Most Egregious Misidentification of Best Rock Band Album

As long as I'm back on the "objective aesthetics" train...

I am absolutely fucking confounded when someone suggests that
Revolver is the best Beatles album. I wouldn't be so befuddled or
miffed or whatever if I didn't hear it quite often, which I do.
Let me go out on a limb here: Revolver is a solid pop album chocked full of snappy pop hits. And good pop isn't to be discounted or written off; it certainly has a place in the lexicon. On the other hand... Abbey Road was not only the most powerful, inspiring, soulful, timeless, beautiful, sublime, and rocking album in the Beatles oeuvre, it is perhaps the best rock recording their ever was or ever will be. The Beatles are far from my favorite group, but my respect and awe for this triumphant masterpiece far exceed the best effort of other
titans of that era. As much as I dig Led Zeppelin's II or Physical Graffiti, love to shimmy down to the Stones Let It Bleed or Exile on Main Street, or crank up the volume to Floyd's Animals or The Wall, they just don't have the momentum, rapture, and gravitas of The Road... I think some of my buddies in high school and college had a firm grasp of this. They'd opine that, "Appetite for Destruction is my Abbey Road" or "The Black Album is my Abbey Road" .. read: so on a personal level this silly G n' R effort happens to be my personal fave, but I understand that
this must be referenced to the foundational best album ever.

I am a pretty peace loving, Quaker school attending, Ultimate Frisbee playing, laid back dude, but these jokers who push Revolver really push my buttons. I want to strangle them. I want em' shipped off to Siberia. I want to lock them in a recording studio with Lisa Loeb, John Tesh, and Kenny G. and force them to executive produce the trio's 10-disc box set.

So people, please stop the disrespect.

Amen.



It just doesn't get any better than this, folks.