#the beatles albums ranked

[canadianstud]

THE BEATLES ALBUMS RANKED WORST TO BEST

[nodirectionhome-ao3]

if anyone's curious — combining their work as The Beatles and their four individual solo careers (including Wings and Traveling Wilburys), John, Paul, George and Ringo released a total of 75 studio albums and 1,005 songs.

Yes, this is how I spent my evening.

[beancalzone]

So that apple music top 100 albums list huh

[shallanspren]

Top five fleetwood mac songs and top five Beatles songs and....GO!

oooooh!

fleetwood mac:

landslide forever and always

from there, the next four are toss ups. like they could all be switched on any given day.

2. songbird 3. the chain 4. silver springs 5. dreams/go your own way (i love these two equally i will not choose)

beatles:

here comes the sun

golden slumbers medley (golden slumbers/carry that weight/the end)

here, there, and everywhere

in my life

probably while my guitar gently weeps

[doyoulikethissong-poll]

The Ronettes - Be My Baby 1963

"Be My Baby" is a song by American girl group the Ronettes that was released as a single in August 1963. Written by Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, and Phil Spector, the song was the Ronettes' biggest hit, reaching number 2 in the US and number 4 in the UK. It is often ranked as among the best songs of the 1960s, and has been regarded by various publications as one of the greatest songs of all time. Ronnie Spector (then known as Veronica Bennett) is the only Ronette that appears on the track. In 1964, it appeared on the album Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes; the only studio album by the Ronettes (credited to "the Ronettes featuring Veronica"). Produced by Phil Spector and released in November 1964 through his label, Philles Records, the album collects the group's singles from 1963–1964. In 2004, it was ranked number 422 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".

"Be My Baby" has influenced many artists, most notably the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson, who wrote the 1964 hit "Don't Worry Baby" as a response to "Be My Baby". Many others have replicated or recreated the drum phrase—one of the most recognizable in pop music. As for the opening drum beat, drummer Hal Blaine stated, "That famous drum intro was an accident. I was supposed to play the snare on the second beat as well as the fourth, but I dropped a stick. Being the faker I was in those days, I left the mistake in and it became: 'Bum-ba-bum-BOOM!' And soon everyone wanted that beat." Sonny Bono and Cher were among the backing vocalists. Cher stated in a television interview, "I was just hanging out with Son [Bono], and one night Darlene [Love] didn't show up, and Philip looked at me and he was getting really cranky, y'know. Philip was not one to be kept waiting. And he said, 'Sonny said you can sing?' And so, as I was trying to qualify what I felt my … 'expertise' was, he said, 'Look I just need noise – get out there!' I started as noise, and that was 'Be My Baby'."

The song appears in the opening sequence of Martin Scorsese's film Mean Streets (1973), and the 1987 film Dirty Dancing. The song appears in a fantasy sequence involving Kamala Khan in the Marvel series Ms. Marvel, in the second episode "Crushed". In 1999, it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. In 2006, the Library of Congress inducted the Ronettes' recording into the United States National Recording Registry. In 2004, it was ranked number 22 on Rolling Stone's list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time", where it was described as a "Rosetta stone for studio pioneers such as the Beatles and Brian Wilson." In 2017, the song topped Billboard's list of the "100 Greatest Girl Group Songs of All Time".

"Be My Baby" received a total of 86,9% yes votes!

[broodparasitism]

what's your favourite song from your favourite album?

My favourite album is - to no one's surprise - Abbey Road by the Beatles. It's a bit of an obvious one for the bug boys ik, and of course I'll say something different depending on what kind of music snob I'm coming across. (White Album is very dear to me nonetheless!) My favourite is You Never Give Me Your Money!

[turnleftaticela]

The Manics are the band that’s most important to me but they’re not my favorite band. Musically I probably wouldn’t even put them in my top 5

[ringo-starrdust]

SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP

@ringo-starrdust HAHAHA 🫵🫵🫵

[retropopcult]

"Something" is a song by British rock band the Beatles from their eleventh studio album, Abbey Road (1969). It was written by George Harrison, the band's lead guitarist, about his wife Pattie Boyd and is widely considered one of the greatest love songs of all time.

Apple Records issued the single as the flip side of "Come Together" (not as a "B" side, but as an "alternate A side") insisted by John Lennon, who considered "Something" to be the best song on the album. The single reached #1 in the US and three other countries (and was Top Ten in dozen more). The release marked the first time that a Harrison composition had been afforded A-side treatment on a Beatles single. In a 1990 letter to Mark Lewisohn, Alan Klein rebutted a claim made in the book The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions that the single was intended as a money-making exercise: Klein said it was purely a mark of Lennon's regard for "Something" and "to point out George as a writer, and give him courage to go in and do his own LP. Which he did."

Together with his second contribution to Abbey Road, "Here Comes the Sun", it is widely viewed by music historians as having marked Harrison's ascendancy as a composer to the level of the Beatles' principal songwriters, Lennon and Paul McCartney.

Harrison began writing "Something" in late 1968 during a session for the Beatles' White Album. In his autobiography, I, Me, Mine, he recalls working on the melody on a piano at the same time as McCartney recorded overdubs in a neighboring room at Abbey Road Studios. But Harrison suspended work on the song, believing that with the tune having come to him so easily, it must have been a melody from another song (something McCartney also wrestled with on "Yesterday"). Only after months of checking with other artists (and borrowing the opening lyric from fellow songwriter James Taylor, another Apple Records client), Harrison was able to work out the middle eight and finish it. Finally sometime in 1969, Boyd recalled: "He told me, in a matter-of-fact way, that he had written it for me. I thought it was beautiful. He first played it to me in the kitchen."

The promotional film for "Something" was shot in late October 1969, not long after Lennon privately announced that he was leaving the band. By this time, the band members had grown apart. As a result, the film consisted of separate clips, edited together, featuring the Beatles walking around the grounds of their homes with their respective wives. Harrison's segment shows him and Boyd together in their garden at Kinfauns. The four segments were edited and compiled into a single film clip by Neil Aspinall. Allan Kozinn noted: "What Mr. Aspinall's idyllic film avoided showing was that the Beatles were at that point barely on speaking terms. In the film, no two Beatles are seen together."

"Something" received the Ivor Novello Award for the Best Song of 1969. By the late 1970s, it had been covered by over 150 artists, making it the second-most covered Beatles composition after "Yesterday". Shirley Bassey had a top-five hit with her 1970 recording, and Frank Sinatra regularly performed the song, calling it "the greatest love song of the past 50 years." In 2000, Mojo ranked "Something" at number 14 in the magazine's list of "The 100 Greatest Songs of All Time".

A year after Harrison's death, his good friends McCartney and Eric Clapton performed a loving rendition of the song at the Concert for George tribute at London's Royal Albert Hall. Pattie Boyd said she was "moved to tears" by the performance.

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

I find these polls so interesting! There are some really obscure (to me!) artists/bands. I saw someone ask which was the least known artist/band? Has anyone asked which is the most known? If so could you repost it? If not, I’d super curious! Thanks!

We haven't answered this question before! In artists/bands, we can only really look at this through the lens of our albums, but here's some of the artists with the highest average album rankings:

* Did not majorly break containment (more reliable data, polls with <=700 votes) † Multiple album submissions

Artists by Highest Average of Albums At Least Heard Of

AC/DC - 98.8% * (Highway to Hell)

Wham! - 96.1% (Make It Big)

The Killers - 95.6% (Hot Fuss)

Lil Nas X - 95.5% * (Montero)

Nirvana - 94.1% †

Ke$ha - 94% (Animal + Cannibal [Deluxe Edition])

Prince and the Revolution - 93.8% (Purple Rain)

Smash Mouth - 93.3% (Astro Lounge)

Arctic Monkeys - 93.3% (AM)

One Direction - 92.8% (Up All Night)

Green Day - 92.7% †

Eurythmics - 91.7% * (Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This))

Marina and the Diamonds - 91.4% †

Owl City - 91% †

Lady Gaga - 90.6% †

The Beatles - 90.3% †

High School Musical 2 Cast - 89.7% * (High School Musical 2 (Original Soundtrack))

Elton John - 89.5% †

Fleetwood Mac - 89.4% †

Kelly Clarkson - 89.2% * (Breakaway)

More below the cut, but we'll be following up this with additions!

Artists by Highest Average of Albums Listened to in Part or in Whole

AC/DC - 93.6% * (Highway to Hell)

Wham! - 92.2% (Make It Big)

The Killers - 92% (Hot Fuss)

Ke$ha - 91.2% (Animal + Cannibal [Deluxe Edition])

Eurythmics - 89% * (Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This))

Smash Mouth - 87.2% (Astro Lounge)

Nirvana - 86.1% †

Kelly Clarkson - 85.5% * (Breakaway)

Owl City - 85.5% †

Arctic Monkeys - 85.4% (AM)

Cascada - 85% (Everytime We Touch)

Green Day - 84.5% †

Gwen Stefani - 83.8% (Love. Angel. Music. Baby.)

One Direction - 83.1% (Up All Night)

Marina and the Diamonds - 82.9% †

Elton John - 82.7% †

Lil Nas X - 82% * (Montero)

Lady Gaga - 81.8% †

The Beatles - 79.9% †

Fleetwood Mac - 79.8% †

Artists by Highest Average of Albums Listened to All the Way Through

My Chemical Romance - 58.3% †

Panic at the Disco - 53.4% (Pretty. Odd.)

Fall Out Boy - 51.4% †

Gerard Way - 46.3% (Hesitant Alien)

High School Musical 2 Cast - 43.8% * (High School Musical 2 (Original Soundtrack))

Marina and the Diamonds - 42.6% †

Hozier - 39.6% †

Nirvana - 38.3% †

Arctic Monkeys - 36.5% (AM)

The Beatles - 36% †

Frank Iero and The Future Violents - 35.9% (Barriers)

Green Day - 35.5% †

Pink Floyd - 35.5% †

toby fox - 35.4% *†

Lorde - 35.4% †

Patrick Stump - 35.2% (Soul Punk [Deluxe Version])

Louis Tomlinson - 34.7% †

One Direction - 34.2% (Up All Night)

The Killers - 34.1% (Hot Fuss)

Paramore - 32.6% †

[canadianstud]

THE BEATLES ALBUMS TIER LIST RANKING

[midchelle]

what are all the songs different beatles wrote about the breakup/other beatles/the drama on their solo albums?

Possibly non-exhaustive list, let me know if I'm missing any!

Ringo

Back Off Boogaloo (1972) Ringo says it isn't about Paul. It definitely sounds like it's about someone. He was publically critical of Ram and McCartney, and the song contains the lyrics 'Get yourself together now / And give me something tasty, / Everything you try to do / You know it sure sound wasted!' Hmmm.

Early 1970 (1970) This is probably the least bitter song written about the breakup, which I feel makes sense. While there was that incident with Paul in March 1970, for the most part, he maintained pretty good relations with the other Beatles. Nobody was on the verge of starting a blood feud with Ringo. It's Ringo, folks! Everybody likes Ringo.

George

Wah Wah (1970) The fact that he wrote this directly after leaving the band during the Get Back sessions is really all you need to know.

Isn't It a Pity (1970) Isn't it just? Though he wrote this years before the breakup, it takes on a new meaning after it. Not to crib from the YouTube Beatles man, but the fact that they'd been rejecting this since 1966...

Run Of The Mill (1970) They're calling it 'the head BIC of Paul McCartney diss tracks.'

Sue Me, Sue You Blues (1973)

- most litigious Beatle

Paul

Every Night (1970) And thus began Paul McCartney's string of 'my life is shit but my wife is hot' songs.

Man We Was Lonely (1970) My Life Is Shit But My Wife Is Hot (Part 2)

Too Many People (1971) World, here's my album about how great it is to be heterosexual and live on a farm. The first song is about how my old songwriting partner and his wife suck because I'm not mad and I'm actually laughing. People think this song must be covertly cruel because of how John responded, and the haha you're on heroin line is pretty low, but what nobody takes into account is how it's the equivalent of holding your finger really close to someone's face and saying I'm not touching you! I'm not touching you! Hehe. It's annoying. You want to punch it.

3 Legs (1971) This song is really cutting in the same way Paul thinks signing 'piece of cake' as 'piss off cake' is cutting.

Dear Boy (1971) Paul claims this song is about Linda's ex-husband.

What did this man ever do to you besides divorce Linda, father Heather, AND let you adopt her, all of which were great for you? Where's this coming from?

Dear Friend (1971) Dear Friend and Too Many People being released the same year is pretty funny, but nowhere near as funny as Jealous Guy and How Do you Sleep? being on the same album.

Hon. Mention: well what is that 'we believe that we can't be wrong' bit supposed to mean?

John

I Found Out (1970) I've seen religion from Jesus to Paul. What Paul? Oh, you know, Paul.

God (1970) It's delightfully seventeen-year-old-experiencing-a-breakup-for-the-first-time to rank disbelief in The Beatles over not believing in: the Bible, Jesus Christ, the Bhagavad Gita, John F. Kennedy. And I'm all for it.

How Do You Sleep? (1971) It's her. The sexy, weirdly disjointed song that Went Too Far. Can I be honest? This is so tame. And half the lyrics don't even make sense. The cruelty of this song is in how dismissive and impersonal it is rather than anything to do with the actual words. I like to think of Run Of The Mill/Too Many People/How Do You Sleep? as a matching set because they display the individual worst qualities of the people who made them. Respectively: bitchy, annoying, and mean.

Jealous Guy (1971)

I Know (I Know) (1973) [Insert comparison of opening riff of I Know (I Know) Vs. opening riff of I've Got A Feeling] Nice use of leitmotif, Mr. I-hate-musicals.

[idontwanttospoiltheparty]

Would you be willing to make another Beatles solo albums tier list?

I tried to do more representative tier names this time. I'm not entirely sure if this is exactly right and it's very hard to compare albums that are doing very different things (like Sentimental Journey vs Imagine vs Press To Play for instance) but I think this is about as good as it's gonna get.

Happy to elaborate if you're wondering about specific rankings. (also I tried to put them in order of release within the tier, so, no meaning to find there)

[josephlikesmusic]

Please Please Me - The Beatles (1963)

Hi I'm in a class about the Beatles and had to write this assignment on Please Please Me, where we ranked each song, listed an element we liked and one we disliked, then speculated on what we thought that the song was about. I've been a bit too busy to put a bunch of effort into this blog but I thought you all would be interested in this so I reworked the assignment a bit to fit my blog better.

I love the raspy vocals on Twist and Shout. Maybe it's because it's the version I grew up listening to, but I love this rendition of the song more than any other. It's just so damn catchy.

Love Me Do, I love the harmonica on this track and it's another catchy track even if it is a bit basic for a Beatles song.

I really enjoy the guitar riff on I Saw Her Standing There, but I did think that it was a bit of a simple song. I do love the themes of youthful love, even if I don't actually know what Paul meant by "she was just seventeen."

I love the little "bop-shoowap" vocal riff in the background of Boys, but this style of music just doesn't fit the Beatles too well. It's another song that I find very basic and wish that they had experimented a little more.

I love the story and themes of Anna (Go to Him), but don't love how the song was executed. The feeling of knowing that someone that you love doesn't feel the same way about you is heartbreaking and hard to accept and I think that the lyrics are great, but the instrumental and singing just don't work for a band like the Beatles. This wasn't part of the assignment but I did want to add an overall review for my blog because that's what I usually do here. I thought that this album was great for a debut, but knowing what would come from the Beatles in future albums does hurt this album retrospectively. I do wish that this album had more original songs, but I also understand that it was standard practice for bands of this time to mostly release covers. I'm not going to recommend casual fans of the Beatles to give the full album a listen, but if you somehow haven't heard Love Me Do or Twist and Shout, I will recommend those tracks.

[bananaofswifts]

Taylor Swift’s third re-recorded album, Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), has earned over 575,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in its first four days of release (July 7-10), according to initial reports to Luminate — marking the biggest week for any album in 2023. Of that sum, album sales comprise over 400,000 copies – the largest sales week for an album this year, too.

Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) is a re-recorded version of Swift’s 2010 No. 1 Billboard 200 studio album Speak Now. The 22-track re-recorded edition includes new recordings of the original album’s 14 standard tracks, along with bonus cuts and previously unreleased “From the Vault” recordings. Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) follows Swift’s re-recorded Red and Fearless albums, released in 2021. Both debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart.

If Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) debuts at No. 1 on the July 22-dated Billboard 200 chart (which reflects the tracking week ending July 13), Swift’s count of No. 1 albums will rise to 12, surpassing Barbra Streisand (with 11 leaders) for the most No. 1 albums among female artists. Swift would also tie Drake for the third-most No. 1s among all acts, with only The Beatles (19) and Jay-Z (14) ahead of them. (The Billboard 200 began publishing on a regular, weekly basis in March 1956.) The top 10 of the July 22-dated Billboard 200 chart is scheduled to be announced on Sunday, July 16.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album.

2023’s previous largest week, by equivalent album units earned, was tallied by Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time, which launched with 501,000 units in the week ending March 9, as reflected on the Billboard 200 chart dated March 18. The year’s largest sales week was held by the debut frame of Stray Kids’ 5-STAR with 235,000 copies sold in the week ending June 8, as reflected on the June 17-dated charts.

Sales: With over 400,000 sold in only four days, Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) already has the largest sales week for any album since Swift’s own last studio album, Midnights, debuted with 1.14 million copies sold last year (week ending Oct. 27, 2022; as reflected on the Nov. 5-dated Billboard charts).

Vinyl sales comprise over half of Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)’s sales – as the three-LP set has sold over 225,000 copies on wax. The latter marks the second-largest sales week for a vinyl album in the modern era (since Luminate began electronically tracking sales in 1991). It is second only to the first week of Midnights’ vinyl LP, with 575,000 sold in its opening frame. Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) is available in three color variants on vinyl – orchid marbled, violet marbled and a Target-exclusive lilac marbled color.

The remainder of Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) sales is comprised of CDs, digital album download purchases and cassette tape sales.

Streaming: The collected 22 songs on Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) generated more than 200 million on-demand official streams in the U.S. July 7-10, according to Luminate. The most-streamed tune on the album, by audio on-demand official streams, is the “from the vault” cut “I Can See You (Taylor’s Version),” with over 13 million on-demand official audio streams in those four tracking days.