So tough, I agree that Help! is pretty awesome.

The other two contenders are Rubber Soul and Hard Day's Night. Since Rubber Soul is so close to your cutoff (Revolver), I'll go with Hard Day's Night.

I'll have to go with Rubber Soul. Both Paul and John were diverging in styles, plus George has a pretty decent song. Nowhere Man is one of my favorite Beatles songs.

I have to agree Rubber Soul was an incredible album.

My favorite song was 'Love Me Do.' I don't think I had any favorite album back then, but here is a brief account of how I experienced The Beatle phenomenon.
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PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE

In the several years before the Beatles first gained popularity, in the months of late 1962 when "Love Me Do" began to sell well in the British market, they practiced and played a great deal. A chart showing their 'cumulative performances' indicates how they began to practice and play more and more in late 1959 and until 1963 they practiced and practiced, played and played. Their success, R.W. Weisberg argues, from 1962 oinwards was partly due to this extensive practicing. While all of this practicing was going on, from late 1959 to late 1962, I joined the Baha'i Faith and began my pioneering life. These foundation years for the Beatles, their rise to fame in this earliest stage of their career, 1959 to 1962, was a note in popular culture played in the background to the most significant development in my personal life from the age of 15 to 18, the first three years of my commitment to the Baha'i teachings. -Ron Price with thanks to Robert Sternberg, Handbook of Creativity, Cambridge UP, 1999, p.238.



The Beatles did not exist for me,

back then, in my adolescence

when I was going to school,

getting depressed for the first time,

and sorting out who I was:

Erikson's identity. And I did.

The Beatles were entirely on the perifery,

so far from centre, that they nearly slipped

into non-existence, remote

from the magnetic attraction

of the sun of my interest,

flying into irretrievable remoteness.



This most famous of music groups

in the last half of the twentieth century,

rising from anonymity with a new Faith

which began to occupy my soul,

on the edge of my world,

the other soaking up my soul

at the centre, but still vulnerable,

something that, like the Beatles,

could easily slip into remoteness

and be quite irretrievable, too.

I am more of a later album fan.

HELP!

I also love AHDN, but this one really had an impact on me. There's such a juxtaposition between the songs. The movie is kinda lame, but the music is wonderful. Especially the end of the album...Tell Me What You See is such a sweet song.

Ill go with help too it has gems that everyone loves like help, yesterday and ticket to ride as well as the more quirky stuff live Ive gust seen a face and act naturally.

Hi, I do love them all as well, for different reasons of course, as each of them has its own spirit. My favorite "early" ones are definitely Beatles '65 and A Hard Day's Night!

Well that takes my two favorite albums out of the running. I think With the Beatles. Or AHDN. Or Rubber Soul. Or Beatles for Sale. Or maybe Please Please Me IDK!

For me, my favorite early album is easily A Hard Day's Night.

RUBBER SOUL

i can't choose between rubber soul and help