#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

[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!

[tswiftupdatess]

Variety ranks 'THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT: THE ANTHOLOGY' as the Best Album of 2024:

“Can the thing that is biggest in the world at a given moment also be the best? Critics are trained to reflexively resist the idea, but as Beatles fans can attest… it happens. Don’t listen to the doubters who said there was only a single album’s worth of strong material spread across the 31-track Anthology deluxe edition… in some cases the same people who’d have kept you from hearing half the White Album if they had their way. Each song brings new thematic twists, new all-time quotable couplets, new hooks… and, yes, famously, in so many of them, great bridges are being built. TTPD:TA is a culmination to date of Swift’s particular genius for marrying cleverness with catharsis. The alchemy is on all our sides.”

(December 13, 2024)

[ringo-starrdust]

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[virrtualangel]

Beatle movie ranking

!!ALL MY OPINION DONT KILL ME I LIKE ALL THESE MOVIES THIS IS JUST FOR FUN!!

5.Let It Be

Honestly, it’s just a shortened version of the Get Back documentary. it’s essentially the same as Get Back excluding a few scenes.

i’m more inclined to rewatch Get Back over Let It Be because it’s more footage to comb through.

4.magical mystery tour

I am very well aware that this wasn’t a great time in their career. and for what it’s worth i do really enjoy the album. the movie itself is extremely confusing for me to understand. the only thing bringing it higher then Let It Be is just how much i enjoy the visuals. the music video segments are definitely a highlight, they’re delightful and visually appealing to see. UNFORTUNATELY…i do not know a single thing going on and what i did understand i didn’t entirely find interesting. The concept itself is a nice one, the execution however, wasnt. it’s framed like a family guy episode almost, where it would cut to a scene with no explanation. ringo’s aunt as a character didn’t add much to the movie for me, it felt like they were trying to do the whole paul’s grandfather from hard days night again but it just didn’t work for me. the wizards are nice and that might’ve been the only thing i personally enjoyed in the movie.

3.hard days night

Their first movie, woohoo! definitely the most grounded film they’ve been in. it’s perfect to show the sheer insanity of beatlemania in the early 60s and the beatles personalities and humor. the music video segments are lovely and delightful to watch. It flows very naturally with one another and each bit leading up to the big show is just as goofy as they are. paul’s grandfather is such a devious guy and works as a hilarious way to push the movie forward in terms of conflict. the managers and people alongside the beatles are also just as entertaining. the entire cast just plays off one another and overall it’s a wonderful watch.

2.yellow submarine

If Magical Mystery Tour was bad confusing nonsense then yellow submarine is good confusing nonsense. because at least there is a clear story and no family guy cutaways. being their one and only animated movie it’s such a beautiful and eccentric movie. the different animation styles used and colors of each new land they explore in is such a delightfully unique way to mirror the music used in the movie. each new area full to the brim with whimsy and color. even if it’s random, jeremy hillary boob ph.d as an extra main lead was such a lovely little addition to an already silly cast. admiral fred and the blue meanies are another set of great characters within the film that again just push the constant whimsy and eccentricity of the film.

1.help!

The only fault with this movie is the blatant cultural appropriation within it. it’s very obviously a product of its time. that being said i love everything else about this movie. it’s the funniest movie they’ve been in and despite rewatching it every now and then it’s still a wonderful time. every character from the cult members to the scientists and of course the beatles themselves bring so much personality and humor to the movie. the writing and cinematography is wonderful, this entire movie is a delight. the music video segments are so so so well done and fit into the story well. the entire movie is definitely worthwhile regardless if you know much about the beatles or not, it’s just a wonderful time.

all movies are definitely worth the watch despite my opinion!! this was for fun feel free to put your own input i’m open to discussion bc film review is epic, if this post does well maybe i’ll start posting more film related content…maybe…

[seat-safety-switch]

One of the easiest ways to get an article, video, or just general conversation topic going is to rate and rank a bunch of items. Vending machine snacks. Disney movies. Moral philosophies. However, all ranking is inherently personal, and it gives way to conflict. Some folks like that conflict, but I do not.

I've never been particularly interested in what "the best" is. And I certainly don't care what flavour of corn soup is the most beloved by someone I've never met. My doctor tells me this is because the part of my brain that feels social shame had to be surgically removed after I put a pencil crayon up my nose when I was in third grade. They're called leads, you fucking quack. What province are you from again?

Besides the fact that the video would then be eight hours long and spend at least a half hour talking about the crimps on a Coke can, people are really there for the fight. They are there to get mad at the celebrity for not agreeing with them that Sgt. Pepper's is the worst Beatles album, and for using their outsized voice to marginalize their own superior opinion. That's like, six or seven clicks, and like eight minutes of typing in all uppercase. Don't think the robot hasn't noticed. Comparison is the death of not-clicks, Robert Frost once said.

What we have to do as a society is pick one thing each, and get real weird about it. Why limit ourselves to a reductive, one-dimensional "ranking" when we can simply list a bunch of incredibly niche things off and talk about what we like about each of those increasingly strange sub-features? Sure, it might seem like a wasted life when you're spending your entire waking time dedicated to the SHQWIT 9500 High Power LED Flashlight, and your cousin gets the plum assignment of telling people about the significantly technically superior SHQWIT 9501. With experience, though, you will find that these are all uniquely valuable paths in life.

[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.

[canadianstud]

THE BEATLES ALBUMS TIER LIST RANKING

[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% †

[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.

[liskantope]

I've been listening to the Beatles albums in the order they came out, in order to rate the songs individually from worst to best, and as always my feeling (like that of many modern Beatles fans -- people my parents' age probably on the whole have a very different perspective!) is that their later albums were the "real stuff", what we came for, far better than their early albums which were still solidly good music but fluff by comparison.

Going from Beatles For Sale to Help! is a major leap forward to my ears, and in fact I ranked almost every song in Help! above most of the songs in earlier albums.

And it gets me thinking about how, whatever my perspective as someone who grew up in the '90's, if you were around in the '60's, clearly you understood somehow the genius of what the Beatles were introducing in their early music, as evidenced by what the phenomenon they became well before they came out with songs like "I've Just Seen a Face" and "Yesterday". And if they hadn't become superstars in the early '60's, who knows if their later stuff could ever have come into existence. Possibly it was crucial that they got some sort of mandate to keep creating; almost certainly they would have needed a ton of money to keep creating at the level they achieved later.

I'm sure this is nowhere near an original thought, but this kind of makes me wonder how many other artists/groups had the potential genius of Later Beatles but never realized it because they didn't come out of the gate distinguishing themselves in the later-underappreciated way that Early Beatles did.

[doyoulikethissong-poll]

Babylon Zoo - Spaceman 1996

"Spaceman" is a song by British rockband Babylon Zoo, released on 15 January 1996 as the lead single from their debut album, The Boy with the X-Ray Eyes. Featuring heavily distorted guitars and metallic, robotic sounding vocals, the song entered the UK Singles Chart at number one following its use in a Levi's jeans television advertisement the previous year; "Spaceman" was the sixth song to reach number one in the UK after being featured in a Levi's advert.

It became the fastest-selling debut single in British pop music history, and the best-selling single in the UK in over thirty years, since the Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love". "Spaceman" became a number one chart hit in 23 countries. MTV UK ranked "Spaceman" as the number-24 single of the 1990s. It was voted number 31 in a 2006 Channel 4 poll of the 50 best songs by one-hit wonders.

"Spaceman" recieved a total of 37,6% yes votes.