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The Beatles

The Beatles

Style: A lot of rock 'n' roll and a little bit of everything else, with almost all of its 30 tracks an FM-radio classic; the best-selling Beatles album and one of the top-10 best-selling albums of all time (aka The White Album).

Cautions: "Why Don't We Do It in the Road?" (Paul McCartney's tribute to the casual copulation habits of monkeys in India).

Worldview: "When you talk about destruction, / don't you know that you can count me out" ("Revolution").

Overall quality: An enduringly fascinating "helter skelter" pop-music tabula rasa.