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[dbone828]

What is your favourite post-breakup Beatles album?

[JimmyMcCullochFan]

Love.

[DarkSweetLady]

Love.

It's just absolutely amazing.

[JimmyMcCullochFan]

Love.

It's just absolutely amazing.

Yes. They should make a Love 2!

[BlueMeanie]

Live At The BBC.

[DaveRam]

Anthology 3

[BlueMeanie]

I voted for 'Live At The BBC' because it's really the only original release on there. The Star Club wasn't sanctioned by The Beatles, and the quality is awful anyway - better bootlegs available. Whilst GM did a reasonable job with Hollywood Bowl, again there are much better bootlegs on the market. 'Love' is a mash up album I think I've listened to 3 times. The Anthologies are good, if I had to vote for one it would be the first, but even that is incomplete; big opportunities were missed, and there is too much messing around with the tracks, splicing together of separate takes etc. And everyone knows my opinion of Let It Be...Naked.

[Geoff]

Live At The BBC. Some of the Beatles' old pre-fame repertoire is preserved here. After that the Anthologies and Hollywood Bowl. Star Club is an interesting idea but the sound quality is awful. You can keep Love and Let It Be Naked.

[Andy Smith]

i have to say Let It Be...Naked.

[HeyJude18]

I don't know what to choose... I really like Anthology 3, Love and Let It Be... Naked

[mr vandebilt]

Anthology three. I'd never heard Junk before but on the first listen it became one of my favourite Beatle compositions

[DaveRam]

I really like Anthology 3 , i play it a lot , LOVE on the other hand i think i've played that nomore than twice .

[DarkSweetLady]

Let It Be...Naked is a good one too. I like it better than the original because it's just the songs, stripped down. Not all that mubo jumbo. And it has one of my favorite Beatle songs on it, Dig A Pony!

[HeyJude18]

Let It Be...Naked is a good one too. I like it better than the original because it's just the songs, stripped down. Not all that mubo jumbo. And it has one of my favorite Beatle songs on it, Dig A Pony!

That's too why I like it, it's Let It Be minus Phil Spector!!!

I have to say Live at the BBC. That album is so tremendous-- I think it's the closest thing you can get to hearing the Beatles perform live. And I love hearing them on all those early numbers and covers. There's so much energy on that album! This is the one I always tell people they probably don't own, but really need to buy.

I like Love, but I'd almost consider that a George Martin composition using found material. Not to quibble over terms... it's just something other than a Beatles album, you know? And Let It Be... Naked-- I get why they released it, but it's revisionist history. They can't make Let It Be (with all its problems) just go away willfully. Besides, even naked it'll never be the strongest album.

[BlueMeanie]

I have to say Live at the BBC. That album is so tremendous-- I think it's the closest thing you can get to hearing the Beatles perform live.

Well, apart from the Hollywood Bowl, and Star Club albums. Not to mention the hundreds of live bootlegs out there. Btw, the Swedish radio show is a must.

[Andy Smith]

That's too why I like it, it's Let It Be minus Phil Spector!!!

me too

[Kaleidoscope_Eyes]

Live At The BBC. Some of the Beatles' old pre-fame repertoire is preserved here.  

Indeed. I love hearing those early songs, and those interviews on the album

Never got warmed up to Love.

[harihead]

I'm another Live At The BBC fan. I adored this album on first listening, and play it frequently. It so well captures the early Beatles, their repertoire and their personalities. I can absolutely see why they became such a popular act-- and why everyone said they were so "natural", with their infectious laughter and high spirits. I'm sorry that with their fame they so greatly contracted their show. Replaying their hits for 25 minutes is such a letdown, especially knowing the wealth of material and the stamina that they brought to the table.

My second favorite would be Love. I think what GM did was cool and interesting, and he showcased that beautiful take of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," which in my mind is the definitive take. But I'm a Beatles latecomer and didn't have the entire original set burned into my brain, so I think the rearrangements were more easily accepted by me.