a favorite. Maybe picking Abbey Road is too easy - being their swan song, so much studio magic going on - but it tends to be the one I go back to most when I am in a Beatles mood.

You always have several choices that make it so darn difficult.

Favorite Beatle song though,

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Was working off of the All Music guide listing, but the whole US/UK release thing had me flustered!

but not really related to the movie (which is a really weird movie - they showed it on our local PBS station a few years ago - had never seen it - charming, interesting - and really weird!)

Although save that, gotta go with Sgt. Pepper's

I've been listening to it since is was first released. I love the energy and the rhythm guitar tones.

I hate all those dirges like Hey Jude and Let It Be they were recording while breaking up. Listen carefully and you can hear a band dissolving note by note.

Thank God they released the BBC stuff, that stuff shows a band at its prime. Like Meet the Beatles.

There are no "bad" Beatles albums. If you ask me which album is best, it's SPLHCB without hesitation. My favorite, however, is probably MMT. Abbey Road, Let it Be, and The Beatles have some incredible material, but the work is not as even from first song to last as it is on Revolver, SPLHCB, and MMT.

The White Album and Abbey Road are fragmented and lack the consistent intensity of their artistic crescendo from Rubber Soul into Revolver, SPLHCB and finally MMT.

TWA starts a series of albums which are much less dense and include material that seems unfinished (by comparison). TWA seems to be mostly McCartney mastering multi tracking somewhat by himself, (drums, keys, etc) not that there's anything wrong with McCartney's happy musings.

MMT is also IMHO the most psychedelic of Beatles albums (musically psychedelic). Less afraid to be moody and dark than SPLHCB. Great audio texture, use of drone ("Blue Jay Way" and "Flying&quot ) and strings ! MMT is as trippy as Dr. John's legendary 1968 Gris Gris album but less obscure, better vocals and more consistently grounded in rhythm.

My runner up would be Revolver (in mono). Recently got a turntable and have been playing vinyl -- so much more presence and harmonic integrity and their early singles seem to make intentional use of the warm fuzzy distortion that is inevitable from jukebox worn 45s.

is the closest thing to a perfect pop music album.

great songs, perfect arrangments, no excess.

Close enough.

But I can go with any of them depending on my mood.