Best Beatles Album Opening Songs

Listed below is the opening track to each of the Beatles' thirteen studio albums. (Abbey Road is a studio album, a compilation album like Love is not.) Please do not add to the list as it is already complete.
The Top Ten
1 Help! - Help! (1965)

Johns brutally honest and brilliant lyrics

"Help, I need somebody, help, not just anybody..."

Yeah. Catches you right off the bat.

One of their first mature songs.

2 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)

"It was twenty years ago today Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play..."

I just really like the opening to this. It makes me smile.

Good but overrated. Not great - just iconic.

3 Come Together - Abbey Road (1969)

Lennon rambling about heroin. But Paul and Ringo make a really catchy beat.

"Here come old flattop, he come grooving up slowly..."

4 A Hard Day's Night - A Hard Days's Night (1964)

"It's been a hard day's night, and I've been working like a dog..."

The opening chord alone makes this the best on the list.

5 Back in the U.S.S.R. - The Beatles (1968)

Lots of energy, catchy, a good time. I like Paul's drumming on this one.

6 I Saw Her Standing There - Please Please Me (1963)

Drive my car is my favorite, but for being so influential and still rocking 52 years later, I have to pick "I Saw Her Standing There."

"Well, she was just seventeen, you know what I mean..."

7 Taxman - Revolver (1966)

It's just a simple countdown and then BLAM it hits you with a driving distorted guitar. I love that so much.

"Let me tell you how it will be, there's one for you, nineteen for me..."

8 Drive My Car - Rubber Soul (1965)

Oddly enough, a lot of the songs on this list are beatles songs I like less. this is my least favorite beatles songs, and I don't love Magical Mystery Tour,Taxman,come together, or sgt peppers

"I asked a girl what she wanted to be. She said, 'Baby, can't you see...'"

9 Magical Mystery Tour - Magical Mystery Tour (1967)

On par with Pepper as an album opener - it really gets you pumping. Very underrated!

Took me a while to understand this one but I love it.

For the mystery tour!

Roll up! Roll up!

10 No Reply - Beatles for Sale (1964)

Three great songs open this album: No Reply, I'm a Loser and Baby's in Black. As strong an opening trio as any Beatles album, if not stronger

"This happened once before, when I came to your door, no reply..."

The Contenders
11 Two Of Us - Let it Be (1970)

Come on guys! Great opener to an underrated album!

This should be at least in the top 3. Ugh...

12 Yellow Submarine - Yellow Submarine (1968)

"In the town where I was born lived a man who sailed to sea..."

13 It Won't Be Long - With the Beatles (1963)

"It won't be long, yeah, yeah, yeah. It won't be long, yeah, yeah, yeah..."

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