The Stereogum prizewagon is back today to give away one of the hottest items out — the stereo edition of the Beatles vinyl box Apple/EMI put out earlier this fall (here’s the product link). To enter the sweeps, you need be a fan of Stereogum on Facebook and comment with your favorite Beatles album (maybe a sentence about it, too?) via Facebook Connect (do not use your ‘Gum user account on this post — we’ll have to be able to check if you are a fan of Stereogum on FB when the sweepstakes ends). Sweepstakes ends 11/29 at 6 PM EST and the winner will be picked at random. An exhaustive list of the LPs is included below (via Press Release).
Please Please Me
“Love Me Do” and “P.S. I Love You” are presented in mono
(North American LP debut in stereo)With The Beatles
(North American LP debut in stereo)
A Hard Day’s Night
(North American LP debut in stereo)Beatles For Sale
(North American LP debut in stereo)Help!
Features George Martin’s 1986 stereo remixRubber Soul
Features George Martin’s 1986 stereo remixRevolver
Original albumSgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Packaging includes replica psychedelic inner sleeve, cardboard cutout sheet and additional insertMagical Mystery Tour
Packaging includes 24-page colour bookThe Beatles (double album)
Packaging includes double-sided photo montage/lyric sheet and 4 solo colour photosYellow Submarine
“Only A Northern Song” is presented in mono. Additional insert includes original American liner notes.
Abbey Road
Original albumLet It Be
Original album
Past Masters, Volumes One & Two (double album)
“Love Me Do” (original single version), “She Loves You,” “I’ll Get You,” and “You Know My Name
(Look Up The Number)” are presented in mono. Packaging, notes and photographic content is based
on the 2009 CD release.
The set also includes a 252-page book of photos and context.
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Sgt Peppers!
abbey road for me
I’ve always liked “Revolver” mostly because I like all the loud rockers (“And Your Bird Can Sing”) and slow ones (“Here, There and Everywhere”) equally. Plus “Taxman” is just awesome.
Abbey Road
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Revolver
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Revolver! And Taxman is my favorite song. I listen to it before every microecon test I take.
Revolver, simply because “For No One” is my favorite Beatles song, and the rest of it holds up despite the unfortunate presence of “Yellow Submarine.”
The Beatles (White Album) is probably my favorite. I think in some ways hearing this as a child opened my mind to the possibilities of the “album” as a format, something that has informed my listening habits to this day.
Revolver!
Rubber Soul
“Revolver” – closing with Tomorrow Never Knows is a sign of what was to come.
Revolver. ‘She Said She Said’ drenches my mind in acid-soaked vibes e’ry time.
revolver – awesome cover art and ‘tomorrow never knows.’ need i say more?
Revolver!
Abbey Road. The drum solo, the primal scream, the medley, and the overall perfection.
Abbey Road. George Harrison songwriting at its finest.
With The Beatles! So many classic covers and originals and they still sound hungry! Great pop tunes, bet it’d sound great on vinyl!
Revolver
Let it Be
“That was ‘Can You Dig It’ by Georgie Wood, and now we’d like to do ‘Hark, the Angels Come’”
Revolver – no album in history is as interesting, memorable and forward-thinking.
As much as I do adore the late-career Beatles stuff like Revolver and Sgt. Pepper’s, With The Beatles has always been my favorite — simplistic pop tunes at their very best.
Magical Mystery Tour has always been my favorite; it’s got “Fool on the Hill”. But it’s very close to every other Beatles record.
Rubber Soul – the perfect Sunday morning record.
The Beatles (White Album)
My favorite album (Today) is Abbey Road. I love how the second half of the album flows from one song to the next, leading up to their grand finale.
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no, but seriously, it’s Sgt. Pepper’s. I was 10 when my guitar teacher burned me a copy and it’s still one of the best pieces of music I’ve heard.
Let it Be. for better or worse it is the only Beatles album I can listen to end to end no matter my mood.
Has to be “Rubber Soul”. A real turning point for the group, and it’s just full of great tunes!
The White Album. Something for errrryone on there, and the first (but certainly not last) time we got to see John Lennon in the nude! #IGOTBLISTERSONMYFINGERS
Definitely “Revolver.”
In the year 50000000 people will still be listening to Revolver.
Rubber Soul was my favorite when I was a kid, and it still is
Magical Mystery tour
Revolver. I’ll never forget the first time I heard it, it opened up a whole new world of music for me.
The White Album. There might be something for everyone in it, but it definitely has everything for me. Best flowing sequence of songs ever.
Rubber Soul hands down is my favourite album because it has so many of my favorite Beatle songs on it, especially In My Life.
Abbey Road.
Abbey Road, because the medley makes me happier than any stretch of any other album.
Definitely Rubber Soul. There’s just something about opening with “Drive My Car” that gets me every time.
The White Album
White Album!!!
Abbey Road. Not only does it have the immaculate medley on Side B, but you have George’s finest moments as a Beatle, the best harmonies of any Beatles album, and some Lennon classics (“Come Together,” “I Want You.”) Hell, even Ringo penned a good song here!
Magical Mystery Tour because it makes little sense and it’s easy to love it because of it.
Rubber Soul – love the introduction of the sitar in the Beatles music. Nowhere Man, Michelle, In My Life…all great songs in the Beatles catalogue.
Abbey Road. The side two medley is perfect.
Look fellas, It’s Lisa in the Sky! No diamonds though.
White Album. So expansive! Every facet of every Beatles era (and even future solo careers) is represented to some degree.
Revolver : it is the most consistently brilliant. Epic album !
hard days night
Revolver because it’s the album that changed everything and featured every member of the Beatles at their peak.
The White Album. “Happiness Is A Warm Gun” is far and away my favorite Beatles songs, and I to try whatever Paul was smoking when he wrote “Rocky Raccoon”.
White Album. Because it’s pretty damn good.
Help. It’s where things started to get interesting.
Rubber Soul! First album that got me into The Beatles!
‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’
It used to be ‘Abbey Road’, but the flow and conceptual genius on ‘Sgt. Pepper’s’ has surpassed it in my mind as of late. The trippy, time-bending (Where else would you find songs based on Victorian fairground posters?) experimental nature of the album is constructed perfectly, plus ‘A Day In The Life’ is a stellar end to a stellar album.
Some of my first memories of anything, not just music, are listening to a cassette tape my dad had made off of his old record of Revolver in the late 1980s, and it will probably always be my favorite.
ABBEY FRIGGEN ROAD! Oddly enough, this has been a recent appreciation due to my realization that Ringo Starr is amazing on this album. Not that he wasn’t previously, but that album is the Bible of tasteful yet imaginative drumming. ‘Come Together’ is enough evidence for that.
Either Rubber Soul or Revolver: “Norwegian Wood,” “Taxman,” “Eleanor Rigby,” “I’m Looking Through You,” “If I Needed Someone,” etc. Pure gold.
The White Album has always been my favorite. It was the first Beatles album I ever heard and quite a crazy intro to the band.
White Album. Because Why Don’t We Do It In the Road.
Revolver. Hands down.
Yoko Ono’s Seasons of Glass!
Season. Dammit. (seriously, it’s good)
Revolver
Rubber Soul. It is a perfect pop record, yet none of the songs were released as singles.
it’s all about Rubber Soul for me. i dont know if anyone has ever done folk rock better than the Beatles’ pretty much only foray into the genre. cool stuff
Revolver. I love the interplay between Lennon’s rock, and McCartney’s pop on this record.
Revolver, because it’s a varied and nuanced record
Abbey Road. Harrison’s Something and the best 15 minutes of music this side of Beethoven’s 9th!
Revolver. Taxman is the best thing they ever did.
Abbey Road!
Can’t choose a favorite Beatles album, (maybe Rubber Soul?) but Paul McCartney’s RAM is a stone cold classic to me. It was Indie Pop before that term existed.
sgt. peppers. simply because one of the best songs ever: a day in the life
Today my favorite Beatles record is ABBEY ROAD. Not a clunker in the bunch. Amazing that a the end they could pull together a create such magic.
Gotta go with Abbey Road.
Sheesh. It’s hard to choose a favorite Beatles album, but mine would have to be between Abbey Road and Revolver. I play either of those puppies, and when a song starts, I exclaim, “This one’s my favorite!” ….only to say it every freakin’ time a new track begins. They’re all my favorite.
Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, because the cover is one of the best ever, and it includes such great songs as “A Day in the Life”, maybe one of the best songs of The Beatles.
abbey road
I adore the diverse styles and consistent quality of The Beatles (White Album).
White album – obscure songs. I mean come on “Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill” classic
Revolver. It lies in between their pop beginning and their experimental end, for a perfect combination of the two.
I’m going to go with Revolver. The songs are all classics.
It’s Revolver with a bullet (yeah, I said it). It’s a perfect collection of songs that signals the transition that the band was making artistically. And the cover is every bit as iconic as Srgt. Pepper.
Probably Revolver? Though Abbey Road is close.
Magical Mystery Tour hands down! Great composition on the entire record!
If I have to choose, I’ll go with the White Album. It covers so many genres – pop, experimental, country, metal, folk, blues, saloon music…
I mean, seriously, how many bands can put together an album like it that still has such great flow and undoubtedly still works as a collective piece? Do songs like “Good Night,” “Helter Skelter,” “Julia,” “Yer Blues,” (etc, etc) get the recognition they deserve?
It’s full of storytelling, imagery, ridiculousness, and flat-out discord. You can really tell in which direction each member was going as an artist. Even so, some of the most beautiful Beatles songs ever written are on this album.
A side note is that my dad introduced me to the Beatles pretty much while still in the womb, and we were being silly and singing “I’m So Tired” a few hours before he died in a car accident. I always thought it was fitting that one of my last memories of him alive is of a Beatles song.
Revolver is a good one. Good luck everyone!
Rubber Soul is my favorite. Simple, beautiful songwriting.
Revolver. It has the best of all Beatles worlds.
As a kid, I would’ve said Sgt. Pepper’s or maybe the white album. But I’ve since evolved into a different kind of music fan and Abbey Road has stood the test of time (and my maturation).
My favorite is Revolver as my 7 year old daughter first fell in love with “good day sunshine” as a toddler while in the car insisting that i repeat it over and over again. They’ve had a love affair with them ever since… i’d love to be able to buy all the records to add to my record collection to enjoy with my girls but sadly can’t afford to.
Abbey Road.
THE WHITE ALBUM.
SO MUCH VARIETY.
The Beatles (White Album) has been my favorite since college.
i don’t have a favorite album, because honestly i dont think ive ever sat down and listened to one in full. not because i dislike them, just because they obviously have been ubiquitous forever, and we all know numerous songs whether we want to or not. so with me, that has resulted in just never having the desire to listen to them of my own accord. this contest could sure change that though.
For ages it was The White Album but it’s definitely Abbey Road nowadays.
Gotta be Rubber Soul, the most beautiful Beatles record.
Gotta go with The White Album. So representative of the band. So much to enjoy.
The “White Album” rocks my world the most.
Revolver definitely