i think i've over-listened to the whole canon really but i'm speaking from a reliable (walking talking) source about the jazz chords.

Also off For Sale - I love the grim desperation of Baby's In Black' and the paranoid despair of 'I Don't Want to Spoil the Party'. But you can keep 'Eight Days A Week' thanks...

I actually curiously like all the originals on that album, or at least seven out of the eight (was never too keen on "What You're Doing"). Every Little Thing has a sublime, almost haunting chorus. I like Eight Days A Week a whole lot too, I think it's one of their best earlier hits.

I like Beatles For Sale. I think its pretty underrated. No Reply, I'm A Loser, Baby's in Black, Rock and Roll, and I'll Follow The Sun are all great. Mr. Moonlight is a throwaway though. Eight Days A Week is a tad overrated, but I like it.

You have a lot of studying to do on the Beatles' cultural significance.

Alright, so we've gone beyond musical significance and are now on the topic of cultural significance. I will give a full response in not too long ;). Good topic, though.

The Beatles were both musically and culturally significant, even before they reached their creative peak.

Launching the whole british invasion is not something you can just shrug off, and you can't just say "someone else could have done it", because that not only dosen't matter, no other British band had the kinda appeal that The Beatles had. The Stones, The Who, The Kinks, they would have been considered too raw, The Beatles were just the right band to break into the American mainstream, I honestly don't think anyone else would have done it.

Yes, of course much of this is undeniable boo boo but the larger question rests on the meaning of "significance" that is to be assumed when talking about culture, or whatever. That's where the dispute lies. Were the Beatles "culturally significant" in the same way as say, Bob Dylan, or the Grateful Dead, or Jefferson Airplane, or acts such as the likes of the Fugs or Zappa? Completely different kind of significance entirely. The question is the extent of their own part in the great cultural revolution of the 1960s. Of course there were incidents here and there, but in the larger scheme of things, their influence in that particular very specific regard doesn't amount to all that much.

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Its got to be Abbey road or White Album, their creative peak is here. Abbey Road I went for.

However you are dead right about the US invasion of British PoP, it was all down to these guys

The White Album, Sgt. Pepper's and Magical Mystery Tour for me...