# What's The Worst Beatles' Song Of All Time ? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 28, 2001, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-beatles-song-of-all-time/63660 "2001-04-28T18:38:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2001, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-beatles-song-of-all-time/63660/21 "2001-04-28T22:20:04Z")
I’m the first person to nominate “Run For Your Life” here so far. And I like “Revolution 9” and I love “Baby You’re a Rich Man.” I love to sing “How does is it feel to be one of the beautiful people” to **Anniz**. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-beatles-song-of-all-time/63660/22 "2001-04-29T00:33:49Z")
Chuck beat me to the punch: I think a valid argument could be made for (or against) “You Know My Name…”. But, then again, there are some who could find it kind of witty. Holy stark contrast, Batman: It’s the ‘B’ side of ‘Let It Be’!! (P.S.: Honourable mentions go to ‘Revolution #9’ and ‘Why Don’t We Do It in the Road’) ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-beatles-song-of-all-time/63660/23 "2001-04-29T00:37:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by upperdeckfan \* > \*\*I could easily make an enjoyable cd for myself from all the songs listed above. The one, ok, two Beatles songs that I always skip over are “Run for Your Life” and “Revolution #9”. The first one just plain bothers me. The second one induces sleep - I’ve never made it through the whole song. \*\* that is EXACTLY what I was thinking. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-beatles-song-of-all-time/63660/24 "2001-04-29T00:38:35Z")
**Ob-la-di Ob-la-gaaaaaaaah!** ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-beatles-song-of-all-time/63660/25 "2001-04-29T00:41:39Z")
“Everyone’s Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey”, from the White Album. I love the Beatles, but good God this song is wretched! ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-beatles-song-of-all-time/63660/26 "2001-04-29T00:50:07Z")
**Blue Jay Way**. Worst song off their worst album (though some others listed here are noble contenders). I will take exception to the _The Inner Light_ (definitely George’s best sitar piece); _Piggies_ & _You Know My Name…_ (both of which I find funny & harmless); and everything off the fantastic _Rubber Soul_ that people have named. ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-beatles-song-of-all-time/63660/27 "2001-04-29T03:05:02Z")
Ugh, I hate Blue Jay Way too! I hate almost everything on the Magical Mystery Tour album. That being said, my brother and I are big Beatles fans. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-beatles-song-of-all-time/63660/28 "2001-04-29T03:18:08Z")
Nobody’s mentioned “Wild Honey Pie” yet? Good. It’s my pick. It’s not even a song so much as a snippet of acoustic psychadelia with caterwauling. **The White Album** and \*\* Let It Be\*\* would seem to have the most vomitous tracks, although I can’t believe **Anthracite** picked “Everybody’s Got Something To Hide…” from an album that contains not only my pick but such contenders as “Long, Long, Long” (it feels like it, too), “Don’t Pass Me By” and “Savoy Truffle”. At least “Monkey” rocks somewhat. ---
**Author:** ![Anti\_Pro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Anti\_Pro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anti_Pro)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-beatles-song-of-all-time/63660/29 "2001-04-29T03:19:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by heembo \* > \*\*I love the beatles, but I really don’t care for the “Baby you can drive my car” song all that much. > > Beep beep, my ass… \*\* 😃 Thanks for the laugh, \*\* heembo. \*\* I’m also with the Revolution #9 group haters. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-beatles-song-of-all-time/63660/30 "2001-04-29T09:36:23Z")
“Rocky Raccoon” “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” ---
**Author:** ![Dragon\_Phoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Dragon\_Phoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Phoenix)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-beatles-song-of-all-time/63660/31 "2001-04-29T10:04:44Z")
Of the better known ones, I particularly do not like Love me do and Yellow submarine. On the other side of the scale, If I fell and Blackbird do not get enough credit. ---
**Author:** ![tourbot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@tourbot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tourbot)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-beatles-song-of-all-time/63660/32 "2001-04-29T14:05:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ben \* > \*\* > Once I asked on an online forum whether people thought that while the Beatles’ later work was very accomplished, the Beatles’ early work, as a whole, was oftentimes just kind of… annoying. I was specifically thinking of “She loves YOU, yeah yeah” and “I wanna hold your haaaaaa-aaaaa-aaaand” and other songs based on the algorithm of “Express an adolescent sentiment, stretch out the vowels, and repeat it over and over again in a faintly whiny, nasal tone.” (But I love Yellow Submarine- different algorithm, you see.) One person responded with a long, heartfelt, tearful statement about how she talked it over with her husband, and how they decided that these days young people like me are just too cynical to enjoy the Beatles, what with the economic downturn and the specter of nuclear war, but she’d like to share something with me and she hoped it would reach my heart through my Ecstasy-hardened, extreme-sports Gen-X exterior. She then quoted the lyrics of “Imagine.” > \*\* I’m surprised there wasn’t a Beatles fan who could provide a better defense of the Beatles early work than that. Must have been a crappy forum. See, the “I wanna hold your hand” era stuff may seem formulaic today, but thats because the Beatles early music influenced just about every pop or rock record made since. When they were new, they were as radical and revolutionary as the Sex Pistols were when they first appeared. The Beatles, in my opinion (and I’m not a real big Beatles fan, don’t even own a single album of theirs), are as significant to the development of rock and roll/pop as Shakespeare is to English literature. And personally, I prefer the Beatles early to mid career work to most of their later stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-beatles-song-of-all-time/63660/33 "2001-04-29T14:29:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Anthracite \* > \*\*“Everyone’s Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey”, from the White Album. I love the Beatles, but good God this song is wretched! \*\* I first heard that song while in the car with my mother. She was never a big Beatles fan even back in the day, and it seems that she had never heard it before either. When the DJ identified the song, my mother thought he was joking. She couldn’t believe the Beatles ever really recorded anything that wretched. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-beatles-song-of-all-time/63660/34 "2001-04-29T16:56:35Z")
I can’t believe it was 7 posts before someone nominated Revolution 9 (which I agree with wholeheartedly) or Run For Your Life (which I don’t, but can understand why others would)… Anyway, yeah, my vote’s for Revolution 9… ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-beatles-song-of-all-time/63660/35 "2001-04-29T17:15:56Z")
Oh. I’m sorry, everybody, but I don’t like the Beatles, so this is hard to answer, because I don’t like most of the Beatles’ songs. (I know, I’m a mutant, but I really don’t like 'em.) Anyhow, I guess if I had to pick the Beatles song that didn’t like the most, I’d have to say **Long and Winding Road** as well. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-beatles-song-of-all-time/63660/36 "2001-04-29T17:24:18Z")
While “Revolution #9” is a bad song, it at least has the appeal of being a screwed-up drug-laced song. I mean it’s not as if Lennon composed it while STRAIGHT, for cryin’ out loud! So to me, it’s a good-bad song; I don’t like it, but if it hits ya in the right mood - and maybe you would need to be high to appreciate it - it’s not the worst ever. I’d go with “Why Don’t We Do It In the Road”; even though it too was/is a drug song, it’s not the technical novelty that “Revolution #9” is. [Ok, so they BOTH suck… but I do think “Road” is worse…] ---
**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-beatles-song-of-all-time/63660/37 "2001-04-29T18:56:06Z")
I have always had a sneaking suspicion that “Why Don’t We Do It In The Road” is a less than sly dig at the Stones.It sounds awfully like some of their tracks.Anybody else agree?. ---
**Author:** ![Anniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cc9497/32.png) [@Anniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anniz)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-beatles-song-of-all-time/63660/38 "2001-04-29T20:48:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Montfort \* > \*\*I love to sing “How does is it feel to be one of the beautiful people” to **Anniz**. 🙂 \*\* And I love it when you sing for me.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-beatles-song-of-all-time/63660/39 "2001-04-29T20:55:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Anniz \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Montfort \* > > \*\*I love to sing “How does is it feel to be one of the beautiful people” to **Anniz**. 🙂 \*\* > > And I love it when you sing for me.🙂 \*\* All Together Now\*… Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!! - Hey, come to think of it, that’s a Beatles tune too (and not one of their most successful, I might add) ---
**Author:** ![Studi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Studi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Studi)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2001, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-beatles-song-of-all-time/63660/40 "2001-04-29T21:19:59Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Nimue_: > > It has to be “Revolution 9” Are you crazy? That’s my favourite Beatles’ song! It’s great. Studi [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-beatles-song-of-all-time/63660.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-worst-beatles-song-of-all-time/63660.md?page=3)