Other - all of them. I’ve yet to hear a Beatles song that impressed me. Most of them are boring as hell. Sorry to threadshit, but you asked me to specify.
Wow, I know I Me Mine isn’t a masterpiece, but I like it a lot.
As others have alluded to, we must differentiate betwixt Honey Pie and Wild Honey Pie (not you specifically, panache; your post just made me think of it)
I was completely unaware of how many people dislike, “Bungalow Bill.” For me it would be, “The Fool on the Hill.”
My instinctive reaction is of course, “Wild Honey Pie.” Aghck!
If you wanna talk juvenile political commentary, I submit “Blackbird.”
The Beatles did NOT write any bad songs. Harumph! :mad:
I’m told that as a toddler I sang it all through a trip to Target. With my grandparents. I hope they were amused.
A curse on the OP! There were no bad Beatles songs! I hope you spend eternity listening to Barry Manilow and Yma Sumac!!
Have not yet read others responses. I picked Other, meaning Eleanor Rigby. heard it when young, too scary.
Are you serious? Why Don’t We Do it In The Road (also heard when young) is wonderful!
Also, I hadn’t liked Here Comes The Sun til they did the skit about it on snl.
Maybe I should change worst to Helter Skelter. it was scary too, but for other reasons than melody.
I was neutral to Here Comes The Sun until a semester in England (and 30-day tour of the continent) in 1982. On the continent, we stayed in hostels. Hostels get you up and kick your butt out on the street at 9AM no matter what your level of hangoverness. The wake-up call is usually delivered in a loud, unceasing, and unrelentingly firm (though polite in a we-appreciate-your-patronage-but-we-are-a-business-so-get-the-hell-out) kind of way.
After being abroad for awhile when you are young, you get sick of cathedrals, museums, history, and all that overwhelming touristy crap and just want to drink and have fun and sleep in. But they just keep kicking you out at 9AM!!
Then you stay in a little family run hostel in Salzburg, Austria. You go to bed drunk as usual, but in the morning are awakened not at 9AM, but at 10AM, and not by loud voices, but by “Here Comes The Sun” played softly over the intercom with the volume rising slowly and steadily to softly lift you out of sleep, accompanied by the smell of freshly brewed coffee and cinnamon rolls.
I have loved that song ever since.
I knew a guy who said back in 'Nam, the Radar O’Reilly-type who was in charge of the camp loudspeaker would wake the troops up to that every morning.
He probably got fragged.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard someone so completely dislike any Beatles song before, so now I’m curious what music you listen to?
Because of the irony, or because the troops would rather hear the Stones?
I submit anything by Lennon.
I gotta ask …
Which group / artist / singer / writer / musician / whatever *do *you think is worthy?
I don’t know quite a few songs on this list!
I was going to say Mean Mr Mustard, but I have just replayed it & its not quite as bad as I remember it. So I’ll go with Taxman. Banal tune & outrageously wealthy guys complaining about their taxes is never a good look.
I just realized - a lot of the songs mentioned are off Abbey Road (probably my favourite album from them, taken as a whole, though I prefer individual tracks off other albums)…
Pasted from my facebook page:
most things classical, Pearl Jam, They Might Be Giants, Regina Spektor, Weird Al Yankovic, Lisa Loeb, The Killers, The Decemberists, Iron Maiden, Infected Mushroom, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Four Postmen, The Who, Disturbed, Tool, Cake, Ben Folds, MC Hawking, Moby, Pink Floyd, Consortium of Genius, Simp The Dog, REM, Underworld, Sufjan Stevens, Orbital, Lady Gaga, Far From
Seriously, I’ve never heard a Beatles song I actually enjoyed. Nowhere Man I didn’t HATE, but I was once told (and I later confirmed) that it was the first Beatles song published that WASN’T a love song…just about all of their songs are either boy band love song crap, boring and emotionless, too “out there” to even really be called music, or so overplayed that I can’t even listen to it without focusing on how cliched it is.
Memorably covered here (video) as “Number 8.”
Hate it.*
Not only was born, was in college.
*Although I don’t rate it worst. That would be either BB or RR.