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11 June 2015
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I’ve been getting my thoughts together for a post on how the Get Back documentary has affected my impression of the Beatles. This process made me realize that the album Ive listened to the most since the breakup is Abbey Road (it’s not even close). It’s odd because in my album rankings, Abbey Road comes in at #5. Not sure how to explain this…
Also curiously, the solo album I have listen to the most in the last 50 years is easily Band On The Run . In my rankings of all the solo albums combined, it ranks #4.
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3.47pm
1 December 2009
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Well, as far as playing full things start-to-finish,..possibly AR or Pepper, because they were the first actual two canon albums I found/owned (predated by Capitol’s Meet the Beatles). Rubber Soul /Revolver and even PPM are wY up there too…
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5.13pm
28 April 2020
Offline It is difficult to say … Help ! and A Hard Day’s Night were the first 2 albums I bought, after buying the Red and Blue compilation albums in the mid 70s as a teenager, so I listened to those a lot, especially Help ! over the years.
In the last 10 years, it is probably Revolver .
Strangely, Sgt. Pepper would maybe the least played of the proper albums from Rubber Soul onwards, but when I do, I really enjoy it! So I should play it more often! 🙂
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14 June 2016
Offline Probably The White Album and Rubber Soul . I’ve been giving A Hard Days Night a good run recently though.
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5.06pm
14 December 2009
Offline Its important to note that I heard/acquired/discovered/learned the Beatles discography piecemeal over a twenty year span, as fully documented on another thread….
And in the cases of “Revolver /Rubber Soul “, my first versions were the Capitol ones, which I were still trying to fully absorb when the Parlo discs arrived, and I soon began playing those instead: cassette copies dubbed from a digitized friend and then eventually my own after buying a CD player in 1990. And by that time, as often as not I’d be using the shuffle feature, especially for that astounding 1965/66 pair…and therefore maybe skipped a track or two, so maybe that negates/disqualify the entire listening session? Who knows…
I’m still pretty sure that ar/SPLHCB are the ones I’ve start-to-finished most frequently. Notably, I almost never shuffle either of those.
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Offline Taking childhood into account, ‘Love Songs’, ‘Pepper’ or ’20 Greatest Hits’ as those are the albums my father had on cassette and we played them often when on holiday.Â
Nowadays it would be ‘Abbey Road ‘ as it’s the one album I revert back to the beginning if ever wanting to play from a middle track. ‘Help !’ would probably be second as it’s the first studio album of theirs I bought and played repeatedly.
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2.16am
11 June 2015
Offline I find this topic very interesting. When I asked the question, I didn’t take into account ones age and access to the LPs. Do you think in general that your ranking positions and listening habits are aligned?Â
I think for me, most of the albums evoke emotions beyond enjoying the music. It is hard for me to listen to them all the way through without doing lots of thinking. For some reason, I can just get lost in Abbey Road until “Once there was a way to get back homeward…” knocks me upside the head.
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1.23pm
28 March 2014
Offline White Album , and it ain’t even close! 
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1 December 2009
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White Album , and it ain’t even close! Â
I’ve played sides 2/4 significantly  less often than 1/3; rarely play(ed) all four in one huge 90-minute gulp.
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10.53am
24 March 2014
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I couldn’t tell. When I was a kid I listened a lot to the last of their albums that I had bought. Until I had enough money to buy another one and then that would be the most listened to and so on…
Nowadays i think Live At The BBC and Please Please Me are my most listened to as i’m in an “early period” mode, kind of.
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4.16pm
6 May 2018
Offline Probably Abbey Road .
Followed by the White Album , Live At The BBC , and Let It Be , which tends to be underrated in my opinion – although the addition of Don’t Let Me Down would have helped.
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1.20am
11 June 2015
Offline Shamrock Womlbs said
I couldn’t tell. When I was a kid I listened a lot to the last of their albums that I had bought. Until I had enough money to buy another one and then that would be the most listened to and so on…
Now I really think about it, until Rubber Soul I was mostly a needle dropper. I believe it started with the first Beatles album I owned because I played She Loves You obsessively for a year. 
I couldn’t even tell you what the song that preceded it on the album was. Also AHDN and HELP were soundtrack albums in the US, so there was no choice but to listen to single tracks (unless you enjoyed the George Martin Orchestra). 
Rubber Soul , Revolver , & Sgt. Pepper were definitely more full listens than not. It was especially fun to enjoy these albums in group settings. MMT and White were again more in the needle drop group. I did have a few epic full listens to the White that were timed just right to fall asleep to; “Good night, good night, everybody/Everybody everywhere/Good night”.
I listened to LIB from start to end a lot due to an issue with my car stereo. https://www.beatlesbible.com/f…..e/#p342581
I don’t think I have played any of the post breakup releases all the way through (with the exception of the initial listen). The only Beatles CD my daughter owns is the Love soundtrack, which she plays whenever we drive somewhere. 
That may be #2 after Abbey Road for full Beatles album listens since 1970.
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5.28am
4 July 2024
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It is difficult to say … Help ! and A Hard Day’s Night were the first 2 albums I bought, after buying the Red and Blue compilation albums in the mid 70s as a teenager, so I listened to those a lot, especially Help ! over the years.In the last 10 years, it is probably Revolver .
Strangely, Sgt. Pepper would maybe the least played of the proper albums from Rubber Soul onwards, but when I do, I really enjoy it! So I should play it more often! 🙂
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Okay, see I agree with Help ! and A Hard Day’s Night !
5.32am
4 July 2024
Offline This is kind of hard, I do 110% love Beatles’ last albums, yet I tend to listen to their older ones.
So, probably, Help ! and A hard Days Night.
If I would count The Beatles last albums probably Get Back or Abbey Road .
8.30am
14 June 2016
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Probably The White Album and Rubber Soul . I’ve been giving A Hard Days Night a good run recently though. Â
Got to add Revolver to this list, I play that hard too.
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8.14pm
2 May 2013
Offline It divides into before CD and after CD. Before CD it was Hey Jude ; since CD The White Album by a long way (first CD I ever owned, the hiss on that 1987 version is something else…). Abbey Road next. I am currently on a short term overload of the Red and Blue albums since re-release though, never owned previously.
5.00am
30 August 2021
Offline If we’re talking whole albums, then Help ! and A Hard Day’s Night . I bought them first because of the films. But for individual tracks, then the first two albums because I had some of the EPs drawn from them when I was very young.
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3.09pm
20 March 2018
Offline Abbey Road is by far my most listened to as a full album, followed by A Hard Day’s Night .
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