re: Rubber Soul is the best Beatles album

I celebrate their entire catalog.

Sgt. Pepper's is their best album. Within You Without You is their best song, imo. YMMV. But neither Strawberry Fields nor Penny Lane have anything over Within You Without You and Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite in terms of psychedelic and sonic ear candy.

Abbey Road is great but it largely consists of unfinished songs that are formed into medleys. And give me a long, fully realized jam on that groove in I Want You (She's So Heavy). The world needed that and they didn't deliver. Also, you can't compare the end of Abbey Road to that final chord in A Day in the Life, which was epic.