The Beatles Best Three Albums: Revolver, Sgt. Pepper, & The White Album
The Beatles created 12 official studio LPs from 1963 to 1970 and just about all of them were absolutely brilliant which makes picking just 3 of their albums as the top three is hard.
12 albums? You’ve probably heard that they had 13 albums. That 13th “album” is Magical Mystery Tour which was originally released in 1967 just as an EP in the UK. An “album” version of it was cobbled together in America by adding some earlier released singles to the record.
Beatles purists don’t consider it one of their official LPs, although it has been added to the UK discography since the 1970s.
This double album includes many of The Beatles greatest moments. It also includes some of the songs that a lot of people think of as their worst. But I actually think those weird songs (such as “Wild Honey Pie” and of course “Revolution #9″) add to the magic of the album. This was an “anything goes” album and it’s all the better for it.
#2 Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
A lot of people claim that this legendary album is overrated and I can understand that opinion from the point of view that The Beatles other albums sometimes get overlooked in comparison. Some less informed Beatles fans seem to think that Sgt. Pepper was The Beatles first foray into “art music” but clearly Revolver beat it to the punch. But, I still think Sgt. Pepper is a great album that works as the band’s most “cohesive statement” and I think while it may be underrated by those who are slightly ignorant of The Beatles whole career, I think it’s actually now underrated by the “hipsters.”
#3 Revolver
1966’s Revolver is probably The Beatles most consistently great album. Every song is worthy of high praise from the beautiful “Eleanor Rigby” to the rock classic “Taxman”