I'll start "This Boy" - what a dirge!
Get Back - stupid lyrics, mediocre song.
Paperback Writer - dreadful! Paperbaaack writer, writer, writer....by anyone else it would have been a flop.
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I'll start "This Boy" - what a dirge!
Get Back - stupid lyrics, mediocre song.
Paperback Writer - dreadful! Paperbaaack writer, writer, writer....by anyone else it would have been a flop.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | August 20, 2022 8:37 AM |
Hey Jude has always annoyed me.
I Am The Walrus = incomprehensible bullshit.
Octopus' Garden and Maxwell's Silver Hammer tie with Rocky Raccoon for number 3.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | August 8, 2022 1:40 AM |
Back in the USSR
by Anonymous | reply 2 | August 8, 2022 1:41 AM |
The entire Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album. I have always hated it. It's such dreck, and I will never understand the love for it.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | August 8, 2022 1:41 AM |
[quote]Back in the USSR
I agree. That's a really bad one.
you don't know how lucky you are boy, BAAAACK in the USSR
by Anonymous | reply 4 | August 8, 2022 1:45 AM |
I loved the song Taxman, except it was sung by folks whose people were well served by Inland Revenue... Until they weren't and went batshit...
by Anonymous | reply 5 | August 8, 2022 1:45 AM |
The bloat of Hey Jude is simply unforgivable.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | August 8, 2022 1:47 AM |
Within You Without You.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | August 8, 2022 1:48 AM |
r5 ditto. It would be "Yellow Submarine". . . It became a children's song and most people within earshot would be stuck singing it for days...
and they would have to be silenced.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | August 8, 2022 1:49 AM |
what's the one that goes...."please don't be long, don't be very looo-oong"...that one
by Anonymous | reply 9 | August 8, 2022 1:52 AM |
Helter Skelter. Just a lot of screaming.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | August 8, 2022 1:52 AM |
I like "Paperback Writer".
by Anonymous | reply 11 | August 8, 2022 1:53 AM |
Number 9...number 9....
by Anonymous | reply 12 | August 8, 2022 1:53 AM |
Good Day Sunshine. I hate the song in general, but I especially hate the piano, and how muffled it sounds in the mix.
Getting Better. To paraphrase Whitney Houston, I don't know why I hate it...I just do.
Here, There and Everywhere. Actually a very good song, but it's ruined (for me) by George's obtrusive, twangy guitar chords. When I play the song, all I can hear is that guitar.
What Goes On. It's lively, at least, but it isn't much of a song, and with Ringo singing lead, the song needs to be a really good one.
P.S. I Love You. It made the top ten in the U.S. at the height of Beatlemania, but there's a reason why it's mostly been forgotten over the years. It kinda sucks.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | August 8, 2022 1:54 AM |
Yesterday
by Anonymous | reply 14 | August 8, 2022 1:54 AM |
R11 me too. I also love back in the ussr
by Anonymous | reply 15 | August 8, 2022 1:54 AM |
[quote] Here, There and Everywhere. Actually a very good song, but it's ruined (for me) by George's obtrusive, twangy guitar chords. When I play the song, all I can hear is that guitar.
Oh, this is one of my faves, actually. I'll have to listen to it, again.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | August 8, 2022 1:58 AM |
Free as a Bird
by Anonymous | reply 17 | August 8, 2022 2:01 AM |
O blah-di, O blah-da
by Anonymous | reply 18 | August 8, 2022 2:04 AM |
Nothing they did as a band was worse than the stupid Christmas songs McCartney and Lennon wrote when the band spit up. Nothing.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | August 8, 2022 2:05 AM |
I never realized how many Beatles songs I hated until this thread.
Hey Julian, sorry your dad is an asshole, here's a terrible song for you.
That fucking Birthday song
The theme to the summer of 1969, Helter Skelter.
Obla di obla dope.
Sexy Sadie, another Manson family adjacent song.
Everything on the Yellow Submarine album except hey bulldog which I get a kick out of for some reason.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | August 8, 2022 2:06 AM |
[quote]Nothing they did as a band was worse than the stupid Christmas songs McCartney and Lennon wrote when the band spit up. Nothing.
When I lived in America - that John Lennon one..."so this is Christmas..." they used to play it every year, everywhere.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | August 8, 2022 2:07 AM |
Why Don't We Do It in the Road?
Help!
Yellow Submarine
What Goes On?
But from each of those albums I loved:
Helter Skelter, Savoy Truffle, Blackbird from the White Album.
You've Got to Hide Your Love Away, from Help (US)
For No One, from Revolver
and most of the songs on Beatles VI.
And I loved, loved, loved, and still love, Hey, Jude!
by Anonymous | reply 22 | August 8, 2022 2:13 AM |
I dislike any of their songs about their childhoods in Liverpool (except "Penny Lane," which is so pretty) and any of their songs that try to evoke Edwardian music-halls.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | August 8, 2022 2:26 AM |
R33. I dont know what songs from Edwardian musical halls sound like, but that description is cracking me up. Thank you, I needed that.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | August 10, 2022 3:45 PM |
Ob‐La‐Di, Ob‐La‐Da song, of course. Helter Skelter and Paperback Writer are great.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | August 10, 2022 3:52 PM |
Maxwells silver hammer, I LOVE the album recording of Helter Skelter- it has a visceral effect.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | August 10, 2022 4:04 PM |
From their original songs, it's Love Me Do. Also their cover versions of Honey Don't, Bad Boy, and Matchbox.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | August 10, 2022 6:50 PM |
[quote]I dont know what songs from Edwardian musical halls sound like
THIS >
by Anonymous | reply 28 | August 10, 2022 8:21 PM |
Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except me and my Monkey
Bungalow Bill
Octopus’ Garden
Piggies
by Anonymous | reply 29 | August 10, 2022 8:24 PM |
"Love Me Do" is so simplistic -- don't know why it became a hit. But their next one "Please Please Me" -- so exciting, especially George's guitar riffs, is a knockout.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | August 10, 2022 8:26 PM |
I always hated She’s A Woman.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | August 10, 2022 10:33 PM |
Too Late for Goodbye
by Anonymous | reply 32 | August 12, 2022 4:47 AM |
[quote]R20: That fucking Birthday song
It's a fun song.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | August 12, 2022 4:58 AM |
The Long and Winding Road
by Anonymous | reply 34 | August 12, 2022 5:03 AM |
"While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
It's so condescending. It's written about a whore, who Harrison is either sleeping with for free or has hired, and his cloying sentimentality is really offputting. Like he's singing about some kind of sad, wayward child, and it's just not really up to him.
Fuck you, George. You paid for fucky sucky and you feel guilty now. Suck your own dick from now on.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | August 12, 2022 5:19 AM |
Hey Jude
All You Need Is Love
The production on The Long And Winding Road
by Anonymous | reply 37 | August 12, 2022 6:24 AM |
She's Leaving Home
Getting Better All The Time
Fixing A Hole
When I'm Sixty-Four
by Anonymous | reply 38 | August 12, 2022 6:46 AM |
[quote]what's the one that goes...."please don't be long, don't be very looo-oong"...that one
R9 Blue Jay Way
by Anonymous | reply 39 | August 17, 2022 4:54 AM |
Yellow Submarine
Why Don’t We Do It In The Road
Run For Your Life
I Wanna Be Your Man
by Anonymous | reply 40 | August 17, 2022 4:59 AM |
Another vote for Yellow Submarine. Also, Lady Madonna.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | August 17, 2022 5:05 AM |
Most of these are pretty bad songs, but not Yesterday. And yes, Hey Jude may be overpraised, but it is a very good song. I think those who mentioned those are just wrong.
P.S. My husband actually HATES The Beatles.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | August 17, 2022 5:37 AM |
Hey Jude makes me want to self-lobotomize.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | August 17, 2022 5:43 AM |
R44, but did you always dislike it or do you just feel that it's overplayed and over-hyped?
by Anonymous | reply 45 | August 17, 2022 5:45 AM |
This problematic song where John talks about murdering his girlfriend if she so much as looks at another man.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | August 17, 2022 5:48 AM |
[quote] Back in the USSR
Fuck you with a horizontal Beatles LP.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | August 17, 2022 5:53 AM |
R45, I don't find it overplayed, I just find it very saccharine. I understand the stated intent of the song but it crosses the line into ham-fisted for me. The Beatles equivalent of using a Sarah McLachlan song for a humane society commercial but the humane society commercial still does actually move me (I'm thinking a video with neglected puppies might push the needle back to "moving" for me actually...)
by Anonymous | reply 48 | August 17, 2022 5:53 AM |
Michelle. Sappy as can be.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | August 17, 2022 1:06 PM |
I *hate* "Hey Jude" & "Let It Be"
Annoying in their simplistic repetitiveness
by Anonymous | reply 50 | August 17, 2022 2:11 PM |
Old Brown Shoe but Dom Deluise version of Honey Pie almost saves it.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | August 17, 2022 2:12 PM |
I agree with those who chose the crypto-Catholic ones like "Eleanor Rigby, "Lady Madonna," "Let it Be" (a.k.a. "Hark the Angels Come," John's snarky comment before the track). Yes, McCartney clarified that "mother Mary" was his deceased mum coming to him in a dream, but of course it's easily mistaken for a religious vision of Mary, mother of Jesus. Anyway, pullleaze.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | August 17, 2022 5:47 PM |
ALL of them
by Anonymous | reply 53 | August 17, 2022 5:53 PM |
All of Paul's granny music
by Anonymous | reply 54 | August 17, 2022 5:55 PM |
I despise "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". Too long, George Harrison's voice was at its whiniest, his weak falsetto was shrill and annoying, and Clapton's guitar-wanking make this one of their worst.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | August 17, 2022 5:59 PM |
Act Naturally
by Anonymous | reply 56 | August 17, 2022 6:04 PM |
R35 I am laughing so hard at the pictures of Faul and Paul and I don't know why. Why is this funny? Is this photographic evidence of lizard people?
by Anonymous | reply 57 | August 17, 2022 6:09 PM |
[quote]I despise "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". Too long, George Harrison's voice was at its whiniest, his weak falsetto was shrill and annoying, and Clapton's guitar-wanking make this one of their worst.
His demo version was so much better (see link). His work was often over-produced.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | August 17, 2022 6:14 PM |
While I agree with the list at r41 that "Sun King" isn't great and is the worst part of the medley, they needed a slow ballad type of song at that moment and it serves that purpose.
Years ago I had a 45 RPM record found at a garage sale with a Beatles song on it called "Mister Moonlight" and it was awful.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | August 17, 2022 6:18 PM |
R55, I also hate the song. The lyric "I don't know how you were inverted" refers to "inverted sexuality" meaning le homosex.
It's time to cancel the fucking beatles, lol. But a lot of their songs are genuinely grody.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | August 17, 2022 9:25 PM |
I forgot about Mister Moonlight
by Anonymous | reply 61 | August 17, 2022 10:49 PM |
R56, Act Naturally was not written by any of the Beatles.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | August 17, 2022 11:23 PM |
[quote] Michelle. Sappy as can be.
Good one. French lyrics and all.
I like While My Guitar Gently Weeps, but I haven't paid much attention to the lyrics. I also love Norwegian Wood. Although written by Lennon / McCartney, I think of Geo. Harrison due to the sitar sound.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | August 18, 2022 3:25 AM |
R63, Norwegian Wood was written by John Lennon.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | August 18, 2022 9:19 PM |
r57, there's simply no such thing as 'Paul McCartney'.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | August 18, 2022 9:22 PM |
R65 Thanks! LMAO
by Anonymous | reply 66 | August 19, 2022 5:14 AM |
R62 Wait, do only songs written by The Beatles count in this poll? I'll 2nd Honey Pie, then. I hated Buck Owens' version of Act Naturally too. He didn't write that song either.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | August 19, 2022 5:20 AM |
R65 So what if your conspiracy theory is true? I'm fine with either Paul OR Faul. The more the merrier! Rock on, Faul! Good job faking it! You did your homework! Most of us can hardly tell the difference and we don't GAF, anyway.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | August 19, 2022 9:37 PM |
r68, many people think Faul was a far great talent than Paul. But play 'Single Pigeon' for them and make them defend it.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | August 19, 2022 9:54 PM |
I love single pigeon and Mary had a little lamb, so there!
by Anonymous | reply 70 | August 19, 2022 10:19 PM |
[quote]I love single pigeon
R70 "Me too, me too, me too, I'm a lot like yooooo-ooo-ooo-ooou..."
So Chicken Little @ R65, the sky is Faulling and we don't care.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | August 19, 2022 10:48 PM |
All of George's sitar crap.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | August 19, 2022 11:14 PM |
"Help" sucks
by Anonymous | reply 73 | August 19, 2022 11:21 PM |
[quote] Yesterday
R14 Hey, Yessshterday, the mosht covered shong in hishtory, jusht got covered again...
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