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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Revolver
Revolver. Perfectly crafted all around solid album.
“The Beatles”, commonly known as The White Album. Revolution #9, Rocky Raccoon, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, and that Joan Didion book.
magical mystery tour. it’s fun.
Revolver, all the way.
I like them all
yellow submarine is “all too much for me to say”
Revolver!!!
Revolver for sure. It’s the album with most soul and the best melodies of Beatles, Tomorrow Never Knows it’s one of the best songs of all time!
Rubber Soul, I have fond memories of playing Norwegian Wood with my best friend.
The Beatles (White Album). Scary, spooky, sweet, strung-out, sappy. Listen to it a side at a time, one for each Beatle, as nature intended! Look at the poster! Put the pics up in your locker at school!!
Love me some Abbey Road.
Help!
Let It Be… Naked
Because “Don’t Let Me Down” is the jam to end all jams!
In a grudge fight between Revolver and Rubber Soul, the most complete Beatles album of Revolver wins! (8 of 10 tries)
Come on, The White Album has EVERYTHING. For years I’d chuck Good Night at the end of every mixtape and nobody EVER seemed to know who had sung it. Beautiful, haunting stuff. And Helter Skelter? Blackbird? I’ll stop now…
“A Hard Day’s Night” is the one that I always go back and listen to whenever I need to satisfy my Beatles kick.
“Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” Forever a classic!
revolver because omg, those TNK tape loops
Revolver. Eleanor Rigby and Tomorrow Never Knows still blow me away every time I hear them.
Help. Just a lot of fun at the tail end of the pop-period and beginning of their experimental period, so it’s a nice mixture of both.
Rubber Soul is my game.
REVOLVER. Easily one of the most important rock records of all time…and one of my favorites.
I Just like to “Let it be”
The White Album will always be my pick.
Rubber Soul fo shizzle
The White Album, because it’s the other side of the ‘none more black’ coin. Yin-yang, and whatever.
probably the white album, but maybe abbey road.
I’m one of the few who like “Let It Be” the best. Mainly because my brother played it nonstop when I was a wee lad.
White Album.
Revolver, yo!
rubber soul. ’cause my mom says so.
White Album is in the desert island suitcase. Quality AND quantity.
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, because that’s the stuff you can play on Rock Band while super sleepy and filled to the brim with alcohol.
Sgt. Pepper. It was the first cassette I ever got. I’d love to try and be cool and say With The Beatles but Sgt. Pepper will always be first for me.
Abbey Road, because it’s got a healthy dose of unexpected and some of the songs are rougher around the edges than most perfectly-turned out Beatles tunes. Which is just fine by me.
It’s hard to pick but recently it’s Revolver.
Help!
For so many reasons, but especially for the George Harrison gem “I Need You”
Sgt. Peppers, just for its leap in style and atmosphere
Rubber Soul, In my most crucial part of my in life when I was down this brought me up thanks beatles
Sgt Peppers is perfect from one side to the other, it truly demonstrates musical perfection.
The White Album. It’s their most interesting and daring album.
Sgt Peppers because it’s got “Lovely Rita” and I’m married to a Lovely Rita. (Cheesy I know, but its true, she’s not a meter maid though.) I WANNA WIN!
White Album does it for me
Abbey Road– the medley gets me everytime.
REVOLVER! I remember being 13 years old and a friend gave me a copy that he had dubbed onto a blank tape for me. I put that tape in and I don’t think I stopped playing it for 2 years. My mind was blown and I was instantly hooked.
Revolver for sure, as soon as Taxman comes on, that’s all that matters.
I wrote a 40-page paper on the Beatles in college, “The Transformation of the Beatles 65-67″. This is the Rubber Soul-Revolver-Sgt.Pepper period, their best in my opinion.
So, “Revolver”, it’s the perfect bridge, it sounds like every Beatles era all wrapped up together, with no filler. And “Tomorrow Never Knows”, c’mon…
Revolver. One of the first CD’s I purchased with my money on my own as a kid in a store. Parents never got me into the Beatles, so I had to venture out on my own and discover them.
Discover them I sure did. I haven’t looked back since.
Revolver: She Said, I Want To Tell You, & Tomorrow Never Knows three of the best Beatles songs.
Rubber Soul and Revolver are both so great and they compliment each other very well. For me Rubber Soul has a slight edge.
Rubber Soul is it for me. “Nowhere Man” and “If I Needed Someone” made me love the Beatles
Revolver. Utterly timeless.
Revolver!
The White Album – many of the songs were written in the Spring of ’68 and I think the sound and vibe of the album reflects this. The album offers growth and variety – much like a garden in the spring.
I think Revolver does it for me. One of the most varied albums and the music and writing was all in perfect timing with each other. Just an overall melody of perfect vibes of the Beatles sound
Abbey Road – I know its cliche but the entire B-side is untouchable. Best series of songs put on record.
Abbey Road. Can’t beat the second side.
I’d have to say either revolver or the white album. But while we are choosing our favourite beatles albums, lets acknowledge that paul mccartney is responsible for the worst song of all time: wonderful christmas time.
Immeasurable contributions to the future of pop music notwithstanding, I love the Beatles best in their original Merseybeat incarnation. Tight, well-rehearsed, completely unpretentious, and crystallized in “A Hard Day’s Night.”
Abbey Road, for Ringo’s unforgettable drum solo.
Abbey Road is the best – those boys knew what they were doing! And they knew how to go out in style.
Ima go Rubber Soul.
The. White. Album.
Such a treasure trove. So raw and honest. Everything you’d ever want from an album. So many genres and styles. Perfectly shows the 4 greatest musicians ever at their absolute best.
Rubber Soul. Hands down.
They all hold a special place, but Abbey Road particularly for me. What a way to end a career. My dad used to play nothing but The Beatles and Frank Sinatra in the car when I was young, so they became my favorite band and have affected my taste in music so much that I plan on putting my kids through the same gauntlet when I have some of my own. I sometimes get wrapped up in the idea of The Beatles as this story; something bigger than “just a band who made it very very big (John Lennon).” That is why I keep coming back to Abbey Road. Even though I appreciate the musicianship on Pepper more, and the emotion on the White Album more, and the energy of the early records more, Abbey Road seemed so self-aware and calculated, but never been less of a record for that reason. They knew when they were recording it (after Let It Be, for all you casual Beatles fans) to some degree that it would be their final act as a unit. That they were able to wrap up all the different aspects of the band people liked and summarize it, while at the same time being able to make the record coherent, to me is stunning.
I wonder sometimes what their legacy would have been like had they flipped Sides A and B of Abbey Road, like they had considered doing. We would have been left with “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” as the last recorded song by The Beatles. The last notes you would have heard them play would have been a squalor of noise and anger that just stops. It would have been jarring, and I’m sure John would have found it delicious. I’m glad they chose the sequence they did though. It feels like remembering the good times at a funeral, parting ways after last call, or giving a fond goodbye to a best friend.
Also, completely random fact: In “Lovely Rita” (which is off Pepper, I know, but that’s aside from the point), at about 0:21, right as Paul comes in with the first verse, you can hear John in the background saying, “Ahh…power.” Just another (less obvious) example of his acid wit contrasting Paul’s buoyant optimism.
Abbey Road. It wasn’t my favorite, and then my high school band learned the whole thing back in the day so we could perform it. Playing those songs really brought home to me how ingenious the transitions are; the whole thing plays like one big piece.
White Album
I feel like that was when they really proved they could do whatever the fuck they want and they’d still be The Beatles.
Revolver. I think it’s the most even mix of quality John Paul and George songs.
I think my favorite part on the album is the french horn in For No One.
Abby Road is probably me #1 Beatles album. So many good songs on that album and really like that McCartney, Lennon and Harrison really shine on this album. I’d have to pick The Beatles (The White Album) since it has a lot of diversity and it never gets old for me.
Abbey Road! It’s always magical to put this record on and getting surrounded by “Come Together’s” bassline.
This is a tough one, I go back and forth between a few of them. Gotta go with Revolver for now.
Abbey Road because of the B-side.
The White Album. 1 hour, 32 minutes and 48 seconds of pure awesomeness!
Rubber Soul, because choosing a later one is just too hard, and this one speaks of the immense potential just starting to bubble to the surface.
Incredibly difficult to choose, but I gotta go “White Album”, if for nothing but the fact that it has Blackbird and Helter Skelter – which were both somehow written by the same person. Also, Happiness is a Warm Gun, which was somehow written by one person.
Revolver.
Abbey Road. Maybe. Most of their albums have had a spot at the top at some point in my life, but for now, it seems to be Abbey Road.
Rubber Soul, practically a perfect pop album in every way.
Revolver – it was their first step away from being the mop tops…
rubber soul!
Revolver.
Revolver. It’s the one I’ve heard the most. And Eleanor Rigby is just one of those songs for me.
abbey road. love george harrison’s songwriting on this album (and we even see ringo on vocals!)
Abbey Road. The medley is transcendent.
Rubber Soul – my first favorite album.
Revolver was the first consistently great Beatles album.
Abbey Road; the entire album is fantastic, especially George Harrison’s songs.
Revolver, that’s simply flawless.
Revolver, that’s simply flawless.
The Beatles (White Album) – Double album, Helter Skelter, “Paul is dead,” what more could you want?
Help! was the first album I bought as a kid. I thought the guys looked weird and cool doing those hand signals on the cover. Best album I ever bought.
The White Album
Rubber Soul – a beautifully crafted collection of songs packed full of great harmonies and hooks, and Lennon channeling his true feelings and vulnerabilities into his music. Great stuff!
Abbey Road for sure. The entire second half of that album flows and rocks from beginning to end.
At first I wasn’t as crazy about Abbey Road, since it has all those crazy popular songs, lots of which were on Across the Universe, and I felt they were a tad overrated. But when I discovered the brilliance of the side 2 medley, oh man, it came together (hehe).
Sgt. Pepper’s is a perfect album. Great variety of song types, great mix of pop/rock/psychedelia. I continue to hear new things every time I listen.
I change my mind often, but this week, my favorite Beatles’ album is Rubber Soul. It’s such a perfect sing-along album; I like to listen to it when I do housework because it keeps my energy up and makes me cheerful.
The White Album. It is a sprawling mosaic of sounds that redefined the limits of the band and broke new creative ground for all of pop music.
Revolver is the Beatles’ peak as a rock band and definitely my favorite album.
The White Album. One of my favorite experiences listening to music was hearing it on vinyl for the first time at a cousin’s house a few years ago.