Rank The Beatles

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Starting a new type of thread, again starting with sort of the most obvious act.

Rank The Beatles' albums (all of the ordinary studio albums):

1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band
2. A Hard Day's Night
3. Revolver
4. Abbey Road
5. Magical Mystery Tour
6. Rubber Soul
7. Help!
8. The White Album
9. Please Please Me
10.The Beatles For Sale
11.With The Beatles
12.Yellow Submarine

(Americans may feel free to rank the American 60s editions if they please)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 3 November 2003 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Oops. Forgot "Let It Be", which belongs as #12 ahead of ...Submarine

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 3 November 2003 13:20 (twenty-one years ago)

"i'd have to go with The Best Of The Beatles..."

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 3 November 2003 13:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Pepper's a relic. The album that has best stood the test of time is Rubber Soul, followed by Revolver, Beatles for Sale and Help!

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Monday, 3 November 2003 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

01. Magical Mystery Tour
02. Revolver
03. Rubber Soul
04. Past Masters Vol 2
05. Help!
06. A Hard Day's Night
07. Sgt. Pepper's...
08. The White Album
09. Please Please Me
10. Abbey Road
11. Past Masters Vol 1
12. Let It Be
13. Yellow Submarine
14. With The Beatles
15. Beatles For Sale

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Monday, 3 November 2003 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Wasn't Rank by the Smiths?

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 3 November 2003 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

1. John
2. George
3. Paul
4. Ringo

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 3 November 2003 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

geir you are a fount of revelations

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 3 November 2003 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

1. George
2. John
3. Ringo
4. Paul

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 3 November 2003 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

a traffic circle on the information superhighway

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 3 November 2003 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

1. George Martin
2. Brian Epstein
3. Stuart Sutcliffe
4. David Crosby.

Haven't we done this before somewhere?

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 3 November 2003 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Ringo
2. Ringo
3. Ringo
4. Stu

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 3 November 2003 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

x-post

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 3 November 2003 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

"a traffic circle on the information superhighway"

I like that - how long have you been looking for an excuse to use it?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 3 November 2003 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

with an absent centre, obv.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 3 November 2003 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Ringo's Rotogravure
2. Unfinished Music No 2: Life With The Lions
3. McCartney II
4. Wonderwall.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 3 November 2003 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

i just came up with it!

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 3 November 2003 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Revolver
2. Rubber soul
3. Help
4. White album
5. Abbey Road
6. Beatles for Sale
7. Please please me
8. A hard day's night
9. With the Beatles
10.Sgt Pepper
11.Let it be
12.Yellow Submarine

― Rob M (Rob M), Monday, 3 November 2003 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

The Beatles: Rank

― Nick H, Monday, 3 November 2003 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

1. concret PH
2. Persepolis
3. Kraneerg
4. ST/4
5. Bohor
6. Yellow submarine

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 3 November 2003 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Paul
2. John
3. George
4. Ringo

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Monday, 3 November 2003 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Stimmung
2. Gesang der jungling
3. Hymnen
4. Kontake

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 3 November 2003 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

i liked yr xenakis list better!

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 3 November 2003 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

who was the rankest beatle?

1.George(obviously)
2.John(cuz he never left the house)
3.Paul/Ringo Tie! (cuz paul is a veggie and their farts are smelly and ringo is, after all, a drummer.)

― scott seward, Monday, 3 November 2003 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

''i liked yr xenakis list better!''

yellow submarine gives x-man the edge.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 3 November 2003 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

plus you can call him "x-man"! see, that's cool! calling stockhausen "s man" is well, less cool

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 3 November 2003 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

paul was a huuuuuuge xenakis and stockhausen fan. and look what it did to him! i repeat, Beware The Ides Of Moog!

― scott seward, Monday, 3 November 2003 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

From a rather morbid point of view, I imagine (ha, the punning of it) both John and George are pretty rank by now.

― Nick H, Monday, 3 November 2003 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I have just regained consciousness. Where were we? Oh yes. The fuckin' Beatles. Geir, are you autistic?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 3 November 2003 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

1.Zack Starkey
2.Dhani Harrison
3.Stella McCartney
4.Sean Lennon

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Monday, 3 November 2003 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Poor Julian.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 3 November 2003 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

1-4: Yoko

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Monday, 3 November 2003 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

1. stig
2. ron
3. barry
3. dirk

― fact checking cuz, Monday, 3 November 2003 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Nick,
2. need
3. you
4. ask?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 3 November 2003 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Jughead
2. Veronica
3. Archie
4. Reggie

etc
etc

"Jughead is so overrated"
blah blah
"You forgot Stockhausen!"

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Monday, 3 November 2003 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

dude, EVERYONE knows veronica lip-synced. how can she possibly be #2?

― fact checking cuz, Monday, 3 November 2003 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Ace
2. Gene.
3. Paul
4. Peter

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 3 November 2003 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

''paul was a huuuuuuge xenakis and stockhausen fan. and look what it did to him! i repeat, Beware The Ides Of Moog!''

I thought kennon liked stockhausen too.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 3 November 2003 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, Paul said he'd heard some Stockhausen, but in general thought his stuff was a little "fruity".

― dleone (dleone), Monday, 3 November 2003 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

did he say what fruit it was?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 3 November 2003 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Lychee apparently

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 3 November 2003 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish I could find this quote on the net. I'm sure it's in one of many Beatles related books I have. it probably came up in a discussion about various musical influences on Beatles, or when someone had attributed an influence to them that Paul didn't think they had - see also John's making fun of "aeolian cadences".

― dleone (dleone), Monday, 3 November 2003 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually it was lychee with a very slight hint of tomato.

He was a bright lad young Paul, he knew that a tomato's a fruit - unlike bloody Ringo who kept insisting that it must be a vegetable because you can have it with chops and never find one in a tin of fruit salad.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 3 November 2003 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

George tried to tell him: "don't be stupid Ringo - you have pineapple chunks with gammon don't you la'? That doesn't make pineapple a bloody fruit, does it?" but would he listen? No.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 3 November 2003 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

That should have been: ".... That doesn't make pineapple a bloody vegetable...." obv.

I'm going home now.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 3 November 2003 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Paul did back-up crunching on the Beach Boys' , "Vegetables" so he knows whatof he speaks.

― D. Strauss (musicmope), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 01:51 (twenty-one years ago)

dleone, I think maybe that quote is in 'The Beatles Forever'? Or maybe it's only got that hilarious picture of Paul looking all cosmopolitan hanging out next to Berio.

Has anyone ever heard Paul's tape piece 'Carnival of Light'? I'm scared to hear it, but very much want to.

the 'let it be' sessions have so many great moments. the one where paul starts singing about enoch powell and john joins in, in a funny voice... Paul: 'Commonwealth!!!' John: 'Yes?'

― (Jon L), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 02:00 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Magical Mystery Tour
2. Revolver
3. Rubber Soul
4. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band
5. A Hard Day's Night
6. Abbey Road
7. Meet The Beatles
8. Help!
9. The White Album

― Michael Dubsky, Tuesday, 4 November 2003 07:59 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Abbey Road
2. Help
3. Rubber Soul
4. Revolver
5. White Album
6. Hard Day's Night
7. Let It Be
8. Magical Mystery Tour
9. Beatles For Sale
10. Please Please Me
11. With The Beatles
12. Sgt.Pepper
13. Yellow Submarine

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 08:10 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Pineapple
2. Lychee
3. Tomato
4. Stuart Sutcliffe

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 13:11 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

matos is right "revolver" is really good

― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 9 November 2004 22:14 (twenty years ago)

???

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 22:25 (twenty years ago)

yeah, i don't know if there are many folks who i trust who would seriously contend that revolver is a poor album. personally i prefer rubber soul, but that statement shouldn't in any way diminish my love of revolver.

― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 22:28 (twenty years ago)

but taxman is the worst song george ever wrote.

― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 22:28 (twenty years ago)

no way dude!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 22:31 (twenty years ago)

1. Revolver
2. Rubber Soul
3. The White Album
4. Hard Day's Night
5. Sgt. Pepper
6. Beatles for Sale
7. Abbey Road
8. Past Masters
9. Please Please Me
10. Magical Mystery Tour
11. Help
12. Meet The Beatles
13. Let it Be
14. Yellow Submarine

― darin (darin), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 22:32 (twenty years ago)

but taxman is the worst song george ever wrote.

Seriously? I think George's worst Beatles song would have to be "You Like Me Too Much".

― darin (darin), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 22:33 (twenty years ago)

1 Revolver
2 The White Album
3 Magical Mystery Tour
4. Abbey Road
5. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band
6. Rubber Soul
7. Yellow Submarine
8. Let it Be
9. Hey Jude
10. Past Masters, Vol 2.
11. The Early Shit I Ain't Bought Yet

― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 22:36 (twenty years ago)

1. Abbey Road
2. Revolver
3. Rubber Soul
4. The White Album
5. Sgt. Pepper
6. Help!
7. Let It Be

I've never heard the others in their entireity.

― Wooden (Wooden), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 22:38 (twenty years ago)

1. Revolver
2. Please Please Me
3. A Hard Day's Night
4. Help!
5. With The Beatles
6. Sgt. Pepper's
7. The White Album
8. Rubber Soul
9. Magical Mystery Tour
10. Yellow Submarine
11. Beatles For Sale
12. Let It Be
13. Abbey Road

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 22:39 (twenty years ago)

but taxman is the worst song george ever wrote.

"Taxman" is great disco-punk. where's my DFA remix...?

― starc, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 04:56 (twenty years ago)

1. Abbey Road
2. Rubber Soul
3. Let it Be
4 Help
5. Hard Days Night
6. The White Album
7. Magical Mystery Tour
8. The early hits in general
9. Sgt. Pepper

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 05:01 (twenty years ago)

1. Introducing the Beatles (U.S. release of Please Please Me with better running order and a much better cover; contains the two greatest Beatles songs of all time ("I Saw Her Standing There" and "Twist and Shout"), recorded in one day)
2. Rubber Soul
3. Revolver
4. Sgt. Pepper
5. Abbey Road
6. Beatles '65 (U.S. release of Beatles for Sale, kinda; far superior mix of "I Feel Fine" than you'll ever hear on CD)
7. Long Tall Sally EP
8. Magical Mystery Tour
9. Meet the Beatles! (U.S. release of With the Beatles)
10. Let It Be
11. Yellow Submarine

...

999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999. (tie) Beatles Anthology 1-3

― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 06:44 (twenty years ago)

1. A Hard Day's Night
2. With the Beatles
3. Help!
4. Beatles For Sale
5. Please Please Me
6. Live in Hamburg
7. Rubber Soul
8. Revolver
9. Magical Mystery Tour
10. Let It Be
11. Sgt Pepper
12. The Beatles
13. Abbey Road

― Burr (Burr), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 07:11 (twenty years ago)

Beatles '65 (U.S. release of Beatles for Sale, kinda; far superior mix of "I Feel Fine" than you'll ever hear on CD)

That must've been a monaural copy of Beatles '65 you're referring to, Snrub, right? 'Cause the one I used to own featured "I Feel Fine" and "She's A Woman" in "stereo", which is to say mono reprocessed for stereo, and they sounded just awful.

Anyways, me list:
1.Revolver
2.Rubber Soul
3.The Beatles (White Album)
4.Please Please Me
5.Beatles For Sale
6.Sgt. Pepper's
7.Magical Mystery Tour
8.Help!
9.Abbey Road
10.A Hard Day's Night
11.With The Beatles

Don't own Yellow Submarine or Let It Be, but they'd be in last place anyways.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 08:09 (twenty years ago)

Beatles '65 (U.S. release of Beatles for Sale, kinda; far superior mix of "I Feel Fine" than you'll ever hear on CD)

Don't own Yellow Submarine or Let It Be, but they'd be in last place anyways.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 08:15 (twenty years ago)

1. Abbey Road
2. White Album
2. Revolver
4. Sgt. Pepper's
5. Help!
6. Rubber Soul
7. Magical Mystery Tour
8. Please Please Me
9. (tie) A Hard Day's Night // Let It Be

― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 08:18 (twenty years ago)

I was obsessed with the beatles as a kid. ob. sessed. I fucking new everything, amazing shit, and now I'm lucky to listen once every few years.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 08:19 (twenty years ago)

Of the ones I currently own, because I haven't heard the rest in a while:
1. White Album
2. Abbey Road
3. Revolver
4. Magical Mystery Tour & PM Vol. 2 (tie)
5. Sgt. Peppers
6. Rubber Soul
7. A Hard Day's Night

― Hi, I am a genius. a big one. (AaronHz), Wednesday, 10 November 2004 08:26 (twenty years ago)

1. Please Please Me
2. Revolver
3. A Hard Day's Night
4. With The Beatles
5. Sgt. Pepper's
6. The White Album
7. Rubber Soul
8. Help!
9. Beatles For Sale
10. Let It Be
11. Magical Mystery Tour
12. Abbey Road
13. Yellow Submarine

― amateur!!st, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:35 (twenty years ago)

That must've been a monaural copy of Beatles '65 you're referring to, Snrub, right?

Yup, it's mono. I'm lookjing at it right now and I must say it also has what is undoubtedly the gayest Beatles album cover ever, with one of them holding up a gay umbrella and shit. I wish I had a scanner. But it sounds great!

― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 10 November 2004 19:40 (twenty years ago)

Yep, I remember that umbrella cover! It's as though Capitol were going out of their way to make those American covers as stupid-looking as possible.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 11 November 2004 04:00 (twenty years ago)

Is "Rain" on that album?

The Capitol albums are being released on cd in Britain. Why?

― Bumfluff, Thursday, 11 November 2004 04:08 (twenty years ago)

Answer: because there are enough Beatlebums in Britain who will buy it. Sad.

― Bumfluff, Thursday, 11 November 2004 04:12 (twenty years ago)

I just bought Help! today. I haven't decided where it goes on my list yet but I suspect either before or after A Hard Day's Night since I am a later Beatles person.

― Hi, I am a genius. a big one. (AaronHz), Thursday, 11 November 2004 05:35 (twenty years ago)

1. Revolver
2. White Album
3. Help!
4. A Hard Day's Night
5. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
6. Magical Mystery Tour
7. Rubber Soul
8. With the Beatles
9. Please Please Me
10. Abbey Road
11. Beatles for Sale
12. Yellow Submarine
13. let It Be

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Thursday, 11 November 2004 16:58 (twenty years ago)

ok, fine then:

1-tie. White Album
1-tie. Revolver
3. Rubber Soul
4. Abbey Road
5. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
6. A Hard Day's Night
7-tie. Let It Be
7-tie. Magical Mystery Tour
9. With the Beatles
10. Help!
11. Beatles for Sale
12. Please Please Me
13. Yellow Submarine

― Dominique (dleone), Thursday, 11 November 2004 17:02 (twenty years ago)

1. The White Album
2. Revolver
3. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band
4. Help!
5. A Hard Day's Night
6. Abbey Road
7.The Beatles For Sale
8. Rubber Soul
9. Magical Mystery Tour
10. Please Please Me
11.Let It Be
12.With The Beatles
13.Yellow Submarine

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 11 November 2004 17:20 (twenty years ago)

Yep, I remember that umbrella cover! It's as though Capitol were going out of their way to make those American covers as stupid-looking as possible.

-- Myonga Von Bontee (scottyfield...), November 11th, 2004.

yeah, and they had color schemes that were really dreadful too. and really washed-out. and bad print processes. ugh. fuck the beatles' american albums (although i must admit i really like the american tracklisting of "rubber soul")

― amateur!!st, Thursday, 11 November 2004 17:28 (twenty years ago)

o come on - the beatles' second album is great!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 11 November 2004 18:21 (twenty years ago)

1. John
2. George
3. Paul
4. Ringo

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 11 November 2004 18:22 (twenty years ago)

yeah, i know, blount, i was being hyperbolic.

― amateur!!st, Thursday, 11 November 2004 18:28 (twenty years ago)

my bad!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 11 November 2004 18:31 (twenty years ago)

i think the first beatles i owned were actually those 'rock n roll music' comps you could get in the cutout bins.

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 11 November 2004 18:33 (twenty years ago)

Maybe we should just rank Revolver:

1. Tomorrow Never Knows
2. I'm Only Sleeping
3. Got to get you Into my Life
4. Here, There, and Everywhere
5. I Want to Tell You
6. She Said She Said
7. For No One
8. Tax Man
9. Elennor Rigby
10. And Your Bird Can Sing
11. Good Day Sunshine
12. Love You Too
13. Dr. Roberts
14. Yellow Submarine

― darin (darin), Thursday, 11 November 2004 20:31 (twenty years ago)

Rank The Beatles? Isn't Rank by The Smiths?

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 11 November 2004 20:35 (twenty years ago)

Ranking "Revolver" - now you're talkin!

1.She Said She Said
2.Tomorrow Never Knows
3.Here, There And Everywhere
4.And Your Bird Can Sing
5.Taxman
6.I'm Only Sleeping
7.Got To Get You Into My Life
8.Eleanor Rigby
9.Love You To
10.Doctor Robert
11.For No One
12.Yellow Submarine
13.Good Day Sunshine
14.I Want To Tell You

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 11 November 2004 21:12 (twenty years ago)

1. Here There And Everywhere
2. I'm Only Sleeping
3. Eleanor Rigby
4. She Said She Said
5. And Your Bird Can Sing
6. I Want To Tell You
7. Doctor Robert
8. Taxman
9. For No One
10.Good Day Sunshine
11.Love You To
12.Tomorrow Never Knows
13.Got To Get You Into My Life
14.Yellow Submarine

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 11 November 2004 23:05 (twenty years ago)

1. Paul
2. George
3. John
4. Ringo

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 11 November 2004 23:06 (twenty years ago)

I'm gonna rank the smiths now:
The Queen Is Dead
Louder Than Bombs
Strangeways Here We Come
Meat is Murder
Hatful of Hallow
The Smiths

― Hi, I am a genius. a big one. (AaronHz), Thursday, 11 November 2004 23:10 (twenty years ago)

1. Johnny Marr
2. Morrissey
3. Andy Rourke
4. Mike Joyce

― Hi, I am a genius. a big one. (AaronHz), Thursday, 11 November 2004 23:12 (twenty years ago)

I am going to rank the guest stars on the Beatles records

1. Eric Clapton
2. Billy Preston

Wasn't there an extra guitarist in the Smiths for a while, like their equivalent of Pat Smear?

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 11 November 2004 23:41 (twenty years ago)

yeah, but fuck if i know what his name was. I believe he's on Rank, which I've never heard.

― Hi, I am a genius. a big one. (AaronHz), Friday, 12 November 2004 00:13 (twenty years ago)

(confession: I actually had to look up Mike Joyce's name to make that list, hahaa)

― Hi, I am a genius. a big one. (AaronHz), Friday, 12 November 2004 00:14 (twenty years ago)

haven't attended to one of their albums in years (except for "Hard Day's Night" the other day in the car), so here goes.

1. For Sale (don't care about the covers; it's really so well-sung and "What You're Doing" remains amazing)
2. Hard Day's Night
3. With the Beatles
4. Please Please Me
5. Hey Jude (has my favorite Beatles song, "Old Brown Shoe," as well as "Rain" which still hold up all right I guess)
6. Revolver (I think this is about the most overrated album ever--I mean I think "Taxman" is actually quite a groove and "I'm Only Sleeping" is quite nice too, but overall, a real bore)
7. The Beatles (actually this is a good one but then you have to wade thru "Martha My Dear" and "Ob-La-Di" and "Happiness Is a Warm Gun"; "Sexy Sadie" and "Long Long Long" and "Back in the USSR" are all great, though, and "Blackbird" is another one I always like hearing even around some campfire or something)
8. Yellow Sub (I like the George Martin stuff the best)
9. Abbey Road ("Something" and the "Bathroom Window" medley are still pretty good)
10. Rubber Soul (apart from "You Won't See Me" and "Drive My Car" I find this completely unlistenable)
11. Sergeant Pepper's (apart from "Within You Without You" I find it completely unlistenble
12. Magical Mystery Tour (sick of "Fool on the Hill"--Sergio Mendes did it far better-- "I Am the Walrus" and all the rest, and "Flying" is cool)
13. Let It Be
14. Help! (so lame--I guess "Hide Your Love Away" is here, and that's great, but this album is uninspired; pot didn't help 'em one bit).

The Byrds, Beach Boys and the Stones were all better. Moby Grape's first album is worth all the Beatles albums put together, as is side one of Love's "Da Capo." Maybe even Spanky and Our Gang and the Association for that matter. I actually wish I liked them better--I used to love them as a matter of fact--but I just don't.

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Friday, 12 November 2004 00:51 (twenty years ago)

Rank Beatles Movies
1. A Hard Days Night
3. Help!
2. All You Need is Cash

Rank Beatles Namechecks by Others
1. "My brother's back at home with his Beatles and his Stones." All The Young Dudes" Mott the Hoople/Bowie
2. "Revolver's been turned over." Baby Britian Elliott Smith
3. "The Beatles new record's a gas." Ball of Confusion Temptations

Rank pre-Rutles Beatles/Bonzos connections
1. Bonzos sing "Death Cab for Cutie" in Magical Mystery Tour
2. Paul produces "I'm the Urban Spaceman."
3. Ringo appears on Monty Python (Probably shouldn't count this, but saw it on BBC America a few minutes ago)

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 12 November 2004 02:32 (twenty years ago)

The Capitol albums are being released on cd in Britain. Why?

Hey, if "I Feel Fine" sounds as good on CD as it does on my record player, I'll buy the crap out of it! I also have a mono US copy of Revolver which sounds fucking AWESOME (AND an my copy of Revolver I don't have to listen to fucking "Dr. Robert," arguably the worst song they ever recorded)!

― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 12 November 2004 02:34 (twenty years ago)

Best Beatles Namecheck: Alan Sherman - "I Hate the Beatles"

Worst Beatles Namecheck: the hilariously untrue "Phony Beatlemania has bitten the dust" on London Calling

Best Beatles Movie: I Want to Hold Your Hand

Best Beatles Sample: "The End" AND "Sgt. Pepper" together in The Beastie Boys' "Sounds of Science"

Second Best Beatles Sample: "Here Comes the Sun" in Acen's "Close Your Eyes (Optikonfusion!!)"

― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 12 November 2004 02:52 (twenty years ago)

what about the "here comes the sun" sample in the massive attack song (blue lines?)

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Friday, 12 November 2004 03:52 (twenty years ago)

Wow, it's good to see a Beatles thread up. I just happened upon a McCartney interview in the newspaper today. I couldn't resist, so I put my coin in the machine. And it was a good interview. It's amazing how Bush refuses to do something as simple as agree to a treaty to ban land mines. I mean what exactly could be his reason NOT to? Because it makes too much SENSE? Because it might make other countries like us? Gasp! We can't have that!

I probably need to start investigating Beatles songs I haven't heard before. Presently I'm madly in love with Only A Northern Song and Hey Bulldog.

It never fails to amaze me that there are people in existence who don't even care for them! One of the many curiosities of nature, I suppose.

1. George
2. John
3. Paul
4. Ringo

― Bimble (bimble), Friday, 12 November 2004 04:00 (twenty years ago)

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