I Ranked Every Studio Album by The Beatles (Worst to Best)

•I Ranked Every Beatles Album•
For me the greatest band of all time. #thebeatles in only 7 years created the greatest discography of all time, and because of this, making this video was extremely fun for me but also super difficult.
Because their albums are ranked with the greatest ever its hard to say which album goes where, however i tried my best so i hope you enjoy.

[@MarkMorris-1962]

Excellent ranking! I did the same thing in one of my earliest videos and I was surprised at what I came up with. It's not an easy task, but you explain your reasoning well. Always love hearing another fan's take on this.

[@Luna.reviews]

@@MarkMorris-1962 niceee!! Are the vids in your channel? I wanna watch em

[@gabrielgoulart-b7n]

As a bass player I have to say that I almost exploded my head when I heard Magical Mystery Tour for the first time. Paul's Rickenbacker Sound simply introduced me to the instrument, unfortunately Hey Bulldog and Lady Madonna are not on this album, but in my head they are completely

[@Luna.reviews]

@@gabrielgoulart-b7n oh damn really!! I gotta go back and focus on the bass then!!

[@GinoDeherrera]

As a life long Beatles fan I have always favored the "middle years" I love them all but Rubber Soul, Help, and Revolver are my personal favorites. The Beatles were so darn cool in 1965 and 1966!

[@satyadasgumbyji8956]

How tf i miss this, bro? Will try & catch when, if can. Rock On! 🤘🌎❤️

[@jerry3790]

Interesting list. Similar to my own but also different in a lot of places: 13. Yellow Submarine 12. With the Beatles - I fully agree with your reasoning here. 11. A Hard Days Night - Controversial I know, but while extremely well polished, it’s short 30 minute runtime doesn’t leave the songs on the track much room to breathe. Still an incredible album though. 10. Beatles for sale - an extremely underrated piece of Beatles discography. I’ll follow the sun is one of my top Beatles songs period. The covers are extremely solid, with the only weak points for me being the Elvis covers. 9. Please please me 8. Help! 7. Let it be 6. Rubber soul 5. Revolver - I see rubber soul and revolver as twin albums, so putting one above the other is really difficult. I put revolver above rubber soul only because it is of more consistent quality in my opinion even if rubber soul has higher highs. 4. Sgt Pepper - While it does drop off a bit in the middle of the album, I still really enjoy all the songs. If SFF and PL were on this it would easily top this list. 3. Magical Mystery Tour - While the 2nd half is singles, in today’s streaming age I go to MMT when I want to hear those songs. With tracks like SFF and I am the walrus I can’t put it below the other albums on this list. 2. White Album - An incredible album. While the quality is very inconsistent, it just has so many incredible songs on it due to its length it has to be in the top 2. 1. Abbey Road - Basically a flawless record. There is basically nothing for me to critique so I can’t put it below any others. Even if it’s not my personal favourite, the quality is so consistently high I have to put it at the top.

[@Luna.reviews]

@@jerry3790 As long as the White album is in the top 3 im happy and i definitely see how Magical Mystery Tour is so high, for me the way an album flows is really important that’s all. But i has an absolute belter of a tracklist

[@TigerRogers0660]

Glad to see someone else put "Beatles For Sale" above "Hard Days Night". "Beatles For Sale" is TRULY underrated!!!!

[@TerryTutor-cv3hh]

You may be the only person I have ever heard confuse Carl Perkins ( "Honey Don't "," Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby") with Elvis....

[@gusionsomething]

Cool video!

[@benjamini8146]

Queen

[@geod3589]

I find it difficult to rank them because I prefer the earlier, older mop-head albums, and also because their music changed so much. Matter of fact, I do not like some of the big hits such as Let It Be, Long and Winding Road, Get Back, and especially Hey Jude. I can only take so many na-na-na's. Of course I attach certain memories with different albums. Having said all of that, I think overall, I'd go with Abbey Road for #1. Tomorrow, maybe a different one, lol.

[@Luna.reviews]

@@geod3589 Yeah, i think that either that or Revolver are the most reasonable answers. My personal experience with The White Album is what lands it so high.

[@akyarius_alt]

mmt was released as a double ep in the uk so it doesnt count as an album, and is why half of it is a soundtrack and the other half are singles. i think it should be considered an album, though, because i personally think all of the songs are great (idc about rules). edit: THEY DONT HAVE THE 2022 REMASTER ON TIDAL SO I CANT LISTEN TO 'BLUE WAY JAY' WITHOUT MY LEFT EAR BEING TICKLED😭😭😭

[@nikolozsuladze7446]

I had sgt peppers on 5th too but recently I appreciated fixing a hole, benefit of Mr kite and lovely rita more which made it 4 or 3. I have abbey road and white album on n1 can't decide, so I agree with everything you said about white album

[@Luna.reviews]

@@nikolozsuladze7446 totally!! Good Morning Good Morning is what got Sgt. Pepper’s at number 5 tbh

[@paolomartizzi164]

Agree with your ranking at 95%. I would invert Revolver with White Album, but White Album has all genres of music in one album and will be modern even in 2100 🙂

[@Luna.reviews]

@@paolomartizzi164 Yess!!! In terms of a Beatles album i believe Revolver is peak too! Since the White album is more like 4 albums put in one. But honestly i've had many trips more powerful than any amount of acid in the world can give me thanks to that album

[@Dex619]

One After 909 is a Lennon song written in the early 1960s.

[@mikeymutual5489]

I love your passion and the depth of explanations of your opinions. You are definitely a serious fan. But as one, you need to realize that the group's first album is a barely-listenable amateurish attempt at an album, and their last album is an overproduced mess of bad songs. Once you get past "Please Please Me" and "Let It Be," THEN you can get to "With the Beatles" and "Beatles For Sale". Also, I disagree about using "Please Please Me" as an introduction to the band for a new listener. Your choice there should be "A Hard Day's Night," an exciting album that displays the group perfecting their early sound.

[@Luna.reviews]

@@mikeymutual5489 thanks for the comment!! Yeah i see what you mean, please please me could feel amateurish, but i do really mind that, i really enjoy it and i think its kinda cute. Maybe its because i see the album as the beginning of a story that i've enjoyed so much

[@Rich-ng3yy]

It isn't just young people this decade who were not there when sgt pepper was groundbreaking. Anyone listening to the Beatles for the first time now would be listening - and if they wanted to - studying the history to learn it's value in exactly the same way apart from the format as someone listening in 70's or any other later time. If you were a kid in say 78 listening to the Beatles for the first time you would still have had people tell you or read "this was a groundbreaking album" you'd have to be in your 70's for it to be different. I always find it strange when people say "a millennials reaction" because they're coming to the Beatles after the event like everyone else who was not listening to music in the 60's.

[@Luna.reviews]

@@Rich-ng3yy Well for me, more than my age is the fact that i was born into a world of digital music shaped by Sgt. Pepper’s. So the groundbreaking factor of the album became the standard that i was born into. So it’s hard to imagine a time where music wasn’t what it is now.

[@Rich-ng3yy]

@@Luna.reviews I see what you mean. I personally and maybe wrongly don't think the experience is too dissimilar from mid 70's on firstly as it really wasn't regarded as contemporary, it was already regarded as Music history so a kid say younger than you would hear it and go "Mum what's this?!" "It's the Beatles!" "Who are they?" ... Then if they loved them even in the 70's they would be learning rather than knowing Sgt Pepper was a big influence and regarded as Art and used an multi track recorder for the first time etc. Then secondly in regards to the digital I have to think about what you said and maybe you're right but I feel it also similar to say someone listening to post punk in the late 70's early 80's or 80's bands or Brit Pop and grunge bands of the 90's and moving into the steaming and digital age, at.any time many bands would cite the Beatles as an influence. The fact that it's just a click away makes a difference but people would still go to shops and be able to listen to back catalogues of the Beatles and hundreds of others... Or maybe I've misunderstood 😊!

[@standrew131]

magical mystery tour is a compilation

[@groovermctoober4508]

Very good, well-founded listing. Of course, we all have different opinions for different reasons, mine being that I grew up with The Beatles (I was 17 when they broke up). You, however, belong to a different generation that can only view their output from a historical perspective. But still, you did a great job! Just one album, however, where our opinions radically differ: 'Let It Be.' 'Let It Be' was easily the worst album the Beatles ever released. In fact, it wasn't even released while The Beatles were still together, but rather after they'd already legally broken up. In fact, The Beatles themselves all disliked the album and refused to allow it to be released. They wanted it to be thrown into the trash. It was only because of greedy managers giving the tapes to Phil Spector to ruin them even more and then releasing the album against the protests of the four former Beatles. At least Paul had the sense to re-produce the whole thing years later and release a non-Phil Spector produced version'Let It Be Naked.' That album is far better, even though it too is substandard to just about any other Beatles album. Let's face it: Only blindsided Beatles fans could deny that the recording is very sloppy and the whole thing is far too over-produced. So, anyway, that's my take. I wouldn't really want to get involved in ranking the remaining albums--they all have their plusses and minuses--but clearly, "Let It Be" is the worst of the whole bunch. They should have re-recorded the few good songs--'The Long and Winding Road,' 'Across the Universe' and 'Let It Be' for the 'Abbey Road' album; they could easily have made room for them by removing the three substandard songs on that album: 'Maxwell's Silver Hammer' (I feel myself in good company despising that song--3/4 of The Beatles hated it too!) 'O Darling' and especially 'Octopus's Garden.'

[@anironiccoolness]

6:51 It's done that way because The Beatles originally put Magical Mystery Tour together as a double EP including the 6 songs from the movie, the reason the album exists is because EMI gave Capitol Records permission to create another LP in America after Capitol had previously agreed to no longer create any more of their own Beatles albums, because EPs never sold well in the US compared to the UK/Europe. Later when The Beatles discography was released on CD in 1987, George Martin made the decision to release the UK discography with the addition of the album version of Magical Mystery Tour from America, probably so he could make more room on Past Masters. Since then, it's generally been considered offical cannon.

[@Luna.reviews]

@@anironiccoolness Oh i see!! It all comes down to money i guess… but honestly im glad Magical Mystery Tour exists. Can’t say the same for Yellow Submarine tho🙂‍↔️

[@anironiccoolness]

​@Luna.reviews Personally, I think it should just be a part of the American cannon even if most fans would disagree with that. My list is 12. Yellow Submarine 11. With The Beatles 10. Help 9. Please Please Me 8. Let It Be 7. A Hard Days Night 6. Sgt. Pepper 5. Beatles For Sale 4. The White Album 3. Revolver 2. Abbey Road 1. Rubber Soul

[@gabrvalete]

I love the White Album, it’s a Beatles record that always brings me so many great memories, there are so many spectacular songs that are sooo underrated (like Long Long Long, Sexy Sadie and I’m so tired), but I have to rank it as my number two, because Abbey Road is my favorite album ever made (there’s not a single time that I don’t get emotional listening Golden Slumbers to The end), I consider it to be The Beatles swan song and probably the very peak of their musicality. But awesome ranking, it’s quite brave to put Sgt. peppers in n5

[@Luna.reviews]

@@gabrvaleteI completely understand and it’s hard to disagree man! That is basically The Beatles saying goodbye with one of their most emotional pieces.

[@bestlifereiki7713]

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@monovision566]

The songs you said are “not excellent” on Pepper are better than the two duds on Rubber Soul (What Goes On, Run for Your Life), which you ranked higher. The only Beatle albums with arguably zero duds are Revolver and Pepper.

[@AGETheGawdYT]

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

[@Luna.reviews]

@@AGETheGawdYT glad to see Rubber Soul above Revolver🦅

[@monovision566]

What makes you think Lennon and McCartney hadn’t sung harmony for “3 or 4 years” until Two of Us? They never stopped singing together.

[@kingdicelille]

They're all great but the white monster is my favorite too.

[@christianlopez257]

besides yellow submarine which i don’t really count as a full album i think beatles for sale is their worst album because i think most of the songs off that album are very mediocre/uninspired. i actually think with the beatles is their best beatles album before rubber soul

[@giorgiobartol8691]

It's Blue Jay Way, not Blue Way Jay

[@Luna.reviews]

@@giorgiobartol8691 tongue twister that one

[@orange_guice]

Same with “Dizzy Mister Lizzy” 😂

[@musicbystarlight]

YEAH LETS GO THE ALGORYTHM BLESSED ME

[@Luna.reviews]

@@musicbystarlight Thanks!!! 🙂‍↔️

[@Rich-ng3yy]

Has anyone pointed out magical mystery tour was a US release and it was an EP in Britain? EPs were not such a thing in America supposedly so they made it into an LP so strictly speaking it's not an official album but padded out to make one.

[@Luna.reviews]

@@Rich-ng3yy There was someone who pointed it out!! I personally didn’t know this, i thought that it was originally thought as an EP but released as an álbum

[@Rich-ng3yy]

​@@Luna.reviewsAh someone else said it so my comment is a bit redundant.. I still think it is worth including as an LP and evaluating because although it can kind of be said that the previous US albums weren't thought of as official this is kind of different as it was a way to include the film/EP songs as a whole for the US market.. so it is kinda not unlike yellow submarine but the other side are added singles for the US rather than a George Martin score. In places like maybe wiki discography it sort of shows it quite clearly the difference between EP and Album, and probably the official wiki Mystery Tour entry goes into the detail.

[@Luna.reviews]

@@Rich-ng3yy not redundant at all!! The main reason why i love making vids is because i learn things like this. And 100% it should definitely be considered a canon release in the discography

[@Rich-ng3yy]

I don't get the low rank for let it be myself because lyrically it is more consistently profound and has more depth than others.

[@Luna.reviews]

@@Rich-ng3yy Where would you put it!!?

[@Rich-ng3yy]

@@Luna.reviews I was hoping you wouldn't ask! I'll wake up with a slurry of abuse if I say where! Seriously I've been thinking about my list as I watch and what sort of comments I'd make. There is so much in the commentary I agree with and quite a bit I would nitpick. For example, I completely agree Help is a cut above in quality and loses what I call the merseybeat sound which the preceding ones have in greater or lesser degree. I would have to give the list as much reflection as a list as you and as much thought but let's just say I'd put it higher 😊 and I'll get back to you!

[@Luna.reviews]

@@Rich-ng3yy ohhhh yeahhh ill be waiting for that comment!!!

[@Michiganvideoswithmyfriends.]

I Wanna Be Your Man is a good same with Rollover Beethoven

[@Luna.reviews]

@@Michiganvideoswithmyfriends. idk🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️

[@Michiganvideoswithmyfriends.]

@@Luna.reviews what’s with the emojis?💀

[@Luna.reviews]

@@Michiganvideoswithmyfriends. 🙂‍↔️

[@user-vl5xb9tt6s]

Listen I love rubber soul as much as anyone else, but over abbey road?

[@kekoa028]

Ranking beatles albums is always hard because my favourites change all the time but heres mine 13. Beatles For Sale Favourite(s): No Reply, I’ll Follow The Sun, Words Of Love Least Favourite : Kansas City 12. Yellow Sumbarine Favourite(s): It’s All Too Much Least Favourite: The whole second half i dont care for. 11. Please Please Me Favourite(s): Please Please Me, Anna, ISHST, Twist & Shout Least Favourite: Love Me Do 10. Help! Favourite(s): Help!, Ticket To Ride, It’s Only Love, I Need You, I’ve just seen a face, Yesterday Least Favourite: Tell Me What You See 9. With The Beatles Favourite(s): Whole First Half (except for “little child” 💀 + I Wanna Hold Your Hand/ This Boy) Least Favourite: Second Half 8. Let It Be Favourite(s): Two Of Us, Across The Universe, Let It Be Least Favourite(s): Long and Winding Road, For You Blue 7. Rubber Soul Favourite(s): Norwegian Wood, In My Life Least Favourite: Drive My Car 6. Revolver It’s honestly easier to just put the skngs i dont like: Yellow Sumbarine, Good Day Sunshine, Doctor Robert 5. A Hard Day’s Night Idc what anyone says this was the band’s first perfect album. I genuinely like every single song on this album. 4. Sgt Peppers Only song i dont like is When Im 64. However, as an ALBUM it’s better than a hard day’s night. 3. Magical Mystery Tour Like a Hard Days Night I Genuinely like every song on this one (All You Need Is Love i’m on and off on but im in a good mood today so whatever) 2. White Album Only song i dont like is Savoy Truffle(yes i like Revolution 9). 1. Abbey Road The Beatles last album and it’s perfect. Come Together / Something / Here Comes The Sun obviously all classics. Maxwell’s Silver Hammer, Octopus’s Garden and Oh Darling are both fun paul songs, and the medley is one of the best journey’s in music history.

[@Luna.reviews]

@@kekoa028 The fact that this list is so different but at the same time I don’t disagree is proof that their discography is ridiculously good!!! Btw based on the songs you put on With The Beatles, i think you’re talking about the US release Meet The Beatles. That album is a bit better than With The Beatles, it would definitely go up in my ranking too!!!

[@saml302]

list is a sham if sgt pepper's is in the top 5 edit: man you were so close 14. With The Beatles 13. Beatles For Sale 12. Yellow Submarine 11. Please Please Me 10. Sgt Pepper 9. A Hard Day's Night 8. Let It Be 7. Help 6. Magical Mystery Tour 5. Let It Be ... Naked (I count it) 4. Revolver 3. The Beatles 2. Rubber Soul 1. Abbey Road

[@jj9749]

My favourite would have to be The Best of the Beatles

[@Luna.reviews]

@@jj9749 not familiar with that one i gotta say 🧐

[@jj9749]

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[@user-sn5cq3ey4q]

alan partridge ah ah :)

[@mikeymutual5489]

I love "Rubber Soul" (in fact, it is my favorite Beatles album), but it is NOT better than "Sgt. Pepper" and "Abbey Road". In fact, it is the least good of the "top-5" Beatles albums, only because the other four albums at the top are better. I think that your analysis of Abbey Road" is accurate - which makes it the best album. The "White Album" is too scattershot and includes too many poor songs for it to be considered the best Beatles album.

[@user-bd1df4vw2s]

Like for not putting sgt peppers in top 3.

[@Luna.reviews]

@@user-bd1df4vw2s Real!

[@CosmicMapping]

I have absolutely NO idea how Yellow Submarine keeps catching shit. Even just as a 4 track EP it clears at least 3 of their early albums.

[@jeffw.england]

I like all songs now except little child and revolution 9 i,ve hated it. Liked it. Now i skip it.

[@commoditiesoilcommerce3977]

WHITE ALBUM, THE FIRST !!

[@Dex619]

The White Album is the most overrated album of all time. Not only that, it’s a rip off. We were expected to pay for a double album with only a single albums worth of good songs. This was released as a double for contractual reasons; not because they had so many good songs.

[@Luna.reviews]

@@Dex619 🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️ Yes they were contractual reasons but even double albums are not usually 30 tracks long. Which album is your favorite?

[@peterolbrisch8970]

As soon as I saw worst to best, I knew immediately I was going to go back to don't recommend channel as there is no such thing as worst Beatles album. You could have simply ranking the albums, but no, you had to go there. Goodbye.

[@jackreeder215]

Velvet Underground better. The White Album has nothing on White Light/White Heat, even if the White Album is easily the best Beatles album and the rest are mediocre to trash imo.

[@Luna.reviews]

@@jackreeder215 damn!!!! Well i do love The Velvet Underground so can’t say im mad about the comment

[@Isaiahmonteiro31]

“the rest are mediocre to trash” Disagree but glad that you agree that the white album is there best haha