper (or was it 'Only a Northern Song'..? I can't recall..).

Sir George Martin always lamented that one of his bigger mistakes was not advocating TWO separate single releases for both Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields.., instead of the 'double A-side' idea. Lost some good income (and chart action) for the Fabs..

I always loved the initial demos for Strawberry Fields (on the Anthology album..), just the acoustic guitar and John's voice. Not commercial, but much more poignant than the final release. As for Penny Lane, I liked the extended horns played on the version (like on the ending..) that wasn't released.

My 'With the Beatles' German import was the only import I ever had as a kid.. It wasn't until I got to college and heard the UK Revolver that I heard how the album was originally meant to be released as.. and loved the differences in song versions and mixing.

daivd_b

[Mikey]

If Martin did break Strawberry and Penny Lane up into 2 singles i'm not sure if they would have done much better than the double A-side we got.

Penny Lane would have easily sold itself, but i'm not sure about Strawberry.

Today, many people regard Strawberry as THE REAL A-side, but I think back in the day it was Penny Lane that carried the single to the buying public.

No secret back in the day it was McCartney's songs that most of the general public liked (not including early Lennon-McCartney hits like I Want To Hold Your Hand)