Best/Favorite Beatles Album

Which one is your favorite and Why?

Most people pick Sgt Pepper, which is a fine album, probably one of the best ever made. But I like Abbey Road the most for the medley on side two.

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'gotta go with the masterpiece.

The breadth of it, all kinds of musical styles, just whizzing past you track after track.

And there is this amazing dramatic arc to it if you listen to it whole. From amazing kick butt Rock/Parody of Back in the USSR building to the devastation of Happiness is a Warm Gun to the unsettling uncertainty of Cry Baby Cry and Revo #9 to the sweetness of Goodnight.

Not really my favorite because I love them all. Top Picks are White, Revolver, Pepper, Abbey, Rubber.

And yet "Magical Mystery Tour" and "Yellow Submarine" are listed separately?

Anyway, my vote could have gone to "anything but that steaming plate of 1967 wanky crap "Sgt. Pepper," but I voted for "Rubber Soul."

1) Rubber Soul
2) Revolver
3) Abbey Road
4) The Beatles ("white album")
5) Beatles for Sale
6) Please Please Me
7) Help
8) Magical Mystery Tour
9) With the Beatles
10) Let It BE
11) A Hard Day's Night

"Yellow Submarine" doesn't count, And "Pepper" is CRAP!

There are 13 "official" albums and only 10 spots.

and George Martin doing the orchestra thing on the other. That really should've been one of the albums you put a slash next to. ;)

For personal reasons. It was out the first time I fell in love. Twelve years later I named my daughter Michelle.

2. Rubber Soul
3. A Hard Day's Night
4. With The Beatles
5. Please Please Me
6. Help!
7. Abbey Road
8. Beatles For Sale
9. Let It Be
10. White Album
11. Sgt. Pepper
12. Magical Mystery Tour
13. Yellow Submarine

But voted for Revolver. My second fave is Rubber Soul. But like I said, I love them all.

You can tell the drugs were just starting to kick in...

Depends, right? On a spring day, I love to sit in the sun, and listen to the older rock & roll. But then again, either side of Abbey Road is great. I noted one critic of Sgt Pepper .... but how can you dismiss "A Day In the Life"? I've been married a long time, but I still love to sing "Don't Let Me Down," "In My Life," and "I Want You, (She's So Heavy)" to my beautiful wife. Songs like "I'm a loser" still have such fantastic lines ("although I laugh and I act like a clown, beneath this mask I am wearing a frown"). I have close to 200 different Beatles / post Beatles albums/cds/ , and never get tired of them. The very favorite: the White Album is so good in so many ways. It's sad that it marks the end of the group, but it is so outrageous.

Such a good mix of slower and upbeat songs. Kind of between the poppy sounds of the beginning albums and their experimentation. But it wins by a very tiny margin.

It was their first album. As such, more than anything else the Beatles ever released, "Please Please Me" demonstrates just how much they changed the rules of popular music--and mostly for the better.

Even Sgt. Pepper had a clunker on it with "Within Without You". Abbey Road is perfect all the way through.

I really don't like "Within Without You". I skip it every time. It is much easier to do on the CD than it was on the tape or the LP. I've had Sgt Pepper's on all three formats.

Abbey road plays smooth all the way through. No skippers.

Though my favorite Beatles songs are on other albums. :)

I don't know why, other than that I love almost every single song. And there seems to be a song for every mood/occasion.

It's a scarce commodity around here, currently missing. Someone is always escaping into the car with it, and currently no one knows who had it last or where it ended up.