Answer
to Musical Trivia Question # 2
The
All-Time
Best Album of
the 20th Century is
(drum
roll please . . . )
"Revolver" by
The Beatles!
Released:
1966
US Peak Chart Position: 1
UK Peak Chart Position: 1
The
Songs (in order from Side One:)
1 Taxman 2 Eleanor Rigby
3 I'm Only Sleeping 4 Love You
To 5 Here, There And Everywhere
6 Yellow Submarine 7 She Said,
She Said 8 Good Day Sunshine 9
And Your Bird Can Sing 10 For No
One 11 Doctor Robert 12 I
Want To Tell You 13 Got To Get You Into
My Life 14 Tomorrow Never Knows
Musicologist Colin Larkin surveyed over 200,000 music critics
and fans from the U.S. and Europe to compile his book Virgin
All-Time Top 1000 Albums.
Colin
Larkin's survey covered virtually
all albums recorded in 20th Century — from Billie
Holiday's Billie's Blues in 1935 to Be Here
Now by Oasis (1997) to Radiohead's OK Computer.
According
to Larkin's rating synopsis:
"Music
critics have always preferred Revolver to its famous
successor {Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band},
while fans were at first a little wary of the brilliantly
bizarre Tomorrow Never Knows, the Eastern promise
of Love You To or the good-time brass of Got
To Get You Into My Life. Years of repeated listening
unfolds quite gems such as Harrison's exceptional I
Want To Tell You and Lennon's wondrously hazy I'm
Only Sleeping. McCartney was also on a creative roll
with the unabashed and brave Romanticism of Here There
And Everywhere and the classical sadness of Eleanor
Rigby. Subtly original and beautifully recorded {with
producer George Martin}. A shamelessly perfect album."
Songwriters
Resource Network enthusiastically concurs with
the selection. "Brilliant songwriting is always a primary
component in determining the ultimate greatness of any album,"
commented Steve Cahill, SRN president. "No matter what
style of music you enjoy, it's impossible to deny the astonishing
level of songwriting on Revolver."
To
see the entire listing of selected albums, read Larkin's
Virgin
All-Time Top 1000 Albums.
