Worst beatles songs (original)

Points for non-obscurity

All together now
For you blue
Savoy Truffle
What you’re doing
Eight days a week

Motherfucker! I like “What You’re Doing” a LOT. And I LOVE “Eight Days a Week!”

Worst is probably “Run for your Life,” from Rubber Soul. I hate to pick a John song for the top of the list, because I’m a John kinda guy.

“Michelle.” I really, really hate “Michelle.” But a lot of people like it, so it may just be my taste.

I assume you mean the worst songs other than Revolution 9.
Other than that, then, how about ‘Act Naturally’, the B side of ‘Yesterday’? Good God!

Not a Beatles original.
All the songs listed in the OP are quite good songs, with the possible exception of “All Together Now,” which is juvenile and simplistic but doesn’t pretend to be anything else. “Savoy Truffle” got my vote as best song on disc 2 of the White Album.

The Beatles’ most overrated song is “All You Need Is Love.” There are a handful of tracks on the White Album that are among my least favorite Beatles songs.

“Maxwell’s Silver Hammer”
“Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da”
“Why Don’t We Do It In the Road?”
“Martha My Dear”
“Wild Honey Pie”

I see a trend.

Some of those are really kids songs to me. I liked them when I was a kid so I can’t slag them now. To me they belong, like yellow submarine as well.

“Why…Road” is the funniest Beatles song.

Martha My Dear I have always loved since day 1. I think it’s gorgeous.

“Hello, Goodbye.” To say it’s empty is an insult to voids everywhere.

. . . I like “All Together Now”. :frowning: Along with “Maxwell”, “Yellow Submarine”, “Your Mother Should Know”, “Martha My Dear”, and all the rest of Paul’s granny music. :wink:

In terms of creepiness, “Run For Your Life” takes the cake. And ice cream, and festive napkins, and silverware. But musically, it’s not too bad.

I’m probably in the minority on this one, but I think that - while the sitar played a big role in many great songs of theirs - a lot of George’s Indian-influenced music is pretty forgettable. Still, naming the worst Beatles song is like naming the worst Monty Python film. It’s still going to be amazing.

(Plus, as I suspect this thread will show, everyone’s least favorite song is someone else’s favorite, so it all balances out. This is also why making the White Album a double was a good idea - sure, everyone agrees it should have been a single, but no one would cut out the same songs).

ETA: This is all assuming Revolution 9 doesn’t qualify as a song.

You know I couldn’t put in Revolution #9. For some reason I get intimidated like it’s a piece of art I don’t understand yet. Maybe that’s an important belief for me. Keeps the Beatles alive really.

I love Run for your life. Freaking great Rockabilly tune with minor chords
Much much catchier than:
Can’t buy me love
Anytime at all
Little Child
Hold me tight
Piggies
Glass onion
Blue Jay Way

Alright I can see the brickbats coming…

Savoy Truffle rocks! Hard rockin’ line with sax, c’mon, where’s the love?

It should have been the B side of Revolution instead of that horrid Hey Jude

“Michelle”. Oy.
“Norwegian Wood”. Someone should have been charged with illegal use of a sitar.

“The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill”

I find it hard to believe that there are people who don’t like Savoy Truffle but like the Beatles.

My nominee is, as most, off the White Album. “Good Night.” Wikipedia says, “George Martin’s arrangement is excessively lush, and intentionally so. Lennon is said to have wanted the song to sound ‘real cheesy’”

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Wrong. “Norwegian Wood” is the best Beatles song evar.

“The Beatles” was released in November 1968. If you haven’t gotten Revolution #9 after almost 47 years (and I sure as hell haven’t!) just let it go.

It’s okay to call it an experimental piece, though. Sometimes experiments work out, sometimes they don’t.

Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

My God, I hate that song.

I prefer the version of Revolution #9 by the Farm Beetles. (Mainly because it’s shorter.)

Sadie, The Walrus are two that make me turn off my radio. Can’t stand either.

I love every song on their Red album 1962–1966 that covers the first half of the bands career.

There’s several songs on the Blue 1967–1970 that I deleted from my player. They weren’t terrible. Just songs I had no interest in hearing very often. Too much repetition and I would start hating them.

Aggggh! “I Am the Walrus” is my SECOND favorite Beatles song, after “Norwegian Wood!”

The John song I WILL turn off if it comes on the radio is “Come Together,” and I know a lotta folks love that one.

It has always creeped me out. “Hold you in his armchair you can feel his disease.” Brrrrrr.

Back in the U.S.S.R. is one that I don’t mind hearing once or twice a year. But no more than that. It gets old quick.

I do love most of their stuff. I listen to The Red album at least once a week. Great music when I’m driving to work. Norwegian Wood is on the Red and its a favorite of mine.