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.  8)

Let It Be (thumbsdown)

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

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

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).

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'. ;D

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.

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

Quoted from aspinall_lover

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.

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.  :)

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.

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.

I cant vote lol. I'm not picking  ??)

Quoted from Jane

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

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

Quoted from bruno232

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

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

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

Quoted from Kevin

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.

Quoted from BlueMeanie

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?  ;)

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.

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

Quoted from dabbik

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

:(how could you?

Let me put this in context.  To me, almost everything the Beatles did was gold.  The only selection I always skip is Revolution 9.  Other than that, they just had that x factor.  So when I say that I voted for "Beatles for Sale" as the worst album, I still prefer it over almost anything else recorded by anyone.  Also, I didn't consider MMT and YS as actual Beatles albums.  I sorta look at LIB the same as it was shelved by the lads.

Quoted from Revolver42

Also, I didn't consider MMT and YS as actual Beatles albums.

You'll get on well here! :)

Quoted from BlueMeanie

You'll get on well here! :)

That's good to know.  I mean how can they be considered actual studio albums???  MMT is like a comp for the soundtrack.  Same w/YS excpet that a lot of it is not even Beatles music, but Martins musical scores.

Got to say Beatles for Sale , its not a bad album its just the least played by yours truly   ::)
Yellow sub .. i just love Hey Bulldog , Its All To Much , Northern song    :)

Beatles for Sale has the best album picture (Harrison's look is epic), but the worst imo was a Hard Days NIght....

Quoted from DaveRam

Let It Be (thumbsdown)

yet your sig consists of Let it Be...that makes sense

Quoted from dabbik

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

no, I did too...don't think I have heard that album ever completely through

i think it would have to come down to the Yellow Submarine album, it's just
not a proper album & i think it was a waste putting it out, the song-track
version was far much better. that's the one they should have put out with
all the songs from the movie .

how could someone vote for Help!?

I was very disappointed with YS. Well YS is 75% score music and MMT in my opinion came out with only half the album to my liking. and Let it Be seemed like some back alley music they threw together just to put music to some lyrics they had written. made no sense to me. :-/

if anyone votes Abbey Road I've lost hope.

I think YS could have done away with the instrumental bits.

I picked "Yellow Submarine" just because its the album I know least of.

Well, that's kinda strange logic!

I haven't voted yet, still re-listening, and pondering...

I am curious:how can I vote more than once?

I didn`t manage! One vote and that`s it.

It is possible, though pointless IMO. Check all the boxes you want to, at the same time, then vote.

Voted for Yellow Submarine. Two of my favorites (It's All Too Much, All You Need Is Love) are on it, but I'm just not into the 2nd half of that album.

I voted Yellow Submarine as overall, it's not as strong and I'm not as attached to it...How different is the US Magical Mystery Tour?? :-/

What a pointless thread. I didn't realise this was still going.