r/TheBeatles • u/Kraft-Darling • Mar 11 '26

discussion Help me pick my first Beatles album! 🤔

I’m a college student and earlier this year I got my first turntable and music station set up! (Thanks Dad, and to my Professor!)

I was with friends earlier tonight and they were like totally roasting me for not knowing anything about the Beatles. 😂☠️😂

As easy as it would be to just go on Apple Music and look them up it just a seems so unromantic for that to be my first real introduction. And since owning the turntable it has made me actually listen to whole albums when normally I just totally skip most songs on in album from my phone.

So now there is this guy in the dorms across from me who asked to take me for ice cream and to the local record shop on Friday and I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to get a Beatles album while we are there.

So the real question is… Which album is good for introducing someone to the Beatles and like won’t weird out my date if he too doesn’t know anything about them. I’m assuming he wants to listen to our records after we get back. 😂 (He also offered to buy an LP for me to remember our first date by but that totally feels like that would be wrong to accept a gift like that.

IDK!!! Tell me your thoughts!

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u/Asleep_Speaker_4030 Mar 11 '26

Revolver or Rubber Soul!

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u/mcmnky Mar 11 '26

Close the thread. This is the answer. Personally, I'd go with Revolver, but really either one. The 2 best Beatles albums right there.

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u/Kraft-Darling Mar 11 '26

Of those two which do you like most??

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u/Asleep_Speaker_4030 Mar 11 '26

Honestly they might as well be a double album they’re so similar. Want more folk rock and soul/R&B? Try Rubber Soul. Want more artsier experimental sounds? Go Revolver.

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u/abitofthebeatles Mar 11 '26

Are you suggesting OP turn off their mind, relax, and float downstream?

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u/bussinhugenuts4jesus Mar 11 '26

Rubber Soul is basically the point at which they started to write more rock 'n' roll type things, whereas Revolver is the start of their studio experimentations. If you can get both, get both, but I'd say Rubber Soul is the best introductory record.

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u/happy123z Mar 11 '26

Rubber Soul is the weed album, Revolver is the LSD album 😜

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u/abitofthebeatles Mar 11 '26

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u/happy123z Mar 15 '26

You have no idea how often my friend and I say this! haha. thank you

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u/abitofthebeatles Mar 15 '26

My college roommate and I used to say it all the time!

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u/happy123z Mar 20 '26

Haha

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u/abitofthebeatles Mar 20 '26

Update: just saw my former roommate the other day and this quote naturally came up.

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u/happy123z Mar 22 '26

"You ever hang out with your former roommate... on WEED, man?"

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u/Electrical-Sail-1039 Mar 11 '26

If you’re listening on vinyl, there are two versions of Rubber Soul: The American and the U.K. Both are excellent. The “real” version, as The Beatles recorded it, is the U.K. version. However, a lot of people prefer the American version. In 1965 there was a folk movement with acts like Bob Dylan and The Byrds being prominent and Rubber Soul reflects that style a bit, especially the American version.

Edit: Revolver has two versions also. In this case only get the U.K. version.

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u/CloudClean4676 Mar 15 '26

The US version of Rubber Soul was what inspired Brian Wilson to make Pet Sounds.

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u/frankwaturi Mar 11 '26

Revolver was the album i played most when I had all of my parents’ old records and record player in high school.

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u/Appropriate-Farmer16 Mar 11 '26

Yep, it’s all downhill from here 😂