I’ve got to go with “Revolution #9”. I can listen to any Beatles song 20 times in a row except that one. I can’t listen to that once except the once I’ve already heard it, which stuck with me bad enough that I was wandering back to the phone today to tell a customer $9.99 and saying out loud, “number 9”, and my Nepalese coworker burst out, “I hate that one!”
So it’s not just me, it’s Jyoti too.
Free As A Bird
A lot of stuff from The White Album would get my nomination. “Revolution No. 9”, “Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Cept For Me And My Monkey”, “Helter Skelter”, “Savoy Truffle” (I never cared for that sort of sax), and most all of McCartney’s schlock songs. As for McCartney Schlock, most of it on other albums too. An exception would be “She’s Leaving Home”.
There was a tradition in the early 70s on and around the Ohio State Campus that after you bought your first GOOD stereo at one of the campus area shops, you pointed your speakers out your open bedroom or dorm window and blasted “Why Don’t We Do It On The Road” at full volume.
The repetitive screaming known formally as “Why Don’t We do It In The Road?”
Bottom five:
Hello, Goodbye
Oh Darling
Wild Honey Pie
She’s Leaving Home
Doctor Robert
(I don’t think covers should be included in this thread)
Why not? They’re not gods. Some of their songs are bad. And some of their movies, too. And I can hate them for Yoko, and the Concert for Bangladesh.
And WY/WY still sucks.
There is so much wrongness here, I’m going to give up, in a minute. First I must defend this song.
It is the funniest Beatles song. (By Paul and not John, remember) It’s a take off on macho rock.
It is not repetitive screaming any more than many other R & R or R & B songs are. It’s got chord changes, a melody and a passioned if satirical vocal that made it a keeper for those guys. And it doesn’t take up that much precious time. Nuff Said.
“Little Girl”
I know Lennon was playing around with common blues tropes, but it’s still a creepy song.
A lot of songs I used to hate I actually like a lot now: e.g. Within You Without You. Even Revolution #9 will get a listen occasionally.
Blue Jay Way I still don’t care for. But the only one that I won’t listen to is “Dizzy Miss Lizzy” with it’s relentless and terrible lead guitar backing.
I can listen to every other Beatles song, any number of times. But I never EVER listen to Revolution #9. A few years ago I forced myself to listen to it, just to confirm whether I still hate it. Never again.
There are quite a few annoying Tunes by the Fab Four. Harrison, who insists on that falsetto, just takes the cake, even though he couldn’t really sing anyway. “While My Guitar” is just unlistenable, plodding and preachy, in fact all of the “cosmic” preachy sitar stuff is all dreck. To make matters worse he apparently couldn’t lay any kind of meaningful solos down. “All You Need Is Love” has about three notes and then he just stops, on a live broadcast to millions? He often sounds a little flat at times, even and dragging. Any of the guitar work that is really smoking is laid down by Paul - for example the solo on “Taxman”. John went off the deep end about 1967 and never wrote much of anything tuneful after that. To my way of thinking the Beatles got worse as time went by, and shows the dangers of heavy drug use.
“What’s the new Mary Jane”
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=what’s+the+new+mary+jane
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And everything on the White Album
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Well, almost everything.
It hasn’t aged particularly well over the last 13 years.
So it aged well for 35 years, and then it stopped aging well for 13?
I Me Mine
Revolution #9
You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)
Not Guilty
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{insert early 60’s song with “Love” in the title here}
The early stuff was too loaded with love songs, and by that, I mean literally songs with “Love” in the title. Okay in isolation, but not an album of it.
Of their hits, the only one I can’t stand is “Eight Days a Week.” Prosaic and repetitive.
Long, Long, Long. Why, why, why?!
Also Wild Honey Pie, Rocky Raccoon, and Revolution 1. The White Album is hit-or-miss, innit? And for a non-WA, Honey Don’t.
Number 9, number 9, number 9, …
Whoever said George can’t sing is just wrong. I once heard him sing the song Something… it was just the vocals and it was gorgeous. I think it was on Youtube.
I never liked Lady Madonna.
So many good songs in this thread! I admit I like basically everything written by Paul - even the music hall/mock blues/diabetes inducing stuff. “She’s Leaving Home,” while paired with a questionably lush orchestration, is a sweet song. Some of their early pieces (“Don’t Bother Me”, maybe even “Love Me Do” if I’m feeling mean) get a pass because they were a necessary step to get to the better songs. George’s Indian stuff, while not enjoyable to me, made a net positive impact of pop music, so I wouldn’t include them.
My bottom three (not including “Revolution 9”, as it doesn’t really qualify as a song): “Flying”, “Long, Long, Long”, and “Run For Your Life”. The first two could make a pretty effective PSA against heavy drug use. And “Maxwell” is a favorite of mine, so it’s not like I can’t handle murder songs, but “Run For Your Life” is too . . . real. Catchy, though.
For all you guys who dislike “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”: check out the acoustic version. It’s so far superior to the album version, it’s painful. (Sorry, Eric).