Please, Please Me

7/10 solid debut, especially for it's time.

6-7/10

I don listen to it often but its good for being pretty basic and somewhat generic bubblegum. It does manage to capture some of that fast punk-esque energy of their really early days.

7/10

some really great songs. my favorites are I Saw Her Standing There, Please Please Me, and Anna (Go to Him)

Anything the Beatles made before Rubber soul is no higher than a 5/10

It's a good album but they'll never go anywhere

The fact that so many books still name the Beatles as "the greatest or most significant or most influential" rock band ever only tells you how far rock music still is from becoming a serious art. Jazz critics have long recognized that the greatest jazz musicians of all times are Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, who were not the most famous or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all times. Classical critics rank the highly controversial Beethoven over classical musicians who were highly popular in courts around Europe. Rock critics are still blinded by commercial success. The Beatles sold more than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore they must have been the greatest. Jazz critics grow up listening to a lot of jazz music of the past, classical critics grow up listening to a lot of classical music of the past. Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worthy of being saved.

The Beatles sold a lot of records not because they were the greatest musicians but simply because their music was easy to sell to the masses: it had no difficult content, it had no technical innovations, it had no creative depth. They wrote a bunch of catchy 3-minute ditties and they were photogenic. If somebody had not invented "Beatlemania" in 1963, you would not have wasted five minutes of your time reading about such a trivial band.

it's my favorite by beatles

>>66414984
Truth

>>66414707
9.5/10 for me.

I think it's one of the best debut albums of all time.

>>66415025
Fuck off scruffy wop copy pasta!