Vinyl Me Please Essentials

Jan said:
Still, I would say demon days or the Fionas or even that stooges album in a previously unreleased mix were bigger gets for vmp than revolver would be. Sure you're not getting any bigger and more essential than the Beatles but chances are high what you would be getting is a colour variant of a remaster that is widely available in black for cheaper everywhere else.
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My money is on it being the Blues Breakers. It’s such a VMP choice. Especially in a situation where there is a plethora of beloved popular albums it could be instead
 
to be fair a giles martin remix of revolver is probably going to tempt me to get the VMP release... seeing as i didn't like my 2009 CD stereo copy of revolver (hard panning is one of those things i just.. loathe and i never got why everyone called it the best album they made).... but the fact that all of these records are pretty easily available would make it too easy... its better than if it was pet sounds where there is already a much better sounding version. but it still feels kinda like a joke
 
The numbers of B-related essential albums from 66 is kinda crazy. All of which I already own a copy of: Pet Sounds and Revolver are 1&2 on my all-time list. But there's also Dylan, BB with EC, and East West. All more essential than most "Essentials". This is where they go with a complete curveball, right.
 
Plumcrazyfx said:
The numbers of B-related essential albums from 66 is kinda crazy. All of which I already own a copy of: Pet Sounds and Revolver are 1&2 on my all-time list. But there's also Dylan, BB with EC, and East West. All more essential than most "Essentials". This is where they go with a complete curveball, right.
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SGT Barry Sadler.
 
Revolver in Mono is the way to go ..the 2009 stereo isn’t great imo ..although we get the boosted bass it’s at the detriment to the overall mix ..I prefer the 80’s cd over the 2009

Personally can’t see VMP getting anywhere near a Beatles album ....the Byrds Fifth Dimemsion is a great album . But I think the Notorious Byrd’s brother is their best

A mono Blues breakers is ok but again it’s tad obvious, the follow up with Peter Green “a hard road”..now that’s a great pick
 
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people keep saying that revolver is probably the best beatles album and yeah it has some pretty good songs (taxman, elenor rigby, here there everywhere) but is it really a masterpiece with all the more just "ok" tracks like dr robert or even I'm only sleeping, which i never really was a fan of... maybe the 2009 mix butchered the loudness or energy the original album had but i have the same "i wish i liked it more" attitude i had with rubber soul


(sgt peppers is their best, and maybe the white album sometimes.. maybe it has to do with the louder mixing or something)
 
duke86fan said:
people keep saying that revolver is probably the best beatles album and yeah it has some pretty good songs (taxman, elenor rigby, here there everywhere) but is it really a masterpiece with all the more just "ok" tracks like dr robert or even I'm only sleeping, which i never really was a fan of... maybe the 2009 mix butchered the loudness or energy the original album had but i have the same "i wish i liked it more" attitude i had with rubber soul


(sgt peppers is their best, and maybe the white album sometimes.. maybe it has to do with the louder mixing or something)
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You forgot possibly my favorite Beatles track album of all time…

Revolver is a super tight record, All killer, no filler. I don’t think any song on the album exceeds 3 minutes in length. It probably just depends on what you are looking for in a Beatles album.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
You forgot possibly my favorite Beatles track album of all time…

Revolver is a tight record. All killer, no filler. It probably just depends on what you are looking for in a Beatles album.
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thats fair.. i never really talked about Tomorrow Never Knows because embarrassingly.. I've barely listened to it, i owned the CD but never got to it by the time i got back from the car ride... i think I'm more into the harder beatles tracks and the more artsy stuff, where the more lackadaisical tracks kinda just bored me

(also listening to it louder mildly helps)
 
duke86fan said:
thats fair.. i never really talked about Tomorrow Never Knows because embarrassingly.. I've barely listened to it, i owned the CD but never got to it by the time i got back from the car ride... i think I'm more into the harder beatles tracks and the more artsy stuff, where the more lackadaisical tracks kinda just bored me

(also listening to it louder mildly helps)
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“Tomorrow Never Knows” still blows my mind, often imitated, never duplicate. For a band like the Beatles to make music like that is bonkers.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
“Tomorrow Never Knows” still blows my mind, often imitated, never duplicate. For a band like the Beatles to make music like that is bonkers.
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i can see the love of it... i just have heard other wall of sound music that was made after it so i am not as attached..

its one of those albums that's timeless but by being timeless it also feels to compare it to either modern works of noise or the traditional classic rock of the day (abbey road may also have that issue for me... they are both solid B tier, probably even A tier beatles albums... just not the best stuff ever made like some claim)
 
duke86fan said:
i can see the love of it... i just have heard other wall of sound music that was made after it so i am not as attached..

its one of those albums that's timeless but by being timeless it also feels to compare it to either modern works of noise or the traditional classic rock of the day (abbey road may also have that issue for me... they are both solid B tier, probably even A tier beatles albums... just not the best stuff ever made like some claim)
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Wall of sound?
 
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