So far, today was all about The Beatles. My favorite album from them:
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
Revolver is my personal fave … but Rubber Soul is next
Rubber Soul is a truly great album and was my fave for a while, but got edged out just because there's a few songs on there that are too reminiscent of their early days, a bit rough round the edges. The younger you are the less you care about rough edges.
Revolver then became a favourite, with it's wildly differing but all excellent tracks from Drive My Car to Eleanor Rigby to Tomorrow Never Knows and the first George sitar piece. Revolver has now been edged out as the tracks are just too diverse for it's own good, each track having it's own mood point.
My favourite is currently Magical Mystery Tour:
Magical Mystery Tour EP/Album
The UK version is an EP with 6 songs, but the US version is actually better as it has 11 songs and includes 5 great 1967 Singles including Strawberry Fields, Penny Lane and All You Need Is Love, all of which fit the sound of the album brilliantly.
And the great thing about this album is the sheer polish and shine. Strawberry Fields was supposedly the song which first sent Brian Wilson of the Beach boys into a mild trauma of inadequacy. If you like brass, and particularly the horn section, then this is certainly the album for you.
It's also the album where there's an immense amount of post-production on each track, with no end of swirling bits and pieces loading every track, plus a (now common) purely instrumental interlude piece with it's own title. But, unlike other Beatles albums, the whole feels completely complimentary, each track sounding alike enough to never break consistency, but each song deviating enough to never once sound repetitive.
It's one of those albums where you love the currently playing track, thinking it the best song ever made, but instantly forgetting it as soon as the next track plays and becomes the new best ever song, each song topping the last, but constantly walking around the same peak like
Penrose's Stairs.
Edit: nb, you can never be quite sure if the speed of Youtube videos is the correct speed, what with everyone trying to dodge DMCA and takedowns etc, and I think the link I posted is a bit slower than I remember it, so probably better to search each song individually and create your own playlist album.
