Ranking The Beatles Albums with JT Curtis
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- Time to Rank The #Beatles Studio Albums (Their UK releases) from best to worst. Which album is Number 1?
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Ranking The Beatles studio albums is a tall order. The band consisting of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr (sometimes with Billy Preston and almost all produced by George Martin) is known world over and their LPs frequently top "Best of" lists. In order their UK releases are: Please Please Me (1963) With The Beatles (1963) A Hard Day's Night (1964) With The Beatles (1964) Help! (1965) Rubber Soul (1965) Revolver (1966) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) The Beatles "White Album" (1968) Abbey Road (1969) and Let it Be (1970). Their box-set also includes the 1967 US release of the EP Magical Mystery paired with singles like Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane. - เพลง
The essential track in Rubber Soul, to me is "In my Life" and, it might be the most beautiful song they ever recorded.
If you can get a Johnny Cash cover of your song, you made a good song.
I disagree. I think there are other Beatles songs that are better. Mother nature's son, for example.
It's a great song for sure but imperfect. The piano(?) solo in the middle doesn't quite fit the tone and theme of the song in my view.
@@DinChaddleIkr? Everybody talks about ‘In My Life’ being this amazing peak Beatles song. I think it’s good, but I don’t see what a lot of other people see in it.
Norwegian wood, falling, looking through you
you can tell this guy is passionate about the music by the way he talks about it. i think we all know the feeling of geeking out about our personal favourite album or song, and i can see the same sort of emotion as he talks about each album, which makes watching it so great and relatable
7:09 i feel like 'She's Leaving Home' doesn't get enough credit. Thats the only beatles song that makes me cry everytime i revisit it.
A true standout no doubt, I probably should have mentioned it.
Most definitely! I always admired how McCartney used the homophones by, buy, bye in the song. Lennon's last " Bye bye " is heart-wrenching.
@@JTCurtisMusic In my Top 10.
An outstanding masterpiece, no doubt about it. The vocal combination between John and Paul on the chorus is absolute magic.
Definitely one of Pepper's best
serach “She’s leaving home Motown version”. A very beautiful version.
I think With the Beatles is underestimated. What a Power of voices on it won"t be long is still fantastic.
With the Beatles is awesome and definitely underrated. Also Beatles for sale
As for Rubber Soul, I agree with Harrison, it and Revolver would have made a great double album.
If rubber soul and revolver were released in the same album it would be the greatest album of all time, no contest
I’m always surprised that Fixing A Hole and Mr Kite are left out when discussing Sgt Peppers. Those are the quintessential tracks of the album IMO
I agree. They are so Lennon/McCartney.
Fixing a Hole is one of my very favorite Paul songs. And of course Mr. Kite is brilliant.
how about this? my faves in Pepper are Fixing a Hole, Lovely Rita and Good morning good morning
I was 17 years old when "I Saw Her Standing There" first hit the radio. That fact drastically colors my feelings about which albums are best, because these are the soundtrack of my youth. I rarely think about which album is best. I will say that for many many years I considered "Sgt. Pepper" the best but that was only because of "A Day in the Life". It was like a bombshell. You just cannot believe the impact it had on my friends and me. Somewhere along the line I noticed I listened to more of "Revolver" than any of the others, so I guess I rank it #1. You likely cannot believe how disappointed most of us were with the "White Album" at the time, particularly following Sgt. Pepper.
Hey Alan! I was thirteen in 1964. Started playing guitar a month before the Sullivan show and became a professional musician because of them. The White Album, at the time, sounded to me like they each chose a different lane and weren't playing as a collective group. Still, some great tunes, individually or otherwise. The Beatles were my cultural road map through the sixties.
When I was 17 I would’ve told you Sgt. Pepper was the greatest album of all time, but now with wisdom and perspective at 54 it ranks 3rd behind Revolver & Abbey Road. I can only imagine your disappointment at the White Album, but when I was 10, it and Sgt. Pepper were the only two Beatles albums we had in the house and I listened to them constantly. Well, maybe not side 4. Side 2 Was my favorite with all the songs with animal titles. The songs of our youth always hit just a little bit different in the feels than the rest, don’t they.
The White Album is fantastic, and may be my favorite Beatles album, edging out Abbey Road. The variety of musical styles is astounding.
@@kerryfoerster1767 there’s really no argument to that. I’m not the biggest fan of Honey Pie, but it’s sure as hell an authentic pastiche. And right now we could all use a dose of Paul McCartney’s relentless optimism. And Revolution 9, well you just have to have a taste for sound collages or Musicque Concrète. Which I do. I got it from listening to The White Album and Zappa’s Uncle Meat. It’s ranked 5th on my list. That’s a pretty amazing 5th best album right there. A testament to the fact that The Beatles are simply the greatest of the great.
I loved the White Album when it came out. The Beatles were rocking and playing their guitars again.
1. Abbey Road
2. Revolver
3. Rubber Soul
4. Help!
5. White Album
6. Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
7. Magical Mystery Tour
8. A Hard Days Night
9. Let It Be
10. With the Beatles
11. Please Please me
12. Beatles for Sale
13. Yellow Submarine
But also, this changes every few months
I agree with your first four choices except I would put Help! higher, in second place.
I know please please me is mainly covers, though I actually really love it
@@JediMonkey873 I love it too, and it trades places with With the Beatles all the time.
Thank you so much for putting Help so high up. It NEVER gets the recognition it deserves.
@@aucourant9998 oh my God you think you do or you think you don't, and the rest of the beatles albums? Can anyone make a agreement of which beatles album is at the bottom of the barrel?
A Hard Days Night is total perfection. Recorded at the height of Beatlemania it captures the youthful joy these four guys had. Every song is an absolute gem. Not a single weak song on this album. After 40 years of collecting The Beatles and at times bordering on obsession....this is my favourite album.....honest!
AHDN is my fourth favorite album
It’s my Favorite early Album
There is one track I never liked, but all the others are frisky and invigorating. So as I like everything on Abbey Road
(some songs get/got skipped now and then, but i often listened to it entirely) , it's my second favourite. The other
albums, each White one separately , have more that I don't care for. But as I added singles and other stuff
i never listen any more to the original albums anyway. AHDN has one track out and two in, Slow Down and Long Tall Sally.
Even though there’s only a few songs I like on the album, A Hard Day’s night is still a really good album
I actually really like Magical Mystery Tour and Beatles for Sale. I think Beatles for Sale is my favorite of the earlier albums. I like the folk rock sound to a lot of the tracks, and the lyrics start to show more melancholic themes. I'll Follow The Sun is a track I especially like, but No Reply, Eight Days a Week, and Rock and Roll Music are also great. I'd say that's my favorite cover they've done. Every Little Thing is a good one too, but I greatly prefer the version by Yes.
As for Magical Mystery Tour, I really like the original stuff on it. I love how psychedelic Blue Jay Way is, and Your Mother Should Know is a nice upbeat song. I Am The Walrus is also and in my top ten Beatles songs.
1. Abbey Road
2. The White Album
3. Let It Be
4. Sgt. Peppers
5. Magical Mystery Tour
6. Revolver
7. Rubber Soul
8. A Hard Day’s Night
9. Help!
10. Please Please Me
11. Beatles For Sale
12. Yellow Submarine (only cuz Hey Bulldog is one of my all time favorite beatles songs)
13. With the Beatles
You should have mentioned 'And I Love Her' as one of the best songs on 'A Hard Day's Night"
How could you not even mention I'll be back on a hard days night. One of John's best songs.
Rubber Soul is my number one. Revolver and Abbey Road are in top 3 too. I have all these albums s CDs except for Yellow Submarine - I sold it years ago.
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The Beatles have more legendary albums than most bands have legendary songs.
1. The BEATLES (White Album)
2. Revolver
3. Abbey Road
4. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
5. Rubber Soul
6. Let It Be
7. Beatles For Sale
8. Help!
9. A Hard Day’s Night
10. With The Beatles
11. Please Please Me
1. Abbey Road
2. Revolver
3. A Hard Day’s Night
4. Sgt. Pepper’s
5. Help
6. White Album
7. Rubber Soul
8. Magical Mystery Tour
9. Let It Be
10. Beatles For Sale
11. Please Please Me
12. With The Beatles
13. Yellow Submarine
I was close to putting Rubber Soul over White Album. A Hard Day’s Night is in my top three because I just think it’s flawless
1- Revolver
2- Abbey Road
3- Sgt. Peppers
4- Rubber Soul
5- White Album
6- Help!
7- Magical mystery tour
8- A hard day's night
9- Let it be
10- Please please me
11- Beatles for sale
12- With the Beatles
I must be the only person who's favourite Beatles album is with the Beatles in 2024
My top would probably be:
1. Abbey Road
2. The Beatles (The White Album)
3. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
4. Revolver
5. Magical Mystery Tour
6. Let It Be
7. Rubber Soul
8. A Hard Day's Night
9. Help!
10. Please Please Me
11. Beatles For Sale
12. With The Beatles
13. Yellow Submarine
1. sgt peppers
2. the white album
3. revolver
4. abbey road
5. let it be
6. magical mystery tour
7. rubber soul
8. a hard days night
9. help
10. please please me
11. with the beatles
12. beatles for sale
13. yellow submarine
Thank you for ranking A Hard Day's Night so high. Their later albums get so much love that their standout early album is too often overlooked.
agreed 100%
1. The White Album
2. Revolver
3. A Hard Day's Night
4. Abbey Road
5. With the Beatles
6. Past Masters
7. Let It Be
8. Sgt Pepper's Hearts Club Band
9. Please Please Me
10. Rubber Soul
11. Magical Mystery Tour
12. Help
13. Beatles for Sale
14. Yellow Submarine
Couldn't agree more
sgt peppers way too low
Brh , why Rubber soul that low?
I can pick favorite songs (somewhat lol, it can change on any given day) but I can’t pick a favorite album. However, I LOVE Magical Mystery Tour and would even without Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane. It doesn’t get the credit it deserves.
I’m glad you did this, I really enjoyed it. I respect your knowledge of the Beatles.
I’ll make a list of my own.
12. With the beatles
notable tracks: all my loving / all i’ve got to do / please mister postman
11. Please please me
notable tracks: love me do / twist and shout / please please me
10. Let it be
notable tracks: across the universe / long and winding road
9. Beatles for sale
notable tracks: no reply / eight days a week / follow the sun
8. A hard days night
notable tracks: hard days night / happy just to dance with you / you cant do that
7. Help
notable tracks: youre gonna lose that girl / got to hide your love away / ticket to ride
6. Abbey road
notable tracks: here comes the sun / because / the medley
5. Revolver
notable tracks: tomorrow never knows / im only sleeping / here there and everywhere
4. Magical mystery tour
notable tracks: strawberry fields / hello goodbye / penny lane
3. White album
notable tracks: happiness is a warm gun / while my guitar gently weeps / helter skelter
2. Rubber soul
notable tracks: nowhere man / in my life / drive my car
1. Sergeant pepper
notable tracks: day in the life / she’s leaving home / getting better
Another thing I know with all you have to do, this would be virtually impossible, is to do a sit-through on all the Beatles albums track by track. In doing that, you can break down what makes each track musically sound, what ruins it, and other such things. However, as busy as a man you are, I know that might not be possible. I only mention it because it seems to be a trend with other music people on TH-cam.
Hmm, Beatles, exciting that you’re discussing such an obscure band!
My ranking
13. Yellow Submarine
12. Magical Mystery Tour
11. Beatles For Sale
10. Please Please Me
9. With The Beatles
8. Help!
7. The Beatles
6. Rubber Soul
5. A Hard Day's Night
4. Revolver
3. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
2. Let It Be
1. Abbey Road
When I was 6 years old, my sister went out and bought Abbey Road the day it was released, brought it home and put it on. That's when I first heard Come Together and Maxwell's Silver Hammer, two songs that I can tell you are very intriguing for a 6 year old. I was a fan from that day.
1. Abbey Road
2. Sgt Pepper
3. Revolver
4. Rubber Soul
5. A Hard Day’s Night
6. Let it Be
7. The White Album
8. Please Please Me
9. Magical Mystery Tour
10. With the Beatles
11. Yellow Submarine
12. Beatles For Sale
HELP?
Magical Mystery Tour is waaaay too low!!!
How could you put Beatles For Sale dead lower than Yellow Submarine? Crazy.
John said he really hated Run For Your Life, and said it was one of those song he wrote because he had to write a song. It's a funny song. A jealous guy song. Maybe inspired by Slow Down, which I think is the best cover the Beatles did.
Yeah. The song was very misogynistic. I hate it too along with Drive My Car.
@@curly_wynInteresting. I don’t think Drive My Car is one of Paul’s strongest songs, and the cowbell is blaring the whole time lol. I don’t think I’ve heard someone say they hate it before though.
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It's a good list. Mine is similar with top albums from their later years. But I still have Let it Be in the top 5.
1. The Beatles (white album)
T2. Abbey Road
T2. Let it Be (re-release)
4. Revolver
5. Sgt. Pepper
6. MMT
7. Hard Days Night.
You are right about "Meet the Beatles". Also, I don't gush over Rubber Soul like some people do. I wonder if Brian Wilson was knocked out by the Capitol version of RS or Parlophone? They are very different
It’s confirmed that Brian had listened to the Capitol version
No Rubber Soul in the list?
8. RS (Capitol)
9. Yesterday & Today (Capitol)
10. Meet the Beatles (Capitol)
Yes...white album.....by far wore that sucker out in 1968....I was 10. Poster up on wall. Pictures in gold frames. Wake up smell the greatness of the double album number 9.number 9 number 9😊
I always thought George's "Think For Yourself" off Rubber Soul is very underated. It's so cool with the Fuzz Bass, and I feel like its lyrics are very unique for the time, especially for George
1. Sgt Peppers
2. Abbey Road
3. White Album
4. Magical Mystery Tour
5. Revolver
6. Help
7. Let It Be
8. Please Please Me
9. Beatles For Sale
10. Rubber Soul
11. A Hard Days Night
12. Yellow Submarine
13. With the Beatles
Great channel! Here's a new perspective on the Beatles - the thing is that almost every album is missing a few tracks. Before their 1st album was released, they decided NOT to include any single releases on their albums. (Past Masters compiles all those omitted singles in one double LP. .Its quite an impressive bunch of songs). If you like the Beatles catalog as it is, just imagine adding all the singles back to the albums they were lifted from. Based on release dates of albums & singles (A & B sides), here's a pretty good guesstimate of how to put all those singles back where they came from...
ALBUM..........................Singles To Add Back To That Album's Track List
PLEASE PLEASE ME.....Love Me Do, From Me To You, Thank You Girl
WITH THE BEATLES.....She Loves You, I'll Get You, I Want to Hold Your Hand, This Boy
HARD DAYS NIGHT....Matchbox, Slow Down
BEATLES FOR SALE....I Feel Fine, She's a Woman, Long Tall Sally, I Call Your Name
HELP...I'm Down, Yes It Is
[now it really gets interesting]
RUBBER SOUL...Day Tripper, We Can Work It Out
REVOLVER.....Paperback Writer, Rain
SGT PEPPER.....Strawberry Fields, Penny Lane
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR.....Lady Madonna, Inner Light (orig. UK LP lacked Strawberry & Penny)
THE BEATLES WHITE ALBUM*....Hey Jude, Revolution
YELLOW SUBMARINE.....
ABBEY RD....
LET IT BE.....Don't Let Me Down, Ballad of John & Yoko, Old Brown Shoe, You Know My Name
Makes for a pretty interesting, new way to consider stuff that's been around awhile. Kind of freshens it up, yeah ?
* One final thought experiment: The revised White Album has 32 tracks including Hey Jude and Revolution. Now, pick about 16 tracks you would eliminate to end up with a one disc LP to your liking. (Its harder than it sounds.) Does your ranking change? Might this turn out to be the Beatles' best album? Sounds like a good video for your channel.
Enjoy !
yeah when I rank the Beatles's "albums" I'm actually ranking periods like early 63, late 63, early 64, late 64, early 65, late 65, 66, early 67, late 67, 68, 69. It's unfair to rank just the albums without considering the singles
1. The White Album
2. Abbey Road
3. Sgt Peppers
4. Revolver
5. Magical Mystery Tour
6. Rubber Soul
7. Hard Days Night
8. Let It Be
9. Help
10. With The Beatles
11. Please Please Me
12. Beatles For Sale
13. Yellow Submarine
Our lists are very similar:
13. Yellow Submarine.
12. With The Beatles.
11. Beatles For Sale.
10. Please Please Me.
9. Let It Be.
8. Help!
7. Magical Mystery Tour.
6. A Hard Day's NIght.
5. Sgt. Pepper's.
4. Rubber Soul.
3. The Beatles (White Album).
2. Revolver.
1. Abbey Road.
1. Abbey Rd
2. Rubber Soul
3. Please Please Me
4. Revolver
5. Hard Days Night
6. Help
7. White Album
8. Sgt Peppers
9. With The Beatles
10. For Sale
11. Magical Mystery Tour
12. Let it Be
13. Yellow Submarine
My list
13. Yellow submarine
12. With the beatles
11. Beatles for sale
10. Let it be
9. A hard day's night
8. Magical mystery tour
7. Please please me
6. Help
5. Rubber soul
4. The white album
3. Revolver
2. Sergeant Pepper's
1. Abbey road
My ranking, with ny favourite songs from each album
1. Abbey Road (Here Comes The Sun)
2. Sgt Peppers Lonely Heart Clubs Band (A Day In The Life)
3. The White Album (While My Guitar Gently Weeps)
4. Rubber Soul (In My Life)
5. Revolver (Here There and Everywhere)
6. A Hard Day's Night (And I Love Her)
7. Please Please Me (Anna)
8. Help (Yesterday)
9. With The Beatles (Til There Was You)
10. Let It Be (Across The Universe)
11. Magical Mystery Tour (Strawberry Fields Forever)
12. Beatles For Sale (I'm A Loser)
13. Yellow Submarine (All You Need Is Love)
My two favourite albums are 'Help!' and 'Abbey Road'. I was fourteen when Help! was released and it blew my mind. It is hard to describe to later generations the impact of this album. I think people who were around at the time would put Help! much higher on the list. And of course, Abbey Road is just a masterpiece.
Help is the best of them all
abbey road is a true masterpiece, so simple yet so elegant.
timeless classics like here comes the sun, something, come together
awesome songs like octopus' garden, you never gave me your money, sun king
of course, i want you (shes so heavy), that is such an amazing song
and the suite which is just a masterpiece
When I was back there at seminary school there was man there who brought forth the proposition that you can rank the Beatles' albums. Rank the Beatles' albums. Rank the Beatles' albums.
YOU CANNOT RANK THE BEATLES' ALBUMS!
Thank you to Jim Morrison. RIP, brother.
“Harmonic interest is typical of their quicker songs, and one gets the impression that they think simultaneously of harmony and melody (they did), so firmly are the major tonic sevenths and ninths built into their tunes, and the flat submediant key switches, so natural is the Aeolian cadence at the end of 'Not A Second Time' (the chord progression which ends Mahler's Song of the Earth).”
"This is a quote from William Mann, the then music critic of The Times in London. The article, titled 'What Songs The Beatles Sang', was printed on December 23rd, 1963, just over a month after the release of the album 'With The Beatles' in Great Britain. This critical analysis was unlike any media exposure The Beatles were getting up to this time, most of which consisted of reports on the mass hysteria that accompanied their appearances."
"What this article did was add an enormous amount of credibility to The Beatles music. It helped to squelch the complaints from parents that their teenagers were idolizing long-haired talentless noise-makers (well, they did that, too). John Lennon referred to the article in interviews many times over the years, emphasizing that this review was responsible for 'starting the whole intellectual bit about The Beatles.' ”
"The term 'Aeolian cadence' became an often mentioned term in the tabloid press at the time, which sounded very impressive with respect to The Beatles’ music, but was viewed as humorous by the band. 'I can’t help having a quiet giggle when straight-faced critics start feeding all sorts of hidden meanings into the stuff we write,' Lennon remarked in 1965. 'William Mann wrote the intellectual article about The Beatles. He used a whole lot of musical terminology and he’s a twit.' "
(quoted from "Beatle Music History")
BTW, if you care, the meaning of the term "Aeolian cadence" is when a song in a major key resolves on the VI minor chord, which is the tonic (I) chord of the relative minor key. Here the song is in "G" and ends on an "Em."
Don't' worry about it, the Beatles never did.
However, the chords of "Not a Second Time" are unique in pop music, and even more so in rock. Was Lennon a genius? No need to ask a second time.
Haha. Thanks Jim.
The fact none of them were even 30 years old when they parted ways is astonishing given their back catalogue, Paul and George were only 27, it's remarkable
1. sgt pepper
2. white album
3. abbey road
4. rubber soul
5. magical mystery tour
6. let it be
7. revolver
8. hard days night
9. help
10. beatles for sale
11. please please me
12. with the beatles
13. yellow submarine
Just completed a complete chronological listen to every album band single in order on drives to work. Wow. All done in the space of less than 7 years. Moving.
I just dropped by to make sure that Abbey Road was number one. Good job!
Indeed, although REVOLVER comes pretty damn close to being my number 1 sometimes.
I love your passion, man. Your list, while not how I'd put it, is pretty good, and us as viewers can tell just how much you care about the Beatles and how much you researched and worked on this list. It's just a really, really great list. Well done.
For me, personally, I'd rank it like this:
1. Revolver
2. Rubber Soul
3. Abbey Road
4. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
5. The Beatles (White Album)
6. A Hard Day's Night
7. Magical Mystery Tour
8. Let It Be
9. Please Please Me
10. Help!
11. With The Beatles
12. Beatles For Sale
13. Yellow Submarine
1. Abbey Road
2. Revolver
3. The Beatles
4. Rubber Soul
5. Sgt Pepper's
6. Magical Mystery Tour
7. A Hard Day's Night
8. Help!
9. Let It Be
10. Please Please Me
11. With The Beatles
12. Beatles For Sale
13. Yellow Submarine
1. Abbey Road
2. Sgt Pepper
3. White Album
4. Revolver
5. Magical Mystery Tour
6. Rubber Soul
7. Help!
8. A Hard Day's Night
9. Let It Be
10. Please Please Me
11. Beatles For Sale
12. With the Beatles
13. Yellow Submarine
1. Revolver
2. Sgt. Peppers
3. Abbey Road
4. Rubber Soul
5. The White Album
6. A Hard Day's Night
7. Magical Mystery Tour
8. Help!
9. Please Please Me
10. Beatles For Sale
11. Let It Be
12. With The Beatles
13. Yellow Submarine
Mine:
1. Abbey Road
Essential track: Something
Other standout tracks: Come Together, Because, Here Comes the Sun, I Want You (She's So Heavy), You Never Give Me Your Money... (Honestly the entire album. Even Her Majesty)
2. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Essential track: A Day in the Life
Other standout tracks: She's Leaving Home, Within You Without You, With a Little Help from My Friends, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, Lovely Rita, Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite
3. Revolver
Essential track: Tomorrow Never Knows
Other standout tracks: Eleanor Rigby, Here, There and Everywhere, For No One, Got to Get You Into My Life, Taxman, Love You To, She Said She Said, I'm Only Sleeping
4. A Hard Day's Night
Essential track: If I Fell
Other standout tracks: A Hard Day's Night, And I Love Her, Can't Buy Me Love, Tell Me Why
5. Rubber Soul
Essential track: In My Life
Other standout tracks: Michelle, Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown), Drive My Car, Nowhere Man, The Word
6. The Beatles (White Album)
Essential track: Happiness is a Warm Gun
Other standout tracks: Blackbird, Back in the USSR, Dear Prudence, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Julia, Helter Skelter, Martha My Dear
7. Magical Mystery Tour
Essential track: I am the Walrus
Other standout tracks: Strawberry Fields Forever, Penny Lane, All You Need is Love, Hello Goodbye
8. Help!
Essential track: Ticket to Ride
Other standout tracks: Yesterday, I've Just Seen a Face, You've Got to Hide Your Love Away, I Need You
9. Let It Be
Essential track: Across the Universe
Other standout tracks: Let It Be, I've Got a Feeling, Get Back, Two of Us
10. Please Please Me
Essential track: I Saw Her Standing There
Other standout tracks: Twist and Shout, Please Please Me, Love Me Do, Do You Want to Know a Secret
11. Beatles for Sale
Essential track: I'll Follow the Sun
Other standout tracks: Eight Days a Week, No Reply, Baby's in Black
12. With The Beatles
Essential track: All My Loving
Other standout tracks: It Won't Be Long, Til There Was You, Please Mr Postman
13. Yellow Submarine
Essential track: Hey Bulldog
Other standout tracks: It's All Too Much
All their albums would have been classics if they had just added the singles. Imagine Hey Jude on The White Album replacing Revolution #9 or I Feel Fine, She’s A Woman replacing those clunkers on Beatles For Sale. And you like you said Meet The Beatles tops With The Beatles because of the hits being included. Imagine Rain & Paperback Writer on Revolver or We Can Work It Out & Day Tripper on Rubber Soul. If you just evaluate the albums one can get the impression that they fell short a few times but you have to remember all those hits in between.
The Beatles didn't want the singles on the albums because they didn't want their fans, who were mostly kids at the beginning of their career, to have to pay twice for the same song. The Beatles didn't consider the cover songs to be clunkers. They were songs they played in the clubs in the early days which they really liked. For "Beatles for Sale" there was the problem of time constraint. They were simply overwhelmed by their commitments and didn't have the time to breathe long enough to write enough songs for a new album. I think they had a contractual obligation to put an album out, so they fulfilled it.
1. Revolver
2. Rubber Soul
3. White Album
4. Abbey Road
5. Stg. Pepper
6. Help
7. A hard day's night
8. Let it be
9. Please please me
10. Magical mistery tour
11. With the beatles
12. Beatles for sale
13. Yellow submarine
On Let It Be, I personally like One After 909. Considering that it’s one of the oldest songs on that LP, it sounds very fresh, + I like the beginning of the song with the guitars.
Revolver
Rubber Soul
Abbey Road
White Album
MMT
HELP
Hard Days Night
Sgt Pepper
Beatles For Sale
With the Beatles
Let it Be
Please Please Me
Yellow Submarine (a side is so fire tho)
Revolver is their best LP in my opinion. Then Rubber Soul, White Album, Magical Mystery Tour, Hard Days Night, Abbey Road, Pepper, Help!, Let it Be, Please Please Me, Beatles for Sale, With the Beatles and Yellow Submarine.
This is my Beatles albums ranking:
1. Revolver
2. The White Album
3. Abbey Road
4. Rubber Soul
5. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
6. A Hard Day's Night
7. Magical Mystery Tour
8. Help!
9. Let It Be
10. Beatles For Sale
11. With The Beatles
12. Please Please Me
13. Yellow Submarine
I agree with your comment on Spector's sacrilegious handling of the Beatles' songs. His dated wall-of-sound technique was like covering diamonds with goop. As for a favorite album, I'd pick Revolver because of the variety of songs and production. I was sixteen when I bought this album and hearing Eleanor Rigby after Taxman blew my mind. How could a group have this many different feels on one record! Finishing with Tomorrow Never Knows? Absolutely ridiculous! And " Abbey Road " is my #2. I still feel a sense of loss when I hear the opening piano chords of Golden Slumbers. To me, it conveys a bittersweet ending to the greatest band of brothers that ever entered a recording studio. Beatles forever! As George so rightly said, " The Beatles will exist without us. "
👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻 all of this!
Could not disagree more , Phil Spector changed music , he influenced many great rockers including Bruce Springsteen and John Lennon . I guess because I was born in the 1940s I have a different frame of reference , rock and roll was greatly influenced by R+B and Phil was ahead of his time . The long and winding road and across the universe would have been great recordings either way . Orchestration was always a part of the Beatles production. I can’t give much credibility to reviewers that were not born yet when these albums were released because they were ground breaking and if you never heard what followed them before you heard these albums for the first time then your reaction to hearing them would have to be different. Very hard to explain the evolution of rock and roll to anyone who did not live through it .
I completely disagree. I like the Spector stuff on Let it Be. Idk why everyone hates it. The problem wasn’t the orchestrations and choir, but how they were mixed. The 2021 remix is the best version and does have Don’t Let Me Down on it. And, I feel Let it Be Naked (being made in 2003) has a way more dated sound than Spector’s accompaniments do.
It’s funny to me that almost all the songs you don’t like are some of my favorite Beatles songs, but I still agreed on the opinions of the albums. Michele and Mother Should Know are like top 10 for me
My differences are:
I would put rubber soul right at the top with revolver, maybe tied
I would put sgt. peppers lower
I would put please please me a lot higher, I think it is underrated
same!
Here's my SUPER UNPOPULAR ranking. And I say this because I'm not in love with their latest work as most people:
13 Yellow submarine
12 Let it be
11 Magical Mistery Tour
10 Abbey Road
9 Please please me
8 With the Beatles
7 Sgt Peppers
6 Beatles for sale
5 White Album
4 A hard day's night
3 Help!
2 Rubber Soul
1 Revolver
My top 3 songs off of White Album are While my Guitar Gently Weeps, Happiness is a Warm Gun, and Mother Nature's Son.
Awesome critique and analysis. Agreed whole heartedly!
Agree with just about everything, especially Let it Be. Most interesting is Help. There are two lame cover tunes, and George hadn't yet fully hit his stride, but John and Paul were never better. Yesterday is arguably the greatest song ever written, and Hide your Love Away may be greater. Every song from both is an absolute classic. They hadn't begun drifting apart (despite the fact that the best two aforementioned songs on the album were basically solo efforts, but take a song like the sublime "What you see" where they're brilliantly singing back and forth to one another with harmony included), there was no cheese in Paul, no weirdness in John, and both voices were so electric. I believe had this album been only John and Paul songs it would have been their all time best, by a fairly wide margin. Said another way, I think it's zenith of epic Lennon/McCartney.
Millions of songs like Yesterday? Comparing Yesterday to Michelle? Quoting Dylan, who's as weird and off color as he is genius? Gimme a break, dude, you're entitled to your opinion, but you're spewing utter garbage.
@@turtleflegel6816 Yesterday is a well written tune, but it didn't even make my Best Beatles playlist. I could name at least ten other tunes Paul McCartney wrote that are better than Yesterday:
Eleanor Rigby, Here There and Everywhere, For No One, Got to Get You Into My Life, Penny Lane, She's Leaving Home, Blackbird, Maybe I'm Amazed, Band on the Run and pretty much anything off of Abbey Road (except Her Majesty).
@@JTCurtisMusicOk, I won't take the easy road by proclaiming the entire world agrees with me, I'll stick to the merits of the argument. Yesterday is not a "well written tune," it is an immaculate work of art, an ode to the human spirit closely resonating with any soul born to this world. Lyrics like "why she had to go I don't know she wouldn't say, I said something wrong now I long for yesterday," or more profoundly, "suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be, there's a shadow hanging over me, oh yesterday came suddenly," deal with universal themes of loss and diminishment, set to a melody from heaven, with the mind blowing innovation of strings in a pop song. You compare that to a brassy singalong (albeit a great one) like Penny Lane? I'm expected to take you seriously? Your best of playlist was by your own admission a go-to favorites, not a best of, or you wouldn't have chosen the 5th best song on Pepper and left off a Day in the Life, the second best Beatles song after Yesterday. By the way Her Majesty could be the best thing from Abbey Road after Because -- the perfect send off for the most perfect band -- and Blackbird is a poor man's Mother Nature's Son as Eleanor Rigby is a poor man's Yesterday (as high praise as I can assign any song). These are matters of opinion, the greatness of Yesterday fact. My favorite Beatles song may be Dear Prudence, but I understand the difference between ballad for western civilization and personal preference. Don't compare a call to humanity with an appeal to a celebrity's sister to leave her room, or a nostalgic street in someone's home town. Even John and Paul, who both knew along with everyone that Paul could never quite measure up to John as a songsmith, knew Yesterday was as good or better than anything John ever did. If I can't convince you that must. You're obviously a talented guy who's forgotten more in the last five minutes about music than I'll ever know, but I know the Beatles and understand important music. You sabotage your credibility when you compare Yesterday to freaking Wings songs for God's holy sake (even if their two best ever efforts I have to agree).
Good to see A Hard Day’s Night up high in your list
The bottom Beatles album is still better than Nirvana
Can’t agree with you on that. I love Nirvana.
I watch your channel to learn spoken english. You talk fast, but I understand what you say. Thank you! And I also love the Beatles.
I personally put Magical ahead of Sgt Pepper but love them both. White Album number one for me
1. Abbey Road
2. Revolver
3. Sgt Pepper
4. Rubber Soul
5. A Hard Day's Night
6. The White Album
7. Help!
8. Magical Mystery Tour
9. Let it Be
10. With the Beatles
11. Please Please Me
12. Beatles For Sale
13. Yellow Submarine
I love the review of Rubber Soul . Spot on . in every way . great flow . Rubber Soul above Hard Days Night . Revolver is top 100 LPs all time
1. Abbey road
2. The Beatles
3. Magical mystery tour
4. Sgt peppers lonely hearts club band
5. Revolver
6. Rubber soul
7. Let it be
8. Help!
9. A hard days night
10. Beatles for sale
11. With the Beatles
12. Please please me
13. Yellow submarine
13. Yellow Submarine
12. With the Beatles
11. Beatles for Sale
10. Please Please Me
9. Help!
8. A Hard Day’s Night
7. Magical Mystery Tour
6. Let It Be
5. White Album
4. Rubber Soul
3. Sgt. Pepper
2. Revolver
1. Abbey Road
Nice choices . Let it be was a great album but Abbey Toad is my favorite and Yhe White Album is my second favorite followed by Revolver, Help amd A Hard Days Night, Tubber Soul I love the Beatles second album with all the rock covers
I subscribed and left a like based on you not saying worst to best and leaving it as ranking them.
I have to call out the "Not a Second Time" take here. I think this is a fine early Beatles track.
"Abbey Road" is the best record in history, not just in The Beatles catalog.
We disagree about "Revolver", though. It's my 7th favorite Beatles album, or something like that. But I do respect who loves it :)
WITH THE BEATLES - PLEASE PLEASE ME - HARD DAYS NIGHT are My top 3
With The Beatles in your top three??! Half of it are obscure cover songs. You prefer the boys doing those due to the lack of original material rather than listening to their own masterpieces from a few years later??
@@Fritha71 Yes , Im a Fan of Real Rock n Roll and Its My opinion that the early Beatles were More Rock n Roll than the Later Beatles . I give them Credit fot the Later songs they Wrote but for Me I Still enjoy hearing the Beatlemania Music .
Fair play to you for trying to rank The Beatles albums. I went through that in my 20s and 30s and even now in my 50s . I personally can't chose between Revolver and Abbey Road. It can change on a weekly or daily basis.
Great review/ranking I agreed with most of what you said especially when you reminded us of your top 10 worst songs. They’re the same as mine
My “Worst” to Best (top 3 are interchangeable)
13. Yellow Submarine
12. With the Beatles
11. Let It Be
10. Please Please Me
09. Beatles For Sale
08. Help!
07. Magical Mystery Tour
06. A Hard Day’s Night
05. The White Album
04. Rubber Soul
03. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
02. Abbey Road
01. Revolver
My ranking:
1. Revolver
2. Abbey Road
3. The White Album
4. Sgt. Pepper
5. Rubber Soul
6. Help!
7. A Hard Day's Night
8. Let It Be. I love the original Two of Us
9. Please Please Me
10. Magical Mystery Tour, since 1967 singles are forbidden.
11. Yellow Submarine
12. With The Beatles
13. Beatles For Sale
1 abbey road
2 Let it be naked
3 White album
4 rubber soul
5 revolver
6 a hard days night
7 Sergent peppers
8 help
9 please please me
10 please please me
11 magical mystery tour
12 with the beatles
13 yellow submarine
The Beatles' cover of Rock and Roll Music on Beatles for Sale is incredibly underrated.
Beatles For Sale is their most underrated album. Every Little Thing is well written, but lackluster in performance. Yes did a great version of it on their first album.
Thanks for the great video, really fun to know what your favorite albums are :-)
Always thought their early music was way below their later music but since i have listened to the first three albums again i realise how great they were. The beatles were insanely good, from beginning to end.
Out of curiosity, if Let it Be Naked was replaced by the original Let it Be, where would it place on your list?
My preferred way of listening to Let it Be is with the original track order, but with a mix of my preferred version of each song. I also added Don’t Let Me Down. Taking that into account, I’d rank it 8th behind MMT and ahead of Help. Otherwise the original Spector version drops to 10th. My track listing goes like this:
Two of Us - 2021 Mix
Dig a Pony - Naked
Across the Universe - Naked
I Me Mine - 2021 Mix
Dig It - 2021 Mix
Don’t Let Me Down - Naked
Maggie Mae - 2021 Mix
I’ve Got a Feeling - 2021 Mix
One After 909 - Naked
The Long and Winding Road - Naked
For You Blue - Naked
Get Back - Original Glyn Johns 1969 Single Version
Get Back (Reprise) - 1969 Glyn Johns Version
You dumped Let It Be?
@@kerryfoerster1767 oh shit no lol. Naked version. All of them are fine, but Naked has George’s best Leslie solo and I love that Badgy sound.
At the bottom.
The naked version is better. Too bad most fans skip it and never give it a chance.
My ranking:
The White Album
Revolver
Sgt Pepper
Abbey Road
Rubber Soul
Magical Mystery Tour
Help!
Let It Be
A Hard Day's Night
Please Please Me
With the Beatles
Beatles for Sale
13. Yellow Submarine
12. Please please me
11. Beatles for sale
10. With the Beatles
9. Let it be
8. Help
7. A hard days night
6. Magical mystery tour
5. Sgt Peppers
4. Rubber Soul
3. Revolver
2. White album
1. Abbey road
My best friend and I have the argument all the time. We were both born in 1960 so we were raised with Beatles. I remember going to the record store to buy the White Album with my sister.
My friend puts Rubber Soul at #1 and I like Revolver. But the argument is pointless. They’re all incredible.
Nice job!! I think I like Beatles for Sale a little more than you do, some of those songs are fun to play, but overall you nail it.
"I think Rubber Soul is an album" - JTCurtis
Truer words were never spoken!
Good ranking, JT. Although, I’m shocked you didn’t mention “I’ll Follow The Sun” from Beatles For Sale. Really love that song. Prob my top 5 fav off that record.
Also, the fact that you didn’t mention “Julia”, “Martha My Dear” and “Mother Nature’s Son” when mentioning The White Album OMG’d me. Anyways, love the video. I do like your ranking. Hopefully, you do some more of these. Very excited for the Curtis edit of History Of Rock N’ Roll 1980 and Pink Floyd album ranking. 🤘ROCK ON
Also, I 100% agree with “Don’t Let Me Down”
being on Let It Be. I’m not a fan of “The Long And Winding Road” (since it’s very overblown and overly dramatic.)
For me: Don’t Let Me Down, top 30. Easy.
The Curtis edit is now available on Patreon. It won't be posted on TH-cam but with any amount of luck, an edited version will be back on TH-cam.
@@JTCurtisMusic That’s nice to know.
Every little thing is great! always loved Pauls harmony in the chorus of that tune
The white album is so good. Yes it has some average songs in there, but that is what makes it interesting.
It's a mixed bag of everything and also some of the best music they made.
Abbey Rd though, I honestly think it's the best album ever made, all of it
The universal tone of music was forever changed do to the arrival of the Beatles..The first song that shook my senses was I want to hold you're hand....There's was the influences of American blues and soul and Bob Dylan was played by all the Beatles.....and they were so polished for guys in their early 20s...The people at the right time...me and my friends listened to each album as they progressed.....Some good comments from the author on his favorite songs....I'm 70 years old and my friends and generation grew up listening relating to the music...best time for music. Rock on. 🎶
I use to listen to the b side of yellow submarine while doing my schoolwork