[Æ]

Hands down my favorite Beatles album.

That's not a Beatles album, it's not even Rock n Roll.

[Phil A]

I still have the LPs (although most are really beat due to cheap turntables in the 60s and most are in mono) even though I have not owned a turntable in over 25 years.  When I sold my records the albums themselves were not worth it for playback but the covers are worth a drop.  I think they are upstairs in a closet.

[Rclark]

That's not a Beatles album, it's not even Rock n Roll.

It rules. And it is a beatles album, different vocalist.

[Æ]

It rules. And it is a beatles album, different vocalist.

http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/pages/favorite_beatles_album

You're just making a mockery of the poll. You're supposed to vote on actual Beatles album(s) from the listed website.
Regardless of how nice it is in your own head, your selection isn't even listed there.

[Rclark]

Ok. Sorry  . I haven't even read the thread here, I just posted.

I suppose it would have to be Abbey Road.


 Btw there is an astounding documentary on the whole Paul/Faul thing on Netflix. Really damn good.

[cheap-Jack]

Hi.

I still have the LPs (although most are really beat due to cheap turntables in the 60s and most are in mono) even though I have not owned a turntable in over 25 years.  When I sold my records the albums themselves were not worth it for playback but the covers are worth a drop.  I think they are upstairs in a closet.

IMO, LPs sound much more musical than any home digital media, e.g. CD player & DVD-player which I almost given up for over a year now. I'd strongly suggest to go back to vinyls.

Thel Beatles LP album I like most is the 2-LP Red Album (1962-1966). They sound superb every sound track.

c-J

[midfi]

Sgt. Peppers...

[dB Cooper]

Thanks to the magic of digital technology (remember "thanks to the magic of time lapse photography" from the same era?) it is a lot easier to go back and listen to the backwards masking stuff (lots of audio editors hava a 'reverse' function), without the 'wow' you got from turning the platter by hand. Hoax/stunt or not, it is creepy.

[jawaka]

The white album

[firedog]

After studying the net on the Paul hoax subject the last couple of days, I have came to this conclusion.

"Paul is dead" is a hoax.
Was it an intentional hoax? Maybe
Was it just all a coinidence? Maybe

But back in 1969-70, this hoax was real to a bunch of teens listening to all of our albums frontwards and backwards for any clues. I was a DJ in our local high school radio station back then, and it seemed many clues were popping out of nowhere.

Probably what puzzles me the most, if this was just a hoax for commercial profits, why didn't any of the Beatles ever admit to it over these 40+ years? There are way too many clues to make it just coincidental.


This is the youtube video that is the most convincing of a hoax.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlUd5YslVzc&feature=related

A hoax, by definition, is intentional.

"Way too many clues"  - that statement makes no sense. The number of clues is limitless, as they are just made up.  A picture or a lyric becomes a clue because someone imagines it means something. Even if John isn't singing what the person hearing the clue thinks he is, or even if the clue preceeded the time of Paul's supposed car crash. Get it, the "clue" can't come before the event.  If you evaluate based on facts and analysis guess what - there aren't "way too many clues" - there are NO clues.

Or the clue is just simply "not true". Wearing jeans in a picture doesn't make you a grave digger -  it means you wore jeans that day.  " The Walrus" isn't a symbol of death in any culture we know about. "I buried Paul" is actually "cranberry sauce".

 The Sgt Pepper cover is a "funeral scene for Paul"-except that it isn't. There's actually no grave in the picture (for facts and a better view, see http://www.artrepublic.com/articles/162-a-closer-look-at-sir-peter-blakes-sergeant-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-band.html and http://www.beatlesagain.com/btsgtppr.html); and all the "clues" on the cover have been given simple everyday explanations by Peter Blake and Co, who did the cover.  More: "OPD"  from MMT is actually "OPP" in the picture.

The "28IF" on the Abbey Road license plate -great, except that Paul WOULDN'T  have been 28 at the time, only 27. And it doesn't say 28IF, but clearly "281F" - especially if you know about British license plates. The car was there because the owner lived on Abbey Road. I can go on forever. Everything is a clue when it doesn't have to be backed up by logic, facts, or consistency.

If you still think there might really be clues and a hoax, let me know. I'll sell you my exclusive footage of President Kennedy living in Parkland Hospital after Nov. 22, 1963.

See: http://www.recmusicbeatles.com/public/files/faqs/pid.html for a short factual rebuttal.

"Most Fabs fans these days are pretty well convinced that the original Paul is alive. What originated as a story about Paul's "death" has nowadays transformed itself (not without help) into a belief that the Beatles perpetuated upon an unsuspecting public a myth so cleverly convoluted that "clues" are virtually endless. Without the merest hint of verifiable evidence or documentation, it is often proclaimed that the Beatles must have been behind all this. After all, the clues are there! Aren't they?"

[Æ]

"I buried Paul" is actually "cranberry sauce"

I'm pretty sure it's "Cranberry Hall," not cranberry sauce!

[audiobat]

Yes Sgt. Pepper, do you think they were really high or was that a hoax too?

[milford3]

Never bought a Beatles album in my life.  NEVER liked the band.

[Æ]

Never bought a Beatles album in my live.  NEVER liked the band.

In your live of life?
Well then, you should have voted for the album you NEVER liked the most.

[pumpkinman]

Never bought a Beatles album in my live.  NEVER liked the band.

Are you sure you like music 

[Rclark]

Can't like everything. I'll admit I barely ever listen to my Beatles albums. I kinda have em just to have em 

I'm with Milford, I like a more rockin' sound.

[timind]

Can't like everything. I'll admit I barely ever listen to my Beatles albums. I kinda have em just to have em 

I'm with Milford, I like a more rockin' sound.

Really? Might've guessed by your avatar.
I have never owned anything by AC/DC. But my wife can sing along with them.

[Freo-1]

Wow, there are so many good Beatles albums; it’s hard to pick just one.  I’ll rank my favorites:

1.    Rubber Soul:  Wonderful, insightful songs.
2.   Abbey Road:  A tour de force swan song.
3.   Sgt. Peppers:  A turning point album to be sure.
4.   White Album: Some hits and misses, but great music.

Also, I really enjoy the Live at the BBC album.  Gives one a glimpse of how they got to be so good.

[cheap-Jack]

Never bought a Beatles album in my live.  NEVER liked the band.

First off, why you posted negative when thread is for positive response???

Assuming you never auditioned any Beatles music, so how come "never liked the band"???

FYI, I'm a devoted classical music lover with many many hundreds of classical LPs collected, I still listen to pop & rock music for a short change, e.g. Beatles.

One can be a vegie dieter, beef eating once for a while is no big deal. It'd not ruin the health, right? Besides, music has no boundaries!

c-J

[Freo-1]

First off, why you posted negative when thread is for positive response???

Assuming you never auditioned any Beatles music, so how come "never liked the band"???

FYI, I'm a devoted classical music lover with many many hundreds of classical LPs collected, I still listen to pop & rock music for a short change, e.g. Beatles.

One can be a vegie dieter, beef eating once for a while is no big deal. It'd not ruin the health, right? Besides, music has no boundaries!

c-J

+1. 

I'm with you on this.  (My classical collection is SACD/DVD-A   )