Topic: Worst Album? (MORE THAN ONE VOTE POSSIBLE!!!) (Read 5882 times)

bruno232 · « **on:** June 18, 2008, 03:40:56 PM »

Ok, so what's everybody's least favourite album? Attention: more than one voting option possible, so please don't vote ONLY for YELLOW SUBMARINE.

DaveRam · « **Reply #1 on:** June 18, 2008, 04:56:41 PM »

Let It Be (thumbsdown)

Jane · « **Reply #2 on:** June 18, 2008, 06:38:22 PM »

bruno232! They dont let us vote more than once, so its YS!???

fendertele · « **Reply #3 on:** June 18, 2008, 07:39:31 PM »

let it be is the worst of the big ones, but overall its beatles for sale

Mr. Mustard · « **Reply #4 on:** June 18, 2008, 10:17:36 PM »

I picked Yellow Submarine.  It's not that it's necessarily a bad album, but it's a mish-mash of previously released stuff with a few new tunes mixed in -- a semi-compilation.

Let it Be wasn't their best work but it's hard to dislike an album which contains Get Back, Don't Let Me Down, I've Got a Feeling, Let it Be, etc.

Beatles for Sale may be their most underrated; it was the first album which showed the Beatles were changing musically, becoming more introspective.  It was the first stepping stone to Rubber Soul.

And it surprises me that Help! doesn't get the praise that the albums recorded afterwards got -- it seems to be dismissed as a film soundtrack;  but there are some awesome songs!  Besides the title track, you get Ticket to Ride, You've Got to Hide Your Love Away, You're Gonna Lose That Girl, It's Only Love (I love this one).

Jon · « **Reply #5 on:** June 18, 2008, 10:50:31 PM »

For "worst", I just went with least listened to, and that would be 'Yellow Submarine'. 'Let It Be' can't be the worst album simply for 'I've Got a Feeling'.

Mr. Mustard · « **Reply #6 on:** June 18, 2008, 11:08:37 PM »

Actually, if this one had been in the poll, it might have been unanimously voted the worst: the American version of A Hard Day's Night. If you've only ever heard the UK version, consider yourselves fortunate; half of the American version is filled with George Martin instrumental scores from the movie. It's like listening to a John and Yoko album and having to skip the Yoko songs.

aspinall_lover · « **Reply #7 on:** June 18, 2008, 11:55:13 PM »

I don't think ANY of the Beatles' albums were bad. Each has it's good points.

Mr. Mustard · « **Reply #8 on:** June 19, 2008, 12:41:20 AM »

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I don't think ANY of the Beatles' albums were bad. Each has it's good points.

Agreed. This is just one of those "relatively speaking" kinds of topics. Maybe it should be the "Least Best" thread.

Geoff · « **Reply #9 on:** June 19, 2008, 02:47:15 AM »

My opinion on this one is thoroughly conventional: Let It Be and Yellow Submarine. Despite four (so far) attempts to get a finished album out of the Get Back sessions, the fact is that the project was aborted and there's no finished record to be made out of it. Glyn Johns' audio verite Get Back was probably the best solution, but of course people naturally preferred to hear more finished versions of new Beatles material. My own solution has been to add Dr Ebbetts' Last Licks Live to Get Back in an attempt to recreate the original rehearsal-to-performance intent of the project. The result is pretty rough, but then so are the recordings.

BlueMeanie · « **Reply #10 on:** June 19, 2008, 03:58:40 PM »

First off I'm going to discount MMT for the usual reasons. Yellow Submarine is only half an album in my book, containing two previously released songs, one Sgt. Pepper reject and a couple of fairly forgetable fillers. One song - Hey Bulldog - can't save an album. They were neither much involved in the movie, nor particularly interested in it.

So my vote goes to Beatles For Sale. Some good songs in there, but a very tired sounding band, and a step backwards after the magnificence of AHDN.

Jane · « **Reply #11 on:** June 19, 2008, 06:20:19 PM »

Sorry, Let It Be is one of the best, it has my favourites Get Back, For You Blue, The Long A W R, Across The Universe. Its more careless, more hippy-ish, its different from the rest, its laconic - I Me Mine, Let It Be. Get Back - and its lengthy - The Long And W R...- very good taste. As for me i like it.

This Boy · « **Reply #12 on:** June 19, 2008, 07:35:52 PM »

I cant vote lol. I'm not picking ??)

bruno232 · « **Reply #13 on:** June 20, 2008, 01:26:57 AM »

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bruno232! They dont let us vote more than once, so its YS!???

Strange, I voted 4 times myself...........

BlueMeanie · « **Reply #14 on:** June 20, 2008, 06:38:49 AM »

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Strange, I voted 4 times myself...........

Kind of defeats the object of the poll, doesn't it?

Kevin · « **Reply #15 on:** June 23, 2008, 11:05:01 AM »

Beatles For sale, solely for the dinosaur covers. And don't anyone dare say it was because they were tired.....

BlueMeanie · « **Reply #16 on:** June 23, 2008, 11:15:45 AM »

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Beatles For sale, solely for the dinosaur covers. And don't anyone dare say it was because they were tired.....

I put the blame on this one fairly and squarely on the shoulders of both George Martin, and Brian Epstein. Epstein for the punishing schedule he put them through (not surprising considering the cut he was making), and Martin as producer, for lack of direction, and allowing them to record a clutch of, quite frankly, duff covers.

Kevin · « **Reply #17 on:** June 23, 2008, 11:45:44 AM »

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I put the blame on this one fairly and squarely on the shoulders of both George Martin, and Brian Epstein. Epstein for the punishing schedule he put them through (not surprising considering the cut he was making), and Martin as producer, for lack of direction, and allowing them to record a clutch of, quite frankly, duff covers.

Though was the schedule really any more punishing than Rubber Soul or Revolver? I'll let Eppy off and damn no one but that scoundrel Martin. See what happens when Macca's not in charge?

sewi · « **Reply #18 on:** June 23, 2008, 01:12:52 PM »

Let It Be.Some great songs but a deception.If they were tired in 1964 (Beatles For Sale) they were, and sound, more tired in Let It Be.

dabbik · « **Reply #19 on:** June 25, 2008, 11:37:45 AM »

I am the only one who voted for A Hard Days Night

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