Favorite Beatles Era

[Mirror Image]

I've never been a huge Beatles fan (my dad, however, is a Beatles fanatic), but I liked their later period albums the best like Abbey Road, The White Album, and Let It Be. So, in other words, I voted for the third option.

[Ken B]

Well, so far I'm the only one to get it right!


Can't say I have ever been a big fan though.

[aquablob]

Like 'em both equally....but cool guys doing cool covers never bothered me.

Side 2 of Beatles for Sale ≪ Side 1.

Were this not the case, Beatles for Sale would be my favorite early-period Beatles album.

But A Hard Day's Night is my favorite early-period Beatles album.

Ergo, Side 2 of Beatles for Sale ≪ Side 1.

Q.E.D.

[Jay F]

I chose the middle period. As much as I liked Beatles '65 and Beatles VI -- I'm an American baby boomer who bought each album as it came out here, so it's Beatles '65 and Beatles VI I remember, not Beatles for Sale -- Rubber Soul was such a different and better album than anything the Beatles had done before. Like Brian Wilson, I perceived it as an album of "all good songs." My perception is specific to the American version, incidentally. "I've Just Seen a Face" is supposed to come before "Norwegian Wood" IYM. They work better together than either does apart. I bought Rubber Soul in stereo, and the "false starts" version of "I'm Looking through You" is the only version I want to hear. "It's Only Love" is one of my favorite songs of all time, and it just does not work the same way on UK Help. And no amount of anything can make me like "Drive My Car."

"In My Life" is probably John Lennon's best song. The person it reminds me of, well, we shouldn't have, and did not, get married, but it would have been our wedding song. It's hard to think of anyone else when I hear "In My Life," and what our wedding would have looked like. Our marriage would have been awful, but I'm just talking wedding; and there's still a touch of no one who compares with her, even if she isn't the person whom, in my life, I ended up loving most.

You can spout all the "but it's not what the Beatles wanted" tralala at me you can muster. The American Rubber Soul is just the better album.

And I liked Sgt. Pepper's even more than Rubber Soul in 1967.

[Marc]

When I first heard R.E.M. songs (in the 1980s) I had a If I Needed Someone feeling.

I agree btw that I've Just Seen A Face would be a proper Rubber Soul song.

But I definitely prefer the UK albums/tracklists.
I do think they're more HIP.

And, like In My Life, Nowhere Man is vintage Rubber Soul.

[Marc]

My favorite album from the early period is A Hard Day's Night.

+2

[Szykneij]

"In My Life" is probably John Lennon's best song. The person it reminds me of, well, we shouldn't have, and did not, get married, but it would have been our wedding song. It's hard to think of anyone else when I hear "In My Life," and what our wedding would have looked like. Our marriage would have been awful, but I'm just talking wedding; and there's still a touch of no one who compares with her, even if she isn't the person whom, in my life, I ended up loving most.

"In My Life" was the theme song for my senior prom. "Make It With You" by Bread was the original first choice, but was nixed by the school administration for being too "suggestive". Times have changed a bit.

[Karl Henning]

"In My Life" was the theme song for my senior prom. "Make It With You" by Bread was the original first choice, but was nixed by the school administration for being too "suggestive".

It's really a love song to Wall Street, so I do not see anything objectionable . . . .

[mn dave]

You can spout all the "but it's not what the Beatles wanted" tralala at me you can muster. The American Rubber Soul is just the better album.

That's the one I heard first. A good line-up of songs.

[Karl Henning]

[...] You can spout all the "but it's not what the Beatles wanted" tralala at me you can muster. The American Rubber Soul is just the better album.

Well . . . I'll give it a try, okay?