In Your Opinion the most Overrated and most Underrated Beatles album

[bluesno1fann]

In my opinion:

Most overrated: "The Beatles (White Album)" (although Sgt. Pepper and Revolver come close)
Most underrated: "Magical Mystery Tour"

[MBE]

Easy
Abbey Road is over rated. Duller than the early stuff, a little too clean. Good but not perfect.

Beatles For Sale and or Help or very under rated. Rubber Soul couldn't have happened without their growth and the music is good.

[Sunflowerpet]

Most Overrated: Abbey Road
Most Underrated: Please Please Me

[Niko]

Most overrated: Sgt. Pepper.
I just don't care much for this album. It's good, but...the best album of all time? I strongly disagree.

Most underrated: Help/Beatles For Sale
Largely ignored. What You're Doing is one of my favorites.


I'm surprised at lack of love for Abbey Road. The medley on the second side still blows me away every time!

[alf wiedersehen]

I find it hard to choose an "overrated" album. Most of their albums deserve the praise... maybe Sgt. Pepper's is overrated... maybe

Underrated album: Magical Mystery Tour

[The Dumb Angel]

Overrated: Sgt. Pepper

Underrated: Beatles for Sale

[Ovi]

With all the people nowadays naming Pepper as way over-rated, I'm starting to think that it has become their most under-rated.

[Ovi]

Although, to be fair, 'Rubber Soul' has always striked me as a bit weak when compared to what came next. 'Think To Yourself', 'What Goes On', 'Run For Your Life' and 'Wait' are mediocre songs at best to me.

[zachrwolfe]

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[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

With all the people nowadays naming Pepper as way over-rated, I'm starting to think that it has become their most under-rated.

Me too! It is absolutely incredible.

I can't call any of their albums overrated although I think Let it Be is by far their worst album. I love Abbey Road personally. I think MMT US version is ace and it doesn't get nearly enough love.

[Summer_Days]

Exactly like Dumb Angel:

Overrated: Sgt. Pepper
Underrated: Beatles For Sale and Let It Be

Maybe Sgt. Pepper is both underrated and overrated at the same time. Aside from Pepper, I'd say The White Album, even though I really love that album.

[EgoHanger1966]

Over: White Album

Under: With The Beatles.

[Orange Crate Art]

Most Underrated: Magical Mystery Tour

Most Overrated: Let It Be

[Sheriff John Stone]

Most overrated: Rubber Soul - I love The Beatles but I never heard the greatness in this album like others do...

Most underrated: Let It Be - flawed but enjoyable, even the flaws...

[Peter Reum]

The White Album (a good one record  two record set) overrated
Magical Mystery Tour underrated

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

I like all of the White Album...except Revolution #9. I just don't get it.

[SMiLE-addict]

Over rated: Abbey Road
Under rated: Hard to say, maybe Help!

[chrs_mrgn]

Overrated is easily Sgt. Pepper

Underrated: Rubber Soul

I say Sgt Pepper because it is truly a great case study in production and what could be accomplished in the studio. But when you take away the smoke and mirrors (I'm using this term lightly because I do love the album) the songwriting, IMO, is just not top notch and not truly representative of what they were capable of doing.

Rubber Soul, I mean...come on. The whole album - track by track are just all great examples of terrific songwriting through and through.

[SMiLE-addict]

Rubber Soul is one of my top 1 or 2 favorite Beatle albums, but I don't find that it doesn't get the respect it deserves. I consider it to be "properly rated." It does get a lot of respect, after all, at least by most critics.

[chrs_mrgn]

Yeah I was hard pressed to think of a Beatles album that is underrated... I feel that Beatles and underrated really just don't go together. That and Magical Mystery Tour was too easy an answer. I think I chose Rubber Soul because in my social circle it gets hated on quite a bit.

[Alan Smith]

I like all of the White Album...except Revolution #9. I just don't get it.

I thought it was the cat's meow when I was 16, but tend to avoid it these days 

Overrated: Abbey Road.  One of the best albums ever.
Underrated: Beatles for Sale.  What a load of sh*t.

[Gabo]

For me, Rubber Soul started a four year streak of unbeatable albums. With the exception of A Hard Day's Night, most of the albums before that weren't so great, with lots of covers and general filler, but at least they didn't ever release anything like "Denny's Drums."

I can't say anything by The Beatles is underrated or overrated. I think they are the best band in history, and almost everything they did is evaluated accurately, though some of the early albums are indeed unnecessarily praised.

However, unlike most I think Rubber Soul is a better, more affecting album than Revolver, if only because of "Nowhere Man, "In My Life," and its much more cohesive and organic sound.

[Bean Bag]

Based on what I heard from people before I actually got to hear the album...



The White Album was easily the most over-rated.  I saw why people liked Pepper, Revolver, Rubber Soul and Abbey Road -- but The White Album, I was surprised.  It was pretty rough and sloppy.  To me, it seemed to be a classic case of "just because it was the Beatles."  So people thought it was brilliant.  I liked the album, but I would have liked it if it was done by some no-name Indie band.  I felt, that your average Beatles fan wouldn't have even given it a glance if it didn't have "The Beatles" on it.  So that's my vote.



The most under-rated has to be Magical Mystery Tour.  As I dove into the Beatles music, Pepper had all the hype.  And whether it lived up to all that hype, I've gone back and forth on over the years -- but I heard nothing about MMT.  And when I threw it on for the first time... I was amazed.  It was everything to me that people said Pepper was to them.  It seemed like a lost discovery.  All these great, great songs.  And they all worked together without any pretension.  So Mystery Tour is the winner of this honor.




I was quite surprised by the pre-Rubber Soul albums too, since they didn't seem to get much "hype."  Even with the filler and "quaint" songs -- I was impressed by how good they were.  Really, how good all their albums were.  The MONO Box allowed me to really listen to all their albums (well, most of them!) end-to-end with a fresh perspective... and I have to say, they had quite a run.  Really, no stinker in the bunch.  That's pretty damn impressive.

While the kid in me was on-board, the adult in me does have to say, that in general, the Beatles are candidates for the most over-hyped band in general.  (Yes, this argument again.)  Not by virtue of their wide-spread success, that they deserved -- but by virtue of their press.  I always felt they were the first band to be so actively marketed -- propagandized -- to young minds.  So that, right there, turned me off.  To my generation, which followed the boomers, we always heard that this group was so damn important.

I got it.  They're IMPORTANT.

Well, ok, but they didn't cure cancer or put an end to hunger.  They made Brady Bunch songs and appeared on lunch boxes wearing Captain Kangaroo outfits.  One guy was named Ringoooo.  Anyway, none of them were Elvis Presley, let's be clear about that.  There just seemed to be a lot seriousness and pretension that surrounded the band (and its fans).  And all of it seemed to be at odds with the bands aesthetic (still to this day - serious black and white).  It actually overshadowed the band.  It's unfortunate, because they really were excellent.  They didn't need the hype.  

[Pinder's Gone To Kokomo And Back Again]

Underrated: everything before Rubber Soul

Overrated: everything after Rubber Soul

[Summer_Days]

Underrated: everything before Rubber Soul

Overrated: everything after Rubber Soul

This.

A Hard Day's Night is the most consistent and best Beatles album.