The Great Beatles Experiment

Just recently, I was listening to a few Beatles tracks when I was putting something together for my beautiful wife Helen for her birthday, and I thought to myself - and not for the first time in my life - that I had never actually sat down and listened to a Beatles album. And by that, I don't mean a compilation album. I have the best of those - 1 - and of course my mother ensured there was plenty of Beatles played when I was a kid, but as to the actual albums, I have never heard one.

When the ABC recently did their My Favourite Album show, where normal people (and me) could put in their votes, The Beatles featured prominantly as always. Abbey Road was at four, Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was at 5, The White Album was at 12, Revolver was at 13. The list itself is intersting to look at, and worth discussion or argument.

http://www.abc.net.au/myfavouritealbum/top100.htm

At my favourite music site, Rate Your Music (http://rateyourmusic.com) they also have a Best All Time Album list, compiled from the literally tens of thousands of people who, like me, rate all their albums at the site.
On this list, Revolver comes in at number 2, Abbey Road at number 4, the White Album at number 11, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band at number 26, and Rubber Soul at number 29.
Again, the list is interesting to look at for discussion and argument.
http://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/all-time

Anyway - I came to the conclusion that I needed to find out what all the fuss was about. Were these albums really that good? Have I been missing something for all these years? There was only one way to go about it correctly. So I have scraped and scavenged and searched, and found copies of all of The Beatles albums, from Please Please Me to Let It Be.

So now I will be listening to them all, in order, and deciding for myself. And of course, putting it all down in my blog.

Let us see how we go! :)