What was the Beatles' best album, and why?

[graham4anything]

17. yeah.

Sgt. Pepper's of course had no singles, so that was probably the first lp I listened regularly to.
But even then, wasn't Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane stand alone singles that were put on the next album?

I remember having arguments back then over which of the two was better.
Strawberry Fields was deeper, Penny Lane catchier (and for the most part the two that one could easily see/hear who was the writer of each).

I have to say, the next lp that I continually listened to every single track on day in, day out was Harry Chapin's LPs (as his songs were really too long for the radio though TAXI got some airplay), and then Elton John's Captain Fantastic (which only had one US Single), though I played Goodbye Yellow Brick Road one alot, there were songs on there like the White Album that I bypassed.

Music on the radio in the 60s was so much different than today in that WABC back then was listened to in NYC by about 70% of people listening to music, and they played all styles of music one after another(so in an hour, one would get Rock/Pop/Soul r&b/country, an instrumental, an older artist (like Sinatra/Beach Boys/4 Seasons/Stones/Beatles/Herb Alpert/Aretha/Jeannie C. Riley/etc back to back.)

Normally nowadays I actually go to youtube and just sort of go from one to the next, letting my head guide me(LOL) as to what the next one will be.

and then in NYC, WNEW-FM became the station to listen, (Scott Muni especially), but
they also in a way while not playing singles, played tracks (and without an official playlist)
that spanned different styles.

So in reverse, it was only later (when CDS came out in the 1980s) that I actually started listening to the full Beatle albums so I would say Revolver would be the best full album but that is only from say listening


One thing I love about youtube is everything is there. And one can find new stuff on artists overseas that one wouldn't even know were still recording.