OK. I own Abby Road, Rubber Soul, SGT Pep. White Album and Revolver. Whats nex for me?

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Magical Mystery? Let it Be? Is there an obvious call?

― Gage Gober, Sunday, 5 September 2004 01:44 (twenty years ago)

Yes:

Discharge "Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing"

― peepee (peepee), Sunday, 5 September 2004 01:46 (twenty years ago)

Pink Flag

― Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 5 September 2004 01:51 (twenty years ago)

Now get the good ones - "Please please me", "With the Beatles",
"A Hard Day's night", "Beatles for sale", "Help", "Rubber Soul".

― Bumfluff, Sunday, 5 September 2004 01:54 (twenty years ago)

Help was always my favorite.

― Jim Reckling (Jim Reckling), Sunday, 5 September 2004 01:56 (twenty years ago)

Oh you've got "Rubber Soul". Funny, I almost left it out - it's not as good as the first four (though I think better than "Help").

― Bumfluff, Sunday, 5 September 2004 01:58 (twenty years ago)

paint it black

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 5 September 2004 02:17 (twenty years ago)

MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR, SHYAHHH! It would be their best if you kicked Blue Jay Way outta there. Booo, George H., the dead guy!

― Goo Goo G'Joob (Francis Watlington), Sunday, 5 September 2004 02:26 (twenty years ago)

Is there an obvious call?

yes. Listen to other bands.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 5 September 2004 02:28 (twenty years ago)

You people are heartless. MMT is probably a sure bet for you, but don't understimate the early Beatle albums. Hard Day's Night is a great record.

― dleone (dleone), Sunday, 5 September 2004 03:14 (twenty years ago)

Get mono copies of The White Album, Sgt. Pepper and Revolver.

― dlp9001, Sunday, 5 September 2004 03:28 (twenty years ago)

FWIW I prefer MMT to all the ones you have (all of which are good) except White. It's probably their most psychedelic. With the Beatles is the only early Beatles I have and it's great too.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 5 September 2004 03:30 (twenty years ago)

I really think the first two songs on "With the Beatles" are like the greatest opening to an album ever..

― Bumfluff, Sunday, 5 September 2004 03:41 (twenty years ago)

BEATLES FOR SALE BEATLES FOR SALE BEATLES FOR SALE BEATLES FOR SALE

Is the Beatles 1962-66 (the 'red' alb) the only record of theirs that you need?

Taking Sides: Sgt Pepper C or D Vs Defend the indefensible: Sgt Pepper.

Greatest Unheralded Beatles Song(s)

― Reed Moore (diamond), Sunday, 5 September 2004 03:58 (twenty years ago)

With the Beatles. You need one from the first four now, and that's the one to get.

Or Beatles VI, if you can find it.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Sunday, 5 September 2004 04:11 (twenty years ago)

'Kilroy Was Here'

― dave q, Sunday, 5 September 2004 04:21 (twenty years ago)

download the entire let it be sessions.

― gaz (gaz), Sunday, 5 September 2004 06:19 (twenty years ago)

I'd say Magical Mystery Tour or Yellow Submarine (the one that is all 'real songs,' not the one with the incidental music on it). Then I'd say Easter Everywhere. In fact, get Easter Everywhere 1st. :-)

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Sunday, 5 September 2004 14:23 (twenty years ago)

Under no circumstances get Yellow Submarine next! The only great track on it unavailable elsewhere is 'Hey Bulldog'.

Get A Hard Day's Night, Magical Mystery Tour or Past Masters Vol.2.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 5 September 2004 14:28 (twenty years ago)

lennon and mccartney in a tijuana style. fantastic album.

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Sunday, 5 September 2004 14:35 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, either that or Ringo Ah Um.

― cws (cws), Sunday, 5 September 2004 16:13 (twenty years ago)

Now get the good ones - "Please please me", "With the Beatles",
"A Hard Day's night", "Beatles for sale", "Help", "Rubber Soul".
-- Bumfluff (yy...), September 5th, 2004.

Absolutely on the money.

― Burr (Burr), Sunday, 5 September 2004 16:29 (twenty years ago)

Odyssey & Oracle.

― Dark Horse, Sunday, 5 September 2004 16:47 (twenty years ago)

Buy the American versions. I like the tracklistings on most of them better. Yesterday And Today specifically.

― billstevejim, Sunday, 5 September 2004 19:40 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, either that or Ringo Ah Um.

And Lennon Lennon Lennon Lennon Lennon

― djdee2005, Sunday, 5 September 2004 19:43 (twenty years ago)

billstevejim you are crackers.

― Bumfluff, Sunday, 5 September 2004 19:45 (twenty years ago)

Also George Harrison Presents George Harrison is a pretty good record from that period.

― cws (cws), Sunday, 5 September 2004 20:20 (twenty years ago)

The Let It Be naked version. Fuck Phil Spector.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Sunday, 5 September 2004 20:22 (twenty years ago)

a hard days' night

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Sunday, 5 September 2004 20:22 (twenty years ago)

Buy the American versions. I like the tracklistings on most of them better. Yesterday And Today specifically.

You know once you have all the CDs you can easily make your own Amer. tracklist versions, just a tip to save the hassle of tracking the old LPs down.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 5 September 2004 20:33 (twenty years ago)

laid.

― Savin All My Love 4 u (Savin 4ll my (heart) 4u), Monday, 6 September 2004 05:00 (twenty years ago)

i like beatles for sale, but i'm afraid to say so vociferously after matos gave me a critical beatdown on one of those beatles threads.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Monday, 6 September 2004 05:04 (twenty years ago)

Is there an obvious call?

yes. Listen to other bands.

i am shocked it took 8 whole posts for that to happen.

i am not shocked it was alex.

― dysøn (dyson), Monday, 6 September 2004 05:07 (twenty years ago)

(umm, which Beatles album is Discharge "Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing?)

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 6 September 2004 07:58 (twenty years ago)

the Shite album?

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Monday, 6 September 2004 08:01 (twenty years ago)

Trout Mask Replica

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 6 September 2004 09:39 (twenty years ago)

The Beatle Barkers.

― Shady Loch Lenin (haitch), Monday, 6 September 2004 10:25 (twenty years ago)

find a nice box, put those reckids in the nice box, tie a pretty bow around the box, drive to a lake and throw the box in the lake.

hurrah.

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Monday, 6 September 2004 12:01 (twenty years ago)

Haha. I was going to post something yesterday about how a used record shop should be next, but everyone seemed so happy with their strange Beatles love.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 6 September 2004 12:10 (twenty years ago)

"Is there an obvious call?
yes. Listen to other bands.
i am shocked it took 8 whole posts for that to happen."

er....take a look at the first two posts

― peepee (peepee), Monday, 6 September 2004 15:51 (twenty years ago)

I like Hard Day's Night, For Sale and With the best. But yeah, now go buy The Notorious Byrd Bros., the second Love album, Odessey and Oracle, and some Everly Bros. And ponder why the Beatles continue to be obsessed over...

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Monday, 6 September 2004 18:46 (twenty years ago)

I second the recommendation of 'Help.'

― Anonymous Coward, Monday, 6 September 2004 19:49 (twenty years ago)

...listen to other bands.
I don't know, if you want to listen to the grand rock history and start drawing lines and shit then go ahead but it's pretty easy to listen to the beatles clean and on your own. it's not like they're on the radio all the time.

― matthew james (matthew james), Monday, 6 September 2004 19:55 (twenty years ago)

I think my point was for Gage to EXPAND HIS HORIZONS. There's a lot of great music out there. Mix it up a little bit.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 6 September 2004 20:28 (twenty years ago)

Alex at what point does he say that that's the only music he's ever listened to in his life? For all you know he could own every Killing Joke record.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Monday, 6 September 2004 20:31 (twenty years ago)

For all you know he could own every Killing Joke record.

Doubt it.

I was making an assumption, yes, but the question is posed in such a fashion that suggests -- to me, at least -- that he's not interested in hearing about any other artists. Maybe I'm jumping to a conclusion there, but that's how it hit my ears, so to speak.

And for what it's worth, Magical Mystery Tour is much better than Let It Be.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 6 September 2004 20:34 (twenty years ago)

Alex you know I love you but you're being a twat here.
This is a common type of question on ILM, it was never assumed when I asked a question about a specific artist that I wasn't interested in any other artists.
'course I've never asked a Beatles question.
Is this all part of that sick hipster massive kneejerk anti-Beatles thing?

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Monday, 6 September 2004 20:46 (twenty years ago)

As for mice elf, I'm not sick.

― peepee (peepee), Monday, 6 September 2004 20:50 (twenty years ago)

灰野敬二!!!!!

不失者 - 1978: 永遠の方が先に手を出したのさ

― MATH BLASTER MYSTERY! (ex machina), Monday, 6 September 2004 20:53 (twenty years ago)

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― MATH BLASTER MYSTERY! (ex machina), Monday, 6 September 2004 20:54 (twenty years ago)

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Extra-musical things? Come on. Their success had little to do with their absolutely extraordinary songwriting abilities from "Please Please Me" on down? It had little to do with their cool sound or their instrumental prowess (Paul on bass, George on lead guitar, John on rhythm guitar, Ringo on drums)?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 14:52 (twenty years ago)

"Beatles For Sale" is such a great record, so melancholic, so tight. Also it suffers the least from the inevitable overplay factor and plus, "Mr.Moonlight", whoa!

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 14:56 (twenty years ago)

(oh, and of course the detractors are right that it's ok to hate Los Beatles and that they're not somehow holy or anything.* Still, begs2differ's mum would have missed out on a lot of great Motown hits if The Beatles hadn't existed.)

* I still think that the main reason so many ppl still view them as such is because one tends to get into them at a very early age, so when foaks diss them it feels like they're dissing "Sesame Street" or candy or something.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:02 (twenty years ago)

Thanks for your unexpected enthusiasm on the subject. I didnt realize the beatles got everyone so exited here. I just bought a few beatles albums, liked them, bought a few more and was looking for some insight. I havent thrown away my 80's hair metal cassetes yet.

― gage gober, Tuesday, 7 September 2004 17:57 (twenty years ago)

I think they just looked cool--all the same--and they acted cool too. Good interviews, and they didn't take things too seriously. I mean, sure, some of their songs are good but overall, I say they were pastiche artists pure and simple. They could sing well. For me, maybe a dozen songs are really first-rate and then there's just a lot of stuff they thought sounded like something else but really didn't. "Ticket to Ride" is a good one, "Something" I still like--great arrangement--uhh, what else? "Rubber Soul" sounds funny to me now. "Revolver" is good for "I'm Only Sleeping" and "Your Bird Can Sing." That McCartney one with the French horns is also good on "Revolver." A few things on the white album are nice. "Please Please Me" and "Not a Second Time" are also good, as is "It Won't Be Long." "I'll Be Back" is another one I like. I do like "Old Brown Shoe" quite a bit and "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window" too--that whole "Abbey Road" suite thing is enjoyable actually. I went back and listened to "Sgt. Pepper" recently and could not find one thing on it that was even listenable except for "Within You Without You." "A Day in the Life" is a crappy recording compared to what the Byrds and the Zombies were doing at the same time, what a bunch of overrated bullshit no matter what Ian MacDonald wrote in his book. "Walrus" makes me laugh, "Strawberry Fields" and "Penny Lane" are good, the rest of "Magical Mystery Tour" is decent yocks but Sergio Mendes did "Fool on the Hill" much better. "Let It Be" is the Band or something and to tell the truth I don't feel the same magic for "Big Pink" or the other one about the Civil War that I used to, kind of the same Beatles syndrome for me. "Help" is weak folk-rock, I do like that guitar sound they were getting at the time though. That leaves "Hard Day's Night" and like I said "For Sale" as the two albums I like pretty much all the way through. But as personalities they were real interesting especially Lennon and Ringo.

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 18:10 (twenty years ago)

Sergeant Pepper is my favourite Beatles album, and I hope I'm not just saying that because it's the unfashionably cool thing to say.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago)

So you don't like anything off the White Album, Eddie H.?

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― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 18:14 (twenty years ago)

Oh, sorry I missed that sentence. I'm curious though which songs in particular you liked on it?

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 18:19 (twenty years ago)

I think they just looked cool--all the same--and they acted cool too

Velvet Underground to thread!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 18:35 (twenty years ago)

Alba, I'm with you.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 19:38 (twenty years ago)

I would seriously recommend the Boards of Canada albums as the next things to get. (Also _Sgt Pepper's_ is the best Beatles album.)

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 19:40 (twenty years ago)

"Sergeant Pepper is my favourite Beatles album, and I hope I'm not just saying that because it's the unfashionably cool thing to say."

For a short while around late-2000/early-2001, it was fashionable to label Revolver as their top album. This trend did not last long, however.

― billstevejim, Tuesday, 7 September 2004 19:46 (twenty years ago)

Oh, from the early 90s on 'Revolver' has been the most commonly cited favourite, I think. It was second to 'Pet Sounds' in the NME critic's album list of 60s around then, for a start. Ian MacDonald mentions this modern preference in his book.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 19:52 (twenty years ago)

His point was that modern audiences hear a great collection of songs in 'Revolver' and miss the cultural significance of 'Sgt Pepper', but I just prefer the songs anyway.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 19:53 (twenty years ago)

Some things on 'Sgt Pepper' don't come off, but for me, the highs it hits, and the sheer 'this is it boys, we're making the best album ever' feel of it carry it through.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 19:55 (twenty years ago)

"Abbey Road" is currently my favorite Beatles. I go through phases though.

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 19:56 (twenty years ago)

I haven't felt the desire to listen to "Sgt Peppers" in a few years. The one thing it does well is create the sense of a whimsical self-contained universe, though surprisingly it doesn't have any really great songs that stand on their own. "Revolver" has some great songs, but it also has its share of clunkers, and the sequencing is off. "Rubber Soul" is pretty good. Actually that's probably my second favorite after "Abbey Road". Also, the "White Album" is pretty good, but it's hard to listen to straight through. The earlier Beatles stuff is okay I guess, though I don't own any of it. It seems a bit more monochromatic than the later stuff, and the lyrics aren't as interesting - more standard 60s teeny-bopper fare.

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 20:07 (twenty years ago)

Oh, from the early 90s on 'Revolver' has been the most commonly cited favourite, I think. It was second to 'Pet Sounds' in the NME critic's album list of 60s around then, for a start.
It was actually first on the 60's list but strangely finished 2nd to Pet Sounds on the overall list.

And I thought "Revolver" was *still* considered their best by the critical massive.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 20:14 (twenty years ago)

Revolver is waaaaay better than Pepper. There's so much filler on Pepper. If you took away A Day in the Life, you'd have a pretty mediocre Beatles album. The collection of songs on Revolver is just phenomenal. Sure there was plenty of cultural significance to Pepper, but so what? One hundred years from now people aren't going to care which album revolutionized graphic design, they're going to want the album with the best songs. What makes Revolver special to me is that of all their albums this is the one where each songwriter was at a creative peak and no member dominates. Pepper just sounds like a McCartney album to me. Revolver wins.

― darin, Tuesday, 7 September 2004 20:17 (twenty years ago)

I will bet you a million dollars that half the "filler" songs on _Sgt Pepper" are my favorite songs on the album (yes, I am the person who likes "Within You Without You" and "For The Benefit Of Mr Kite").

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 20:19 (twenty years ago)

The earlier Beatles stuff is okay I guess, though I don't own any of it. It seems a bit more monochromatic than the later stuff, and the lyrics aren't as interesting - more standard 60s teeny-bopper fare.

Which brings up a point I think has only briefly been touched upon in this thread - how common is it that someone likes most or all of the Beatles' catalog? I was raised on the Fab Four (my Dad still scratches his head as to how I ended up producing thumpathumpabeepboop music) and can honestly say that I like pretty much everything they ever did.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 20:26 (twenty years ago)

I don't think there's filler on "Sgt Peppers" either - I'd say that all the songs are at close to the same level of quality. It's just that that level is a bit lower than the peaks on say "Revolver" (but it's also higher than Revolver's troughs, so it averages out).

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― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 20:28 (twenty years ago)

how common is it that someone likes most or all of the Beatles' catalog?

how common is the common cold?

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 20:31 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, usually it's only the music aesthetes who draw lines in the sand about old-Beatles vs nu-Beatles.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 20:38 (twenty years ago)

The only filler on Sgt Pepper is 'Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds', and I am possibly abusing the word 'filler'. There is nothing they put on that album just to fill out 40 minutes.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 21:05 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, usually it's only the music aesthetes who draw lines in the sand about old-Beatles vs nu-Beatles.

An experience with which I am all too familiar...

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 21:11 (twenty years ago)

I find it hard to believe that anyone who says it's just a McCartney album is listening to the same album as me.

I've got nothing to say but it's okay. GOOD MORNING GOOD MORNING GOOOD MORNING GOOD MORNING GOOD MORNING GOOD MORNING GOOD MORNING GOOD MORNING GOOD MORNING GOOD MORNING GOOD MORNING GOOOD MORNING GOOD MORNING GOOD MORNING GOOD MORNING GOOD MORNING.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 21:20 (twenty years ago)

(yeah I know he later dismissed as a piece of junk, but he said a lot of shit in the '70s)

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 21:21 (twenty years ago)

I second Dan's regard for 'Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite' and for God's sake, 'A Day In The Life' is really his song.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 21:21 (twenty years ago)

OMG "Good Morning"!!!!

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 21:24 (twenty years ago)

I guess what I consider filler is a lot of that music hall/grandma and grampa feel to Pepper. Particularly with "When I'm 64" and "She's Leaving Home". Of course it's a great album, but Revolver has so much more sonic variation - each track has a totally different instrumental arrangement than the previous one. Oh, and it rocks more. Revolver wins!

― darin, Tuesday, 7 September 2004 21:42 (twenty years ago)

Haha "She's Leaving Home" is another fave of mine!

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 21:43 (twenty years ago)

Bumfluff is right -- the first six albums are easily their best. Most of the later stuff has dated badly, the '63 - '65 period hardly at all. Abbey Road is the very worst.

― Burr (Burr), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 21:54 (twenty years ago)

'She's Leaving Home' is incredibly poignant, in a straightforward way. 'When I'm 64' is even more poignant, in a more complex way. He wrote it in pre-Beatles days, which I always find amazing. Or was it early Beatles days? I'm getting a bit rusty. Anyway. I'll stop going on about how much I love Sgt. Pepper now.
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― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 22:31 (twenty years ago)

(Paul says that he wrote “When I’m Sixty-Four” when he was sixteen in 1958. He imagined he was writing for Frank Sinatra. )

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 22:35 (twenty years ago)

Most of the later stuff has dated badly, the '63 - '65 period hardly at all

So that's why you only hear it on oldies stations?

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 02:18 (twenty years ago)

Beatles' dated songs are spread across their catalog. Later stuff like "Come Together" hasn't dated any worse than "You're Gonna Lose That Girl". Still waiting for the day when ILM embraces the Beatles, guilt free.

― Dominique (dleone), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 02:21 (twenty years ago)

I don't know - it all sounds dated to me - in that, when I hear it, I think, "Oh yeah, this is the Beatles". This doesn't necessarily mean it's bad. Is Bach dated? What does that mean?

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 02:26 (twenty years ago)

"Come Together"! I often forget that I like Beatles songs that aren't on _Sgt Pepper's_ besides "Elanor Rigby" and "I Am The Walrus".

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 02:27 (twenty years ago)

(I still like The Monkees more, though.)

(However, The Beatles are about 5 billion times better than The Partridge Family.)

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 02:30 (twenty years ago)

"I Woke up in Love This Morning" is a good Partridge Family song.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 02:39 (twenty years ago)

Beatles VI (1965)

Surely not their best but it *did* contain:

Kansas City
Eight Days A Week
Words Of Love
I don't Want To Spoil The Party
What You're Doing
Dizzy Miss Lizzy

Heck, The Monkees would've been perfect for this material.

Not too shabby.

― jim wentworth (wench), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 02:48 (twenty years ago)

i rather like the droll 'music hall' atmosphere of sgt. pepper - it's very mccartney, but it's good mccartney, without the icky flakiness he succumbed to later on (see "maxwell's silver hammer" and all of ram and, um, most of his solo career).

i never know what people are talking about when they dismiss something as "dated." the byrds and the zombies aren't dated?

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 09:00 (twenty years ago)

The McCartney and McCartney II solo albums haven't dated at all - the second one in fact sounds shockingly contemporary - and they're not that dissimilar stylistically to what Macca does on Pepper so I suspect it's more of a zeitgeist thing - Pepper being set up as this consciously "great" album instead of a naturally great album (like A Hard Day's Night for instance). If they had put "Carnival Of Light" on the album it would probably be far less dubiously regarded by the "cognoscenti."

But to answer the original question, definitely the red and blue compilations.

― Donnie Smith The Quiz Kid, Wednesday, 8 September 2004 09:05 (twenty years ago)

i do like the first mccartney album (haven't heard the second) - it has an enjoyably low-fi/low-key atmosphere, and "every night" is one of his best songs.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 09:09 (twenty years ago)

"She's Leaving Home" and "Here There And Everywhere" were Lennon's 2 fave McCartney songs.

― David Gunnip (David Gunnip), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 09:16 (twenty years ago)

offa white album I like "Cry Baby Cry" and heck, "Back in USSR."
"Blackbird" is nice, sometimes the obvious ones by the Beatles are the ones I go for.

And forgot, I like the rhythm-section dynamics and guitar in "Saw Her Standing There," that always sounded pretty far-out to me. Ringo Starr had a certain tact as a drummer. "Rain" is another nice one but its appeal, like that of "Paperback Writer" and many others, has faded. There're some good ideas on "Sgt. Pepper" but just about every song is ruined by something or another, they sound wobbly. That might've been the point but it makes for an unpleasant experience.

Boards of Canada--that's good, they're my favorite '60s group.

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 13:41 (twenty years ago)

Under no circumstances get Yellow Submarine next! The only great track on it unavailable elsewhere is 'Hey Bulldog'.

I was just thinking about how pointless it was to issue the soundtrack to Yellow Submarine when they did all the CD releases in 1987. The four songs that were unavailable elsewhere could easily have fit onto Past Masters Vol 2. I feel violated.

― billstevejim, Thursday, 9 September 2004 17:47 (twenty years ago)

Ah, but the Songtrack CD released for the reissue of the movie is GREBT. The new mixes must be heard!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:03 (twenty years ago)

Ahem, returning to the original question -

OK. I own Abby Road, Rubber Soul, SGT Pep. White Album and Revolver. Whats nex for me?

- the purchase of Abbey Road Studios, seems the obvious answer.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 9 September 2004 19:31 (twenty years ago)

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