Isbjørn

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Altairius

I stopped reading at "12. The White Album"

triumph

+1

The white album is one of the best. For me it would be something like:

1. All of their albums from and including rubber soul are joint best
2. All of their earlier albums are still amazing and come in at joint second best

alexg1x

Much indie

Bela Lugosi's Dad

I'm going to go :

Rubber Soul
Revolver
The Beatles
Abbey Road
With The Beatles
Sgt. Pepper
For Sale
A Hard Days Night
Help
Please Please Me
Let It Be
Yellow Submarine

truthseeker

I'm a massive fan too.love all their music.wish i could write music like them.

Holerbot6000

Revolver
Rubber Soul
Help
Yellow Submarine
Beatles for Sale
Hard Days Night
The Beatles (White Album)
Abbey Road
Magical Mystery Tour
Meet the Beatles/Please Please Me
Let it Be (Prefer the Naked version)
Sgt. Pepper
Hey Jude

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Chula Vista

This. The band's music (and lyrics) evolved so much so quickly that it's impossible for me to rank the earlier stuff alongside the later stuff.

That said, Abbey Road is my #1 fave.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Jathon Delsy

These lucky lads from Liverpool gave us an astonishing abundance of magically melodic miniature musical miracles, a crazy catalogue of tuneful treats. From mystical to monumental, quaint to querky, weird to wonderful, where else did music hall sing-a-longs morph into psychedelic symphonies, or breezy ballads slip into cryptic choruses of calculated chaos. Overflowing with inspired invention and teeming talent, they combined a classical conservatism with innovative verve. Their constant conception and pleasingly present sound was coherently contained by balanced disciplined structures, clever cadences, meaningful modulations, and logical lines.
Their renowned refrains were quintessentially quotable paradigms of pop without being tacky or cheesy, that brought a slick style and cheeky class to their candy coloured but colloquially cultured kitsch. Their compitent, confident craftmanship reflected and connected a gamut of influences as diverse as Little Richard, Stockhaunen, Roy Orbison, J.S. Bach, Ravi Shankar, and Buddy Holly. They intuitively integrated such exciting elements as Motown, Stax, Blues, Jazz, Soul, Funk, Folk, Rock, Raga, Flamenco, Baroque, and Country into tightly trammelled, sweet fleet footed trails of contageous congruity and masterful mellifluity.
The vibrant variety of Paul's pretty, prim, pellucid pourings, John's potently powerful paeans and George's eclectic, elegent euphonies was complimented and cemented by George Martin's sympathetically studious production and Ringo's steady, stalwart drumming. From strangely surreal to pertly parochial, arty anthems to cute compositions, piquant poetry to imaginative instrumentals, their awesome oeuvre was deftly delivered with a fresh faculty and practised proficiency.
Delineating and defining a youthful zeitgeist, a timeless trend of regular romanticism, fertile freedom and hopeful humanism, they happy harmonised in sweet serenades the simple splendours of love and life. Epitomising the best of British with their stiff-upper-lip trippiness and eccentric conventionality, they sung the songs that linger long, with their catchy charm and kooky creativity.
The band than spanned and expanded the world without and within, they were The Beatles.

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