So now we are left with three albums, Please Please Me, With The Beatles and Beatles for Sale, and a number of singles and B sides. It was always the policy, more-or-less, to treat 45rpm singles very differently, and singles were not just re-released album tracks. They were recorded separately, usually deliberately for this release format.
When they started, the band was a covers band. By which I mean, in the early days, when they were playing in Hamburg, shows on the BBC and the first tours, they performed many songs written by other composers. Now, this does not necessarily mean they are not good. I generally think that, if the composer has recorded their own version of a song, that must be the best because that is what the composer intended. Though we know, of course, that composers are not always the best performers. And there are plenty of exceptions to that rule.
The first of those albums has six cover songs, the second six and the third another six. So, very roughly half an album each time. These were the songs they had played so many times they played them well, supremely well. Do not ever dismiss The Beatles as bad players in the early days, they were not. Singles were not covers and covers are not necessarily bad.
All these early albums have some fantastic songs, plus several that are dreary and lifeless and sound strange sung with a Liverpool accent. Tracks like Anna (Go To Him), Devil In Her Heart, I’ll Follow The Sun and Boys are pretty awful, but the song that really hits my switch-over-the-radio button is Everybody’s Trying to Be My Baby from Beatles For Sale. It’s written by Carl Perkins, but the words are terrible and George can’t deliver it in any tuneful way.
But, I think my least favourite Beatles track is the B side of the first single I bought from them, Ticket to Ride. The song, Yes It Is. To me it’s a dismal, ploddy, tuneless song with strange harmonies and a terrible guitar sound. The words are awful too. I hate it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_It_Is