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DirgeK
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9/12/2009 12:52:49 PM
Best Beatles albums
As all the Beatles albums have been digitally remastered and just released, what would you say are the two best Beatles albums ?
DK's mum
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9/12/2009 3:34:36 PM
I agree completely with Larree.
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Hop On Pop
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9/12/2009 5:44:55 PM
Revolver and The White Album.
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Jeff Allen Myers
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9/12/2009 5:46:07 PM
Rubber Soul, Revolver, Abbey Road....
I got the whole remastered set the day they came out :) Had to..
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weAponX
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9/12/2009 6:31:39 PM
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR of course!
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DirgeK
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9/12/2009 8:24:22 PM
Thanks all for your advice, I would love to buy them all but that would work out very expensive. They have been running lots of tv programs in uk at the moment, expect they are doing so in usa as well. It is great to hear all the old songs again, they certainly withstand the test of time. Does anybody know anything about the new game that has come out, what's it all about ?
DKM
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Paul groover
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9/12/2009 8:43:50 PM
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Lucky for me my parents were big Beatles fans so had all the original Mono albums sound like a different group compared to the stereo mixes more raunchy and raw.So i like there earlier work as long as it,s in mono
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Paul groover
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9/12/2009 9:10:42 PM
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Mono has got it,s own sound feels quaint but vital
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Phlegm
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9/12/2009 11:48:51 PM
I'm with LARREE -- Rubber Soul FIRST --- REVOLVER second but with a TIE for Abbey Road....
Although I'll NEVER forget, when as a you kid, awhile after the Beatles had already broken up, that I got ahold of the VINYL import MEET the Beatles, with an extra track.....urrr.... it's been awhile, so I forget what track that was -- Um... I think it was A Taste of Honey..... THAT 4 panel COVER with The Beatles faces half in shadow. FUCKIN' KILLER.
It's CRAZY to see yet ANOTHER generation now, wearing all kinds of reprinted T-shirts from the 60's. TIMELESS.
Oh to have even ONE tune stand the test of time.... They had DOZENS !!!!
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Sly Witt
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9/13/2009 1:02:44 AM
If I had to have ONLY two of their albums I'd pick Sgt. Pepper and Abby Road, but that's like saying I'd take breathing over eating over sleeping... you really need 'em all. It's like saying what's your favorite part of the mona lisa, ya know?
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DirgeK
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9/13/2009 9:04:07 AM
They have been showing a great programme in uk called 'How the Beatles rocked the Kremlin' about how the Beatles helped to bring down communism in Russia. It was very interesting to see how much the Kremlin hated them and how they would arrest anyone caught listening to them and how the black market of Beatles records flourished.
They achieved so much considering they were just 4 young lads who couldn't even read music or play their instruments properly when they first started.
DKM
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Fyvwunsyx
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9/13/2009 10:16:25 AM
Rubber Soul and I've always been a fan of the 1st album "Meet the Beatles".
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DirgeK
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9/13/2009 10:57:05 AM
We went to the Beatles exhibition in Liverpool a couple of years ago. There was a lot of information on their time in Hamburg. It is very well done if you ever get a chance to go.
DKM
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9/13/2009 2:33:30 PM
LOVE the White Album
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Conversation Suicide
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9/13/2009 3:40:31 PM
Anybody Remember that GREAT Double Album in the late 70's, with the Silver Background, and Embossed images of the bEATLes in Action on Stage???
It RULED, it was a collection of their BEST hits, with a couple of rarely played B-SIDES and COVERS....
Ahhh.... so many hours spent, drawing, reading and LISTENING to those 4 loveable moptopped lads from liverpool.
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Hugh Hamilton
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9/13/2009 5:11:00 PM
I have a really hard time ranking things in general, but most of my listening time has been to Abbey Road and Rubber Soul with Sgt. Pepper and Revolver slightly behind.
My bday is coming up and there's a rumor that the boxed stereo set may just be forthcoming...I'm a bit ambivalent about all this remastering, but I figure how can you be a Beatle lover AND a maker of recordings and NOT have a deep listen?
The fact is of course whatever you get will be FAB.
:)
H
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Conversation Suicide
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9/13/2009 5:18:30 PM
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I'm sure the remastering will be for the best, Hugh!
Reminds me of those COOL single Vocal tracks that were released on the Internet, and you could hear them singing their harmony part solo.
The day someone on the Pipeline, ( i think either Kevin White or Richard Scotti), pointed me in their direction, I realized these GODS of Music, Eclecticism, and Catchiness, were only HUMAN like you and I.
They just MESHED so PERFECTLY together.
That's why I'd have trouble going completely SOLO. It's the other instruments and voices in a band that make a song WORK, sometimes.
-I FUCKIN' LOVE the BEATLES !! They were my first MAJOR influence in singing. (hard to TELL, eh? teee hheeeeeee haa.. hurrrr... hee heh.
heh. )
DOH!
-pHanBoY of The Amazing Hugh Hamilton
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David Isaac Martin
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9/13/2009 6:20:15 PM
White Album. Ingenious album. Probably the best album of the last century. In its own way, i always felt it eclipsed Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Favourite tracks from there:
1) I'm so tired
2) Martha
3) Sexy Sadie
4) Honey Pie
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Conversation Suicide
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9/13/2009 6:26:36 PM
Like I said, ECLECTIC.... They brought SO much to the table, and paved the road for SO MANY new sounds in ROCK & Experimental Music....
The White Album, a perfect example of this.
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Steve Ison
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9/14/2009 11:02:55 PM
The White Album
With Sgt Pepper and Rubber Soul tying for 2nd place...
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Jeff Allen Myers
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9/15/2009 10:12:08 AM
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Larree, Because of the policy not to include Singles on the albums think of this....The Albums should have been even better!
The singles
"Day Tripper/We can Work it out" Should have been on Rubber Soul
"Paperback Writer/Rain" Should have been on Revolver
"Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny lane" Should have been on Pepper.
If this policy Continued "Something" would not have been on Abbey Road.
Also I want to point out some albums listed here as favorites were actually "Bastardized" versions by the greedy American arm of EMI "Capitol records"
There should not have been a "Beatles second Album", it wasn't by the way....
There should not have been a "Meet The Beatles" The cover on this is actually from "With The Beatles" other albums include " Beatles 65" , "Yesterday and Today". "Magical Mystery Tour" was a manufactured U.S. Album. The two best songs "Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane" were included from the released singles. As was "Hello Goodbye".
Capitol would steal the first songs recorded for future albums or hold off songs of finished Albums in order to "Manufacture" another album to sell. In fact The Album "Yesterday and Today" actually had songs from Revolver thrown on it before Revolver even came out. When "Revolver" was released in the States, it was short these songs, so American Audiences were screwed. This used to piss the Beatles off! .
They finally stopped this when Pepper came out and The American albums were the same as their British counterparts.
The remastered set includes the Albums as they should have been in the States...the way they were meant to be. All of the Albums are the versions released in England.
Studio U.K. albums
Please Please Me · With The Beatles · A Hard Day's Night · Beatles for Sale · Help! · Rubber Soul · Revolver · Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band · The Beatles · Yellow Submarine · Abbey Road · Let It Be
U.S. "Bastardized" albums
Introducing... The Beatles · Meet The Beatles! · The Beatles' Second Album · Something New · The Beatles' Story · Beatles '65 · The Early Beatles · Beatles VI · Yesterday and Today · Magical Mystery Tour · Hey Jude
Jeff
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Jerry Kabat
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9/15/2009 2:51:54 PM
Introducing the Beatles on the Vee Jay lable mono and Beatles 65. I like the mix of rock and roll with covers and their own tunes
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DirgeK
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9/15/2009 9:35:51 PM
Thanks Jeff and Larree for your information. So what in anybodies opinion are the best two Beatles tracks ?
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Jeff Allen Myers
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9/15/2009 10:11:16 PM
Aww that is a tough one, it changes all the time for me :)
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SILVERWOODSTUDIO
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9/15/2009 10:26:18 PM
I started out dissing them as a Rolling Stones fan---I WAS young and silly
by the time Sgt Pepper came out they were my main fare---
and best album cover IMO
OK--- very earliest Beatles tune I heard was "My Bonny" (lies over the ocean)
Now that was with Pete Best I believe----and pretty rough!!
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AlucigeniaMusic
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9/15/2009 11:24:44 PM
I wouldn't be able to choose
All of them are great !!!
Anyway Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is one of my favorites :)
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Jeff Allen Myers
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9/16/2009 12:23:05 AM
"Something" is one of the best, and in the discussion as "The Best". I think it is very cool that George was kept in the shadow of Lennon and McCartney and wrote one for the ages to compete with them as an equal. He had to have felt vindicated.... "All things must pass" was a great album, and many if not all of the songs were written when he was with The Beatles.
I like to think the Beatles had one more great album in them if you look at the first solo efforts.
Here is the Beatles Album that never was, all from 70-71
"Maybe I'm Amazed" McCartney
"My Sweet Lord" Harrison
"Imagine" Lennon
"Isn't it a Pity" Harrison
"Mother" Lennon
"Working Class Hero" Lennon
"What is Life" Harrison
"Another Day" McCartney
"Jealous Guy" Lennon
"Uncle Albert/Admitral Halsey" McCartney
"Oh My Love" Lennon
"Dear Friend" McCartney
"God" Lennon
"Too Many People" McCartney
Pretty damn good "Beatles Album" that never was...
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