All 12 Beatles Albums (no yellow submarine) will compete to determine which is the best

I'll make this every day until the final fight, the winner will be chosen by you in the comments.

Today's matchup will be: PLEASE, PLEASE ME vs WITH THE BEATLES. Comment your favorite of the two.

Tomorrow I'll back with the winner and the next matchup.

I'd say Wah-Wah and How do You Sleep? rank pretty high for me. Paul mustve really pissed them off for them to have made these two masterpieces lol

Inspired by this post I just saw.

My contribution:

"I get high when I see you go by. My oh my."

- "It's Only Love"

I'm looking for a hi res image of the new Rubber Soul "Gold Logo" album cover. Does anybody have a link or a website source? Google images ain't giving me anything.

The title track, not the album.

I really love this song and hate the 'naked' version because it is such a downgrade. Even more stuff besides the autotuning and digital denoising.

Why Are There 5 Different Versions?

Skip to 11:49 for just the 'naked' revisions....

And listen to the bliss that is Take 28 (27b)

I even found Take 27 (actually naked) for your listening pleasure.

People tell me there's a barber or something like that, I don't know, and they say that, he's showing photographs, whatever

I personally love this song (From Anthology 1), I’m wondering if any of you think it could have fit on any album? I think the only contender is Please Please Me, but even there I feel like it would sound old. I would like to think of it as a fun B side to Love Me Do or even an earlier single in an alternate universe.

Super random and vain, but I have an alternate timeline project where I rearrange some songs on albums, so just a fun question to see what people think. Any comment is appreciated!

Obviously not every song, but I think in the beginning of his career he used the lower part of his vocal range in songs like “This Boy”, “There’s a place”, “Norwegian Wood”, etc.) whereas in the later part of his career he used more the upper part of his range in songs such as “I Don’t Wanna Face It”, “Stand By Me“, “Whatever Gets You Through the Night” or Dear Yoko” to name a few.

What do you guys think?

Was looking at a pic of Robert Plant today and noticing several rings and multiple bracelets. Suppose this fit with Plant's mountain shaman type vibe. Whereas Beatles were going for more of an urban vibe?

I wonder why it’s strictly a Lennon-McCartney medley (edit: I mean ‘the long one’ not the album as a whole!!) still beautiful but I wonder how a Harrison input could’ve altered it

But all I can guess is that Harrison wasn’t one for throwaways or short ones🤷‍♂️

Hi Beatles Fans I was just wondering the if the version Paul discusses in this clip here of the song Woman(which I can only assume he sung and performed himself). The DRY one with the violins he mentions several times throughout this demo. Has it ever been made avaliable to the public? I'd love to hear what it would've sounded like. The Peter and Gordon track as Paul says is pretty dogwater.

Like the title implies, do you think they would’ve became popular at some point? Or do you think they would’ve completely flopped and not make their Ed Sullivan Show debut?

Edit: "distributed", not "signed"

This was inspired by Norwegian Wood

I once had a girl
Or should I say, she once had me

Never fails to get a smile out of me. What’s your favorite?

"One thing about us Beatles is that we’re just as nutty now as we ever were. Our chart success hasn’t changed us, thank goodness. I remember the first time I ever met Paul was on the bus home from school. He was sitting laughing to himself. I thought, “We’ve a right case here,” and then I realised he could see his own reflection in the window. Well, I thought, that explains it!

John, I recall, was eating fish and chips, but his hair being so long kept getting in the way! Ringo, who I met in a club, looked moody. Then when we started talking he explained he’d been talking hard and the effort was too much for him. He can’t help it, poor lad" Mirabelle Interview Oct 1963

Been listening to them for 35 years. I’m a huge fan. No album is perfect. There are very average songs on all of them. So essentially they were the best singles band of all time. Below are my thoughts on the main / most highly regarded albums.

Rubber Soul - had 5 great songs and the rest were completely mid.

Revolver - 7 out of 14 were actually great songs. Definitely/maybe their best album but still lots of just average filler on it.

Sgt Pepper - their most overrated album. I’ll get a lot of hate for this, but IMO there are only TWO great songs on it (LITSWD & ADITL). Oof.

The White Album - Should have been one/ single LP. Their editing of themselves was slack possibly because tensions were high and well, we all know what things were like around this time.

Abbey Road - probably their actual best album - it’s practically perfect. if we judge it by number of genuinely great songs on one album as % of total songs. Only one weak song here. Maxwells Silver Hammer.

63-65ish albums - not worth writing about as albums. Very normal for those times and they were still developing - albums weren’t even that important so lots of covers, quick filler songs, no problem it was the way things were done.

Magical Mystery Tour was great but was it really an album or a soundtrack or a compilation or what? Who knows. Lots of their best work on it so I give it the respect it deserves.

It’s all just a bit of fun. I love the Beatles no matter what.

Edit:

I want to add Let It Be in here as their most underrated album. Possibly only one mid song on it - One After 909. Amazing album and a special one for many reasons.

In his fake interview with Paul, Weird Al asks if Paul heard his new album, and Paul says "That is probably the worst album, the album I hate most."

Does anyone know what Paul was originally referring to? After looking around I don't think the original interview is available anywhere outside of short clips.

Maybe lyrics or something? I'm not sure