You might think the album that has my all-time favorite song (Oh, Darling!) would be it (Abbey Road).
Or the album that features, arguably, the best Beatles song ever (A Day in the Life) from their Magnum Opus (Sgt. Pepper). I personally believe that U.S. Americans should have Sgt. Pepper in their music collection, everywhere, like, such as. I also personally believe Sgt. Pepper is their best album.
But put me on a desert island, I want REVOLVER.
It has songs that make me think (Eleanor Rigby, For No One) songs that make me dance (Got To Get You Into My Life, Taxman), an excellent Sir Paul love song (Here, There and Everywhere), a song that will get stuck in my head for YEARS on end (Yellow Submarine) AND a song that if I am able to find something on the island that happens to send me trippin' without having to pack my bags (Tomorrow Never Knows). But it HAS to be the mono version. The mixes in mono are as The Beatles made them (save for Abbey Road) and you haven't heard Sgt. Pepper until you've heard it in mono. And listen to Revolution in milquetoast stereo, then listen to it in white hot mono. After you do that, it almost sounds like they are two different songs.
I like and respect your choice of The White Album, but at some point, Revolution #9 is going to get played, and I'll have to start arguing with myself how the greatest band in the history of mankind's history can think that someone else would WANT to actually listen to that - whatsever you want to call it, but I can't bring myself to call it either "music" or a "song".
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