I'm more perplexed at how many people voted for The White Album over Revolver.

That's funny because to me, aside from Dr. Robert, Revolver doesn't jump out to me, where as the White Album is a sprawling wreck of an album, and even most of the shitty songs at least remind me of shit my parents used to listen to.

Although Obla-di is unpardonable.

I like both, but after I read that good beatles bio, hearing about the behind the scenes shit, I kinda had a white album renaissance.

I don't hate the White Album or anything but there's so many songs I skip over now usually everything but the Lennon songs, not including the Revolutions either. Aside from the four excluded songs that harry mentioned, Revolver is always a solid to me.

And if I hear more than 100 ms of the already epically shitty 'Wild Honey Pie' I'm usually enraged beyond belief.

The production on Doolitte is terrible. The worst of any Pixies album.

Stop being so damn Scottish.

Cause it GOOG?

It's pretty much the standard standard bearer for The Beatles, isn't it?

Usually either that or Sgt. Pepper's. White Album would have been surprising.

It makes sense to me.

Hard Days Night has some great songs, but is just a little too self-similar. Help has two or three McCartney clunkers. Rubber Soul is warm and fuzzy, but there's just a couple too many retreads. Sgt Pepper is very uneven, and feels way too McCartney heavy. White Album is just too bloated and disjointed, albeit there are some great ideas there. Abbey Road is almost as great, but has too many half-finished ideas.

Revolver is the only album (Rubber Soul comes close) where I feel as though Lennon and McCartney were both on their game at the same level for 5 or 6 tracks each. Plus, it has Taxman, George's most straightforward rocker. Yes, Yellow Submarine sucks, but there's not a single album without one bad song.

I disagree with most of your reasoning there, even though I agree with the conclusion.

Revolver just happens to be the best concise representation of what The Beatles were all about. Both that and Rubber Soul were "bridges" between early and late period Beatles, and of the two, I think Revolver is by far better.

And "Yellow Submarine" doesn't really suck, but it seems like "suck" is the necessary qualification around here for any song that can't be taken seriously, recorded by a canonical artist.

("Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" does just flat suck, though.)

I voted Pavement

Man I'll take "Ob-La-Di" over "Yellow Submarine" any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

I gotta say that my only real beef with Revolver is the same one that I have with Astral Weeks--I just played them too much.