Dewrede said:

Exactly. Yeah, it is a great site. There are a couple of great books about this as well. man, when I was 9 or 10, I knew this girl, Susan, who was 16, and she had this amazing book about Paul Is Dead and all of these clues in The Beatles music and pictures. At the time, it scared the living shit out of me. She was knee deep into it, too. That's where I first heard all of this "I buried Paul" and "Paul is dead, miss him, miss him" and "Paulie is bloddy", etc on the records. She would play me this. Most of it is backwards. Some of it is not. Her dad was into electronics and he rigged their turntable so just with a flick of this switch, it would play the records in reverse without scratching them. I would be sitting there on the floor, my eyes as wide as saucers, scared to death, listening, as Susan would hip me to where all these "hidden messages" about Paul being dead were placed in the songs. There are all kinds of shit in their pictures, album covers, etc. I loved it!

Funny story

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It's close , but For me, Abbey Road gets the edge...

btw, Yeah ,Bgz, this is one of those books:



R. Gary Patterson is like the Fox Mulder of Rock and Roll. He's got two other books:



and the latest:







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paligap said:

I have all of that shit. Gary Patterson is no joke!

To me, Abbey Road is maybe their most perfect beautifully produced album, but the songs on Revolver may be stronger & happened at a more inspired time.

I prefer later Beatles to middle Beatles, so I choose Abbey Road. It is so perfectly produced it sounds like it came 10 years after the White Album. To me it hardly even sounds dated. Side 1 is simply a collection of songs--each one a classic. And side 2 is like nothing the Beatles ever did--the perfect flow of music--song to song, more like a show than an album (even though John discounted it as song fragments that had nothing to do with one another)

But then Revolver is the Beatles creating sounds that nobody had ever made before. If you can place the album within the context of the times, it's very exciting. Not to mention the songs which are brilliant!

But in the end you're choosing between two of the greatest rock albums ever, so how can you lose?