The Beatles’ albums ranked - submit your ranking

[savoloysam]

I love Maxwell's Silver Hammer. Mind you I didn't realise it had such a sinister meaning to it. I just put it down to another one of those songs they wrote when they were wasted.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

That’s McCartney for ya.

I bought 'Spies like us'. That starts off quite promising.

 

[ouirdeaux]

Maxwell's Silver Hammer is about killing people. Am I missing something?

 

[Lord Camomile]

Has anyone hilariously listed any Oasis albums yet?

If not, pretend I did that.

If so, how hack to go for such low-hanging fruit

 

[krtek a houby]

its my favourite McCartney song. Videos fun too!

It's got the African guitar style that Talking Heads were influenced by around the same time, and a bit of Parliament sounding keyboards.

Very catchy and not as marmite as

 

[Jennaonthebeach]

It's got the African guitar style that Talking Heads were influenced by around the same time, and a bit of Parliament sounding keyboards.

Very catchy and not as marmite as

Ha! i like them both!

Two years after this I got into Talking Heads and then into African guitar bands. Not a surprise there.

 

[danny la rouge]

 

[Serge Forward]

Oh. I also heard Maxwell's Silver Hammer for the first time yesterday. I always thought the title sounded like something by Big Black or similar to Sonic Youth's 'come and smash me said the boy with the magic penis' . . . . but it doesn't, it's like an oompa song. I don't really like it.

Worst. Beatles song. Ever.

 

[Ming]

This seems as good a place as any to confess, when I was 13/14 I learned to play guitar by getting a Beatles Complete song book and learning nearly every song in it.

It's a good technique which I still recommend

I did that.

The gold medal book. I was actually after Twist and Shout (first song I ever played live as a drummer) but it wasn't in the book (Beatles covered it). I was also really into speed at the time so I learned all the tracks really quickly.

 

[mojo pixy]

I noticed the other day while enjoying some old records that Robert Johnson blatantly ripped off Paul McCartney when he used the chords from Her Majesty for his 1936 classic They're Red Hot. The cheeky bugger!

 

[krtek a houby]

Love these stems series