Brutal Beatles Tier List (for Gen-Z)

[@theplaguereview]

The White Album always felt like it was more than the sum of the album’s parts to me. It’s remarkable that even the lowlights on the album were so memorable.

[@adriangonzalez4877]

It’s easily the best album ever

[@AndrewBehm]

AVAA! [12:00] reminds me of my favorite quote by my favorite sculptor, Auguste Rodin: “Let us not blush for our lack of understanding! May our glory be in seeking to understand.”

[@christiansabharwal1654]

i absolutely listen to She's Leaving Home and goes "sweet, yes."

[@zacharygeesaman]

AVAA. I would love to hear you speak on Yoko’s music. Yoko/Plastic Ono Band, Fly, Approximately Infinite Universe, and Season of Glass are criminally underrated and genre bending.

[@seanmclaggin6775]

AVAA Your description of “A Day in the Life” made me tear up. It’s a track I never fully “got” but I think you just gave me a way in.

[@ibmtltt]

AVAA! Incredibly entertaining, thought-provoking, and made with love for the art and for the audience. I appreciate the shout-out as well :) I too am one of those freaks who loves "Lovely Rita!" I love how strange and experimental it is, and I go nuts for that piano breakdown at the end!!

[@Ben-mr6rt]

For some reason the take that riles me the most is dismissing Every Little Thing as filler- one of my personal favorites! Great video

[@bwpm1467]

Agree - it's amazing.

[@jyjjy7]

He called I Will, Julia and Long, Long, Long d-tier when he was talking about the white album... gave more respect to both honey pies. Guy has bad taste

[@nicholaspierce483]

You shouldn’t take offense but keep in mind that both John and Paul called that song filler retrospectively, so I don’t think that’s brash to say.

[@bwpm1467]

There is very little in life that matches the sheer joy of when Paul shouts "Rita!" right before the piano break in Lovely Rita.

[@professorskye]

Good point!

[@thomasdoyle6812]

I say "sweet" whenever I listen to Lovely Rita

[@stevelewis9317]

Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts. I never thought of Magical Mystery Tour as a great album, but listening to it again I was knocked out. Side 1 is like a moody concept album, and Side 2 is like a Greatest Hits package. I guess this should have been obvious to me a long time ago. Oh well, you're never too old to learn. Thanks again!

[@harlanthater]

AVAA! Thanks for the shoutout! Personally, I would put Revolver and Abbey Road in B, and White Album and Rubber Soul in S. Glad to see Magical Mystery tour in S as well! The White Album is my favorite, probably. It's so stacked that you can take what you want, leave what you don't, and it's still perfect (it's like a sub sandwich of an album).

[@emmettkotapish3336]

He just said that Buffalo Bill and Rocky Raccoon were perfect songs and said the Back in the USSR, Glass Onion I Will, Julia, Long Long Long were D-Tier... I'm shocked

[@lauraallen55]

It's all so subjective. His opinion is no better than yours, mine or anyone else's. I'm shocked these absolutely brilliant albums got ranked anywhere below an 'A' tbh, especially by a self-professed 'huge' fan of theirs.

[@aaronjoy980]

@@lauraallen55 i think he mentioned that he was doing relative grading. I'm sure on their own they are probably no less than As but when stacked up with their other work he believes some of them rank lower

[@lauraallen55]

I can see lower as in B maybe but not C nor D even compared to the others because the work is all pretty stellar. But then again it is all subjective.@@aaronjoy980

[@sondre2]

AVAA! Always great listening to you talk about The Beatles. Solo albums tier list next :)

[@garyeichas4717]

Professional Sky I've fallen and I can't get up

[@bartholomeusjgunspy]

I'm halfway in and this video is a ride!! Thanks professor AVAA

[@legofarm13]

As a member of Gen Z who loves The Beatles, this is a really excellent video

[@ricardo_miguel13]

as a gen z I never liked let it be too much, not the orchestral parts, its just too rough sounding. He critizies the datedness of Sgt Pepper, but Let It Be really is dated with that references and Dig It/Maggie Mae fillers.

[@wookieezzz2551]

I'm a 19 year old fan and I love every Beatles song and album. I understand there are lesser songs (Act Naturally, What Goes On, Honey Pie etc) but I really think they never missed. Maybe I listen a little too closely but every song has something memorabe and interesting to listen to and most of their "Bad" songs are just a joke or experimental like Wild Honey Pie, Dig It, Revolution 9 etc. I'm not trying to kiss the ground they walk on but apart from Yellow Submarine and Hey Jude (One is a kids song and one is overplayed into the ground) I never skip a track when it comes into my Spotify rotation

[@leonardocaetano6307]

AVAA. I'm a millennial that knows the Beatle catalog quite well. I knew I would hear opinions that I wouldn't like (your dismissal of She's Leaving Home and White Album on b tier particularly hurt), but since you are a well articulated guy this was a good watch. The only way for this video to be interesting for people who knows the band depends on how they are open for different perspectives.

[@chargree]

Long Long Long is boring boring boring? EXCUSE ME! Lol. I love that song. I understand people have different tastes. But man, I really get a cool feeling with that song. Actually, there are many songs here that have a totally unique feeling in the Beatles cannon, along with basically anything else I have ever heard. The songs that represent this the most, to me, are the aforementioned, Sexy Sadie, Cry Baby Cry, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Dear Prudence, and Why Dont We Do It In The Road?(I LOVE THAT SONG, in contrast to virtually everyone else I have ever heard mention it).

[@KOOL_AID_KID]

59:42 you’ve pretty much captured why I love music so much in this short clip. Whenever I cry to a song, it’s almost never about the lyrics but just that the music exists makes me happy cry all the time 😅

[@paperhouse_3919]

7 - Please Please Me 6 - Sgt. Pepper's Lonlely Hearts Club Band 5 - Rubber Soul 4 - Magical Mystery Tour 3 - Revoler 2 - The Beatles 1 - Abbey Road

[@nicolasmarin5491]

AVAA! I love The Beatles but I was still hooked with the intro of this video. Love the gen-z angle you took, I was laughing so hard at all your zoomer comparisons. Sending this to my dad who's a Beatles fanatic. But all in all, great video Skye! I would love to see more of these about other bands (and have you go in-depth as much as you did with this one)!

[@user-og1tk1yi5c]

this is one of my favorite videos. I first listened to A Day in the Life when I was 11 and you perfectly encapsulated the explosion going on in my head as it was playing on my phone. AVAA!!!!!!

[@nealobremski1684]

She’s leaving home!! One of my favs!

[@finlaylonghurst]

another magical mystery tour appreciator 🙏🙏

[@finlaylonghurst]

and yet a back in the ussr/ o bla di o bla da slanderer 😔

[@roli9091]

S Tier content, AVAA! I'm the weird guy who has listened mostly to their first five albums so I enjoyed your take on "Please Please Me". I love "For Sale", but I see where you're coming from. Btw you occasionally mentioned Yoko and it came over as a diss but I can't imagine you meant it that way?

[@professorskye]

No, I have a ton of respect for Yoko. I was just being kinda trollish with Anti-Yoko people

[@tjrmakhetha]

The most insightful and respectful brutal tier list I have ever seen lol Thank you

[@edwardhill7297]

I love that magical mystery tour has recently been given its flowers! Definitely a heavy hitter in their discography just for how interesting it sounds

[@siloadventures1552]

OMG PLEAAAAASE DO THIS FOR BOB DYLAN!!! MUCH LOVE PROF SKYE FROM CROATIAAA!❤❤❤

[@user_unsub2553]

3:10 those words were just so cathartic to me ❤ 🤌

[@KPThomas82]

Totally agree on the lyrics to Taxman. The whole album is poetic but starting out with ‘too much taxes!’ Is a big fault. Also agree with S tier Magical Mystery Tour. It’s been my favorite Beatles record for years but it always seemed like it didn’t count or something

[@marblecake1234]

Professor Skye stole my AAVA award and texts me everyday that he did it

[@ESyshej-gf2eg]

George is such a raven claw, as soon as you started talking about HP I immediately guessed which houses you would have assigned to each one, and got it right lmao they really are that distinctive. And yes George is my favourite Beatle, love him with all his faults, such a complex man. Amazing video, the point most people make when they say they hate the Beatles is that they’re overrated, but in truth I doubt any of those people took the time to really listen to more of 2-3 of their songs, I know that because I was one of those people, I am gen z and I have loved them from the moment I decided to listen to some of their more “obscure” songs, which made me want to listen to all albums in full, and learn more about them as a band and the impact they had on music and culture. People think it’s “cool” to dislike something because everyone else seem to love it, but one shouldn’t make assumption and form an opinion about something without knowing it or having all the facts, that’s just blind ignorance. Maybe people in general should have more faith in human kind, and not assume that what most people like is rubbish and that maybe there’s a reason why it’s so loved, just a thought. Of course, that doesn’t always apply, but you should give it a chance before jumping to that conclusion. And I’m saying this to myself, too.

[@paulwalker9421]

Have been enjoying Beatles music since 1964. Yes I watched them on Ed Sullivan show. They had many fillers but they were pushed to put out music. There were some great singles that never were on albums. Mick Jagger said they called the Beatles the four headed monster. What most people do not know is they were song writers for others and in solo years worked on songs with others even up to this decade. The song "Anna " on "Please please Me" is cover of a song by Arthur Alexander who never got the credit for this great song that he wrote John loved the song. Enjoyed the review thank you.

[@ronmartin4212]

I just love the fact that they're STILL are being talked about and listened to,in great lengths,in this day and age.Im 62,and have been a fanatic and collector of them since '64.We always had the records and I love having a great collection of the original records.

[@thomasdoyle6812]

Magical Mystery Tour is their second best album; great pick! An actual concept album

[@dan2050]

I’m a boomer but I don’t find your opinion upsetting. I of course have different individual song opinions as no one I know has the same opinion on their songs. But I would offer you an opinion on Abbey Road. As their last recorded album, side 2 medley really is a requiem for the Beatles: golden slumbers is based on a Thomas Dekker poem where a young girl is being laid to rest. I think that is a metaphor for the Beatles. Carry that weight is an admission they will be burdened with the Beatles image for the rest of their lives replete with solo efforts by all 4 starting with Ringo’s drum solo and then the competing guitar solos. The end couplet is Paul reminding himself and the other 3 to keep their love for each other in mind and to not mistreat one another after they break up. I don’t think John got that message until much later. Btw, Now and Then is for Paul. Look into the Carl Perkins story of the song called My Old Friend. It included the line “think of me now and then”which Linda told Carl was the last thing John said to Paul. It’s why Paul was obsessed to get it done. Olivia was the holdout until the spooky clock story happened which you can read on the insert to the single. Very spooky coincidence.

[@skyediver]

Enjoyed this. Several “What could’ve been” moments popped up for me during your presentation, the most prominent is that I agree (mostly) with your placement of Sgt. Pepper’s, but the greatness of the Beatles is that the album would’ve been easily S-Tier if Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane were placed on the album which was an entirely feasible altered reality. Maybe Loki could go back in time and make that happen 😉

[@OperationPhantom]

Really liked listening to all your well argued points, personal preferences and (being another Beatles trainspotter) the odd mistake, like HOW COULD YOU SAY ACROSS THE UNIVERSE IS A PAUL SONG?!? Just kidding. Makes it more real. The accents were the icing on the cake. ❤

[@jackdubrule516]

AVAA. Watching live and you haven’t ranked anything yet but your intro was incredible.

[@brandonburroughs7128]

Magical mystery tour is so underrated. Definitely hear it’s influence in a lot of indie music. Bluejay Way especially

[@lauraallen55]

George is also genius level. Four words: All Things Must Pass. George and Ringo covering Carl Perkins songs deserves to be explained rather than dismissed. He was a big influence on them especially George. Got My Mind Set On You just shows his diversity and creativity - ability to write Beware of Darkness and that one. Well... wow.

[@frankscafidi8107]

Got my mind set on you is a cover song

[@lauraallen55]

Okay, cool! He decided to cover it and he also decided to write some very good pop songs as well as some more serious and deeper songs, so that was my point. Blow Away, What Is Life, Crackerbox Palace, All Those Years Ago, When We Was Fab...@@frankscafidi8107

[@1rwjwith]

As an ORIGINAL BOOMER BEATLE FAN…I would just like to say I have NO problem whatever with your opinions here, none. In fact I probably agree with you 75% of the time and even when I don’t you have good points, musical, lyrical and otherwise to make. This is my first watch of your channel..it’s great to hear a valid opinion like yours on this as you say, incomparable body of work, something I REALLY AGREE WITH. If someone is putting you down for this they just aren’t listening or are too stupid too listen. HOWEVER! I just had to fast forward pass that LONG PREAMBLE! Wow are you long winded…sheesh. Anyway I enjoyed your tier rankings. I probably disagree most on SGT. PEPPER , but again you make good sometimes great points. Thanks.😁

[@shane.b.]

AVAA, thanks for giving love to Please Please Me, I love every single song on that album except for Boys lol. I always felt like people put all of the other early albums above it which just makes me feel insane. it’s so good though.

[@marieltr]

I loved the different perspective. The big variant in my tastes is Hard days night, for me it's the best early Beatles, better then please please me, beatles for sales and with the beatles. I feel the covers would have been better buying the albums in those days. Right now I can just choose the original on spotify lollll A thing that hurts the albums is the fact that in those days they were not putting the singles on the album... can you imagine with the singles? One thing I love about Sergent Pepper is that there's a couple of songs like Lovely Rita that sounds like a cartoon theme song to me. I love that song for that.

[@videotapes9965]

It’s a common misconception that the White Album is just a collection of tracks but its actual very cohesive. Pay close attention to the how each track succeed one and another, most of the time they have some kind of connection like a smooth transition, a similar theme, or a juxtaposition. It’s that element to the album that despite it having so much material, it’s never a chore to listen to.

[@everyvillainislemons7583]

Thoroughly enjoyed your Octopus’ Garden video, love your Beatles stuff

[@progressiveGal73]

AVAA!! Fellow GenX here~ My Beatles GOATS: 1) MMT (this wouldn’t have been my #1 when I was growing up, but as I’ve matured the primal quality intrigues and excites, it necessitates some emotional intelligence to fully enjoy, as it makes you bypass your frontal lobe), 2) Abbey Road (the medley gets me every time), 3) Revolver (do it in the road is so primal, ugh~love love love) Let it Be could be there~too, as it’s like the Abbey Road package for me~paying homage to their R&B roots, one of my favorites is, I’ve Got a Feeling…ok, and Dig a Pony. What a hard assignment!! I’m glad I don’t have to give the rest up in order to narrow things down😂 PS extra snaps for the How Soon is Now mention! The intro gets me every time! PPS as a black American woman~I love Black Bird~when I’m particularly stressed and listen to it, or even think about the lyric, “black bird FLyyyyy in to the light of a dark black night…!” Bc the lyrics felt true about the experience of pushing through the headwinds throughout my life, and the weight of the trans-generational trauma that my culture felt intent on repressing. Not preachy to me~just true and I felt some solidarity through my favorite band, a bunch of British white dudes that had broken up before I was even born.

[@ricardo_miguel13]

I think best albums to start for gen z are abbey road, rubber soul or a selection of their early energetic stuff like i saw her standing there, a hard days night or twist and shout. A bit later their more challanging stuff like revolver or the white album, and of course sgt pepper

[@TheAnarchitek]

It's interesting, you hear the Beatles' LPs as finished products, rate them according to their similarity to music that would be common, later. I met the Beatles at 14, in 1963, heard each single as something new, different, and better, each LP as a leap forward. I have a very different appreciation of the Beatles, their music, and their impact on nearly every aspect of life, from music to nuts, so to speak. On April 4, 1964, the Beatles held all top 5 positions on the Hot 100, with another 7 singles scattered from #31 to #65, a feat not even approximated by any other artist. It was a heady time, with the British Invasion fully underway, groups popping up with great singles, the Stones, the Kinks, the Yardbirds, et al. The Beatles held 12% of the Hot 100, one week, a clear testimony to the sad state of the music industry in the years before the lads from Liverpool arrived on the scene. AM radio was the "high tech" of the era, my little transistor radio rarely out of my hands, attached to one ear with an "earphone". Music had been moribund and drear, before the Beatles, and JFK's murder put a pall on everything, Christmas 1963. The Beatles quickly wiped that away, sorta like the scenes in the 1968 movie, Yellow Submarine. We had a brief respite, before LBJ and the Dogs of War lit the fuse on VietNam, already smoldering. Into this brief break from reality poured the pent-up emotions of post-war babies set free from the vicissitudes of the pre-Beatles world. It wouldn't last, and by late '65, reality was looming large, in the South, in VietNam, in the MidEast, all the hotspots of ignorance and repression. Eve of Destruction speaks to the state of affairs, in Fall 1965. Not a pretty picture, by any standard, and it was going to get worse. The undeclared "war" in VietNam would flare into a full-fledged shooting war (I got to visit, in 1968, at the height of "festivities"), and the Arabs would follow their 1956 attempt to destroy Israel with the shockingly brief Six-Day War, in Spring 1967. The Russians were at their most threatening, and it plainly looked like the world was going to blow itself to pieces, before we hit maturity, all us Baby Boomers beginning to ripen. Through all the craziness, the Beatles pumped out quality rock 'n' roll, inspiring a follow-on generation of musicians that would prosper in the '70s, with their constant inventiveness. The Beatles seldom followed their own trends, setting them free for others to chase down, looking ahead, until the final bow, beginning in 1969 with the early attempts to record the album that would become Let It Be, more than 16 months later. They put that project aside, and recorded the far superior Abbey Road in weeks, releasing the album in early November, their final "recorded" effort a masterpiece. The Get Back LP limped into stores in May 1970, on the heels of the announcement the Beatles were breaking up, the only album not produced by George Martin, the only one not chock full of great songs, but a fitting farewell. I added a couple of discs to fully address the lads' output. Between Sept 4, 1962, and May 8, 1970, the Beatles wrote and recorded 217 songs, with three of them getting differing versions, on singles, or albums. Revolution has three versions, included in the count, but Across the Universe, and Let It Be, have differing recorded versions, the latter with a better solo, on the album, very different from the single, released two months before the LP. These, and Capitol Records' mash-up of the first 6 Beatles' LPs made for confusion among fans, but we took it in stride, taking the record industry on a wild ride through the '60s, into the '70s, before it petered out in the '80s. The Hey Jude LP is little different from the Magical Mystery Tour, or Yesterday and Today, each a compilation album to keep fans up with the group. On the other hand, Beatles VI is a mash-up of songs from the leftovers of Beatles for Sale, and two songs from the future Help!, plus two songs recorded specifically for the album, Bad Boy and Dizzy Miss Lizzie. The line-up flows from song to song, probably the best American version until Revolver, trimmed of its rockers, into a AOR masterpiece. The other Capitol offerings didn't fare so well, Beatles '65 was a mix of With the Beatles, and The Beatles For Sale, while Help!, Rubber Soul, and Revolver were butchered by the nitwits in Capitol, until a new contract settled the issue. All Beatles' albums were released as recorded, starting with Sgt Pepper's. The music industry changed over the course of the Beatles' trajectory, still a pack of thieves, liars, and cheats, but still improved over the Tin Pan Alley/Brill Building origins of rock 'n' roll. To understand what the Beatles represented, I recommend checking out the Hot 100 for 1962 and 1963, when fake Teen Idols, Fabian and Bobby Rydell most glaringly, were promoted, Pat Boone was still milking R&B hits for whitebread versions, and assembly-line TPA/BB product. Doo-Wop was big, leading Barry Mann to record "Who Put the Bomp?", in 1961. The Beach Boys got their start in this era, and the Four Seasons, who married Doo-Wop to orchestral rock. Elvis was going down the music soundtrack rabbit hole, only occasionally releasing something of merit, Such a Night, Devil in Disguise, and Return to Sender barely qualifying as "rock 'n' roll". Best of the Beatles 01 R E V O L V E R 02 A B B E Y R O A D 03 R U B B E R S O U L 04 T H E B E A T L E S 05 A H A R D D A Y ' S N I G H T 06 H E L P ! 07 P A S T M A S T E R S V O L U M E O N E 08 B E A T L E S V I 09 P L E A S E , P L E A S E M E 10 M A G I C A L M Y S T E R Y T O U R 11 P A S T M A S T E R S V O L U M E T W O 12 S G T P E P P E R ' S L O N E L Y H E A R T S C L U B B A N D 13 H E Y J U D E 14 L E T I T B E 15 W I T H T H E B E A T L E S 16 T H E B E A T L E S F O R S A L E 17 Y E L L O W S U B M A R I N E (true Soundtrack) ©BW2023 12/04/2023 anarchitek™

[@lukeszklarz9674]

The 2012 pressing of Magical Mystery Tour on vinyl is excellent, highly recommend if you're looking to pick up a copy. It comes with the art book and plastic lined sleeve for the disc. Great sound too.

[@rekrap1369]

Would be intrigued to see you run through (or listen to for the first time) The Beach Boys albums

[@ChubbyChecker182]

Ooooh, i was completely with you until The White Album...Long, Long Long is amazing. At least A-Tier album, (so long as you can skip Rev 9 Good to See MTT in S tier though, i think the fact the movie was seen as a failure affected the albums rep over r the years, its a much better album than Sgt. Peppers

[@adamtrott78]

AVAA… The Beatles were the first band / artist that I ever got into. I am very picky with what artists I obsessively listen to, and I go through phases where I get obsessed with a single artist or band and go through their entire discography, including unreleased material. Since then I have had stints listening to Gorillaz, Pink Floyd, They Might Be Giants, Kendrick Lamar, Tyler The Creator, Travis Scott, and now I have currently been stuck listening to every single Kanye West song and album in existence (strangely my obsession only really started after he started talking about Jews) It’s so cool to discover a new true artist and to discover who they are through their music Thank you for making this video, I rediscovered my love for The Beatles a few years ago learning the Ukulele while singing along to their songs, and you have really sent me down memory lane (I’m 21, so that lane only really goes back like 7-8 years lmao) Revolver is their best work I also found myself LOVING Magical mystery tour, and it was my favorite album of theirs for a bit I liked let it be, but after finding out how it got finished and released, and that the original version was spearheaded by John Lennon, called Get Back, and was supposed to be them getting back to the basics after traveling so far sonically and artistically, I found a new appreciation for the project by listening to Paul’s rework, Let It Be, Naked. Sure it may not have been 100% John’s vision, and is very much Paul’s (and Ringo’s) own recreation of what could have been, decades later, but it is so jarring to hear these songs, full of grand “walls” of instrumentation, now stripped back, and raw. I Me Mine, Across The Universe, and The Long and Winding Road come to mind as Highlights when heard with this new filter. They are just as, if not more beautiful when acoustic, and the vocals really shine through. I love the way you explained these 4 artists, and how they, and their relationships with each other and their music evolved throughout their short, but incredibly productive and special time together.

[@braybeatles1]

A brilliant review .... AVAA!! Really loved your take on their albums, though I disagree with your placings! Well considered. You clearly know your stuff. My own rankings: 1. Revolver. 1. Abbey Road 1. The Beatles (white album) 1. Magical Mystery Tour 2. Rubber Soul 2. Sgt Pepper 2. A Hard Day's Night 2. With The Beatles 3. Let it Be 3. Help 4. Beatles For Sale 4. Please Please Me 5. Yellow Submarine.

[@zakariahmardon5702]

Yes. Finally someone giving Magical Mystery Tour it's due respect. I had the same experience of it as you. Absolutely love it front to back. ALSO - And Your Bird Can Sing is TOP TIER JOHN. Julia is an amazing song, and the context of his son doesn't ruin it for me, I agree, that's sad, however I don't think you can deny the brilliance of what it does sonically. I think that song is John sounding his most fragile and delicate and the pain and longing is too tangible to be a throw away. If anything does the added context of his son not deepen the meaning of it and illustrate how generational trauma surfaces?

[@ThisIsReadyMade]

AVAA. Great video as always. Who wants to hear She’s Leaving Home? That’s me! That’s a top five Beatles track for me, top three even. The beautiful orchestration paired with the picturesque lyrics centered on a generational divide and an inability to grasp how someone wants independence - even if misguided. Perfect song.

[@K4neki_CNTP]

AVAA - I love how you always strike the right tone with everything you say, even when it is about controversial topics like John Lennon as a person. Great video overall, especially the intro section before the ranking was phenomenal and quite poetic.

[@KOOL_AID_KID]

1:09:26 don’t forget “sitting on a cornflake” 😂

[@Waltar100]

white album ranking makes me cry

[@lauraallen55]

A lot of these make me shake my head. The Paul songs bias is so strong too.

[@MRDADSTER]

Pretty much nailed it Prof. I might have lobbed Let It Be (Naked) up a notch as love the way the band worked together to gouge out those songs as evidenced in Get Back. Enjoyed your video. Look forward to seeing more. Cheers

[@dimetronome]

I agree that Harrison wasn't a genius at the same level as Lennon and McCartney, but he definitely helped elevate their genius due to his introduction of new instruments and perspectives to Lemon and McCartney that they probably wouldn't have otherwise considered. Excellent video!

[@joaoassumpcao3347]

AVAA! I loved your little discussion at the beginning about love and slavish devotion. I think love and respect is about allowing others to be (fairly) criticized. Shielding artists you love always felt to me like treating them like a child, which is to me the opposite of respect. Not criticizing them means you don't want them to do better, which is the opposite of love. Also, thanks for your service for us gen Z-ers. I've never quite understood the Beatles even though I've listened to Revolver and Abbey Road a couple of times. I feel like this video could be the key to that.

[@swiftysnail9053]

Just got high and watched this whole video and i just wanna say that you hating star wars ep. 6 is so fitting, great video though

[@bobbytropo2314]

Holy shit your magical mystery tour ranking is hilarious. You crazy for this one Sky! I just looked at the track list and fuck me you’re right. You’re 100% right and 100% wrong.

[@cfloydengler]

You probably misspoke, and someone likely already mentioned it, but John wrote Across the Universe.

[@professorskye]

Definitely misspoke. What a mistake to make!

[@nomaddd123]

AVAA, always felt the same for Magical Mystery Tour but never had a way to express it, well put. the ‘vibe’ you’re talking about, something about the attitude, production choices, arrangements, I feel almost stands like a precursor to British indie that came in the next 40 yrs. Can definitely hear how a track like ‘Flying’ would’ve influenced people from Brian Eno to Damon Albarn..

[@alex11v3]

This is an incredible list, precise takes. I just disagree with Rubber Soul placement, I think that most of the album is fillers and White album is above it. I would put White on A above Let it Be and Rubber Soul on B above Stg Peppers. I would also argue that every song on White is essencial to the albumsl and that has a stylistic consistency and beauty to it, I wouldn't say any song is bad even obladi oblada but I get your takes because after all, thats the most polarizing beatles album

[@danielmcglynn2547]

There are heaps of Beatles rankings out there but this one really is a breath of fresh air. In that ocean of Beatles reviews this is a real achievement. Love parts of it, disagree with lots too - some of those perfect S tier white album songs are amongst the worst ever in my world- to say the least. And there's a big question mark too. Your wife said Magical Mystery tour is too wimpy? And you kind of agree? I don't get it at all. All up through this is a great video. I look forward to more.

[@technologicallyilliterate]

Interesting list you’ve made here; I disagree with some of your ideas but I can see where you’re coming from. To me, the White Album is the zenith of the Beatles. It’s absolutely batshit insane, and totally unhinged, and that’s that I love about it. It doesn’t have a unified sound like most of the other Beatles albums, and it benefits greatly from that freedom. It’s my favorite Beatles album, and I disagreed with it being in B. I understand that not every track on it is great; personally, I’m not a huge fan of Julia, Wild Honey Pie, and Revolution 9, but the album has so many tracks that hit like a truck. And, despite it being in the era where Paul was increasingly becoming the dominant personality of the band because everyone else was basically checked out after the trip to Rishikesh, the album features a much more even contribution from John, Paul, and George. One of the latter’s main sticking points, especially in 1969, was that his material, despite being terrific and in many ways better than Paul and John’s, was not being utilized. It starts with Back in the USSR, and while most of the Beatles albums have strong openers, that song hits you with rock-n-roll giddiness right out of the gate, and appeals to me also in the way that it imitates Brian Wilson’s orchestration. After that, you get a veritable smorgasbord of different musical flavors in rapid succession, with almost each song embracing a very different style. You get Dear Prudence, inspired in its composition by the Indian compositions they’d been exposed to. Then, Ob-La-Di, which has some of the most raucous piano work they’ve ever done. While My guitar gently weeps, a bittersweet and aching dirge with, as you mentioned, a terrific solo from Clapton. I could go on, but there are just too many good songs to pass up on for me. I’m so tired, blackbird, piggies, yer blues, sexy Sadie, Helter Skelter, long long long, honey pie, and savoy truffle. I even like some of the shorter joke pieces, especially Why don’t we do it in the road, for all its goofiness. And, at the end of the day, it’s a double album where they dump an hour and a half of Beatles on you. It’s easily twice the length of the other records, and serves as a terrific tableau of the stylistic diversity of their work. I could dive into the musical analysis, but most folks will lose me there, so I’ll keep it simple: this album is easily the most rhythmically interesting and metrically varied Beatles album ever made. The harmonies used are pretty darn good too.

[@sweetpotatodato6068]

Magical Mystery Tour is my favorite Beatles album so I’m glad to see it get some love.

[@chargree]

Im not surprised by Magical Mystery Tour. It has Strawberry Fields Forever, I Am The Walrus, Hello Goodbye, All You Need is Love, and Penny Lane, just as a start. The first half is super cool also. The title track is great and Your Mother Should Know is the most underrated Beatles song, in my opinion. One more point I would like to mention. Why do we feel the need to apologize for the singles on Magical Mystery Tour. Is it a secret that putting singles on albums is and has been the virtual standard operating procedure from the beginning of music recording history and the present moment? The fact that the Beatles made the effort to try to separate singles from albums on the UK(the ones they had some control over up until Sgt Pepper…) does not mean that they cant follow the standard trend occasionally without some explanation or justification. This is NOT the only time they released singles on albums(see Please Please Me, A Hard Days Night, Help, Let it Be, and Abbey Road). I understand that it was a US release. However, if it was not, Magical Mystery Tour(EP) probably would not be included in the cannon. But, it WAS, so I dont see the argument/issue with it. It IS an album and it makes total sense, especially since the Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane single would/should have been included on Sgt Peppers. That album would have been even more incredible.

[@davidraymond9225]

I enthusiastically clapped when you put Magical Mystery Tour in S Tier. Thank you

[@thomasdoyle6812]

Agree with your take about the white album, too much filler/bad songs

[@julianbarber4708]

In the 80's, I had to drive from Nottingham to Liverpool , for a business meeting. I don't remember anything of the meeting, but I DO remember the thrill I felt when I realised I was driving down Penny Lane!

[@freeseeker1]

Love your analysis! You do love the Beatles! Anyone who can think so deeply about a subject has to have a strong emotion that envelopes it. I enjoyed your video and I loved your metaphors and had an inside laugh on multtiple occasions while watching your well developed thoughts. Having said that. And I don't mean that in a way that negates what I said previously. You ever see that Episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm? My argument for the White Album as S tier though isn't one compared to the rest of their work or one as even a broader sense "a document of rock music," but one of as piece of art in itself. In that case it may be one of the most important artistic works of the 20th century above many other important rock albums including other Beatle works. I would love to have that discussion and there is many places that discussion could go. Also, I woudd like to say: as I keep on thinking. If I ever heard in a setting where I am not in control of the music, Mr. Moonlight, or John's renditiion of Rock and Roll Music, Paul's P.S. I love you, it would bring a smile to my face, even my personly disliked songs have a way with me that no other rock artist can do, maybe Dylan or the Beach Boys get close in terms of my own percieved consistent genius. Anyway, I am glad I stumbled across your tier list.

[@chargree]

Not only all of the traits and characteristics you mentioned and how unlikely it was. Think of this. They were born within a few years of each other in the same city IN THE WORLD, AND, they found each other and decided to form join/stay in the band as others came and went, with many situations that could have and almost did derail the WHOLE thing, such as their return from Hamburg where they didn’t communicate for weeks and Paul almost took some professional job.

[@staggerlee7301]

AVAA. Nice to see some love for Bungalow Bill lol it always seems to get left out of the conversation, but it’s one of my favorite John song a off the White Album. Overall I agree with your ranking with a few minor differences because I’m more of the Lennon>McCartney persuasion, and appreciate your effort to rank them fairly (or “brutally”, as you say). Great video

[@progressiveGal73]

AVAA!! Nearly done reviewing your review~lol and with 30 min to go~so far I agree with the GOAT column, MMT~every single song is just priceless in itself but I love listening in order, back in the day when albums were an experience, for some reason, even tho they’re very different albums, I like the same things about Abbey Road-these two albums were transitional for them and I feel it(!!) and it makes them bookends for each other imho. So, my Beatles GOATs , 1) MMT, 2) Abbey Road, 3) Revolver. I could include Let it Be, however as good as it is~it’s already there in the Abbey Road album-but showcasing their R&B roots. “No-one I think is in my tree..” these MMT lyrics exemplify what makes the album GOATs…it’s an album you understand with your emotional intelligence. I felt my understanding of this album while growing up (GenX too:), i could bypass my frontal lobe and just be with the music. It was primal really. And also, it always felt like a good friend when I was growing up.

[@20thCenturyPox]

Just realising that the fully fledged studio albums form a tryptich of trilogies. Please Please Me, With the Beatles, and Hard Day's Night showcase to raw power and burgeoning songwriting potential of the loveable moptops. Beatles For Sale, Help!, and Rubber Soul is them finding out what comes after that in real time. Revolver, Sgt. Pepper, and Magical Mystery Tour see them getting weird with it while pioneering studio recording artistry. The White Album, Let It Be, and Abbey Road are festivals of prolificity and master songcraft from the great mages who've returned from the beyond... AVAA (I always thought Happiness is a Warm Gun was about his dick)

[@strathman7501]

Um, that's four trilogies i think! So that'd be a tetraptych or quadriptych of trilogies...

[@FedericoVincenzo]

AVAA, but are you going to review The new Sampha album “Lahai”? It’s possibly one of the greatest albums of the year!! Would love to hear your thoughts about it.

[@Jimmy1982Playlists]

Looking forward! For me, their pinnacle is Revolver and The White Album. Imo, Sgt. Pepper is a bit overrated - certainly not the greatest album ever, as rated by Rolling Stone. And Magical Mystery Tour is quite underrated.

[@professorskye]

You might agree with some of this video!

[@edwardhill7297]

Would love to see you do this for the solo catalogues as well!! (That would be a behemoth video though I must admit 😅) loved the video ❤

[@Stibsart]

OK. I got as far as Magical Mystery Tour going into the Great tier, and I realised I was being wound up. 😊 Top trolling.

[@QuandaleDingleBarnacleJonesIII]

MASSIVE W FOR PUTTING MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR IN S TIER YES!!!!!

[@artijon]

Brilliant service you're doing here. A true ambassador of Beatlephenomena. Re She's Leaving Home-you ARE a funny guy. Hilarious. AVAA.

[@DiscoDreamcast]

Professor, you are a sharp and eloquent man! This video presentation was a masterpiece in itself. You can tell Prof. Skye has dealt with a lot of idiocy in his life and I feel for him!! I'm getting Christian Liberal vibes from you which is completely fine! I'm a Christian who leans right myself, so the constant fear of not being politically correct is a tad bit annoying. But I also understand that teachers kind of have to be that way in this day in age. Also, trying to compare modern music like T Swift or Kanye to the Beatles does the Beatles a disservice, and I know you know that, and I know that you're trying to build a bridge for the kiddos to digest music before their time. I see that Gen Z is mostly unwilling to meet you halfway, so you have to go to them in their own way. Personally, I feel it is my own duty to figure out what the culture was like back then and do the research myself. Much like trying to understand the KJV. I have a low tolerance for lack of resourcefulness, it's just lazy behavior from the students. I love how you break down each Beatle into Hogwarts houses, and couldn't agree more. Prof. had me cracking up saying "This asshole was only 23 when he wrote I've Just Seen A Face" LOL im 32 i totally get it. I do wish this tier list ranked actual songs instead of just the albums, but I also realize that there are loads of Beatles songs. Maybe that can be an upcoming video of yours? Fingers crossed. George is my favorite Beatle (yes I am an INFP Ravenclaw type), so I was a bit cross with you when you called him a semi-genius, but by the end of the video, I kind of agree with you. I tend to gravitate towards the Beatles' later work as well, so I do like your list placement overall. I think it's genuine and brave of you to have Yellow Submarine as your favorite Beatles song, and I agree with you that personal connection to art or anything else usually trumps actual objectivity. Shes Leaving Home always makes me cry like a baby, but i get that it's not 'fun' like The Ballad of John and Yoko. I was really worried that you were going to put Magical Mystery Tour in B tier, in which case, like John said, run for your life! But I am so glad you put it in S tier which is exactly where I have it as well. I can tell you're truly a freethinker when you put Sgt. Peppers in B tier, I also kind of agree with you there. Your son's pottery is AMAZING btw! Small gripe but I would have put the White Album at A tier (finally, someone who appreciates Revolution 9). I have Abbey Road at A tier. I don't like the new Now And Then song. Overall, brilliant breakdown Professor!

[@krishpop-n]

when u threw MMT on S it explained why I enjoy this channel so much

[@jnagarya519]

The "Magical Mystery Tour" songs are repackaged "Sgt. Pepper's". The SINGLES are its strength -- "Strawberry Fields Forever" is one of the two greatest recordings in history -- the other being the single "Please Please Me".

[@zakariahmardon5702]

Love the HP comparisons ! haha.

[@felixashworth8878]

AAVA prof! I wonder what solo albums are S- or A- tier to you, you mention there's multiple S and I just can't imagine which you'd pick... On another note - I disagree on 'The love you take is equal to the love you make', though I can see your point. But to me it's saying 'what you get out of something is what you put it', filtered through The Beatles' tendency to frame everything around love. It's partly a karma thing, but also, it's exactly what you were saying at the start about needing to put in *effort* to appreciate things like Shakespeare or The Beatles - the love you take from them, is equal to the love you put into them. This is true of life in general. (Also, there's the way "the love you make" is a rephrase of "make love", which brings in the Beatles' talent for double entendres, starting with 'please please me' and ending with 'the love you make' - lyrically progressing from the individual to the collective, while the real-life story of the band itself is that of progressing from the collective to the individual).

[@thelastpepsi9369]

Love the take on Let It Be it’s exactly how I feel. Have a whole playlist where I have some of the regular stuff but mostly the Naked versions cause damn some of those other songs are unpleasant on the original. I really dislike the original Long and Winding Road and Across the Universe but the Naked versions are just wonderful on the ears man

[@sara.val3ncia]

I agree mostly with all this, although Sgt. Peppers should be in A Also love the visuals with the dolls, especially John and Paul 🤣😏

[@davidkornblatt851]

The thing about ART IS that it displays Involving TRICKERY. Remember perception involves the ideas of a Trickster and a ConArtist, they are different but can be perceived as one in the same. The Beatles were magicians in that same way they created art through hardwork, charisma, a percentage of trickery. It also didn’t hurt that the music business after 64 supported them almost every step of the way. The Beatles didn’t follow the zeitgeist; They Were the Zeitgeist. That is why this new single is just merely good and not GREAT. ITS NO DAY IN THE LIFE OR TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS. That 60s zeitgeist thang man is crucial!

[@xfoolsgoldx]

White album is S but I agree with most of the other choices.

[@JotaJade]

AVAA. I wonder which solo beatle albums you consider S tier. All Things Must Pass, RAM, Plastic Ono Band and Imagine? I'd like to throw in Thirty Three & 1/3 as a contender even though it's not often considered as great as ATMP.

[@DarkPassenger111]

AVAA I have some strong Beatles hot takes, one of which is I love Magical Mystery Tour. I also love the songs Long Long Long and She's Leaving Home - and Octopus's Grarden. I dislike While Your Guitar Gently Weeps so much

[@RC-fi8nn]

Great video! Can anyone explain to me what Magical Mystery Tour isn't seen as a major Beatles' album? Like it's not talked about much and rarely referred to in the same league as Revolver, Abbey Road, etc. I never understood this, as it has some of the best Beatles songs are on there.

[@professorskye]

Sure. It’s because it was an EP in England and only an LP in America. A lot of the great songs are not considered part of the album, by some peoples

[@rikurodriguesneto6043]

what an informative fun video ! i love the way you entang.. sorry disentangle :D things.. I've been a fan of the Beatles for years but already 19 minutes in this has given me such a different angle to them.. :D *btw do u not know that got to get you into my life is about pot

[@lauraallen55]

He may have to stop liking it!

[@jamisonduff]

Nice! We have the same top three!!