I think “You Know My Name”, should have been covered under the “Revolution 9” codicle.
I voted for “Don’t Pass Me By”. Sorry Ringo, but that sounds like it was written by whiney teenaged girl with a tin ear. If it weren’t for the rest of the lads carrying that one along, it would never have heard the light of day.
However, I really wanted to go with “And Your Bird Can Sing”, but I felt the need to not go the “Other” route.
“Bungalow Bill” was a major exercise in suckitude.
The first bad Beatles song that came to mind, however was “Mr. Moonlight”. The Beatles’ version is best known, so they’re responsible for it (Johnny Horton recorded an apparently different song with the same title, which is even worse).
Music history fans will appreciate that the first known recording of “Mr. Moonlight” was by Dr. Feelgood and the Interns, which is a wonderful band name.
If it was released when it was actually written, it might have been better. McCartney makes reference to it as early as a 1964 interview, yet it didn’t actually get recorded until The White Album.
Nor do I care about the marginal rate on the millions of pounds they were making. It’s just George whinging, really.
I had no idea.
I’d have to go with “Octopus’s Garden”, as it’s just a bit too precious and twee, even for this confirmed Beatles fanatic.
But really, how in the hell could you include “Long Long Long” in a list of the worst songs by the Beatles? It’s probably in my top twenty.
And shit! I just realized you included “Rain” as well! Why not just go all the way and include “A Day In the Life” and “For No One”, too?
Not for nothing, but I’ll take everything you say in future regarding music with a monumental grain of salt.
As previously noted, Cicero, the twenty choices were not intended to be “a list of the worst songs by the Beatles”. Not in my opinion, anyway. Some made their way onto the ballot due to derisive statements I’ve read/heard elsewhere.
I’d think you could agree, though, that opinions can differ.*
FWIW, I like both Long Long Long and Rain.
*ETA: After reading your last post, apparently not.
You predict wrong.
I’ve always thought ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic was referencing that song in his movie “UHF”, with the song “Let Me Be Your Hog”:
Let me be your hog
Let me be your hog now
I said, baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby baby …
What I took away from that song was that the girl’s reason for leaving was that everything her parents did “for her” was really about them, not her.
“Why would she treat us so thoughtlessly?
How could she do this to me?”
“She’s leaving home after living alone
For so many years. Bye, bye”
There’s a good reason so many successful British artists pack up and move to another country. I read that, at the time George wrote that song, the tax rates were as high as 95% on the highest incomes, which George references with the line “There’s one for you, nineteen for me”.
I think it’s a bit unfair to compare the very short semi humorous fillers like “Her Majesty” to the fuller compositions. They’re virtually over before they’ve begin.
“She Leaving Home” is very much in the vein of “Eleanor Rigby” - another melancholy narrative orchesteral type song. Surprised no one mentioned the latter (apart from in the poll) though I quite like it.
Maxwell Silver Hammer is it for me. Maybe Paul was trying to make another Mack the Knife? 
If so, he failed, utterly. It’s got a cheesy melody (that burns into your brain like a jingle) and awful lyrics. They’re not existentialist, or angsty or satiric-they’re just plain bad.
Second choice is Wild Honey Pie. I don’t think I’ve ever listened to it again.
Some of their songs suffer from overexposure–I Wanna Hold Your Hand and She Loves You are two good examples of that. But they are still solid rockers, it’s just that we’ve listened to them too often.
Other: Mr. Moonlight.
This is a joke. Right?
Piggies.
Smug ugly.
The Inner Light is pretty annoying too, but it’s got an uptempo part that could pass as interesting if you heard it from across the room.
Sorry George.
Agreed. Didn’t John say it was the song that broke up The Beatles.
Oh, an opinion based on willful ignorance.
Carry on, then.
If you’re too dumb to understand the difference between don’t know and don’t care, well then…I guess you don’t care.
You used the phrase “nor do I care”, implying that you didn’t, in fact, know. Nothing dumb about my response at all.