Favourite Beatles album?

Favourite Beatles album?

Whichever is the shortest one

The white album, with Revolver in close second

Hipsters pretend to like revolver. It was the only album my dad of the beatles on cd so we listened to it all the time. It was fun but honestly it's fucking trash compared to their other albums.

are you fucking retarded?

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That would be A Hard Day's Night

pretty good choice actually

revolver, but abbey road is pretty good too

Honestly?

Revolver is a very close second, though.

flying and blue jay way ruins the run of this album

>hipsters pretend to like one of the most popular albums by one of the most popular bands
what the fuck does hipster mean anymore? unless this post was supposed to be joke, if it was it's not funny.

Blue Jay Way is amazing. no other Beatles song reaches that level of eeriness.

pepper or revolver
and rubber soul when I'm feeling gay

Blue Jay Way is one of the best first generation psych tracks ever.

lol those were my two favorites next to 'Strawberry Fields Forever' for the longest time.

'Flying' totally fits in with the vibe of the album, and while 'Blue Jay Way' certainly doesn't *sound* similar to anything, I'd argue it belongs on the track listing. It's got that "whimsical, dreamy" quality, but cranked up to the level of ethereal. I really dig it to this day.

Flying is so fucking chill

It almost sounds ahead of it's time

Magical Mystery Tour

The fact that so many books still name the Beatles as "the greatest or most significant or most influential" rock band ever only tells you how far rock music still is from becoming a serious art. Jazz critics have long recognized that the greatest jazz musicians of all times are Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, who were not the most famous or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all times. Classical critics rank the highly controversial Beethoven over classical musicians who were highly popular in courts around Europe. Rock critics are still blinded by commercial success. The Beatles sold more than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore they must have been the greatest. Jazz critics grow up listening to a lot of jazz music of the past, classical critics grow up listening to a lot of classical music of the past. Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worthy of being saved.

In a sense, the Beatles are emblematic of the status of rock criticism as a whole: too much attention paid to commercial phenomena (be it grunge or U2) and too little to the merits of real musicians. If somebody composes the most divine music but no major label picks him up and sells him around the world, a lot of rock critics will ignore him. If a major label picks up a musician who is as stereotyped as can be but launches her or him worldwide, your average critic will waste rivers of ink on her or him. This is the sad status of rock criticism: rock critics are basically publicists working for major labels, distributors and record stores. They simply highlight what product the music business wants to make money from.

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Fucking idiot

Hopefully, one not-too-distant day, there will be a clear demarcation between a great musician like Tim Buckley, who never sold much, and commercial products like the Beatles. At such a time, rock critics will study their rock history and understand which artists accomplished which musical feat, and which simply exploited it commercially.

Beatles' "Aryan" music removed any trace of black music from rock and roll. It replaced syncopated African rhythm with linear Western melody, and lusty negro attitudes with cute white-kid smiles.

Contemporary musicians never spoke highly of the Beatles, and for good reason. They could never figure out why the Beatles' songs should be regarded more highly than their own. They knew that the Beatles were simply lucky to become a folk phenomenon (thanks to "Beatlemania", which had nothing to do with their musical merits). That phenomenon kept alive interest in their (mediocre) musical endeavours to this day. Nothing else grants the Beatles more attention than, say, the Kinks or the Rolling Stones. There was nothing intrinsically better in the Beatles' music. Ray Davies of the Kinks was certainly a far better songwriter than Lennon & McCartney. The Stones were certainly much more skilled musicians than the 'Fab Four'. And Pete Townshend was a far more accomplished composer, capable of entire operas such as "Tommy" and "Quadrophenia"; not to mention the far greater British musicians who followed them in subsequent decades or the US musicians themselves who initially spearheaded what the Beatles merely later repackaged to the masses.

The Beatle's aren't the most influential because they sold the most albums.
They're the most influential because they revolutionized albums into masterpieces, were the first to use electronic influences and multi track layering heavily, brought instruments such as the sitar to western audiences, experimented with every genre imaginable, transformed the listening experience of music from background noise to analyzing, entwined both philosophy and societal issues into lyrics which seem rather normal.

The Beatle's shaped an entire decade, and laid the foundations for all music that was to come after.

honestly probably SPLHCB, the middle songs on that album are really some of their best

i've probably listened to a hard day's night the most though, it's just so fucking comfy

i used to hate baby youre a rich man but then i realized it was good

honestly though Fields and Walrus belong with Sgt Petter