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Music List of Albums, Vol. 1: The Beatles
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It's undeniable the impact The Beatles have had on popular music. Their music is still played and enjoyed some 40 years after their breakup.

This Geeklist lists the studio albums released by the Liverpool band. Please feel free to comment on favorite tracks, album history, or even variations of recordings.

In deference to their origins, I am listing the UK albums, in order of release. Please add any other significant Beatles albums or singles that you feel needs to be discussed.

Enjoy, and I look forward to your comments.
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Please Please Me (1963)

#1 songs:

"Love Me Do" (US)
"Twist and Shout" (UK)

Personal Favorite: "I Saw Her Standing There"
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personal favorite: Love Me Do
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Please Please Me. An ode to Roy Orbison.
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m3tan wrote:
Please Please Me. An ode to Roy Orbison.


According to several commentators, it's actually an ode to oral sex.
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My favorite is Do You Want to Know a Secret
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Twist and Shout -- we can love cover versions, can't we? After that, favorites would be I Saw Her Standing There and Please Please Me.
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With the Beatles (1963)

#1 songs:

none

Personal Favorite: "Money (That's What I Want)"
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personal favorite: Don't Bother Me
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:wow: All My Loving. :wow:
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Personal Favorite: It Won't Be Long.
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Personal favourites: the two fantastic versions of American R & B songs largely overlooked in their home country - Please Mr Postman & You've Really Got A Hold On Me. Those three voices singing together still sound thrilling after 45 years of fairly constant play.
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A pretty weak album in terms my personal favs. All My Loving, I guess, with Roll Over Beethoven and Don't Bother Me following.
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A Hard Day's Night (1964)

#1 songs:

"A Hard Day's Night" (UK/US)
"Can't Buy Me Love" (UK/US)
"You Can't Do That" (UK)

Personal Favorite: "Can't Buy Me Love"
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personal favorite: Things We Said Today
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:laugh: Tell Me Why. :laugh:
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Personal Favorite: I Should Have Known Better
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If I Fell.

I love the key change after the intro.
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An album that does little for me is followed by one that I think is incredibly strong all the way through. I'll pick A Hard Day's Night as my fav, probably followed by Any Time at All and Can't Buy Me Love.
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Beatles For Sale (1964)

#1 songs:

"Eight Days a Week" (US)

Personal Favorite: "I'll Follow the Sun"
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personal favorite: I'm A Loser
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IMO, probably the weakest of the Beatles albums, but I go:

Words of Love
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:p Gotta be Rock & Roll Music, if you wanna dance with me. :p
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Favorite is Eight Days a Week but I also like Baby's in Black.
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I'll Follow the Sun, then Every Little Thing and Eight Days a Week
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Help! (1965)

#1 songs:

"Help!" (UK/US)
"Ticket to Ride" (UK/US)
"Yesterday" (US)

Personal Favorite: "Yesterday"
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personal favorite: I've Just Seen A Face
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My Favourite: Another Girl
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Ticket to Ride and Yesterday
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Definitely "Ticket To Ride"
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ninja While Ticket to Ride is outstanding, my personal fave is You're Going to Lose That Girl. ninja
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This one's a real toughie for fav-picking, because there are such stellar songs for such different moods. You've Got to Hide Your Love Away takes my vote, with apologies to Yesterday and I've Just Seen a Face.
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Rubber Soul (1965)

#1 songs:

none

Personal Favorite: "In My Life"
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personal favorite: Girl
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robot Drive My Car! Let's rock, meeps! robot
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Norwegian Wood (what else?)


Same here. This was when I started to appreciate the Beatles. Before that, I was a die-hard Bob Dylan fan.
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My favorite Beatles album. In My Life is John at his best.
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In a toss-up, Nowhere Man edges In My Life, with Norwegian Wood following.
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Revolver (1966)

#1 songs:

"Eleanor Rigby" (UK)
"Yellow Submarine" (UK)

Personal Favorite: "Taxman"
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personal favorite: Tomorrow Never Knows
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zombie Tomorrow Never Knows if it's on there, if not then I Want To Tell You. zombie
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Adding a belated plug for "For No One".
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Eleanor Rigby has to be the best on this album.
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I like to go with the underdogs, but on this album I have to stay with Eleanor Rigby, followed quite closely by For No One and Here There and Everywhere.
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)

#1 songs:

none

Personal Favorite: "She's Leaving Home"
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personal favorite: A Day in the Life
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I was told that this was the first time ever performed live by a Beatle?

Can anyone confirm?

June 1 2008, Yoko can be seen in first few rows of the audience...

A Day In The Life
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Have you heard Jeff Beck's live version?
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Hard to pick a favorite but I'll say With a Little Help From My Friends.
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With A Little Help From My Friends, then Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds and Lovely Rita. Despite the critical acclaim this one gets, not my favorite Beatles album by a long shot.
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The Beatles (aka: The White Album, 1968)

#1 songs:

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Personal Favorite: "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
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personal favorite: Dear Prudence

Followed closely by, Why Don't We Do It In The Road
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For the variety it provides this is my favorite Beatles album.

Favorite song: "Happiness is a Warm Gun"
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:cry: Agree with the other posters...this is the hardest to choose. I love Helter Skelter and Guitar Gently Weeps, but after a lot of soul-searching I think I actually have to go with Savoy Truffle and/or Why Don't We Do It In The Road. ARGH! It's a masterpiece, therefore just impossible to pick! :cry:
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Dear Prudence is among my favorite songs all time.
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Double album should get twice as many votes right? No? Well then, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, then Helter Skelter, and that covers disc 1 and disc 2, with Dear Prudence in 3rd.
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Yellow Submarine (1968)

#1 songs:

"All You Need is Love"
"Yellow Submarine" (when released on Revolver)

Personal Favorite: "All You Need is Love"
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personal favorite: Hey Bulldog
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If pressed I would say "It's All Too Much" is my favorite Beatles song.
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;) Finally going with the flow...Hey, Bulldog. BTW, you missed Magical Mystery Tour (1967) from which my fave is I Am the Walrus. ;)
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Soundtrack album. "All You Need is Love" originally comes off Magical Mystery Tour, which appears to have been missed on this list!
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Hey Bulldog, I suppose. Not enough songs for ancillary picks.
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Abbey Road (1969)

#1 songs:

"Come Together" (US)
"Something" (US)

Personal Favorite: "Here Comes the Sun"
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personal favorite: The entire last 17 minute sound collage starting with You Never Give me Your Money
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:arrrh: You Never Give Me Your Money. :arrrh:
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IMO, probably the best album ever.
Favourite song beside Come toghether: I want you (She's so heavy)- man, do I get shivers every time I hear this song...
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Quote:
personal favorite: The entire last 17 minute sound collage starting with You Never Give me Your Money


I second this!
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I think frogmind has a point, but if I can't pick that suite as a whole then Golden Slumbers, followed by Here Comes the Sun, and You Never Give Me Your Money.
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Let It Be (1970)

#1 songs:

"For You Blue" (US)
"Get Back" (UK/US)
"Let It Be" (US)
"The Long and Winding Road" (US)

Personal Favorite: "Across the Universe"
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personal favorite: toss up between One After 909 and I've Got A Feelin'
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:cool: I Me Mine. :cool:
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"Two of Us"
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Underrated album full of goodies but I'll go with Let It Be, although I never tire of hearing I've Got a Feeling, Two of Us, and Dig A Pony.
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The Long and Winding Road, then Let It Be and Two of Us.
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Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
(Released in US as Studio Album)

All You Need Is Love, Penny Lane, and Hello Goodbye made it to #1 in the U.S.

Favorite: All You Need Is Love, ekeing out The Fool on the Hill.
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My vote is for Hello Goodbye.
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Penny Lane, then The Fool on The Hill and Hello Goodbye.
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I feel as though you should add both Past Master Volumes as they possess a lot of the b-sides that never made official albums.

some favorites from here:

Don't Let me Down
Hey Jude
Rain
Ballad of John and Yoko
Paperback Writer

and also Magical Mystery Tour:

favorites here:

Strawberry Fields
Hello Goodbye
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rayito2702 wrote:
Everything they released was popular despite the quantity.

Again I ask, can anyone have such a wide ranging affect on popular music while still producing as much music in such a short amount of time?


Well... I think those that I mention did a lot more interesting stuff than the Beatles. I like the Beatles, I just don't see what they are so elevated. They made pop music, that is all. As far as their affect on pop music, they were imitating others and getting credit for originality.

Great albums, all of them... but they are not some high water mark of pop culture nor are they the pioneers that people make them out to be.
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