The Beatles

Revolver showcases their ability to experiment across genres and do so successfully (even more impressive they manage to achieve the feat on a singular album). The upbeat tracks - Good Day Sunshine, And Your Bird Can Sing, Got to Get You Into My Life - are infectiously positive. A fan-favorite for a reason!

[While technically this is their third record, I view A Hard Day's Night as the true follow up to Please Please Me]. No skips on this one and (I believe) the first record to be both 100% written and performed by a single band. Incredible! Honorable mentions for favorite tracks: If I Fell, Things We Said Today and the obvious hits.: A Hard Day's Night and Can't Buy Me Love.

It's short, sweet, simple and the signature sound that started it all. So many GREAT songs. It would be a higher 9 for me with a song or two removed. Baby It's You is one of my favorite covers.

This is my favorite from their catalog primarily because some of my favorite songs are on this record. I Will is one of, if not my absolute favorite song...ever. To me, the album is like a patchwork quilt. Each song is unique and so different from the last but collectively ties together into one cohesive, great record. Way too many honorable standouts to mention!!!

I understand that the cultural significance tied to this one inevitably brings it to the top of most All-Time lists. I do agree the songs are incredible. I've just never connected to it the way I have with their other records.

Another classic early Beatles record...I feel it's a companion record (older brother maybe?) to A Hard Day's Night. Their songwriting starts taking an introspective turn here in tracks like Help! and Yesterday, moving beyond their formula for (very good) puppy love tracks. I love how history influences music (and vise versa), so a track like Help! is doubly impressive in how it bridges the two - framing the specific chaos of Beatlemania through a universal feeling of loneliness.

Similar to With the Beatles, I think it's fair to contextualize how both records were pushed out quite quickly. Beatles for Sale was released just ~4 months after A Hard Day's Night. There's still gems sprinkled in this one, although it falls a bit flat for certain songs. It does have a Beatles classic (I'll Follow the Sun). What You're Doing is a very underrated Paul song!!

I view this as an extension effort to (quickly) follow up Please Please Me (this was released 8 months later). If it had been packaged as an EP or narrowed down to the bigger hits I think it would be more impressive - it's not the strongest as a standalone record. It does showcase their ability to deliver excellent covers of songs though (Til There Was You, Please Mister Postman, Roll Over Beethoven).

A classic known for the album cover as much if not more than the music. If I’m being honest maybe I like the covers nostalgia more than I do the nostalgia of the music.