Beatles VI (studio album) by The Beatles

Beatles VI by The Beatles
Year: 1965
Overall rank: 18,318th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
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75/100 (from 42 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1965 (109th)
Award Top albums of the 1960s (1,220th)
Award Best albums of all time (18,318th)

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Beatles VI is ranked 36th 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 65,391.

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75/100 (from 42 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 8% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.4/100, a mean average of 74.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.1.

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From 01/21/2024 06:07
The worst of the albums Capitol put out. Made up of some of the lesser tracks off of Beatles for Sale and Help! While we do have some very good material from the band here, like "Eight Days a Week" and "Every Little Thing", the tracklist order kills it. Just horribly sequenced. The bonus of having the Larry Williams covers before the UK just doesn't cut it.
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"Beatles VI" from June 1965 was the sixth Capitol Beatles album; excluding the ”The Beatles Story” which was a kind of biography. Six songs were originally released on the European "Beatles for Sale"; The other songs from this album had Capitol released on the predecessor "Beatles 65". Three songs are taken from the at that point still unreleased "Help" album, while the unconventional ballad "Yes it is" was the B-side for "Ticket to Ride". The last song "Bad Boy" also comes from Help sessions, during which the group recorded another Larry Williams cover song, "Dizzy Miss Lizzy". Like all Beatles albums, "Beatles VI" is also characterized by the group's superior musicality spiced with energy and creativity.
Vocally Lennon once again is on top. His two cover songs "Bad Boy" and "Dizzy Miss Lizzy". Are delivered with an energetic force that surely must surprise people who know him best from his solo era and songs like "Imagine" and "Woman". McCartney's handling of "Kansas City" is almost as convincing. The last cover song is Buddy Holly's "Words of Love", performed beautifully sounding almost like a Beatles song. "Eight Days a Week" is the album's only true hitsong with great vocal collaboration between Lennon and McCartney.

Two relatively lesser-known Beatles songs are "Ever Little Thing" and "What You're Doing" - both among my personal favorites from this period. The two ”new” "Help" songs "Tell Me What You See" and "You Like Me Too Much" are on the ”Help” album hardly among those you would bring forward first on that amazing album, but here at "Beatles VI" they are better off and, to a lesser extent, stand in the shadow of other, and better songs. Always fun listening to Beatles songs in new contexts. And as a European, it's especially nice to hear "Bad Boy" and "Yes it is" as album tracks.

Also interesting that the American audience was given the opportunity to hear and buy the songs of Beatles that were not yet released in Europe.

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