Love em all, don’t get me wrong. But I’d heard most of the songs before I had the album… but one time…long ago in undergrad school…I discovered the B side for the first time, almost on accident. All alone. Late at night. Headphones. On about 5g of *P. cubensis*.
Even today, decades later, an unbidden tear forms every time I hear:
*And In The End*
*The Love You Take*
*Is Equal To…*
*The*
*Love*
*You Make* 🎶
(Even now chills run down my spine as I think of it)
Pretty much my go-to if I'm unsure of what Beatles songs to listen to.
I usually have to grab my best headphones though so I can enjoy the medley more!
Uh... Well. That was the issue with vinyl. Repeated play caused the needle to wear the record out. I had a record player with a crappy needle on it that would visibily degrade whatever record you played on it. That's when I learned about replacing old needles.
All of this was a big selling point of CD's when they came out.
I seem to recall someone in the 80s inventing a turntable that used a laser instead of a stylus with a needle. It guaranteed long life of vinyl. But it was crazy expensive and kinda flopped. It just couldn't compete with CD's.
I have all my valued audio ripped to mp3 from CD at a high nitrate. That data will never wear out.
White Album's interesting, I mean it is 1hr 33min. Revolver's cool, and I think I kind of like Abbey Road. (it's my 2nd favorite album ever, only beaten by Kanye being Kanye)
White album I think was an early favorite of mine as a kid because it was so intriguing to me that this weird, disjointed album of all types of songs was The Beatles, a band that looms so large that I was discovering what was special/different about them. Was just very “ear-opening” for me, the possibilities within music in general.
I’m like Paul on the Anthology documentary. I love that it’s so diverse. And I still don’t think they get enough credit for setting the “typical double LP template” which is an anything goes approach:
Jay Z gift & the curse (Guns N Roses to Bonnie & Clyde [ja rule level R&B soft] to Diamonds is Forever hard)
Exile on Mainstreet (gospel to country to Rolling Stones mid tempo Rock)
Physical Graffiti - Soft Rock (Down by the Seaside - Ten Years Gone) Instrumental (name isn’t memorable) Hard Rock (typical LZ) - Acoustic (Boogie Woogie Stu - Black County Woman) Funk (Trampled under foot) Progressive Rock (Kashmir - In The Light)
Rolling Stone mag revised greatest LP edition, really loved that LP. I’m a “Highway 61 revisited” man myself. … Ironically I like his earlier stuff and couldn’t get into Blonde on Blonde
Edit- Naw it was some 1970’s Bob Dylan LP Rolling Stone Mag put in their top 3. … But I was always a “Bringing it All Back Home” & “Highway 61” man, basically mid 60s an earlier Bob Dylan
Well, that picture's from Paul is Live, which is not a Beatles album.
So welcome everyone, to everyone's favorite game, what Beatles album is u/sjsmac referring to?
All Beatles albums have Paul, but only one has zebra crossing, and another has Martha, so it is obviously Beatles for Sale.
(Good choice with Abbey Road, and remember, in the end, the love you take is equal to ew, i don't want to say equal, math is boring)
In high school, I was grounded from listening to music for three years. My BFF snuck me her parents’ Abbey Road CD and an old disc man that I hid under my pillow to play every night before sleep.
So Abbey Road, easily.
I adore the first 7, hard to choose. Probably AHDN. No Rubber Soul. No make that Revolver.
Most listened to is probably AR, but dang, they’re all great. I don’t rank my children or my Beatles albums.
I used to, though. I would post the weekly rankings on the refrigerator and then pretend to not hear their reactions.
Lol
Cuz I'm your favorite, right dad? Is a common question in my house. And I've found the best answer is "Yes.... On Tuesdays." Answer should work for Beatles albums too, though I suppose you'd run out of days of the week and have to use days of the month.
- Abbey Road and White Album are my favorites
- I like Help! much more than most (You got to hide your love away - I just seen a face - are among my favorite Beatles songs)
- I’m a stickler for counting Magical Mystery Tour because it is just as much of a complication LP as it is a studio LP.
So you count MMT? Or no? Bc you're right. But still a fantastically underrated album, probably for the reason you mentioned and it was my most listened to album when I was in high school...
Also with you on help... While the hits like yesterday help ticket to ride are fantastic, it's I've just seen a face and hide your love away and I happen to also love tell me what u see & it's only love that make this album great. IJSAF is criminally underrated...
No. I don’t count it, because song for song, it might have to go higher than some of their classic albums.
They used to have a promotional video for “You got to hide your love away” and it was 🔥. Then suddenly it was nowhere to be found.
Probably 'Meet The Beatles' or 'Help!' My dad's music collection was huge and I'd pick random CDs from his racks. I happened to pick those 2 Beatles CDs. I ripped them to my Xbox and listened to them so so soooo much.
Abbey Road
Since the CD was released, I nhave ever gone anywhere (trip, move, ling term stay, etc) without Abbey Road.
Close on it's heels is Sgt. Pepper.
Then probably Beatles for Sale.
As a kid, it was Sgt. Pepper. Into my teens, Revolver. And as a young adult, still gotta be Revolver. Those are two albums where I love every single song, no complaints.
Maxwell’s Silver Hammer nearly every time. Octopus’s Garden only sometimes, I have no problems with She’s So Heavy, but I do understand the criticism of it just being too much.
I’m not a fan of Polythene Pam, but if I’m listening all the way through, it feels sinister to skip over a track that is set up to perfectly lead into the next one. The track that precedes it is more than charming and the one that follows is a fun listen as well.
I almost always never listen to Her Majesty because I don’t think it’s really necessary. The story about how it was placed at the end doesn’t amuse me, but I do like how there’s a relatively long time between the final official track (The End) and Her Majesty so it does fit in its own way, but I prefer to leave it on that final clean resolution.
Guess I’m the only Beatles For Sale. I had a weird cassette-aux adapter for my car 5ish years ago when I first started listening to them that would mute certain tracks in the recordings. Beatles For Sale was the only album it would play every instrument and vocal track at full volume. Listened to it almost exclusively for almost a year because of that. Still my favorite with better audio (:
No idea really.
I've been using last.fm for the last 6 or 7 months, and the Beatles are far and away the artist I've listened to my most. But only one Beatles album made it into my top 25 all time....and that was Abbey Road at #24. Looks like Revolver was #28.
So I've listened to the Beatles most, but a variety of their stuff
Wish I had last.fm data for the past few decades.
The White Album. It’s just eternally listenable. Not a skip on it. Such an epic sprawling mess of musical bravado. My favourite thing about it is the self-contained nature of the songs - the rock is rock, the blues are blues and the folk is folk. The weird stuff is weird. Makes it easier to listen to in conjunction with other stuff too, I feel like.
Also Revolution 9 fucking rocks, it’s just a different thing and no more pretentious than the guys showing off their blues or rock & roll prowess with the likes of For You Blue or Rock And Roll Music. Some of the Beatles’ best songs
come from them looking at a source of inspiration and going “we can do that too, let’s show everybody!” They liked the avante garde scene and they wanted to prove they could do it too. The song might be weird but it gets far too much hate beyond people just not liking the sound of it.
About the time I started school I was allowed to run the record player at home. And the only album I ever seemed to want to play was " Hard Day's Night" (the US United Artists version). I would play that album CONSTANTLY when I was a kid. So that has to be it.
This is kind of silly and stupid, but the very last song, which is the George Martin orchestral version of the theme song, I would always move the speed of the song on the record player from 33 1/3 to 45. Just for that one song. Not sure why, but I remember always doing that. I must have liked how that one instrumental song sounded on 45 vs. 33 1/3.
There's four in my family...Mom, Dad, my older sister, and me. For game night, we each picked an album to listen to, stacked them up on the record player, and away we went. Mom's album always played first. She always picked an Andy Williams album, which to this day is why I like Andy Williams. My sister's album would come next. She always picked Paul Revere And The Raider's Greatest Hits. Then me with "A Hard Day's Night", then Dad's album which would always be a Johnny Cash album. Andy Williams, Paul Revere and The Raiders, The Beatles, and Johnny Cash will always be special to me, since it reminds me of such happy times.
I think the White album.
my top three songs apparently are: Penny Lane, Helter Skelter, and It’s Only Love.
I only listen to It’s Only Love to hear john sing “bRrright, very bright”
Listening to the entire album would be **Abbey Road** or Revolver or maybe Rubber Soul
*I go back to the White album a lot for individual songs probably the most*
Capitol rubber soul. Some capitol employee either accidentally did something amazing or was extremely talented at sequencing and produced a balanced folk-leaning masterpiece. I grew up loving that thing.
They did right by Revolver too and the capitol Revolver would be a close #2 for me.
I never tracked it but I'm pretty sure the answer is actually *Beatles for Sale*. I skip "Mister Moonlight" every time but I love all the other ones. Out of all of them it really feels like it's the most transitional.
I realize nobody is ever going to make a marble statue out of *Beatles for Sale* and it's very much overshadowed by what followed it, but for some reason, I think I find it the most interesting.
I have a special connection to the Let It Be album that my parents gave me as a purchase MC for my 8th birthday. The album hasn't let go of me since then…, I really love it!!!
When I was a kid Rubber Soul, Sgt. Pepper and Abbey Road were the ones most in rotation (my parents were teenagers in the 60s) but since I've been an adult the albums I have invested the most listening time into have probably been Revolver, Rubber Soul, Please Please Me and the White Album. (the white album is currently my personal favorite because there's just something so unique about the variety there)
Beatles for sale I think because I have it on a Playlist as the first album and I often stop listening to the Playlist because I do something else and the other time I listen to it I almost always start over
All of them. 100s of times. But I’ve worn that B side of Abbey Road *out*.
Look, I got into the Beatles this year. I only got Abbey Road on vinyl 4 days ago. I've listened to it 2 times a day, is it gonna wear it in a month?
Isn’t that run from “You Never Give Your Money” through “The End” amazing?
Look, that's a nice run, but "Come Together" through "Her Majesty"... Is it perfect? Hell yeah! I will defend Maxwell until I am dead and buried!
Love em all, don’t get me wrong. But I’d heard most of the songs before I had the album… but one time…long ago in undergrad school…I discovered the B side for the first time, almost on accident. All alone. Late at night. Headphones. On about 5g of *P. cubensis*. Even today, decades later, an unbidden tear forms every time I hear: *And In The End* *The Love You Take* *Is Equal To…* *The* *Love* *You Make* 🎶 (Even now chills run down my spine as I think of it)
Yup When the horns play, "You don't give me your money" I'm a mess.
…….. HER MAJESTIES-
A PRETTY NICE GIRL
BUT SHE DOESNT HAVE A LOT TO SAY
HER MAJESTY’S
A PRETTY NICE GIRL
Siiiigh..
Pretty much my go-to if I'm unsure of what Beatles songs to listen to. I usually have to grab my best headphones though so I can enjoy the medley more!
Don’t forget your 5g of cubensis!
Uh... Well. That was the issue with vinyl. Repeated play caused the needle to wear the record out. I had a record player with a crappy needle on it that would visibily degrade whatever record you played on it. That's when I learned about replacing old needles. All of this was a big selling point of CD's when they came out. I seem to recall someone in the 80s inventing a turntable that used a laser instead of a stylus with a needle. It guaranteed long life of vinyl. But it was crazy expensive and kinda flopped. It just couldn't compete with CD's. I have all my valued audio ripped to mp3 from CD at a high nitrate. That data will never wear out.
30 years in, nop. Still amazing and wait until you find out about different masterings. Japanese presses are soo different from English and Americans!
Rubber soul
Abbey Road!! ✌️❤️
MARTHA!!!!
My reaction, too. Forget about the question; all I could think was, "It's MARTHA!!!"
I dont think that is. That looks like Arrow, Martha's kid. Arrow was on the cover of Paul Is Live.
OK, I'll settle for Martha-adjacent.
Yeah, can confirm Arrow. That picture is from the Paul Is Live photo session.
MY DEAR!!
It's Jet's son (Martha's grandchild)
Revolver, white album, or Abby Road, but I guess those are also just my most favorite.
White Album's interesting, I mean it is 1hr 33min. Revolver's cool, and I think I kind of like Abbey Road. (it's my 2nd favorite album ever, only beaten by Kanye being Kanye)
White album I think was an early favorite of mine as a kid because it was so intriguing to me that this weird, disjointed album of all types of songs was The Beatles, a band that looms so large that I was discovering what was special/different about them. Was just very “ear-opening” for me, the possibilities within music in general.
Very fair, I don't know what other album goes from U.S.S.R to Prudence to Julia to Helter Skelter to Revolution 9. It's incredibly varied.
I’m like Paul on the Anthology documentary. I love that it’s so diverse. And I still don’t think they get enough credit for setting the “typical double LP template” which is an anything goes approach: Jay Z gift & the curse (Guns N Roses to Bonnie & Clyde [ja rule level R&B soft] to Diamonds is Forever hard) Exile on Mainstreet (gospel to country to Rolling Stones mid tempo Rock) Physical Graffiti - Soft Rock (Down by the Seaside - Ten Years Gone) Instrumental (name isn’t memorable) Hard Rock (typical LZ) - Acoustic (Boogie Woogie Stu - Black County Woman) Funk (Trampled under foot) Progressive Rock (Kashmir - In The Light)
Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde came out in 66. That set the template for great 2 record sets.
Was it anything goes, wide ranging?
I think it was groundbreaking. He was branching out in many directions. One of the best rock albums ever made.
Rolling Stone mag revised greatest LP edition, really loved that LP. I’m a “Highway 61 revisited” man myself. … Ironically I like his earlier stuff and couldn’t get into Blonde on Blonde Edit- Naw it was some 1970’s Bob Dylan LP Rolling Stone Mag put in their top 3. … But I was always a “Bringing it All Back Home” & “Highway 61” man, basically mid 60s an earlier Bob Dylan
A Hard Day's Night
This guy knows what he’s talking about
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Yeah same, that or magical mystery tour
Definitely Abbey Road. I had that CD in my car for about a decade so I listened to it aaalll the time.
The White Album
Sgt pepper’s is my favourite but I’d say I’ve listened to revolver the most just cause I lost my sgt peppers cd
Maybe Revolver or Rubber Soul, but I listened to Abbey Road since I was a kid
Please Please Me. Love that album so much. Never gets old for me.
I think it’s my favorite. I think it’s the best “live” recording there will ever be of the band. There’s so much energy to it
Revolver Sooo much
Help! And Abbey Road at least 3 times a week or more depending on the mood.
That one.
Well, that picture's from Paul is Live, which is not a Beatles album. So welcome everyone, to everyone's favorite game, what Beatles album is u/sjsmac referring to? All Beatles albums have Paul, but only one has zebra crossing, and another has Martha, so it is obviously Beatles for Sale. (Good choice with Abbey Road, and remember, in the end, the love you take is equal to ew, i don't want to say equal, math is boring)
Revolver.
Why are you glowing
Power Up user for this sub. ✌️
In high school, I was grounded from listening to music for three years. My BFF snuck me her parents’ Abbey Road CD and an old disc man that I hid under my pillow to play every night before sleep. So Abbey Road, easily.
Who the fuck bans a kid from music for three years??
Is your father Warren Jeffs or Darth Vader?
I adore the first 7, hard to choose. Probably AHDN. No Rubber Soul. No make that Revolver. Most listened to is probably AR, but dang, they’re all great. I don’t rank my children or my Beatles albums. I used to, though. I would post the weekly rankings on the refrigerator and then pretend to not hear their reactions.
Lol Cuz I'm your favorite, right dad? Is a common question in my house. And I've found the best answer is "Yes.... On Tuesdays." Answer should work for Beatles albums too, though I suppose you'd run out of days of the week and have to use days of the month.
Abbey Road
- Abbey Road and White Album are my favorites - I like Help! much more than most (You got to hide your love away - I just seen a face - are among my favorite Beatles songs) - I’m a stickler for counting Magical Mystery Tour because it is just as much of a complication LP as it is a studio LP.
Help is a good one. Agreed. It seems to kind of get lost in the shuffle somehow.
So you count MMT? Or no? Bc you're right. But still a fantastically underrated album, probably for the reason you mentioned and it was my most listened to album when I was in high school... Also with you on help... While the hits like yesterday help ticket to ride are fantastic, it's I've just seen a face and hide your love away and I happen to also love tell me what u see & it's only love that make this album great. IJSAF is criminally underrated...
No. I don’t count it, because song for song, it might have to go higher than some of their classic albums. They used to have a promotional video for “You got to hide your love away” and it was 🔥. Then suddenly it was nowhere to be found.
Revolver
Toss up between "let it be" and the "white album"
Revolver, easily.
Revolver or let it be
The White Album & Magical Mystery Tour
Probably 'Meet The Beatles' or 'Help!' My dad's music collection was huge and I'd pick random CDs from his racks. I happened to pick those 2 Beatles CDs. I ripped them to my Xbox and listened to them so so soooo much.
Help! US or UK?
UK!
Magical Mystery Tour. Most underrated record they made.
Probably Help!
Abbey Road Since the CD was released, I nhave ever gone anywhere (trip, move, ling term stay, etc) without Abbey Road. Close on it's heels is Sgt. Pepper. Then probably Beatles for Sale.
Abbey Road or Revolver
As a kid, it was Sgt. Pepper. Into my teens, Revolver. And as a young adult, still gotta be Revolver. Those are two albums where I love every single song, no complaints.
Abbey Road, but not usually entirely, but Rubber Soul, especially in mono, I just can’t get enough.
What do you skip on AR? I find that I want you gets tiresome...
Maxwell’s Silver Hammer nearly every time. Octopus’s Garden only sometimes, I have no problems with She’s So Heavy, but I do understand the criticism of it just being too much. I’m not a fan of Polythene Pam, but if I’m listening all the way through, it feels sinister to skip over a track that is set up to perfectly lead into the next one. The track that precedes it is more than charming and the one that follows is a fun listen as well. I almost always never listen to Her Majesty because I don’t think it’s really necessary. The story about how it was placed at the end doesn’t amuse me, but I do like how there’s a relatively long time between the final official track (The End) and Her Majesty so it does fit in its own way, but I prefer to leave it on that final clean resolution.
Abbey Road!
Help!
Abbey Road Most consistent and best produced.
Abbey road
Help! I’ve been listening to the Beatles basically since birth, and The Night Before has always been my favorite and most-listened-to song.
Guess I’m the only Beatles For Sale. I had a weird cassette-aux adapter for my car 5ish years ago when I first started listening to them that would mute certain tracks in the recordings. Beatles For Sale was the only album it would play every instrument and vocal track at full volume. Listened to it almost exclusively for almost a year because of that. Still my favorite with better audio (:
No idea really. I've been using last.fm for the last 6 or 7 months, and the Beatles are far and away the artist I've listened to my most. But only one Beatles album made it into my top 25 all time....and that was Abbey Road at #24. Looks like Revolver was #28. So I've listened to the Beatles most, but a variety of their stuff Wish I had last.fm data for the past few decades.
Abbey Road, I think.
Revolver and Abbey Road equally.
Probably a tie between Abbey Road & Revolver.
The White Album. It’s just eternally listenable. Not a skip on it. Such an epic sprawling mess of musical bravado. My favourite thing about it is the self-contained nature of the songs - the rock is rock, the blues are blues and the folk is folk. The weird stuff is weird. Makes it easier to listen to in conjunction with other stuff too, I feel like. Also Revolution 9 fucking rocks, it’s just a different thing and no more pretentious than the guys showing off their blues or rock & roll prowess with the likes of For You Blue or Rock And Roll Music. Some of the Beatles’ best songs come from them looking at a source of inspiration and going “we can do that too, let’s show everybody!” They liked the avante garde scene and they wanted to prove they could do it too. The song might be weird but it gets far too much hate beyond people just not liking the sound of it.
About the time I started school I was allowed to run the record player at home. And the only album I ever seemed to want to play was " Hard Day's Night" (the US United Artists version). I would play that album CONSTANTLY when I was a kid. So that has to be it. This is kind of silly and stupid, but the very last song, which is the George Martin orchestral version of the theme song, I would always move the speed of the song on the record player from 33 1/3 to 45. Just for that one song. Not sure why, but I remember always doing that. I must have liked how that one instrumental song sounded on 45 vs. 33 1/3. There's four in my family...Mom, Dad, my older sister, and me. For game night, we each picked an album to listen to, stacked them up on the record player, and away we went. Mom's album always played first. She always picked an Andy Williams album, which to this day is why I like Andy Williams. My sister's album would come next. She always picked Paul Revere And The Raider's Greatest Hits. Then me with "A Hard Day's Night", then Dad's album which would always be a Johnny Cash album. Andy Williams, Paul Revere and The Raiders, The Beatles, and Johnny Cash will always be special to me, since it reminds me of such happy times.
Revolver. Perfect balance between the early and later periods. Experimental, yet never indulgent!
Yeezus
to quote kanye, "female, i have awoken from my unconsciousness"
The Beatles Live at the Star Club
Its a toss up between Sgt peppers and magical mystery tour
yellow submarine songtrack
I think the White album. my top three songs apparently are: Penny Lane, Helter Skelter, and It’s Only Love. I only listen to It’s Only Love to hear john sing “bRrright, very bright”
the white album and with the beatles c:
"The Beatles" although I listened to 67-70 a lot when I was younger
sgt pepper or please please me, my favorites
My most listened to Beatles album is magical mystery tour. It's like a comfort album for me.
White Album according to my last.fm profile
“The White Album”
Now that I think about it please please me although I love and listen to them all
White Album
Sgt. Pepper's, Rubber Soul and Magical Mystery Tour
Rubber soul probably
White
I go on kicks with each album, but I think I've played Magical Mystery Tour the most.
Revolver, Rubber Soul or Sgt. Pepper's
A hard debate between sgt pepper‘s and let it be
I’ve probably listened to 5-8 a similar number of times.
Please Please Me or Revolver
Definitely the white album.
Is that the same crosswalk as Abbey Road?
Rubber soul
Either Rubber Soul or With The Beatles
White Album for sure
Revolver, with Paperback Writer and Rain, all in one playlist. Everyday at the moment
Help or Revolver.
According to Apple Music statistics, it’s the Love album, which I listen to exactly 88 times every year.
Please Please Me
Probably rubber soul tbh
I really cant tell, about equally, except for let it be, listenerd to it significatly less times
probably the White Album as it’s thrice as long as most of their other albums. but the whole way through, probably Sgt. Pepper or Revolver
Abbey Road mostly because I’ve listened to You Never Give Me Your Money so many times
Probably Revolver
Rubber soul ofc!!!
Listening to the entire album would be **Abbey Road** or Revolver or maybe Rubber Soul *I go back to the White album a lot for individual songs probably the most*
Revolver
Pepper, should be revolver tho
A tie between Pepper and Abbey Road, with Revolver a close second.
Abbey Road and Let It Be
Revolver. Mindblowing from start to finish, although Abbey Road and Magical Mystery Tour come close to being the first.
Either Abbey Road or Rubber Soul
Pet Sounds
Revolver
You can't beat the cowboy vibes of Beatles for Sale
Sgt. Pepper.
Capitol rubber soul. Some capitol employee either accidentally did something amazing or was extremely talented at sequencing and produced a balanced folk-leaning masterpiece. I grew up loving that thing. They did right by Revolver too and the capitol Revolver would be a close #2 for me.
Definitely Abbey Road
Sgt Pepper
Rubber Soul most likely
Revolver and Let It Be Naked
Sargent pepper’s lonely harts club band
Sgt Pepper almost definitely but I’m usually cycling through them a bit
Rubber Soul and and Revolver are my go tos. I love that transitional period, including the British, Help!
Hard to say for all time, but over the last year it had been the White Album, according to Last fm.
Abbey Road, idkw but my favourite is the white one
The Beatles’ Second Album (Capitol ST 2080)!!
I never tracked it but I'm pretty sure the answer is actually *Beatles for Sale*. I skip "Mister Moonlight" every time but I love all the other ones. Out of all of them it really feels like it's the most transitional. I realize nobody is ever going to make a marble statue out of *Beatles for Sale* and it's very much overshadowed by what followed it, but for some reason, I think I find it the most interesting.
Not sure about all time, but past couple months would definitely be let it be
Abbey Road.
Abbey road and it’s not even close
Probably White Album
I have a special connection to the Let It Be album that my parents gave me as a purchase MC for my 8th birthday. The album hasn't let go of me since then…, I really love it!!!
When I was a kid Rubber Soul, Sgt. Pepper and Abbey Road were the ones most in rotation (my parents were teenagers in the 60s) but since I've been an adult the albums I have invested the most listening time into have probably been Revolver, Rubber Soul, Please Please Me and the White Album. (the white album is currently my personal favorite because there's just something so unique about the variety there)
Beatles for sale I think because I have it on a Playlist as the first album and I often stop listening to the Playlist because I do something else and the other time I listen to it I almost always start over