RANKING: THE BEATLES BROWN ALBUM

This week, Peter, Shaun and Tim discuss their least favourite songs by possibly the greatest band of all time, thus providing a potential track listing for a third mythical album to add to “The White Album” and “The Black Album”: “The Brown Album”. Topics discussed include the following. Will George and Ringo be over-represented in the list? Are later bad Beatles songs worse than early bad Beatles songs? Is ‘over-McCartneyish’ a legitimate criticism? And: is ‘the greatest Beatles song of all time’ actually their worst? Also: on how many levels can a bad song be bad? What was Paul McCartney really doing ‘in the road’? If Harrison was so tired on Blue Jay Way, why didn’t he just go to bed? And finally, if The Beatles really believed that ‘All You Need Is Love’, why did they start by quoting the Marseillaise, the most bloodthirsty song in history?