To me, it remains one of the most important record albums in music, and I have fond memories of listening to it on an 8-track tape in my mom's 1967 Ford Country Squire, not to mention countless times after: my dorm room at boarding school, my room when I came back home, in college, and at parties -- or what passed for parties when we sat around and marveled at the music amidst the clouds of cannabis smoke and empty Fritos bags. I've had three copies of it; two on vinyl (and I still have it), and the CD that was released 20 years ago.
You don't have to be a boomer to still love the Beatles, as Mr. Levitin notes.
Today the Beatles catalogue is loved cross-culturally -- the product of a six-year burst of creativity unparalleled in modern music. The Beatles incorporated classical elements into rock so seamlessly that it is easy to forget that string quartets and Bach-like countermelodies and bass lines (not to mention plagal cadences) did not always populate pop. Music changed more between 1963 and 1969 than it has in the 37 years since, with the Beatles among the architects of that change.So that prompts the Question:
What's your favorite Beatles album?
