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10 August 2011
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IMDeWalrus said, “Magical Mystery Tour — a Capitol Records creation rather than a true Beatles album, but a darn good one”
Mr Sun King CT said, “Magical Mystery Tour – With the film songs being generally good, it took side two (with I Am The Walrus ) to lift this album. It did. It has the best 4 song string in any Beatles album (Strawberry Fields to All You Need Is Love ), and it takes a lot to beat Pepper. This does.”
[small detail: on my album, I Am The Walrus ends Side 1]
Magical Mystery Tour is really … Past Masters 0.5
Yes, of course the addition of “Strawberry Fields,” “Penny Lane ,” and “All You Need Is Love ” elevates the album to great heights – but it’s purely artificial.
IMO, if you’re gonna rank MMT you have to either
– just use the British EP or
– allow Past Masters 1 and 2 into your ranking ….
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4.59pm
26 July 2011
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Into the Sky with Diamonds said, “IMO, if you’re gonna rank MMT you have to either
– just use the British EP or
– allow Past Masters 1 and 2 into your ranking ….”
Good point — if I was to rank MMT in its original form (a double EP), it would drop well down the list — then again, I’d probably also have to include the EP “Long Tall Sally ” which contains songs otherwise unavailable to that point — and perhaps the British LP “A Collection of Beatles Oldies” — so I’ll just leave my list as is.
If I included the two Past Masters CD’s in my list, they would rank very high indeed.
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Offline If MMT was rated based on the ep it would be quite low with only I Am The Walrus being exceptional and The Fool On The Hill excellent, all the rest are average. Wait i list MMT at #12 out of 13 anyway; IATW, SFF, TFOTH, BYARM: 2 exceptional 2 excellent. Yeah still #12.
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2.38pm
22 July 2012
Offline 13. Yellow Submarine
12. Beatles For Sale
10. With The Beatles
9. Let It Be
7. Help !
6. The Beatles
4. Abbey Road
3. Revolver
2. Sgt. Pepper ‘s Lonely Hearts Club Band
1. Rubber Soul
5.30pm
14 February 2012
Offline 13) Yellow Submarine : “Hey Bulldog ” is about the only memorable song on the album for me. The actual song “Yellow Submarine ” may be a classic in the world of Beatles music, but it can also be found on Revolover. So the big, yellow ship gets last place for me.
12) Magical Mystery Tour : Highlights of the album include “I Am The Walrus “, “Strawberry Fields Forever “, and “All You Need Is Love “, but the album as a whole feels more like a collection of singles rather than an album with a nice, artistic flow of songs (as demonstrated in Sgt. Pepper just before its release).
11) Please Please Me : Although this was my first Beatles album (and will therefore always hold a special place in my heart), The Beatles just get better and better as the years go on, don’t they? Songs that I quite enjoy include”I Saw Her Standing There “, “Please Please Me “, “P.S. I Love You”, and “Twist And Shout “.
10) A Hard Day’s Night : For some reason, I have always been a sucker for John’s harmonica playing. And AHDN ? Well, it has a lot of John’s “harmonica songs” haha. That put aside, I still find my favorite song on the album to be Paul’s “And I Love Her “.
09) Beatles For Sale : SOLD! I really enjoy this album, but I find myself being more drawn to their mid-to-late period music. “No Reply ” is an excellent kick-off for the album and “I’ll Follow The Sun ” is definitely one of my favorite karaoke songs, but just as I said for PPM : The Beatles just get better and better…
08) Help !: It may be my favorite Beatles movie, but the album itself just doesn’t do it for me. Don’t get me wrong, some of my favorite tracks are on it: “Help !”, “You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away “, “Ticket To Ride “, and “I’ve Just Seen A Face “; but it has too many lowlights. These are mainly George’s contributions (sorry, George fans; I just think he hadn’t hit his songwriting peak quite yet…). But I believe the singles that came from this album were some of their best in the end.
07) Let It Be …Naked: Sorry I had to rank mine as the Naked version, but that’s unfortunately the only version I have of this album (…right now: I’ll get LIB one of these days!). I love the version of “Across The Universe ” that was chosen for this album: it really makes it easy to see why John ranked this song as one of the best, if not the best, songs he ever wrote. Another I really enjoy is “Two Of Us ” because it’s just a feel-good song and (to Paul’s delight) is an excellent song to listen to in the car. “Don’t Let Me Down ” is one of my favorite songs from John: the emotion and raw energy is enough to send chills up my spine. And finally, “I’ve Got A Feeling ” just makes me have a good feeling whenever I listen to it. Great song.
06) The Beatles: Too many great songs to even start mentioning them.
05) With The Beatles : My favorite album from their early period. The energy is fantastic and their songwriting had already improved from the few songs they contributed to PPM . “All My Loving ” and “It Won’t Be Long ” serve as proof of that. As far as covers go, George did an excellent job on “Roll Over Beethoven ” and John’s take on “Please Mister Postman ” made a cover one of my favorite Beatles songs.
04) Revolver : Like George said, Rubber Soul and Revolver could have been the same album with two volumes. However, I’m more of a Volume One type of gal. Highlights of the album include “Eleanor Rigby “, “I’m Only Sleeping “, “Here, There And Everywhere “, and “Taxman ” (one of my favorite George songs).
03) Sgt. Pepper ‘s Lonely Hearts Club Band: You can just hear why this album was such a stepping stone for The Beatles…and for the music industry PERIOD. Long story short, I love this album!
02) Rubber Soul : When you have an album with personal favorites such as “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown”, “Nowhere Man “, “Girl”, and “In My Life “, how can it not be one of your favorite albums?
01) Abbey Road : Winner!!! To me, it just felt like the end. But what a great finale!
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12 April 2012
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Dipsy said: 07) Let It Be …Naked: Sorry I had to rank mine as the Naked version, but that’s unfortunately the only version I have of this album (…right now: I’ll get LIB one of these days!). I love the version of “Across The Universe ” that was chosen for this album: it really makes it easy to see why John ranked this song as one of the best, if not the best, songs he ever wrote. Another I really enjoy is “Two Of Us ” because it’s just a feel-good song and (to Paul’s delight) is an excellent song to listen to in the car. “Don’t Let Me Down ” is one of my favorite songs from John: the emotion and raw energy is enough to send chills up my spine. And finally, “I’ve Got A Feeling ” just makes me have a good feeling whenever I listen to it. Great song.
If you’re a real beatles fan (collector), like me, buy let it be because you need it for your collection but if you just want to listen to the music you only need Let It Be … Naked. Naked is a much better album than let it be, spector’s orchestra doesn’t sound very good on the three songs which feature them on let it be and I don’t like the dialogue snippets before (or after) the songs, because if I want to hear dialogue from the get back sessions I can listen to the fly on the wall disc included on let it be… naked and they annoy me when I want to listen to the songs. Of course it’s a must-have for a beatles collector but (for example) I never listen to it, I just listen to Naked.
Anyway I agree with Abbey Road on number 1, it’s also my favourite album
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6.50pm
14 February 2012
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Oh, totally agreed! I have every intention of buying "I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know? I'm just one of those people."
2.06am
24 July 2012
Offline Here is mine
13- Beatles For Sale
12- Yellow Submarine
11- With The Beatles
10- Please Please Me
8- A Hard Days Night
7- Let It Be
6- Rubber Soul
5- Help !
4- Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
3- Abbey Road
2- Revolver
1- The White Album
3.40pm
12 April 2012
Offline I’m going to do a new ranking
Without Past Masters , Magical Mystery Tour , naked, anthology (and also yellow submarine doesn’t really fit in this ranking)….
11. With The Beatles
10. Please Please Me
9. Beatles For Sale
8. A Hard Days Night
7. Help !
6. Revolver
5. Let It Be
4. Sgt. Pepper ‘s Lonely Hearts Club Band
3. Rubber Soul
2. White Album
1. Abbey Road
With compilations, alternative album versions….. (I won’t include let it be now because I’m going to use naked)
18. With The Beatles
17. Please Please Me
16. Beatles For Sale
15. A Hard Days Night
14. Past Masters , Vol. 1
13. Anthology 1
12. Help !
11. Yellow Submarine
10. Revolver
9. Sgt. Pepper ‘s Lonely Heart’s Club Band
8. Anthology 2
7. Anthology 3
6. Rubber Soul
5. Magical Mystery Tour
4. Let It Be … Naked
3. White Album
2. Past Masters , Vol. 2
1. Abbey Road
Wow Abbey Road is the only album which is on the same place in both rankings
Once there was a way to get back homewards. Once there was a way to get back home; sleep pretty darling do not cry. And I will sing a lullaby
12.20pm
23 July 2012
Offline 13. Yellow Submarine
12. With the Beatles!
11. Beatles For Sale
10. Magical Mystery Tour
9. Please Please Me
8. A Hard Day’s Night
7. Let it Be
6. Help !
5. Sgt. Pepper
4. The White Album
3. Rubber Soul
2. Revolver
1. Abbey Road
PEACE OUT.
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7.39am
1 December 2009
Offline I will never, never buy the argumen that releasing singes FROM an album is “ripping off fans”. Giving consumers a chance to buy a 16-song version of Rubber Soul that includes “Day Tripper /We Can Work It Out ” is a ripoff?
GEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
11.36pm
12 January 2013
Offline Finally a place to say my albums
A Hard Days Night :
Side One: A Hard Days Night, I Should Have Known Better , If I Fell , I’m Happy Just To Dance With You , And I Love Her , Tell Me Why , Can’t Buy Me Love (Anthology 1 version)
Side Two: Any Time At All , Things We Said Today , When I Get Home , You Can’t do That, I’ll Be Back , You Know What Do, and Shout
Side One: Come Together , Something , Come And Get It , Maxwell’s Silver Hammer , All Things Must Pass , Oh! Darling , Octupus’s Garden, Here Comes The Sun
Side Two: Because , You Never Give Me Your Money , Mean Mr. Mustard, Polethene Pam, She Came In Through The Bathroom Window , Golden Slumbers , Carry That Weight , The End
Side One: No Reply , I’m A Loser , Baby’s In Black , Sure to Fall (In Love with You), Eight Days A Week (Anthology 1 version), I’ll Follow The Sun , I Don’t Want To Spoil The Party
Side Two: Every Litlle Thing, Misery , Words Of Love , Rock And Roll Music ,Don’t Ever Change, What You’re Doing , Leave My Kitten Alone
Help !
Side One: Help !, The Night Before , You’ve Got to Hide You’re Love Away, I Need You , Another Girl , If You’ve Got Trouble , Ticket To Ride
Side Two: It’s Only Love , I’m Down , I’ve Just Seen A Face , That Means a Lot, Act Naturally , Yes it Is, Yesterday
Let it Be
Side One: Two of Us, Dig A Pony , Old Brown Shoe , Across The Universe , Teddy Boy , I Me Mine , Let it Be
Side Two: I’ve Got A Feeling , Long and Winding Road (Anthology), For You Blue , The Ballad Of John And Yoko , Mailman Bring Me No More Blues, Don’t Let Me Down , Get Back
Side One: Magical Mystery Tour , The Fool On The Hill , Flying , Blue Jay Way , Your Mother Should Know , I Am The Walrus
Side Two: Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite, Hello Goodbye , When I’m 64, You Know My Name (Look up the Number), Baby You’re A Rich Man , All You Need Is Love
Side One: Hello Little Girl , To Know Her is to Lover Her, Chains , Baby It’s You , P.S I Love You, I’ll Be On My Way, Please Please Me
Side Two: Boys , Young Blood, Do You Want To Know A Secret , In Spite Of All The Danger , How Do You Do It, There’s a Place, I Saw Her Standing There
Side One: Taxman , Eleanor Rigby , I’m Only Sleeping , Here There And Everywhere , Yellow Submarine , She Said She Said , Paperback Writer
Side Two: Good Day Sunshine , And Your Bird Can Sing , For No One , Rain , I Want To Tell You , Got To Get You Into My Life , Tomorrow Never Knows
Side One: Drive My Car , Norwegain Wood (This Bird Has Flown), You Won’t See Me , Nowhere Man , Think For Yourself , The Word , Day Tripper
Side Two: What Goes On , Girl, I’m Looking Through You , In My Life , Wait , If I Needed Someone , We Can Work It Out
Sgt Pepper ‘s
Side One: Sgt Pepper , With A Little Help From My Friends , Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds , Getting Better , Fixing A Hole , She’s Leaving Home , Penny Lane
Side Two: Within You Without You , Lovely Rita , Strawberry Fields Forever , Good Morning Good Morning , Sgt Pepper (Reprise), A Day In The Life
I’m not going to list The Beatles songtracks bottom line I’m dropping Revolution 9 , Wild Honey Pie , Why Don’t We Do it In the Road and added Not Guilty , Junk, Sour Milk Sea, Child Of Nature and the Revolution from the single instead of Revolution 1 .
With the Beatles
Side One: It Won’t Be Long , All I’ve Got To Do , All My Loving , Don’t Bother Me , One After 909 , From Me To You , I’ll Get You
Side Two: She Loves You , This Boy , PLease Mr. Postman, Roll Over Beethoven , You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me, THat’ll Be the Day, I Wanna Be Your Man
The Incedibly True Story THat Never Ends. By Sam.
Best Friend: WHat are you listening to
Me: The Beatles
Best Friend: Go Figure
12.40am
17 January 2013
Offline I admire everybody’s efforts on these posts, because I just can’t wrap my brain around it. It’s just so much good music, I find it way too hard to decide! Although I will say, that if someone held a gun to my head and said I HAD to choose my favourite album, it would be Sgt. Pepper . 
"Please don't bring your banjo back, I know where it's been.. I wasn't hardly gone a day, when it became the scene.. Banjos! Banjos! All the time, I can't forget that tune.. and if I ever see another banjo, I'm going out and buy a big balloon!"
1.03am
20 December 2010
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2) Revolver
3) Abbey Road
4) The White Album
6) Help !
7) Sgt. Pepper ‘s
11) Let It Be
12) Please Please Me
13) Yellow Submarine
The further one travels, the less one knows
12.50am
6 December 2012
Offline 13 – 2) I’ll figure it out later.
1) Abbey Road
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8.59pm
18 March 2013
Offline 13. With the Beatles
12. Yellow Submarine
11. Beatles For Sale
9. Help !
6. Let it Be
5. Revolver
4. Rubber Soul
3. Sgt. Pepper ‘s Lonely Hearts Club Band
2. The Beatles
1. Abbey Road
1.32am
22 March 2013
Offline I guarantee this will change later on, like it always does;
1. Rubber Soul
2. Abbey Road
3. Revolver
4. Sgt. Pepper ‘s Lonely Hearts Club Band
6. Help !
10. The White Album
11. Beatles For Sale
12. Let It Be
13. Yellow Submarine
1.30am
30 March 2013
Offline Pretty difficult to determine. I’ve never really tried to rank the albums (except my favorite album)
13) Yellow Submarine – around 70% of the album was either already released or instrumentals.
12) Beatles For Sale – sorry, folks, I’m not a huge fan of this one.
11) With The Beatles – had some good ones and some mediocre ones.
10) Please Please Me – I either really liked the song or did not like the song at all (“Please Please Me ” to “Ask Me Why “)
09) A Hard Day’s Night – First (and last) full Lennon/McCartney album, had some that were a bit too noisy
08) Let It Be – I think the “Get Back ” version is better than the Let It Be version, still a good album.
07) Help ! – A good album IMO, had some songs that were questionable though (“Dizzy Miss Lizzy “)
06) Rubber Soul – I know many will disagree about the ranking on this, but I still love the album, I just think the 5 others are better.
05) Revolver – Another one which people will disagree with me about. It’s a masterpiece, though.
04) The Beatles (White Album ) – I think if it was condensed into one album it could have been their best, still great none the less.
03) Magical Mystery Tour – Side 1 was okay, while side 2 was The Beatles at their best.
02) Sgt. Pepper ‘s Lonely Hearts Club Band – So ahead of it’s time, it’s ahead of present time.
01) Abbey Road – The greatest possible way for a band to go out was this album – they went out with a bang.
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