With the Beatles - 6

A Hard Day's Night - 8

The Beatles for Sale - 7

Help! - 7

Rubber Soul - 8

Revolver - 10

Sgt. Pepper - 10

Magical Mystery Tour - 9

The White Album - 9

Abbey Road - 8

Let It Be - 9

[Edited 5/20/17 15:35pm]

Please Please Me - 8

With the Beatles - 7

A Hard Day's Night - 9

The Beatles for Sale - 7

Help! - 8

Rubber Soul - 9

Revolver - 10

Sgt. Pepper - 9

Magical Mystery Tour - 8

The White Album - 9

Abbey Road - 10

Let It Be - 9

Meet the Beatles - 9 (My first album - I was 6 -I would have given it a 10 back then)

The 2nd Album - 7

Hard Day's Night - 9

Something New -8

Beatles 65 - 9

Beatles 6 - 8

Rubber Soul - 10

Revolver - 9

Sgt Pepper 9 (10 when it was released - it sounds a little dated now)

Magical Mystery Tour - 9

The White Album - 10

Abby Road - 10 (one of the best albums EVER)

Let it Be - 7 (great title song though)

[Edited 4/8/17 21:45pm]

[Edited 4/9/17 5:44am]

Please Please me - 6 (Their early stuff was just 2 minute pop) I actually like Love me do more than please please me.

With the Beatles - 8 (Better the music is a lot catchier, still pop but great pop)

A Hard days night - N/A have not heard all of it, about the same as above from what I have.

Beatles for sale - 9 This is where they get really good, the music is deeper and well written

Help! - 7 A slight mistep back into frothy pop. Yesterday is incredible though

Rubber Soul - 10 Pure perfection, the experimental tracks, the sitars and the influence of Harrison moves everything up. The songwriting is a lot of fun

Revolver 10 - Actually my favourite Beatles album, this is truly a work of art!

Sgt Pepper 10 - This is really great too, 1967 was just the psychedelic sound and the Beatles were at the front, the reinvention in 4 short years is why we all consider them geniuses.

Magical Mystery Tour -7 Not so crazy about this, I think they were a bit burned out after 3 perfect albums, it is entertaining though.

The Beatles (White album) - 9½ Back to form, this is really good and first rate stuff, but still not quite on the level of their late 1965 - early 1967 golden period.

Abbey Road - 9 More classic late Beatles, great songs and a real nice feel.

Let it Be - 9 for a break up album this is superb, very much a Beatles lovesexy as none of the Beatles would reach these heights again (John and George nearly, but Paul and Ringo - no)

Please Please Me - 5

With the Beatles - 6

A Hard Day's Night - 6

The Beatles for Sale - 6

Help! - 7

Rubber Soul - 9

Revolver - 10

Sgt. Pepper - 9

Magical Mystery Tour - 8

The White Album - 10

Abbey Road - 10

Let It Be - 9

datdude said:

So i am Beatles illiterate but the way ppl rave abt them, you'd think every album was an 11...that is all

They didn't figure things out artistically until Rubber Soul. After that, it was over for everybody
else.

Today, if you listen to a pop album as one cohesive artistic statement made by a recording artist(s)
with a batch of songs that purport themselves as having a unifying theme, and it was produced
and written and performed by the recording artists themselves with not too much outside influence
from beyond their inner camp, you're enjoying the legacy of The Beatles.

Please Please Me - 7
With the Beatles - 7
A Hard Day's Night - 8
Beatles for Sale - 8
Help! - 8
Rubber Soul - 9
Revolver - 10
Sgt. Pepper - 9
Magical Mystery Tour - 8
The White Album - 9
Abbey Road - 8
Let It Be - 7

From the albums I have:

Please Please Me - 8 a pleasant surpirise how much I loved this album. Found it on vinyl for 10.00

Help! - 8 This one as well..basically a classic, I have the US Soundtrack version and the UK release

Rubber Soul - 7 1/2 nice but I heard some of the latter albums before this and ruined my experience. its good but didnt pull me in like the next couple albums. I keep giving it chances.

Revolver - 10 CLASSIC

Sgt. Pepper - 10 CLASSIC

Magical Mystery Tour - 9 Just as good but short

The White Album - 8 Good but you can tell they were all over the place and not really as a band...there is a seperation you can feel and hear...but the songs were still great

Abbey Road - 8 Great album and going into more of a rock vibe, less experiemental and more focused on songwriting

Ill buy the rest someday

Please Please Me: 7

With The Beatles: 7

A Hard Days Night: 8

Beatles for Sale: 8

Help!: 9

Rubber Soul: 10

Revolver: 10

Sgt Pepper: 10

Magical Mystery Tour: 8

White Album: 10

Abbey Road: 10

Let It Be: 8

Dasein said:

datdude said:

So i am Beatles illiterate but the way ppl rave abt them, you'd think every album was an 11...that is all

They didn't figure things out artistically until Rubber Soul. After that, it was over for everybody
else.

Today, if you listen to a pop album as one cohesive artistic statement made by a recording artist(s)
with a batch of songs that purport themselves as having a unifying theme, and it was produced
and written and performed by the recording artists themselves with not too much outside influence
from beyond their inner camp, you're enjoying the legacy of The Beatles.

that is good to know. it still doesn't compel me to LISTEN to a whole song/album by them (i've only heard parts of random songs here and there). what i've heard sounds soulless and i don't like their voices, soooo....i'll continue to look at them as what i perceive to be an overrated curiosity from afar

datdude said:

Dasein said:

They didn't figure things out artistically until Rubber Soul. After that, it was over for everybody
else.

Today, if you listen to a pop album as one cohesive artistic statement made by a recording artist(s)
with a batch of songs that purport themselves as having a unifying theme, and it was produced
and written and performed by the recording artists themselves with not too much outside influence
from beyond their inner camp, you're enjoying the legacy of The Beatles.

that is good to know. it still doesn't compel me to LISTEN to a whole song/album by them (i've only heard parts of random songs here and there). what i've heard sounds soulless and i don't like their voices, soooo....i'll continue to look at them as what i perceive to be an overrated curiosity from afar

Oh, I get where you're coming from:

When I first started getting serious about music composition, I avoided The Beatles because
of their hype; at the time, it was certainly insufferable. But the more I studied and learned
about pop songwriting and album production, the more I realized these dudes were on a whole
'nuva level. Paul McCartney is the perfect pop musician; he has no flaws, just like Prince and
Stevie Wonder.

I'm sad to say it, but in 2017, The Beatles are an acquired taste.

You know when a band is good when some of their best songs don't even make the albums. Case in point... Day Tripper, We Can Work It Out, I Feel Fine, Paperback Writer!

Please Please Me - 6
With the Beatles - 6

A Hard Day's Night - 8

The Beatles for Sale - 6

Help! - 8

Rubber Soul - 10

Revolver - 9

Sgt. Pepper - 7

Magical Mystery Tour - 9

The White Album - 8

Abbey Road - 8

Let It Be - 10

I only like they're heavily drug influenced stuff, so...

-

Sgt Pepper - 8

Magical Mystery Tour - 8

White Album - 10 (Side 1 and 2...or disc 1 of the CD...quite possibly the greatest sequence EVER IMHO)

Abbey Road - 9

Let It Be - 8

UncleJam said:

I only like they're heavily drug influenced stuff, so...

-

Sgt Pepper - 8

Magical Mystery Tour - 8

White Album - 10 (Side 1 and 2...or disc 1 of the CD...quite possibly the greatest sequence EVER IMHO)

Abbey Road - 9

Let It Be - 8

In that case you should include Help!, Rubber Soul and Revolver as by that stage they were on dope at least and I am sure Harrison dropped his first acid sometime around the middle of 66. As John Lennon said himself, by the time they got their OBE in mid 1965, it was joints for breakfast and they were apparently getting smoked up in the Buckingham Palace toilets.

.

Even before the mid 60s, they were all drinking like fishes and smoking like chimneys, McCartney's greenie and vegan days were long off in the future.

fortuneandserendipity said:

fortuneandserendipity said:

You know when a band is good when some of their best songs don't even make the albums. Case in point... Day Tripper, We Can Work It Out, I Feel Fine, Paperback Writer!

Right?? I was going to list Past Masters and give it a 10 as its def one of my faves...but didn't cause thats a collection of the singles.

Dasein said:

Please Please Me - 5

With the Beatles - 6

A Hard Day's Night - 6

The Beatles for Sale - 6

Help! - 7

Rubber Soul - 9

Revolver - 10

Sgt. Pepper - 9

Magical Mystery Tour - 8

The White Album - 10

Abbey Road - 10

Let It Be - 9

I think along the same lines. hight give a hard day's night a 7 though and let it be an 8.

Abbey Road 7?? That's a masterpiece.

Adorecream said:

UncleJam said:

I only like they're heavily drug influenced stuff, so...

-

Sgt Pepper - 8

Magical Mystery Tour - 8

White Album - 10 (Side 1 and 2...or disc 1 of the CD...quite possibly the greatest sequence EVER IMHO)

Abbey Road - 9

Let It Be - 8

In that case you should include Help!, Rubber Soul and Revolver as by that stage they were on dope at least and I am sure Harrison dropped his first acid sometime around the middle of 66. As John Lennon said himself, by the time they got their OBE in mid 1965, it was joints for breakfast and they were apparently getting smoked up in the Buckingham Palace toilets.

.

Even before the mid 60s, they were all drinking like fishes and smoking like chimneys, McCartney's greenie and vegan days were long off in the future.

Exactly

Please Please Me - 7

With the Beatles - 6

A Hard Day's Night - 8

The Beatles for Sale - 6

Help! - 7

Rubber Soul - 9

Revolver - 10

Sgt. Pepper - 10

Magical Mystery Tour - 10

The White Album - 9

Abbey Road - 9

Let It Be - 8

datdude said:

Dasein said:

They didn't figure things out artistically until Rubber Soul. After that, it was over for everybody
else.

Today, if you listen to a pop album as one cohesive artistic statement made by a recording artist(s)
with a batch of songs that purport themselves as having a unifying theme, and it was produced
and written and performed by the recording artists themselves with not too much outside influence
from beyond their inner camp, you're enjoying the legacy of The Beatles.

that is good to know. it still doesn't compel me to LISTEN to a whole song/album by them (i've only heard parts of random songs here and there). what i've heard sounds soulless and i don't like their voices, soooo....i'll continue to look at them as what i perceive to be an overrated curiosity from afar

I was right where you are. Avoided them totally until i heard "Taxman" and I had to know where that song came from and what was behind it...Seriously..Revolver is a very well done, classic masterpiece. For it's time, it sounded like nothing else. no one in those days was putting sounds of India and drug induced spirituality in pop music. One of my favs from Revolver...beautiful and sad.

2freaky4church1 said:

Abbey Road 7?? That's a masterpiece.

Abbey Road always fares well in US polls. I've seen it rated top 10 all time, I'm just not sure why! For me it's a clusterfuck of an album. There's great music but also a lot I don't like. The snob in me says if the Beatles had been classically trained it would been edited down and come out a lot better. But hey, George Martin was producer so maybe I'm wrong, or maybe Martin wasn't 'executive producer' as such - So the Beatles decided what to include?

Revolver and Sgt. Pepper both achieved their lofty ambition. The Beatles' last recording was Abbey Road and the ideas occasionally sound too high for their station, in total contrast to Let It Be which is the Beatles pared down and not trying too hard, but sounding better for it. IMO

Revolver: 2.2
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band: 2.0
Abbey Road: 2.9

paisleypark4 said:

datdude said:

that is good to know. it still doesn't compel me to LISTEN to a whole song/album by them (i've only heard parts of random songs here and there). what i've heard sounds soulless and i don't like their voices, soooo....i'll continue to look at them as what i perceive to be an overrated curiosity from afar

I was right where you are. Avoided them totally until i heard "Taxman" and I had to know where that song came from and what was behind it...Seriously..Revolver is a very well done, classic masterpiece. For it's time, it sounded like nothing else. no one in those days was putting sounds of India and drug induced spirituality in pop music. One of my favs from Revolver...beautiful and sad.

I've never seen this before!

10 -- Please Please Me

8.5 -- With The Beatles

8.5 -- A Hard Day's Night

9 -- Beatles For Sale

9.5 -- Help!

9.5 -- Rubber Soul

9 -- Revolver

9 -- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

9.5 -- The Beatles (white album)

9 -- Let It Be (Let It Be...Naked would be 9.5 or maybe 10)

10 -- Abbey Road


(I don't consider Magical Mystery Tour an album.)

fortuneandserendipity said:

2freaky4church1 said:

Abbey Road 7?? That's a masterpiece.

Abbey Road always fares well in US polls. I've seen it rated top 10 all time, I'm just not sure why! For me it's a clusterfuck of an album. There's great music but also a lot I don't like.

Abbey Road is my favorite Beatles album it's a true masterpiece

paisleypark4 said:

datdude said:

that is good to know. it still doesn't compel me to LISTEN to a whole song/album by them (i've only heard parts of random songs here and there). what i've heard sounds soulless and i don't like their voices, soooo....i'll continue to look at them as what i perceive to be an overrated curiosity from afar

I was right where you are. Avoided them totally until i heard "Taxman" and I had to know where that song came from and what was behind it...Seriously..Revolver is a very well done, classic masterpiece. For it's time, it sounded like nothing else. no one in those days was putting sounds of India and drug induced spirituality in pop music. One of my favs from Revolver...beautiful and sad.

My favorite song of this album, and one of my top three from The Beatles. Beautiful,touching masterpiece.