Impossible to chose, but I tried (What is your favourite Beatles album?)

Member Name: DannoStanno

Product:	What is your favourite Beatles album?
Date:	20/05/09 (4 review reads)
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Advantages: Too many good albums to pick

Disadvantages: Too many good albums to pick

Wow, this isn't a straight forward question and debates amongst my friends don't seem to answer this any better. The Beatles, as you are all aware, are Britain and the worlds biggest ever band, influencing many of todays musical groups and still being a dominant force on the music scene. Their official albums, released between 1962 and 1970 in the UK are:

Please Please Me
With the Beatles
A Hard Day's Night
Beatles For Sale
Help
Rubber Soul
Revolver
Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles (known as the White Album)
Abbey Road
Let It Be

Magical Mystery Tour was only an EP in the UK, and Yellow Submarine is mostly soundtrack from the movie.

As far as greatest goes I personally flit between the following: A Hard Day's Night, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt Peppers, The White Album and Abbey Road, changing sometimes daily.

However, today I feel Revolver cannot be topped. Caught between the suit wearing, touring, Beatlemania pop group and the drug-inspired, studio sound of trendy populist legislators, Revolver is a 14 track romp blending the two.

'Taxman' starts the album off with a funky riff that famously inspired the Jam song 'Start' and is one of 3 Harrison gems on the album (another reason why I love this album so much).' Eleanor Rigby', surely one of the most haunting and melodic pop songs follows and then the dreamy sleepy jaunt of Lennon's 'I'm Only Sleeping jumps in (Callously murdered many years later by Suggs). From there the album's second Harrison song ' Love You To' develops Harrison's love of Indian music; a love that would propel the Beatles to Rishikesh in 1968 and Harrison to a spiritual career in his future.

'Here, there and Everywhere' comes next and is a McCartney great. The harmonies produced on this song are perhaps some of the greatest ever heard on record. The Starr sung iconic nursery rhyme, 'Yellow Submarine,' follows in sheer contrast with its brashness shanty feel, equipped with sound effects galore.

The album flips to perhaps Lennon's first real acid inspired song, 'She Said She Said,' before the cheery feelgood 'Good Day Sunshine jumps in.' 'And your Bird Can Sing is possibly my least favourite song on the album but still has some great guitaring and priceless lyrics.

McCartney's 'For No One' is a gentle and tender piece which would be a stand out track on any other album but is hidden away on this album of classics. 'Dr Robert' is a comical and drug inspired song with many a witty line thrown in by Lennon. 'I Want To Tell You' goes to show Harrison was up there with Lennon and McCartney, and 'Got To Get You Into My Life' is a brass inspired work of genius from McCartney.

The final track on the album, 'Tomorrow Never Knows,' may be the decisive break between the early Beatles and the later Beatles. The hazy, droney and original sound stirs up tension, emotion and sheer musical joy whilst the lyrics, truly drug influenced, come straight out The Tibetan Book of The Dead.'

This is an album that will go down in history as the epitome of Beatles, and therefore 1960s, music.

Summary: How does anyone go about trying to pick the greatest from such a large choice?