The Beatles Albums Ranked Worst to Best.

[Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] hi guys thank you for clicking the link and viewing this video as promised today I'm going to be looking at the 13 UK Beatle releases and I'm gonna be ranking them from my least favorite to what I consider to be their very very best now that is as we all know a subjective subject I've watched many many videos many many reviews over the years whereby someone has done exactly the same and I've disagreed with them today you're going to do exactly that I guarantee you you're gonna disagree where I placed particular records okay and if you do please just give me a comment because I'd love to get into a discussion with you about it first and foremost that's one of my favorite things in the world let's let's discuss the Beatles let's have a conversation about them there should be more of them right for the purpose of this upload I'm just gonna state that I am using I'm I've got with me the 13 albums that were released in 2012 the remasters that were made by George Martin I'm looking at the vinyls today now I actually own other copies other variations of those same albums however what I don't want to do is kind of displace my opinion based upon newer releases now what we've had recently as you I'm sure all very aware as we've had anniversary editions we've been remixes we've have further remasters and sometimes what that does is that changes or alters your opinion on where the album should sit within your worst best in this case for example Abbey Road just came out now I absolutely love Abbey Road but if I was looking at the remix today would I place it higher would I place it lower it might change my opinion so I'm not gonna do that there's no bias in that sense I'm gonna be looking at one set of albums I'm gonna I'm gonna be rating them on how I've always viewed them since I was a child okay in at 13 I'm actually wearing the jumper this would come as no surprise to any of you Yellow Submarine okay in fact if you can find me someone who does not put this album at the very bottom of their list I will be amazed I'll be amazed now there is absolutely nothing wrong with this record in fact um I love it I do love it I love every single Beatle release but this has to come bottle bottom of the pile for me and the reason being is that it's not really an album okay the Beatles themselves had a very limited contribution and the the record itself was kind of just pushed out very very quickly after the White Album and in terms of it being a soundtrack as well I mean it's a really poor example of a soundtrack for a film the b-side if you don't already know is made up entirely of George Martin instrumentals of the film and they're all in fact very good peple and being my favorite however the reason why as a Beatles fan are you going to listen to the b-side for example very often well chances are no in fact I can think I probably listen to it once since I've earned this copy of this record as for that as for the a side the a side is made up of six tracks two of which we heard before they were on other records all you need is love yellow submarine so revolve a magical mystery talk and the other four tracks that you've got on here are coming the Beatle leftovers and that weren't quite finished there's a bit of an argument as to whether or not they were ever mixed properly in the first place however that is where things get slightly better you've got to Harrison numbers on there it's all too much and it's only a northern song which are very very good and to beat to be fair in my opinion could have very easily gone on something say for example like Sergeant Pepper you've also got one of my favorite Lenin tracks on here hey bulldog which is a very very underrated song from him and then to finish it all off you've got a wonderful piece of cheese by McCartney altogether now now um reserve judgment on that one I'll let you tell me what you think of it but it would be one of my least favorite McCartney tracks ever although to be fair a little bit of fun in the film and but there you have it that's number 13 good reason for it but it's not really an album if you're a bit of an obsessive fan like me you've got to have a copy of this but if you really want a song book or soundtrack if if you will for the Yellow Submarine film then they released that in 1999 on vinyl and that is actually you know a much better collection of songs in terms of I want to listen to Yellow Submarine okay but number 13 moving on now this one's difficult this one's very difficult for me because and if it wasn't based on fact or on history for example this would be much much higher up however it's not today it's not today and number twelve is magical mystery tour now I love this record absolutely love this record but this was never a Beatles album the Beatles themselves John Paul George Ringo did not set about making this 12-inch record they didn't in fact at the time of its release it was released as a double EP whereby you've got the first six tracks the six tracks that actually appear in the film now I'm actually lucky enough to own that and that's that's wonderful that is lovely however they did not produce this this is actually this was actually a capital album so it was released in America at the time because as I'm sure you're aware capital released their own variations with little or no input from the Beatles all the Beatles management and this was one of the records they released for the film and so they've got the first half on there just as we got on the EP but they've also got on the second on the b-side a number of tracks that again were kind of left over so we've got a couple of singles on there in the late 80s what we did in this country is we adopted this record because we liked it so much and it's actually now included in the main catalog of Beatles of Beatles albums and this is the only capital record that we we we almost stole and took for ourselves and I love it sometimes people say it's a bit of a mismatch when it comes to the second half however I disagree The Beatles are still very much in their psychedelic phase at this point and the songs that hang over do I think contribute and go very very well with the first half in fact the album itself in my opinion flows very nicely it's nice that you finally get on record in an album sense anyway a version of Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane maybe or a rich man is a nice song and again there's all you need is love because apparently can't have too much of that the album the book it comes with is absolutely beautiful if I was just basing this on Beatles albums I like this would be much much higher but it was never intended to be part of their actual catalogue so that's why it's in at number 12 now we're gonna go with one of our earlier Beatles albums and although I love this and I can listen to it in fact the majority if not all of these albums you know a-one are wonderful in terms of being able to listen from the first track to the last track all the way through without ever needing to skip that's one of the one of the most beautiful things about the Beatles catalog of work that's how consistent they were and this is the same this is a consistent album but you know it's it's one of their weakest for me and it is at number eleven with the Beatles now despite the wonderful artwork the record itself is made up of a number of tracks that to be honest just seemed a little bit unfinished to me a number of tracks that are covers a number of tracks that you know they perhaps tried to give to other people but ended up doing copies of them themselves and it's really kind of to me the leftovers are Please Please me now there's nothing wrong with this album I love it I can listen to it all the way for in fact the first two tracks to me it's one of the best starts of an album that you could you could possibly imagine so you've got it won't be long all I've got to do and all my love links are either the first free is a great start to an album but that for me is where it goes downhill a little bit you get quite a few numbers that I think I've dated a little bit now and that's meant as no disrespect to the Beatles many of those were the covers that I was talking about earlier and really it just kind of you know it doesn't really go anywhere this album it's it's absolutely great but it just it just kind of you know poodles along and again is is is just made up of her a number of tracks I feel was very much left over from please please me now it's it's not new news most people know this but you know the Beatles themselves in the early days in fact most people in the 60s or early sixties didn't consider a record to be a piece of work in itself it was solely a collection of songs and to me as George Martin quite rightly put this is the best example of a collection of songs done by the Beatles there's no full whatsoever as to the order it is literally just kind of a again a mishmash but a good one nonetheless but yeah most bands in those days they didn't really care they didn't think of an album as a kind of piece of work in itself and this is the kind of fruit of their labor at the time lovely record I could listen to it a thousand times and still be very very happy but that is exactly the reason why falls in at number eleven right right right okay um let it be number ten this is a difficult one to review because I've long and hard about this for a long long time then this has to be number ten for me on the basis that the record itself the band themselves weren't even happy with they never finished it they just left it for phil spector to produce and it was eventually released after Abbey Road and I think it's an absolute travesty that this was the final release from the Fab Four not that it's a bad album it's an absolutely wonderful album but Abbey Road is just a piece of beauty which kind of ended on a really high note to me that feels like the end of the band pardon the pun there this in that regards kind of turns out to be a bit of a disappointment now I actually really like this album I do think it's absolutely wonderful I thought about this long and hard recently every single song is almost an instant classic there's not a bad song on it however it's the production that most people will will kind of argue and say you know is the problem with it now if this was let it be naked for example Paul McCartney's 2003 version I'd be again putting this much higher up in my list because as a collection of songs they're outstanding however this misses the mark for me completely first off you've got the two what our cam session tracks on they're completely unnecessary not needed could have just been put on an extra extra disc so dig I was about to say digger pony that's a great dude not that one dig it and I have to remind myself Maggie Mae Maggie Mae did get a Maggie Mae what it needed whatsoever in fact in fact I know that this was supposed to be a kind of you know new phase Beatles record let's listen to them live almost let's listen to them creating an album but to me it just all seems a little flat and those two tracks in particular that I just mentioned really let down the quality of the whole piece the songs themselves are great some people argue that you know the real reason why this isn't so good is because of Phil Spector's suppose it wall of sound now I don't really go for that and the reason being that yes okay he did over produce some tracks but he over produced probably only two or three let me just remind myself and obviously the long and winding road comes up for discussion across the universe which I'll get onto in a minute that is a gripe of mine but really really that's about really that's about it so two tracks there I can think of have that supposed wall of sound from Phil Spector which everyone kind of almost can't stand and it's that overproduced sound we've got you know added orchestras we've got vocals etc that just added on added on and on and the whole thing ends up kind of creating a track that sounds overtly compressed and that's a shame going back to what I'm saying and across the universe to me is one of John Lennon's best ever lyrics in fact it's an absolutely fabulous song however on here it's disappointing you barely hear his vocal it's really pushed down into the mix and there's just too much added crap on it let's be fair it's not it's not bad I will still listen to it but if you want a good version of that then listen to the one that's on let it be naked because it's just it really it sounds like John Lennon and his guitar and you really get a feel for how wonderful that song could have been or should have been I know Paul McCartney argues the long and winding road for example I quite like the version of the long and winding road on here I actually think this is that's an example of where specters kind of you know added elements do help but again another very good variation on let it be naked I've never quite worked out which one I prefer however as a whole this album just feels a little bit of a mess and there's a and there's a obviously the reason why the beat was themselves decided not to bother finishing it I just wished that they'd gone back to it a little bit later and decided to perhaps tidy it up because they are great songs on here also the fact that this missus don't let me down I've never understood that given the fact that it's actually in the film I've never understood why it's not on this record obviously he can only assume the Spector wasn't happy with the version or the recording that they had or he had at his disposal at the time anyway number 10 let it be now this is gonna upset some people this is really gonna upset some people but I have to say that you know I've been a fanatic for about 30 years but I've never liked this album I've never liked this it up it's grown on me since I'll give you that but in at number 9 for me is the White Album some people put this as number one they think it's a work of absolute art genius majesty whatever you want to call it for me no it is a wonderful record but I used to hate it absolutely hated it was the one Beatles album I couldn't listen to when I was growing up and it really took some work to kind of get over that in recent years as I've got a bit older I've really come to appreciate this as a piece of work and I do think it is a wonderful collection I used to be one of those people that would go well you could make one good record out of this and get rid of the rubbish however kind of in hindsight and having thoughts about it you know over the years I think know it it should be like this there should be 30 or tracks and it is different which in a way is kind of exciting it's a complete it completely takes you away from Sergeant Pepper magical mystery tour that that era they do something entirely different here it's almost going back to basics however for me this is the indicator of when things started to go a little bit Pete Tom what you've got on this album really in my opinion is you've got four individuals plugging various tracks and no one no one being able to actually have that conversation anymore as to kind of what's good what's not you've got a lot of gems on here you've got a lot of wonderful wonderful tracks in fact I love the first half and if I was writing this solely on the first record it's out the ANP side of that this would be much higher however the second vinyl for me is where things really it really kind of go downhill a bit fast now again there's some wonderful songs on that as well but for me it just it just doesn't do it it doesn't flow and it feels like a piece of work that wasn't finished again another another piece that wasn't finished which is a shame I recently listened to the Asha demos again absolutely lovely but you can actually argue that some of these tracks aren't too far removed from the quality of that which is a shame because I think this could have been so much better it's clear to see to me here that George Martin was losing a little bit of his power within the recording studio and the individuals within the band was starting to take over and I feel it's a little bit disappointing however nonetheless still a really really good listen and an album I enjoy a lot more than I used to so in at number nine the White Album tell now please don't get angry because obviously I've just I've cut that one down yeah an album some people consider to be the very very best of the Beatles and I'm dared to put this before it I'm not gonna apologize I'm solely doing this on the basis of what I enjoy write in a number eight is Beatles for sale how on earth could I put this before the White Album well for me I love the early era of the Beatles I love all whereas at the Beatles but um in terms of consistency their early work was really second to none now a lot of people say this is the weakest of their earlier albums um not quite for me it's in a lovely gatefold sleeve for a start which was the first one that we got with the Beatles and not only that I think the a side in particular of this album is extremely good now when you take into consideration the fact that at this point in time they were knackered look at the picture of them they were knackered so have you had an album that having had an album prior to this in a hard day's night whereby all of the track were written by them or written by Lennon McCartney or Harrison we kind of go backwards a little bit with this out when we've got quite a few covers in there again and that's because they didn't have time they didn't have a lot of time in the recording studio so this almost was a little bit rushed out admittedly by them however I think is a good collection of songs some people have argued that you know it's almost a bit depressing it's a bit of a depressing downer so to speak in comparison to their first three records um I can see that I can see the point that people are making however it's a good downer babies in black no reply I'm a loser eight days a week all on this album absolutely wonderful and for me you know it's nice I like I like the story behind this record I like the fact that they were kind of openly struggling at that time and all of a sudden I think the writing starts to take on a little bit of that so to me this is the record where whereby you first see a kind of lyrical development within the group so in at number 8 is Beatles for sale right the album that came out just after it was help the last of their kind of you know Beatle Bob albums if you will Fab Four style albums quite standard quite typical for the first five that came out the second of their films help great album in at number seven and I absolutely love I love this record now there are a couple of mmm you know not too good tracks on here there's a couple of weak numbers however it's completely it's brought up by the ones that are really really strong and not only do you have the title track on there you've got Ticket to Ride you've got to hide your love away and you're gonna lose that girl yesterday you've got some absolute corkers on this record couple of Duff numbers like I mentioned but otherwise a really really really strong album and considering again like I mentioned earlier this was shortly after Beatles for sale it was still you know over working at this point this is a really good album and a really excellent follow-up to that and the last one of an era in my mind so yeah in at number seven help in number six please leave me out of all their early work to me this is the best album this is an absolutely phenomenal first album in fact probably the best first album by a band ever in my opinion it is just it is just great and in many ways actually this album has aged more than any of the others in terms of its sound quality in terms of the tracks in terms of the compositions but in a weird way that's that that's how it kind of keeps its charm how it maintains its charm it's it's absolutely it's absolutely wonderful in comparison to with the Beatles the tracks they're doing on this record I like the highlights of what they used to do in the cavern club when they used to talk these are their best songs we all know the history of the record itself was actually made over the course of nine hours obviously takeaway Love Me do and PS I love you that was done at a different time but the rest of the record was done in a day and that is just unheard of you wouldn't you wouldn't be thinking that today you know some people take two to three years to make an album these guys did it in nine hours and when you really take those into consideration siddur ation this is a truly peak it's really wonderful piece of work so yeah please please me in at number six I don't really have any any negative to say there's not a bad track on this you'll listen to it quite happily all the way through and this is this is like the Beatles have arrived one thing I will note here though I did want to include in this review a little bit about the Decca tapes I wanted to almost include them in the catalogue now they're worth a listen if you haven't heard them the album attracts that they kind of roughly recorded at their Decker Edition before they obviously was signs to Parlophone EMI in this case and there's a number of tracks on there that you might not have heard which are absolutely wonderful and I always felt it was a shame that they didn't they didn't redo that album or remix it or whatever or do it all themselves the band that is I've actually got a version of itself on vinyl but really it is just a straight recording from from the demos they did but there's a couple of numbers on there which could very easily fit it on this record but that's the tale for another day in at number six please please me right in at number five again another one that's really going to upset people but it is sergeant pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band now um again a bit like the white owl but maybe this says something a little bit about coming-of-age because a bit like The White Album this record for me I didn't like when I was growing up I didn't mind it I used to skip a lot of the tracks whereas now I can listen to it from the first track to the last track and I will love it I really really enjoy it these days however growing up I didn't so much and I think that says a lot maybe about me and a lot about kind of you know what we prefer when were younger maybe I was just not old enough to appreciate this record in the same same in the same sense that I wasn't old enough to appreciate the White Album and the reason being that you know I think when you're young you know the Beatles in the suits the mop tops etc and the Beatle boots is really appealing and this is a little bit to kind of far out from that by the time that you reach this record so maybe it was just a shock to the system and perhaps I didn't give this the time that it deserved however this is a great record most people call this their their best and some people in fact argue that this is the greatest record of all time however I'm gonna disagree the reason why it's my number five is that because it doesn't have strawberry fields forever and Penny Lane I actually feel that a number of the songs are in a week filler tracks so to speak now the album starts off with aplomb the first couple of numbers up until Lucy Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds are absolutely brilliant after that it just gets a little bit kind of filler for me and I know George Martin later regretted that he never put the two singles out on the record I think he felt rushed at the time to release a single and because there hadn't been a Beatles single for some considerable time but then this is what you got the record is brilliant but again there's there's a big middle section there maybe too much McCartney now McCartney's not my favorite Beatle or do love him but for me this is where things start to get a little cheesy in places and also I don't buy this idea that this oh it was all perfectly conceptual there are things about this that that were and there are things that really really work however one of the biggest disappointments for me is that again I'm gonna use that word unfinished they started this album wanting to go from song to song flowing much in the same way that you get with the medley on Abbey Road and but they gave up after two tracks they gave up after two tracks and could be bothered or it got too hard or whatever got too time-consuming I'm not too sure and I think that's one of the things that lets the record down however I can see why people say this is their greatest piece of work you've got a day-in-the-life on there which is AB sits just a work at are you've got she's leaving home what a McCartney's best if you ask me and you've got some some terrific individual numbers on this on this album but for me in places there are numbers that you know I think could have been missed out you could have had a couple of the Harrison numbers that I mentioned earlier on here instead and again you could have put the singles on there which I think would have made this a little bit better but I know the vehicles didn't like releasing singles and they like to give you value for money they do that here as they always do however I feel that they were really made for this album those two tracks and that's why for me it's down at number five sergeant pepper's Lonely Hearts got that in it number four revolver again absolutely wonderful album great some lovely songs on there and this is you know this is in their period where they had their free best records really let me know regardless of what you think about where I've ranked the album's themselves there's no disputing that Rubber Soul revolver and Sergeant Pepper were there you know most remote most commercially successful period well actually no not there most commercially successful period but you know certainly the period of era of the Beatles that people look back on now and go write those three albums yeah nothing wrong with them they're absolutely perfect and nearly lost me voice there yeah um I've actually not got a lot to say about this record it's absolutely brilliant please listen to it yeah revolver wonderful in at number three now I've sped things up a little bit here because you know unless I got some history unless I got some facts about and I'm not gonna say an awful lot please excuse the EP that's with this one hard day's night is in it number three for me apologies for the long tall Sally neepy there that's the single that was released at the time do get that if you can it's brilliant and the four tracks that are on that would easily fit on this for me for me the reason why this has to come up so high it's it's always been one of my favorite Beatles records it's the best of their early work if you ask me the album is made up entirely of Len and McCartney tracks in fact I have to check that yeah he's made up entirely of Lennon and McCartney trance I think I said Harrison earlier but no the Harrison number on here is is John Paul's as well and as a huge John Lennon fan you know ten of the tracks are actually sung by him so you could argue that those ten tracks were written by him so for me this is this is John's band this is John's album you know in a nutshell here this is kind of Beatlemania at its best this is the record for me there goes that just shouts out screens out Beatle mania not a bad track on it coming in at only half an hour in length perhaps even less you could listen to this again and again and again it's an absolutely wonderful album and a much better soundtrack to the film you know it in a way that perhaps the Yellow Submarine soundtrack should have been but that's again and a question for another day but in and I'm afraid hard day's night now against it the nitty gritty this is the exciting bit if you've been watching you'll realize that there's only two albums left you'll know which two albums they are and I'm sure you're screaming at me in terms of kind of you know what should be number one out of these two so I'll speed things up in it number two Abbey Road Abbey Road has always been one of my favorite records to me out of all the late stuff this is the Beatles at their best you can see they're working in harmony the b-side as I discussed in an earlier review is just a work of art and every single track is a classic on here and I don't care what people say about Maxwell's silver hammer I don't care people say about octopus's garden I think they're brilliant tracks and they do work within the running order of of this album really this is their swan song this is the last album they recorded and you can tell it is just absolutely beautiful and it was very difficult for me not to put this at number one this was one of the late records one of their later pieces that even as a very young child I got on with straight away loved it from the moment I heard it which is a bit more difficult for me to say when it comes to the majority of them you know the last five six records and but this is what I took to straight away so this is number two Abbey Road and that only leaves one that only leaves one Rubber Soul Rubber Soul always be my favorite Beatles record this is where things started to take quite a drastic change in terms of direction the direction of the group in terms of the direction of the music however one of the reasons why I put this above revolver Sergeant Pepper is that you still have a bit of Beatlemania you still have the Beatle bulbs you still have that vibe about the group in this record yeah you've got a number of tracks here that you could have easily taken from a number of the album's that presided it but you've also got a number of tracks that were cutting edge at the time and there's just a nice mix between all of them it's quite clear that they're going in a different musical direction by the time you reach this album however it still feels kind of true to what they were before so it just sits it falls nicely in the middle for me it's got my very favorite John Lennon track on their nowhere man anyway in my life are absolutely beautiful it starts with the wonderful drive my car Norwegian Wood is a great example of George Harrison using his kind of in Indian kind of influenced by that time but you know in still a very commercial [Music] contemporary way at this point and everything just works for me I listen to this record I mean you could put this together with revolver they could be one album but I listen to this record and I just I hear about who are happy to be in the studio really happy to experimenting with new things whilst at the same time still adhering and still being true to the group they were before so number one for me will always be Rubber Soul however one little extra disclaimer I will add if you want to listen to a really truly terrific version of this album don't listen to this one this is the stereo get it in mono okay it is it is just ah about making love to your ears okay barely we're in at number one is Rubber Soul all right that's it thank you very much for watching this video please feel free to like comment or even better subscribe and let me know let me know what you think let me know what you think should have been number six seven eight nine or ten yeah I don't mind if you disagree please leave some feedback and we can have a little chat about it because that is what we do okay see you next time

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Length: 37min 11sec (2231 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 14 2019