I've played The Blue Album more than any other Greatest Hits Package it seems. Even though there are some choice songs that absolutely belong on here, I still give it the rating it gets.

Let It Be is a solid album, but not a great one. Anything that follows Abbey Road is just an impossible task and is destined to be a huge let down IMO. This isn't an album that I have listened to a whole lot over the years. Having said that, this album does have some of the greatest Beatles songs in their entire catalog with Across The Universe, Let It Be, The Long And Winding Road and Get Back. But I usually just go straight for the Greatest Hits package to hear those.

Fave Songs: Across The Universe, Let It Be, The Long And Winding Road and Get Back

Abbey-fuucking-Road. ABBEY-FUUCKING-ROAD!!! ABBEY-FUUUUCKING-ROAD!!!!!!!

This is one amazing piece of work. This is where it all came together (pun not intended). Everything that had been hinted at on the last few albums reaches an apex here. Now, a lot of people like to throw out descriptive words such as "tight", "well-structured", etc...in describing Abbey Road. Well there's a reason for that. It simply is the tightest album there is. There isn't one clunker anywhere to be found here. Another thing that I really dig about Abbey Road is how a majority of songs segue right into the next, which does give the album a coehsive feel in that it all sounds like one big song. A true "album" in every sense of the word.

Another thing, a lot of people think that Let It Be was the final recording of The Beatles. Yes, it's true that Let It Be was the final product that was released to the public. But Abbey Road was in fact the last thing they recorded together as a band before breaking up.

Fave Songs: Every-fuuucking-one-of-them!!!!!!

But I gotta point out what I think are the Creme de la Creme songs here. Come Together, Something, Oh! Darling, I Want You, Here Comes The Sun, Because, She Came in Through the Bathroom Window, Golden Slumbers, Carry The Weight and The End. Carry The Weight gets the MVP here. Duh!!

George Harrison really got to shine here.

I have been playing this all day and will definitely keep playing it till I drift off to sleep tonight.  Album cover ftw!! It's one of, if not the most iconic cover of all time. Paul is barefoot! Uh oh! Does that mean he is.....

...naw.

FYI, I totally object to Rolling Stone putting Abbey Road at #14. It belongs in the #1 slot. Can I get a "hell yeah?"

I'll skip all the obvious praising of the "White Album" and just jump right into how I came up with the rating for this. First off, the "White Album" is not perfect, in large part to one "song". That song of course is Revolution 9. It's nothing more then a series of noises, loops, repeating words, etc...And it's something I rarely listen to...if at all. Having said that, Revolution 9 belongs on the album since it has taken on mythic proportions by being the catalyst for the "Paul Is Dead" urban legend. With all the sh*t this song caused back then and the fact that it's still a hot button topic today (even though it was proven to be a hoax. Duh.), I bump the rating back up a half a star.

Fave Songs: Back To USSR, Dear Prudence, Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da, Helter Skelter, Long, Long, Long, Revolution 1 and Good Night with While My Guitar Gently Weeps getting the MVP nod for the entire album IMO.

Revolver to me is the true beginning of what The Beatles are all about. From Taxman to Eleonor Rigby to Love You To to Yellow Submarine to She Said She Said to Tomorrow Never Knows all pushed the envelope of what the band could do, thus changing the course of music history that's still being felt to this day. And it only gets better from here on out. I remember the first time I ever heard of Yellow Submarine as a kid and thinking it was the dumbest, hokiest song I had ever heard. Over the years it's just grown on me to the point where I just think its so f*cking awesome now. Ringo ftw!! FYI, playing Yellow Submarine on The Beatles Rock Band gives me a thrill that I just shouldn't be getting from a game with so many other great songs on there.

I can agree with Rolling Stone's placement here.  If not at #3, then  definitely Top 5.  I have so many favorite albums that I'm trying to keep them all in check of where each should go. I will be playing this one for the rest of the night.

Fave Songs: Everyone of the songs to me is classic. But my fave of the bunch is definitely Tomorrow Never Knows.

Sick sick sick cover.  The art is just....too cool.

Help! is not a perfect album. It has a few songs that I can do without. But the songs that really work, are perfect in every way. Of course the songs are the title track Help!, Ticket To Ride and the one and only Yesterday. As always, I disagree with Rolling Stone Magazine's spot for this one. I personally think that A Hard Day's Night is a much better album than that of Help! And yet, RS has this one charting higher than the other. Eh?

Fave Songs: Help!, You've Got to Hide Your Love Away, Ticket To Ride, Yesterday and Dizzy Miss Lizzy

So Abbey Road it is 

Duh!

Shocking, but I don't have their first 2 albums. I fully intend to complete my collection....someday. It's ironic that I don't have the one album that has one of my all time favorite Beatles song from early in their career. Of course I'm talking about Love Me Do, which is found on Please Please Me. The Harmonica intro is just....awesome and so tasty on the ears. Who doesn't love that? Like most people, I got my start with The Beatles by way of Greatest Hits LP's and the first time I ever heard that song was with that. But of course the biggest monster hit on Please Please Me was none other than Twist and Shout.