Genre: Beatles pop
Places I remember: Marbecks Records, Kings Recording (Abu Dhabi), The Warehouse and elsewhere since the early seventies
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Love You To
Gear costume: Everything else!
Active compensatory factors: A contender for best Beatle album, therefore often a contender for best album of all time, Revolver often fights it out with Sgt Pepper for those honours, The Beatles (a.k.a. the white album) is my all time fav from the fabs. Then there's Abbey Rd.
It's all subjective isn't it, relevant to how old you are, when you chanced upon these glorious albums, what you associate with listening to them and so on.
What is beyond subjectivity is how these songs STILL sound cutting edge. Chuck on Doctor Robert, or Taxman, or Love You To (sic), or I'm Only Sleeping, or Got To Get You Into My Life, and wind up the volume!
See what I mean? George Martin's genius for a suitably exploratory sound landscape complements the brilliant songs, singing and playing.
Note well: I didn't even mention Tomorrow Never Knows in that revelatory song list above. Or Eleanor Rigby. Or Yellow Submarine.
Maybe it IS the best album of all time!
Where do they all belong? That heading comes from Eleanor Rigby btw. Capitol were still playing silly buggers in the U.S. with Beatle releases. That would finally end with their next release: Sgt Pepper.
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