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Subject: Rate these Beatles albums
Written By: Billy_Florio on 02/07/04 at 05:47 p.m.
well, its th 40th annerversry of th Beatles coming to America, rate these albums and singles compilations:
Meet the Beatles
With the Beatles
Please please me
Beatles for Sale
Beatles 65
Beatles VI
A Hard days night
Help!
Yesterday...and today
Rubber Soul
Revolver
Sgt Peppers Lonely hearts club band
Yellow Submirine
Magical Mystery Tour
The Beatles (the White Album)
Abbey Road
Let it be
Hey Jude
Let it be...Naked
the Anthology
Subject: Re: Rate these Beatles albums
Written By: Paul_UK on 02/10/04 at 06:08 a.m.
Some of these albums differed from territory to territory (the US being the worst offender, hence the 'Butcher' concept & cover)...so here's the ones I know...
Please Please Me 5, laid to tape in six hours! Brilliant!
With The Beatles 5, great follow-up and probably introduced a lot of us to the delights of Motown (there being three covers on here...)
A Hard Day's Night 4, some ropey bits here and there, but overall extremely good...
Beatles For Sale 5, still somewhat ropey in places, but full marks for the astonishing 'one take' crack at 'Rock And Roll Music'...
Help! 4, superb first side (the film songs), but loses its way on the other...
Rubber Soul 4, important transitional effort but as it was attached to a Christmas (1965) deadline, some of the songwriting suffered...
Revolver 5, Brian Wilson 'upped the ante' to inspire this, one or two tracks sound out of place, but overall it works brilliantly...
Sgt Pepper 4, inventive was the keyword, but one or two hopeless songs included (stand up Harrison's 'Within You Without You'...)
Magical Mystery Tour 3, not an album as such here (originally released as two EP's) until 1976, the TV show songs being somewhat lightweight, bar 'Walrus'...
White Album 3, too self-indulgent...George Martin once remarked 'it would've made a fantastic single LP'...can't argue with that...
Abbey Road 4, amazing effort considering the in-fighting that was going on at the time...though I'm sure they could come up with something better than 'Maxwell' and 'Octopus'...
Let It Be 3, has its moments, but they're very few and far between...the 'Naked' version has had some very mixed reviews so far...
Anthology 2, all of the sets are interesting to some degree, but nothing of any real worth here...