If you’re new to the Beatles and you’re looking for an album to get started with, your best bet would be Revolver – it is CLASSIC Beatles. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and, while I do love that album, for me, it doesn’t quite have the urgency or energy that is present on Revolver. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)Īs you can see, both the NME, Ultimate Classic Rock, and yours truly, here at ELECTRIKJAM, think that Revolver is the best Beatles album. But what is the best Beatles album according to the critics? Here’s a complete breakdown of the best Beatles albums ranked by some of the biggest and most well known music review sites: Rolling Stone ![]() Me personally, I like Revolver the best followed by Abbey Road and then The White Album. You may think Revolver is the best album, while other Beatles fans will prefer Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band or The White Album. Ranking the Beatles’ albums in order of greatness is, of course, an entirely subjective process. At the time, no one knew it’d be the last Beatles album but there were plenty of rumors – John was pretty vocal about his distain for the band at this point. ![]() John LennonĪbbey Road topped the charts in several countries, of course, including the UK and the US, reaching number one in both the Billboard 200 and UK Albums Chart. It was just bits of song thrown together. I never liked that sort of pop opera on the other side. They’d stopped touring years before and, as Lennon pointed out numerous times, the song writing process had become stale. The hype around this album was immense and the stress the band were under during its production made created a nightmarish procession of events that saw George Harrison famously quit the band, only to rejoin a few days later.īy this point, John had checked out mentally, George wasn’t getting on with Paul, and the band, while still able to churn out classics like “Come Together” and “Here Comes the Sun” were essentially done. The Beatles’ last studio album, Abbey Road, was released on 26th September 1969 by Apple Records. Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967).If you want to listen to The Beatles’ albums in order, here’s the correct order (based on release dates): The Beatles Albums In Order Why? Because this way you’ll not only be able to appreciate how the band evolved over time but also how their approach to songwriting changed – and, believe me, it changed pretty significantly towards the end of the band’s career. But also because, during the latter part of the band’s career, they stopped touring and simply became a recording band – this was when The Beatles got REALLY experimental.īut if you’re just getting started listening to The Beatles, the best place to start is the beginning. And a lot of that is down to the fact that The Beatles was comprised of three of the best songwriters in history – Paul McCartney, John Lennon, and George Harrison. ![]() ![]() Tracks like Hey Jude, Get Back, Eleanor Rigby, and Back in The USSR sound as fresh today as they did fifty or even sixty years ago. That and the fact that their songs and melodies have a timelessness to them that seems to transcend time and space. With respect to The Beatles’ enduring influence and popularity, the reason they remain so consistently popular is that nearly all of the most well-known bands and artists – from Black Sabbath to Bruno Mars – cite The Beatles as one of their core influences. Paul just recently headlined Glastonbury, for instance, at the ripe old age of eighty! The mark left on music by Paul, John, George, and Ringo has touched billions of people over the last six decades and continues to do so even today. To say The Beatles were influential would be the understatement of the century.
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