Please Please Me

The Beatles - Please Please Me
Critic Score
Based on 6 reviews
1963 Ratings: #10 / 29
User Score
1963 Rank: #59
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CRITIC REVIEWS

100
AllMusic

Once "Please Please Me" rocketed to number one, the Beatles rushed to deliver a debut album, bashing out Please Please Me in a day. Decades after its release, the album still sounds fresh, precisely because of its intense origins.

100
Rolling Stone

It's a blueprint of everything the Beatles would ever do, mixing up doo-wop, country, R&B, girl groups, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Little Richard, and Tin Pan Alley into their own exuberant sound.

95
Pitchfork
A raw, high-energy run-through of their early live set, the Beatles' debut is also the sound of rock'n'roll finding a suddenly large, new audience.
87
Beats Per Minute

While it may not earn direct comparison to the band’s truest masterpieces, Please Please Me stands as an insightful snapshot of an evolving band at a pivotal moment in time, right before anyone had quite the idea of how big they’d really become.

80
Sputnikmusic

Although you get a sense of the energy and vitality that was such a key part of the band, something else that immediately stands out is the fact that it doesn’t really bear much resemblance to their later albums, due to the fact that it can only really be described as a pure pop album, steering well away from the more complex, ambitious music that characterised their later career.

80
The Telegraph

Please Please Me reflects the wide range of The Beatles' tastes.

KIDWITHGUNs
75

These bozos literally can't stfu about love for 10 seconds. Also where are the trap flavoured instrumentals?? These bozos will never make it 😹👎👎

Doublez
92

The History of the Albums - n’213

For many, the beginning of the Beatles' career was a group from Liverpool that became known in The Cavern Club and overnight became the most popular band in the country and then the world. Very often, the Beatles' debut is subject to criticism, sometimes justified, blaming them for being too popular, too simplistic, or even overrated. However, despite the flaws and small mistakes of the beginning, if the Beatles have become the symbol of pop music, it is ... read more

Fjuan
55

Not bad for a recording made in a lunch break

MountainBoy
87

7) The Beatles Revisited
Fav Tracks : Anna (Go To Him) , There's A Place, Please Please Me
This record is rated way too low here, it's much better than Help! And Rubber Soul.

80

A taste of cream

Beatlesfan
90

One Two Three HONK

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Added on: September 2, 2012