RANKING BEATLES ALBUMS | Records With Rem
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- These rankings are based on how I personally enjoy an album in its entirety!
These are my personal preferences and opinions so please don't feel attacked if an album you really love isn't an album I really love!
But please feel free to comment how you would rank the albums!!!
Finally someone ranking the early Beatles higher. Good list tho. My favorite album is either Please, Please Me or Help.
I'd just like to introduce myself - I'm the one other person on the planet that thinks With The Beatles is underrated. I don't have it way up at number three, but most people have it down around number 12, which I think is a crime.
13 - Yellow Submarine
12 - Let It Be
11 - Please Please Me
10 - Beatles For Sale
9 - Help!
8 - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
7 - Rubber Soul
6 - With The Beatles
5 - Abbey Road
4 - A Hard Day's Night
3 - Magical Mystery Tour
2 - The Beatles (white album)
1 - REVOLVER
You are one of the few people who like myself think With The Beatles is one of the best albums as an entire flowing work ever created. It is a timeless masterpiece.
'Revolver' is my favourite! Really enjoyed hearing your thoughts and ranks 💗
“Act Naturally” is one of my favourite Beatles songs and I’m willing to fight over this. Nonetheless I agree with the album ranking! Great video!
It's better than What Goes On for me.
One of the best Ringo songs
I've been listening to the Fab Four for 60 years, since I heard a KOMA call-in poll known as "A Hit or a Miss" reveal the new Beatles single planned for the US, in early December 1963. I couldn't call in (700+ miles away in CO, my Mom would have killed me, if I'd dared to run up the phone bill with Long Distance charges), but I loved what I was hearing. By New Year's 1964, I was a confirmed Beatles fan, wholly invested in the greatest thing to happen to music, ever!
Your generation hears the Beatles' music as finished products, a fait accompli in the transition of the music industry from Tin Pan Alley and the Brill Building, to the modern entertainment juggernaut it is today. As a result, modern critics rate them according to their similarity to music that would be common, later. The Beatles upset the existing applecart, turning everything upside down and inside out. Nothing would be the same again, until the meter ran out, in the wake of the collapse of radio, the record labels, and live entertainment on the local level. The current crop of boy-band rejects, inflatable pop stars, and boring music is the return of 1962. It's time for another tsunami, but where it will come from is anyone's guess Until then, we listen to the Beatles, in a literal application of "For want of a nail ..."
I met the Beatles at 14, in 1963, heard each single as something new, different, and better, each LP as a leap forward. I have a very different appreciation of the Beatles, their music, and their impact on nearly every aspect of life, from music to nuts, so to speak. The Swinging 'Sixties hit Cruising Altitude, in the months following their arrival, carrying us through the decade, into the '70s, '80s, and beyond. Nothing in our cumulative history compares to the impact of the Beatles on Western Culture, and, from there, to all cultures, everywhere.
My list includes a couple variations, and the Past Masters LPs, all singles, and non-album tracks. The variations are significant for good reasons. Beatles VI is a stellar collection, the best of Capitol Records' interference with the lads product line. Hey Jude collects singles, too, offers a glimpse behind the mirror, and the Yellow Submarine (true) Soundtrack limns the groundbreaking movie experience with songs we knew and loved, that fit the theme as seamlessly as if they'd been written specifically for the animated movie project, from the beginning. The puerile released version with 4 new songs was a slap in the face to consumers, one of the Beatles few missteps in their storied career.
Best of the Beatles
01 R E V O L V E R
02 A B B E Y R O A D
03 R U B B E R S O U L
04 T H E B E A T L E S
05 A H A R D D A Y ' S N I G H T
06 H E L P !
07 P A S T M A S T E R S V O L U M E O N E
08 B E A T L E S V I
09 P L E A S E , P L E A S E M E
10 M A G I C A L M Y S T E R Y T O U R
11 P A S T M A S T E R S V O L U M E T W O
12 S G T P E P P E R ' S L O N E L Y H E A R T S C L U B B A N D
13 H E Y J U D E
14 L E T I T B E
15 W I T H T H E B E A T L E S
16 T H E B E A T L E S F O R S A L E
17 Y E L L O W S U B M A R I N E (true Soundtrack)
That's the good thing about the beatles that each fan has their own taste, my favorite album always changes now it is the white album it seems to me the most raw and timeless album
I am an original (read:old) Beatles fan who experienced these album as they were released, when they were released. I won't make any comment or criticism of your rankings because you are a younger person who has listened to their entire original album output and that alone gets my respect. My only chuckle was referring to MMT as screaming the summer of love. The album came out in December of 1967, missing the summer by 6 months. The only songs that were actually released during that summer were All You Need is Love and Baby You're a Rich Man. It was Sgt. Pepper we were all playing during the summer of '67.
Cheers, I’m going to go listen to Abbey Road now. Really appreciate the review, I’m glad you ranked With the Beatles highly, it really is underrated.
Ok how cute is she?? Love seeing such enthusiasm for the Beatles from a younger person.
Just came across this, looking forward to seeing the rest of the videos!
My Ranking (all U.K. versions):
1) Revolver (Rain and Paperback Writer replace Love You To and Yellow Submarine)
2) Rubber Soul (Day Tripper and We Can Work it Out replace What Goes On and Think For Yourself)
3) Help
4) Hard Day's Night
5) Beatles for Sale
6) White Album
7) Magical Mystery Tour
8) Sgt Pepper (Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane replace When I'm 64 and Fixing a Hole)
9) Abbey Road
10) Please Please Me
11) With the Beatles
12) Yellow Submarine
13) Let It Be
It makes such a change to see a young woman doing this - you go, Girl!!!! I've loved the Beatles all my life (in my mid-fifties now) My favourite is 'Hard Day's Night' - not one duff moment. I call it 'Rickenbacker Glory' - George's opening chord is THE sound. For me, this is the greatest Pop album ever - it just doesn't age! My view of the 'White Album' is that the weaker tracks are the glue that holds the classic tracks together. Without the glue, the classics would fall through the gaps! I happen to love 'Revolution 9' - getting used to it feels like you're lowering yourself into a hot bath, bit by bit. Hope you do many more rankings - smash it, girl!
Rem, love your opinions and how and why you ranked them in order. My ranking would be different but it was nice to hear a younger Beatles fan express her views. BRAVO!!!
Excellent presentation. Thank you for listening so deeply. I can hear in your voice the love for their work. I used to say they were the best thing that ever happened. I really felt that and meant that.
I love With the Beatles . Glad you have it so high. A lot of other rankings have it very low the argument being it has too many covers. Who cares? The covers are great.
This is so incredibly different from my rank and I LOVED IT!!!! I haven't revisited their discography in a while and watching the video and your opinions on all of them was really amazing and made me want to listen to all of them again.
It was really weird because you placed my personal favorites (Revolver, A Hard Day's Night) waaaaaay lower than i expected it but that made it so fun to watch and when you reached Magical Mistery Tour I just remembered how much I loved that one and I even wrote a whole musical about it.
Great video!!!
Nice ranking, I always like seeing where people put the Beatles discography. I like that rubber soul was higher on the list! Have a good one 🏝
Thanks for your ranking! I really appreciate that you have With The Beatles ranked so high because I also think that album is severely overlooked. I love the later Beatles but often I want to hear early Beatles and I think that one is my favorite early album. Also I know Beatles For Sale doesn't get much love but I defend "No Reply". Anyway cheers!
Hi, this video came up for me because ive just done a Beatles Uk album ranking video on my channel. Although our rankings are very different, we both say so many similar things about certain tracks and albums. For me the reasons different people give for the ranking are more important or interesting than the ranking itself. For that reason, you have a new subscriber. Great video
My ranking:
13)Yellow Submarine [1969]
{best: Hey Bulldog - worst: Only A Northern Song}
12)Magical Mystery Tour [1967]
{best: Strawberry Fields Forever - worst: Flying or Blue Jay Way}
11)Please Please Me [1963]
{best: I Saw Her Standing There - worst: Chains}
10)Beatles For Sale [1964]
{best: What You're Doing - worst: Honey Don't}
9)With The Beatles [1963]
{best: All My Loving - worst: Till There Was You}
8)Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band [1967]
{best: When I'm Sixty-Four - worst: Within You Without You}
7)Revolver [1966]
{best: For No One - worst: Love You To}
6)A Hard Day's Night [1964]
{best: And I Love Her or If I Fell - worst: I'll Cry Instead}
5)Help! [1965]
{best: I've Just Seen A Face - worst: Tell Me What You See}
4)Abbey Road [1969]
{best: Something or the medley - worst: Here Comes The Sun, yes, I don't like that.}
3)The Beatles (The White Album) [1968]
{best: While My Guitar Gently Weeps or Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da - worst: OF COURSE Revolution 9, or, if I want to put real songs, Wild Honey Pie or Piggies}
2)Let It Be [1970]
{best: Let It Be - worst: Maggie Mae or Dig It, why don't The Beatles released the full version of it?!}
1)Rubber Soul [1965] {best: In My Life - worst: What Goes On}
13) Yellow Submarine
12) Beatles For Sale
11) With The Beatles
10) Please Please Me
9) Let It Be
8) A Hard Days Night
7) Help
6) Rubber Soul
5) Revolver
4) Magical Mystery Tour
3) The White Album
2) Abbey Road
1) Sgt Peppers Lovely Hearts Club Band
Enjoyed your ranking, its hard to rank them as they never really made a bad album as they were that good!! interesting how we have the same 1 and 2!! xx :)
Yes, With the Beatles is a great album!
just found your channel and have been loving your videos! love that you showed your notes at the end LOL
i have a very different list but that's what's so great about them!
1. white album
2. revolver
3. abbey road
4. rubber soul
5. magical mystery tour
6. sgt peppers
7. let it be
8. help
9. with the beatles
10. a hard day's night
11. please please me
12. beatles for sale
Fantastic, and very thought-provoking, video - you're a braver person than me for ranking the whole lot. I can offer a top three, though: 1) Revolver 2) Rubber Soul 3) Sgt Pepper's
I have a weird relationship with Let it Be. I think it has obvious flaws and missed some opportunities. But I still really like it.
The production is not a huge problem for me (I actually like these versions of the long and winging road + Across the Universe). But the flow of songs is an issue. It feels half like Abbey Road songs, and half like the live sound they were going for. I like both those sounds but it feels like it has dual identities. But I can overlook that and still enjoy the songs.
The other issue is the big missed opportunities. The obvious one being Don’t Let Me Down being cut. Huge mistake. But the other one I don’t see talked about is All Things Must Pass. The band worked on it a lot but George rightfully thought it wasn’t right for a live sounding album. But the album didn’t end up fully going that direction anyways. A fully produced Beatles version of All Things Must Pass definitely would have been one of their masterpieces.
13. Beatles for sale (too many covers)
12. Yellow submarine (i love its all too much ,only a northern song and hey bulldog)
11. With the beatles
10. Please Please me
9. Let it be
8. A hard days night
7. Magical Mystery tour
6. Help
5. The white album
4. Rubber Soul
3. Sgt Pepper
2. Abbey Road
1. Revolver
Hope you are getting the new Revolver box set. I've got mine on order. Cant wait..!😃😃
Really great list. I'm not sure if you've given up on the channel, but it would be awesome to hear your thoughts about Now and Then.
The long and winding road is the best Beatles song in my opinion
Hi Rem! You made some great points along the way and I’m thinking you don’t like Little Child because of Johns harmonica! Lol 😁 Enjoyed your countdown! 👍
13 Yellow Submarine
12 Let It Be
11 Please Please Me
10 Magical Mystery Tour
9 Abbey Road
8 Beatles For Sale
7 With The Beatles
6 Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club
5 The Beatles (White Album)
4 A Hard Day's Night
3 Help!
2 Rubber Soul
1 Revolver
I’m really impressed the way you are able to communicate your feelings about music. Think you are really talented. Go for a tv career!
Hey Rem! Just discovered your channel and it's pretty good! Keep up the good work :)
(also, my interchangeable two favorite albums are Sgt. Pepper's and Rubber Soul. Agree with you on Let It Be (the Naked version is marvelous tho), and on White Album).
Your analysis seemed very interesting to me. However, I love each and every one of the Beatles songs, they are all essential to me, including those that are covers.
Wild Honey Pie
Awesome ranking! I would say my favorite is between A Hard Day's Night or Abbey Road. Keep up the great work!
I'd have it out with you over "Little Child." Great song. Good list though I'd place Magical Mystery Tour higher.
My list
1) Revolver
2) Rubber Soul
3)Abbey Road
4)Sgt Pepper
5)With the Beatles
6)Help
7)Magical Mystery Tour
8)White Album
9)Beatles For Sale
10)Let It Be
11)A Hard Day's Night
12)Please Please Me
13)Yellow Submarine
13) Yellow Submarine
12) Beatles For Sale
11) With The Beatles
10) Please Please Me
9) Let It Be
8) A Hard Days Night
7) Help
6)Magical Mystery Tour
5) Rubber Soul
4)Abbey Road
3) Sgt Peppers Lovely Hearts Club Band
2) Revolver
1) The White Album
I like that you've ranked "With the Beatles" among the top 5 (#3) - it doesn't seem to get much love from others nowadays. This was the only vinyl "British" Beatles release which I bought (as an "import" record) before the CD era (wonderful album!). Also great that you mention "I Need You" and "You Like Me Too Much" among your faves in Help, which others seem to ignore as well (I like them too). Like you, not a fan of "Dizzy Miss Lizzy", but a better cover they should have put in its place is "Bad Boy", recorded at the same sessions but didn't show up in the UK until the compilation "A Collection of Beatles Oldies" a year later. In the U.S. we got "You Like Me Too Much", "Dizzy Miss Lizzie" and "Bad Boy" along with "Tell Me What You See" (also a "meh" song for me) on the "Beatles VI" album, which originally came out in June 1965.
I also think "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" is one of the highlights from "Abbey Road".
Overall, a wonderful ranking of albums and critiques of songs!
I used to put Abbey Road ahead of Sgt Pepper, but I changed them around now. They are my top 2 though. I like the mood shifting colourful psychedelic kaleidoscope of sound. Abbey Road is colourful too, but there are themes unifying Sgt Pepper. The way they take stories from real life and weave them into songs too.
I agree with you on several points. Side 2 of AHDN is definitely much weaker. And it's somewhat weaker on Rubber Soul. I like the Help album more though and I don't mind the cover closing it. It's a shock after Yesterday though it does end it with a bang. With The Beatles is definitely underrated. The White Album could have my favourite songs from it fitting on one album (that would include Martha My Dear).
Yellow Submarine is actually improved by George Martin's tracks for me. The Beatles put much more effort into songs for the first two films they did. MMT is strictly an EP, but it at least gave us Fool on the Hill. Revolver has some good stuff though I have gone off Here There and Everywhere and Got To Get You Into My Life strains at times.
My top 5:
1. Rubber Soul
2. Revolver (can easily be number one. I go back and forth).
3. The White Album
4. Abbey Road
5. Sgt. Pepper's
Great video! Here is my list from bottom to top:
Yellow Submarine
Please Please Me
With the Beatles
Beatles for Sale
Let it Be
A Hard Day’s Night
Help!
Magical Mystery Tour
White Album
Sgt. Pepper
Rubber Soul
Abbey Road
Revolver
Great review Rem.
Nice ranking video. We definitely rank them differently, except for Abby Road. That is my number 1 as well. Golden Slumbers/Carry that Weight/The End is my favorite.
I put Abbey Road at my number 1.
I hope you’re listening to the earlier albums in their proper mono formats. Little Child is amazing in mono where the instruments/vocals are centered. Also, check out all the high def streaming from Giles newer mixes. They sound ridiculous (in a good way).
Nope they’re stereo, it doesn’t bother me to be honest and I don’t like buying duplicates of albums so I’m happy with the ones I’ve got 😂
@@recordswithrem1547 The first 3 albums weren’t mixed at all in stereo and were only released in stereo on cd in 2009. You’re missing out not hearing them in mono which they were intended for. Songs like Little Child and I Wanna Be Your Man pound hard in mono. Sgt. Pepper is a mess in original stereo. Besides the hard panning, there are some bad edits and missing sound effects. To each his own, but it’s an injustice if you truly like this music. I am not a baby boomer. I got into the Beatles in the late 90s as a kid. The new stereo mixes in 24 bit are mind blowing on headphones. You will hear things and experience it like never before!
@@girlswanted7 oh no I’ve heard them in mono! I have a few OG 60s mono singles as well. I’m just not fussed too much about collecting and owning the mono albums as at the time I could only afford the most accessible releases. And now I’m not too bothered about buying the mono ones, so I’m happy with the ones I’ve got :D
And as for Sgt pepper, white album, abbey road and let it be, I have the new mixes
Beatles for sale... you see they wanted to get back to the acoustics. I like that. Yeah, not srong butttttt. I love it. A sin...you gotta love little child. Dont bother me... love it. Lovely rita. Al i got to do!!
I don't have With The Beatles as high as you, but I agree. It's inmensely underrated and I love it
Great video
My favourite Beatles album is tie between Abbey Road and The White Album. I love how the white album is precursor to their solo record and I love You Never Give Your Money the guitar is good by Paul. Magical Mystery Tour is a good album but I feel cheated when I listen to it because I have most of side two as single (in Mono aswell), therefore, I don’t really count MMT as a Beatles album.
It's not an album. The only tracks from the film music sessions are on side 1. They wanted to put the soundtrack EP in the cd canon in some way though the only great song from the film for me is Fool On The Hill.
Yellow submarine isn’t the best Beatles album mainly because only 4 out of the 6 Beatles songs are newly released ones
I got the Apple's Black Box collection with all the studio albums...At last 😀
All my loving is one of my favorite Beatles songs ❤️❤️ And abbey road is prob my favorite but it changes every day lol
How are you getting on with your new turntable..??
When you're listening late at night
You may think the band are not quite right
But they are
They just play it like that
Wow never seen With the Beatles high on a list.
Very nice ☺💗
Pepper and Abbey Road are slightly overrated. MMT, Help!, and I dare say Hard Day's Night, and slightly underrated.
Tier 1:
1-White Album
2-Revolver
3-Rubber Soul
Tier 2:
4-Abbey Road
5-Sgt Pepper
6-MMT
7-Hard Day's Night
8-Help!
Tier 3:
9-Please Please Me
10-With The Beatles
Tier 4:
11-Beatles For Sale
12-Let It Be
Tier 5:
13-Yellow Submarine
Mostly agree with the order of these albums you have chosen. Missing the point with the white album though. No-one had ever done a song-based double album of original material before, where every track is a songwriters idiom. John's occasional harmonica on Please Please Me is the sound of 62-63. You can't take that back or reduce its impact at the time, whether you like it or not. Yes, Revolver is 'bloody phenomenal' and should be no.1. Other people have told you how great Sgt Peppers is. Appraisal of Rubber Soul is unfavourably limited though, sorry, coming from a song expectancy place? oversstylesuccessfailure to inspire long term, and shouldn't be in the top half.problem that needs to be sorted out. Abbey Road is an Ok number 1. I'd still rate Revolver over Sgt Peppers though for audio movement and originality, so shoot me down.
I can recognise the efforts and achievements of the white album, but this ranking isn’t based on what I think is the best album or it’s achievements. It’s based on my personal enjoyment of listening to the albums as a whole, and I just don’t enjoy the white album as much as the ones I’ve ranked before it.
I understand the harmonica was pivotal back then, it doesn’t mean I like it though, whether it had impact or not. Bit of an annoying impact to my ears if you ask me 😂 I much prefer johns harmonica in tracks like Rocky raccoon or even oh Yoko!
And no one told me about Sgt peppers or how its the best until I listened to it myself
I discovered the band and that album alone, and these are based on my decisions, no one else’s. I love that album because I love it and the songs really connect with me and I love the whole concept of it, not because someone told me that I should love it.
Revolver has some great tracks and I know it’s favoured by a lot of people. But despite how revolutionary it is, it doesn’t mean it has to be my personal number 1. Or in my top 3.
So rather than saying ‘it should be number one, it’s your number one’ and that’s completely fine
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Come on now!! Heres the deal!! I am a TRUE Beatle fan. I love the Beatles when they do jangley tunes like Help!! Anytime at all, SHE LOVES YOU, HOLD YOUR HAND, ILL GET YOU, I SAW HER STANDING THERE, ILL BE BACK, HARD DAYS, HOLD ME TIGHT, IT WANT BE LONG, I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER, ETC...
I am a true fan too lol! 😂😂 their jangly style just ain’t my fave!
Todos
White Album and Abbey Road are the worst, Pepper is the best.
What a wild take omg
@@recordswithrem1547 Why do you think so?
@@debessar95 I’ve just never seen someone say Abbey Road is the worst before 😅
@@recordswithrem1547 I mean albums as statements. Beatles passed the songbook era in 1966.
@@debessar95 I definitely don’t agree with Abbey Road being the worst out of the their statement albums. In my opinion I’d class Let It Be as their worst and Pepper/Abbey as their best
But each to their own!
Sounds like you’re not a true Beatles fan.
Literally how?? Everyone is entitled to their own rankings and opinions but that doesn’t make me any less of a Beatles fan 😅 Gatekeeping isn’t it
@@recordswithrem1547 most people who rank the Beatles songs they say they love everyone of them but some of them are not so great. But you literally don’t like some of their songs. I love every one of their songs.
@@twj2002 what do you want a medal? The Beatles are my absolute favourite band but that does not mean that to qualify as a Beatles fan, I have to like every single Beatles song! That’s mad! Not even the Beatles liked every single song of theirs!! You have a real superiority complex that you need to get over
It’s not a contest 😂
@@recordswithrem1547 I must be mad, I think all Beatles song is great if you don’t I’m sorry!
@@twj2002 they have over 200 songs, it’s okay to not like 5. If you love every Beatles song, that’s fantastic! I’m glad you love every song, but don’t say that people aren’t true fans just cause they may not be a fan of every single song 😅
Nice observations..and sharing how each album touched you.
BTW...i think shes so heavy was their last performance together.
Best!
Good list!! 🥺