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But which is best? There's only one way to find out...
Posted by Handsome.P.Wonderful on 7 September 2009 - 7:41am.
The Beatles media blitzkreig over the weekend was interesting, but I think I've had enough now, thank you very much. It did get me thinking, though. I'm sure that this the first time that all the albums have been rereleased at the same time. So which one do you reckon will be the top seller?
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Sgt Pepper...
is still accepted as being their best album by a great number of people who are wrong about such things. It will sell the most although on artistic merits it shouldn't.
Followed
by Abbey Road, I reckon. They're the most well known, coffee table style.
But 'Abbey Road' would be up there on merit in my book...
I just love that record. Cheers you up better than Prozac ever could.
Great album
for sure, but my favoutite in the feel good stakes is Magical Mystery Tour. Although I love all their work bar one or two individual tracks, it would probably my desert island choice as well, if pushed.
Seconded
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/which-album-says-summer-you#commen...
My Prediction
Revolver
Sgt Pepper
Abbey Road
Rubber Soul
The White Album
I'd say ...
Sgt Pepper
Abbey Road
Rubber Soul
Revolver
Help!
As we're talking average punters and not obsessives I'd be surprised if The White Album features, although it's the one that I am most eager to hear.
Do you think EMI/Apple will also - in say 6 months or so - re-release all the re-mastered singles and E.P.s with little picture sleeves and cute box packaging?
Popularity of the white album
I was browsing in a bookshop yesterday, and came across a "Best-Selling Albums of the 60's" book, which amazingly had "The Beatles" at number 1... if I'd known I was going to write this today I'd have paid more attention to where the publishers got their sales figures from!
And apparently "Abbey Road" was the biggest selling Beatles album in the US, because it was released directly in the wake of the "Paul Is Dead" rumours, so everyone bought it looking for clues...
if we're talking
average punters, then surely they've got the cd's and aren't going to care about EMI's re-polish. I think and hope EMI are negatively surprised with poor sales figures. The whole campaign has been so over the top for something that has been readily available for so long, and the way the media has fawned with what seems to me a completely uncritical eye.
Does anybody really the think the manin the street cares?
If said streets are these, maybe
http://www.abbeyroad.com/visit/
http://www.ukstudentlife.com/Britain/Music/Beatles/Liverpool/PennyLane.j...
That should be
who cares what the man in the street thinks. "I've met the man in the street and he's a c**t!'
Amazon.co.uk pre-order ranking he say:
Abbey Road
SPLHCB
Revolver
The Beatles
Past Masters
Rubber Soul
Please Please Me
Let it Be
Magical Mystery Tour
I'm really surprised...
...that the White Album isn't in there. Like an earlier poster, it's probably the only one I'll buy.
Look again...
...it's there under its 'proper' title.
My mistake
I've no idea which album will sell the most
as I think it's a demographic thing; the albums will vary drastically in popularity by buyer's age group.
I wouldn't mind betting that for persons of a certain age, let's say those who first became record buyers somewhere between the mid sixties and the mid seventies, Abbey Road will top the list, followed by Pepper, Revolver and The Beatles.
It's a joyous, inventive, wide ranging and genuinely progressive work that, for my money, has never been matched.
I'll hazard a guess about the order of the other three, and say that the order in which I've listed them above is also their relative order of popularity.
I thought your favourite track might be
'Dig A Pony'? How did you get on out West?
Fab.
Of course. Three inches of rain in the first 48 hours (spent in the sales room, so didn't bother us anyway) then fine blustery weather with the odd (every half hour) short sharp shower. Bracing. We've already booked the cottage for next year!
I'm amazed that...
...A Hard Day's Night hasn't featured in any of the lists posted so far: if you're only familiar with the mono album, then the stereo version will blow yer socks off.
Should that be
Maybe I'm Amazed? :-)
Sort of a thread jack
but isn't Help the longest film ever made?
Well, just 90 minutes the last time I checked.
*gets coat*
The director's cut
is called 'Heeeeelp!!!!!'
It is 180 minutes.
Over the last few years "The
Over the last few years "The Best Beatles Album Ever" has bounced between Sgt Pepper, White Album, Abbey Road & Revolver (in an ever changing bi-monthly cycle).
Last time I took any notice of this, the winner was Rubber Soul
(copied from similar thread http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/beatles-back-charts)
u may take the p!$s
but heres how NME readers currently rank them =
http://www.nme.com/rate/beatlesalbums/13