>>54057945
Probably Sgt. Pepper. It was their most inspired imo. You can hear their excitement at trying all these new things. And every track is a winner. And fucking A Day in the Life.
The goofy theme and brass arrangement in Sgt. Pepper, the toying with call and response structure in ALHFMF, the psychedelic instrumentation and lyricism in LitSwD, Fixing a Hole, the staccato on beat simplicity of Getting Better, the fantastic instrumentation and arrangement in She's Leaving Home and When I'm Sixty Four, the bizarre explosive sampling of the organs in Mr. Kite, George cutting loose in his most ambitious track to date, the bouncy sexuality of Lovely Rita and the ending which strategically falls apart in one of their best and strangest outros ever, the absurdly thick brass, funny wordplay, and time signature fuckery in Good Morning, that fucking outro, MOTHER FUCKING A DAY IN THE LIFE, which is the type of track that NEVER fucking existed until The Beatles had the balls to do it.
I think Revolver was a great buildup, and everything after that was great, albeit sometimes more like a begrudging exercise than joyous collaboration. The reason it's still important to recognize The Beatles is because what they did is still being aped today. Sure, they weren't the ones to invent a lot of what they tried, but that's like not crediting the Wright brothers just because everybody else though of it first. They were constantly trying things new TO THEM, and they generally made it work better than anybody had prior. Scaruffi is a hack bitch that doesn't even articulate his opinions rather than merely vomits them with no actual insight, and the fact that people use that menial except to repudiate their contributions to contemporary composition shows how totally ignorant they are of music of the past. It's no wonder they think they have any thoughts worthy of being saved.