Wednesday, August 13, 2008

"Number nine...number nine...number nine..."

It's hard to pinpoint just one Beatles album to call their greatest. Most magazines state that Sgt. Pepper is their best, while others name Revolver or Rubber Soul. To me, it's always been the White Album, their least cohesive of all, at least when it came to true collaboration (Paul even overdubbed Ringo's drums with his own playing on "Back in the USSR" because he was pissed about the initial take). Even with everyone basically using each other as a glorified studio band on their personal songs, the sheer scale of the work is monumental. I must just have a thing for the audacity of double-albums (See Sign O the Times, Kid A/Amnesiac, 1999, Mellon Collie, The Wall, etc., etc.)




LP 1

LP 2

Enjoy!

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