Pollin' The Beatles

[hypehat]

Because it's a really great song, but if I hear a bloody busker or open mic wannabe murder it ONE MORE TIME.... 

[Quzi]

Revolver
Rubber Soul
Abbey Road
Magical Mystery Tour
Let it Be
The White Album
A Hard Day's Night
Please Please Me
With the Beatles
Beatles for Sale
Yellow Submarine

[musicismylife101]

Bit of a tough one but I have to say Rubber Soul.

[EthanJames]

Wow No one has Sgt. Peppers? 

Anyhow, My Top 5 Beatle albums:
Abbey Road
Revolver
The White Album
Sgt. Peppers
Magical Mystery Tour

[OneEar/OneEye]

Rubber Soul - US version, because that's how I first heard it and it blew my mind.  I also like the color of the logo on the US version better than the UK release.

Beatles For Sale - I gotta give this one some love.  It's one of my favorites.  Beautiful cover photography,  kickin' cover versions, some wonderful originals, and fantastic vocals.  What's not to love?   "Misteeeeeeheheheeeer Mooohoohoonliiiight!!!"   Heck yeah, Beatles For Sale?  I'm buying!

Revolver -  UK version of course.   Before psychedelia got stupid.  Track for track nearly a 'Best of" album.   Great cover art too, of course.

Sgt. Peppers - Mono mix.    Just because.

Please Please Me - Almost chose the White Album, but then I think of this album, and how the band slogged through a day of recording to complete it, and how John was terribly sick that day, sucking on lozenges for his sore throat as he sang, and then at the zero hour, with his voice practically shot, he and the band capture in one mighty take a blistering, vocal chord decimating rendition of the album closer "Twist And Shout".    I love that sh*t!   The rest of the album is pretty darn good too.  Some killer vocals, especially from John. 

[Lonely Summer]

Gotta have the US allbums on the list. A lot of us grew up with them, even before we were old enough to buy our own copies. Actually, the first Beatles songs  I heard were on the classic album "The Chipmunks Sing the Beatles Hits". An older kid up the street had it, played it over and over until I talked mom into buying me a copy. He also had "Something New" and several of the singles. The British albums still feel wierd to me. "With the Beatles" needs I Want To Hold Your Hand and This Boy; Beatles For Sale needs I Feel Fine and She's a Woman; and WTF is Drive My Car doing in the leadoff spot on "Rubber Soul"? 

[myonlysunshine]

Rubber Soul, followed closely by Revolver. I'm in the minority here, but I think the Beatles peaked with those two albums.

[the captain]

Rubber Soul, followed closely by Revolver. I'm in the minority here, but I think the Beatles peaked with those two albums.

You're not in a minority with that opinion: as of now, this poll shows those as the second and third most popular choices, and combined, they destroy the current first choice by something like 10%. I'd say over the past decade or so, the '80s gospel (with which I grew up, for one) of Pepper as the greatest Beatles album (and even the greatest album ever) is dead and gone. You hear Rubber Soul, Revolver, white album, and Abbey Road (which is first atm here) most often.

For the record, Pepper remains my favorite Beatles album, though several are good enough as to be almost interchangeable in that respect. (Once an album is of a certain level, it's a little silly to quibble much.)

[Chocolate Shake Man]

Rubber Soul, followed closely by Revolver. I'm in the minority here, but I think the Beatles peaked with those two albums.

I would agree though the 1965-67 era as a whole is the creative peak of the band.

[SMiLE-addict]

Here's something interesting - what Beatles fans think of the Beach Boys!
http://www.dmbeatles.com/forums/index.php?topic=8423.0

[Cabinessenceking]

Love Revolver and Rubber Soul (especially US version), there are some great cuts from Yellow Submarine and White album but those albums also have much bad material on them. Hate Abbey Road (so glitzy and a song called 'The End' to symbolise their end? how cheesy-and not in a good Beach Boys way) Let It Be ruined by Spector, dont really care for Sgt Pepper and the early albums are hit or miss but generally very good. The Lennon singles were imo far more interesting than Macca's...

[Alan Smith]

Abbey Road has this teeny little song called "Something" which kicks my ass every single time (and sounds awesome, too boot).

[Alan Smith]

Oh, Dear...

Your thoughts on Maxwell's Silver Hammer?

[SMiLE-addict]

Here's something interesting - what Beatles fans think of the Beach Boys!
http://www.dmbeatles.com/forums/index.php?topic=8423.0

LOL!!
http://www.dmbeatles.com/forums/index.php?topic=8423.msg204322#msg204322

Hey maybe we should start a conversation like that somewhere here, just to impress everyone.

[LetHimRun]

Your thoughts on Maxwell's Silver Hammer?

Maxwell's Silver Hammer is great! A standout of Abbey Road, also one of the best songs Paul had written (I count both solo & Beatles stuff) imo. It's so joyful & fun to listen to. Fab electric guitars & the Moog!

I like MSH, but it is one of the weaker songs in the Macca canon. It was even lambasted by some when it originally came out. The best part is when Paul laughs because John mooned him from the control booth.

And George's song is named "Here Comes the Sun."

[LetHimRun]

Here's something interesting - what Beatles fans think of the Beach Boys!
http://www.dmbeatles.com/forums/index.php?topic=8423.0

LOL!!
http://www.dmbeatles.com/forums/index.php?topic=8423.msg204322#msg204322

Hey maybe we should start a conversation like that somewhere here, just to impress everyone.

That post was really hilarious. It's so right, it's spooky.

[SMiLE-addict]

^
I think this thread here comes pretty close to what that guy was talking about:
http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,15096.0.html

Really nerdy stuff!

[SMiLE-addict]

BTW, as a long-time Beatles nut who has recently discovered the BB's (and is now constantly being tempted to think the BB's were the better band, though it's real close), I'm tempted to sign up for that forum and start, well, "preaching."

I mean, for example, Brian wrote and recorded Warmth of the Sun around the same time Paul and John wrote and recorded If I Fell. If I Fell is a great song, and is probably the closest Beatles competitor/analog to Warmth of the Sun, but the latter clearly features much more sophisticated writing and is the better song. And I Love Her also is a close competitor I suppose, but I think WOTS still beats it.

But then, maybe doing that would do little more than stir up more of the (usually pointless) BB's-vs-Beatles arguments, so maybe I should leave well enough alone.

[myonlysunshine]

Here's something interesting - what Beatles fans think of the Beach Boys!
http://www.dmbeatles.com/forums/index.php?topic=8423.0

LOL!!
http://www.dmbeatles.com/forums/index.php?topic=8423.msg204322#msg204322

Hey maybe we should start a conversation like that somewhere here, just to impress everyone.

I believe the poster over there "Joost" is none other than Smiley Smile poster "shelter." At least according to a comparison of this thread http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,5219.0.html and Joost's post here (scroll down to the middle of the page) http://www.dmbeatles.com/forums/index.php?topic=8423.540.

[SMiLE-addict]

Wow, Beach Boy tatoos! Now *that's* dedicated!

[EgoHanger1966]

Would anyone be interested in a "rank the tracks" Beatles thread, ala the BB ones on the main forum?

[hypehat]

I would be, but then I started this mess.


Are the two people who voted 'f*** the beatles' accounted for?

[EgoHanger1966]

I would be, but then I started this mess.


Are the two people who voted 'f*** the beatles' accounted for?

There are three f*** the beatles votes, and none for 'with the beatles'. Oh, the humanity.

[hypehat]

Damn their eyes. Pearls before swine, etc....

[SMiLE-addict]

I just discovered this a few hours ago and can't stop listening to it. I think I'm on my 6th or 7th listen. F-ing brilliant! So much more going on in this song than you hear with the vocals added in. It would make a great orchestral piece all by itself.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=L8zu4S58Tgs

The little section of "sour" notes (don't know if there's a proper term for them) at 3:04-06 I never noticed before, even though I've probably listened to this song a hundred times.