Flax's Beatles Top 25 Countdown

   The countdown that started it all, but the 1998 countdown really sucks in a number of ways.  For one thing, it's only 25 songs, making it pretty limited.  This limited nature was compounded by the fact that I didn't yet own Past Masters Volume Two or Help! (which combined to put eight songs on the 2002 countdown), plus I hadn't hard-core listened to the Beatles in years (note how dumb-ass here put Sgt. Pepper's and With A Little Help From My Friends back to back at 22 and 21 just because he didn't feel like splitting them up, even though the former clearly doesn't belong).  Thus we can credit the 1998 countdown with inspiring me to a Beatles renaissance, but this doesn't make it any better.

25. Here Comes the Sun (Abbey Road)
24. Savoy Truffle (White Album)
23. Let It Be (Let It Be)
22. Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Sgt. Pepper's)
21. With A Little Help From My Friends (Sgt. Pepper's)
20. Blue Jay Way (Magical Mystery Tour)
19. Get Back (Let It Be)
18. Don't Pass Me By (White Album)
17. You Never Give Me Your Money (Abbey Road)
16. Blackbird (White Album)
15. Lovely Rita (Sgt. Pepper's)
14. A Day in the Life (Sgt. Pepper's)
13. What Goes On (Rubber Soul)
12. Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey (White Album)
11. In My Life (Rubber Soul)
10. Think For Yourself (Rubber Soul)
9. Real Love (Anthology 2)
8. Strawberry Fields Forever (Magical Mystery Tour)
7. Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End (Abbey Road)
6. Back in the USSR (White Album)
5. Run For Your Life (Rubber Soul)
4. Taxman (Revolver)
3. Good Day Sunshine (Revolver)
2. You Can't Do That (A Hard Day's Night)
1. Got to Get You Into My Life (Revolver)

Album Breakdown
White Album: 5
Rubber Soul: 4
Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band: 4
Abbey Road: 3
Revolver: 3
Let It Be: 2
Magical Mystery Tour: 2
A Hard Day's Night: 1
Anthology 2: 1