And here we are to it at last–the album that started the great race between the Fab Four and the Beach Boys wherein we, the listeners won. It’s often considered by critics to be the first truly great record the Beatles ever made, and listening to their catalogue in succession, this is the first in their catalogue that sounds like it was made by the best band in the world instead of just the most popular.
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Record #27: The Beatles – Meet The Beatles (1964)
For a long time, I held the opinion that everything the Beatles did before Sgt. Pepper’s was pretty close to worthless–just mindless pop music. However, after a while, that threshold changed to Revolver, and then to Rubber Soul, until my current state where my music snob has admitted defeat in the face of the Beatles’ early catalogue.
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