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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Help! love the movie aswell
Every Beatles album is amazing , but Rubber Soul is definitely my favorite.
Abbey Road. The warmest album I’ve ever heard.
Rubber Soul
It has to be Rubber Soul for me. Norwegian Wood and In My Life are my two favorites from the album.
Abbey Road is near perfect. I would’ve said The White Album, but Birthday seems to put me in a blind rage.
The White Album for sure! Blew my mind first time I listened to it.
Abbey Road, Revolver, then Rubber Soul, Sgt. Pepper, A Hard Day’s Night, White Album are close. They’re all extremely good. Also Band On The Run, Ram, Flaming Pie, All Things Must Pass, Traveling Wilburys Vol 1, Brainwashed, Walls And Bridges, Imagine, Plastic Ono Band and Ringo are good Beatle solo albums.
White Album, there’s something for everyone.
The White Album on repeat in my sleep.
The White Album, sad to see it’s not a part of this. Still love to have it though.
Abbey Road! Last 7 songs!
It’s tough to pick a favorite, but Rubber Soul satisfies every time without fail.
Abbey Road!
Revolver.
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by far. I could listen to the titular song forever.
It’s so hard to choose a favorite but I have to go with The White Album.
Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. It was the first album I listened to by them front to back and I still have a soft spot for it.
Gotta go with Sgt. Pepper’s – it was my intro to the Beatles as a kid.
My mom and dad raised me on the Beatles. Many a fond memories of Revolver, Magical Mystery Tour and Sgt Pepper. I inherited all of their vinyl records but the Beatles albums are in pretty bad shape, would love to win this contest so I can raise my children on one of the best bands in the world on the best format humankind has invented.
Still love to listen to Sgt. Peppers. Definitely my favorite.
Pick…one?
Abbey Road I guess, though I immediately want to name another one. Had I named another one, I would’ve immediately wanted to name Abbey Road. Everything from the iconic cover to the timeless music. Particularly the end of the album. What a way to go out…
The White Album. Apocalyptic and scatterbrained, what’s not to love?
Let it Be. If I had to listen to one album on repeat for the rest of my life, it’s the only one that wouldn’t get old. Also, ‘I’ve Got a Feeling’ rocks so flippin’ hard.
White album, absolute classic, makes me really appreciate vinyl.
Sgt. Pepper. Carries on with the experimentalism of “Tomorrow Never Knows”, while pushing their pop-tendencies to the limit. Catchy yet thought-inducing. And, I mean, “A Day in the Life”… c’mon.
Abbey Road.
Abbey Road – All great tunes , Love side two.
Sgt. Pepper’s. Awesome the whole way through.
Revolver might be the most solid album ever made
It’s a toss up between The White Album and Abbey Road for me.
Abbey Road
Magical Mystery Tour. It’s a perfect album, in my opinions best, and the opposite in quality of the movie, the worst in my opinion(we don’t talk about the sgt. pepper’s movie).
I’d have to say Hard Day’s Night because when I first started getting into music. It was one of the first CD’s I bought and it was my gateway to the rest of the Beatles discography.
Abbey Road, it’s the one I find myself going back to most often, but it’s such a tough call. The medley on side 2 is inspired, and there was so much animosity in the band as it was written it’s amazing that it’s so good and cohesive.
Revolver all the way. That album trips balls.
Abbey Road is my favorite album because of the “Paul is Dead” conspiracy.
A Hard Day’s Night – first album of all original material – no covers, no George & Ringo tunes, no flab, just 13 killer Lennon-McCartney songs (oh, and because I like to be different…)
Abbey Road backwards.
Abbey Road – has all the classics with the most epic ending/medley there ever will be.
This is like picking favorite children, but for the sake of the contest, and cause it was the first one i loved as a kid, and cause not many people pick it…Magical Mystery Tour
Choosing the best “the Beatles” album is like choosing your favorite childhood memory before you were faced with the reality of existence. Do I choose going to Disneyworld at the age of four, where I did indeed meet the “Rubber Soul” of commercial joy? Do I choose the loving trips to the lake of my birth, where my grandfather used a “Revolver”. No, I choose the White Album, the blank template of a turbulent home where each individual showed their merits, and bonded between themselves.
WHITE ALBUM.
These days probably Past Masters Vol. 2. So many good non-album singles. Rain is probably my favourite Beatles song.
Abbey Road for me. Here Comes The Sun reminds me of my daughter.
It’s between Abbey Road and Revolver. I think I’ll go with Abbey Road, because it doesn’t have Yellow Submarine on it.
Revovler. This seems to be the time when the chemistry of the band was at its highest – musically and personally.
Going to go with the White Album. It has so much variety and really is a great example of what The Beatles are.
Revolver. For the two-part guitar in “And Your Bird Can Sing”.
White album – quantity and quality!
Absolutely LOVE the album “Let It Be”. It is one of those albums that I carry with me through every stage of my life. I adore it. Crossing my fingers to win.
Rubber Soul is my favorite. My ex gave it to me and our relationship ended badly, but that STILL wasn’t enough to taint my love for the album Rubber Soul all the way.
Revolver.
I feel like that is the album where every side of Lennon/McCartney as songwriters are showcased for the first time, and it’s just a flawless album in general. I always pick that one over Sgt. Pepper as a creative peak and the seminal “band” record for the Beatles (before the schizophrenic non-collaborative awesomeness of ‘White’ ).
My favorite Beatles album today is Abbey Road. It has a wealth of great tunes – some of which make up the medley on side 2. A great string of tunes masterfully crafted and placed together!
Hard to choose, but I have to go with Abbey Road. It was the first Beatles album I fell in love with and features some of George Harrison’s best work.
Revolver. Eclectic yet cohesive. A perfect 10
Sgt. Peppers
Most definitely Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts club band.
WHITE ALBUM by far. It has the most Paul swag, most John songbirding, most George experimentation, and “Helter Skelter” alone proves that Ringo is one of the most badass drummers of all time. It is the ultimate all-encompassing Beatles record and the best double album ever made.
Revolver
Abbey Road, summed up their career perfectly
It’s tough but I think Revolver just edges out Rubber Soul.
Love me some Rubber Soul
The White Album. My dad, who introduced me to them, loved the early Beatles and then went off them when they got “weird” so he only had those early LPs around and simultaneously I began branching out to the later stuff as I became a teenager so that album is a real transition for me and the Beatles.
Probably The White Album because there is such a wide range of creativity.
It’s almost impossible to pick one favorite album but I’d have to go with ‘The Beatles’ just because it’s the first Beatles album I owned.
Revolver’s the best Beatles album for me.
Magical Mistery Tour!
As a 8 or 9-year old, I used to listen to a different Beatles album on headphones every night before going to bed and I thought then that A Hard Day’s Night was the greatest collection of songs ever. The post-65 stuff was either too psychedelic or too rock for me.
And then I grew up and my musical horizons expanded, not so much because of exposure to “other” music but mostly thanks to the Beatles and the wild diversity of those later albums, which exposed me to more styles than a year of listening to local radio ever could. I had my Rubber Soul/Revolver phase, my White Album phase, etc. I still go through all those phases regularly.
But, eventually, when all is said and done, I always end up coming back to ABBEY ROAD, possibly the grandest final statement a band on the verge of breaking up could ever make.
Rubber Soul: first masterpiece!
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, I used to think this album was overrated (I favored Revolver and then Abbey Road for a while), but I now see the light
Sgt. Peppers, followed closely by Abbey Road and Revolver.
Magical Mystery Tour
Definitely Rubber Soul! The beginning of the transition from the super poppy stuff to just being flat out amazing. And Drive My Car is one of the best songs ever!
Revolver, first one I heard in full. And “Tomorrow Never Knows”. That is all.
can one of your work experience kids please do a tally and graph
i choose revolver, the reason ‘child please’
The White Album. Such an eclectic quilt of random genius all sewn together with one common thread… the masters that wrote and recorded them.
Revolver, it was an early masterpiece of psychedelic pop and signaled things to come. ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ but hopefully I’ll be blessed with this amazing box set…
Rubber Soul taught me what music really could be. I spent a big part of middle school learning all the songs on guitar.
I would probably have to say The White Album. Shows the band at a really interesting place, and has some of their best songs. I still love everything about Revolution, most likely my favorite Beatles song. Don’t judge me.
Hard Day’s Night
The White Album is certainly my favorite. The Beatles, as a band, was beginning to come apart at the seams. Everyone had their own interests at this point and had no qualms against pursuing them. As someone pointed out previously, it’s a creation of four solo artists coming together to make a record, kinda like Deja Vu by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
I have to say that there’s alwats been a special place for Revolver for me.
Revolver. Totally tripped out.
Rubber Soul
With songs like Norwegian wood, hands down.
The White Album, Rocky Raccoon, story of my life
Depends on my mood, Somedays it is Rubber Soul, others Revolver, or maybe it is Sgt. Peppers. Today, I’m feeling the sounds of Rubber Soul.
Revolver- It was the official transitional album for the Beatles in which McCartney’s songs began exploring a more psychedelic musical production and Lennon’s lyrics took a turn for the dark with ‘she said she said’. The absolute perfect album of all time.
The White Album – there’s so much to listen to, so much variety. There’s so much group work on there, yet so much individuality, with strong representation of the personality of all four band members. Intricately crafted, an album you can’t tire of!
I love the White Album because of the range of songwriting present on it, and the fact that, despite the diversity of songs, it all seems to hold together quite well.
Revolver Perfection.
Please Please Me, because it was fresh, raw, and redefined the UK music charts. You have your entire life to put out that first album and they made it count.
My favorite would have to be Revolver. I think it was their first true masterpiece…
The White Album made me not want to listen to any other music I had heard before it for a while.
The White Album made me not want to listen to any of my old music for a while.
The White Album. Come on. No question.
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is my best ! When Psychedelic meet Pop !
Abbey Road
My favourite is, of course the best album in the world – Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band!
revolver + abbey road
Rubber Soul