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Please Please Me - More then half the songs are covers, but Twist and Shout is a hit and "Saw her standing there" shows great song writing potential.

With the Beatles - Pretty average Lp, maybe the most dated sounding album.

Hard Days Night - First Soundtrack and a significant album. All original compositions and the first evolution in their sound.

Beatles for Sale - Another cover heavy LP with some classic originals. Introduction to folk music influence by the Beatles.

Help! - Another Soundtrack, my opinion their best one. Lots more Harrison on the song writing then in the past and a more poppy sound then the previous two albums.

Rubber Soul - Beginning of "new" Beatles a divisive album. For me it's a dud comparatively speaking, but it's very much beloved by fans especially folk\Beatles Fans.

Revolver - The Album that made me a Beatles fan, I was maybe 10 when it was released but when i finally "listened" to it 2 or 3 years later it hit me. Most electric and experimental Beatles album up to that point.

Sgt. Peppers - Sometimes considered the preeminent Beatles LP. Very good but that claim is debatable. Very few if any weak tracks, "When i'm 64" draws the most criticism in my experience.

The Beatles - Self titled often referred to as "the White Album" is the double side opus maximus for the fab-four. Though there are a number of average to slightly above average tracks it's an over all astounding compilation.

Yellow Submarine - Soundtrack and often times the harshest reviewed Beatles album and with good reason i suppose, it falls way short of anything else from the prolific 1966-1970 era.

Abbey Road - Could have and maybe should have been the Beatles final album. The pinnacle of consistency and creativity as the singles are great, Harrison and Starr have solid contributions, their are love songs, and the medley ending side two steals the show.

Let it Be - Very good album, originally planned to be released prior to Abbey Road, then scrapped and re-released in early 1970. Several nods to the end of the band within the album including final spoken line..."I hope we passed the audition"

Rainard Jalen

They are not. Compared to what came later on, both are filled with mediocre tracks with only a small number of essential cuts. Help! is the biggest culprit in this regard with probably about 70% work songs with the absolute most utterly pointless banal subject matter.

...unless you mean "important" in the evolution of the Beatles, in which case they are. Neither are important albums in the sense of music history, though.

boo boo

I'm sorry, but Help and Hard Days Night have very few mediocre tracks. They're certainly the best of their early work.

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Rainard Jalen

Of course they are, without a doubt. For one, WTB, PPM and BFS have 6 covers each on them.

Help! has a large number of extremely banal, insipid work songs which only sound good and catchy because they were written by the best 2 pop songwriters of all history, who could even make pure formula album filler sound essential. By John and Paul's high standards, those tracks don't cut it. And I reckon we all know what those tracks are anyway...

sleepy jack

Meh, Yesterday is still one of my favorite Beatles songs.

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Rainard Jalen

Eh, awesome track. One of Paul's most superb melodies. Supposedly he actually composed the main melody in a dream, and then for months afterwards was terrified of using it because he feared that, since he came up with it in a dream, he may have plagiarized it from something he heard once upon a time. Anyway, as the story goes, for weeks afterwards he went around all corners of the music industry asking if they'd ever heard it before. After nobody claimed it, he finally decided to keep it. And a damn good job he did. I think Yesterday is the most covered song of all time or something.

Let It Be is a drastically bad record. Often diehards make excuses saying "it may be sub-par by Beatles' standards but still, the worst thing recorded by the Beatles is way better than almost anything recorded by any other artist". Seriously. I really hate that kind of bias. If the Beatles record a generally mediocre set of songs, then let it be recognized as such.

Let It Be is REALLY odd too, in that it is SUCH a relentless, extreme return to basics that it pretty much ditches all the experimental touches added by the band to their music in previous years. For the most part it could well (in another world) have surfaced as a dud record in 1965 or something.

Piss Me Off

I absolutely can't stand Yesterday, i think it's one of those songs i might like if it wasn't so overplayed

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Rainard Jalen

lol, like Yellow Submarine. Would be SO much more tolerable and probably quite fun if it were not, totally undeservedly, like the most well known Beatles song among younger music fans today.

MoonlitSunshine

Abbey Road for me, just about. It just fits together so wonderfully, and contains so many brilliant tracks.

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