The Beatles album by album

[A start, but much still to be done...] 

They recorded 11 official albums in seven years then broke up. They were the most famous and popular band during the Sixties, and have consistently remained popular since breaking up. Hugely respected

Albums

Please Please Me (March 1963)

The debut album. It contains their early hits, "Please Please Me", "Love Me Do", and the fine "I Saw Her Standing There", some creepy covers such as "A Taste of Honey" and "Anna", and other stuff.  I like  "Do You Want to Know a Secret", which was taken from the "I'm Wishing" song in Snow White which Lennon's mother used to sing to him.

It's not a great album - it's not a great debut, but it's a start. If the band had developed a little longer, had a different manager and a different producer, they might well have released a brilliant debut album, but that was not to be... I think it's possible a decent debut album could be compiled from the contents of the first two albums.

It's a likeable album, but there's the odd bit of old fashioned pop. "Anna" is a middle of the road ballad which even in 1963 sounds a bit dated. It was written and recorded by Arthur Alexander in 1962, and became a favourite of Lennon. Alexander's original is an interesting country tinged mid tempo ballad, which sounds more modern and meaningful than Lennon's cover. The backing vocal harmony sounds so insincere and is perhaps, along with the arrangement, one of the main reasons the Beatles' version sounds so awkward and old fashioned. Lennon's vocals are crude but honest, with admirable emotion, but don't have the soul of Alexander's original.

Side one

No.	Title	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"I Saw Her Standing There"	McCartney	2:55
2.	"Misery"	Lennon with McCartney	1:49
3.	"Anna (Go to Him)" (Arthur Alexander)	Lennon	2:55
4.	"Chains" (Gerry Goffin, Carole King)	Harrison	2:23
5.	"Boys" (Luther Dixon, Wes Farrell)	Starr	2:24
6.	"Ask Me Why"	Lennon	2:24
7.	"Please Please Me"	Lennon with McCartney	1:59
Total length:			16:49

Side two

No.	Title	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"Love Me Do"	McCartney with Lennon	2:21
2.	"P.S. I Love You"	McCartney	2:04
3.	"Baby It's You" (Mack David, Barney Williams, Burt Bacharach)	Lennon	2:40
4.	"Do You Want to Know a Secret"	Harrison	1:56
5.	"A Taste of Honey" (Bobby Scott, Ric Marlow)	McCartney	2:03
6.	"There's a Place"	Lennon and McCartney	1:51
7.	"Twist and Shout" (Phil Medley, Bert Russell)	Lennon	2:32

Wikipedia
AllMusic:
Score: 4 1/2

With the Beatles (Nov 1963)

A weak album. One of the weakest.

Side one

No.	Title	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"It Won't Be Long"	Lennon	2:13
2.	"All I've Got to Do"	Lennon	2:02
3.	"All My Loving"	McCartney	2:07
4.	"Don't Bother Me" (George Harrison)	Harrison	2:28
5.	"Little Child"	Lennon with McCartney	1:46
6.	"Till There Was You" (Meredith Willson)	McCartney	2:14
7.	"Please Mr. Postman" (Georgia Dobbins, William Garrett, Freddie Gorman, Brian Holland, Robert Bateman)	Lennon	2:34

Side two

No.	Title	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"Roll Over Beethoven" (Chuck Berry)	Harrison	2:45
2.	"Hold Me Tight"	McCartney	2:32
3.	"You Really Got a Hold on Me" (Smokey Robinson)	Lennon and Harrison	3:01
4.	"I Wanna Be Your Man"	Starr	1:59
5.	"Devil in Her Heart" (Richard Drapkin)	Harrison	2:26
6.	"Not a Second Time"	Lennon	2:07
7.	"Money (That's What I Want)" (Janie Bradford, Berry Gordy)	Lennon	2:49

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Score: 4

A Hard Day's Night (July 1964)

A solid album. Opens with the blistering "A Hard Day's Night"

Side one 

No.	Title	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"A Hard Day's Night"	Lennon with McCartney	2:34
2.	"I Should Have Known Better"	Lennon	2:43
3.	"If I Fell"	Lennon with McCartney	2:19
4.	"I'm Happy Just to Dance with You"	Harrison	1:56
5.	"And I Love Her"	McCartney	2:30
6.	"Tell Me Why"	Lennon	2:09
7.	"Can't Buy Me Love"	McCartney	2:12
Total length:			16:23

Side two

No.	Title	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"Any Time at All"	Lennon	2:11
2.	"I'll Cry Instead"	Lennon	1:45
3.	"Things We Said Today"	McCartney	2:35
4.	"When I Get Home"	Lennon	2:17
5.	"You Can't Do That"	Lennon	2:35
6.	"I'll Be Back"	Lennon and McCartney	2:24
Total length:			13:47

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Score: 5 1/2

Beatles for Sale (1964)

A quiet and tired album. Some observers note a darker musical mood and more introspective lyrics with influences from their experiences in America - country music and Bob Dylan, but those are positive comments for what is an unremarkable album with unremarkable songs and unremarkable performances. Best tracks are the cover of Berry's "Rock and Roll Music" done with breathless enthusiasm by Lennon with a delightful samba rhythm to lift it above Berry's original. "I'll Follow The Sun" is a pleasant folky piece by McCartney.  The cover of "Kansas City/Hey Hey" by Macca is listenable as he has a great rocker voice, and the slacker band support is curiously modern in its confident indifference. "Eight Days A Week" is a look back to the simplistic "hit the notes and follow along" pop songs that marked out the early stage of the Beatles, but lacking the enthusiasm and magic that could make some of those songs soar and make you smile. The tired indifference here is palpable.  "I'm A Loser" is the track that critics pick out as an example of Lennon progressing with his song-writing - the tune is simple plinky plonky, the performance is simple follow the beat, so the progress rests entirely on the lyrics :

Although I laugh and I act like a clown
Beneath this mask I am wearing a frown
My tears are falling like rain from the sky
Is it for her or myself that I cry?

I'm a loser
And I lost someone who's near to me
I'm a loser
And I'm not what I appear to be

Some indications of self-reflection, but fairly pedestrian. I think you need to push it hard to see  "I'm A Loser" as a decent song. Yes, it possibly indicates the direction that Lennon would go in, but by itself it's not a song that's going to appear on many compilations.  "I Don't Want To Spoil The Party" is a better song - the lyrics are of a moment in time that suggests more than is said, and which reflect on a universal moment. The music is country influenced, reflecting that American influence from rockabilly writers/performers like Carl Perkins (one of his songs, "Honey Don't", is covered - badly - by Ringo on the album) and Johnny Cash.

Most critics and polls put this album last on ranking lists (not including Yellow Submarine and Magical Mystery Tour, as they are not proper albums), and I agree.

Side one

No.	Title	Lead vocals[138]	Length
1.	"No Reply"	Lennon	2:15
2.	"I'm a Loser"	Lennon	2:30
3.	"Baby's in Black"	Lennon and McCartney	2:04
4.	"Rock and Roll Music" (Chuck Berry)	Lennon	2:31
5.	"I'll Follow the Sun"	McCartney	1:49
6.	"Mr. Moonlight" (Roy Lee Johnson)	Lennon	2:38
7.	"Kansas City/Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey" (Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller/Richard Penniman)	McCartney	2:38

Side two

No.	Title	Lead vocals[139]	Length
1.	"Eight Days a Week"	Lennon with McCartney	2:43
2.	"Words of Love" (Buddy Holly)	Lennon and McCartney	2:04
3.	"Honey Don't" (Carl Perkins)	Starr	2:57
4.	"Every Little Thing"	Lennon with McCartney	2:04
5.	"I Don't Want to Spoil the Party"	Lennon with McCartney	2:33
6.	"What You're Doing"	McCartney	2:30
7.	"Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby" (Carl Perkins)	Harrison	2:26

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Score: 3 1/2

Help! (1965)

Pleasant songs. Some sound a bit dated, but there are signs on this album that the boys are starting to write more developed songs. This is, apart from the maudlin MOR nonsense of "Yesterday" a joyous rush of  freshness which brings a smile to the face.

Side one

No.	Title	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"Help!"	Lennon	2:18
2.	"The Night Before"	McCartney	2:34
3.	"You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"	Lennon	2:09
4.	"I Need You" (George Harrison)	Harrison	2:28
5.	"Another Girl"	McCartney	2:05
6.	"You're Going to Lose That Girl"	Lennon	2:18
7.	"Ticket to Ride"	Lennon	3:09
Total length:			17:01

Side two

No.	Title	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"Act Naturally" (Johnny Russell, Voni Morrison)	Starr	2:30
2.	"It's Only Love"	Lennon	1:56
3.	"You Like Me Too Much" (Harrison)	Harrison	2:36
4.	"Tell Me What You See"	McCartney with Lennon	2:37
5.	"I've Just Seen a Face"	McCartney	2:05
6.	"Yesterday"	McCartney	2:05
7.	"Dizzy Miss Lizzy" (Larry Williams)	Lennon	2:54

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AllMusic:
Score: 5

Rubber Soul (1965)

Side one

No.	Title	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"Drive My Car"	McCartney with Lennon	2:25
2.	"Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)"	Lennon	2:01
3.	"You Won't See Me"	McCartney	3:18
4.	"Nowhere Man"	Lennon	2:40
5.	"Think for Yourself" (George Harrison)	Harrison	2:16
6.	"The Word"	Lennon	2:41
7.	"Michelle"	McCartney	2:40

Side two

No.	Title	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"What Goes On" (Lennon–McCartney–Starkey)	Starr	2:47
2.	"Girl"	Lennon	2:30
3.	"I'm Looking Through You"	McCartney	2:23
4.	"In My Life"	Lennon	2:24
5.	"Wait"	Lennon and McCartney	2:12
6.	"If I Needed Someone" (Harrison)	Harrison	2:20
7.	"Run for Your Life"	Lennon	2:18

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Score: 10

Revolver (1966)

Side one

No.	Title	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"Taxman" (*)	Harrison	2:36
2.	"Eleanor Rigby"	McCartney	2:11
3.	"I'm Only Sleeping"	Lennon	2:58
4.	"Love You To" (*)	Harrison	3:00
5.	"Here, There and Everywhere"	McCartney	2:29
6.	"Yellow Submarine"	Starr	2:40
7.	"She Said She Said"	Lennon	2:39

Side two

No.	Title	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"Good Day Sunshine"	McCartney	2:08
2.	"And Your Bird Can Sing"	Lennon	2:02
3.	"For No One"	McCartney	2:03
4.	"Doctor Robert"	Lennon	2:14
5.	"I Want to Tell You" (*)	Harrison	2:30
6.	"Got to Get You into My Life"	McCartney	2:31
7.	"Tomorrow Never Knows"	Lennon	3:00

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AllMusic:
Score: 7

A Collection of Beatles Oldies (But Goldies)
(Dec 1966)

Side one

No.	Title	Lead singer(s)	Length
1.	"She Loves You"	Lennon and McCartney	2:19
2.	"From Me to You"	Lennon and McCartney	1:54
3.	"We Can Work It Out"	McCartney, with Lennon	2:11
4.	"Help!"	Lennon	2:18
5.	"Michelle"	McCartney	2:40
6.	"Yesterday"	McCartney	2:03
7.	"I Feel Fine"	Lennon	2:21
8.	"Yellow Submarine"	Ringo Starr	2:36

Side two

No.	Title	Lead singer(s)	Length
1.	"Can't Buy Me Love"	McCartney	2:08
2.	"Bad Boy" (Larry Williams)	Lennon	2:18
3.	"Day Tripper"	Lennon and McCartney	2:49
4.	"A Hard Day's Night"	Lennon, with McCartney	2:31
5.	"Ticket to Ride"	Lennon	3:01
6.	"Paperback Writer"	McCartney	2:15
7.	"Eleanor Rigby"	McCartney	2:02
8.	"I Want to Hold Your Hand"	Lennon and McCartney	2:26

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

Probably the most hyped album in the history of music - so yes, you have to listen to it to have an opinion. Its status as the greatest album ever made has diminished over the years, so these days it is not even regarded as the best album the Beatles made, let alone the best album ever. The opening is dramatic with the orchestra warming up, and a sense of anticipation from audience noises, then a McCartney tongue-in-cheek rock number segues in with music hall pieces giving us an idea that something is about to happen, and Lennon's sardonic voice prepares us further for something special, and it builds in excitement and anticipation to deliver us, with incredible bathos, Ringo singing the lumpen "With A Little Help From My Friends" - clearly some sort of in-joke that critics have tolerated over the years, but clearly has now worn thin. The song that should appear after the opening, "Lucy In The Sky", now appears, and pulls us back to the possibility that this will be a great album. And so it goes on - some good tracks, and some weak tracks. For me there are too many weak tracks, and even the good tracks I don't find that worthwhile. "Lucy" is a tight, closed track, with a lumpen rhythm, and predictable progression - as a piece of psychedelia it is rather timid. "Getting Better" sounds like something from Revolver, so it's not a progression, but it is a solid Beatles' song.

Side one

No.	Title	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"	McCartney	2:00
2.	"With a Little Help from My Friends"	Starr	2:42
3.	"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"	Lennon	3:28
4.	"Getting Better"	McCartney with Lennon	2:48
5.	"Fixing a Hole"	McCartney	2:36
6.	"She's Leaving Home"	McCartney with Lennon	3:25
7.	"Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!"	Lennon	2:37
Total length:			19:34

Side two

No.	Title	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"Within You Without You"	Harrison	5:05
2.	"When I'm Sixty-Four"	McCartney	2:37
3.	"Lovely Rita"	McCartney	2:42
4.	"Good Morning Good Morning"	Lennon	2:42
5.	"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)"	Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr	1:18
6.	"A Day in the Life"	Lennon with McCartney	5:38

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Score: 7 1/2

Magical Mystery Tour (1967)

Side one: Film soundtrack

No.	Title	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"Magical Mystery Tour"	McCartney with Lennon	2:48
2.	"The Fool on the Hill"	McCartney	2:59
3.	"Flying"	instrumental	2:16
4.	"Blue Jay Way"	Harrison	3:54
5.	"Your Mother Should Know"	McCartney	2:33
6.	"I Am the Walrus"	Lennon	4:35
Total length:			19:05

Side two: 1967 singles

No.	Title	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"Hello, Goodbye"	McCartney	3:24
2.	"Strawberry Fields Forever"	Lennon	4:05
3.	"Penny Lane"	McCartney	3:00
4.	"Baby, You're a Rich Man"	Lennon	3:07
5.	"All You Need Is Love"	Lennon	3:57
Total length:			17:33

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"Hey Jude" (Aug 1968)

A non-album single, which, at 7 minutes 11 seconds length, caused both McCartney and George Martin to wonder if radio stations would play it, while Lennon, in typically arrogant fashion, said they would because it was "by us". However,  radio stations had played Dylan's 6 min 30 second "Like A Rolling Stone" in 1965, and Richard Harris's 7 min 21 second "MacArthur Park" in  April of 1968, so the notion of playing long songs on the radio had already been established, and as "MacArthur Park" was still being played on the radio in Aug of that year (it was number four in the UK charts during the first week of Aug), one wonders exactly where The Beatles' head were at. A big boost to the success of the single (which became the best selling song in the world - topping charts all around the globe, and being the top selling single in the UK, US, Australia and Canada) was the appearance of the band playing it on the David Frost show, and as the euphoric four minute "Na-na-na-na" coda starts, the band are suddenly surrounded by the studio audience comprising people of various ages, backgrounds, and race, all looking happy and singing along. 

The White Album 1968)

This is the Beatles' supermarket trolley album - it wobbles all over the place. It's widely seen as a self-indulgent mess with flashes of brilliance. The argument has long been that it would have been better as a single album rather than a double, but there are those who feel that the album's diversity gives it a synergy that makes the whole greater than the sum of its parts - and I see that. And there's also the consideration that it does reflect the selfish ego that popular bands can develop where they'll sling together any old trash, and it'll work because people love them so much, and the band believe they are creative geniuses so anything they do is worth listening to. It's also worth noting that every Beatles album had a crap track sung by Ringo, an odd song that didn't quite work by Harrison, some granny songs by McCartney, and a piece of egoistic self-indulgence by Lennon, so this was no exception to that rule - except that there were a lot more of all those things so it becomes an album about all the worse aspects of the Beatles. Is it worth listening to for that? I don't know. Is it worth listening to for the good songs only? The agreed excellent songs are "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (Harrison), "Happiness Is A Warm Gun" (Lennon), and "Helter Skelter" (McCartney), to which can be added as decent enough songs "Back In The U.S.S.R" (McCartney), "Birthday" (Lennon-McCartney), and "Revolution 1" (Lennon) - though the single version is better. There is no satisfactory compilation which contains only the best songs. The Blue Album has "Guitar" and "Happiness" but no "Helter Skelter", oddly using the granny song "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" instead.  

Released	22 November 1968
Recorded	30 May – 14 October 1968
Studio	EMI and Trident, London
Genre	Rock,  pop
Length	93:33 (stereo version) 92:28 (mono version)
Label	Apple
Producer	George Martin, Chris Thomas (uncredited)

Side one

No.	Title	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"Back in the U.S.S.R."	McCartney	2:43
2.	"Dear Prudence"	Lennon	3:56
3.	"Glass Onion"	Lennon	2:18
4.	"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"	McCartney	3:08
5.	"Wild Honey Pie"	McCartney	0:52
6.	"The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill"	Lennon, with Yoko Ono	3:14
7.	"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (George Harrison)	Harrison	4:45
8.	"Happiness Is a Warm Gun"	Lennon	2:47
Total length:			23:43

Side two

No.	Title	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"Martha My Dear"	McCartney	2:28
2.	"I'm So Tired"	Lennon	2:03
3.	"Blackbird"	McCartney	2:18
4.	"Piggies" (Harrison)	Harrison	2:04
5.	"Rocky Raccoon"	McCartney	3:33
6.	"Don't Pass Me By" (Richard Starkey)	Starr	3:51
7.	"Why Don't We Do It in the Road?"	McCartney	1:41
8.	"I Will"	McCartney	1:46
9.	"Julia"	Lennon	2:57
Total length:			22:41

Side three

No.	Title	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"Birthday"	McCartney with Lennon	2:42
2.	"Yer Blues"	Lennon	4:01
3.	"Mother Nature's Son"	McCartney	2:48
4.	"Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey"	Lennon	2:24
5.	"Sexy Sadie"	Lennon	3:15
6.	"Helter Skelter"	McCartney	4:30
7.	"Long, Long, Long" (Harrison)	Harrison	3:08
Total length:			22:48

Side four

No.	Title	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"Revolution 1"	Lennon	4:15
2.	"Honey Pie"	McCartney	2:41
3.	"Savoy Truffle" (Harrison)	Harrison	2:54
4.	"Cry Baby Cry"	Lennon, with McCartney	3:02
5.	"Revolution 9"	Speaking from Lennon, Harrison, Ono and George Martin	8:15
6.	"Good Night"	Starr	3:14
Total length:			24:21

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AllMusic:
Score: 5

Yellow Submarine (1969)


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Get Back (1969)

Released	Unreleased
Recorded	January 1969 (except February 1968 for "Across the Universe") January–April 1970
Venue	Apple Corps rooftop, London
Studio	Apple, EMI and Twickenham Film Studios, London
Genre	Rock
Length	35:10
Label	Apple
Producer Engineer/mixer	George Martin (uncredited) Glyn Johns

Side one

No.	Title	Length
1.	"One After 909"	2:53
2.	"Rocker" (Improvisation)	0:43
3.	"Save the Last Dance for Me"	1:34
4.	"Don't Let Me Down"	3:31
5.	"Dig a Pony"	3:55
6.	"I've Got a Feeling"	3:37
7.	"Get Back"	3:09

Side two

No.	Title	Length
1.	"For You Blue" / "The Walk"	/ 0:51
2.	"Teddy Boy"	2:25
3.	"Two of Us" / "Watching Rainbows"	/ 3:36
4.	"Maggie Mae"
5.	"Dig It"
6.	"Let It Be"
7.	"The Long and Winding Road"
8.	"Get Back (reprise)"

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Abbey Road (1969)

The last album the band recorded, though Let It Be would be released last. The Medley is great, and this is probably the heaviest and most rocky of the Beatles albums, but it is rather patchy and feels a bit thin and desperate.

George Benson did an attractive cool jazz cover of the album - The Other Side of Abbey Road.  And so did Booker T & The M.G.s - McLemore Avenue.

Released 26 September 1969
Recorded 22 February – 20 August 1969
Studio EMI, Olympic and Trident, London
Label Apple
Producer George Martin

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"Come Together"		Lennon	4:19
2.	"Something"	George Harrison	Harrison	3:02
3.	"Maxwell's Silver Hammer"		McCartney	3:27
4.	"Oh! Darling"		McCartney	3:27
5.	"Octopus's Garden"	Richard Starkey	Starr	2:51
6.	"I Want You (She's So Heavy)"		Lennon	7:47
Total length:				24:53

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"Here Comes the Sun"	Harrison	Harrison	3:05
2.	"Because"		Lennon, McCartney and Harrison	2:45
3.	"You Never Give Me Your Money"		McCartney	4:03
4.	"Sun King"		Lennon, with McCartney and Harrison	2:26
5.	"Mean Mr. Mustard"		Lennon	1:06
6.	"Polythene Pam"		Lennon	1:13
7.	"She Came In Through the Bathroom Window"		McCartney	1:58
8.	"Golden Slumbers"		McCartney	1:31
9.	"Carry That Weight"		McCartney, with Lennon, Harrison and Starr	1:36
10.	"The End"		McCartney	2:05
11.	"Her Majesty" (hidden track)		McCartney	0:23
Total length:				22:10

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Let It Be (1970)


Phil Spector's name is on the album as producer, but he was nowhere near the studio when the album was recorded. The sessions were produced by George Martin, and engineered by Glyn Johns. Some mixing was done by Martin and Johns, but then abandoned to concentrate on Abbey Road.  Phil Spector was brought in to finish off the mixing and compile an album. Some of the mixes on the finished album sound exactly the same as the unreleased Get Back album mixed for release in 1969 by Glyn Johns.


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Compilations

Alpha Omega (1973) 

A bootleg compilation that was advertised on TV in America and prompted the Beatles manager Allan Klein to compile and release the Red and Blue albums.

Alpha Omega Volume I:

Side 1:

1. Act Naturally
2. All I've Got To Do
3. All My Loving
4. And I Love Her
5. Baby's In Black
6. Yesterday
7. Ballad Of John And Yoko
8. Bangladesh

Side 2:

1. Can't Buy Me Love
2. Come Together
3. Day Tripper
4. Do You Want To Know A Secret
5. Eight Days A Week
6. Eleanor Rigby
7. Uncle Albert

Side 3

1. I Should Have Known Better
2. It Won't Be Long
3. I Want To Hold Your Hand
4. Lady Madonna
5. Ticket To Ride
6. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
7. Michelle
8. Mr. Moonlight

Side 4:

1. I Feel Fine
2. If I Fell
3. I'll Be Back
4. Hey Jude
5. I'm A Loser
6. I'm Happy Just To Dance With You
7. I Saw Her Standing There

Alpha Omega Volume II:

Side 1:

1. Nowhere Man
2. Obladi Oblada
3. Paperback Writer
4. Penny Lane
5. Help!
6. Roll Over Beethoven
7. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Side 2:

1. Get Back
2. Hello Goodbye
3. Revolution #1
4. Here Comes The Sun
5. I'll Follow The Sun
6. Imagine
7. Honey Don't

Side 3:

1. We Can Work It Out
2. With A Little Help From My Friends
3. Yellow Submarine
4. Baby You're A Rich Man
5. You Can't Do That
6. You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
7. Maybe I'm Amazed
8. A Hard Day's Night

Side 4:

1. She Loves You
2. Something
3. Strawberry Fields Forever
4. Tell Me Why
5. The Long And Winding Road
6. Let It Be
7. Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby

1962-1966 (1973)

Disc one, side one

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Love Me Do" (single released October 1962, later included on Please Please Me, 1963)	2:22
2.	"Please Please Me" (single released Jan 1963, later included on Please Please Me, 1963)	2:01
3.	"From Me to You" (non-album single, 1963)	1:57
4.	"She Loves You" (non-album single, 1963)	2:22
5.	"I Want to Hold Your Hand" (non-album single, 1963)	2:26
6.	"All My Loving" (from With the Beatles, 1963)	2:09
7.	"Can't Buy Me Love" (from A Hard Day's Night, 1964)	2:13
Total length:		15:30

Disc one, side two

No.	Title	Length
1.	"A Hard Day's Night" (from A Hard Day's Night, 1964)	2:34
2.	"And I Love Her" (from A Hard Day's Night, 1964)	2:31
3.	"Eight Days a Week" (from Beatles for Sale, 1964)	2:44
4.	"I Feel Fine" (non-album single, 1964)	2:20
5.	"Ticket to Ride" (from Help!, 1965)	3:11
6.	"Yesterday" (from Help!, 1965)	2:05
Total length:		15:25

Disc two, side one

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Help!" (from Help!, 1965)	2:20
2.	"You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" (from Help!, 1965)	2:11
3.	"We Can Work It Out" (non-album single, 1965)	2:16
4.	"Day Tripper" (non-album single, 1965)	2:49
5.	"Drive My Car" (from Rubber Soul, 1965)	2:28
6.	"Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" (from Rubber Soul, 1965)	2:05
Total length:		14:09

Disc two, side two

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Nowhere Man" (from Rubber Soul, 1965)	2:44
2.	"Michelle" (from Rubber Soul, 1965)	2:42
3.	"In My Life" (from Rubber Soul, 1965)	2:27
4.	"Girl" (from Rubber Soul, 1965)	2:31
5.	"Paperback Writer" (non-album single, 1966)	2:19
6.	"Eleanor Rigby" (from Revolver, 1966)	2:08
7.	"Yellow Submarine" (from Revolver, 1966)	2:39
Total length:		17:30

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Summary 

(To be done)

Voice/Musicianship (15), Image/Star quality (10), Lyrics/Music (20), Impact/Influence (10), Popularity (5),  Emotional appeal (5), Authenticity (25), and Legacy (10). Total: 100

Discography 

Please Please Me (1963)
With the Beatles (1963)
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
Beatles for Sale (1964)
Help! (1965)
Rubber Soul (1965)
Revolver (1966)
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
The Beatles ("The White Album", 1968)
Yellow Submarine (1969)
Abbey Road (1969)
Let It Be (1970)

Albums ranked

* Independent
* UCR
* Rolling Stone
* NME
* CoS
* StereoGum
* NoMajesty
* BEA
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Links

* Rubber Soul
* TheBeatlesBible
* Every Beatles song ranked   

* "Drop In" Sweden, Oct 1963 

80 minute CD compilations 

Disc One: Early Beatles (alternative first two albums)

An alternative debut album - release date Nov 1963

1. "Love Me Do" 2:22
2. "Please Please Me"  2:01
3. "From Me to You" 1:57
4. "She Loves You" 2:22
5. "I Want to Hold Your Hand"  2:26
6  "One After 909" 2:56
7  "Money"* 2:49

1. "It Won't Be Long" 2:13
2. "I Saw Her Standing There"  2:55
3. "Do You Want to Know a Secret"  1:56

4. "All My Loving"  2:09 

5. "Don't Bother Me" 2:28

6. "This Boy"   2:22
7. "Twist and Shout"* 2:32

An alternative second album  - July 1965

1. "A Hard Day's Night" 2:34 

2. "Can't Buy Me Love" 2:13
3. "I'm Happy Just to Dance with You" 1:56

4. "I Feel Fine" 2:20
5. "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" 2:11

6. "Eight Days a Week" 2:44

7. "Ticket To Ride" 3:11 

1. "Help!" 2:20
2. "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party" 2:33
3. "The Night Before" 2:34
4. "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" 2:09 +
5. "Yesterday" 2:05
6. "You're Going to Lose That Girl" 2:18
7. "Rock and Roll Music"* 2:31