Please Please Me (track) by The Beatles
Year: 1963
From the album Please Please Me (track #7)
Please Please Me appears on the following album(s) by The Beatles:
- Please Please Me (track #7) (this album) (1963)
- 1962-1966 (track #2) (compilation) (1973)
- The Beatles Box Set (track #7) (compilation) (1988)
- Anthology 1 (track #24) (compilation) (1995)
- On Air - Live At The BBC Volume 2 (track #9) (2013)
- The Early Beatles (track #7) (compilation) (1965)
- Introducing... The Beatles (track #7) (1964)
- Twist And Shout (track #5) (1964)
- CD Singles Collection (Box Set) (track #3) (compilation) (1992)
- E.P. Collection (Box Set) (track #3) (compilation) (1981)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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90/100  | 08/27/2025 09:29 | jtc91 | | 82/100 |
90/100 | 08/05/2025 23:08 | ShenBapiro | | 79/100 |
80/100 | 08/04/2025 20:24 |  BroknsocialShawn | | 85/100 |
90/100 | 07/15/2025 02:49 | Jaygold28 | | 93/100 |
75/100 | 06/22/2025 09:53 | Garyf1972 | | 62/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 2% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 85.7/100, a mean average of 85.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 85.9/100. The standard deviation for this track is 11.5.
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The most addictive song on their first album. Catchy and infectious! I have to praise John´s vocals again, they add so much personality to the track, especially when he goes a little husky, intentionally!
One of the best tracks on the album. But this was one of four tracks previously issued as singles ( A and B sides). So if you had the singles you were buying them again if you wanted to get the album. It still hurts to this day.
The Beatles’ very first number one single, John wrote this one at his aunt’s house in Liverpool. It was originally written as a slow, bluesy song in the style of Roy Orbison before George Martin persuaded them to rearrange the song. It makes sense that it became such a hit considering how strong the songwriting is and how much of a leap forward this track was overall.
VictorVale 12/16/2018 12:13
O mundo passava a conhecer os Beatles, não eram como as outras bandas.
A brilliant song and the Beatles second single, which was a big improvement on, love me do. Full of energy and insanely catchy makes please please me one the bands most exciting singles. Great track.
Grzywa 01/30/2016 07:32
One of their best early tracks. You can't show more energy and fun in less than 2 minutes. Killer song.
This is a way underrated Beatles song. It has just as much energy as "I Wanna Hold Your Hand"; but when you think of it as being about oral sex, it adds a whole other dimension to it. Classic.
It's funny listening to John describe his original version of this song. It sounded like a weak Roy Orbison track. This up-tempo revision was a revelation, though, and perhaps an underappreciated moment in Beatles (and pop music) mythology.
One of the better songs on PPM.
Jasonconfused 01/26/2013 09:41
The effort is a lot better on this song. Some of the louder guitar parts are better.
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