Greatest Album Ever - Semi Final 2 - Abbey Road vs Revolver

[Mudface]

1 minute ago, Mook said:

This is one of the maddest posts I've seen on here & that's saying something.

My youngest listens to them in amongst songs about motherfuckers and niggas. Quite the contrast to hear Please Please Me bookended by NWA and Tupac.

[johnsusername]

This pro-Scouse artist bias has gone too far, especially when local lad Neil Young is getting in the semi final! 

[TheHowieLama]

10 minutes ago, Mook said:

This is one of the maddest posts I've seen on here & that's saying something.

Stringvest can remember when the kids said the same about Mozart.

[TheHowieLama]

11 minutes ago, Mudface said:

Please Please Me 

That is a pretty direct lyric to be fair.

[SasaS]

19 minutes ago, Mudface said:

I wouldn't have thought so by any metric. The best selling Wings album was Band on the Run at about 6 million, so it's possible that something like Sgt Pepper or Abbey Road by themselves sold more albums than the entire Wings output.

 

Wings isn't listed separately in this- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_music_artists - although it may be included within the McCartney total, but either way, the sales of the Beatles are way, way ahead.

Yeah, it sounded a bit strange, that is probably why it stuck with me.

That Wikipedia list is mad on the other hand, did Rihanna really outsell Pink Floyd and Rolling Stones? Sounds insane.

Edit: and by certified units alone, she is the best selling recording artist of all time.

[JohnnyH]

2 hours ago, Tony Moanero said:

Given you are complaining about the presence of three Beatles albums in the top four, I’m curious as to what you would have instead.

Im complaining about the idea that 3 Beatles albums are in the top 4 greatest albums ever made. It’s ridiculous bias.  I own all those albums as they’re great, but top 3 ever? Even just the suggestion that any band has the top 3 albums of all time is laughable. 
 

My choice literally has nothing to do with it. But for the record it’s Now That’s What I Call Music 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6. 

[Jimmy Hills Chin]

8 minutes ago, SasaS said:

Yeah, it sounded a bit strange, that is probably why it stuck with me.

That Wikipedia list is mad on the other hand, did Rihanna really outsell Pink Floyd and Rolling Stones? Sounds insane.

Edit: and by certified units alone, she is the best selling recording artist of all time.

Just looked at about 6 or 7 different sources and the Beatles are way ahead of everyone on sales

[JohnnyH]

31 minutes ago, Brownie said:

What’s this? An Irish person going on about local bias haha, what next?

 

Over on the Dublin Way Johnny’s forum has it down to Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby, the Undertones and the Pogues.

Never long until the xenophobic, whataboutery hatred shows its ugly face. 

[johnsusername]

10 minutes ago, JohnnyH said:

Im complaining about the idea that 3 Beatles albums are in the top 4 greatest albums ever made. It’s ridiculous bias.  I own all those albums as they’re great, but top 3 ever? Even just the suggestion that any band has the top 3 albums of all time is laughable. 
 

My choice literally has nothing to do with it. But for the record it’s Now That’s What I Call Music 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6. 

What albums would you have expected to have made the top 4? 

[Bjornebye]

2 minutes ago, johnsusername said:

What albums would you have expected to have made the top 4? 

True Blue, Lord of the Dance, Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell and the Herbie Goes Bananas soundtrack. 

[Remmie]

3 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

The biggest selling British/Irish group/artist of all time by about 140 million units (twice as many as the nearest) having 3 out of the top 4 albums in a tournament on a Liverpool website where the majority of people are UK/Ire based is is pathetic? Get a grip. 

? 

[Brownie]

10 minutes ago, JohnnyH said:

Never long until the xenophobic, whataboutery hatred shows its ugly face. 

Fucking hell mate what’s happened to you?

[mattyq]

Rolling Stone magazine has Revolver at 11 and Abbey Rd at 5 in the best 500 Albums of all time... they have Marvin Gaye, What's Going On at 1

My choice is Abbey Rd. I've loved it for at least 30 years and it's as fresh today as it was in the 60s.

A masterpiece

[TheHowieLama]

7 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

True Blue, Lord of the Dance, Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell and the Herbie Goes Bananas soundtrack. 

Greatest Film Soundtrack

 

Do it.

 

[SasaS]

3 minutes ago, mattyq said:

Rolling Stone magazine has Revolver at 11 and Abbey Rd at 5 in the best 500 Albums of all time... they have Marvin Gaye, What's Going On at 1

My choice is Abbey Rd. I've loved it for at least 30 years and it's as fresh today as it was in the 60s.

A masterpiece

I thought they had Sgt Pepper at 1, last time I looked.

[mattyq]

3 minutes ago, SasaS said:

I thought they had Sgt Pepper at 1, last time I looked.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/

[TheHowieLama]

4 minutes ago, SasaS said:

I thought they had Sgt Pepper at 1, last time I looked.

No man that is around #25 on these.

[johnsusername]

5 minutes ago, mattyq said:

Rolling Stone magazine has Revolver at 11 and Abbey Rd at 5 in the best 500 Albums of all time... they have Marvin Gaye, What's Going On at 1

My choice is Abbey Rd. I've loved it for at least 30 years and it's as fresh today as it was in the 60s.

A masterpiece

That's interesting. They also have Lauren Hill in the top ten. The Beatles are the only British act in their top ten.

 

[TheHowieLama]

@mattyq

Nice

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM5_6js19eM&ab_channel=PublicEnemyVEVO

[JohnnyH]

16 minutes ago, Brownie said:

Fucking hell mate what’s happened to you?

It was a joke. 
 

Fucking hell.  Think I’d better get out of the Beatles thread before I get lynched. 

[JohnnyH]

24 minutes ago, johnsusername said:

What albums would you have expected to have made the top 4? 

Same ones as you. 

[mattyq]

3 minutes ago, johnsusername said:

That's interesting. They also have Lauren Hill in the top ten. The Beatles are the only British act in their top ten.

 

Fleetwood Mac... half Brit, I guess

[Brownie]

1 minute ago, JohnnyH said:

It was a joke. 
 

Fucking hell.  Think I’d better get out of the Beatles thread before I get lynched. 

Oh yeah my response was a joke too *looks both ways*
 

Potatoes.

[JohnnyH]

Just now, Brownie said:

Oh yeah my response was a joke too *looks both ways*
 

Potatoes.

I’ll accept it. 

[Brownie]

10 minutes ago, SasaS said:

I thought they had Sgt Pepper at 1, last time I looked.

Controversial statement; Sgt Peppers isn’t that good. Plenty of better Beatles albums.

 

*Legs it out of the thread with his mate Johnny*.