The Beatles Albums Ranked From Worst to Best
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ส.ค. 2020
- Welcome to the Listography Remastered series, where Jason revists an artist that he covered in the early days of the channel, this time with Joe and Kramzer weighing in as well. Today, we kick off the series the same way that Jason kicked off the channel: with The Beatles!
Thanks for watching!
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The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. The group, whose best-known line-up comprised John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, are regarded as the most influential band of all time. They were integral to the development of 1960s counterculture and popular music's recognition as an art form. Rooted in skiffle, beat and 1950s rock and roll, their sound incorporated elements of classical music and traditional pop in innovative ways; the band later explored music styles ranging from ballads and Indian music to psychedelia and hard rock. As pioneers in recording, songwriting and artistic presentation, the Beatles revolutionised many aspects of the music industry and were often publicised as leaders of the era's youth and sociocultural movements.
Led by primary songwriters Lennon and McCartney, the Beatles built their reputation playing clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg over three years from 1960, initially with Stuart Sutcliffe playing bass. The core trio of Lennon, McCartney and Harrison, together since 1958, went through a succession of drummers, including Pete Best, before asking Starr to join them in 1962. Manager Brian Epstein moulded them into a professional act, and producer George Martin guided and developed their recordings, greatly expanding their domestic success after their first hit, "Love Me Do", in late 1962. As their popularity grew into the intense fan frenzy dubbed "Beatlemania", the band acquired the nickname "the Fab Four", with Epstein, Martin and other members of the band's entourage sometimes given the informal title of "fifth Beatle".
By early 1964, the Beatles were international stars, leading the "British Invasion" of the United States pop market and breaking numerous sales records. They soon made their film debut with A Hard Day's Night (1964). From 1965 onwards, they produced records of greater complexity, including the albums Rubber Soul (1965), Revolver (1966) and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), and enjoyed further commercial success with The Beatles (also known as "the White Album", 1968) and Abbey Road (1969). In 1968, they founded Apple Corps, a multi-armed multimedia corporation that continues to oversee projects related to the band's legacy. After the group's break-up in 1970, all four members enjoyed success as solo artists. Lennon was shot and killed in December 1980, and Harrison died of lung cancer in November 2001. McCartney and Starr remain musically active.
The Beatles are the best-selling music act of all time, with estimated sales of 600 million units worldwide. They are the best-selling act in the US, with certified sales of 183 million units. They hold the record for most number-one albums on the UK Albums Chart, most number-one hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and most singles sold in the UK. The group were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988, and all four main members were inducted individually between 1994 and 2015. In 2008, the group topped Billboard's list of the all-time most successful artists on the Billboard Hot 100. The band received seven Grammy Awards, four Brit Awards, an Academy Award (for Best Original Song Score for the 1970 film Let It Be) and fifteen Ivor Novello Awards. Time magazine named them among the 20th century's 100 most important people.
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Let It Be is super underrated for me. It gets panned by critics/fans but it's a very solid album.
I completely agree. I actually prefer it to Abbey Road. The Long and Winding Road and Let It Be ..... also the Billy Preston stuff is great. I even like the so called "filler tracks". I actually like Spector's stuff on it too .... particularly on TLAWR. I know that most people, including McCartney, disagree ......
Agreed! I think it depends on your personality. If roots rock with an angstier edge appeals to you, this is a great album. I think the angst throws some people off. Let's keep in mind that Fleetwood Mac made their finest album - Rumours - while in the depths of break-ups & emotional turmoil. It can often create great art, and I believe it does so as well on the Let it Be album.
Joe is a king for putting Magical Mystery Tour so high.
Here's my list:
1. Revolver
2.Abbey Road
3. Sgt Pepper
4. White album
5. Rubber Soul
6. Magical Mystery tour
7. Let it Be
8. Please Please Me
9. Help
10. A Hard Days Night
11. Beatles for Sale
12. With the Beatles
13. Yellow Submarine
Magical Mystery Tour was an EP here in the UK and Yellow Submarine includes tracks from other albums so we just have 11 official albums in the UK. Think Hard Day's Night should be been higher up the list but list looks pretty good to me otherwise....
Watching this one again reminds me of how much you guys have advanced in the past 2 years. Not only is the audio much better now, but I can tell that all 3 of you are more relaxed, allowing your chemistry and charisma to shine. Happy new year!
The thing that gets overlooked in a lot of Beatles album rankings is that many of these albums do not include the singles that could have been put on them. The albums were the songs that didn’t cut it as singles. There are obviously exceptions to this, such as the soundtracks, but many of their best early songs were not on their UK album releases. Imagine With the Beatles, with a few of the covers or weaker songs, plus I Want to Hold Your Hand, She Loves You, and This Boy. It immediately becomes one of the best sophomore albums of any band of all-time.
The White Album is so good. It’s the trippiest and most mysterious.
Can you believe George Martin was never down with it?
Also the physical album itself is an incredible package that gives off an energy of its own.
While I don't like the White Album, your comments on packaging are spot on, it was good, the black sleeves, it was the first album on the very smart Apple label, in the UK at least, not Parlophone, and the 4 superb prints, the lyrics sheet.... Yeah, that does redeem it a little. But it is still 4 Smiley-Smiles!
Anyway Paul, I'm glad many others enjoyed it so much. Perhaps I should listen to it again on cd, I'll hit "skip" for Revolution No9"... YOU BET!
@@brmh1667 please do, and skip Revolution No9. There are lots of great songs on it.
Actually Paul my husband and I grew up in Beatlemania, and The White Album was one of our least favorite albums. I think you could tell the Beatles were doing solo projects here, not working together and it shows. Its a disjointed album. I do like Guitar Gently Weeps, Blackbird, Obla Di Obla da, Long long long, I Will, I prefer the single “Revolution” not the one on the album. Glass onion is okay but overall hmmmmm….I have since developed a grudging respect for USSR and Helter Skelter, Warm Gun is okay don’t care for Prudence or Julia. So you might say we agreed with George Martin.
From what I gather most of the material from the White Album was written during their India retreat. Not sure what really went on their behind the scenes but it worked. Not to say that is my personal favorite album as I don't have one, there are some real gems and golden nuggets on that one regardless of Martins opinion even though I have the utmost respect for him and do consider him the 5th Beatle and as critical to that bands success as any other member.
It's got great songs like Back in the USSR, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Happiness is a..., Blackbird, Rocky Raccoon, I'm so Tired but there's just so much fillers,. especially side 2
So with you Kramzer on ‘Hey Bulldog!’ being such an overlooked or under-rated Beatles song. It’s superb. It’s different, but still got a Beatlesesque sound, it’s fun and it’s got that awesome riff. I love it, and that album (Yellow Submarine) is great too
All albums by The Beatles are very good and many are absolutely amazing
Great work guys, I really like all three of you and your comments on all your videos, and your rapport with eachother is wonderful. Fab!
Help! is such an underrated album. From the title track to Ticket To Ride. You Got To Hide Your Love Away and of course Yesterday. A Hard Days Night is a pure flawless gem of perfect pop.
I always loved the night before and another girl...among my fave early era songs...help is a great album
@@michaelfrazia4569 I remember dancing with a very cute young lady to The Night Before, right during that era, at a high school dance. Strange the things you don't forget. Epiphany. I wonder what happened to her.
I agree. Help! Is one of my favorite Beatles albums.
It’s my favorite.
I agree, I put Help! in second place behind Abbey Road.
This channel is damn addictive
The thing to remember about Beatles For Sale is that it was released 5 months after Hard Day's Night; and it was their 4th LP in 20 months... And Beatlemania was in full bloom... It was a different time
It’s a miracle that for sale isn’t worse than it is, given the circumstances you listed
@@mrs.featherbottom5901 It's still a really strong album. Mccartney and Lennon didn't really have to exert themselves to write hits. They could essentially throw something together in a night and it would become a chart-topper.
I LOVE Beatles For Sale. My only complaint is I wish there were more originals. What turns critics off to the album, I think, is that it's not happy, smiley, partying Beatles like the 3 LPs that preceded it. The band was exhausted by this point, and that road weariness comes through in certain songs like No Reply, I'm a Loser, and Baby's in Black. Because of that "difference", I think it sets Beatles For Sale apart from their other albums of the period. Gives it a "certain something." With Help!, the group would get their second wind, and there would be no more "tired" albums.
@@jimcharles9705 The Ones that they did write are strong,you know Eight Days A Week,No Reply,I’m A Loser.I Don’t Want To Spoil The Party,and a Big Big Fave of Mine I’ll Follow The Sun.McCartney when he wrote masterpieces.
Yes maybe so. But id probably list it as their worst album (even though no album by the Beatles is bad) but you have to place it somewhere. Obviously this goes before yellow Submarine album of course. One album I really love is with the Beatles and to say it was only their second album. Wow.
My favorite band of all time!!!
Here's my list:
1. Sgt. Pepper's lonely hearts club band.
2. White album.
3. Abbey road.
4. Revolver.
5. Rubber soul.
6. Magical mystery tour.
7. Help.
8. A hard day's night.
9. Please please me.
10. Let it be.
11. Beatles for sale.
12. With the Beatles.
13. Yellow Submarine.
Oh YES
The Beatles are my favorite all time band, since about the age of 6 (so 30 years ago) my folks had the blue/red collections in the house and i obsessed over them for some reason, the music has just always made me feel something different from anything else musically. Revolver and Abby road are my top albums from them, but watching this made me go back and dig deeper into the "White" album. Its always been a struggle for me, and its always talked about - but after hearing you guys cover it and place it so high, I've been giving another go with a different perspective and its hitting me different this time, the oddness and song/music choices are clicking with me now - its so full of personality, i think I'm getting into it finally - thanks!
Nothing wrong with your first video Jason. I still go back to some of those. Glad you and the guys decided to revisit the Beatles though
If you were 12 years old in 1964 and grew up with the Beatles they were a source of such pure happiness. They were such a huge part of their times that unless you were alive at that time you just can't know. You should have interviewed some old fans. I bet they'd change your mind a lot.
Changed their minds about what? If you were 12 in 1964 then in 1970 when the band broke up, you would've been 18 and, just as the guys did, understand at that time that their rankings, particularly with regard to the later releases would be pretty much dead on. The assessment of their recorded output doesn't change with the age of the reviewer. I know people of the age you describe who never did think the Beatles were the best, preferring the Stones, or the Who, or maybe that Zeppelin had surpassed the Fab Four even before the Beatles broke up, not to mention acts that hit their prime soon after like Pink Floyd and Bowie, just to name two. Even though I personally think the Beatles were the GOAT, there has never been unanimity on that front even from contemporary assessment, so it would be hard to expect the same from a later generation like that of Jason Joe and Kramzer.
Another bass-playing Macca fan here. Great video and solid reasons for all of your rankings.
Interesting lists.
I feel like I could change my top 5 every week. They have so many great songs...albums.
George seems like the most chill Beatle
Nah he was 3rd or 4th. Ringo was the most chill, Paul was next but was the taskmaster of the band driving them to work, George by the late 60s was always pissed off at the fans and the tax-collector and was anything but chill. Very sour guy most of his adult life. Lennon was chill or aggressive depending on what drugs he was doing at the time.
Not surprisingly, the 2 chill Beatles are the ones still alive.
The ganges is pretty cool this time of year.
@@catsofsherman1316 ganges?
No he was the most aggressive and bitter and never wanted to do anything in terms live performances ,videos anything that bands did as he thought everything was ‘silly’ don’t get me wrong I love George but because he’s dead, didn’t write as much songs people keep saying he was the chill the cool when he was the one had most fights, was terrible to Yoko and he and John had fist fight over it and coz it f him they couldn’t tour again. It seems that people say this but don’t know anything at all about the Beatles? He even slept with Ringo wife and saw women as possessions as material like things that mean nothing ,that love means nothing and is not real and everything was nothing lol! He was a cool dude but not for what most people would say good reasons. He was a bad man
@@dmerls8571 finally someone who actually knows the Beatles and doesn’t just say ‘oh George was the nice one’ and they have no reason for that part from he sang bout a sun
13: Yellow Submarine
12: With The Beatles
11: The Beatles For Sale
10: Please Please Me
9: Let It Be
8: A Hard Days Night
7: Help!
6: Rubber Soul
5: The Magical Mystery Tour
4: Revolver
3: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
2: Abbey Road
1: The Beatles’ White Album
Great video! You shouldn’t be afraid to absolutely thrash each other’s opinions, I think that only makes the content more bold and interesting
Wow. I'm so glad you are revisiting the Jason solo lists. No offense in any way intended towards Jason. Those early videos are the foundation for the channel. But the secret sauce is all three of you sharing your thoughts.
Totally agree, as much as I like and respect Jason, the triple alliance makes you guys invencible
No offense taken. I realized the difference the second we started recording together. -Jason
Beatles is pretty much my favourite band ever. One thing people tend to forget about them is that these 13 great albums were all recorded in the span of just 7 years. It boggles my mind. No other band comes even close to this ratio of so many good albums in such a short time.
Also, they started all genres to come later, from psychedelia, orchestral, punk to heavy metal and even electronica and techno, with "Tomorrow Never Knows". And yes, even rap, with the almost spoken bridge in "A Day In The Life".
@@hermanubis7046 Sure, they were great and influenced a lot of later artists, but saying they "started" those genres is quite a strech. But I know what you mean, they definitely dabbled in multiple genres and pioneed a unique approach to music for a pop/rock band.
Exactly. People were so upset over their breakup they overlook how much they gave is in less then a decade. And they did it the hard way.. living in a room in Germany making beer money for years just to play in a bar several times a day. They earned becoming studio primadonnas rather then like today so many start as studio pimadonnas because they look pretty. The thing is it was one band with three great writers that could also sing and play. So at some point of course it was destined they go solo projects.
Ever heard of David Bowie?
@@hermanubis7046 They didn’t start heavy metal. “Helter Skelter” is a great psychedelic rock tune, but it lacks the dark atmosphere to fall under the metal genre. Black Sabbath are the true originators of metal.
Love to see your take on Peter Jackson's Get Back - especially in light of the revelation that the Let It Be sessions might be less fractious than previously thought
'A Day In The Life' is one of the greatest tracks ever put on vinyl .. whatever album that song is on will always be #1, IMO.
My top 5:
1. Abbey Road
2. Magical Mystery Tour
3. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
4. White Album (The Beatles)
5. Rubber Soul
My favorite band of all time. Over my entire life, the one constant musically for me. Grew up with the American Capitol releases, as most Americans did prior to the decision to release the British EMI versions on CD. Meet the Beatles is a different experience than With the Beatles. Rubber Soul, Abbey Road Revolver are my faves, but really like or love everything. Their worse albums would be the best of 90 percent of any other bands ever. And you can HEAR the confidence. They knew they were the best. And so did everyone of their contemporaries. I LOVE all four of them. You can’t separate them. Or George Martin for his incredible mentorship and nurturing of their sound. John is my guy, but they all sit at my dinner table any day. Great job by you guys, again.
I agree with Joe a lot in that Magical Mystery Tour should be near the top for me the Beatles are best at psychedelia, so I believe the three most psychedelic albums should be placed at the top and all are released in a row. I love the entrancing contrast between the formality of the military drum beat and the spaced out compositions.
1. Sgt Peppers- the most consistent and integrated from beginning to end ALL songs are really good to great and yes I even enjoy For the Benefit of Mr. Kite, Good Moring, and Fixing a Hole.
2. Magical Mystery Tour -second most consistent and impressive from beginning to end I even started to like Blue Jay Way
3. Revolver- if Yellow Submarine had been dropped and Paperback Writer and Rain had been added would vie for number 1 and definitely be number 2
4. White Album
5. Rubber Soul
6. Abbey Road
7. Help
8. Let it Be
9. A Hard Day's Night
10. Beatles for Sale
11. Please Please me
12. With the Beatles
13. Yellow Submarine
I love Pauls bass playing but could never name a favorite Beatle. Need every one of those exact 4 to be the complete package.
Here's my list:
1. Rubber Soul
2. A Hard Day's Night
3. Beatles For Sale
4. Magical Mystery Tour
5. Please Please Me
6. Revolver
7. The White Album
8. Help!
9. Let It Be (naked version)
10. Abbey Road
11. With The Beatles
12. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
I'm with you Joe...Magical Mystery is a greatest hits LP and was my first favourite Beatles album til I heard Revolver and White Album....id have it at 3 behind those 2 ....which for me are pieces of art...agree with Kramzer as White album tickles
my creative taste buds everytime.....Abbey Rd 4th, Sgt Pepper 5th, Rubber Soul 6th
Give me pre-67' Beatles anyday.
100%
Total agreement with ALL of your top 6 choices. Funny thing is in the 80s as a college student, all my music friends thought that Sgt Pepper was #1. It seems to have fallen in the 2000's. In the 80's I was sooo dumb, I sometimes couldn't distinguish George from John's voice on the white album. Now THAT is bad. I bought it when i was a broke college grad because it seemed to be the best bang for the buck with my last dollars, and I was opened to a whole new world of Beatles. I then went nuts and discovered ALL of the beatles past my moms red and blue album collection. Then I got a job fixing CT machines in Pittsburgh and CD's came out in early 88 and I used my new found jack for weed, component stereos, and CD's. My fave Beatle initially was George. Now I cannot decide.
Excellent discussion. Really enjoyed it. Even tho I strongly disagree with a few things, y’all are cool. I think a valid point to make is that the beatles have so many iconic singles that were left OFF of albums.
12. let it be
11. with the beatles
10. beatles for sale
9. please please me
8. help
7. a hard days night
6. revolver
5. magical mystery tour
4. abbey road
3. rubber soul
2. white
1. sergeant pepper
I can definitely relate to feeling self conscious about coming off as stiff in front of a camera while trying to read prepared notes. It’s the main reason I haven’t done any videos like this yet, but hopefully I’ll find my equivalent of Kramzer and Joe one day. 😂
And then to think of all the incredible stuff that didn't even appear on any albums like almost all the singles and B-sides, and their 1964 EP
A lot of their singles didn't appear on albums, like From me to you, She loves you, I want to hold your hand, I Feel Fine, Day Tripper, We Can Work It Out, Paperback Writer, Strawberry Fields Forever, Penny Lane, All You need is love, Hello Goodbye, Lady Madonna, Hey Jude, Ballad of John & Yoko, plus some great b-sides like This Boy, She's a Woman, Rain, I am the Walrus, Revolution, Don't let me down and Old brown shoe. You put all them together with their albums and you definitely have some of the greatest songs ever. I am also a music fan, I love Dylan, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Doors, Love, Simon and Garfunkel, The Kinks, Velvet underground, David Bowie, Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Smiths, The Jam, The Stone Roses.
I am about to start this video and looking forward to it with anticipation, hoping that they will stick to the UK discography and are not going to come out with Meet the Beatles and such stuff! My favourite band of all time.
All UK for us.
Let it Be is incredible!
Harrison’s ragged solo on the title track, the beautiful lyrics and harmonies on The Two of Us, I’ve Got a Feeling, For you Blue - “Elmore James baby, go Johnny go!”, I love it all! Recorded only two months after the White Album was released and 6 months before Abbey Road. Beautiful, Baby!
The styles were so diverse from song to song and that had to do with there being more then one member of a band that could sing, play and write so great. Add to that the perfect drummer and producer. For me if I had to list favorite 6 songs would be A Day in the Life, Penny Lane, Eleanor Rigby, She Said, She Said, Dear Prudence and Something. But at any given time I will hear another Beatles song and be like "that is my favorite".
I think the most remarkable thing about the Beatles isn’t their success, but the fact that they jam-packed all that success into 7 years (1963-1970), and by the time they were done the members weren’t even 30 years old (maybe Ringo had barely turned by that point).
I like the bottom 3, adore the top 6, and love the ones in between! I agree most with Joe's list overall, though there are some differences.
1) Abbey Road
2) Revolver
3) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
4) Rubber Soul
5) The Beatles
6) Magical Mystery Tour
7) Let It Be
8) Help!
9) A Hard Day's Night
10) Please Please Me
11) With The Beatles
12) Beatles For Sale
13) Yellow Submarine
Favorite Beatle is George Harrison! Got in to the Beatles as a teenager. I was a teenager in the 80s. so I missed the original run of this band! I owe so much to an amazing Sunday morning radio show out of St. Louis called "Meet The Beatles". Host Joe Davis was a MASSIVE Beatles fan. He played EVERYTHING!! I'm talking "deep cuts", hits, b-sides, ALL the solo albums and rare versions. Every Sunday morning was like going to school for 3 straight hours. I went from "knowing the hits" and an attitude of "Beatles are ok" to they are my favorite band on the planet! So with all that these are my rankings of those 13 albums...
1. "Abbey Road" (1969)
2. "Revolver" (1966)
3. "White Album" (1968)
4. "Help!" (1965)
5. "Rubber Soul" (1965)
6. "A Hard Day's Night" (1964)
7. "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
8. "Magical Mystery Tour" (1967)
9. "Please Please Me" (1963)
10. "Let It Be" (1970)
11. "Yellow Submarine" (1969)
12. "Beatles For Sale" (1964)
13. "With The Beatles" (1963)
I agree with Joe. Magical Mystery Tour gets overlooked a lot but is one of their two or three best (my second fav). It was about my second or third vinyl I ever bought in 1974 and my first Beatles record. Only second to Pepper, the two most psychedelic records ever.
Agree 100% about long and winding road from let it be naked being better.
To me Let It Be and Let It Be Naked sound like two completely different albums. One should not rule out one while getting the other. You need both of them as the approach to each make enough of a difference.
The second band I got into as a teen in the 1970s (the first was the Beach Boys). I've listened to every one of these albums (except Yellow Submarine) at least 300 times. I reviewed and ranked these last year and was slightly surprised at my final ranking, but I stand behind it.
1. Rubber Soul
2. Revolver
3. Abbey Road
4. Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
5. The Beatles ["The White Album"]
6. A Hard Day's Night
7. Help!
8. Magical Mystery Tour
9. With The Beatles
10. Please Please Me
11. Beatles For Sale
12. Let It Be
13. Yellow Submarine [Soundtrack]
13: Yellow Submarine
12: With the Beatles
11: The Beatles For Sale
10: Please Please Me
9: A Hard Days Night
8: Help!
7: Let It Be
6: Rubber Soul
5: Revolver
4: Abbey Road
3: The Magical Mystery Tour
2: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
1: The Beatles “White Album”
I agree with Kramzer re Beatles For Sale. I love the growth and incorporation of folk and c&w. My favorite of their first 4 albums.
Imagine how much more of a monster album Sergeant Pepper would’ve been if they had kept strawberry fields and Penny Lane on it
Instead of culling those off for a single!
Good use of the word “cull”
I grew up with the Beatles , in the sense that I was 10 years old when I saw them on Ed Sullivan . I bought all of their albums when they came out , and , living in Toronto , I only knew the Canadian and US versions of their albums . Yes , the first couple of albums had Canadian versions that differed slightly from the US versions ( one of the Canadian versions was called Twist & Shout , and the other was called Beatlemania ) . Anyway , I prefer the UK versions to the US versions with one exception. My Rubber Soul has to start with I’ve Just Seen a Face , and it has to include It’s Only Love . The US version is my favourite Beatles album . As I grew up alongside the Beatles , Rubber Soul was the first time that I started to see them in a different light . And , it has my favourite Beatles song , In My Life . The rest of my top 10 is pretty fluid , but today it goes like this , in order of preference :
Rubber Soul ( US version)
Abbey Road
A Hard Day’s Night
White Album
Sgt . Pepper’s
Revolver
Hellp
Please , Please Me
Magical Mystery Tour
Beatles For Sale
Thank you , you all had interesting lists .
The Beatles roots. They did a fantastic job covering those 50s and early 60s songs.
For Sale is easily the most under-rated. Many covers, but they all work (except for Mr. Moonlight) and it has a melancholy vibe to it that is unique in the Beatles early work, and I love that, so it's in my top 3.
That’s Kramzer level crazyness, Tom.
Mr. Moonlight is the only cover that works.
@@garrettramirez428 Mmm...don't think so.
Love the first three tracks, No Reply, I'm a loser and Babys in Black what an opening trilogy.
Julia is one of the most beautiful songs ever written. White Album is my favorite.
I really, really don’t get that one. I once listened to “Julia” 8-10 times in a row, trying to find anything to enjoy about it, but couldn’t. I guess it’s an early example of the subtle indie folk that was later practiced by the likes of Elliott Smith, John Darnielle, Mark Kozelek, and Phil Elverum, but all of those guys delivered more engaging lyrics and stickier hooks than what Lennon did on that tune.
i wrote produced and directed a terrible short film based on rocky raccoon from the white album. i simply adore the white album.
my list:
1. white album (what an indulgent piece of art)
2. magical mystery tour (i adooore the film!!!)
3. abbey road (its so sexy)
4. sgt peppers (revolutionary)
5. revolver / rubber soul (i cant pick haha)
6. the rest are equal to me
my fav beatle is paul ❤ band on the run has to be another top favourite album of all time ❤
Choosing the best and my favorite Beatles albums are two separate lists. Revolver and Abbey Road are their best works, I don't feel that's even a debate I'm interested in having, but my favorites are "Let It Be" and "Magical Mystery Tour." I can't justify them as great, but I find my happiness level is much higher listening to those two. ("Meet The Beatles," too, if we count those American bastards.)
Great video. By the way, when you finally exhaust your lists of albums, could you do a series of videos on movies?
Hey, anything’s possible. - Joe
The White Album is my #1, over Abbey Road. It's patchier, but also has more of the best of The Beatles than any other album.
Great review guys! And I agree the top 3-4 are pretty much interchangeable. You guys mentioned Joe and Jason play bass. Is there anywhere where we can hear you play
Former bass for me. Now guitar. Band is pickuplinepgh but we don’t have that much recorded stuff. - Joe
@@TastesLikeMusic cool I’ll check you guys out
Well done boys. Jason don’t put yourself down on your ‘videosity’ - not the point anyway the interplay between you three is class. Difficult albums to rank for sure, never sat through a Rush album. Should I watch the episode the see if I can be converted?
Let’s see how the 80s go lol
My top 5 are all 10’s (which is roughly my top 30 of all time at the moment - the top 3 would be in my top 10 of all time) and Magical Mystery Tour might make my top 40 or at least top 50, so yeah, the top 6 are all #1a, 1b, etc. 😉
1. Rubber Soul
2. Revolver
3. Abbey Road
4. Sgt. Pepper’s
5. White Album
6. Magical Mystery Tour
7. A Hard Day’s Night
8. Let It Be
9. Help!
10. Beatles For Sale
11. With The Beatles
12. Please Please Me
13. Yellow Submarine
3:06 Nice too see jason recognize Ringo as one of the greatest song writers lol
Now I can REALLY agree with you on ranking higher The White Album! I think it's their most ebullient burst of creativity in Beatles' history. AND... It has Revolution #9, a particular favorite of mine, a really brilliant musique-concréte piece by John & Yoko (uncredited), despite McCartney's presence on the credits. Here's my ranking:
1 - The White Album
2 - Abbey Road
3 - Revolver
4 - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Band (Carnival of Light is still remaining as a mystery, by the way...)
5 - Magical Mystery Tour
6 - Rubber Soul
7 - A Hard Day's Night
8 - Help!
9 - Let It Be
10 - Yellow Submarine
11 - Please Please Me
12 - For Sale
13 - With The Beatles
Damn! Y'all really blasted through that one!
Lol
At least you guys didnt totally dismiss their early stuff like most do, that WAS Beatlemania. To me '' i saw her standing there,'' is more groundbreaking for the time (1962) than anything else they did years later and that album A Hard Days Night has as much attitude as any punk/metal album
You guys are great
Hey it’s good to be a long one that I love being long winded especially regarding my favorite group of all time the Beatles you can be on winded as you want to and if people don’t wanna watch that they don’t have to it’s great I love it. I love to listen to the Beatles I love everything that they did I’ve been a Beatles fan since I was 11 years old or so.
As far as all good or great songs and the flow of an album from beginning to end I gotta go with Pepper, but also like or love nearly everything they ever did except some of that early stuff
Yellow Submarine should’ve been a five-track EP, as was the original intention: Hey Bulldog, It’s Only a Northern Song, Across the Universe; with Side-B featuring All Together Now and It’s All Too Much. Interestingly, you can hear those EP mono-mixes on the Beatles Mono Box Set.
1. Abbey Road
2. Revolver
3. Rubber Soul
4. White Album
5. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
6. Magical Mystery Tour
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
Arranging 3-5 is the hardest for me. White Album has a lot of my favorite and highest quality songs, but as an "album experience" it's less cohesive and good compared to Rubber Soul or Sgt Pepper. However, it's nice how many different songs and styles there are on the White Album. Pretty much any playlist of any rock / pop / folk adjacent genre I make has a White Album song included.
Kramzer - fair point with the track listing motion, but do keep in mind within you without you is track 1 on side 2, so mr kite was the last track on side 1. ive heard within you without you is in the space that it is so people could skip it easily if they didn't want to hear it
Ah! A shout-out to Julia (White Album)? Most haunting, raw & beautiful piece of music ever recorded!!
They were still touring when Rubber Soul came out. They played Nowhere man and if I needed someone live.
My Favourite Album are Please Please Me and the One Nobody Mentions Which Came to Pass in 1994 The Beatles At The BBC.Both Amazing Albums.Then After them Came A Hard Days Night,Rubber Soul,Sgt Pepper, Beatles For Sale.Thats Good Enough to Be a Very Old Beatle Admirer
1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
2. Abbey Road
3. Revolver
4. The Beatles
5. Rubber Soul
6. Magical Mystery Tour
7. A Hard Day's Night
8. Help!
9. Please, Please Me
10. Beatles for Sale
11. With the Beatles
12. Let It Be (Let It Be Naked would be higher on the list, alone for its inclusion of Don't Let Me Down.)
13. Yello Submarine ( I love Bulldog and the Harrisongs, though.)
Hi, I'm back to watch some of your old videos, things have changed a little, some albums have dropped some position, others have climbed up the table
1) White Album
2) Abbey Road
3) Rubber Soul
4) Revolver
5) Sgt Pepper
6) Magical Mistery Tour ( I add these three to my older list)
7) Help
8) Lei it be
PS: i might subscribe to Patreon, il like your videos a lot
Thanks Stefano!
My reason for Abbey Road as my number 1 is just that its a perfect bow out for the beatles. The first half is some of their best songwriting with john having come together and I want you, Paul with Oh Darling and yes even maxwell and then of course George has Something and here comes the sun. Octopuses Garden is also such an underrated track, ringos best. And then the second half medley is just incredible to me, from start to finish im hooked and then the end, folllowed by your majesty ofc, is such a beautiful end to their run as a band. The album cover is also iconic but it doesn't alone put it as their best
'Till there was you' is my fav track off the debut
That’s not from the Debut
The incredible thing to me about the "let it Be" album was that they started recording it just 10 weeks after the white Album sessions....Crazy!!!!!
Unbelievable how prolific they were and at such high quality. McCartney was on fire from 67-69, beautiful music seemed to pour effortlessly from him at will.
The band's evolution was simply phenomenal, unmatched by anyone before or since. It staggers me that there was less than 3 years between A Hard Day's Night and Sgt.Pepper.
My three favourite Beatles albums
1.Rubber Soul
2.Abbey Road
3.What's The Story Morning Glory.
I enjoyed this video.
This is a project presented by three people, so it's interesting to see each point of view.
I tried it too, but my ranking is different from the rest of the world, and I'm a little embarrassed.
#1 White Album
#2 With The Beatles
#3 Beatles For Sale
#4 A Hard Day's Night
#5 Abbey Road
#6 Rubber Soul
#7 Magical Mystery Tour
#8 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
#9 Revolver
#10 Please Please Me
#11 Yellow Submarine
#12 Help!
#13 Let It Be
The problem with ranking aside from the fact it is very subjective is that all their albums have songs on them worthy of being favorites. So other then going by album sales there really is no objective way to reach a consensus. However the fact they are still so popular after all this time speaks volumes that as far as overall ranking as a pop/rock band for great music and cultural/industry influence are the undisputed champions and probably will remain so forever.
My list:
1. The White Album
2. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
3. A Hard Day's Night
4. Revolver
5. Abbey Road
6. Magical Mystery Tour
7. Help!
8. Rubber Soul
9. Please Please Me
10. With the Beatles
11. Let It Be
12. Beatles for Sale
I don't get why we even bother counting Yellow Submarine
I can’t rank em personally. It changes too often in my brain
1. Rubber Soul
2. Revolver
3. The white album
4. Abbey Road
5. Let it be
6. Sgt Pepper...
7. A hard day's night
8. Help
9. Please please me
10. Magical mystery tour
11. With the Beatles
12. For sale
13. Yellow Submarine
Listing my favourite band's albums:
13. Yellow Submarine - just not enough music on it, and not a real album for me
12. Beatles for sale - poor covers and rushed as indicated
11. Let it be - no cohesion, a few great songs only
10. Please please me - youthful exhuberance
9. With the Beatles - An exciting album
8. Magical Mystery Tour - agree with Kamzer, some songs I don't ever need to hear again
7. Help! - strong album
6. A Hard day's night - the height of Beatlemania all originals, amazing
5. Rubber Soul - all of these now are in my top 50
4. Revolver - especially the mono version
3. Sgt Pepper - one of my top 10 albums
2. The Beatles - big sprawling album still not fully discovered after listening to it many many years
1. Abbey Road - the best album ever made. Side two is perfection.
another of my faves, so hard to go from worst to best...... but here i go
13. yellow submarine
12. please please me
11. with the beatles ( i love all their covers on this album)
10. a hard day's night
9. help!
8. let it be (i prefer the let it be naked version)
7. beatles for sale (so underrated, yall)
6. magical mystery tour
5. rubber soul
4. sgt peppers
3. abbey road
2. the white album
1. revolver
the only thing that holds the white album back from number 1 is the fact it ends with revolution 9 and good night. the worst tracks ever in their catalogue, but other than that, this is where they shined. so many great songs on that one
I love the early stuff. My top 7 albums are 1) Meet The Beatles, 2) A Hard Day's Night 3) Rubber Soul 4) Revolver 5) Magical Mystery Tour 6) Help 7) Let It Be The only Beatles album I don't care for is Yellow Submarine. I think all of them were baked when they recorded that album.
Meet the Beatles?
@@cancerandaids3822 the first American album with all the original songs from With the Beatles plus I wanna hold your hand and it's b side
Another point I would make, a clear Bob Dylan influence comes to focus as their writing improves, particularly with Lennon around Rubber Soul. This cannot be underestimated.
1. Revolver
2. Rubber Soul
3. Abbey Road
4. Sgt. Pepper
5. Help
6. Magical Mystery Tour
7. A Hard Day’s Night
8. The White Album
9. Beatles for Sale
10. Let It Be
11. Please Please Me
12. With the Beatles
13. Yellow Submarine
Yes some interesting choices and ordering by the 3 amigos. They seemed at times to forget that their great albums
were not released as singles, so although Yellow Submarine was very high for a couple, it doesn't strictly count as an album, good though the singles are. Interesting that two Joe and Jason chose McCartney as their favourite Beatle because they love his base playing and they play base, but you could also say two preferred Lennon because of his voice , lyrics and better tracks. I was interested that two placed the White Album so high. It is a large rag bag of an
assortment-type album, so produced more songs( with some rubbishy ones too). It's also the album when they have divided and are more singular in their songs: so you get John songs, Paul songs, George songs etc. If I was to choose my favourite-as-a-human Beatle it would be George. I think Paul musically the most creative as a melodist and songwriter, John as the one with the best voice, edge, angst and lyrically, George as best guitarist, Ringo the most humorous. I liked the way you tackled it. I liked that you placed Sgt. Pepper further down than normal, because it's often touted as No.1. It's really about a fake group, them shedding the Beatle skin and seeing what they could come up with. Agree For the Benefit of Mr. Kite is weakest track, A Day in the Life the best, but the record is too deliberate for me, too much time in the studio. I liked incidentally how you rated and spoke about the earlier albums.
Here's my list:
1. Revolver
2. Rubber Soul
3. The White Album
4. Sgt. Pepper
5. Abbey Road
6. Let it Be
7. Help
8.. A Hard Day's Night
9. The Magical Mystery Tour.
10.. Beatles For Sale
11. Please Please Me
12. With the Beatles
13. Yellow Submarine
You could argue others like Revolver were deliberate too, they were very professional.
My list: 1- Abbey road 2- Revolver & Rubber soul (ex-aquo) 3 - Magical mystery tour 4- Help! 5- Sergeant's Pepper's... 6- The white album 7- Let it be 8- A hard day's night 9- Beatles for sale 10- With the Beatles 11- Please, please me 12- Yellow submarine These are the ones i enjoyed most. Not necessarily the classic rock album rating (ex: Help! before Sergeant's pepper's)
Top Beatles Records:
13) Yellow Submarine
12) Beatles For Sale
11) With the Beatles
10) Please Please Me
9) Hard Days Night
8) Sgt. Peppers
7) Help
6) Let it Be
5) Rubber Soul
4) White Album
3) Magical Mystery Tour
2) Abbey Road
1) Revolver
100% agree with The White Album as #1. I listen to it from beginning to end every time. What some call filler is just part of the Album experience to me. Whenever I hear Back in the USSR it feels wrong if Dear Prudence doesn’t follow it. I even like Yoko’s one line solo on Bungalow Bill. The story behind why don’t we do it in the road makes me smile every time I hear that song. And totally imagine myself in a British pub singing along with Obla do obla da. The album is quirky like the Beatles but also showcases each Beatles unique sound and voice, has great music, and takes you through a journey of emotions. For me the album is perfectly entitled The Beatles.
I caught the Beatles bug when I was 11 years old in 1973 at that time I was really liking all the early stuff and when I got to rubber soul And beyond I went holy shit! I think at that time and forward Sergeant Pepper was always my favorite and over the years it has always changed because all the stuff is actually stellar so it’s really hard to pick one for me but I do like the white album more and more as I get older.
I am with you Joe on Magical Mystey Tour
There are no bad Beatle Albums. My personal favourites are 1. Revolver, , 2. Please Please Me, 3. white Album, 4.Abbey Road 5. Rubber Soul 6. Magical Mystery Tour 7. Sgt. Pepper 8. Let it Be. While it doesn’t qualify for the list I always enjoyed Live at The Hollywood Bowl.
Please Please Me was based on their stage show. Given how tremendous their live shows were at the time, I believe the original plan was for George Martin to record them live at The Cavern. love, There’s a Place.
My list ( Natal - Brazil )
14 - With the Beatles
13 - Yellow Submarine
12 - Please Please Me
11 - Beatles for Sale
10 - Help !
09 - Let it Be
08 - A Hard Day's Night
07 - Rubber Soul
06 - Past Masters ( Estes singles não podem ficar de fora ! )
05 - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
04 - Magical Mistery Tour
03 - Abbey Road
02 - Revolver
01 - White Album
penny lane and strawberry feilds was meant to be the first true concept album after pet sounds perhaps ( was meant to be about their growing up in liverpool) but somehow got convoluted along the sessions. Just had to throw this in since being a beatles fanatic i kinda know a lot about the lads. Yes, instead of accelerating at school i accelerated at Beatles 101 which i now kinda regret... oh well, ce-lavee
So after watching this a few months ago, I went back to Yellow Submarine and have fallen in love with Hey Bulldog and It's All Too Much once again, and have to agree with Kramzer that it wouldn't be their bottom album
Well now you’ve got us curious... what would be?? - Joe
@@TastesLikeMusic Have to go with Beatles for Sale. The covers are fun, but there just isn't enough original material. Even With the Beatles, which was the other option, has a few great Lennon/McCartney originals.
1. Revolver
2. White Album
3. Rubber Soul
4. Abbey Road
5. Help!
6. A Hard Day’s Night
7. Magical Mystery Tour
8. Sgt. Pepper
9. Let It Be
10. Please Please Me
11. Yellow Submarine
12. With The Beatles
13. Beatles For Sale
Not a fan, but I’m a huge fan of McCartney. Good episode. I do like some songs and if I had to choose, I’d go Revolver and then Rubber Soul.
Just to clarify, the Phil Spector post-production on LET IT BE was approved by all 4 Beatles. (Earlier Glyn Johns mixes could never get full band approval.) Lennon's famous quote was "He [Spector] was given the shittiest load of badly-recorded shit with a lousy feeling to it ever, and he made something of it." Paul (and most critics) later carped about the string & choir arrangements but there was pressure to get this (old) material out to a) recoup the expenses associated with the making of the movie and b) to keep up the illusion of a functioning band. That's why Lennon's 1968 song, "Across the Universe" was modified then added to the set. Harrison's "I Me Mine" was later tinkered with and also added to the album. Allen Klein, who was now managing the band pushed for releasing LET IT BE, also got out a (really interesting) compilation album called HEY JUDE, and later helped put together the beloved "Red" and "Blue" compilations.
Great reviews, you guys! I enjoyed how you agreed and disagreed yet were able to come up with fresh reasons for your choices.
Paul did not approve specters work on let it be and LAWR.
@@rhopen There may be some contention between "not approve" and "not like". Was the LET IT BE album put out without the approve of all for Beatles? Perhaps but since the company had sunk so much money in the project, to have the product sitting in the cans made no sense. The band had already rejected a couple of Glyn Johns mixes so one could assume they could have veto'd the Spector mix as well. I think they were done as a band and just (I guess) let it be. Out it came and all the carping about the mix came later.
The website "beatlesbible" does include some of Paul's reservations and feeling of helplessness about the mix, so you may be right. It also includes this quote from Spector:
Phil Spector
"Paul had no problem picking up the Academy Award for the Let It Be movie soundtrack, nor did he have any problem in using my arrangement of the string and horn and choir parts when he performed it during 25 years of touring on his own. If Paul wants to get into a pissing contest about it, he’s got me mixed up with someone who gives a shit."
@@deanjonasson6776 Thank goodness we have Let It Be Naked.
@@rhopen Or thank Paul. LET IT BE... NAKED is an interesting listen and has some real fine moments. I'm glad that "Don't Let Me Down" is restored to the running order but miss the dialogue bits. Interestingly, ... NAKED goes with Phil's lengthened "I Me Mine" (but discarding the wall of sound mush) and keeps the "Across the Universe" (which was parachuted in because no good version existed from the movie sessions and John had come in few fewer 'winners'). Also interestingly, some subsequent studio 'corrections' were used (according to Wikipedia) on ... NAKED as there were a number of missed notes and errors in the original material. This was probably one of the reasons why the two Glyn Johns mixes were nixed by the band back in the day.
I wonder if the deluxe re-release box due this year will include one or both of those John's versions. How will they compare with the Spector mixes, the ... NAKED album and with what we will see/hear in the film?
1. Revolver
2. The Beatles (White Album)
3. Rubber Soul
4. Abbey Road
5. Magical Mystery Tour
6. Sgt. Peppers
7. Let It Be
8. A Hard Day's Night
9. Help!
10. Yellow Submarine
11. Beatles For Sale
12. With the Beatles
13. Please Please Me