Only counting the 13 "official" cannonical albums, what is in your opinion the worst Beatles album? My choice is "The Beatles". While it does a couple of good songs, the amount of rubbish in it is inmense, so the good song/bad song ratio of this is album is by far the worst of them all. What say you?
shareIf Yellow Submarine is counted I’d pick that.
shareYellow Submarine doesn't count in the official Beatles canon? I hadn't realized, 'cause it's also my least favorite of theirs.
shareYellow Submarine is basically a soundtrack album, with mostly previously released material + George Martin's orchestral instrumentals for the film. The only new songs were All Together Now & Hey Bulldog.
shareThe White Album. Way too much filler, like they were joking around to see if anyone would notice. None of the other albums had filler.
shareI've always thought the same thing, it's the prime example of a double album that should have been a single one...
shareI was painting someone's house and they played the White album all the way through. I found it painful to listen to and yes, it seemed like they weren't taking the songs seriously.
shareI don't think they ever made an album that you could call "worst". I think probably their weakest was Magical Mystery Tour or maybe about 1/3 of The White Album.
shareI don't believe it.
The White Album is a masterpiece.
The worst Beatles album is "Let It Be".
The whole album sounds rushed.
I am glad it was their last album.
The White Album is a masterpiece.
The worst Beatles album is "Let It Be".
The whole album sounds rushed.
I am glad it was their last album.
I agree 100% with your assessment, I finally just watched 'Get Back' and definitely gained a measure of appreciation for those tunes...The film also made me feel better about the many hours I've spent at various band rehearsals goofing off, busting out into random tunes, hopping on each other's instruments and just generally farting around!
shareI love all of the Beatles albums but if I had to pick a worst, it would be Let it Be.
Not that it's a bad album- it just doesn't appeal to me as much as the rest of their catalogue
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I actually came here to write about what a POS The White Album is. That’s what it is properly called, The White Album. “Back in the USSR” misleads us. It sounds like Our Beatles. Then we get Rocky fucking Racoon, Why Don’t We Do It In The Road?, and Dear Prudence. We also get a doo-wop rendition of You Say You Want a Revolution and someone—I think it was Lennon, am not sure—shouting “I’ve got blisters on my fingers.”
I recall this off the top of my head, and I haven’t heard this embarrassment in over half a century. Forget doing a single out of this crap. There’s not enough solid material.
When they released Sgt. Pepper, I did not know how to feel. I’d followed them from the start, and Sgt. Pepper felt like another band; but they’d established credibility with me, so I kept listening and broadened my perspective. Lennon/McCartney could write melodies right up there with the Gershwin brothers.
They COULD. Then they stopped. At least we got Let It Be before the ground caved in.
Worst. Beatles. album. EVER.
PS Can we please keep religious terms like cannon and avatar out of secular bullshit? There is nothing holy about comic books, movies or pop stars.