This definitely is a good album, but the production and the mix on certain songs lacks + there are way too many non-Beatles-penned songs here!
Best songs:
All My Loving
Till There Was You
You Really Got a Hold On Me
A fun and great rock album for the greatest band of all time. Their first album without any covers, too!
Best songs:
Can’t Buy Me Love
And I Love Her
A Hard Day’s Night
Overhated album. Sure, a weak one for the greatest band of all time, but it’s not like its terrible. The album’s more somber and serious tone and clear Bob Dylan inspiration show the band experimenting for the first time and going outside of their comfort zone, which foreshadowed everything that would happen from 1966-1969.
Best songs:
I’ll Follow the Sun
Eight Days a Week
Words of Love
Amazing album and definitely their best from their boy band era, with them building upon their Dylan-esque inspirations here and foreshadowing their future evolutions with further more musical experimentation.
Best songs:
Yesterday
Help!
Ticket to Ride
The first flawless, 10/10 album by the greatest band of all time. This album truly started it all, their musical revolution and shedding their “boy band” skin and becoming a real, serious band.
Best songs:
In My Life
Norwegian Wood
Nowhere Man
Second best album of all time and the beginning of the psychedelic revolution after the highly experimental “Rain” B-side released earlier in 1966. This album sees a band burning itself and rising from the flames like a phoenix.
Best songs:
Tomorrow Never Knows
I’m Only Sleeping
Here, There and Everywhere
Amazing, amazing album. The most important album of all time, as well. It’s crazy how these 13 tracks shaped the course of pop culture history. No flaws.
Best songs:
A Day in the Life
Getting Better
Within You Without You
A great psychedelic album by the greatest artists of all time. This album is a collection of 11 great psychedelic tracks, with its only real weakness being that it was more a collection made by Capitol Records than an album (like the extremely comprehensible and connected Sgt. Pepper’s).
Best songs:
Strawberry Fields Forever
All You Need is Love
Penny Lane
An amazing 30-track double album of the greatest music ever made, and that’s not kidding. The White Album is the greatest musical project ever. Many might complain about the album feeling “directionless” or “incomprehensible”, but they don’t understand the state of The Beatles by 1968. All four members had just gotten back from India and their personalities had all began to split (starting in 1966, with the effects burgeoning in 1968) and everyone recorded ... read more
Despite the full album being a throwaway, you have to look at the four tracks on side one that were first released here. All four albums were some amazing deep cuts from their psychedelic to early re-rock ‘n roll era.
Best songs:
It’s All Too Much
Only a Northern Song
Hey Bulldog
One of the most culture-defining albums of all time, and you can understand why. The entire history of The Beatles culminates into this 17-track masterpiece.
Best songs:
Something
I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
The End
A masterful album that gets way too much hate. The Beatles’ final effort (or second-to-final) comes in delivering heat, like all their albums.
Best songs:
Long and Winding Road
Across the Universe
I Me Mine