What's NSC's favourite studio album by The Beatles?

[Tarpon]

White Album for me, love the diversity. Closely followed by Abbey Road. The 'Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight / The End' medley always gets me choked up, wonderful stuff.

Seconded

 

[Machiavelli]

Diversity and innovation don't necessarily mean quality.

Yes, there are classics. While my Guitar, Back in the USSR, Helter Skelter, Revolution One are fantastic and there are other good tracks but Wild Honey Pie? I'm So Tired? Why don't we do it in the Road? Piggies and of course, the God-awful Revolution 9? Those alone take it down significantly in my estimation.

It's Abbey Road for me. The second side is probably my favourite side of music written.
As to your White Album assessment, I'm a big fan of I'm So Tired, and Why Don't We Do it in the Road.
Revolver and The White Album vie for second place.

 

[knocky1]

Let it Be should not be in the poll.

 

[PFJ]

Abbey Road, but I also think Yellow Submarine deserves a shout, especially the re enhanced songtrack version minus the soundtrack music.
Only a Northern Song, All to Much and one of my all time favourite Beatles tracks, Hey Bulldog.

 

[bWize]

Sgt Pepper for me! Great contrast of their stuff!

 

[Worthingite]

Revolver, purely for Tomorrow Never Knows.

 

[Lower West Stander]

Rubber Soul for me. Transition between early and later days with the best of both.

Personally I really like Let It Be too. Across the Universe is my favourite Beatles song.

 

[Mowgli37]

Let it Be should not be in the poll.

Why not? It's a Beatles studio album isn't it?

As for the music it's a good album. Not their best, there's a couple of duff tracks but the quality was there despite the fractures in the band at the time:

Two of Us - 7.5
Dig a Pony - 5
Across the Universe - 9
I Me Mine - 7
Dig It - 2
Let It Be - 9
Maggie Mae - 4 (I actually quite like it as a folk song but it has no place on a Beatles record, just a filler here)
I've Got a Feeling - 7
One After 909 - 7.5
The Long and Winding Road - 5 for the stringy Phil Spector mix. The stripped down version on Let it Be...Naked is fantastic - 8
For You Blue - 7
Get Back - 7.5

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Sgt Pepper for me! Great contrast of their stuff!

It certainly felt more ground-breaking at the time than any of the other albums. Hindsight encourages a vote for Revolver, though.

 

[Del Fenner]

Abbey Road for completeness, Revolver for edge.

 

[Icy Gull]

Abbey Road for completeness, Revolver for edge.

Opened this post and thought "Wtf are the Gallagher brothers doing on this thread"

 

[Mowgli37]

 

[The Modfather]

Revolver just edges the White album for me.

12 albums in 9 years, unbelievable body of work.

 

[Diego Napier]

You've posed me a problem as the title of your thread refers to favourite album but the poll asks which is the greatest. Having been blow away as a young teen by the unique Sgt.Pepper's, I'd have to say that was still my favourite. Those too young to have been around when it was released will find it hard to understand what an impact it had (I believe it even prompted the Stones into their only false move, the ill-advised "Psychedelic" Their Satanic Majesties Request).

In terms of the best album I think that Revolver just shades it in front of Abbey Road and Magical Mystery Tour.

 

[Man of Harveys]

I really love A Hard Day's Night - it's pretty much the definitive Beatlemania album, if you don't count the singles, obviously.

For the later stuff, I couldn't choose between Sgt. Pepper and the White Album which in common with just about every double album, would be the best album of all time if you trimmed all the shite off it and made it a non-double album. Bungalow Bill, Rocky Raccoon, Revolution 9 all make my skin crawl, whereas Helter Skelter, Blackbird, Dear Prudence etc etc etc are as magnificent as it gets.

 

[Man of Harveys]

Let's face it: there simply isn't a bad one, at all. Even Beatles For Sale - their weakest without question - has tracks of unparalleled genius on it.

 

[Mellotron]

12 albums in 9 years, unbelievable body of work.

I think this is what elevates them and makes them untouchable by any other band. That much variety, that many great great songs, in 9 ****ing years?! It's unbelievable nowadays, in the genuine sense of the word.

 

[fire&skill]

Revolver

 

[aolstudios]

Revolver just edges the White album for me.

12 albums in 9 years, unbelievable body of work.

They were recorded in 7 years - '63 - '69

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

Revolver just edges the White album for me.

12 albums in 9 years, unbelievable body of work.

Agreed, with Hard Day's Night just behind.

I tried boiling the White Album down to a single album, and it was effing amazing.

I was disappointed how many people liked Sgt Pepper. Have you listened to it recently? I mean, She's Leaving Home? When I'm 64? Really?

Knock those two off and replace them with with the more-or-less contemporary Strawberry Fields and All You Need Is Love and get rid of Within You, Without You in favour of either of George's songs from Yellow Submarine (It's All Too Much or Only A Northern Song) and you might have something ...
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