5 Best Beatle Albums

[Des]

Revolver
Rubber Soul
Abbey Road
Sgt Pepper
a token early Beatles album but I'm not so keen on their early stuff yet I feel the need to come over as a rounded Beatle fan. capable of appreciating classic British pop music as well as progressive boundary-breaking post '66 rock.

[NormanD]

Hey Des - can you amend this topic title also to include "Five Best Bowie Albums" so we can get it all over with at once?
norman

[Dayna]

These lists work for me. At least I don't have to know as much as some others here, this way.

I just heard an interview on the radio, online that Sgt. Pepper was voted best album of all time.

[will vine]

Takes me a while to get round to hearing some things so I've only just heard the George (& Giles) Martin Beatle remix album "Love". I think it's a wonderful rebuild from the leftover tape on the cutting room floor, and for me, further enhances the notion that they could have realised "final" versions of their songs in any number of different ways.

I don't know how many units this album shifted or how well it was critically received, but it is essential that the world knows I really liked it.

[kevin]

Takes me a while to get round to hearing some things so I've only just heard the George (& Giles) Martin Beatle remix album "Love". I think it's a wonderful rebuild from the leftover tape on the cutting room floor, and for me, further enhances the notion that they could have realised "final" versions of their songs in any number of different ways.

I don't know how many units this album shifted or how well it was critically received, but it is essential that the world knows I really liked it.

This album was created for the cirque du soleil circus troupe as the soundtrack for one of their shows. Don't know if your copy is the same but mine came as 5.1 surround sound which is faaantastic.

More info here

http://www.cirquedusoleil.com/CirqueDuS ... /intro.htm

[jayne]

THE BEATLES IS OFF-PISTE.

It's analogous with requesting a Bee Gees record on Charlie's The Sound of the World. Period.

Regards,

JB

[Rob Hall]

They may be off your piste Jayne, but I still enjoy taking the odd slalom in their company. Yes Will, the Love album is hugely enjoyable. It was clearly a labour of love and an entirely succesful one for my money.

[Gordon Neill]

Damn. I had decided without hearing the thing that the Love album was just another attempt to keep milking the udders of the Beatles cash cow. But now I'm not so sure. Rats.

Um... also. I don't know much about sliding around on snow, but doesn't 'off-piste' refer to moving off the well-trodden and predictable ... um... paths and glowing in a feeling of achievement? Jayne, didn't you mean to claim that the Beatles are on-piste? (which they're not).

[Dayna]

Does anyone like Paul McCartney's most recent album?

[Adam Blake]

Haven't heard it. My mate did some orchestrations for it. McCartney paid him and then took the credit for doing them himself. Plus ca change...

[Dayna]

Does anyone think Wings was very good?

[Adam Blake]

They did some great pop songs, but a lot of less good ones too. I think McCartney has always needed someone to edit him. Sadly, since the end of the Beatles, he hasn't had one.

[Phil Abel]

They did some great pop songs, but a lot of less good ones too. I think McCartney has always needed someone to edit him. Sadly, since the end of the Beatles, he hasn't had one.

Getting way off the 'top five' topic here, but this reminds me of the amazing cover of Let Them In by Billy Paul.

[Adam Blake]

Yeah, that was a good one. McCartney is a funny one: so much talent and so little ability to separate the wheat from the chaff. Maybe it's just that no-one since Lennon has ever dared to tell him when one of his ideas is crap. Kevin Armstrong used to tell me funny stories about working with him in the 80s - suffice to say that he rules the roost with a rod of iron.

[uiwangmike]

Adam Blake wrote

I think McCartney has always needed someone to edit him.

"And so: this is Christmas and what have you done?/Another year over, a new one's just begun." Could John Lennon have got away with EJ Thribb stuff like that in his Beatles days? I wonder if he needed an editor too.