If there was one Beatles' album...

[yoga-like_abana]

I like the one where they say Yeah a ton.. I think that inspired Usher and Lil Jon.

[Kat Kid]

White Album.  It has a diverse array of songs.

Has a great John track- "Happiness is a Warm Gun"
Has a great Paul track- "Blackbird"
Rocky Raccoon!
Has a great George Harrison track- "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"

The only down side is it does not have "Oh! Darling" which is the greatest Beatles song of all time.  That said, it has variety and depth which is going to be an advantage in this scenario imo.

this is all good stuff but there are so many skips

What I say to that is

Obla di Obla da life goes on.

[Spracne]

I feel like you've had to do some type of really hard drugs to like the Beatles. I honestly don't get it, at all.

 

Wacky, once you remove the experimental hippy period, the Beatles are just words, melodies, and harmonies that go together well. It's pure pop music. There's no deep meaning.

[bucket]

I feel like you've had to do some type of really hard drugs to like the Beatles. I honestly don't get it, at all.

 

Wacky, once you remove the experimental hippy period, the Beatles are just words, melodies, and harmonies that go together well. It's pure pop music. There's no deep meaning.

The lyrics are timeless.

[yoga-like_abana]

The hooks are great if you love nursery rhyme songs


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[mocat]

White Album.  It has a diverse array of songs.

Has a great John track- "Happiness is a Warm Gun"
Has a great Paul track- "Blackbird"
Rocky Raccoon!
Has a great George Harrison track- "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"

The only down side is it does not have "Oh! Darling" which is the greatest Beatles song of all time.  That said, it has variety and depth which is going to be an advantage in this scenario imo.

this is all good stuff but there are so many skips

What I say to that is

Obla di Obla da life goes on.

in my mind's eye Oh Darling is on White and Ob La Di is on Abbey Road

[mocat]

but srsly when i hear that ridiculous piano intro for ob la di,

[Skipper44]

Exile On Main St.

qft

[Rage Against the McKee]

but srsly when i hear that ridiculous piano intro for ob la di,

wtf

[420seriouscat69]

https://twitter.com/mashupmartin/status/1483759321603354630?s=21

[SkinnyBenny]

I feel like you've had to do some type of really hard drugs to like the Beatles. I honestly don't get it, at all.

 

Wacky, once you remove the experimental hippy period, the Beatles are just words, melodies, and harmonies that go together well. It's pure pop music. There's no deep meaning.

The lyrics are timeless.

Indeed! Here's a snippet of some timeless lyrics that still hold up:

Well, I'd rather see you dead, little girl
Than to be with another man
You better keep your head, little girl
Or I won't know where I am

You better run for your life if you can, little girl
Hide your head in the sand, little girl
Catch you with another man
That's the end, little girl

[SkinnyBenny]

White Album.  It has a diverse array of songs.

Has a great John track- "Happiness is a Warm Gun"
Has a great Paul track- "Blackbird"
Rocky Raccoon!
Has a great George Harrison track- "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"

The only down side is it does not have "Oh! Darling" which is the greatest Beatles song of all time.  That said, it has variety and depth which is going to be an advantage in this scenario imo.

this is all good stuff but there are so many skips

What I say to that is

Obla di Obla da life goes on.

Such a good song.

[SkinnyBenny]

Oh wow, we are on opposite sides (A and B) of the Abbey Road fence.

Well yeah, obviously conventional inside-the-box type thinking would agree with you.  I however feel a strong attraction to the unconventional nature of the B-side medley.  The uniqueness of the b-side combined with the universally acknowledged excellence of the a-side closes this case.

Oh yeah! All right! This is the right answer!

[SkinnyBenny]

You guys who aren't choosing White album are choosing an existence without Rocky Raccoon. Think about that.

Absolute bangers on that album. No quibble with Rocky Raccoon at all, prob Top 6 on the album for me. But I actually like Back in the USSR and Helter Skelter and While My Guitar Gently Weeps and Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da and Blackbird better. And Rocky Raccoon is a great song!

[SkinnyBenny]

that you got to listen to the rest of your life, what would you pick? You never got to hear a song from any of the others again, and you can't choose a greatest hit album of any sort.

Could you make it so that if we hear a song from one of the other albums, we would turn into sparrows or something?

You'd turn into a blackbird. (And your bird can sing!)

[SkinnyBenny]

Sgt and its not even close

It's extremely close

[SkinnyBenny]

The only down side is it does not have "Oh! Darling" which is the greatest Beatles song of all time.  That said, it has variety and depth which is going to be an advantage in this scenario imo.

I love Oh! Darling. Great song, Paul sings with amazing feeling, hilarious and puzzling punctuation in the title. I'm curious if it still ranks as your favorite all these years later. I love it but it's nowhere close to a favorite.

[SkinnyBenny]

I am just going to have to go with Abbey Road on this one. Revolver and White Album have my 2 favorite Beatles songs on them, but everything on Abbey Road is so damn good.

It's a goddamn tour de force. Even the Paul Pelosi attack, horrific as it is, can't stop me from bopping along to Maxwell's Silver Hammer.

[SkinnyBenny]

White Album, I feel like anyone who chooses another album is just entering his wing-wang into a hipster dick measuring contest.

Absolutely true, only hipsters like the beatles, that's why their popularity never quite cracked into the mainstream.

[SkinnyBenny]

It's Abbie Road and it's not even close.  I would even accept Abbie Road B-side only.

Can't believe I immediately won this thread more than 7 years ago.

'cept you 'd the spelling of the title! 

[SkinnyBenny]

Rubber Soul is not the best Beatles album but let me tell you why it's my favorite.

it has the very first beatles song that i loved (norwegian wood)
it has the best ringo song (what goes on)
it has the first great george song (if i needed someone)
it has a great wink wink sex joke song (drive my car)
it doesn't have a trash ass wtf paul genre song. the closest thing is michelle, and michelle is effing great
it has 14 songs and only one skip (think for yourself)
it has the most lol cringe john song (run for your life) but damn if it isn't catchy af
it has one of the very best john songs (in my life)
imo this is the last album that fully belongs to john.  Norwegian Wood, In My Life, Nowhere Man, Girl, Wait. none of Paul's top 5 (10?) songs are on Rubber Soul, but he has several good ones (You Won't See Me, Drive My Car, Michelle, I'm Looking Through You)
along with Help! (also in 1965) this is when they started doing more badass music stuff (more prominent bass, more intricate guitar from george, sitar on norwegian wood, the cool drone thing on you won't see me, etc), but before going fully nuts in 1967 and 1968. it's a very transitional album which is kind of cool.

Mocat laying down some great reasoning here. No quibbles.

[SkinnyBenny]

I just did a chronological listen of their entire discography. Learned a lot I didn't know. Not really that into the teenybopper boy-band moptop era that much, though there are a few undeniably great songs. Help! is one of them. And Yesterday is from that album and it's probably the most beautiful melody I think I've ever heard. Favorite non-single that I discovered (or rediscovered? idk) in this deep dive was the song "And Your Bird Can Sing," from Revolver. I love it.



The twin guitar attack moving in parallel harmonies is so awesome, and the energy and chord progression remind me a lot of this underrated Counting Crows song from their second album:



Went into it thinking Abbey Road would probably continue to be my favorite, and that held true. A lot of others I appreciate a lot more than I used to, though. Always loved Sgt. Pepper's -- the first one I really listened to as a young SB and it's still great. Lots more to say, but that's good enough for now.

[Cartierfor3]

Listened to Let it Be a lot since Get Back came out. Love Across the Universe, Two of Us, The Long and Winding, on that record.

[mocat]

Help! is an incred album. when i was a youngster i thought pearl jam wrote You've Got to Hide Your Love Away 

[BIG APPLE CAT]

if SB went on a combo run and quoted something i blogged from 2014 i would maybe poop my pants.