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What’s the best Beatles album?
joshofalltrades
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Okay so @lonelyahava asked me to make this thread. I promise I’m not just making poll threads for my own amusement today. One other person wants them too.
I’ve long maintained that if only one rock band will be listened to in 200 years, it will be The Beatles. The amount of creativity and talent on display is frankly astonishing. Also the amount of drugs they did, holy shit, so much drugs.
There is debate over whether they were better before or after they became a studio-only band but there shouldn’t be because the answer is after.
But in the interest of fairness I have included albums from when they were just a really good pop boy band.
Be prepared to defend your answer, possibly to the death.
I’ve long maintained that if only one rock band will be listened to in 200 years, it will be The Beatles. The amount of creativity and talent on display is frankly astonishing. Also the amount of drugs they did, holy shit, so much drugs.
There is debate over whether they were better before or after they became a studio-only band but there shouldn’t be because the answer is after.
But in the interest of fairness I have included albums from when they were just a really good pop boy band.
Be prepared to defend your answer, possibly to the death.
What’s the best Beatles album? 49 votes
Please Please Me
0%
A Hard Day’s Night
0%
Help!
0%
Rubber Soul
2%
1 vote
Revolver
14%
7 votes
Magical Mystery Tour
2%
1 vote
Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
32%
16 votes
White Album
18%
9 votes
Abbey Road
24%
12 votes
Let It Be
6%
3 votes
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If I have to pick an album from The Beatles: The Boy Band, it’s Help!, both because of the glimpse into the stunning songwriting that was about to happen (the title track? Fucking “Yesterday”, anybody?) and the goofy movie attached to it.
I wanna be clear; there are no bad Beatles albums. Only Greater and Lesser ones.
Edit: ehhhh that’s too hyperbolic. Maybe 25-30%
This is rather agonising
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See my edit, but stuff like Wild Honey Pie and #9 are just automatic skips for me
George Martin famously said they should have picked the cream of the crop and put out a single album and I think he was spot on
It’s not just a Beatles thing for me. Sometimes experimental stuff works and sometimes it doesn’t. More modern example would be Treefingers by Radiohead. It just does nothing for me.
As a kid I would have said Sgt Peppers without hesitation, I played that album on loop.
The funny thing is that Abbey Road came out before Let It Be, but was recorded after it
The End is the last thing the four of them were in the studio for
I'm just gonna need to listen to all three of them I guess
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5: Abbey Road Medly
4: It's All Too Much
3: And Your Bird Can Sing (Anthology Cut)
2: Only a Northern Song (Anthology Cut)
1: Hey Bulldog
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Thank God they broke up when they did and had a contained unit of what they are, because as a cultural phenomenon they are a unique and almost singularity.
5 - Blackbird
4 - Here Comes the Sun
3 - Across the Universe
2 - Alittle Help from my Friends
1 - Something
Hey Jude is up there though
You picked the only wrong answer, impressive :P
I mean you could go with Queen was better but Mercury died.
But then you are going generational and that's a whole other fight.
Contemporary I prefer The Who to Beatles, with Stones in 3rd but it's quite a lot.
Also Wings was the only good post-Beatles Beatles and Lennon was mostly garbage without McCartney. Imagine is impressive for how bad a song about no possessions could be from a guy who air conditioned his fur closet.
Edit- personally I do prefer Queen to the Beatles but still recognize the Beatles are unique.
It is known
Sadly he's been trumpwashed so I won't be asking for them any time soon lmao
I just wanna come back to what we were talking about because I think I was too dismissive
The really great stuff off the White Album is decades ahead of its time!
Like, Helter Skelter basically was proto-metal
Blackbird was the indie music scene 40 years early
If I just wanna have some Beatles on, the White Album is very good for that
"Paul is gonna be dead"
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In very narrow contexts you can argue maybe not, but they just did it across the board.
They are a cultural singularity and there is no better way to describe it.
You and Ben Shapiro agree on something!
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Getting a budget of 'whatever' and being free to play with a whole bunch of new toys sure makes a lot of people look like geniuses.
Abbey Road and Sgt Peppers would round out my top 3
Weirdly I’ve found the opposite to be true in many cases. Put too many options in front of musicians and they just get paralyzed. It’s not universal, mind, but limitations make art great too. Neutral Milk Hotel has a bunch of crazy fuckin’ arrangements but at their core it’s a bunch of three chord songs over stream of consciousness lyrics.
So it’s a testament to the creative powerhouse that the Beatles were that in just a few short years and the only limitations being the technology of the time they pumped out 12 major albums and every one of them became iconic/legendary.