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The Beatles are and probably always will be my favorite band. I was leaning towards dropping them to #2 behind Wilco - and then Friday 2013 happened.... end of discussion.
Wait so you you almost thought Wilco was better than The Beatles?
The Beatles are and probably always will be my favorite band. I was leaning towards dropping them to #2 behind Wilco - and then Friday 2013 happened.... end of discussion.
Wait so you you almost thought Wilco was better than The Beatles?
Post by beavdog151 on Jan 19, 2014 22:32:37 GMT -5
One thing that shows how great the Beatles are is that there isn't a consensus on what their best album is, not even close. Everybody's lists are very different from top to bottom, that's incredible.
One thing that shows how great the Beatles are is that there isn't a consensus on what their best album is, not even close. Everybody's lists are very different from top to bottom, that's incredible.
Probably due to the variety of their songwriting talent. They accord with a lot of genres and they do it pretty well. Which also promotes their ability to appeal to such a diversity of audiences.
I love lists. I saw this the day it was posted and have been listening through the catalog. As for the comparison between The Beatles and Radiohead and whoever else you want to call the greatest band ever, I said it somewhere a while ago but it's a fruitless exercise. Unless they're contemporaries in similar genre's there's far too many variables in play to make an honest comparison, and everyone already has their mind made up with their favorite band being the best ever, so good luck. Anyway, on to my list which isn't terribly different, but there's a few switches.
1. Abbey Road (quelle surprise) 2. White Album 3. Revolver 4. Sgt. Pepper's 5. Magical Mystery Tour 6. Rubber Soul 7. Let It Be 8. Help! 9. Please Please Me 10. A Hard Day's Night 11. With The Beatles 12. Beatles for Sale
I think maybe it's just a vocal minority, but the only real controversial pick on here is Sgt Pepper's at 4. Production is one of elements of an album that really helps it prevent getting old for me. Sgt. Pepper's is one of the earliest albums, maybe the very earliest, that I can sit down without a remastered copy and find something new on every listen. Also, MMT is not getting nearly enough love.
One thing that shows how great the Beatles are is that there isn't a consensus on what their best album is, not even close. Everybody's lists are very different from top to bottom, that's incredible.
Agreed. My 'list' changes all the time. Just depends on where I am in life.
Sgt. Pepper was the 2nd Beatles album I heard and I didn't like it at ALL...save for a few songs. Now I really dig it. I don't think that album has their best songs but it sounds amazing and to pull of that sound in...what....'67..blows my mind. Technically it's a marvel (I went to audio school and they went on and on and on about that album), but I have to be in a particular mood to listen to it.
Plus the beauty of that group is that they never had the reunion to ruin their legacy. They exist only in that decade.
I was born in 85. Didn't listen to my first Beatles album until 05 and all it took was me listening to one album to fall in love. I'm glad I took my time and only listened to a couple of albums every few years. I finally made it through their entire discography in 2012. 'Please Please Me' was the last "new" Beatles album I heard (and Abbey Road was the first...guess I worked backwards). I treated them like a new band because I knew all the music was there.....I just didn't want to rush it.
Post by steveternal on Jan 22, 2014 12:48:15 GMT -5
Peer-reviewed, fact-checked, edited:
1. White Album 2. Abbey Road 3. Revolver 4. Sgt Peppers 5. Help 6. Magical Mystery Tour 7. Rubber Soul 8. Let it Be 9. Hard Days Night 10. Please Please Me 11. Yellow Submarine 12. With The Beatles 13. Beatles for Sale
1. White Album 2. Abbey Road 3. Revolver 4. Sgt Peppers 5. Help 6. Magical Mystery Tour 7. Rubber Soul 8. Let it Be 9. Hard Days Night 10. Please Please Me 11. Yellow Submarine 12. With The Beatles 13. Beatles for Sale
THIS is the actual definitive list. Thank god someone was able to get it right.
Last Edit: Jan 22, 2014 13:10:08 GMT -5 by Deleted - Back to Top
1. White Album 2. Abbey Road 3. Revolver 4. Sgt Peppers 5. Help 6. Magical Mystery Tour 7. Rubber Soul 8. Let it Be 9. Hard Days Night 10. Please Please Me 11. Yellow Submarine 12. With The Beatles 13. Beatles for Sale
THIS is the actual definitive list. Thank god someone was able to get it right.
1. Abbey Road 2. White Album 3. Revolver 4. Rubber Soul 5. Sgt. Pepper's 6. Magical Mystery Tour 7. Help 8. Let it Be 9. Please Please Me 10. Hard Days Night 11. Yellow Submarine 12. Beatles for Sale 13. With The Beatles
1. Abbey Road 2. White Album 3. Revolver 4. Rubber Soul 5. Sgt. Pepper's 6. Magical Mystery Tour 7. Help 8. Let it Be 9. Please Please Me 10. Hard Days Night 11. Yellow Submarine 12. Beatles for Sale 13. With The Beatles
Sgt Pepper number 10, someone's trying to hard to be different
1. Abbey Road 2. Rubber Soul 3. White Album 4. Sgt. Peppers 5. Magical Mystery Tour 6. Revolver 7. Let It Be 8. Hard Days Night 9. Help! 10. Please Please Me 11. Yellow Submarine 12. With The Beatles 13. Beatles for Sale
Post by bansheebeat on Jan 31, 2014 9:58:33 GMT -5
1. Sgt. Peppers 2. Abbey Road 3. Rubber Soul 4. White Album 5. Let it Be 6. Revolver 7. Magical Mystery Tour 8. Hard Days Night 9. Please Please Me 10. Yellow Submarine 11. Help 12. Beatles for Sale 13. With The Beatles
Its easy for him to say its rubbish almost 50 years later, especially when the Stones have released 90% rubbish since 1980. The drugged/drunken ramblings of a mummy that somehow manages to still play guitar.
That said, Sgt. Peppers is overrated and is probably the Beatles 4th or 5th best.
Its easy for him to say its rubbish almost 50 years later, especially when the Stones have released 90% rubbish since 1980. The drugged/drunken ramblings of a mummy that somehow manages to still play guitar.
That said, Sgt. Peppers is overrated and is probably the Beatles 4th or 5th best.
Well, obviously the Stones output over the past 35 years is automatically better than that of the Beatles, but are you somehow suggesting and of the Beatles solo projects have actually produced something worthwhile after 1980?
Its easy for him to say its rubbish almost 50 years later, especially when the Stones have released 90% rubbish since 1980. The drugged/drunken ramblings of a mummy that somehow manages to still play guitar.
That said, Sgt. Peppers is overrated and is probably the Beatles 4th or 5th best.
Will, obviously the Stones output over the past 35 years is automatically better than that of the Beatles, but are you somehow suggesting and of the Beatles solo projects have actually produced something worthwhile after 1980?
Its easy for him to say its rubbish almost 50 years later, especially when the Stones have released 90% rubbish since 1980. The drugged/drunken ramblings of a mummy that somehow manages to still play guitar.
That said, Sgt. Peppers is overrated and is probably the Beatles 4th or 5th best.
If you read the article, he also says Their Satanic Majesties Request is also "rubbish", so he's including his own output in their as well.
Its easy for him to say its rubbish almost 50 years later, especially when the Stones have released 90% rubbish since 1980. The drugged/drunken ramblings of a mummy that somehow manages to still play guitar.
That said, Sgt. Peppers is overrated and is probably the Beatles 4th or 5th best.
If you read the article, he also says Their Satanic Majesties Request is also "rubbish", so he's including his own output in their as well.
Considering that TSMR was merely a thrown-together response to Sgt Peppers it's not surprising that he thinks it's rubbish (it is). But Sgt Peppers was ground-breaking and while anyone can debate it's quality nobody deny it's creativity and the impact it had on where rock and roll went following it's release.
Slightly off topic, but if you were to include Pet Sounds in your Beatles list, where would Pet Sounds rank? I've just been listening to it a lot lately and was curious. I'd put Revolver, Abbey Road, and The White Album ahead of it, but I'm not so sure about Sgt Peppers and Magical Mystery Tour. All others are below it.
Slightly off topic, but if you were to include Pet Sounds in your Beatles list, where would Pet Sounds rank? I've just been listening to it a lot lately and was curious. I'd put Revolver, Abbey Road, and The White Album ahead of it, but I'm not so sure about Sgt Peppers and Magical Mystery Tour. All others are below it.