The Stereogum prizewagon is back today to give away one of the hottest items out — the stereo edition of the Beatles vinyl box Apple/EMI put out earlier this fall (here’s the product link). To enter the sweeps, you need be a fan of Stereogum on Facebook and comment with your favorite Beatles album (maybe a sentence about it, too?) via Facebook Connect (do not use your ‘Gum user account on this post — we’ll have to be able to check if you are a fan of Stereogum on FB when the sweepstakes ends). Sweepstakes ends 11/29 at 6 PM EST and the winner will be picked at random. An exhaustive list of the LPs is included below (via Press Release).
Please Please Me
“Love Me Do” and “P.S. I Love You” are presented in mono
(North American LP debut in stereo)With The Beatles
(North American LP debut in stereo)
A Hard Day’s Night
(North American LP debut in stereo)Beatles For Sale
(North American LP debut in stereo)Help!
Features George Martin’s 1986 stereo remixRubber Soul
Features George Martin’s 1986 stereo remixRevolver
Original albumSgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Packaging includes replica psychedelic inner sleeve, cardboard cutout sheet and additional insertMagical Mystery Tour
Packaging includes 24-page colour bookThe Beatles (double album)
Packaging includes double-sided photo montage/lyric sheet and 4 solo colour photosYellow Submarine
“Only A Northern Song” is presented in mono. Additional insert includes original American liner notes.
Abbey Road
Original albumLet It Be
Original album
Past Masters, Volumes One & Two (double album)
“Love Me Do” (original single version), “She Loves You,” “I’ll Get You,” and “You Know My Name
(Look Up The Number)” are presented in mono. Packaging, notes and photographic content is based
on the 2009 CD release.
The set also includes a 252-page book of photos and context.
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Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band is my favourite album. In a way so different from other Beatles albums, but still so perfect and mysterious.
By far Abbey Road.
Magical Mystery Tour – Blue Jay Way kills me every time.
revolver.
Overrated? Over Hyped? Possible, but it makes no difference to me, Rubber Soul…. I’m Looking Through You is my JAM.
The White Album, in all its messy, deranged, schizophrenic glory :)
Abbey Road.
Even when the band were at their most fragmented, and ‘even though Lennon/McCartney’ didn’t even really mean that the song was a collaboration anymore, they still made a perfect album. It has the sweetness of Harrison’s “Something”, the building intensity of “I Want You (She’s So Heavy), the overspilling joy of “Oh Darling”, and the loose solo jams of “The End” from the side 2 suite. I don’t even mind that the final chord of “Her Majesty” is missing.
Rubber Soul hits the sweet spot for me between pop craftsmanship and psychedelic experimentation.
Rubber Soul (damn it is so hard to choose!) My first Beatles album ever, which I bought 20 years ago and it has the most beautiful pop song ever written on it: In My Life. Beatles are the greatest band ever. Pure genius, no doubt about that.
Let’s be honest. There isn’t a bad album but in my opinion, Abbey Road is the best one. It’s the perfect ending to the career of what some say is the greatest band of all time.
This is a hard one, but it has to be Revolver. That was the one that really got me hooked on the Beatles. I always liked Taxman for the gritty guitar solo but once I finally got to the pop turnarounds on And Your Bird Can Sing and the infectious psychedelia of Tomorrow Never knows, I was sold.
The White Album
The White Album, even though it could be considered a collection of solo efforts, with Revolver a close second.
“Revolver”. Similar to Mary Poppins in that it’s “practically perfect in every way”.
Though I also love “A Hard Day’s Night” – a young band basking in their still innocent brilliance.
So hard to pick a fave since they are my favorite band of all time and I am named after ‘Michelle’. Rubber Soul is jam packed with such wonderful songs, I’ll pick that as my fave.
There are too many Beatles albums to choose from. Honestly, I love Help, especially songs like “I Just Saw A Face”, which was exceptionally uplifting given the rest of the material on the album. Beyond that, Abbey Road is the obvious choice for me, with songs like ‘Something’ and ‘Here Comes the Sun’, and of course the Medley at the end. So perfect.
White Album.
Surely Revolver. And its lovely album cover.
Revolver!
Revolver
The White Album (as of now….), this seems to change every couple months
Abbey Road. They went out in top form.
The Beatles (White Album)
Abbey Road. The medley at the end of that album always makes me emotional.
Magical Mystery Tour is a little underrated – you gotta love Blue Jay Way, Flying and especially Strawberry Fields.. so excellent
Abbey Road because it’s what I listened to as a kid
Would say Sgt. Pepper’s if it included “Penny Lane” and “Strawberry Fields” as originally intended. Have to say Revolver.
Rubber Soul
Revolver blows my mind every time I listen to it. For a nearly 50-year-old album, it’s amazing how often you can hear the basis for so much current music in each song.
Abbey Road. Amazing that they could put their differences aside for the sake of going out on a high note.
The White Album is a master piece and maybe my favorite one!
My favorite Beatles record is (obviously) Revolver. It’s the perfect bridge from love-me-do poppies to post-pepper’s weirdness. Every song is an absolute classic, but the real standouts are Taxman, For No One, and the foreshadowing Tomorrow Never Knows.
Rubber Soul
White Album — this set looks awesome.
Revolver. It really shows where the band was coming from and where they were headed.
Sgt. Pepper, while It might not have been intended as a concept album, it flows together and is a beautiful, cohesive work of art
Rubber Soul for sure. Absolutely gorgeous songs from front to back. “Girl” gets me every time.
Abbey Road! It raised the progressive pop bar that Sgt. Pepper previously had set.
RUBBER SOUL RUBBER SOUL
It’s always a struggle to choose my fave. Right now it’s probably A Hard Day’s Night. And I Love Her is possibly my favorite Beatles track, and it’s got If I Fell and Things We Said Today and I’m Happy Just to Dance with You and I’ll Be Back…just a killer album that caught the beginnings of their transition to their second form.
A Hard Day’s Night is basically like a Bulbasaur that just evolved to Ivysaur.
Abbey Road. While there are more critically acclaimed Beatles albums, Abbey Road has “Something,” as well as other great songs, which always reminds me of my lady.
“The Beatles” (The White Album). I found a copy of it in my dad’s CD collection as a small child and after the first listen became a lifelong Beatles fanatic.
Abbey Road for the qualitative win
My favorite Beatles album has changed through-out my life, but for the past 5 years or so I would say it’s Rubber Soul. I think it’s overall their strongest and is a perfect mid-point between their earlier clap your hands stuff and the later experimental stuff. Honestly though I’d also defend every album after that as their best.
Oh man you guys gimme this!
A Hard Day’s Night !
Cuz… I If I fell in love with you, Would you promise to be true. And help me understand?
Peace n’ Love from Brazil! :D
Love Let It Be for “Long and Winding Road.”
Revolver, And Your Bird Can Sing plus tomorrow never knows. Best by far.
The White Album is amazing.
It depends on the day you ask, but I’d go with the White Album just because it has such variety on it. I also think it has some of Lennon’s best material. Glass Onion and Dear Prudence, in my opinion, stand in the top 5 best songs the group put out.
With the Beatles, because where else can one find those sweet, sweet aoleonic cadences?
It’s got to be ‘Abbey Road’ for me. Aside from the musical reasons, it was the first vinyl I ever owned and has a lot of sentimental value because my girlfriend gave it to me.
Rubber Soul – most intimate, less known and it contains Norwegian Wood!
I change it constantly, but Rubber Soul would have to be my answer. It is the perfect blend of their early pop records and their following experimental albums.
Rubber Soul – I think my favorite part about it is that Brian Wilson said he heard Rubber Soul and then wanted to top it, so he made Pet Sounds. That’s amazing. Abbey Road got me into the Beatles, but Rubber Soul made me faaaalll in loooooovvveee
White Album. Diverse and trippy.
The White Album- most cohesive collection of non-cohesive songs ever
Hands down The White Album! Drugs anyone?
Although John did start using heroin at some point during the recording of that album, the majority of the songs were written sober in India. The Beatles generally abstained from drug use as they composed these songs due to their disillusionment with psychedelics, as part of their spiritual quest (sneaking pot here and there when the Maharishi wasn’t around), and of course, as a reaction to Brian Epstein’s death, hence the album’s unadorned (pure) cover.
Tough call, but probably Abbey Road.
For me the album Help is a band in between it’s powers, still hanging on to their popcraft powers while letting some of that experimentation seep in.
I have a soft spot for Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, I guess because it’s impossible not to have a great day after listening to it. There’s something inexplicably special about the way the songs are put together.
Revolver, because it found such a perfect balance of pop songwriting and studio innovation. Tomorrow Never Knows still sounds futuristic!
Abbey Road! ‘Oh Darling’ nearly makes me break down and cry.
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
tough to choose, but I’ll go White Album, because it’s totally excessive and so all over the place, but so chock full of great tracks.
Tough choice, but Rubber Soul wins the race by a hair.
it’s a tie between Magical Mystery Tour and Rubber Soul. Rubber Soul was my first favorite thirty years ago, and MMT is the one that hits me the most now. The White Album held the title for over a decade in between.
Revolver is my favorite Beatles record. I think it represents a sea change in the way John and Paul wrote their songs, tighter, more avant garde, more eclectic, and yet still rollicking, simple, and always beautiful.
Gonna be perverse and say “Magical Mystery Tour.” It’s the Beatles’ last significant transitional album, and it has their best psychedelic song ever (“I Am The Walrus”).
The best has gotta be Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (and it’s got the best cover). Abbey Road is a close second.
Abbey Road – that medley is just the best.
White Album – perfect soundtrack for sleepless drunken nights.
I can never decide which is my favorite but I listened to Sgt. Pepper’s more than any other when I first became a fan
Let It Be.
White Album!
The White album is a masterpiece.
A Hard Day’s Night – The first Beatles album of all original material.
It’s always changing, but Sgt. Peppers is the one I come back to the most. Such a cohesive unit played on that album. Also, A Day In The Life is possibly the best closing track on any album, ever.
The White Album is my favorite Beatles album and #6 on my list of favorite albums. It contains the blueprints for almost every style of modern rock music. I got it for my 16th birthday, and I have listened to it more times than any other Beatles album. I’m sure if you asked Paul he would say that it is not really a concept album, but the Beatles spent a ridiculous number of hours deliberating over its sequencing. What I hear over and over again is a musical narrative of the journey from innocence to experience. The album was meant to be a return to simple, stripped-down songwriting and recording, but in every song there is still something slightly, and I believe deliberately, askew. We have a surf song about being back in the USSR, not the USA. We have a song of hope and joy…about a woman who was starting to crack. We have John mentioning Beatles songs and acknowledging the reality of the truths conveyed in them while simultaneously mocking the fact that they are still creations, representations of perceived reality. We have the blurring of gender roles in a song about a supposedly simple and traditional family. We have a children’s song that both celebrates and criticizes a cartoon character. Later on we have a Paul song that is all about lust back to back with a Paul song that is all about true love. The second disc begins with a song of birth and a song of death. I could do this all day. The tail-end of Cry Baby Cry is a snippet of Paul singing, “Can you take me back where I came from? Can you take me back?” This is the album’s great question, and the definitive answer comes in the form of Revolution #9, a virtual maelstrom of cultural chaos. But then the Beatles soften their position a bit and let us know that even if we can’t really go back, we can at least have some peace of mind. We can still sleep at night: The album ends with a lullaby.
‘The White Album’ is my favorite from the Beatles because I think it’s the most diverse. Also it has some of George’s and Lennon’s best — ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’ and ‘Yer Blues’!
the white album. got me through some hard adolescent times and has something for everyone.
“Magical Mystery Tour”. I am the Walrus.
Fantastic contest Stereogum.
Favorite Beatles “album” is the US Capitol release of “Yesterday and Today” which is chalk full of HOTT jams. Favorite official release is The White Album / The Beatles with Side C being one of the greatest collections of songs in rock ‘n roll history.
Revolver.
Beatles For Sale. Not because I think it is their absolute best album, but because I think it’s the perfect mix of their folk, rock, and country influences. And the stereo mix is just so buttery and beautiful.
The White Album because it sounds like nothing else.
Revolver
The White Album. There isn’t a song on it I don’t like… Well, I don’t actively dislike Wild Honey Pie anyway…
My favorite is Abbey Road. Just love the suite on side two.
Rubber Soul. I’m not of the opinion of most people that the Beatles were infallible and this is the only album of theirs that I listen to straight thru without skipping anything.
Help.
I actually disliked the Beatles, or rather, the title-song as a child – my elementary school required every class to do choreography to it; later on the joy of “I’ve Just Seen A Face” and the emotion of “Yesterday” began to match pretty well with my life.
Revolver is the Beatles’ best album by far. I LOVE STEREOGUM.
Revolver
Currently it’s Revolver.
Abbey Road. Not only does it have the incredible medley at the end, but it also has “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer,” “Something,” “Octopus’ Garden,” “Oh Darling.” Oh, and a little song called “Here Comes The Sun.” One of the greatest albums of all time and the creative peak for the band.
Rather unoriginal but it has to be Revolver. Such a perfect mix between gorgeous pop melodies and innovative experimentation. Genius.
Revolver.
White Album is my favorite. Remember staying up listening to the CD for the first time on a middle school overnight bus trip. It’s such a journey: into the universe, through the history of music, and into the minds of the artists that crafted it.
Abbey Road.
Abbey Road, no question. Not necessarily my favorite album of all time, but it is, without a doubt, the greatest album ever recorded. Everything about it is absolutely perfect.
the white album. “i will” is all i’ll ever need.