CC 2004: The Beatles
Submitted by lbangs on Fri, 07/30/2004 - 04:56
Tags:
- Please Please Me (1963) - *** 1/2
- With the Beatles (1963) - *** 1/2
- A Hard Day's Night (1964) - **** 1/2
- Beatles for Sale (1964) - ***
- Help! (1965) - ****
- Rubber Soul (1965) - **** 1/2
- Revolver (1966) - *****
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) - *****
- Magical Mystery Tour (1967) - ****
- The Beatles (White Album) (1968) - *****
- Yellow Submarine (1969) - **
- Abbey Road (1969) - *****
- Let It Be (1970) - ***
- In the Beginning: The Early Tapes (1970) - *
- 1962-1966 (1973) - *****
- 1967-1970 (1973) - **** 1/2
- Past Masters, Vol. 1 (1988) - ****
- Past Masters, Vol. 2 (1988) - *****
- Live at the BBC (1994) - *** 1/2
- Anthology 1 (1995) - ***
- Anthology 2 (1996) - ***
- Anthology 3 (1996) - ***
- The Beatles 1 (2000) - ****
This is a new entry in an old series I am slowly bringing up to date. I'm calling it Critical Consensus 2004. Several people have requested updates of the older series, and since critical opinions shift, I am revamping the entire system. I am averaging the opinions of several excellent music critics to produce a list of each artist's albums. Rather than using a number system, which was perhaps a bit clunky, I will now be using a five-star system. I've ditched placing the albums in a recommended purchasing order, instead using a more traditional chronological order.
These are not my opinions, although, since I have chosen the critics used (and I'm using many), my taste will perhaps seep through a bit.
Terribly nerdy, I know, but maybe this will help people only now beginning to dabble into certain artists' bodies of work.
Scale:
***** - Masterpiece
**** 1/2 - Classic
**** - Great
*** 1/2 - Good
*** - Above Average
** 1/2 - Average
** - Below Average
* 1/2 - Bad
* - Terrible
1/2 - One of the worst albums ever