The message from Stuart Dubois rises higher:
 C>I bought this album on CD a couple of days ago.  It's the first time
 C>I've heard the whole thing for at least 15 years and I've got to say
 C>that I'm stunned.  This album is wonderful.  Dare I say it, but I'd even
 C>say that I like this album over any other Beatle album.
 SD> Blasphemy!  First you don't like ELP, and now this?  Where did we go
 SD> wrong?
 SD> Anyway, I could say the same thing about _MMT_.  The White Album
 SD> doesn't have  the flow of _MMT_, _SPLHCB_, or _Abbey Road_, but, much
 SD> like _Physical   Graffiti_, it showed depths one might not have
 SD> suspected in the Beatles.  It  wanders around a lot, and almost comes
 SD> off as  the all-time great comp album  (Lennon songs, McC songs, and
 SD> some Harrison stuff).
For me, it flows better than _Magical Mystery Tour_, but I will not put
down _Tour_ because it contains some of my favorite Beatle stuff
("Flying," "Blue Jay Way," and "Walrus" especially).  However, _The
Beatles_ seems to be much more of a cohesive unit.  I don't know why
exactly.  Plus, there's such a wide variety of styles on it; more than
any other Beatle album.  It affects me on an emotional level that the
other Beatle albums don't.
 C>What I like so much about this is the wide range of styles and ups and
 C>downs.  It's the most Progressive of any of their albums, too.  A couple
 C>of the songs are obvious King Crimson influences.  The only song that I
 C>could really do without is "Revolution 9."
 SD> Yeah, but that "number 9" thing was a major ... event of the 70's, and
 SD> is  remembered by anyone who got familiar with the album.  number 9;
 SD> number 9
Like I've said more recently, I now even like that song.
 SD> White Album is a masterpiece, though, in that they did so much and
 SD> kept the  energy levels so high.  It's still the Beatles.  The worst
 SD> part of White is  still better than Spector's mess on _Let It Be_.
Well, _Let it Be_ has some good stuff, but a lot of it does nothing for
me.  I've never cared for that "Everybody had a wet dream" song,
whatever it's called.
Back to _The Beatles_, though.  I'm just so amazed at how this has
affected me.  I fully expected to not like much of it at all, but I was
proven completely wrong.
NP: "Mammoth" -- Kayak
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- Clark Ray                                                  -
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