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Originally Posted by lucifer_sam
Hmmm... I'm beginning to enjoy Rubber Soul and Revolver more and more. I still can't seem to grasp the importance of their first 4-5 albums, but at least they achieved fame from them.
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Wrong. They achieved fame from the singles.
People never seem to remember the point that the LP was NOT the important or dominant format in the early 60s. Albums simply were not how pop bands gained reputation back then. It was a purely singles-driven music world.
The first 5 albums aren't even supposed to be stand-alone masterpieces or great achievements in music. They are full of filler tracks for one. Between 4 of the albums there are 20 cover songs, with Hard Day's Night being the only one with 100% originals. Furthermore, Help and Hard Days Night are actually film soundtracks. If those albums' importance is hard to fathom, then it's because they are simply not important.
So yeah, the Beatles' popularity was built on the success of their massive Beatlemania-era singles. And it's easy to see why - those songs were just simply great catchy pop, and they were able to make a lot more of it than anybody else.
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