The Beatles obviously have a TON of really good songs. But I'm interested in what people think are the worst Beatles songs. I'll start.
1. Good Morning Good Morning
2. Sun King
3. A Taste of Honey
Doctor Robert, Ill never love it.
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COME ON! Long and Winding ROad? Love Me DO? Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds? Octopuses Garden? Yellow Submarine?
I love those songs.
Look folks, you may not like them. But no one can say they are worse than Revolution #9.
Lock the door and shut this trend down!
How do you define "worst"? A bad recording or the song itself just wasn't well written?
"A Taste of Honey" wasn't even an original Beatles composition so that shouldn't apply.
I'd say "Revolution #9" but that's only cause it isn't supposed to sound like a song in the traditional sense of what a "song" is. It's just a sound collage.
Or electronic noise. LOL
"yesterday", "let it be" and any other "pop song" that i was made to sing in school during music lessons.
i actually hated beatles for a while because of that. but when i finally heard "sgt peppers" album, i was totally blown away and my view on the band changed completely :)
I can't believe the number of great songs people have called bad. Blows my mind. Here are a few I really can't stand, and I haven't seen a few of these mentioned yet (a little ironic since two of them are on the Yellow Submarine soundtrack).
1. It's All Too Much
2. It's Only a Northern Song
3. Dr. Robert
4. What Goes On (the only John, Paul, Ringo, composition)
5. Love Me Do
6. Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except for me and my Monkey
7. Old Brown Shoe
8. The Inner Light
9. You Know My Name (Look up the Number)
10. Chains
11. There's a Place
12. Tomorrow Never Knows (one freakin' chord, ugh)
13. Little Child
Robert,
Hmm, about half of the 13 you mentioned are some of my favorite Beatles tunes. To each his own. :)
Amazing isn't it?
By the way, who's Robert?
Like the others say, there aren't really any Beatles songs that I cannot stand. Here are some of their less memorable efforts that haven't been mentioned by too many:
Baby's in Black
Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite - hasn't aged very well, only good for Cirque du Soleil show
Dig a Pony
For You Blue - sounds like an outtake
Free as a Bird - should have let this one stay in the vaults. On the other hand, I'm glad they released Real Love
I Me Mine
I Want to Tell You - sorry I am listing so many of George's songs, but he didn't really blossom as a songwriter until later in the 60's
Komm Gib Mir Deine Hand/Si Liebt Dich - no need to include these songs on their albums
Long Long Long - Not a bad song, but the moaning at the end belongs in Revolution 9
Love Me Do
The Long and Winding Song
When I Get Home
P.S. I Love You
People's choices here continue to baffle me. "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite" and "I Me Mine" are two of my all-time favorite Beatles songs. I also really dig "Long Long Long." I agree with you though on "Free as a Bird" and "The Long and Winding Road."
shareThat's what made them such a great band. For every person who posts a song that they don't like, there will be others who say they are their favorite songs. Even when somebody mentions songs that I thought nobody liked, like "Revolution 9" or "Mr. Moonlight", people have chimed in that these songs have their merits.
shareI Want You (She's So Heavy) is the saving grace of side one of Abbey Road.
Mentioning this as one of the worst Beatles songs is absurd. Especially with the justification that it's repetitive. Did you miss all the music this inspired?
Bowie? Talking Heads? King Crimson? It changed everything. The repetitiveness and building tension is part of the magic.
Taste of Honey
The only song I hate, Thank God
Good for you that it is not a Beatles song at all. Its an old evergreen!
shareI just want to say a couple of things that I, as an old Beatles fan think is rather important to emphasize. Almost half of all their records were meant to be heard in mono mixes, but quite early they released stereo mixes which , to me is much weaker to hear in the headphones with all voices in one ear and the rest of the instruments in the other, or similar unbalance in the mixing topography. When I started to purchase the mono versions of the first three albums, I found that The Beatles more than ever classified themselves as the Greatest Beat and Rock Band in the world. Its just that the mono versions of the songs enhance all guitars and the physical impact of their sounds as well as the acoustics, make it all sound more rough, rocky, dirty and unpolished, which make it less "pop" and more raw rock, even in their more melodic songs like Hold Me Tight!
The other thing is: Poor Americans, you have been confused about The Beatles since the sixties, because you got other versions of the original LPs. Either there was songs taken out, censored out, like on Revolver (3 Lennon songs!), and therefore missing out on some great songs, or completely different versions like A HArd Day´s Night. Also, the thing about the stereo mixes, which seem too polished, clean and take away the punch power of Beatles´s early rock music is rather sad and give us a not so 60´s sounding Beatles vibe.
Third! Their loyalty to their fans as a hard working band and their delivery of 14 songs per albums plus numerous of singles is unsurpassed. Every album they made gave us something new and fresh, if not totally revolutionary! A song here, a track there! The first song with backwards guitar, first with a serious blend of western pop and true Indian sounding classical music, the first album with a fold out cover, they made the first Rockumentary in the Let It Be film, the first band who used music videos, The first album cover where the portrait photos are shot with half their faces in black shade, their lyrics and how they experimented and used subtext in them, the fact that when they suddenly stopped playing live the music business learned its lesson from their horrible experience of no privacy and free time and started up a way for bands to tour around with much better arrangements and equipment, they invented chords or chord combinations never heard of up to the point in popular music. The very fact that they created The Modern Rock music out from the classic Rock´n Roll together with a melodic folkmusic they had in their veins already, back in 1963. The fact that they used cannabis as a inspiration almost all the time since HELP and tried LSD and Coke seems to have jolted their creativity even more, and as the First band to spread psychedelia for the Mainstream Audience is amazing. The fact that our stuffy old parents, played crazy psychedelia like I am The Walrus and such is almost unbelievable. They must have elevated trillions of people´s minds to new hights and awareness...
Finally I want to list their original albums in the right order for those who are confused:
PLEASE PLEASE ME 1963
WITH THE BEATLES 1963
A HARD DAY´S NIGHT 1964
THE BEATLES FOR SALE 1964
HELP! 1965
RUBBERSOUL 1965
REVOLVER 1966
SGT PEPPERS LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND 1967
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR 1967/8
THE BEATLES (double) 1968
ABBEY ROAD 1969
LET IT BE 1970 (recorded before Abbey Road!)
Thanks!
1. Wild Honey Pie
2. Why Don't We Do It in the Road?
3. Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
Colonel Miles Quaritch is like some sort of...non...giving-up...army guy!
Blue Jay Way.
"Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects". Will Rogers (1879-1935)
As far as I'm concerned, There's no such thing as a "Bad" Beatles song! They could do no wrong!
"I love a ghoul who gives you head, and lets you keep it!" -The Cryptkeeper
The OP asked for WORST Beatles songs but if as you say they could do no wrong I can't believe you would rank all the songs number one. So, put it like this, what do you consider to be the LEAST of their songs?
P.S. I'm a huge fan of The Beatles but I really am not keen on Blue Jay Way.
"Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects". Will Rogers (1879-1935)
My worst
1. Penny Lane.
2. The Ballad Of John And Yoko.
3. Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except For Me And My Monkey.
Honorable mentions :
I Will
Here There and Everywhere
The Long And Winding Road.
BTW, none of these are in any particular order.