I just bought Help! UK, Rubber Soul UK and Revolver UK on CD Monday afternoon. I've owned the US versions on LP (the first two on the Capitol Albums set as well), but hearing the UK versions and hearing how they evolved through just those three albums is incredible.
My Beatles albums from most favorite to least favorite:
Sgt Pepper
Rubber Soul
Revolver
Abbey Road
A Hard Day's Night
With the Beatles
The White Album
Help!
Beatles for Sale
Please Please Me
Magical Mystery Tour
Let It Be (Spector mix)
Sgt Pepper after 40/41 years
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shamustwin
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Re: Sgt Pepper after 40/41 years
Man, I can't believe you put PPM so low. It's so raw, and (I'm presuming) evocative of the excitment of the Hamburg/Merseyside days.
To each his own, however.
To each his own, however.
Re: Sgt Pepper after 40/41 years
I know I underrated it, I might need to get that on CD, when I get the chance. That or listen to "The Early Beatles", which is close enough, I guess.
Re: Sgt Pepper after 40/41 years
Seriously, it was recorded in ~12 hours! PPM is solid.shamustwin wrote:Man, I can't believe you put PPM so low. It's so raw, and (I'm presuming) evocative of the excitment of the Hamburg/Merseyside days.
Re: Sgt Pepper after 40/41 years
We sometimes lose perspective as to when these albums/songs were recorded and what else going on at the time.shamustwin wrote:Man, I can't believe you put PPM so low. It's so raw, and (I'm presuming) evocative of the excitment of the Hamburg/Merseyside days.
To each his own, however.
The later stuff is definitely my favorite – I’m a studio fan, but, the early stuff…
Lennon once said they were a "pretty good R&R band" – those early recording back that up IMO