Please Please Me (studio album) by The Beatles

Please Please Me by The Beatles
Year: 1963
Overall rank: 456th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 1,675 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 5 albums of 1963 (3rd)
Award Top 100 albums of the 1960s (59th)
Award Top 500 albums of all time (456th)

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Please Please Me is ranked 10th best out of 68 albums by The Beatles on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Beatles is Abbey Road which is ranked number 3 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 65,347.

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Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 1,675 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.1/100, a mean average of 75.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.2.

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Rating:  
85/100
From 04/08/2023 07:28
Songwriting - 17
Musicality - 18
Production - 16
Cultural Impact - 20
Originality - 16
Vocals - 20
Lyrics - 15
Instrumentation - 17
Artwork - 18
Timelessness - 19
Influence - 20
Innovation - 17
Commercial Success - 20
Relevance - 18
Accessibility - 20
Concept - 14
Cohesion - 15
Flow - 15
Atmosphere - 14
Emotional Impact - 14
Overall score: 336/400

The "Please Please Me" album is an iconic album from one of the most legendary bands of all time. It marked the beginning of The Beatles' meteoric rise to fame and helped establish them as one of the most influential and beloved bands in history.

The album's overall score of 336 out of 400 indicates that it is an excellent album that excels in many areas. Its strengths include the musicality, vocals, cultural impact, influence, innovation, commercial success, timelessness, accessibility, and artwork. These factors helped establish The Beatles as a dominant force in popular music, and their impact can still be felt today.

However, the album also has some weaknesses in areas such as concept, atmosphere, emotional impact, cohesion, and flow. These factors prevent the album from achieving a perfect score and make it less cohesive and thematically consistent than some of The Beatles' later works.

Overall, "Please Please Me" is a classic album that remains essential listening for any fan of The Beatles or of popular music in general. Its catchy melodies, memorable hooks, and innovative sound helped change the course of music history, and its influence can still be heard in the work of countless artists today.
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Rating:  
75/100
From 08/06/2022 17:50
Best songs: I Saw Her Standing There, Please Please Me, Love Me Do, and Twist and Shout!
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70/100
From 05/15/2022 19:32
One of the best debut-albums ever. The opener is simply lovely, Misery is underrated, Love me Do, Do u want to know a secret, and ending on a high with Twist and Shout. Unfortunately to much filler to compete with later records, but the highs prove what we know today, big potential.
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Rating:  
75/100
From 04/23/2022 18:34
I love highlights of this album (I Saw Her Standing There, Please Please Me, Love Me Do), but there is also a lot of awful stuff on here like Chains, Boys, Anna Go To Him, A Taste Of Honey and they are all irritating and horrible.
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75/100
From 01/26/2022 18:08
The time was '63 and there wasn't much else happening musically apart from the Freewheelin Bob Dylan. The Beatles sound was new, it was fresh and it was taken up by the post war generation with great gusto. But to listen to some of this music now you maybe have to wonder why. Does the passing of time present a fair context within which to judge the past. Speaking now I would say that some of the tracks remain enjoyable but some are just so dated by today's standards. However, my younger self reminds me when I first heard this oh so many years ago, I thought the musical world had just been turned upside down.
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90/100
From 01/06/2022 10:28
Uno de los mejores álbumes de debut de la historia del rock.
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25/100
From 11/21/2021 22:18
Horrible, childish, tinker toy tunes.
Fortunately their songwriting
improved greatly as time went on.
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70/100
From 11/15/2021 19:57
Obviously only the beginning, but it's fun to imagine what this would have been like to hear in 63 considering what we know now about what the Beatles would give us.
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100/100
From 10/04/2021 08:43
Discazo.
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From 09/26/2021 02:23
Anna. OMG do I love that song.
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Best Albums of 1963
1. The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady by Charles Mingus
2. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan by Bob Dylan
3. Please Please Me by The Beatles
4. James Brown Live At The Apollo by James Brown
5. With The Beatles by The Beatles
6. Night Beat by Sam Cooke
7. Monk's Dream by The Thelonious Monk Quartet
8. A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector by Various Artists
9. Duke Ellington & John Coltrane by Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
10. Samba Esquema Novo by Jorge Ben
11. Money Jungle by Duke Ellington / Charlie Mingus / Max Roach
12. Midnight Blue by Kenny Burrell
13. Night Train by The Oscar Peterson Trio
14. In Dreams by Roy Orbison
15. Ballads by John Coltrane Quartet
16. Beethoven: Symphonien No. 9 by Herbert von Karajan / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
17. John Coltrane And Johnny Hartman by John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman
18. Surfer Girl by The Beach Boys
19. Back At The Chicken Shack by Jimmy Smith
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