Beatles Fans: Which era is your favorite?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

When I was growing up my favorites without a doubt were the albums from Magical Mystery Tour/Sgt. Pepper's onwards.

The more I listen to their earlier stuff, the more and more I like it. I really think the Beatles rocked a lot harder than I've given them credit for.

[Beware the Beast Man]

1. Before Epstein cleaned them up,

they were a fairy raw, raunchy rock & roll band. On "Anthology 1," their early live recordings were downright heavy.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

2. Even though I love those late albums, my taste in what I like to listen to

runs more towards this heavy early stuff.

It's like an entirely different band, almost.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My absolutely fav stuff was after they 'd been introduced

on the Ed Sullivan show....

Yeah, I know I'm old!

Yellow Submarine...and all the songs from that era.....

They live in my memory!


:hi:

[Whoa_Nelly]

5. I saw them on Sullivan, too!

I was deeply in love with Paul :blush:

[blue neen]

4. Funny you should ask that.

My son and I were just listening to Past Masters (Vol.1) today. "I Feel Fine" and "She's A Woman" back to back. It cooks!

So, I guess you could say I like the early years best. :)

Your thread inspired me to go listen to some more Beatles!

"You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"
"Girl"
"And Your Bird Can Sing"
"Drive My Car"

and so on and so on and so on....

[JudyM]

6. Side 2 of Abbey Road is so fine

The way the songs run together... excellent stuff.

[Floogeldy]

7. My Story

I was 12 or 13 when they hit the scene. I loved their stuff more than anything else, e.g., "I Wanna Hold Your Hand," "She Loves You," "Don't Bother Me," bla bla bla.

I loved several more years' worth but there came a time when they outgrew my capacity to understand, comprehend and love their music and times. They outgrew me and out-matured me.

However, in later years, I was able to rediscover and understand their progression. I had to play a little catch up.

As a result, I cannot really divide their creations into eras as I now see the whole picture for what it was. Which is basically seamless.

[trackfan]

8. As a friend of mine once aptly put it,

"People think they're soft...but they're hard". I couldn't have said it better myself.

[jpgray]

9. Everything from around Meet the Beatles to and including Revolver

And then parts and bits of all the rest.

[begin_within]

10. Rubber Soul - Yesterday & Today - Revolver - Sgt. Pepper

was their creative peak

[corporatemedia]

11. The 1940s were the best - " I Wanna Hold Your Rattle"

[DainBramaged]

12. None, I am one of the few who hated their music

To this day if it pops on terra or satellite, it's gone. Yet I love power pop today. I remember listening to the Beatles first appearance in NY on WABC AM with Cousin Bruce gushing like a 6-mouthed whore over them.

And I also remember the Viet Nam war, a 1963 Galaxie, Jean Shepard on the radio, Testor's Model Glue that really held plastic together, waiting to become 16 and get a job at the Guilden's mustard factory, surviving freshman year, and a girl named Darlene with these very large mounds under her shirt, and the defunct slaughter house a quarter mile from my home which smelled so bad in summer you'd puke.

And everyone talking about who was better, the Stones or the Beatles.

I guess Mick and the boys won. They'll play till they die on stage.

[Burma Jones]

15. I don't think Longevity counts........

That being said, I like Pink Floyd more than The Who more than Zep more than the Stones.....And I have the Beatles so memorized, I don't listen to them anymore....

I remember - in Gary, Indiana, inversion days when the yellow soot from the coke (fuel, not cola) plants would create a heavy fog the color of pus and millions of dead fish blanketing the beaches of Lake Michigan......

I remember my Uncle doing two tours in Nam and coming back to be killed in the line of duty as an MP.

And the Testors Glue was indeed superior to whatever they're selling these days.....

Junior Coot rant off......

[Maine-ah]

13. all of 'em.

There isn't one part about them that I don't like.

Now, I wasn't born until '74, but my mom had/has all of the records, so I was raised on 'em. She had always wanted to see them live, but never got the chance. So, a couple of summers ago I took her to see Ringo in Boston (He & John are my favorites) and it was just freakin' awsome!

[Ellen Forradalom]

14. Mid-sixties: Rubber Soul, Revolver

Without a doubt. They'd left behind the squeaky-clean look but hadn't gone full-on hippy yet.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

16. Yeah, I kind of think of Rubber Soul and Revolver as its own little era.

[asthmaticeog]

18. I'll second that - and for the exact reasons you stated. nt

[catzies]

17. '62-'66 the Beatlemania/Fab Four years. We're the same age

being as I was born in July '62 when Ringo joined.


My earliest memories include the Beatles & there are pictures of me at 3 & 4 years old with the photos from the albums on the walls of my room. Their story was a parallel to my childhood. Young & cute, the world loved us, then drugs came in and changed everything. My parents divorced in '65 & my mom really got into drugs, & I remember lying in bed & being scared listening to Sgt. Pepper & later the White Album coming from the livingroom and hearing strange voices and smelling the funny-smelling smoke. The Beatles breaking up was worse than my parents' divorce for me.

I only like their early stuff - that's the last time life was innocent and full of promise and dreams for me.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

21. I'm sorry that what I consider to be some truly great albums are tied up

with unpleasant associations with drug use and the dissolution of your family. I know how that is.

[catzies]

22. S'okay, no problemo. And that's nothing compared to my Woodstock story

when I got hurt and David Crosby came to help me & no one could find my mom to tell me I was hurt because she was off tripping somewhere.

[Radical Activist]

19. Abbey Road & Let It Be

Most disagree but I think they were at their best near the end.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

20. I really like "Let it Be", even though it's generally not rated as highly

as the other late albums.

I remember my parents had a 45 single of "Get Back", and I think the flip side was "Come Together" (?). Good memories.