Weakest Beatles Album?

[elperromagico]

[Beware the Beast Man]

1. I should have voted for Beatles for Sale

That was more of a stop-gap release for the Christmas season back in 1964. Only featured eight originals, and most of them were dull to boot.

[Burma Jones]

10. It Does have 8 Days a Week

And John's great cover of Rock and Roll Music............

[Cooley Hurd]

2. Let it Be - the Spectorized version...

The Let It Be - Naked version is actually really good! Especially "Across the Universe.":thumbsup:

[Beware the Beast Man]

3. Yeah, don't let the McCartney-haters fool you.

I liked "Naked" as well.

[elperromagico]

4. There was one really good Spector mix on Let it Be, IMO,

and that was "Two of Us."

As for "Across the Universe," I think it's a great Beatles song that, unfortunately, the Beatles never recorded in any definitive way. That's odd in and of itself.

[Touchdown]

5. Escape. Bland lovey-dovey songs.

You're wrong BTW. It's not really a beetle, it's a scarab, but still in the beetle family.



















:evilgrin:

[TyeDye75]

6. Other...Revolver

Just kidding... I love that one

I love this Homer Simposn quote from the Regina Monologues...shouted as hes dragged out of an English courtroom

"America rules... our Beatles are way better than your precious rolling stones."

[last_texas_dem]

9. _Revolver_ is actually my dad's least favorite...

As a teenager, he bought all the Beatles albums up to and including Sgt. Pepper new... with the exception of Revolver. He said they were previewing it on the radio, they played the song "Taxman", he hated it, determined to never buy the album because of it, and has never given the album a chance since. I've tried to convince him to give it a listen as it's a really good album but he's pretty stubborn. haha

[last_texas_dem]

7. Yellow Submarine

Although, like the American versions of A Hard Day's Night and Help! it has the disadvantage of not really being all Beatles tracks anyway, with about half of it being George Martin-produced orchestral instrumentals. I actually kinda like listening to those tracks, too, but not on any sort of regular basis.

The "songtrack" version of this album looks pretty good, but it would be more of a compilation than a standard Beatles album.

I like the four "new" (for the time) Beatles tracks on Yellow Submarine, though. "It's All Too Much" is great, and "Only a Northern Song" has a distinctive, strange, psychedelic sound that has grown on me. "All Together Now" was one of my favorite Beatles songs when I first got into them as a second grader. And it's quite easy to get "Hey Bulldog" stuck in my head...

[bobbobbins]

8. And to be fair...Yellow Submarine isn't exactly a beatles album

its just a movie soundtrack

[elperromagico]

11. True. The Beatles essentially ignored it,

much as they had the film.

[last_texas_dem]

13. I remember...

...an interview with George Harrison where he said "Only a Northern Song" was one of the worst (maybe he considered it the worst) songs he ever wrote. He only put it together because he was given the assignment of assembling another song for the movie and he wrote it and they recorded it in a matter of hours/days. I kinda like it anyway...

[Beware the Beast Man]

12. YS was reissued 5 years ago

With Beatles songs from the film in place of the orchestral pieces. Still, it's little more than a "best-of" with 4 unreleased songs.