I love Magical mystery tour as well, but to me it is not a real album. It`s more a compilation album where you have the "Magical mystery tour" EP on one side, and the a and b sides of the singles the Beatles released in 1967 on side two. "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry fields" are in my view Pepper songs... They would have been perfect on "Sgt. Pepper"
Australians: Hmm we have to change up the apple logo coloring Australians: Hmmmmmmm *Australians ignoring the fact that apples can be yellow* Australians: WHAT ABOUT ORANGE BC THATS NOT TOTALLY ANOTHER FRUIT
Abbey Road is the best album the Beatles released. I love it. I think Phil Spector botched "Let it be" Compare George Martin`s version of the "Let it be" song to Phil Spector`s or George Martin`s version of "Get back" to Phil Spector`s... George Martin wins.. I am a little bit biased on Phil Spector... The man is in jail for committing murder, and i don`t like the way he treated Darlene Love on "He`s a rebel" where he put it out on a false name, even though it was Darlene Love who was singing.
Get Back on the LP is the same version as the single. But I agree that he ruined Let It Be. He mixed out the backing vocals, which made the song any good in the first place! And he ruined Across The Universe my mixing out the other Beatles and adding his choirs.
1. Sgt. Pepper's 2. The Beatles 3. Revolver 4. Abbey Road 5. Magical Mystery Tour 6. Rubber Soul 7. Let It Be 8. Help! 9. A Hard Day's Night 10. Please Please Me 11. Beatles For Sale 12. With The Beatles
Let it Be higher than the White Album! Wow, I certainly wasn't expecting that :) Admire your sticking to your personal taste and not going with the crowd but I just feel they were a bit tired and jaded after the mammoth qualityfest they'd just conjured up in the months/weeks before.
Another enjoyable review, John. In response (horses for courses)....and not that you asked for one....I'm going to give you my rankings. To be honest, I've never thought about ranking them before now so this will be a first for me. I'm not going to include the "Yellow Submarine" album as I don't view it as a "legitimate" Beatles release (horses for courses again) So, here we go: 12. "Beatles For Sale".........they were tired and sounded it, although there are some terrific McCartney tracks on the record. 11. "Please, Please Me"......this one continues to grow on me. One hell of a debut album. 10. "With The Beatles"....of course, it was "Meet The Beatles" over here but this was the record that made me fall in love with the band. To my 14 year old eyes and ears, the sound was both extraordinary and revolutionary. 9. "Let It Be"......this was a disappointment for me when it came out. Some terrific tracks for sure but just not enough of them. 8. "A Hard Days Night"......a full album's worth of top notch pop/rock tracks. Terrific film, terrific album. 7. "Magical Mystery Tour"......this one continues to grow on me as well. The soundtrack version is a waste of time but the "all song" version is a showcase of the band's magnificent brilliance. 6. "Help".....for me, this is the album which first showed the ever increasing maturity of their songwriting skills. 5. "Rubber Soul".....my favorite George Harrison song of all...."If I Needed Someone"....is contained here which is one of a number reasons why this record makes it to my top 5. 4. "Sgt. Pepper".....it has all been said endless times before. Revolutionary brilliance in every musical sense. Timeless. 3. "The White Album (The Beatles)"......pick any musical genre you'd like and you'll find it here. In a word, amazing. 2. "Abbey Road"......what a way for the greatest band ever to say goodbye. I shed a tear each time the medley comes to an end with that famous last verse. Vinyl magnificence!!! 1. "Revolver"......not that it was needed, but this album proved they were greatest ever. From beginning to end, this is pop/rock as it had never been heard nor recorded before. My copy, purchased in London, hangs on my den wall as proof.
43 years old, and I'm just now getting into the Beatles! Starting to collect vinyl as we speak, and the White Album was the one I HAD to get first...followed by Abby Road and Revolver. Quite a few to go yet! Love your reviews mate!
My ranking: 13)Yellow Submarine [1969] 12)Magical Mystery Tour [1967] 11)Please Please Me [1963] 10)Beatles For Sale [1964] 9)With The Beatles [1963] 8)Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band [1967] 7)Revolver [1966] 6)A Hard Day's Night [1964] 5)Help! [1965] 4)Abbey Road [1969] 3)The Beatles (The White Album) [1968] 2)Let It Be [1970] 1)Rubber Soul [1965]
1. Revolver 2. Abbey Road 3. The Beatles 4. Rubber Soul 5. Magical Mystery Tour 6. A Hard Days Night 7. Sgt. Pepper 8. Let It Be 9. Help 10. please Please Me 11. With The Beatles 12. Beatle For Sale 13. Yellow Submarine
Revolver Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Rubber soul Abbey Road Help Magical Mystery Tour A hard day’s night The Beatles (The white album) Let it be With The Beatles Beatles for sale Please please me Yellow submarine
The only album I still struggle to get into is With the Beatles. I love all the others. I include Yellow Submarine in that and George Martin's score. Great to see Beatles for sale not too close to the bottom. The originals on that album are superb. And unpopular opinion but I love Mr Moonlight. The best is so hard to say. Maybe cheating but I count the let it be naked version as I don't like the original. And that naked version makes it jump up my list. No fillers and Don't let me Down is added. Much better production. All the songs are very very good. I ain't saying my best but i do enjoy hearing people's views on this fascinating subject
They didn't have much input apart from the cameo at the end. The side 1 consisted of a Sgt Pepper reject (OANS), three other new songs by John Paul, and George recorded for contractual reasons, and two previously released singles. I don't think of it as a Beatles "album" as such, and neither was MMT which essentially was a double EP in the UK. Both were "soundtrack" releases. However I like the MMT EP as it is (apart from "Walrus" you don't get these tracks elsewhere), and I like listening to side 1 of YS, (these extra four tracks you don't get anywhere else either)……… and it is The Beatles :-)
I Understand Why Let it is on no.2, its because of the maturity of the music. Myself I really enjoy that Album. its on my top 3, when I listen that album for the 1st time I notice that its a McCartney Album. thats Why Some beatle Fans Says its thier least fav. record. And im little jealous of your Let it be Albums.LOLZ
A very well explained ranking. Sometimes ranking albums isn’t so much what we cognitively perceive as the best album, but rather what album we tend to reach for most often. And that, in itself, changes with time. I find myself reaching for the White Album and Let It Be lately.
13. Yellow Submarine 12. With The Beatles 11. Let It Be 10. Please Please Me 9. A Hard Day’s Night 8. Beatles For Sale 7. Help 6. Magical Mystery Tour 5. Rubber Soul 4. The White Album 3. Sgt Peppers 2. Abbey Road 1. Revolver
LET it be at 2? That's it, i'm never watching another one of your videos again. LOL Great list john but we're all different on what we think should be number one or number ten or whatever. Thats why i really enjoy watching who picks what on the beatle albums. I do like that you have the white album right up there. Revolver would be much higher for me. Nice john. Take care.
I have learnt to,love Let it be. The sound is so warm, it goes down like hot chocolate. Oh the Beatles were so good! Any of their albums could have been top of the list because each one has a gem which is absolutely « beyond compare ». Think of Eight days a week or the bridge of No reply. There is more musicality’in those than in the whole catalogue of any group you can think,of.
Middle Beatles albums are their best albums. Although I love all their stuff the earlier albums are a little deriviative and simplistic and their later albums are a little too slick.
Good to see some love for "Beatles For Sale". All the originals are superb - & a move forward from the previous LPs originals. Even though AHDN is all original - a couple of Lennon songs on side 2 are poor IMO. And 2 of the side 1 songs irritate me a bit as well. I find a couple of the originals on "With The Beatles" are also second rate.
1: Abbey Road 2: White Album 3: Magical Mystery Tour 4: Let It Be 5: Sgt Peppers 6: Revolver 7: Rubber Soul 8: Please Please Me 9: Help 10: Yellow Submarine 11: A Hard Days Night 12: Beatles For Sale 13: With The Beatles
Beatles For Sale, the White album and Let it Be over the MMT?? Not a chance. The White album is a pretty poor record imo. Ten good tracks out of thirty. Top five Beatle records in no order.. Rubber Soul, Revolver, Abbey Road, The MMT and Sgt Pepper. Depending on my mood anyone of those five could be my favorite on any given day. But hey... it's all personal opinion. Sgt Pepper is a bit dated but it's still a very good record... brilliant production by George Martin.
Devilz DandruFF thanks for commenting... worth saying that these are all five star albums and it just depends on one's mood and opinion as to how to rank them..very difficult :- )
Agreed. I do think that the MMT does get a bad rap. I know that I'm in the minority but I find that it flows well. There's a definite sort of fogginess and eeriness about it from beginning to end.. with some psychedelic elements sprinkled in.
AS far I'm concerned the white album has very little filler and is in their top 2. The songs flow so great together. If the filler is such a problem, these days it's not hard to edit out songs you don't like so if a band has 10 great songs on an album any filler complaints is overrated imo. The only double album I like better is exile on Main Street which also has very little filler as the album flows great just like the white album. The wall would be my third favorite double album. To me, annoying filler comes from smashing pumpkins and guns n roses double albums. Bands like the beatles, stones and floyd knew how to do it, newer acts not so much.
My favourite. probably Abbey Road and Rubber soul, my worst would be with the beatles and yellow submarine ( the bad side of it ) As a tribute to those four guys from Liverpool i did an amateur sketch, if anyone wants to see it ? simply just type in the following.........Beatles sketch with snippets
Nice list, but HOW Can let it be be number 2??? Its a album with only 12 songs and two of Them is only 40 seconds long, and some of Them is released in a single, and it was the worst album to make in Beatles opinion.
13. Yellow Submarine 12. Please Please Me 11. With the Beatles 10. Beatles for Sale 9. Let it Be 8. Help! 7. A Hard Day's Night 6. Magical Mystery Tour 5. Sgt. Pepper 4. White Album 3. Rubber Soul 2. Abbey Road 1. Revolver.
My ratings: 1. Revolver 2. Abbey Road 3. Rubber Soul 4. Sgt Pepper 5. A Hard Days’ Night 6. The White Album 7. Help! 8. Magical Mystery Tour 9.Beatles for Sale 10. Let it Be 11. Please Please Me 12. With the Beatles 13. Yellow Submarine
Thanks John! I will use English only releases like you have although my American Yesterday and Today and Beatles VI would rank top 10 if I included. 1. Revolver 2. Abby 3. White Album 4. Rubber Soul 5. Hard Day's Night' 6. With the Beatles 7. Help 8. Beatles for Sale 9. Please Please Me 10. Sgt Pepper 11. MMT 12. Let it Be 13. Yellow Sub
This is the closest I've seen on youtube to my own list: 13) Yellow Submarine 12) With The Beatles 11) Please Please Me 10) Beatles For Sale 9) A Hard Day's Night 8) Help! 7) Magical Mystery Tour 6) Rubber Soul 5) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 4) Abbey Road 3) Revolver 2) The Beatles ('White Album') 1) Let It Be... Naked
White Album....to this day FRIGHTENS me. So weird. Never heard a weirder album. My #1 or 2 depending on the day. Let It Be ... please. Rubbish relatively speaking.
Maybe one piece of evidence the Beatles stopped at the right time is that, during the year of their last album (1970), the album of another group-Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water-wildly outsold theirs.
1. Sgt Pepper This Album exploded onto the scene it was soooooooo original, you could even stare at the album cover for hours. 2. Abbey Road 3 Magical Mystery Tour 4 Meet THe Beatles(us version) I want to Hold your Hand, Standing There, All My loving 5. Revolver 6. Rubber Soul 7. Help 8 Hard Days Night 9 Let It Be--it was their last release I think it makes people sad but its still great, especially all of Paul’s stuff. 10 White Album. I love Obla Di, Birthday, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Long Long Long, Blackbird, don’t like a lot of JOhns stuff on this. 11..Beatles for Sale 12 Please Please Me 13 Yellow Submarine
13. Yellow Submarine 12. Beatles for Sale 11. With the Beatles 10. Please Please Me 9. Help 8. A Hard Day's Night 7. Let it Be 6. Magical Mystery Tour 5. White Album 4. Rubber Soul 3. Abbey Road 2. Revolver 1. Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band Thank you.
1. Sgt Peppers 2. The Beatles (White Album) 3. Rubber Soul 4. Abbey Road 5. A Hard Day's Night 6. Magical Mystery Tour 7. Revolver 8. Help! 9, Please Please Me 10. Beatles for Sale (Yellow Submarine) 11. With The Beatles 12. Let it Be Haying written that, 9-11 are hard to order among themselves. I never owned 'With The Beatles' so the nostalgia isn't there, and I only purchased 'Beatles for Sale' after my Beatlemania phase began to die down. I could never afford to buy them all so I prioritised and only bought their earlier albums when I could.
"Abbey Road" would be higher on my list if it didn't have Maxwell's hammer and Octopus' garden, which are the ONLY Beatle songs I don't like and cannot listen to. (I even like Wild Honey Pie and Revolution 9) 13. Yellow submarine 12. Let it be 11. Please please me 10. Beatles for sale 9. With the beatles 8. Help! 7. Abbey road 6. Magical mystery tour 5. A hard day's night 4. Sgt. Pepper's 3. Rubber soul 2. The Beatles 1. Revolver
1. Revolver 2. Please Please Me 3. MMT 4. A Hard Day’s Night 5. White Album 6. Sgt. Pepper’s 7.Abbey Road 8. Rubber Soul 9. Help! 10. With The Beatles 11. Beatles For Sale 12. Let it Be 13. Yellow Submarine Honestly, I love all these albums. I listen to at least one song (off of each album) once a day. Some I’ll play over and over again and some I’ll skip. 🤷🏾♀️
Sorry Brits, but the album that made the Beatles a worldwide phenom was...MEET THE BEATLES! The Beatles were already big in England (two albums and many singles) and yet no one in the U.S. had even heard of them. Brian Epstein told John and Paul that if they didn't make it in American, they didn't really make it (ask Cliff Richard). The Beatles wrote "I Want To Hold Your Hand" especially for the U.S. market and in Dec. of '63 that song made the Beatles famous in the States. Capitol followed it up with MEET THE BEATLES and smartly included "I Want To Hold Your Hand" on the lp. I'm not a big fan of the Capitol releases in general, but "Meet..." is different and really launched them as a worldwide group. And the cover (yes, I know it was used on their 2nd release in England, but I've already told you what Americans thought of British groups) with the four heads, dark background, and the words...The First Album By England's Phenomenal Pop Combo! Compare that album to their legitimate 1st release in England, PLEASE PLEASE ME, with the lamest, dumbest cover in the history of albums and you understand the importance of using the cover Capitol did for their American debut. Remember, before MEET THE BEATLES and I Want To Hold Your Hand...America couldn't have cared less about the band.
Abbey Road has always edged it for me as it was the first Beatles album that I really listened to. I was listening to the Stone Roses, Nirvana and Jesus Jones (who?) and the like at the time. My dad was a Beatles fanatic and taped Abbey Road so I could listen to it on my Walkman. I gave it a few plays just to shut him up as he'd been nagging me to listen to The Beatles for years. Needless to say, I was a Beatles fan a few days later.
Loved the vid! I like and share your passion, even though my list would be totally different - probably because I've become a different kind of Beatles fan - with Please Please as my number 1. It's one of the most energetic and energizing albums ever made, imho, and as close as we'd get to actually hearing the Beatles play live. Wonderful recording too; the sparks flying from the music are almost tangible. George Martin originally toyed with the idea of a "live at the Cavern" album, apparently? Now that would've been absolute gold, if at all feasable, but they did try to give us the next best thing with that first lp. It's electrifying and I never tire of it. Btw, some of my other faves are Live at the Star Club, and the Live at the BBC's, for pretty much the same reasons. That sheer power and togetherness gradually disappeared and got replaced with (albeit brilliant) production artifice. No wonder they didn't feel like performing their stuff anymore. When they quit being an actual band in 1966, Brian Epstein, who was so bowled over when he first saw them play at that "cellarful of noise", was also one of the first to realise that the dream was over, I guess? They still made great studio lp's together because they had immense talent, vision and tenacity, but that mysterious magic they all used to share was lost. Didn't Lennon say: "our best stuff was never recorded"? We know he was prone to exaggeration and, erm...contrariness, if that is an actual English word, but listening to their albums, that quote resonates with me, and I always felt he might be right. So, for me, PPM is my absolute favourite Beatles album and surely one of the best pop lp's ever made. Anyway, do excuse my longwinded comment. I enjoy your channel and it's great to share the same Beatle passion!
Had to pause at aound 5min Mark... Where is your presumed friend that hasn't heard the Beatles from? outter space?🤣🤣. . Great choice mind to give a prosppective Beatles convertee.. If i have friends that dont or get the Beatles.. They're not really my friend 😉... Great vid so far, Revolver out of top 5 which means Let it be is??? .Don't agree buts its your opinion il try an respect it.. okay on with the vid...Pause again at 6.23.. Abbey rd no1.🙏🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤👍👍👍.. unpaused....Vid finished... Absolutely great Video tip top.. Loved your Let it be collection superb, And so Glad to see my never changing favourite @no.1 The supreme Abbey Road ✌..Thanks for videos its helped to break the boredom during this isolation mess thank you an good health too you.✌+❤
Love your channel......My fav is the ''blue album''! Least fav ''The White Album''...way too disjointed, would have been better as a single LP w/ half of the tracks cut.
Late to the party but as a lifelong Beatles fan with a somewhat different take than John, my top five in reverse order would be (today, anyway): 5) White Album, 4) Rubber Soul, 3) Sgt. Pepper 2) Mystery Tour, 1) Revolver
My list would go: 1) Sgt Pepper 2) Revolver 3) Help! 4) Rubber Soul 5) Abbey Road 6) The Beatles 7) A Hard Days Night 8) Magical Mystery Tour 9) Please Please Me 10) Let It Be 11) With The Beatles 12) Yellow Submarine 13) Beatles For Sale
HELP! is skipping like Kangaroo John! You need to check your vinyl for snap crackle and SKIPS. Extremely awlful and drowns out your talk. Sounds like you are in a tin box!
Just a suggestion. Please DO NOT play music loudly when giving us your opinion. It just interferes in hearing you while your voice ruins the music. Not good for either which ruins what is good, that is HEARING your opinion which is why I think most of us came here. Anyway good luck!!
Hi John, Trying to compete to hear you ove the din in the background is a terrible event. The mic sounds like it was in a tin can on the floor, terrible sound, a.Mic should be directly in front of the speaker, not where its placed in this video. Can I suggest you leave the music off, completely! (The tracks skip anyway, they add NOTHING to the video)! Try and change the mic if you haven't already! The skipping is equally, (in the backround) is playing havoc wit the whole video, I will not be returning to this video as I do to others. Please consider a remake...please!!
Everyone will have their own different opinion so I would not criticise and I largely agree with you. Abbey Road is my favourite but surprised that Revolver is so low , surprised that Let it Be is No 2 , I cannot see that album is better than your numbers 3,4.5 and 6 . I would have For Sale lower as well as that was a bit of a knocked off album a few great Lennon and McCartney songs but much of it is their old Cavern live act with covers. Most people would have Revolver at 1 or 2 as its considered their peak creatively. Always enjoy these ranking discussions , thanks for posting
Perhaps you don't want to be pestered?? But I think it would be cool to correspond with your subscribers in some way, John Heaton. Email, social media, email, something? Please and thank you!!
Let it be at number 2 is shocking. But that’s ok. Not a favorite of mine but I do like it. Particularly for I’ve got a feeling and the long winding road. Question for you; do you prefer Spector’s version or the naked version?
Great channel. Love seeing fans rank Beatles' albums. However...I must comment on most review ranking channels...yours included, about the exclusion of Past Master 1 and 2. I know, I know, they are not 'official' album releases. However...consider...just exactly what would be considered Beatles albums? The UK releases? The US releases? I only own UK released albums. I feel US record companies butchered The Beatles albums for profit. So I only purchase UK products. With that said...back when The Beatles were starting off, in that time period, it was not unusual to release singles and not include them on albums. It wasn't until the later Beatles years record companies stopped that practice. I believe the stopping of that practice was directly related to The Beatles. So, let me poiny out, there were many singles tracks that never made it onto an album. 'Rain', for example. One of Ringo's greatest drum performances. 'Day Tripper'. Even "Strawberry Fields Forever', and 'Penny Lane', (which should have been on Sgt Pepper), were not included on an album. Yes...I know they are on Magical Mystery Tour. But really...is MMT a true album, or just a compilation album? Truth is...when ranking Beatles albums only...one has to leave out a remarkabke amout of fantastic tracks, that eventually wound up on Past Masters 1 and 2. How can one truly rank The Beatles catalogue if these tracks are left out? I mean...really...are we ranking the albums? Or are wr ranking their catologue. I get it. If one chooses to just rank their albums...that is fine. Everyone is allowed to do as he or she chooses. But how does one determine exactly what a Beatles album really is? What about the US released Yesteday and Today? Does one include it? Many would claim...it is a legitimate album release. Just trying to make the point...it does no justice to exclude Past Master 1 and 2 out of the lineup. They are in fact...Beatles tracks. Not disrespecting anyone...just making a point. Hopefully my point is seen and some can agree. If not, fair enough. I just feel those singles tracks no respect, when The Beatles catalogue is ranked. Just my humble opinion. Forgive me for being so long winded. Just tryjng to get these singles some recognition. Thanks for your channel and review. Two thums up.
Let It Be should be down in the lower third of the list. Two of Us, Dig a Pony, I Me Mine, Dig It and Maggie Mae are very weak songs. At least these quirky songs could be as entertaining as the ones on the White Album, but they are not. Let IT Be, the Long and Winding Road and I’ve Got A Feeling can’t save this album. To top it all off, they decided to let Phil Spector get his hands on it and bloat the songs with excess.
Let it Be at number 2. Say it ain't so. I am excited about the upcoming Peter Jackson film about the Get Back sessions and the rerelease of Let it Be film. Beatles unwashed and somewhat slightly dazed.
You have a preference for 67-70 Blue era over the 62-66 Red era. I like both, but I prefer the originals from the earlier era more. Really, they are like two different bands from two different eras of music. The Beatles themselves caused much of that. The early Beatles members solo efforts are like a third era.
Thanks for helping me identify the version of let it be I have. 1970 UK is what I have with the greeny/ browny apple that looks badly printed. Nice album but I'm surprised is number 2 on your list because for me it's much lower. Although it has great songs on it, out just doesn't seem like an album to me, it seems cobbled together with not of an identity. Is scraping the barrel ( an extremely nice barrel with luxury exotic rare liquor in it, but scraping the barrel non the less.). But great video.
Dear john do you have all the US versions of the beatles UK albums and if you have what do you think about them many americans grew up listening to a totally different version of the beatles and have never heard the UK versions and if they have they say they still prefer the american releases
Would be fine if you could make a re-recording of this video - without the disturbing background noise - and with you talking loud and clear, instead of you mumbeling - so we could also hear you.
Thanks John for another great review. I generally go back and forth between Sgt Pepper & Abbey Road as my number one. I also enjoyed your close encounter with the rooftop story.
Another interesting review John!My list would go 1)Revolver2)Abbey Road3)The White Album4)Rubber soul5)Hard Day s Night6)Sgt Pepper7)Help8)Let It Be 9)Magical Mystery Tour 10)Beatles For Sale11)With The Beatles12)Please Please 1st LP13)Yellow Submarine
1) Sgt Pepper -- Too Innovative 2) Abbey Road - Too Good 3) Rubber Soul - Too Much Repeat-Listening Pleasure 4) Revolver - Very Good, But Not Enough Repeat-Listening Pleasure 5) Magical Mystery Tour - More Sgt. Pepper-Type Material, But The Great Song Count a Little Skimpy, Compared to the Others. 6) The White Album - A Fine "Dark Horse" Candidate, but Some of the Experiments Failed. Any questions?
My List: 1)Rubber Soul 2)Abbey Road 3)A Hard Days Night 4)Magical Mystery Tour 5)Help! 6)Revolver 7)Let It Be 8)Beatles For Sale 9)White Album 10)Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band 11)Please, Please Me 12)With The Beatles 13)Yellow Submarine
I love magical mystery tour :(
hugo chaves Me too - shocked and stunned at MMT's position!!
hugo chaves so do i... They are all masterpieces
+John Heaton Beatles is art!
I love Magical mystery tour as well, but to me it is not a real album. It`s more a compilation album where you have the "Magical mystery tour" EP on one side, and the a and b sides of the singles the Beatles released in 1967 on side two. "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry fields" are in my view Pepper songs... They would have been perfect on "Sgt. Pepper"
I still enjoy it all as a listening experience more than sgt. pepper personally
I started laughing when you pulled out Let It Be after Let It Be 😂. That was good.
Australians: Hmm we have to change up the apple logo coloring
Australians: Hmmmmmmm
*Australians ignoring the fact that apples can be yellow*
Australians: WHAT ABOUT ORANGE BC THATS NOT TOTALLY ANOTHER FRUIT
easy:
1. U.K. Revolver
2. everything else (haha)
I'm starting to detect a Doctor Who/Beatles duel obsession going on....
James Griffiths well spotted!
@@johnheaton5667 Me too. I am BOTH as well. RTD was the best era along with Troughton, Pertwee and Tom Baker! Forget the rest except maybe the first!
Vlad Drakul Yes Hartnell also great...first four the best!
@@johnheaton5667 David Tennant was great too:(
Is ´t it fantastic that we can have any Beatle record as number 1?who else can say this?
Abbey Road is my favourite too was worried it wasn’t going to be in your top 5.
Ha!
Abbey Road is the best album the Beatles released. I love it. I think Phil Spector botched "Let it be" Compare George Martin`s version of the "Let it be" song to Phil Spector`s or George Martin`s version of "Get back" to Phil Spector`s... George Martin wins.. I am a little bit biased on Phil Spector... The man is in jail for committing murder, and i don`t like the way he treated Darlene Love on "He`s a rebel" where he put it out on a false name, even though it was Darlene Love who was singing.
Get Back on the LP is the same version as the single. But I agree that he ruined Let It Be. He mixed out the backing vocals, which made the song any good in the first place! And he ruined Across The Universe my mixing out the other Beatles and adding his choirs.
Yellyman Gonzales You hit on something with Darlene Love. He absolutely mistreated Tina Turner during the recording of Valley Deep, Mountain High!
@@franklamagna3889 he banned ike from the studio so he couldnt smack her between takes.
Phil didnt murder her. She kissed the gun.
Choir is the best part of across the universe
1. Sgt. Pepper's
2. The Beatles
3. Revolver
4. Abbey Road
5. Magical Mystery Tour
6. Rubber Soul
7. Let It Be
8. Help!
9. A Hard Day's Night
10. Please Please Me
11. Beatles For Sale
12. With The Beatles
On the “A Hard Days’ Night album - John wrote either all or most of the 10 songs out of the 13. It’s pretty incredible.
Revolver is my favorite
Didn't need the music playing at the same time, made it hard work to hear what was being said..
I think magical mystery tour is super underrated strawberry Fields the fool on the hill penny lane i am the warlus
One of the Beatles best albums
magical mystery tour is actually my favorite. i do not dislike any of the songs on it
It’s kind of hard to say any Beatles album is underrated. All of their albums have a fan base.
My only issue with MMT is that the chorus for Blue Jay Way isn't the strongest imo, but otherwise it's a fairly spotless album in my eyes
I'm from Brazil!! Your channel is really good!
hugo chaves thanks!
Let it Be higher than the White Album! Wow, I certainly wasn't expecting that :) Admire your sticking to your personal taste and not going with the crowd but I just feel they were a bit tired and jaded after the mammoth qualityfest they'd just conjured up in the months/weeks before.
LIB pales in comparison to the white album.
Across the universe, Long and winding road Let it be are better than any track on the white album.
Another enjoyable review, John. In response (horses for courses)....and not that you asked for one....I'm going to give you my rankings. To be honest, I've never thought about ranking them before now so this will be a first for me. I'm not going to include the "Yellow Submarine" album as I don't view it as a "legitimate" Beatles release (horses for courses again) So, here we go:
12. "Beatles For Sale".........they were tired and sounded it, although there are some terrific McCartney tracks on the record.
11. "Please, Please Me"......this one continues to grow on me. One hell of a debut album.
10. "With The Beatles"....of course, it was "Meet The Beatles" over here but this was the record that made me fall in love with the
band. To my 14 year old eyes and ears, the sound was both extraordinary and revolutionary.
9. "Let It Be"......this was a disappointment for me when it came out. Some terrific tracks for sure but just not enough of them.
8. "A Hard Days Night"......a full album's worth of top notch pop/rock tracks. Terrific film, terrific album.
7. "Magical Mystery Tour"......this one continues to grow on me as well. The soundtrack version is a waste of time but the "all
song" version is a showcase of the band's magnificent brilliance.
6. "Help".....for me, this is the album which first showed the ever increasing maturity of their songwriting skills.
5. "Rubber Soul".....my favorite George Harrison song of all...."If I Needed Someone"....is contained here which is one of a
number reasons why this record makes it to my top 5.
4. "Sgt. Pepper".....it has all been said endless times before. Revolutionary brilliance in every musical sense. Timeless.
3. "The White Album (The Beatles)"......pick any musical genre you'd like and you'll find it here. In a word, amazing.
2. "Abbey Road"......what a way for the greatest band ever to say goodbye. I shed a tear each time the medley comes to an
end with that famous last verse. Vinyl magnificence!!!
1. "Revolver"......not that it was needed, but this album proved they were greatest ever. From beginning to end, this is pop/rock
as it had never been heard nor recorded before. My copy, purchased in London, hangs on my den wall as proof.
David Gena thanks david...good to see your list!
43 years old, and I'm just now getting into the Beatles! Starting to collect vinyl as we speak, and the White Album was the one I HAD to get first...followed by Abby Road and Revolver. Quite a few to go yet! Love your reviews mate!
My ranking:
13)Yellow Submarine [1969]
12)Magical Mystery Tour [1967]
11)Please Please Me [1963]
10)Beatles For Sale [1964]
9)With The Beatles [1963]
8)Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band [1967]
7)Revolver [1966]
6)A Hard Day's Night [1964]
5)Help! [1965]
4)Abbey Road [1969]
3)The Beatles (The White Album) [1968]
2)Let It Be [1970]
1)Rubber Soul [1965]
1. Revolver
2. Abbey Road
3. The Beatles
4. Rubber Soul
5. Magical Mystery Tour
6. A Hard Days Night
7. Sgt. Pepper
8. Let It Be
9. Help
10. please Please Me
11. With The Beatles
12. Beatle For Sale
13. Yellow Submarine
Revolver
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Rubber soul
Abbey Road
Help
Magical Mystery Tour
A hard day’s night
The Beatles (The white album)
Let it be
With The Beatles
Beatles for sale
Please please me
Yellow submarine
The only album I still struggle to get into is With the Beatles.
I love all the others. I include Yellow Submarine in that and George Martin's score.
Great to see Beatles for sale not too close to the bottom. The originals on that album are superb. And unpopular opinion but I love Mr Moonlight.
The best is so hard to say. Maybe cheating but I count the let it be naked version as I don't like the original. And that naked version makes it jump up my list. No fillers and Don't let me Down is added. Much better production. All the songs are very very good. I ain't saying my best but i do enjoy hearing people's views on this fascinating subject
I agree with the worst album being Yellow Submarine. Not a serious effort on their part.
Frank Lamagna thanks frank...kind of glad they didn’t go the EP route though
But it's still a great album you got to say
They didn't have much input apart from the cameo at the end. The side 1 consisted of a Sgt Pepper reject (OANS), three other new songs by John Paul, and George recorded for contractual reasons, and two previously released singles. I don't think of it as a Beatles "album" as such, and neither was MMT which essentially was a double EP in the UK. Both were "soundtrack" releases. However I like the MMT EP as it is (apart from "Walrus" you don't get these tracks elsewhere), and I like listening to side 1 of YS, (these extra four tracks you don't get anywhere else either)……… and it is The Beatles :-)
I love the yellow submarine album
Top 4
1. Revolver
2. Rubber Soul
3. Sgt. Peppers
4. Abbey road
Ben S same, but 4 would either be abbey road or the beatles
Same list for me,,,,exactly. Great albums!!!! 😉😛😉
Since I heard the Let it Be (naked) version, it has gone way higher in my list too. 😍
I Understand Why Let it is on no.2, its because of the maturity of the music. Myself I really enjoy that Album. its on my top 3, when I listen that album for the 1st time I notice that its a McCartney Album. thats Why Some beatle Fans Says its thier least fav. record. And im little jealous of your Let it be Albums.LOLZ
takeru miyamoto yes and let it be is also associated with the split which probably didn’t help!
"With" is a way stronger album than "Please", "Please" was just a pop album but "With" has rough and strong sound and punky attitude.
White Album and Abbey Road are the worst, Pepper is the best.
A hards Days Night is Better than Help.
Niels Bie nah yesterday and hide your love away are some of the best Beatles songs
A very well explained ranking. Sometimes ranking albums isn’t so much what we cognitively perceive as the best album, but rather what album we tend to reach for most often. And that, in itself, changes with time.
I find myself reaching for the White Album and Let It Be lately.
Magical Mystery Tour is my #1 but I can’t argue with Abbey Road being at the top. I’d just switch A Hard’s Day Night with Help.
13. Yellow Submarine
12. With The Beatles
11. Let It Be
10. Please Please Me
9. A Hard Day’s Night
8. Beatles For Sale
7. Help
6. Magical Mystery Tour
5. Rubber Soul
4. The White Album
3. Sgt Peppers
2. Abbey Road
1. Revolver
Nice list,,
Well on the magical 13 , you put my fav album at #3. How dare you.
Abbey Road is the greatest album.
Espetacular os 13 Álbuns de The Beatles; tenho todos e gosto de todos por igual! Parabéns Amigo pelo belo trabalho que você realizou e realiza.
LET it be at 2? That's it, i'm never watching another one of your videos again. LOL Great list john but we're all different on what we think should be number one or number ten or whatever. Thats why i really enjoy watching who picks what on the beatle albums. I do like that you have the white album right up there. Revolver would be much higher for me. Nice john. Take care.
Ha Ha Kregg. I may have provocatively plaved Let It Be so high as it is the ugly duckling of the canon according to many...not me!
:)
I have learnt to,love Let it be. The sound is so warm, it goes down like hot chocolate. Oh the Beatles were so good! Any of their albums could have been top of the list because each one has a gem which is absolutely « beyond compare ». Think of Eight days a week or the bridge of No reply. There is more musicality’in those than in the whole catalogue of any group you can think,of.
Let it Be should be up there ONLY for Let it Be and Long & Winding Road (although I prefer the naked version of the last one).
Middle Beatles albums are their best albums. Although I love all their stuff the earlier albums are a little deriviative and simplistic and their later albums are a little too slick.
Good to see some love for "Beatles For Sale". All the originals are superb - & a move forward from the previous LPs originals. Even though AHDN is all original - a couple of Lennon songs on side 2 are poor IMO. And 2 of the side 1 songs irritate me a bit as well. I find a couple of the originals on "With The Beatles" are also second rate.
let it be ahead of sgt, white, & revolver? well im glad you are able to enjoy that album more than i can
1: Abbey Road
2: White Album
3: Magical Mystery Tour
4: Let It Be
5: Sgt Peppers
6: Revolver
7: Rubber Soul
8: Please Please Me
9: Help
10: Yellow Submarine
11: A Hard Days Night
12: Beatles For Sale
13: With The Beatles
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who thinks Please Please Me is the best of their discogs' former half!
Revolver below Let it be?????????
A hard days night is the only Beatles album that I don’t dislike one song on
Same here
Nice collectible figurine collection you have there, John.
Noun boy thanks yes probably the biggest in Hungary :- )
Beatles For Sale, the White album and Let it Be over the MMT?? Not a chance. The White album is a pretty poor record imo. Ten good tracks out of thirty. Top five Beatle records in no order.. Rubber Soul, Revolver, Abbey Road, The MMT and Sgt Pepper. Depending on my mood anyone of those five could be my favorite on any given day. But hey... it's all personal opinion. Sgt Pepper is a bit dated but it's still a very good record... brilliant production by George Martin.
Devilz DandruFF thanks for commenting... worth saying that these are all five star albums and it just depends on one's mood and opinion as to how to rank them..very difficult :- )
Agreed. I do think that the MMT does get a bad rap. I know that I'm in the minority but I find that it flows well. There's a definite sort of fogginess and eeriness about it from beginning to end.. with some psychedelic elements sprinkled in.
AS far I'm concerned the white album has very little filler and is in their top 2. The songs flow so great together. If the filler is such a problem, these days it's not hard to edit out songs you don't like so if a band has 10 great songs on an album any filler complaints is overrated imo. The only double album I like better is exile on Main Street which also has very little filler as the album flows great just like the white album. The wall would be my third favorite double album. To me, annoying filler comes from smashing pumpkins and guns n roses double albums. Bands like the beatles, stones and floyd knew how to do it, newer acts not so much.
The white album is a masterpiece, I love each song on that album even Revolution 9 😂
Y’all calm down, it’s just his opinion. My favorite Beatles albums change from time to time. Right now it’s Rubber Soul.
My favourite. probably Abbey Road and Rubber soul, my worst would be with the beatles and yellow submarine ( the bad side of it ) As a tribute to those four guys from Liverpool i did an amateur sketch, if anyone wants to see it ? simply just type in the following.........Beatles sketch with snippets
I don’t know whether to listen to you or the songs😂
Nice video but you said a hard days night was all Lennon/McCartney.
George Harrison also sang a song on that album “I’m Happy just to dance with you”
Nice list, but HOW Can let it be be number 2??? Its a album with only 12 songs and two of Them is only 40 seconds long, and some of Them is released in a single, and it was the worst album to make in Beatles opinion.
13. Yellow Submarine 12. Please Please Me 11. With the Beatles 10. Beatles for Sale 9. Let it Be 8. Help! 7. A Hard Day's Night 6. Magical Mystery Tour 5. Sgt. Pepper 4. White Album 3. Rubber Soul 2. Abbey Road 1. Revolver.
13.Yellow Submarine; 12.Beatles for Sale; 11.With the Beatles; 10.Magical Mystery Tour; 9.Please Please Me; 8.Let it Be; 7.Help!; 6.A Hard Day's Night; 5.Revolver; 4.Rubber Soul; 3.Sgt. Pepper; 2.Abbey Road; 1.The Beatles
Man I want somebody to have early Beatles #1 it gets boring when everyone has all the right answers
My ratings:
1. Revolver
2. Abbey Road
3. Rubber Soul
4. Sgt Pepper
5. A Hard Days’ Night
6. The White Album
7. Help!
8. Magical Mystery Tour
9.Beatles for Sale
10. Let it Be
11. Please Please Me
12. With the Beatles
13. Yellow Submarine
Thanks John! I will use English only releases like you have although my American Yesterday and Today and Beatles VI would rank top 10 if I included.
1. Revolver
2. Abby
3. White Album
4. Rubber Soul
5. Hard Day's Night'
6. With the Beatles
7. Help
8. Beatles for Sale
9. Please Please Me
10. Sgt Pepper
11. MMT
12. Let it Be
13. Yellow Sub
This is the closest I've seen on youtube to my own list:
13) Yellow Submarine
12) With The Beatles
11) Please Please Me
10) Beatles For Sale
9) A Hard Day's Night
8) Help!
7) Magical Mystery Tour
6) Rubber Soul
5) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
4) Abbey Road
3) Revolver
2) The Beatles ('White Album')
1) Let It Be... Naked
White Album....to this day FRIGHTENS me. So weird. Never heard a weirder album. My #1 or 2 depending on the day. Let It Be ... please. Rubbish relatively speaking.
Maybe one piece of evidence the Beatles stopped at the right time is that, during the year of their last album (1970), the album of another group-Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water-wildly outsold theirs.
1. Sgt Pepper This Album exploded onto the scene it was soooooooo original, you could even stare at the album cover for hours.
2. Abbey Road
3 Magical Mystery Tour
4 Meet THe Beatles(us version) I want to Hold your Hand, Standing There, All My loving
5. Revolver
6. Rubber Soul
7. Help
8 Hard Days Night
9 Let It Be--it was their last release I think it makes people sad but its still great, especially all of Paul’s stuff.
10 White Album. I love Obla Di, Birthday, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Long Long Long, Blackbird, don’t like a lot of JOhns stuff on this.
11..Beatles for Sale
12 Please Please Me
13 Yellow Submarine
13. Yellow Submarine
12. Beatles for Sale
11. With the Beatles
10. Please Please Me
9. Help
8. A Hard Day's Night
7. Let it Be
6. Magical Mystery Tour
5. White Album
4. Rubber Soul
3. Abbey Road
2. Revolver
1. Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
Thank you.
1. Sgt Peppers
2. The Beatles (White Album)
3. Rubber Soul
4. Abbey Road
5. A Hard Day's Night
6. Magical Mystery Tour
7. Revolver
8. Help!
9, Please Please Me
10. Beatles for Sale
(Yellow Submarine)
11. With The Beatles
12. Let it Be
Haying written that, 9-11 are hard to order among themselves. I never owned 'With The Beatles' so the nostalgia isn't there, and I only purchased 'Beatles for Sale' after my Beatlemania phase began to die down. I could never afford to buy them all so I prioritised and only bought their earlier albums when I could.
"Abbey Road" would be higher on my list if it didn't have Maxwell's hammer and Octopus' garden, which are the ONLY Beatle songs I don't like and cannot listen to. (I even like Wild Honey Pie and Revolution 9)
13. Yellow submarine
12. Let it be
11. Please please me
10. Beatles for sale
9. With the beatles
8. Help!
7. Abbey road
6. Magical mystery tour
5. A hard day's night
4. Sgt. Pepper's
3. Rubber soul
2. The Beatles
1. Revolver
1. Revolver
2. Please Please Me
3. MMT
4. A Hard Day’s Night
5. White Album
6. Sgt. Pepper’s
7.Abbey Road
8. Rubber Soul
9. Help!
10. With The Beatles
11. Beatles For Sale
12. Let it Be
13. Yellow Submarine
Honestly, I love all these albums. I listen to at least one song (off of each album) once a day. Some I’ll play over and over again and some I’ll skip. 🤷🏾♀️
1. Abbey Road
2. Magical Mystery Tour
3. Sergeant Pepper
4. Rubber Soul
5. Revolver
6. Help
7. White Album
8. Let It Be
Sorry Brits, but the album that made the Beatles a worldwide phenom was...MEET THE BEATLES! The Beatles were already big in England (two albums and many singles) and yet no one in the U.S. had even heard of them. Brian Epstein told John and Paul that if they didn't make it in American, they didn't really make it (ask Cliff Richard). The Beatles wrote "I Want To Hold Your Hand" especially for the U.S. market and in Dec. of '63 that song made the Beatles famous in the States. Capitol followed it up with MEET THE BEATLES and smartly included "I Want To Hold Your Hand" on the lp. I'm not a big fan of the Capitol releases in general, but "Meet..." is different and really launched them as a worldwide group. And the cover (yes, I know it was used on their 2nd release in England, but I've already told you what Americans thought of British groups) with the four heads, dark background, and the words...The First Album By England's Phenomenal Pop Combo! Compare that album to their legitimate 1st release in England, PLEASE PLEASE ME, with the lamest, dumbest cover in the history of albums and you understand the importance of using the cover Capitol did for their American debut. Remember, before MEET THE BEATLES and I Want To Hold Your Hand...America couldn't have cared less about the band.
Abbey Road has always edged it for me as it was the first Beatles album that I really listened to. I was listening to the Stone Roses, Nirvana and Jesus Jones (who?) and the like at the time. My dad was a Beatles fanatic and taped Abbey Road so I could listen to it on my Walkman. I gave it a few plays just to shut him up as he'd been nagging me to listen to The Beatles for years. Needless to say, I was a Beatles fan a few days later.
Loved the vid! I like and share your passion, even though my list would be totally different - probably because I've become a different kind of Beatles fan - with Please Please as my number 1. It's one of the most energetic and energizing albums ever made, imho, and as close as we'd get to actually hearing the Beatles play live. Wonderful recording too; the sparks flying from the music are almost tangible. George Martin originally toyed with the idea of a "live at the Cavern" album, apparently? Now that would've been absolute gold, if at all feasable, but they did try to give us the next best thing with that first lp. It's electrifying and I never tire of it. Btw, some of my other faves are Live at the Star Club, and the Live at the BBC's, for pretty much the same reasons. That sheer power and togetherness gradually disappeared and got replaced with (albeit brilliant) production artifice. No wonder they didn't feel like performing their stuff anymore. When they quit being an actual band in 1966, Brian Epstein, who was so bowled over when he first saw them play at that "cellarful of noise", was also one of the first to realise that the dream was over, I guess? They still made great studio lp's together because they had immense talent, vision and tenacity, but that mysterious magic they all used to share was lost. Didn't Lennon say: "our best stuff was never recorded"? We know he was prone to exaggeration and, erm...contrariness, if that is an actual English word, but listening to their albums, that quote resonates with me, and I always felt he might be right. So, for me, PPM is my absolute favourite Beatles album and surely one of the best pop lp's ever made. Anyway, do excuse my longwinded comment. I enjoy your channel and it's great to share the same Beatle passion!
Had to pause at aound 5min Mark... Where is your presumed friend that hasn't heard the Beatles from? outter space?🤣🤣. . Great choice mind to give a prosppective Beatles convertee.. If i have friends that dont or get the Beatles.. They're not really my friend 😉... Great vid so far, Revolver out of top 5 which means Let it be is??? .Don't agree buts its your opinion il try an respect it.. okay on with the vid...Pause again at 6.23.. Abbey rd no1.🙏🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤👍👍👍.. unpaused....Vid finished... Absolutely great Video tip top.. Loved your Let it be collection superb, And so Glad to see my never changing favourite @no.1 The supreme Abbey Road ✌..Thanks for videos its helped to break the boredom during this isolation mess thank you an good health too you.✌+❤
Love your channel......My fav is the ''blue album''! Least fav ''The White Album''...way too disjointed, would have been better as a single LP w/ half of the tracks cut.
Late to the party but as a lifelong Beatles fan with a somewhat different take than John, my top five in reverse order would be (today, anyway): 5) White Album, 4) Rubber Soul, 3) Sgt. Pepper 2) Mystery Tour, 1) Revolver
My list would go: 1) Sgt Pepper 2) Revolver 3) Help! 4) Rubber Soul 5) Abbey Road 6) The Beatles 7) A Hard Days Night 8) Magical Mystery Tour 9) Please Please Me 10) Let It Be 11) With The Beatles 12) Yellow Submarine 13) Beatles For Sale
Fair enough...any order is good to be honest!
The only reason I have Yellow Submarine above Beatles For Sale is because Yellow Sub has It's All Too Much which is my favourite Beatles song. :)
Luke Shirlaw No Reply is an excellent song
HELP! is skipping like Kangaroo John!
You need to check your vinyl for snap crackle and SKIPS.
Extremely awlful and drowns out your talk. Sounds like you are in a tin box!
Just a suggestion. Please DO NOT play music loudly when giving us your opinion. It just interferes in hearing you while your voice ruins the music. Not good for either which ruins what is good, that is HEARING your opinion which is why I think most of us came here. Anyway good luck!!
Hi John,
Trying to compete to hear you ove the din in the background is a terrible event. The mic sounds like it was in a tin can on the floor, terrible sound, a.Mic should be directly in front of the speaker, not where its placed in this video.
Can I suggest you leave the music off, completely! (The tracks skip anyway, they add NOTHING to the video)!
Try and change the mic if you haven't already!
The skipping is equally, (in the backround) is playing havoc wit the whole video, I will not be returning to this video as I do to others. Please consider a remake...please!!
Everyone will have their own different opinion so I would not criticise and I largely agree with you. Abbey Road is my favourite but surprised that Revolver is so low , surprised that Let it Be is No 2 , I cannot see that album is better than your numbers 3,4.5 and 6 . I would have For Sale lower as well as that was a bit of a knocked off album a few great Lennon and McCartney songs but much of it is their old Cavern live act with covers. Most people would have Revolver at 1 or 2 as its considered their peak creatively. Always enjoy these ranking discussions , thanks for posting
Abbey Road is also my favourite, most of these videos put it at number 3 or 4 so I’m glad I saw this one!
Perhaps you don't want to be pestered?? But I think it would be cool to correspond with your subscribers in some way, John Heaton. Email, social media, email, something? Please and thank you!!
Let it be at number 2 is shocking. But that’s ok. Not a favorite of mine but I do like it. Particularly for I’ve got a feeling and the long winding road.
Question for you; do you prefer Spector’s version or the naked version?
Great channel. Love seeing fans rank Beatles' albums. However...I must comment on most review ranking channels...yours included, about the exclusion of Past Master 1 and 2. I know, I know, they are not 'official' album releases. However...consider...just exactly what would be considered Beatles albums? The UK releases? The US releases? I only own UK released albums. I feel US record companies butchered The Beatles albums for profit. So I only purchase UK products. With that said...back when The Beatles were starting off, in that time period, it was not unusual to release singles and not include them on albums. It wasn't until the later Beatles years record companies stopped that practice. I believe the stopping of that practice was directly related to The Beatles. So, let me poiny out, there were many singles tracks that never made it onto an album. 'Rain', for example. One of Ringo's greatest drum performances. 'Day Tripper'. Even "Strawberry Fields Forever', and 'Penny Lane', (which should have been on Sgt Pepper), were not included on an album. Yes...I know they are on Magical Mystery Tour. But really...is MMT a true album, or just a compilation album? Truth is...when ranking Beatles albums only...one has to leave out a remarkabke amout of fantastic tracks, that eventually wound up on Past Masters 1 and 2. How can one truly rank The Beatles catalogue if these tracks are left out? I mean...really...are we ranking the albums? Or are wr ranking their catologue. I get it. If one chooses to just rank their albums...that is fine. Everyone is allowed to do as he or she chooses. But how does one determine exactly what a Beatles album really is? What about the US released Yesteday and Today? Does one include it? Many would claim...it is a legitimate album release. Just trying to make the point...it does no justice to exclude Past Master 1 and 2 out of the lineup. They are in fact...Beatles tracks. Not disrespecting anyone...just making a point. Hopefully my point is seen and some can agree. If not, fair enough. I just feel those singles tracks no respect, when The Beatles catalogue is ranked. Just my humble opinion. Forgive me for being so long winded. Just tryjng to get these singles some recognition. Thanks for your channel and review. Two thums up.
Let It Be should be down in the lower third of the list. Two of Us, Dig a Pony, I Me Mine, Dig It and Maggie Mae are very weak songs. At least these quirky songs could be as entertaining as the ones on the White Album, but they are not. Let IT Be, the Long and Winding Road and I’ve Got A Feeling can’t save this album. To top it all off, they decided to let Phil Spector get his hands on it and bloat the songs with excess.
My top 3? Revolver followed by White album with Abbey rd at no..1
I still can't tell weather Lit be is super underrated or overrated.
Its somehow both
The song is overrated but the album is underrated
I can't rank them all but
1) Abbey Road - side 2 is my favourite side of ANY LP
2) Revolver
3) Rubber Soul
Let it Be at number 2. Say it ain't so. I am excited about the upcoming Peter Jackson film about the Get Back sessions and the rerelease of Let it Be film. Beatles unwashed and somewhat slightly dazed.
Absolutely agree with you about Let it Be. The album is unfairly maligned. It's a real gem.
My favorite Beatles albums are, Magical Mystery Tour & Abbey Road,love those albums, classics
I bet you are like me john , your faves change from time to time, that's what happens when you are a Beatles fan.
You have a preference for 67-70 Blue era over the 62-66 Red era. I like both, but I prefer the originals from the earlier era more. Really, they are like two different bands from two different eras of music. The Beatles themselves caused much of that. The early Beatles members solo efforts are like a third era.
1. The White Album
2. Revolver
3. Abbey Road
4. Sgt. Pepper
5. Rubber Soul
How are you getting away with playing Beatle tracks skipping
Like Riverfance ☺️
Thanks for helping me identify the version of let it be I have. 1970 UK is what I have with the greeny/ browny apple that looks badly printed. Nice album but I'm surprised is number 2 on your list because for me it's much lower. Although it has great songs on it, out just doesn't seem like an album to me, it seems cobbled together with not of an identity. Is scraping the barrel ( an extremely nice barrel with luxury exotic rare liquor in it, but scraping the barrel non the less.). But great video.
Let it Be is the album I keep coming back to as well, so nice to see someone else giving it some love.
Its amazing
Dear john do you have all the US versions of the beatles UK albums and if you have what do you think about them many americans grew up listening to a totally different version of the beatles and have never heard the UK versions and if they have they say they still prefer the american releases
Would be fine if you could make a re-recording of this video - without the disturbing background noise -
and with you talking loud and clear, instead of you mumbeling - so we could also hear you.
The correct choice AR is a complete masterpiece, I do cry at some points
The music in the background is really unneccessary. Just noise here...
Thanks John for another great review. I generally go back and forth between Sgt Pepper & Abbey Road as my number one. I also enjoyed your close encounter with the rooftop story.
Zlort Nikto thanks my list would change daily probably!
Another interesting review John!My list would go 1)Revolver2)Abbey Road3)The White Album4)Rubber soul5)Hard Day s Night6)Sgt Pepper7)Help8)Let It Be 9)Magical Mystery Tour 10)Beatles For Sale11)With The Beatles12)Please Please 1st LP13)Yellow Submarine
Frédéric Cioni thanks Frédéric
1) Sgt Pepper -- Too Innovative
2) Abbey Road - Too Good
3) Rubber Soul - Too Much Repeat-Listening Pleasure
4) Revolver - Very Good, But Not Enough Repeat-Listening Pleasure
5) Magical Mystery Tour - More Sgt. Pepper-Type Material, But The Great Song Count a Little Skimpy, Compared to the Others.
6) The White Album - A Fine "Dark Horse" Candidate, but Some of the Experiments Failed.
Any questions?
DigitalShark99 thanks for your opinion! Always interesting to see others'....cheers
Yes,,,,what would you rank the rest of the albums? Good list...,I Don't listen to Yellow Submarine. Revolver always my # 1. 😊😊😊
Let It Be at number 2 is baffling. Bu5 there are no right or wrong answers.
Abbey Road is my #1 as well.
My List:
1)Rubber Soul
2)Abbey Road
3)A Hard Days Night
4)Magical Mystery Tour
5)Help!
6)Revolver
7)Let It Be
8)Beatles For Sale
9)White Album
10)Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
11)Please, Please Me
12)With The Beatles
13)Yellow Submarine
Captain America thanks!