# Poll: The Beatles' Worst Song **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 20, 2010, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-the-beatles-worst-song/533176 "2010-03-20T22:10:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-the-beatles-worst-song/533176/21 "2010-03-20T23:16:48Z")
Damn, dude, there are some good songs on that list. I voted for “You Know My Name,” but now I’m wishing I’d gone with “All You Need Is Love.” At least, it’s The Beatles’ most overrated song. Some of the Beatles’ songs, like “You Know My Name,” “Flying,” and some of the others people are mentioning are unpretentious little throwaway tracks. “All You Need Is Love” tries to make a Major Philosophical Statement out of unimaginative nonsense lyrics set to a banal melody. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-the-beatles-worst-song/533176/22 "2010-03-20T23:20:11Z")
> [@Tanbarkie](#): > > Thirded. Neither does “The End.” Ummm…it’s not. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-the-beatles-worst-song/533176/23 "2010-03-20T23:20:16Z")
> [@kenner116](#): > > Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da I read somewhere that John Lennon hated that song. He thought it was a waste of their talent and of album space. Sorry, no cite; wish I could remember where I read it…TRM ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-the-beatles-worst-song/533176/24 "2010-03-20T23:20:30Z")
> [@Manduck](#): > > Mister Moonlight - Plodding tune and it doesn’t even sound much like the Beatles. I also pick “Mr. Moonlight” (why wasn’t this on the list?) On this song, the Beatles sound like oily lounge lizards with slicked back hair and skinny mustaches. ---
**Author:** ![Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boulter_s_Canary)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-the-beatles-worst-song/533176/25 "2010-03-20T23:24:22Z")
Other: _A Day in the Life_ - Meaningless stoner babble with a hideously pretentious arrangement and some of the worst vocals in the history of pop. ---
**Author:** ![Rrose\_Selavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bcef8e/32.png) [@Rrose\_Selavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rrose_Selavy)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-the-beatles-worst-song/533176/26 "2010-03-20T23:33:53Z")
What ! No Octopus’s Garden? ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-the-beatles-worst-song/533176/27 "2010-03-20T23:34:46Z")
> [@Sidney Evgeni Jordan](#): > > She’s Leaving Home > > For me, the melody is grating, the song drags on and, overall, it’s super cheesy. Wow, one of the most beautiful pop songs of the 60s by anyone. But then again, the OP listed quite a few good songs, too. “Blue Jay Way” has been cited and I’m tempted to pick it, though it has some interesting (though failed) musical ideas going on. “Hello Goodbye”, on the other hand, is musically banal and the lyrics are painfully stupid. Makes the Archies’ “Sugar Sugar” sound like Shostakovich. ---
**Author:** ![WreckingCrew](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wreckingcrew/32/4080_2.png) [@WreckingCrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WreckingCrew)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-the-beatles-worst-song/533176/28 "2010-03-20T23:39:06Z")
Other. _Mr. Moonlight._ I was kinda surprised not to see it as a choice. _She’s Leaving Home_ kinda sucks too. Its existance in my mind nulifies any discussion of Sgt. Pepper as the greatest album of all time. ---
**Author:** ![Rrose\_Selavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bcef8e/32.png) [@Rrose\_Selavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rrose_Selavy)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-the-beatles-worst-song/533176/29 "2010-03-20T23:49:42Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > Other: Taxman. Grating vocals, juvenile political commentary. Yeah. I’m sure it was cathartic for GH but it didn’t make for much of a song. I must confess I’m also mostly bored with the early Teenybop type of songs from the first few albums - ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-the-beatles-worst-song/533176/30 "2010-03-20T23:54:25Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > Other: Taxman. Grating vocals, juvenile political commentary. Ditto. That’s the only Beatles song that I really can’t stand. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-the-beatles-worst-song/533176/31 "2010-03-20T23:58:33Z")
I hate Mr. Moonlight too, but it doesn’t meet the requirements of the thread since it is a cover song. I picked Within you, Without you. I’m not sure I would have liked it in the 1960s, but I know I’ve never liked it since I first heard it. Most of George’s Indian music songs just haven’t held up over time. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2010, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-the-beatles-worst-song/533176/32 "2010-03-21T00:02:02Z")
Other. Number Nine… number nine… number nine… ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2010, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-the-beatles-worst-song/533176/33 "2010-03-21T00:02:09Z")
“Run For Your Life.” And your list is far from what I think of as their bad songs. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2010, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-the-beatles-worst-song/533176/34 "2010-03-21T00:05:03Z")
_I Want You (She’s So Heavy)_ – nearly eight minutes of redundant musical and lyrical torture. I _hate_ that they included it in _Beatles: Rock Band_, forcing me to listen to it recently. Twice. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2010, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-the-beatles-worst-song/533176/35 "2010-03-21T00:06:37Z")
“Mr. Moonlight” and “Revolution #9” bare neck and neck for the worst. But “Mr. Moonlight” is worse, because it wasn’t experimental. It sucked from the get go. ---
**Author:** ![MickNickMaggies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/59ef9b/32.png) [@MickNickMaggies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MickNickMaggies)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2010, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-the-beatles-worst-song/533176/36 "2010-03-21T00:10:21Z")
I despise ‘Honey Pie’. Lord help me, it makes me want to feed McCartney broken glass. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2010, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-the-beatles-worst-song/533176/37 "2010-03-21T00:31:48Z")
I’m with **astorian** …_Mr. Moonlight_ has always been my least favorite Beatles tune. It has been praised in other threads by those who praise John’s vocals, but their arguments haven’t changed my mind. ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2010, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-the-beatles-worst-song/533176/38 "2010-03-21T00:34:35Z")
Help is the Beatles song that annoys me for some reason. Also agree there are some good songs on that list. ---
**Author:** ![Rrose\_Selavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bcef8e/32.png) [@Rrose\_Selavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rrose_Selavy)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2010, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-the-beatles-worst-song/533176/39 "2010-03-21T00:54:04Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > “Mr. Moonlight” and “Revolution #9” bare neck and neck for the worst. > > But “Mr. Moonlight” is worse, because it wasn’t experimental. It sucked from the get go. It may have been bad but it wasn’t written by a Beatle: > [@](#): > > The tune must have been composed by a Beatle and released by the Beatles . ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2010, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-the-beatles-worst-song/533176/40 "2010-03-21T00:57:23Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Other. > > Number Nine… number nine… number nine… Beat me to it! 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-the-beatles-worst-song/533176.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-the-beatles-worst-song/533176.md?page=3)