1962-1966 (compilation album) by The Beatles
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1962-1966 is ranked 19th 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 65,247.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 85 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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05/11/2024 08:18 | robertoveltri | 443 | 79/100 | |
04/21/2024 07:08 | Tuur | 931 | 67/100 | |
04/19/2024 03:51 | ScrumpyArbuckle | 1,132 | 78/100 | |
03/21/2024 10:10 | Fertu | 3,481 | 82/100 | |
12/21/2023 22:40 | gametradar | 110 | 57/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 85.0/100, a mean average of 82.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 85.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.8.
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In my view, along with The Blue Album, the best Compilation Albums of all time. The 2023 mix is a revelation as the tracks have a fuller sound with better clarity of each instrument (Ringo's Drums!) & vocal, especially on 'I Saw Her Standing There,' 'This Boy,' 'You Can't Do That,' 'Eight Days A Week,' 'You've Got To Hide Your Love Away,' 'We Can Work It Out,' 'Day Tripper,' 'Nowhere Man' and 'If I Needed Someone!'
En realidad este álbum hay que considerarlo como una unidad junto al 1967-1970. Entre los dos tienen 54 canciones de lo mejor de los Beatles. Representan la recopilación oficial de su trayectoria, ordenando cronológicamente su contenido.
Fantastic compilation of the early stuff. Together with the 'Blue 1967-1970' you've got the greatest compilation set ever.
Eleanor rigby fav track,not a huge fan of early stuff.
I always found it strange that this compilation has only 26 songs while 1967-1970 has 28. The songs are all under 3.5 minutes - they should have put more songs on it, not less, than 1967-1970 where the songs were mostly more than 3.5 minutes. 1966 is particularly underrepresented on this compilation with only 3 songs. Just think how much better this compilation would have been with the addition of Tomorrow Never Knows and Rain, at the very least. Even better with I Saw Her Standing There, Taxman, I'm Only Sleeping and For No One. Then it becomes an excellent summary of 1962 - 1966, and with 32 songs, would still be shorter than 1967-1970.
For me 1973 was Year I embraced the Beatles and the Red & Blue albums are the reason why...in hindsight are there better compilations; I.e. Anthology, Past Masters, Love, or number Ones? Maybe, it doesn’t matter as this was the starting point of my musical journey and I will always have a soft spot for both compilations
This is how I was introduced to The Beatles, one of the few listenable LPs that my parents owned. I played these two records over and over again. A pretty strong education, as it turns out.
This is the album that got me hooked on The Beatles. During a skiing trip when I was 12 years old I had this album with me on two cassettes, and I heard all the time. When I got home I started buying all their albums, and I have never looked back. Easily my favourite band in the whole world, and there is no chance that anyone will ever come close to kicking them away from the top of my all time music chart :)
Not a poor track amongst them
The only problem with the album is the omissions ..... But where would you stop ? What wouldn't you include ?? It could end up being a VERY long album !!
I remember a dinner party (in France) where the conversation was about what was the best beatles album. A girl in front of me said : "oh I love the red album". I said: "hang on, this is not an album but a compilation".I should have kept quiet because she answered in front of everyone, with a laugh of despise and irony, as if I was a complete nerd: "oh, oh, I see...a compilation...not the same indeed..." However, more than 20 years later, I (secretly) maintain it's not "the same":)
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