Your Favorite BEATLES Album?

Trying to quantify Beatles albums into a ranking is tough. I think that I got my first album when I was in High School: Sgt. Peppers. Then Revolver, HELP and the White Album. Then Magical Mystery Tour and Abbey Road. Then Please Please Me and Rubber Soul...

How do you rank them when they all held your attention exclusively when you first heard them?

I think that Revolver holds the most fascination for me. Such a wide variety of styles. I think that this is the album with the most impressive vocals that they ever made. The harmonies on 'Eleanor Rigby.' The soft melody of 'Here, There and Everywhere.' The experimentation of 'Tomorrow Never Knows.' The fun of Ringo on 'Yellow Submarine.' George's most and least straight forward rock songs: 'Taxman' and 'Love You To.'

OK, I'm rambling so I suppose that you can take that as my favorite.

Favorite Beatles Album

My top five are

1. Revolver

2. Rubber Soul

3. Magical Mystery Tour

4. The White Album

5. Abbey Road

All Beatles albums are absolutely amazing, but these are my fav's. I think that even my least favourite Beatles album (which would be very hard to choose) would probly be better(in my opinion) than any album by any other artist! BEATLES FOREVER!!!

1. Rubber Soul

2. Let it Be

3. Sgt. Peppers

4. Magical Mystery Tour

5. White Album

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Your Favorite BEATLES Album?

(Re-post, wrong topic)

I recently asked another question, Beatles related.

Anyway, from this question, I found that some people really wanted to put their favorite album out there, and feel very strongly about it.

But who doesn't? Just about everyone has that favorite album that brings...

In no particular order :~

Sgt. Pepper

Revolver

Magical Mystery Tour

'White' album ~ disc 1 only

Abbey Road

And the song only available on the 'Yellow Submarine' soundtrack :~ 'Hey Bulldog'

That's really a tough choice. I'd say it'd be between Revolver and Rubber Soul. They're neck and neck for me, but I'll have to go with Rubber Soul. Rolling Stone lists it as the fifth best album of all time (with Revolver as the third). Here's what they have to say about it Rubber Soul:

Released in December 1965 -- and capping a year that had been defined by groundbreaking singles such as Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" and the Rolling Stones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" -- Rubber Soul finds the Beatles rising to meet the challenge their peers had set. Characteristically, they achieved a new musical sophistication and a greater thematic depth without sacrificing a whit of pop appeal. Producer George Martin described Rubber Soul as "the first album to present a new, growing Beatles to the world," and so it was.

The band's development expressed itself in a variety of overlapping ways. On the U.K. version (the only one available on CD), "Drive My Car" presents a comic character study of a sort that had not previously been in the Beatles' repertoire. More profoundly, however, Dylan's influence suffuses the album, accounting for the tart emotional tone of "Norwegian Wood," "I'm Looking Through You," "You Won't See Me" and "If I Needed Someone." (Dylan would return the compliment the following year, when he offered his own version of "Norwegian Wood" -- titled "4th Time Around" -- on Blonde on Blonde, and consequently made Lennon "Paranoid.") Lennon's "Nowhere Man," which he later acknowledged as a depressed self-portrait, and the beautifully reminiscent "In My Life" both reflect the more serious and personal style of songwriting that Dylan had suddenly made possible.

Musically speaking, George Harrison's sitar on "Norwegian Wood" -- the first time the instrument was used in a pop song -- and Paul McCartney's fuzz bass on "Think for Yourself" document the band's increasing awareness that the studio could be more than a pit stop between tours. From this point on, a fascination with the sonic possibilities of recording would inspire the Beatles' greatest work.

Harrison called Rubber Soul "the best one we made," because "we were suddenly hearing sounds that we weren't able to hear before." And as for why the band's hearing had grown so acute, well, that was another aspect of the times. "There was a lot of experimentation on Rubber Soul," said Ringo Starr, "influenced, I think, by the substances."

Help, then Abbey Road, Sgt. Pepper

Sgt. Pepper

abbey road is my favorite.

i'm too young for the beatles, i didn't grow up when they were you know it.

but my mother played it all the time, and so i've known this cd since i was little