The Beatles Band • Page 19

Till There Was You deserves more love, great early Paul track with a wonderful acoustic solo from George.

 

Beatles for Sale definitely their worst album

 

Is this really where you want to be, Pat? On the same side as Steve?

Is this really where you want to be, Steve? on the same side as Pat?

:cackles maniacally:

For real though, "No Reply" and "I'm a Loser" and "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party" were the emergence of the "Depressed John" run of genius that continues through Help! , which is probably his peak as a writer.

 

I'm sticking with it!!! Most of the originals are great, most of the covers are ok. It's their most uneven album despite still having plenty of gems

 

yep. plenty of songs i love on it. uneven is the proper word. none of their other albums, save the self-titled, are really that. and the s/t has total brilliance haha.

 

Well you guys got me doing an early album run now. I don't typically spend much time pre Help!

 

There's a lot of HUGE singles in their early days and a ton of underrated album cuts, they are just such a fantastic band

 

Those first 3 years, they released 2 albums each year. One day I'm gonna try to make tracklists where I consolidate the 2 albums of each year, and cut out all the meh songs to just make 3 good solid albums instead of 6, ha.

 

the older i get the more the early stuff clicks with me

 

Older song that's grown the most in my esteem over the last umpteen years: "I'll Follow the Sun"

 

Amazing little ditty

 

Being that memorable and impactful while also being that simple is a borderline magic trick.

 

ticket to ride is basically 10/10 perfect

 

"Ticket to Ride"'s drums are the heaviest goddamn sound known to man

 

There has never been a better 'feel' drummer in popular music than Ringo Starr.

 

abbey road > rubber soul > white album > revolver > magical mystery tour > hard days night > sgt. peppers > with the beatles > help > let it be > please please me > yellow submarine > beatles for sale

 

I got stressed just thinking about trying to rank it. So I’m just not going to. Gonna resist the compulsion.

So many incredible albums.

I think their single most underrated song is probably “It’s All Too Much”

 

Yeah I'm not gonna try to rank haha.

 

Amazing Harrison tune - and that one is tucked away at the end of Side A of probably their weakest "album".

I'm always blown away by how many of the non-album singles are stone cold classics. Both volumes of the Past Masters compilations would be top-tier if not best albums by the majority of bands in existence.

"Rain" is probably my favorite on either Past Masters - so underrated.

 

if it's any song in the catalog, it's not guilty

 

probably gonna try to run through the solo stuff in chronological order next

 

I did that with the solo stuff and it took me, like, 5 years to get through it all haha. I have a spreadsheet in chronological order if you need haha

 

would appreciate

 

Let's see I've heard:

Ringo:
Beaucoups of Blues
Ringo
Goodnight Vienna
Y Not
2012
Give More Love

George:
All Things Must Pass
The Concert for Bangladesh
Living in the Material World
Dark Horse
Brainwashed

John:
Plastic Ono Band
Imagine
Mind Games
Walls and Bridges
Rock and Roll
Double Fantasy
Milk and Honey

Paul:
McCartney
Ram
Wild Life
Red Rose Speedway
Band on the Run
Venus and Mars
At the Speed of Sound
London Town
McCartney II
Tug of War
Press to Play
Off the Ground
Flaming Pie
Run Devil Run
Chaos and Creation in the Backyard
Memory Almost Full
Kisses on the Bottom
New
Egypt Station
McCartney III

 

Enjoy! I think this should contain everything any of them have done after the Beatles, aside from maybe an orchestral album that Paul composed. The last few Beatles albums are in there just to give context of when everything was being released

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aGiwSO75D_kdO3ENmtD-k2BLI6Bc7iGbMdozkp4nlZo/edit?usp=sharing