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Ranking The Beatles' official studio albums
28 March 2022
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meanmistermustard said

Monkberry Moon Delight said

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Great post, MMD!

(George's vocal contribution to AHDN is in fact a Lennon-McC composition, just so you know apple01)

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I know about I'm Happy Just To Dance With You , what I meant is since it doesn't really fit him (sounds too much like a Lennon song, meaning a song that would be a better vocal fit for Lennon), George is even more underrepresented on the album and should have had another or an additional song.a-hard-days-night-george-9

  

Ringo isn't even there singing his one number as he was off finding his tonsils.

  

Is that the real reason why there is no Ringo track on AHDN ?

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My ranking's definitely changed since I last did one, this is what it looks like for me right now

13. Yellow Submarine

12. Please Please Me

11. With The Beatles

10. Beatles For Sale

9. Let It Be

8. A Hard Day's Night

7. Help !

6. Rubber Soul

5. Sgt. Pepper 's

4. Abbey Road

3. Revolver

2. Magical Mystery Tour

1. White Album

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Good to see you have the best album at the top. a-hard-days-night-john-6
Magical Mystery Tour wasn’t intended as an album but I love the songs on there, which places it up highly on my list. 

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1.The Beatles 2.Sgt. Pepper 3.Abbey Road 4.Magical Mystery Tour 5.Rubber Soul 6.Revolver 7.Help! 8.Let It Be
9.A Hard Day’s Night 10.Please Please Me 11.Beatles For Sale 12.With The Beatles 13.Yellow Submarine

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1, Rubber Soul -I absolutely love every song on this album, my favorite ones on this are Think For Yourself and You Won't See Me

2, Revolver -loved how some of the songs on here has a string or horn section, Paul really wrote some amazing songs for this one

3, Abbey Road -Any song on this album alone can be a hit single, there's not a single thing that I dislike about this

4, Sgt Pepper 's-I like the Indian musical influence on this, especially on Getting better when the sitar hits

5, Help !-This could've been higher on this list, but it's who's idea to put Dizzy Miss Lizzy after yesterday, if they replace Dizzy Miss Lizzy with that means a lot or if you got troubles and place it before yesterday that would be a million times better

6, A Hard Day's Night -No fillers, all Lennon/McCartney songs, just great

7, the Beatles-Any great song on this album can definitely be on my top 50 Beatles song list, but the less greater ones are awful, like Piggies and The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill , I'd replace Piggies with not guilty and I think Across The Universe would work on here

8, Technically not an album, but Magical Mystery Tour -I mean, ten out of the eleven songs have music videos

9, Please Please Me -Their first album has a totally different vibe, I Saw Her Standing There is such a strong opener

10, Beatles For Sale -Toooooo many covers, although you can here on here that their style of music starts to change

11, Let it be-Phil Spector ruined this, although I like his version of I Me Mine , this can go into top three if the naked version is released in 1970

12, With the beatles-It's still great, just not good enough

13, Yellow submarine-Hey, if you want to make a movie soundtrack album, make it like the US version of A Hard Day's Night and Help !, not like this, the remixed Yellow Submarine Songtrack is much better

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Wow, in fifteen years I've never contributed a ranking here. But if I'd done a new one every year, I'd probably have 15 different rankings - even though certain albums will always be close to the top, or the bottom. (Or the middle.) So this ranking isn't for all time - they're just the albums that I'd most-to-least enjoy playing in full, now, today, an average day. (I really don't need to hear any of them at the moment, in truth.)

And the list of albums is sort of extra-canonical:

1. Revlover

2. AHDN

3. Please Please Me

4. Rubber Soul

4½. Live! At The Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany 1962

5. Past Masters I

6. The Beatles (White Album )

7. Past Masters II

8. Abbey Road

9. SPLHCB

10. Magical Mystery Tour

11. Beatles For Sale

12. Help !

13. With The Beatles

14. Let It Be

15. "YS" soundtrack

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Revolver always number one for me, but I enjoy the 15 albums you ranked there. I'm not gonna do a ranking right this moment, but with the addition of Anthologies or the BBC collections Id probably end up with them ahead of the YS songtrack or even MMT or WTB. Still can't stand to see Let It Be in last. Thats a great album despite its imperfections and missed opportunities. 

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Wow, this thread is 15 years old!

So, there's a chance I'm repeating myself here. (But who's going to remember what I said 7 years ago?)

While an amusing exercise, any ranking is flawed to the extent that many albums excluded the hits from around the time of the albums.

A Sgt Pepper evaluation "should include" Penny Lane and Strawberry FF (G Martin said it was his biggest mistake to have left them off). Wouldn't With The Beatles be better with I Want to Hold YH and She Loves you? and so forth....

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  1. White Album (A+) : Despite its small flaws, this is the Beatles album with the greatest number of good songs, including several masterpieces
  2. Revolver (A) : The most innovative album in terms of writing and production. Not a single bad song
  3. Abbey Road (A) : The coming-of-age album that proved George was as good a writer as John and Paul
  4. Sgt. Pepper (B+) : Considered the greatest album of all time, but not necessarily for its songs IMHO. despite a few masterpieces, almost half of the songs are average
  5. Rubber Soul (B+) : A giant leap in songwriting and production. No bad songs except the last one
  6. Let It Be   (B) : ok, spector's arrangements are soporific, but there are several very good, even excellent songs
  7. Help ! (B) : The Beatles' pivotal album. Some useless covers, but several songs are very good. Good progression. 
  8. A Hard Day's Night (C+) : First 100% original album. The production is still primitive, but the whole thing is energetic, varied, and still enjoyable
  9. Beatles For Sale (C) : A rushed album with several covers. The original songs still show good progression
  10. Please Please Me (C) : Like the first album, a mixed of raw energy and cliché ballad
  11. With The Beatles (C) : Quite primitive, but full of energy and some catchy songs
  12. Yellow Submarine (D) :Only 4 original songs. Heybulldog is a gem but it's essentially leftovers from 1967

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 Favorite song by John : Strawberry Fields Forever || Favorite song by Paul : Eleanor Rigby
Favorite song by George : While My Guitar Gently Weeps

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"They included the soundtrack songs on side one, and added five others – ‘Hello, Goodbye’, ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’, ‘Penny Lane’, ‘Baby You’re A Rich Man’, and ‘All You Need Is Love’, which had been issued on singles in 1967"

All five of these songs are pricelessly brilliant -- particularly Penny Lane .

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