Alright Beehaw, try to sell me on your favorite album (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by dawt@beehaw.org to c/music@beehaw.org

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I'm going to listen to the top 3 upvoted albums and give you my honest unfiltered thoughts.

Please explain what makes the album special to you. For context, lyrics are very important to me, so I gravitate to music with good storytelling.

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[-] nickb333@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

It's probably worth mentioning their compilation double albums too - 1962-66 ( the red one) and 1967-70 (the blue one). These after i wore out a 45 of Penny Lane when I was 7 or 8.

[-] araquen@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

The Red and Blue albums are awesome, especially since they contain songs you can’t find on their main albums — especially when you only had access to the reduced content Capitol record releases.

[-] nickb333@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

I'm not familiar with your reduced content. As you say Capitol I'm assuming the US? Did they restrict any particular albums or just some tracks/songs?

[-] araquen@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

Capitol shaved off a few songs off the Parlephone equivalent of earlier albums and then released additional albums. https://ultimateclassicrock.com/beatles-us-uk-album-guide/

Right before CDs became huge, Capitol destroyed their Beatles masters, so the first Beatle CDs were Parlephone, which may be what most of the younger generations are used to.