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Your LEAST favorite Beatles songs.

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 Anonymousreply 74August 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 Anonymousreply 1August 8, 2022 1:40 AM

Back in the USSR

by Anonymousreply 2August 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 Anonymousreply 3August 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 Anonymousreply 4August 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 Anonymousreply 5August 8, 2022 1:45 AM

The bloat of Hey Jude is simply unforgivable.

by Anonymousreply 6August 8, 2022 1:47 AM

Within You Without You.

by Anonymousreply 7August 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 Anonymousreply 8August 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 Anonymousreply 9August 8, 2022 1:52 AM

Helter Skelter. Just a lot of screaming.

by Anonymousreply 10August 8, 2022 1:52 AM

I like "Paperback Writer".

by Anonymousreply 11August 8, 2022 1:53 AM

Number 9...number 9....

by Anonymousreply 12August 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 Anonymousreply 13August 8, 2022 1:54 AM

Yesterday

by Anonymousreply 14August 8, 2022 1:54 AM

R11 me too. I also love back in the ussr

by Anonymousreply 15August 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 Anonymousreply 16August 8, 2022 1:58 AM

Free as a Bird

by Anonymousreply 17August 8, 2022 2:01 AM

O blah-di, O blah-da

by Anonymousreply 18August 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 Anonymousreply 19August 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 Anonymousreply 20August 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 Anonymousreply 21August 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 Anonymousreply 22August 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 Anonymousreply 23August 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 Anonymousreply 24August 10, 2022 3:45 PM

Ob‐La‐Di, Ob‐La‐Da song, of course. Helter Skelter and Paperback Writer are great.

by Anonymousreply 25August 10, 2022 3:52 PM

Maxwells silver hammer, I LOVE the album recording of Helter Skelter- it has a visceral effect.

by Anonymousreply 26August 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 Anonymousreply 27August 10, 2022 6:50 PM

[quote]I dont know what songs from Edwardian musical halls sound like

THIS >

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by Anonymousreply 28August 10, 2022 8:21 PM

Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except me and my Monkey

Bungalow Bill

Octopus’ Garden

Piggies

by Anonymousreply 29August 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 Anonymousreply 30August 10, 2022 8:26 PM

I always hated She’s A Woman.

by Anonymousreply 31August 10, 2022 10:33 PM

Too Late for Goodbye

by Anonymousreply 32August 12, 2022 4:47 AM

[quote]R20: That fucking Birthday song

It's a fun song.

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by Anonymousreply 33August 12, 2022 4:58 AM

The Long and Winding Road

by Anonymousreply 34August 12, 2022 5:03 AM

All of their Key of F songs

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by Anonymousreply 35August 12, 2022 5:15 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 Anonymousreply 36August 12, 2022 5:19 AM

Hey Jude

All You Need Is Love

The production on The Long And Winding Road

by Anonymousreply 37August 12, 2022 6:24 AM

She's Leaving Home

Getting Better All The Time

Fixing A Hole

When I'm Sixty-Four

by Anonymousreply 38August 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 Anonymousreply 39August 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 Anonymousreply 40August 17, 2022 4:59 AM

Hard to top this list...

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by Anonymousreply 41August 17, 2022 5:03 AM

Another vote for Yellow Submarine. Also, Lady Madonna.

by Anonymousreply 42August 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 Anonymousreply 43August 17, 2022 5:37 AM

Hey Jude makes me want to self-lobotomize.

by Anonymousreply 44August 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 Anonymousreply 45August 17, 2022 5:45 AM

This problematic song where John talks about murdering his girlfriend if she so much as looks at another man.

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by Anonymousreply 46August 17, 2022 5:48 AM

[quote] Back in the USSR

Fuck you with a horizontal Beatles LP.

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by Anonymousreply 47August 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 Anonymousreply 48August 17, 2022 5:53 AM

Michelle. Sappy as can be.

by Anonymousreply 49August 17, 2022 1:06 PM

I *hate* "Hey Jude" & "Let It Be"

Annoying in their simplistic repetitiveness

by Anonymousreply 50August 17, 2022 2:11 PM

Old Brown Shoe but Dom Deluise version of Honey Pie almost saves it.

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by Anonymousreply 51August 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 Anonymousreply 52August 17, 2022 5:47 PM

ALL of them

by Anonymousreply 53August 17, 2022 5:53 PM

All of Paul's granny music

by Anonymousreply 54August 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 Anonymousreply 55August 17, 2022 5:59 PM

Act Naturally

by Anonymousreply 56August 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 Anonymousreply 57August 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.

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by Anonymousreply 58August 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 Anonymousreply 59August 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 Anonymousreply 60August 17, 2022 9:25 PM

I forgot about Mister Moonlight

by Anonymousreply 61August 17, 2022 10:49 PM

R56, Act Naturally was not written by any of the Beatles.

by Anonymousreply 62August 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 Anonymousreply 63August 18, 2022 3:25 AM

R63, Norwegian Wood was written by John Lennon.

by Anonymousreply 64August 18, 2022 9:19 PM

r57, there's simply no such thing as 'Paul McCartney'.

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by Anonymousreply 65August 18, 2022 9:22 PM

R65 Thanks! LMAO

by Anonymousreply 66August 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 Anonymousreply 67August 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 Anonymousreply 68August 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 Anonymousreply 69August 19, 2022 9:54 PM

I love single pigeon and Mary had a little lamb, so there!

by Anonymousreply 70August 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 Anonymousreply 71August 19, 2022 10:48 PM

All of George's sitar crap.

by Anonymousreply 72August 19, 2022 11:14 PM

"Help" sucks

by Anonymousreply 73August 19, 2022 11:21 PM

[quote] Yesterday

R14 Hey, Yessshterday, the mosht covered shong in hishtory, jusht got covered again...

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