Are you nominating these for worst song? Personally, I love both of these songs!
The song titled only Revolution is the rocking one. It had the same title on the 1968 Apple single (the B side of Hey Jude) as it did on the Hey Jude album and the Beatles 1967-1970 album.
The song titled Revolution 1 is just a bluesy, acoustic version of Revolution that appeared on The Beatles (the White Album). And Revolution 9 is the sound collage that is also on The Beatles.
Revolution #9, no contest.
Firstly, it ruins the good name of a actually good song. Secondly, did it feature any singing done by the beatles? I sure couldn’t tell, due to having to listen to about 3 or 4 minutes of some creepy voice talking over a guitar riff before giving up on it Experimental does not equal good.
what the hell is wrong with you people? ‘the word’? ‘you know my name’? ‘fool on the hill’? ‘long and winding road’???
Yer all on crack i say, put down the pipe!!!
‘got to get you into my life’ worst. beatles. ever.
Huh, I love “Got to Get You Into My Life.”
“The Word,” on the other hand, sounds like the theme song to a cult. (“Say the word and be like me!”)
You mean I’m the only one who hates “I Want You (She’s so Heavy)” from Abbey Road?!!!
Tell me it isn’t true! I’d rather listen to “Revolution #9” ten times than have to listen to that crappy Abbey Road track.
You cannot be serious! That track ROCKS. Great guitar riffs. Great jam at the end.
Paperback writer.
I’d also have to add “She’s Leaving Home.”
Harps do not belong in Rock/Pop Music.
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Revolution #9 is counted amongst the various incarnations of “Revolution” because it actually does have some tracks from the original song buried deep within its murky depths. A good place to hear it is near the end where Lennon is screaming a long drawn out “RRRRIIIGGGHHHTTT”.
Hope this clears up the mystery.
Chris W
PS FWIW their worst cover is indeed “Mr. Moonlight”. For their worst original song I’d have to go with “Long,Long,Long” from the White Album. I recently made up a disc that had their entire catalogue in MP3 format. After hitting Random play I was in Beatle bliss for 10+ hrs. That whole time Long was the only track I had to skip over.
Huh. I like most of the Beatles song, there is no one true stinker that everyone can agree on, like Led Zeppelin’s “The Crunge.”
I’d personally cast an unpopular vote for “Hey Jude” just because all of those na-na-na-nas get on my nerves. But most of Let it Be is sub-par, IMHO. Most of the songs don’t flow as well as the other Beatles songs – while I like “Two of Us” and “I Me Mine,” the choruses seem tacked on. Most of the rest of the album, especially “Dig a Pony” and “Across the Universe” seem rough and unmastered. I am no Fiona Apple fan, but what she does with “Across the Universe” demonstrates what could have been done with that song. And of course “The Long and Winding Road” is typical Paul oversentimentalism that sounds like it was tailored for Muzak.
That and the second disc of the White Album, which can be somewhat excused as a concept album/experimental art/parody of modern music.
Now, “Michelle” I can agree with - it sounds like he’s trying to sing her to sleep, for one thing, not to mention impress us with how much French he remembers from school. But “When I’m 64”?! Absolutely not. Any Beatles song my three-year-old would rather listen to than, say, the Wiggles, is a Good Song, by definition. Besides, it’s in Yewwo Summaween, which is a Good Movie.
Yes. They both make me want to dopeslap John and Paul. They’re completely, utterly, and totally lame, IMO.
No, I’m with you, on I Want You. It sucks. It just doesn’t suck as much as some other songs they did.
It sounds like they were satirizing their own music, although I suspect they intended it as satire of other people’s music.
I’ve always liked the version David Bowie did in the 1970’s. If memory serves, John Lennon played on his.
It’s not unexpected, but I still feel a bit sad that my favourite Beatles song, heck, one of my favourite songs of all time is selected by many as their worst. I am talking about She’s leaving home.
Of the famous songs, my vote for worst goes to Yellow submarine.
The entire Yellow Submarine ALBUM should be recalled and destroyed… Especially the second half. OK, I know it’s not strictly Beatles, but honestly! God it’s terrible. Even on drugs.
“Devil in Her Heart.” Dreadful, DREADFUL lyric that starts off with a halfhearted rhyme scheme and gives up halfway. Deserves special mention for this awful turn of phrase:
She’s got the devil in her heart.
No, no, no, this I can’t believe.
She’s gonna tear your heart apart.
No, no, nay, will she deceive.
(Gag.)
Because
Can’t believe nobody’s mentioned it yet.
That song is fantastic. Where else can you find 9-part harmony and Beethoven in pop music?
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