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thenewgreen  ·  3812 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Forty-First Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately" Thread

Growing up it was the White Album. It was the first Beatles album I had and I listened to it every day for a year straight; many, many, many times a day.

I suppose it changes now, but I would say that I have a tremendous amount of respect for Revolver. Given the time it came out the material is just fantastic. I know that a lot of people point to Rubber Soul as their transition point from poppy-dance-love music to music to be listened to, and it's true. They were heavily influenced by Dylan and you could tell they were doing something that was new to them. -Not new to music though. I think on Revolver, you get them doing many things that were new to popular music entirely.

What about you?





user-inactivated  ·  3811 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It feels disingenuous to call these my favorites, when I have a feeling the list is such because of volume of listening during my childhood, but I guess it has to start with Rubber Soul. Greatest album ever made, not a bad song on it, not even close to a bad song, also has three or four of the best "ballad-pop" songs ever written.

Second place to Sgt. Pepper's. Incredible album, built off Revolver but didn't get into the White Album territory that turns off casual fans. Revolver is probably a close third; if it was an album of whale noises plus For No One it would still be a close third ...

Help! and A Hard Day's Night get a pass, I guess, because they don't feel like albums -- not too many albums from 1964 sound like albums -- but I probably listen to them more often than I do the above because of their singles. A Hard Day's Night is probably the best easy-pop album ever, unless Help! is.

Now I've got to go outside because it started raining, so Please Please Me and Abbey Road et al. will escape mention, which would really hurt my family if they knew. Luckily I don't talk to them, so they don't.

thenewgreen  ·  3811 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Now I've got to go outside because it started raining, so Please Please Me and Abbey Road et al. will escape mention, which would really hurt my family if they knew. Luckily I don't talk to them, so they don't.
Any family that passionate about the Beatles is surely worth talking to, no?
user-inactivated  ·  3811 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well they got me listening when I was about two, so that's something I suppose.