The Beatles: Ten WORST Songs
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- Maxwell's Silver Hammer? Yellow Submarine? What are the worst Beatles songs. Here is my list of ten, including a few dishonourable mentios at the end.
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I'm always shocked when I see how many people really dislike Within You Without You. Dumbfounded almost. I LOVE the expert Indian percussion in the weird time signatures, the variety of stringed instruments with their variety of tonalities, the hypnotic vocal melody, etc. I was around 8 when Sgt. Pepper came out and I have ALWAYS been perfectly enchanted by this mystical sounding work of beauty. One of George's best!!
Anyone who criticizes within you without you doesn’t understand the song
My favorite Beatles song by far
Agreed.
Within You Without You is the only good song on Sgt. Pepper.
Agreed
"Don't bother me" is a harsh choice for my money it's probably the best track on With the Beatles. In a list of the worst Beatles tracks I would certainly include "Why don't we do it in the road", and "You know my name" which are both utter tripe. "Run for your life" would certainly warrant an honoury mention for its sh*tty lyrics
There are a few duffers, I will admit but I certainly wouldn't count Sun King among them. I don't mind Act Naturally, either.
There's a great version of Ringo and Buck Owen's singing it together...but it's only available on a bootleg I believe. It sounds great frankly.
Me neither, but "Birthday" is a dud in my opinion.
I love Act Naturally. Ringo played it when I saw him live a few years ago. Go if you can.
You’ve really got a hold of me? You kidding? This is one of Johns best vocals.
Right on!!👊😛
Indeed. John had an amazing voice. Shame he was said to have hated it.
Sun King is honestly one of my favorite songs they ever did, it’s like the musical equivalent of taking a deep breath outside on a perfect day and just feeling content. I love it for the same reasons I do Albatross by Fleetwood Mac and Hold On by John Lennon. Also, Blue Jay Way is another one of my favorite Beatles tunes. At the time that song dropped, it honestly may have been one of the most psychedelic songs ever made, such progressive production on that tune
That is nice - "musical equivalent of taking a deep breath".
Completely agree on Sun King. If y'all have not seen it, watch Yellow Matter Custard's live performance of the entire Abbey Road B side, including Sun King. The harmonies alone are worth it. Bonus: Paul Gilbert plays lead guitar!
@@texanfournow And yet when Transatlantic covered side two of Abbey Road, they skipped Sun King!
'Do you wanna know a secret' is really let down by George's very weak single track vocal..the song itself is actually pretty damn good..along with 'Bad to me'..its a very tuneful early Lennon piece and definitely demonstrate the young Lennon was talented. Billy J Kramer's versions are far superior. Dont bother me is an interesting one..the verses are very good..actualy tough and good rock n roll..but the 'if I dont get her back again' bits are truely awfull and sound like a real drone of somebody trying to turn around back to verse. If only George had spent more time sorting those week bits he might have had a good track. George was a real beneficiary of double tracking as his voice was week, but he latterly learned how to turn that to his advantage.
It’s truly beautiful 👍
Surprise that you find Lennon’s vocals on “You Really Got a Hold on Me” ‘uninspired’.
I feel like he’s singing his heart out on that one. And when John does that… it’s magic.
What do you think is his best vocal performance?
@@classicalbum Hard to choose just one. “Twist and Shout” is legendary, of course. But I think these are right up there, too: “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)”, “Help!”, “Money”, “A Hard Day’s Night”, “Yer Blues”, “I am the Walrus”, and “Tomorrow Never Knows” in the “singing his heart out” category.
His standout vocal for his gentler side would be “A Day in the Life”, followed by “Strawberry Fields Forever”, “In My Life”, “Dear Prudence”,
@@Malacandra Soldier of Love on the BBC sessions is also a contender imho.
@@classicalbum My favorites (two different moods): "Don't Let Me Down" and "Dizzy Miss Lizzy."
@@classicalbum I like his Across the Universe singing.
I really like don't bother me.
So do I - but more for the instrumentation, which sounds 'dark' and foreboding, rather than the lyric. I also enjoy that 'clip-clopping' percussion that runs through it, and George's solo, as well. It's still one of my favorite George songs.
I love Don't bother me.
Slow Down was my first Beatles 45 that I got when it was released. Loved that song. The riff was something new at the time. Hardly a bad song.
Correction, its awful - along with it's bookend, Bad Boy
@@superannuatedsuperman4261 To each, their own.
Love both of those!
Well, it's a lot better than "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" which also isn't a bad song. It's just that the Beatles ruined it with that irritating guitar lick...
It's on my top 10 favorite covers - by anybody.
I know lists like this are about as subjective as it gets but I can't believe you didn't have "Mr Moonlight" somewhere in here
No Mr Moonlight?
No Mr. Moonlight.
Lennon's vocals save it.
I’ll agree with your choices of Numbers 10, 9, 8 and 1 but the other ones you mention only go to prove that the Beatles’ taste is infinitely better than yours, of course.
Coming up next: Leonardo Da Vinci’s worst paintings.
Also coming soon...
Astaire and Rogers worst dance routines.
Mozart's worst musical compositions.
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@@hathawayrose2183---ya just got on to grab something that somebody else already put out there ---and run in front of everyone else and show it off, don't you?
And dont forget,, Einstein’s worst theories,and also Babe Ruth’s worst homeruns,
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Bahhahaha
I think "Don't bother me" is a great song, I agree it could do without the kindergarten percussion, but still.
I'm one of those weirdos who doesn't think Revolution 9 is the Beatles worst song, but I listen to a lot of avant garde stuff,
I love Revolution 9
I love “You Really Got A Hold On Me,” both Smoky and The Fabs’ versions. OTOH, I HATE “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer,” my least favorite Beatles song; I hate it more than”Revolution 9.”
Agree
Beatle songs are like orgasms and pizza: even when bad, it's pretty good.
Pizzas make you fat, Jim. Sex makes you slim.
@@SpaceCattttt True dat...
Until one goes blind or suffers from botulism....
@@randymillhouse791 Blindness is a myth, but not on the other hand, carpal tunnel is very likely.
@@troubledsole9104 - Crossed eyes, however is not a myth. Me and all my friends are cross-eyed and we weren't until puberty.
Some bold choices! I'm in the crowd that thinks cover versions shouldn't be included and I am mystified by anyone not liking something Smokey Robinson does, but it was of such pronounced interest that I wrestled with it while on my morning constitutional through the burned out ghetto in which I live.
I came up with a worst non-cover version 12, which does present an interesting theme and a pose a knotty question - that being why do songs like, for example, You Know My Name, It's Only Love, Don't Pass Me By, Love Me Do, Run For Your Life, Yes It Is, Yellow Submarine or She's a Woman (listen to how many times Lennon completely flubs his guitar part) not make this list? But here are 12 songs that I dont think the Beatles should not have touched with a 10 foot pole:
12/11/10 The ARVOS. The ARVOS is the Abbey Road vortex of suck, that depressing trifecta that follows the gripping Come Together, the less gripping but still eminently listenable Something and then suddenly plunges to O Darling/Maxwell's Silver Hammer and Octopuses Garden. Two giant ego strokes for Paul and then someone lets Ringo out to sing. Back behind yer Drukmit, ya Goblin!
9 Within You, Without You. Which proffers that the Summer of Love was as much about this as it was Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds. For a guy who made such funny, lively movies, Harrison is the dullest. most sanctimonious and boring of songwriters.
8. Only A Northern Song. Is this really only 3:24 long? It seems to hang around with the similar persistence and malodour as a fart in a space station
7. Long, Long, Long. I cant understand a word he's saying. Sometimes I think that's for the best
6. I Me Mine. You're welcome to it, George.
5. I Need You. I can see a theme forming here. Given that they were reduced to releasing Act Naturally, I guess they simply couldn't bin third rate garbage like this, or give it to Freddy and the Dreamer or Chad and Jeremey, or some other non-entity du jour. Oh, and by the way, when it comes to Buck Owens, it isn't Buck, it's his superb guitar player Don Rich who is the money man.
4. Piggies. Music to butcher middle aged Angelinos by.
3. You Like Me Too Much. An uptempo I Need You with out the novelty of the guitar swell pedal it would be described as busywork if Lennon or McCartney had of written it, but given its provenance and author, its just run of the mill garbage
2. Savoy Truffle. There's some interesting things happening here, but it just sounds so bad you can't hear through the murk. And the lyrics? What are they A recitation of the 300 names of Vishnu, or a Hindu prayer for enlightenment or perhaps a listing of the naughtiest positions in the Karma Sutra? I'll let the uninitiated find out for themselves, but suffice to say, it just adds to the general uselessness of the song.
1. Wild Honey Pie. The mob has spoken and the mob is right. 45 odd seconds of McCartney plunking his guitar and screaming like a demented howler monkey. If they'd had played this for Dustin Hoffman in Marathon Man, after 30 seconds he would have asked could he have the unsafe dentistry back. And then he does "Why Don't We Do It In The Road"!
So - what have we learned. a) the Beatles were far from infallible b) George Martin could have taken a much more forceful hand in quality control c) Odium and opprobrium will be the fate of those who criticize Sun King and d) George Harrison was a bit shit, really.
Good presentation, keep 'em coming!
Hilarious!
You've said what the world has been too polite to say - George Harrison was, I am sure, a very nice man and a good dad and it's sad he's dead, but the often ignored truth is that he was a middling guitarist and an only occasionally worthy songwriter.
#4 is brutal
You comments are usually vey insightful and witty, but this one is way off the mark. Boo for you!☹
Thank you for this, it was excellent and entertaining. I hope you channel is doing well, and hope you have a wonderful Christmas.
I for one love Revolution No.9, White Album wouldn't be the same without it. Disappointed to hear such unnecessarily snarky comments about it.
Seems like someone is clearly not a fan of Lennon. Sorry but if you don't like "You Really Got A Hold On Me" , you simply don't like Lennon's vocals, they're full of emotion and longing!
I think 'Strawberry Fields' is one of their best ever numbers
There's no way you enjoy Wild Honey Pie more than these songs. Sure, it's less than a minute. But it feels like an eternity!
I'm gonna have to come back with my list. I felt a need to mention this.
Agree with your premise
@@laurala101 Why don't we do it in the road is just as bad
Wild Honey Pie is my least favorite. It's not even close.
agreed. It's an abomination.
I like it. The descending chords are cool.
"Blue Jay Way" gets my vote for the most underrated Beatles song ever. I also really like "Do You Want to Know a Secret"; it's one of my favorite early (pre-1965) Beatles songs.
I don't know if it's their worst, but for me, the most overrated Beatles song has to be "Hey Jude" -- it really doesn't have much going for it aside from its length. "Run For Your Life" would also be in my bottom ten...it's creepy as hell.
I think Hey Jude is one of those songs that is better sung live by you, the listener, rather than just listening to the Beatles' version - which does go on a minute too long.
Putting sun king on this list is embarrassing
For me the worst Beatles song would have to be You Know My Name (Look Up My Number), though Revolution #9 does rank way up there.
"Love Me Do" is my least favorite Beatles song. I dig "Maxwell's" and "Act Naturally."
There's a lot of virtue signaling in these comments about "Run For Your Life." Art is meant to express the full range of human emotion and motivation, the good, the bad and the ugly.
I agree with most of this list except for "Act Naturally." I'm not a Country/Western fan, but I always thought it was a fun tune.
I disagree with most of this list. I'll counter with my "worst" Beatles tracks.
1. A Taste Of Honey. I think the Herb Alpert take was pretty amazing, but not Beatles material.
2. Mr. Moonlight. Not John's best vocals, but that organ solo... yeeech!!!!
3. All Together Now. I guess it's okay for a children's ditty.
4. Baby's In Black. WTF is up with that sour sticky finger guitar solo George??? It must be intentional because he reproduced it accurately live!
4. 'Til There Was You. Did Brian make you guys include a show tune???
5. Wild Honey Pie. How freaking bored were you, Paul???
6. Run For Your Life. Not a bad song, but a very bad look for John.
7. Little Child. Another decent performance, but Jeffery Epstein much??? Cringe factor 10!!!!
8. Only A Northern Song. It's on this worst list, but I like it. George was just going through motions to fill a quota for EMI.
9. You Know My Name (Look Up The Number). It's all in good fun.
10. Revolution 9. We can agree at least on one song... or non song. For what it is, it's still cool!
Funny enough, revolution 9 is one of the most influential Beatles track as it helped pioneer loads of techniques used to this day through sampling and “sound collaging”.
To me revolution 9 is not only the worst Beatles song but one of the worst songs of all time
It would be, if it was a song.
I like Flying. Flying on aircraft mostly but this is Flying. If there's a remaster/remix of Magical Mystery Tour, an extended play of Flying should be included.
Can't believe you left out Why Don't we Do It In The Road or Rocky Raccoon, just terrible!!
The White Album should have been a single album.
Arguable i suppose.although It wasn't a concept piece,just a repository of a fecund song writing period, one of the few albums i wouldn't have minded being triple tbh,sans Revo-9 though.
It should have included Hey Jude and Revolution rather than the two Revolutions on side 4?
@@GeoffCByeah
I love Maxwell's Silver Hammer!
Not a bad list, of the "bad", I must say. As one who've had the pleasure of the Beatles experience since 1964, only 3 of your selections I'd take exception. Which is pretty good, eh ? You've Really Got a Hold on Me, Don't Bother Me, and Sun King. My list would replace them with Wild Honey Pie, Honey Don't, Mr. Moonlight. To me, these 3 atrocities would add to your other seven for the "worst" !!
Sun King is great. And in the context of side two of Abbey Road it’s even better
Maxwell's Silver Hammer, Oh Darling, Bungalow Bill, Rocky Raccoon, Revolution #1, Wild Honey Pie, Savoy Truffle, It's Only A Northern Song, Only A Northern Song, The Inner Light.
Dishonorable mentions: Your Mother Should Know, Dig It
Its a brave challenge to put a list like this together. Revolution #9 is an obvious #1 or number last as it were. I've taken heat from others when I've expressed this. I'll often get the "its a daring experimental avant-garde master piece" drivel. If one separates from reality and tries to see it in that vein, its still a piece of shit by comparison. The real crime, as you mention, is realized when you consider what was left off the album to make room for it. Hey Jude could have been part of the White Album. Think about it. What a spectacular penultimate ending it would have made, only to be followed up by Good Night in the running order. That would would have been a spectacular one-two punch to end the album. Alas, sigh!
I actually like revolution #9 but it doesn't belong on a beatles album.
I agree. Had it not been released as a single, would have been a perfect fit and made side 4 of the album just as good as the rest, and probably would have made Good Night a little more tolibral. (wich is in my top 10 of worst songs after #9) I think I may have listened to Revolution 9 all the way threw maybe two or three times and maybe more backswords.
@@kendow9370 I often get asked if I skip Revolution 9 when listening to the White Album. I actually don't. I just leave the room.
@@fittobetiedyed5315 Same. But lucky for me my headphones come with me, so I can enjoy that awesome song as a move around the house.
George 's classic line about the avant-garde is that it's called that because they "avant garde a clue!""
Can’t argue with any of these choices except for Blue Jay Way which I like quite a bit.
The Beatles in their later phases would put out oddities or album tracks. Never meant to be played on the radio. The White Album is a perfect example. This album is intentionally eclectic. Beautiful, haunting, catchy, abrasive, experimental. And they pull if off. Playing that entire album late night is mandatory experience for any serious rock music fan.
Btw, I always hate "Mr. Moonlight"
Mr. Moonlight is a cheesy song sung with enormous passion by John. He elevates it to greatness.
It's not fair to use cover versions
How about calling them your least favorite Beatle tracks?
By the way, I agree with your list with the exception of Don't bother me, as that track kinda sounds naive and represents the first ever spotlight, hence motivation for George.
have to agree. aside from physical attraction, music/art is probably the most subjective thing on the planet. cool to say you don't dig something, much less cool to say it sucks. that said, here's my shocking "don't dig" list - Goodnight, Don't Pass Me By, I'll Follow The Sun, Across The Universe, Revolution 9, Here There & Everywhere, I Dig A Pony, Dig It, What's The New Mary Jane, Dizzy Miss Lizzy. also love Wild Honey Pie, Maxwell, Northern Song, Why Don't We Do It In The Road, Octopus's Garden, Inner Light, Ob La Di, Rocky Raccoon, Run For Your Life, All I've Got To Do. so many great Lennon tracks, but to me Happiness Is A Warm Gun reigns supreme!
Revolution 9 ruins side 4. I agree it should have been put on one of John and Yoko’s crap avant garde albums. Imagine if Hey Jude replaced it.
I don’t need anyone’s opinion on the Beatles’ worst songs. I like them all…so there!
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I really like "Blue Jay Way" because of the effects. For me the very worst of all is the vomit-inducing "Good Night", the final track on the white album. It would have been better had the album finished with "Revolution #9", which I quite like. "Good Night" is like the most sugary, over-the-top pile of drivel ever recorded. Having it sung by Ringo didn't make it any better. Perhaps most people forget it as they never listen to "Revolution #9".
Crikey! I thought I'd heard every Beatles song but somehow "Slow Down" had passed me by. And I quite like it. A cracking Lennon vocal, it definitely shouldn't be in the top ten worst. Whereas "Little Child" from With The Beatles definitely should be. It's dreadful, dated and dire. Worse than all your choices.
Most bands would be happy to have the Beatles worst songs as their own
I like Revolution 9 because I don't think of it as a song, rather as a sound collage. As for Sun King-I like its druggyness. On the other hand, if it weren't for the rescue job done by the production, I couldn't sit through Maxwell Gardens Silver Octopus.
I think you are correct about that. The track can't be described as a song, more appropriately as an avant-garde experiment.
@@jamesdrynan Funny story: I always skipped it when I had the CD version but when I got vinyl I had to listen to it because I won't lift the tone arm over tracks.
Revolution 9 is s fine example of musique concrete. If you've delved into the works of Pierre Henri and Schaefer and you'll appreciate it more.
@@MARK-co1ge - Could you please listen on headphones and tell me if >>'By the children'
Even as a sound collage is Rubbish by this point they could spit on the record and they call them creative because of that
Maxwell's, She's Leaving Home
Maxwell is clever. She’s Leaving Home is dreadful.
My bottom 10 looks something like this...
10. "Honey Pie" / The Beatles / Album: The Beatles (White Album) (1968)
09. "Boys" / The Beatles / Album: Please Please Me (1963)
08. "Honey Don't" / The Beatles / Album: Beatles For Sale (1964)
07. "You Really Got A Hold on Me" / The Beatles / Album: With the Beatles (1963)
06. "Anna (Go to Him)" / The Beatles / Album: Please Please Me (1963)
05. "Maggie Mae" / The Beatles / Album: Let It Be (1970)
04. “Wild Honey Pie” / The Beatles / Album: The Beatles (White Album) (1968)
03. "Mr. Moonlight" / The Beatles / Album: Beatles For Sale (1964)
02. "Good Night" / The Beatles / Album: The White Album (1968)
01. "Revolution 9" / The Beatles / Album: The Beatles (White Album) (1968)
I'm glad you did NOT mention Mr. Moonlight, which seems so be everyone's favorite Beatles stinker. I used to think so too when I was a kid but it's actually a very sweet song. It grows on you.
I love the old fashioned organ in that song. It's mezmerizing.
It may be a sweet natured song, but it still stinks musically and lyrically, and does not fit The Fab Four, at all! Doesn't and never grew on me. If it isn't the #1 worst, it's among the Top 20!
Slow Down is bloody brilliant!
The Beatles don’t have ten bad songs. It would be difficult to find one bad song. Some are not as good as others of course but bad?
Que buzzer thanks for playing.
Really can't believe how 'Rocky Raccoon' and 'Why Don't We Do It In the Road' didn't get a mention here,
it's just so hard to believe that a band who produced such classic time defying songs as 'Fool On The Hill,'
'In My Life,' Strawberry Fields Forever and 'Fool On The Hill' to name but four, could release such utter rubbish!!
For me most of their worst songs are on The White Album, Abbey Road and Let It Be,
which, seeing as they were their last three albums means they probably split up around the right time,
give or take a year!!
Sorry mate but you named 3
yeah, crazy that you couldn't think of a 2nd McCartney track that you liked.
I didn't see "You Know My Name, Look Up The Number" mentioned (although it's a bit of fun). I was a kid when "Do You Want To know A Secret" was released, so I don't mind it as I still see this song through a child's perspective.
And our trivia host used to always say "Number 9, number 9, number 9" when that number came up in a question or raffle ticket. Some of us got the joke. 😄
George's lead on "Do You Want" is fun, and not just through a child's perspective, but as a pre-teen in those growing-up years! Example: person has a secret crush on a member of the opposite sex, when it wasn't that popular at their age when mostly hanging with members of their own gender, example ages: 10-12.
For such a GREAT band, they sure did release a ton of truly awful songs.
Revolution #9 is not a song. It would be like ranking the Moonlight Sonata as one of Beethoven's worst symphony or Mozart's Marriage of Figaro as his worst etude.
Moonlight Sonata isn't a symphony. The clue is in the name.😄
@@thefirstfemalepresidentofm938 You missed my point. The name has nothing to do with it. Song is a GENRE of music, which Revolution #9 is not, nor are any of the pieces John Cage composed on which it is partly inspired. But if you insist on the title being a clue to what kind of music it is, then I guess the songs Bitter Sweet Symphony by The Verve and Lamplight Symphony by Kansas are actually symphonies, and Lover's Concerto by The Toys is really a concerto, etc.
I’ve always been a huge Beatles fan, but here are my 10 least favorite “Beatles tracks excluding cover tunes:
10. What Goes On - drags down the consistency of the UK Rubber Soul. I prefer the US version even though it’s not the real sequence because those 12 tracks are perfection.
9. Good Night - the worst climax of any Beatles record. If they had used the acoustic version with the harmonies from the outtakes of the White Album this would have been a better result. Too much gloss and anti climatic coming after Revolution 9 and an album full of magic.
8. Yesterday - always found this from early age depressing and overrated compared to other lesser known gems.
7. Maxwell’s Silver Hammer - Abbey Road’s nearly perfect except for this number. This is filler.
6. When I’m Sixty Four
5 - The Long And Winding Road - another depressing McCartney ballad
4. She’s Leaving Home
3 - Dig It
2 - Honey Pie
1- Hey Jude - IMHO the most overrated and overplayed Beatles tune. Never understood the hype when there are “so many” better Beatles songs.
Wow...never heard anyone hating Hey Jude before....though I agree with some of your other choices to be sure....
I think that many of their covers are their worst. If their original Sun King is pretty week, especially being on such a great album, but The Ballad of John and Yoko, Inner Light, Old Brown Shoe, What Goes On, Wild Honey Pie, Hold Me Tight, Little Child, and Good Night are all worse than Don't Bother Me.
I was never fond of Mr Moonlight although i do like Lennons vocals on it, even a bad Beatles song or cover version is still probably better than most let's be honest, I really struggled to pick 5 let alone ten. Interesting list though Barry and I enjoyed your reasons for picking them
Mr Moonlight
For you Blue
Long and winding road
Your Mother should know
Dizzy miss Lizzy
None of those are bad, just my least favourites
I totally agree with you. They should have replaced Mr. Moonlight with Leave My Kitten Alone.
Mr. Moonlight was a dopey song but Lennon's vocal on it was one of the most passionate deliveries I felt of that period. For that reason I liked it. Long And Winding Road was a great song but yeah, got very tired of it and one of those I don't care if I ever hear again.
@@pilesovinyl For obvious reasons, "I'll Follow The Sun" had a sad problem 16 years later after its 1964 release with its lyrics, "One day you'll look, to see a gun..." ["Beatles for Sale" UK, or "Beatles '65" US albums]
Not as hard as you would think!
1 - Revolution 9
2 - Within You Without You
3 - Octopus's Garden
4 - Run For Your Life
5 - All Together Now
6 - Lady Madonna
7 - You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)
8 - What's The New Mary Jane
9 - Piggies
10 - Goodnight....
Even the greatest band ever to pick an instrument up have some stinkers!!
I would add Lovely Rita ,When I'm 64 ,Maxwell Silver Hammer ,Rocky Raccoon , and Ohb Bla Di as among the Beatles worst songs. At least the ones I find to be awful
By the way ,these were said to be among John Lennon's list of Beatles songs he disliked the most
How can you not like Sun King? I just threw my burrito! And Blue Jay Way has its place… when they wrote Flying, they were indeed flying 😂
I'm a huge Beatles fan like the rest of us, but even I admit there were a few stinkers. I agree that their more child-friendly compositions shouldn't be on this list because they still have their fans and they were a stepping stone to some of The Beatle's better work.
One of the amazing things about the Beatles is those 'child-freindly' songs - literally child-friendly, as in they are often adapted for Primary School Concerts - have heard Hello Goodbye, Yellow Submarine, Here Comes the Sun and Octopuses Garden sung by 10 year olds - and THEY seem to enjoy them ! You never hear songs by the Rolling Stones in Junior Schools funnily enough ! The Beatles were all things to all people !!
"When I get Home" from the album "Help" is a putrid, noxious, toxic, not-well-sung, snot loogy. The middle eight lyric (as well as the shuffle beat change) of "When I get home tonight I'm gonna treat you right, I'm gonna love you til the cows come home" is a line I would expect from my neighbor's garage band of 8th graders (who I would praise by the way, but not The Beatles).
The mentioned song is on A Hard Day‘s Night, not Help.
Is not Even in help album your opinion is pointless
Don’t Bother Me is not that bad for a first attempt. It’s kind of Dark and Moody.
Why don't we do it in the road.... Don't pass me by. Even though the white album is my favorite it has the most bad songs too.
..like a musical Shakespeare there is too much reverence given to the Beatles ‘embarrassing’ songs..especially on the white album and Abbey Road..you can almost hear the moans and groans coming from Lennon and Harrison as they struggle to be inspired to write more songs for a band which had lost its initial impetus and direction..George Martin was right about the White Album..and he did them a big favour in turning a mishmash of half written songs into a half written medley..the Beatles knew that were running out of time so wisely split before becoming just another 70’s band..
Veto on at least three tracks: "Boys" is a nice, funny rocking track, which was always quite effective, especially live. "You really got a hold on me" is an excellent cover, that hardly needs to hide from the original. Lennon sings this quite dynamically and respectfully, the arrangement of the song is absolutely attractive. "Revolution 9" has an interesting aesthetic, the collage was put together in a quite exciting way and sounds like a soundtrack of the rebellious year 1968. However, one shouldn't rate it as a "song", but as what it is: a collage. The Harrison tracks "Blue Jay Way" and "Everybody's trying to be my baby" also have their flaws (Harrison's vocals and "Blue Jay Way" get into an annoying monotony, after an interesting start, over the course of the track), as well as theirs charms. Like "Boys", the Perkins cover was also a live Beatles number worth listening to, with nice guitar work from Harrison. "Sun king" is lyrically... well, but contains a treat for the ears of harmony vocals.
1. Blue Jay Way.
2. Rain
3. The Inner light.
4. Flying
5. Wild Honey Pie
I completely agree- one of my favorites too! 👍😃
Oh Sun King is fantastic! And Blue Jay Way might be a throw way song, I think George should have gone full Indian on it!
There aren’t many Beatles songs that I don’t like . However , Revolution Number 9 and Wild Honey Pie are complete atrocities . Other than those two , I can live with pretty much everything else that they did . Well , maybe not Boys .
Cheers !
With the exception of Revolution No. 9, I never thought of any Beatles' song as being bad or 'worst'. I still enjoy if not love several of the songs you mention, but I was 11or so on first hearing and Capitol's The Beatles' Second Album still thrills as does Twist and Shout, which covers most of Please Please Me. Part of the songs' attraction is, admittedly, nostalgic. The years in which I first listened to the Beatles are imprinted in the music, just like watching A Hard Day's Night is a time capsule of an era we'll never see again.
Well, if anyone has anything negative to say about his choices I have the solution - EVERYONE NEEDS TO HAVE THEIR OWN RUclips CHANNEL.
My rebuttal will be recorded next week!
Grrrrrr 😡
Wearing a Motorhead t-shirt and telling me I don't like country....well DUH!!! 😂😂😅😅
I like some country... I wear a Motorhead shirt yet I listen to all sorts of music
Love flying and sunking🤓 number 9 is my skip song. Take dizzy miss lizzy and act naturally off the help album and it would make a better classic album for me.
Some great choices. Disagree on "Sun King" though. The bass line and harmonies are too rich. Also, "Blue Jay Way' has a dark, moody vibe to it that I've always loved.
They can't all be stompers. I like the idea of a Beatles Worst LP.
I’ve never understood what was so good about All You Need is Love. Not bad as such, just never understood what people like about it.
I’ve always felt that Sgt Pepper has a couple of substandard tracks on an album that doesn’t deserve them, namely Getting Better and Lovely Rita.
Flying and Blu Jay Way are decent filler on a brilliant album. Nothing wrong with them.
I kind of like Act Naturally. I find it enjoyably tongue in cheek.
If there are substandard songs on their very earliest albums, I can accept that. They were just getting started.
Totally agree about all you need is love, I've never liked it.
Even the intro is moving. The Beatles immediately countered the bloodthirsty French national anthem with "Love, Love, Love". The track is equally solemn and full of happiness in the outro. Since decades, our local radio station in Germany has started every January 1st after midnight with "All you need is love".
Can’t believe you didn’t mention “ Why Don’t We Do It In The Road”.
Very bad ranking, Boys is Ringos best cover song, better than Honey Don't and Matchbox, Wild Honey Pie would be my No.2 ( after #9), Sun King is a fine song and better than Her Majesty and Polythene Pam - and where is Maggie Mae? Little Child, It's Only Love, Run For Your Life and Bad Boy? All worse than most on your list.
I also dislike Baby you're a Rich Man ....
Honey Pie
Maxwell Silver Hammer
Revolution #9
I don't really care for their bread & butter work cover songs so I won't include them.
(FLYING? Seriously? I LOVE that one!)
1. Something - Soppy, drippy, overplayed
2. Michelle my Belle - ditto Something
3. Yer Blues - Everybody loves this overlong jam session, but it bores me
4. Maxwell's Silver Hammer - noisy - ugly, unfunny lyrics
5. All Together Now - not the worst, but I'll pass
6. Yellow Submarine - I even hated this one when I was a little kid
7. I Want You (She's so Heavy) - much like Yer Blues - ugh, just end already
8. Wild Honey Pie - Total earache, but thankfully short
9. Why don't we do it in the Road - Out of character for them, and just NO.
10. Run for Your Life - totally psycho lyrics not aided by a me-eh tune
Overplayed doesnt count. Something is top ten of their best songs.
"I Am the Walrus" ... CAN'T STAND THAT SONG...
0 for 8 for me on this list. Two very different Georgia songs. Blue Jay Way and Everybody's Trying to be My Baby arent anywhere near the bottom ten for me.
George's "Not Guilty" was the one Lennon booted from the White Album to make room for #9.
When I’m 64 is just awful any way you slice it and totally wrong for a youthful forward looking album like Sgt.peppers
I knew "Flying" would be on here. But I dig it, anyway.
Agree with the majority of your list, especially the covers. Would disagree on Sun King and Don’t Bother me. Never cared for Rocky Raccoon or Why Don’t We Do It in the Road or Honey Pie. I’d much rather listen to Revolution 9 than these. Cheers!
Not many that most everyone could agree with. A great body of work they left, even most of these.
poor ringo and george, give as 10 worst paul s songs
‘When I’m 64’ I’ve never liked
I always felt that this song throws the flow of the Sgt. Pepper album off.
@erniericardo8140 I don't think "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" really had any unifying flow at all. That's what I expected from "concept" album. It just was not that and it has faded in significance over the yeas. Unlike "Revolver" which seems to reinvent itself
I can’t believe run for your life didn’t make this list! Personally I really enjoy both sun king & blue jay way, but other than that I can’t disagree with the rest of your choices
Least favourite Beatles' tracks : Yellow Submarine - Ringo sings like your uncle on a karaoke machine ; Love Me Do - dull, dull, dull ; She's a Woman - all perspiration, no inspiration and lousy lyrics ; Her Majesty - McCartney doodle added as a joke ending , but just ruins the mood ; Only A Northern Song - overstays its welcome ; Drive My Car - this song's popularity is baffling. Third form lyrics and "Beep beep" ? Beeping tripe ; You Won't See Me - a two minute song stretched beyond its limit ; What Goes On - another stinker from Starkey !
Probably agree with 90% of your choices, though personally I have to pick I am the walrus, hate the song. No doubt many will disagree, but it's all a matter of personal opinion.
My Beatles cringe worthy Top 10:
Act Naturally
All Together Now
Don’t Pass Me Buy
Honey Pie
Love Me Do
Maxwells Silver Hammer
Octopus Garden
Piggies
What Goes On
Your Mother Should Know
Good Morning and within,without you for tainting what,would/should,have been the best album of all time had strawberry and Penny been included instead ,while shunting the other 2 onto Magical Mystery where they would be far less incongruous.I me mine has limited appeal too.
Definitely agree with your take of the Sgt Pepper songs, would have been a perfect album.
I'm a fan of Obla Di Obla Da although I'm more familiar with the Marmalade version. I've never been particularly struck with All Together now or Octopus's Garden.
I always thought Octopus' Garden was charming because of the way Ringo's scouse comes through. Mind you, this doesn't prove anything, but it's immensely popular and a staple of Ringo's never-ending All-Starr Band tour.
Surprising that you didnțt mention Run For Your Life.
Those lyrics may have sounded fine back then, though I honestly canțt understand how or why, but they sure sound creepy today.
EDITȘ Actually I do see one way that the lyrics might be interpreted, as the words of a stalker.
Doesnțt make the song any better though.
lennon said he was never mad on run for your life it sounds a bit like the monkees
Definitely agree.
Mr Moonlight is awful
I love Sun King
Interesting Mr Bond 🤔.... err Sun King is outstanding imho .. perfect harmonisation .. and instrumentally sublime . Blu Jay way influenced Zeppelin and countless others into open tunings its marvellous. and flying is a hippies dream .. chill out tune .. you can smell the cloth and feel the heat in an old bus travelling to Blackpool.. the others I'll give you.
Totally agree with you about Revolution 9-it's horrible and to make it worse I think it's also the longest Beatles track ever. I actually quite like Flying -it's quite slight melodically I guess but I personally don't think it brings down Magical Mystery Tour which is my favourite Beatles album after Sergent Peppers
Commenting as we go:
10. I like Lennon’s vocals.
9. Agree Boys is weakest on PPM.
8. Sun King is weakest on AR.
7. AN is weakest on Help!
(re 9 & 7, covers are low hanging fruit)
6. Nah, I’d say Little Child is weakest on WtB.
5. See 6. I like this cover.
4. I prefer BJW to Flying.
3. Yes weakest on B4S.
2. Haha! I said it. Worst on MMT.
1. Fair enough.