Top 5 Beatles Albums

Top 5 Beatles Albums

...as picked by lil 'ol Sammy Jo here. It had to happen, I guess...

My Top 5 List of Beatles Albums.


5 'Help!' (1965)


The soundtrack to the movie. There's so much ground covered on this
platter. From the title track (a plea from John Lennon who was going
through a bout of depression at the time), 'The Night Before', 'You've
Got To Hide Your Love Away', 'Another Girl', 'You're Going To Lose That
Girl', 'Ticket To Ride', 'Yesterday'...all wonderful songs.

Cool movie too!


4 'Abbey Road' (1969)


Iconic album. Iconic title. Groundbreaking in it's own way. One of
the first, if not THE first, albums recorded on a transistor based
desk, rather than the usual, for the time, valves. One of the first
acts to embrace the Moog Synthesizer, one of the first to string
along a bunch of songs to make a suite of music.

Some great, late era songs on here. 'Come Together', 'Something',
'Oh Darling', 'Octopus's Garden' 'I Want You...', 'Here Comes The
Sun' and THAT Suite. Fitting ending to The Beatles career.


3 'Rubber Soul' (1965)


Wonderful album. It has 'Drive My Car' ('Beep, Beep, Yeah!'),
'Norwegian Wood..', 'You Won't See Me', 'Nowhere Man', 'Think
For Yourself', 'The Word' (my fav on this album), 'Michelle',
'In My Life' and 'Run For Your life' (my other fav on this platter).
At this point, The Beatles were banging out albums with very little
fat on them. Pretty much every tune is a must listen.

2 'Revolver' (1966)


It's a tough call between No 2 and No 3. There's been many a pub 'debate'
over this. To me, it depends on the day and what way the wind is blowing.
Today, naturally, it's is blowing in this direction.

Clear production, some great songs, and wonderful performances. What have
we got? Well, there's 'Taxman', 'Eleanor Rigby', 'I'm Only Sleeping',
'Here, There & Everywhere', 'Yellow Submarine', 'She Said She Said',
'Good Day Sunshine', 'And Your Bird Can Sing', 'For No One', 'Got To
Get You Into My Life' and my personal fav, 'Tomorrow Never Knows'.

1 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' (1967)


As an album, it works really well. The premise of the whole thing
was that the Beatles had stopped touring and decided to just do
studio work. They had the novel idea of 'sending the album on tour'
Cool idea, I think you will find. So that was the start.

Honestly, for a 40 minute album, I play it all the way through,
never skipping a track. It's brilliant. The best album ever? Big
claim. Maybe.

We have the title track, 'With A Little Help From My Friends',
'Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds', 'She's Leaving Home', 'When I'm
Sixty Four', 'A Day In The Life' as the most well known, I guess,
but I love 'Within, Without You' and 'Being For The Benefit Of Mr
Kite' too...and who could forget 'Getting Better'? Oh...so that's
the whole album then? Yep!

The album comes out and, just a few days later, Jimi Hendrix opens
his show with the title track....in front of a Beatle...can't ask
for any better accolade than that.

So...there you have it. MY take on the Fab Four. Your fav not on there?

Give me a reason why it should..

SJD x