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Spiritinthesky
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bob f.
Old Love
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 Posted - 06/03/2012 : 01:55:22
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this question caught me off guard. i wasw thinking, "best", "coolest", even "my favorite", then I knew it (again)....SGT PEPPER. maybe 'cause I was in love when it was released, but then there are the other albums I could call "my favorite". I choose to choose this one! 
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captain america and billy
Old Love
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Posted - 07/03/2012 : 17:27:16
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| The Beatles' catalog consists of albums all fantastic on their own levels.It's apples and oranges.You can hardly say which is best "Please Please Me" or "Pepper" or the White Album.In a Rolling Stone Record guide I once had,it put the matter simply when they said they did it all,they did it right,and then they went their separate ways. |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
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Posted - 07/03/2012 : 17:45:24
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Absolutely right. An impossible choice but I actually chose RUBBER SOUL if only for its groundbreaking & brave change of direction by the most popular band in the World. Seriously...NO tracks tagged as singles for radio play?!
as Brian Wilson said..."it was a whole album of songs"--each one connected to the next....the first concept album in a way, at least musically. It inspired Brian to single handedly create PET SOUNDS.
Pets Sounds-invariably, number ONE or TWo Album on the best album of all time lists....with Revolver or Peppers trading places at the top..
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We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers & discoverers-
-thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses.
Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.
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captain america and billy
Old Love
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Posted - 08/03/2012 : 15:46:53
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| And of course one may wonder what the direction the famous foursome would have taken had it not been for the influence of psychedelic drugs. |
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John9
Old Love
United Kingdom
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Posted - 08/03/2012 : 16:53:31
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Originally posted by lemonade kid
Absolutely right. An impossible choice but I actually chose RUBBER SOUL if only for its groundbreaking & brave change of direction by the most popular band in the World. Seriously...NO tracks tagged as singles for radio play?!
as Brian Wilson said..."it was a whole album of songs"--each one connected to the next....the first concept album in a way, at least musically. It inspired Brian to single handedly create PET SOUNDS.
Pets Sounds-invariably, number ONE or TWo Album on the best album of all time lists....with Revolver or Peppers trading places at the top..
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We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers & discoverers-
-thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses.
Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.
-Peter S. Beagle 1973
Yes LK - I voted for Rubber Soul as well. Though of course, it is a tough choice. I always saw Help/Rubber Soul/Revolver as an essential trilogy. |
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rocker
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 08/03/2012 : 17:13:50
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| And I was looking for Beatles VI! I guess I'm "U-S ified" when it comes to that Beatle catalogue... |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 08/03/2012 : 17:27:27
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Originally posted by John9
quote:
Originally posted by lemonade kid
Absolutely right. An impossible choice but I actually chose RUBBER SOUL if only for its groundbreaking & brave change of direction by the most popular band in the World. Seriously...NO tracks tagged as singles for radio play?!
as Brian Wilson said..."it was a whole album of songs"--each one connected to the next....the first concept album in a way, at least musically. It inspired Brian to single handedly create PET SOUNDS.
Pets Sounds-invariably, number ONE or TWo Album on the best album of all time lists....with Revolver or Peppers trading places at the top..
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We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers & discoverers-
-thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses.
Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.
-Peter S. Beagle 1973
Yes LK - I voted for Rubber Soul as well. Though of course, it is a tough choice. I always saw Help/Rubber Soul/Revolver as an essential trilogy.
RUBBER SOUL is unique in the Beatles catalog. The sound is just so compelling.
Of course you had a whole side of tracks on HELP we didn't to make that one a great album. At the time HELP was not as well liked by me, as we in the USA had to wade through the incidental movie music.
Now I see the brilliance of HELP.
But I can't listen to RUBBER SOul without starting off with the US vinyl openers..sides one & two! I even added them to my mono masters CD the way I'm used to it.
side A1-"I've Just Seen A Face"
side B1-"It's Only Love"
North American track listing (short but sweet--and I'll never get used to "Dr.Robert" starting it off on side one...OR "What Goes On" starting off side two!!!):
The USA track listing has a better flow to my ears...but I guess the UK fans (John9?) feel that way about the US version?
1."I've Just Seen a Face" McCartney 2:07
2."Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" Lennon 2:05
3."You Won't See Me" McCartney 3:22
4."Think for Yourself" (Harrison) Harrison 2:19
5."The Word" Lennon with McCartney and Harrison 2:43
6."Michelle" McCartney 2:42
Side two
1."It's Only Love" Lennon 1:55
2."Girl" Lennon 2:33
3."I'm Looking Through You" McCartney 2:31
4."In My Life" Lennon and McCartney 2:27
5."Wait" Lennon and McCartney 2:16
6."Run for Your Life" Lennon 2:18
Did you hear the false start mix that was not on the UK stereo album....? Guess it only showed up on the US album. I had the mono vinyl so I didn't hear it until 1969!
False start "I'm Looking Through You"...ia this in the new Stereo Masters box??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLFlwOHM0bg
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We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers & discoverers-
-thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses.
Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.
-Peter S. Beagle 1973
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markk
Old Love
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Posted - 08/03/2012 : 18:06:04
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Fifty Years of the Beatles poll
