10 Times Fans Saved Imperfect Albums
If you want something done right, you gotta do it yourself.
Not everything in the music world is black and white. For as much as people love to tear their most hated albums to ribbons and raise up all of the god-tier material, there is a lot of records that seem to fall somewhere in the middle. Though many albums have been far from perfect, sometimes it takes a certain style of fan to save the day.
Even though many of these albums had a lot of potential going for them, a lot of them have been looked at as a lost opportunity in retrospect. These acts may not have gotten it right at the time, but the fan's involvement help turn these albums into something much more than they were on the surface. Whether it was a production issue or a bad running order or even a couple of mediocre tracks, these are the few albums that actually got better after they were released.
Some of the band's have even endorsed these new changes, with labels putting out limited editions of the albums that are more in line with what the audience wants to hear. An artist may have free reign of what they want to create, but when it comes to making a stellar final product, the fans really are the boss.
10. Abbey Road - The Beatles
90% of music fans would likely take someone to court if they consider The Beatles' Abbey Road to be less than perfect.
Coming at the end of their career, this one record has some of the band's greatest material, most adventurous musical moments, and holds up as one of the greatest records ever conceived in the rock sphere. However, there is one minuscule detail that fans have omitted over the years.
When looking at the structure of the album, the star really is the ending, with a myriad of song ideas strung together in an almost operatic manner.
Though the album closes beautifully with "The End," most Beatles devotees wait for the buzzkill that is "Her Majesty," which plays after the proper album wraps up. Though it was originally supposed to be a part of the medley, the band didn't think too much of the track, leading the engineers to just stick it on the end instead of deleting it.
Many fans see it as a clever easter egg in rock history, but even some of the new re-releases of the album have either put "Her Majesty" midway through the medley (as originally intended) or omit it altogether. A lot of bands have tried and failed to produce something like Abbey Road, but even the greatest of all time can have a few rough edges.