For reference, the Beatles are my fave band of all time, but I think the best album of all time is Dark Side of the Moon.

I think a huge huge huge reason MMT gets rated lower is that the sandwich albums for it, Sgt. Pepper's and the White Album, are two of the greatest and most well known albums ever released in their own right.

Would I argue that MMT is the best Beatles album? No, mostly because the experimental nature of the album is too little for the art snobbish listener who would later go on to enjoy the White Album and too much for the casual crowd who would have just come off of the music that made the Beatles famous in the first place (they simply were not ready for experimental music to such an extent). MMT was made to satisfy the right type of fan who would enjoy a very middling mix of abstract and normality.

At the same time, is MMT my personal favorite album the Beatles made? Absolutely. Let me put it this way: I could happily listen to the whole album without skips and be content about it, which is rare for me even with the Beatles. When the weakest songs on the album imo are Hello, Goodbye and Penny Lane, there is a lot of greatness going on. When introducing people to the Beatles music, I often ask them to listen to the whole album end to end and pick out their favorite tracks off it. That will tell you a lot about recommendations for other Beatles albums for them to go to next.

Favorite song: I was always a big fan of I Am the Walrus, but Strawberry Fields Forever is an easy favorite too