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The 10 Worst Beatles Songs

Jed Grainger

ByJed Grainger

Mar 25, 2017

Yes, we know that The Beatles are great. Yes, they are unarguably the most important band in musical history, achieved more in their brief period together than any band have before or since, and released a shed-load of songs that are now stitched firmly into our cultural heritage.

Yes, John Lennon is one of the UK’s true icons, Paul McCartney is the most beloved and revered songwriter of our time, George Harrison is an underrated genius and Ringo – erm- narrated Thomas the Tank Engine.

We know all of this, but that doesn’t mean everything they released was great, does it? For every ‘A Day In The Life’ there is the repetitive horrors of ‘Why Don’t We Do It in the Road?’ For every ‘In My Life’ there is the baffling pointless ‘Flying’. For every ‘Dear Prudence’ there is the just plain awful ‘Piggies’, a song that somehow managed to inspire a mass murder.

No band can ever be that incredibly visionary, delicious and just plain brilliant the entire time so it’s time to shine a light on the very worst that The Fab Four has to offer. Here are the 10 worst Beatles songs.

10) ‘Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da’

Thanks Paul. Whilst many would point towards the frog chorus as the nadir of his career, the worst thing that Macca ever did was surely to launch the universal hated cod-reggae genre to popularity by writing ‘Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da’. Of course had the song actually been a good song, then all may have been forgiven – but unfortunately it is not!

It is that rare beast of a song that is both astoundingly irritating and fist-clenchingly awful. The track’s melody crawls into your brain like a tumour on first listen and stays lodged in there, coming out and looping in your head only at your lowest moments to mock you. I’m listening to it at the moment and it’s making me angry. I want to turn it off.

I keep fascinating about how I want to throw Desmond’s barrow at him and then force him to listen to the song over and over again until blood starts pouring out of his eyes and he is nothing more than a broken shell of a man who can do nothing but desperately claw at his own ears in the hope he will one day tear them off and be rid of hearing that abomination of a song. Thanks for that, Sir Paul.

09) ‘Run For Your Life’

The popular consciousness is that John Lennon was a nice and peace-loving guy who wrote some of the best songs ever written and is essentially painted as the greatest man to ever walk the face of the earth. You may get a bit of shock, therefore, if you listen to the lyrics of ‘Rubber Soul’s closer ‘Run for Your Life’ and discover the song is about how he wants to kill his girlfriend if she goes off with another man. Charming!

‘Run for Your Life’ does admittedly have a very pleasant melody and catchy guitar riff, but it is just impossible to get past the repellent lyrics. Lennon himself became embarrassed by it, though in the song he sounds so utterly self-satisfied with the concept of killing this girl that I would not be surprised if ‘Hammer Smashed Face’ by Cannibal Corpse turned out to be based around a set of lyrics he was working on before he died. Still though, it is definitely the most joyous song that is about something as horrendous as hunting down and brutally murdering a girl, so there is that!

08) ‘Birthday’

“Hey, you know what my favourite song by The Beatles is? ‘Birthday’.” said literally no one ever. It’s not really hard to see why this song gets perhaps a more muted reception than other Fab Four songs. The song is essentially just Lennon and McCartney enthusiastically shrieking about how it’s your birthday, how exciting it is that it’s your birthday, how it also their birthday and then a whole host of other commands over a riff that may as well be labeled “generic rock riff no.8.”  This is certainly not the most appealing of ideas.

It all gets a bit tedious after about 2 seconds, when the novelty of listening to Lennon and McCartney seemingly have a competition to see who can sound the most hoarse wears off. ‘Birthday’ is the musical equivalent of that annoying friend everyone has who seems to find it necessary to shout “Shots?” every 5 seconds and then constantly asks if everyone is enjoying themselves. The one who doesn’t seem to ever leave you alone and instead will keep on trying to create an aura of forced fun when all you want to say to them is “No! Leave me alone! I just want to be left alone in a darkened room and watch The Graham Norton Show under a blanket whilst I wait for death!” That is how ‘Birthday’ makes me feel.

07) ‘Don’t Pass Me By’

‘Don’t Pass Me By’ comes courtesy of everyone’s fourth favourite Beatle, Ringo! Originally played to the other Beatles in 1962, shortly after joining, the song was sensibly not allowed on any album until the recording process of ‘The White Album’ when Ringo finally saw his chance to unleash it on the world. Admittedly, the only reason Ringo did get that chance was because quality control on ‘The White Album’ was so staggeringly low that had he handed in a song that consisted of nothing but the noise of him scraping a rake across a rusty garden gate, then that also probably would have been accepted!

What does Ringo’s amazing creation actually sound like though? Well, it’s a stilted country & western song that plods along sounding more like a theme tune to a failed children’s TV sitcom about the hijinks a family of country folk get up to, instead of an actual certified song. Even the performance is dire; Ringo manages to not sing a single syllable of the song in tune and then manages to give off all the emotion of a particularly grey IKEA sofa. It is probably best to just let this one pass you by to be honest!

06) ‘Within You Without You’

When John Lennon discovered Indian music he wrote ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’, which is now considered to be one of the best songs ever written. On the flip side of that, when George Harrison discovered Indian music he wrote the tedious, steaming pile of garbage that is ‘Within You Without You’. By a distance, the worst thing on ‘Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band,’ the song drones along without any hint of a tune or melody and mumbles out lyrics that sound like they were stolen from a discounted self-help book that Harrison once flipped through for a couple of minutes at a petrol station.

I challenge anybody to point out one interesting thing about this song that is actually memorable. You almost definitely can’t, as not one single solitary memorable moment or idea happens throughout its entire five-minute run time. In fact, the only thing you can really say about it is that it sounds Indian; So well done George, you’ve managed to write a song in a different style to what you normally do. Congratulations! Muse once decided they were a dubstep band for a song and that was atrocious as well!

05) ‘Yesterday’

Is ‘Yesterday’ really that good? I know its heresy to say that, but is it really that good? Is it really? I’m only asking because from where I’m standing it’s always sounded like schmaltzy drivel, rather than the heartstring-pulling masterpiece that about twenty-thousand other bands have felt the need to cover.

Surely I am not alone in thinking this? I mean I know it’s popular amongst people, but last year the best-selling debut album by a British artist was by Bradley Walsh, so what people like isn’t necessarily a sign of quality. It is just so saccharine and earnest that all I want to do is throw up every time I hear it, and that is every single day because whatever street I walk down there always seems to be some busker playing it! It has got to that stage where I envy people who have not been even remotely effected by the modern world, because they have probably managed to escape hearing ‘Yesterday’.

That is seemingly unlikely though, as even they have probably had to listen to some sub par Spanish cruise singer warble it at them in broken English whilst they try to cook fish on their camp fire. Thoughts like that make me sad, and make me yearn for a world that hasn’t been tarnished by the all-consuming plague that is ‘Yesterday’.

Just imagine that rainbow framed utopia! No more annoying people in fedoras who insist on playing it on the acoustic at every party you have ever been to! No more horrendous piano led cover versions of it on adverts! No more racism! Well, maybe not the last one, but it does still sound like a comparative paradise to what we live in now, and is defiantly a reason why that lousy song should be left in the yesterday!

04) ‘Octopus’s Garden’

A Beatles song that often finds its way into a lot of worst of lists, yet not this one, is ‘Yellow Submarine’. The song is just too nostalgically euphoric and weird to make it’s way onto this list, and is in its own way a charming and slightly rubbish little tune that will probably outlive live us all. The same cannot be said for ‘Octopus’s Garden’, The Beatles’s second attempt at appealing to the all important under fives demographic. If ‘Yellow Submarine’ is a Porsche then in comparison to that, ‘Octopus’s Garden’ is a second-hand reliant robin that comes with a slightly deflated tire, dodgy clutch and smells slightly of rotting eggs when your inside it.

‘Octopus’s Garden’ sounds so desperate to be ‘Yellow Submarine’ that it is actually rather sad to listen to. To call it desperate to be anything is perhaps a bit unfair, as it sounds so bored of is own existence that to feel an emotion as strong as desperation would probably be pushing it. The Beatles probably went into the song trying to achieve a sort of hazy and carefree paradise, though it instead just sounds half asleep and phoned in.

This is not helped that man at the helm of it is Ringo, the man with all of the vocal range of a horse with a sore throat, who manages to give about as much excitement and passion about this magical underwater kingdom that he supposedly desperately wants to live in as he probably would if he discovered that there was a slight discount on egg and cress sandwiches at the supermarket. It is hard to feel any sort of connection to this watery wonderland, when they have probably been more passionate and convincing speeches about the benefits of being boiled alive than this!

03) ‘Wild Honey Pie’

‘Wild Honey Pie’ is just not enjoyable to listen to. It sits proudly at track five on ‘The White Album’, with all the grace and decorum of a man throwing up on a homeless person. Not only is it utterly unbearable but, as if by some cruel joke it actually comes directly after ‘Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da’ because The Beatles obviously thought the listeners had not suffered enough by this point. It is literally the musical equivalent of spending all day shovelling rancid cow feces in a field and then have a cow immediately defecate on your shoes once you’ve finished.

It is hard to even think of words to accurately describe this song. It is literally just 50 seconds of McCartney playing an incredibly exasperating plinkity plonkity guitar riff whilst screeching the song’s title like a brain-damaged parrot for the songs entire duration. That is literally it! If you locked a gorilla in a room with the same instrument that Macca used, then it would almost certainly come up with something more enjoyable to listen to. Hell, even if the Gorilla had no arms, the results would still be more palatable!

02) ‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer’

‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer’ has been dubbed the song that broke up The Beatles, took three days to record and was apparently the most expensive song they ever recorded, and the result? A terrible puppet show-esque sing along that was seemingly aimed at infants who sometimes eat glue.

Imagine a drunk Barney the Dinosaur, stumbling aimlessly around his horrible garish surroundings. That is a visual representation of what the song sounds like. Utterly insufferable from beginning to end, ‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer’ is based around the fictional Maxwell Edison, a medical student who likes to kill people with hammers. Paul McCartney, the evil genius behind the song, then decided to hide this chilling story in a cheerful and upbeat pop song after being inspired by the works of Alfred Jannings.

This may have been a good concept for a song, had Paul not strained so hard for it to be a hit that it ended up being this uncatchy kitschy ordeal that stomps along like an elephant that hasn’t yet learnt how to walk properly before ending with what sounds like the results of when Ringo fell asleep on a Moog synthesiser. ‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer’ is just the worst.

01) ‘Revolution 9’

I originally wanted to leave ‘Revolution 9’ out of this list as it doesn’t really qualify as song, but I eventually relented so here it is: The worst “song” The Beatles ever wrote. In what I can only imagine was an attempt to impress Yoko Ono, John Lennon decided to make this eight and a half-minute long avant guard sound collage nightmare that was supposed to be an attempt at showing revolution in sound.

Of course, it doesn’t sound like revolution, it just sounds like a mess of badly put together random sounds with someone occasionally saying “number 9” throughout it, because why the hell not. It is so unquestionably bad, that it somehow sort of goes past that, becoming just a big slab of nothingness that floats around in the musical void doing nothing but existing. I know a lot of you may now be shouting “You just don’t get it. Its art!” or “It was revolutionary for its time!” or something along those line, and my response to that is, have you actually listened to ‘Revolution 9’ the whole way through? I have, and they were eight and half minutes I will now get back.

It’s the musical equivalent of watching paint dry. In fact, I have actually watched paint dry once and it was like going for a sky dive in comparison. If given the choice of listening to ‘Revolution 9’ again or pushing a pencil into my eye until it reached my brain, not only would I jump at the latter but I would also volunteer to do both eyes, just out of thanks of being given the chance to be spared listening to that never-ending polyphonic monstrosity again.

There is literally nothing in the entire world, however big or physically damaging they may be, that I would not rather do than listen to ‘Revolution 9’ again. Well, except listening to ‘Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da’ actually as there are limits!

Do you agree with this list or think we are missing something? Let us know in the comment section below.

Jed Grainger

By Jed Grainger

Publicity Coordinator and The Cure enthusiast

88 thoughts on “The 10 Worst Beatles Songs”
  1. I watched them on Ed Sullivan. I saw them live at the Hollywood Bowl. I bought the White Album the day it was released. Yes, I loved the Beatles and still marvel at their music, but I have to say I agree with your selection. There may be a few other clinkers in their oeuvre, but these are 10 for sure – even Yesterday!

  2. Yeah, this is really dumb list. “Within You Without You” was one of the first songs that appealed to me the first time I listened to the Beatles when I was 11. Apparently your taste isn’t as eclectic as an 11 year old child. I don’t think music criticism is your thing.

    1. Well said. Also, it would appear the writer is not a musician or he would recognize the triumphant melodies, progressions, and craftmanship involved in some on this list. True, there are a few uncontested inclusions as well. So, even though I may question his skill set as a music critic and/or musician, he has a syndicated column and I don’t. Wonder what that means?

    2. If he wants a bad song on Sgt Pepper, it’s obviously Mr. Kite. It’s John reading verbose wording verbatim off a Victorian circus poster! While George Martin goes nuts with a calliope and tape effects in the background! It’s insane, and not in a good way!

  3. I’d like to address the Ringo slight in the second paragraph. As a musician, I would agree with your descriptions of the first three Beatles, but Ringo’s should read, “…and Ringo invented modern rock drumming.” I would say that, because that’s basically what he did; before Ringo rock drummers were still essentially playing Country and Western patterns. Just sayin’.

    1. You are exactly right. Ringo was certainly never the classiest or most bombastic with his sticks, but without the incredibly imagination, innovation and unique nuance/interpretation he stamped on the tracks, I shudder to think what might have been. Drummers who believed they should play a waltz or a two beat snare for everything they weren’t sure of would never have been able to keep their sanity in their role of holding the group back. I’m a retired recording studio owner/producer/very amateur (wannabe, wishiwas, nevergonnabe) musician. Personally, if I had sat on Ringo’s stool I think it would likely have triggered paralyzing terror when the lads brought me things like Come Together, Mean Mr. Mustard, A Day In The Life, any song from Sgt. Pepper, etc., etc., and asked what I was going to do with it. I’m sure it would be an eye opener going back and applying traditional 1-2-3-4, 1-2-3-4 rhythm to their compositions. Most likely the world of music would be much poorer today had that been the case all those years ago.

      Give Richard Starkey his due.

  4. Was it actually necessary to vomit your own personal drivel on the rest of us? You are so impressed with yourself and your snarky views over things that are merely opinion. If you had an actual criticism you’ve hid it well. The Badger: Please fire this cretin now!

  5. Yesterday a bad song seriously I’d like to know what kind of music you like ? Is Skynyrd’s Simple Man also on your list of horrible song’s you’re a horrible music critic

  6. Imagine by Lemon. After he gets to be a Beatle, make millions of dollars, lots of hot chick’s, fame out the gazoo he has the balls to smugly suggest we would be selfish human dabree if we sought the same. This from a man who is more worthy than Jesus.

  7. In my humble opinion, there are no bad Beatles songs. And the nasty swipes at Ringo throughout are not appreciated – the best rock and roll drummer ever is not deserving…

      1. Ringo’s just being modest. Listen to rain or even she loves you. No one else in the band could play those drums and probably no one else in the world was a better fit.

  8. I have to agree with a few of them – Yesterday, Within You, Without you, Honey Pie and Revolution are not as good as many others they have written and recorded but I personally like the songs from Sgt Pepper’s and Yellow Submarine, even Octopus’ Garden and Maxwell’s Silver Hammer. I guess it all boils down to how old you were when they were still the world’s most popular band. I grew up listening to them and as a teen could never get enough of their songs. In retrospect some of them you mention are silly but to a youngster at the time, they were all solid gold. When Lennon was killed in 1980, something irretrievable was lost. You had to be in the same era as they to really understand how all this went down. There was a lot of us then, that still remember.

  9. This guy likes The Cure which is pretty much the exact opposite of the Beatles. The Cure is dark brooding depressing and the attitudes of their fans are cynical and self centered. The Beatles on the other hand are more on the happy side and are celebratory in nature for the most part. The choices this guy made clearly show his negative state of mind most of the songs he picked are songs you’d sing you heart out to. When I talk to people and they say which Beatles songs they don’t like it’s almost always their cover songs or George’s Indian music songs and revolution number 9 gets a mention but never any of those others.

  10. Grainger. You have taste like a sand sandwich. Yesterday, Birthday, Maxwell’s Silver Hammer, Run for Your Life and Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da are all excellent songs. In fact, Yesterday is one of the greatest songs ever written. That is why it is one of the most covered songs in history. if not the most covered.

  11. A “worst” or a “best” list is strictly a matter of the listener’s individual taste. With that said, I agree with “Revolution #9” and “Wild Honey Pie” but not the rest. I find the White Album almost unlistenable except for the other three songs you list plus “I Will”. Once again, individual tastes.

  12. I life long Beatles fan since 1963? Won’t comment on the bloggers choices. To each their own. Blah, blah, blah. The fact we’re discussing The Beatles songs, 17 years into the 21st century; almost 50 after their breakup (I know exactly when and where I read (heard) the news); and decades since the passing of John Lennon & George Harrison, says something for their endurance, relativity, and popularity.

  13. This is terrible. These songs are wonderful examples of their musical ability and their enormous range. I cannot believe some of the songs on your “worst” of the Beatles’ list. What did they ever do to you, steal your girlfriend? Either that or you were just aching for a fight.

  14. Feel better now? We are all glad you finally got that off your chest. Let’s see, it’s 2017, over 60 years after most of these songs were written, and you finally came around to letting us know how you truly feel. How creative and spontanious of you. After you finish throwing up, maybe you can tell us all about your distaste for other not so pleasant melodies and rhythms that offend your very sensitive abilities. Truth be told, I would wager you lack any creative incentive to write your own songs, so you crawl out of your hole to take cheap shots at people who for the most part can not only defend themselves but have passed on from this life. Talk about eight minutes I will never get back, thanks for nothing.

  15. While I’m not a fan of “Wild Honey Pie” or “Revolution 9”, the rest of the songs are pretty good to fabulous. I guess that you don’t appreciate the musical experimentation that The White Album was. My dad, who had a Masters in music, really liked “Maxwell’s Silver Hammar” and “Octopus’s Garden”.

  16. “Within Without You”, was a pivotal song, which bred the theme of esoteric, self awareness in subsequent albums by other artists (who dared to explore more than broken hearts , trucks and wild parties)… Apparently that quality is lost on this author who also scoffed at “Yesterday”. (another song, which spawned the use of Strings in RR) To anyone with an IQ of 100 or below, its likely that “Within Without You” sounded like an India ‘chant’ and drone….. To the rest of us, who listened with open minds, it produced a dynamic journey and a fantastic musical experience.

    1. Amen! Within Without You, is one of my favorite songs. So much depth in that song. I always enjoy the journey of that song and spinning the vinyl is divine. It seems the blatant personal attacks and band member characterizations is an attempt to get some clicks. Disgraceful writing. Must be a Trumper.

  17. No, sorry, those are all good songs (though I’m tired of a couple of them). How about “Long Long Long”? That’s the most boring song EVER. And “Here, There, and Everywhere” is treacly and wimpy. And an honorable mention for “Everybody’s Got Something To Hide (Except Me and My Monkey). The version on the White Album is just noise, although if the version on the Kinfauns demos was re-recorded with THAT arrangement, it would be one of John’s best from that era.

  18. Well , if Birthday, Octopus’s garden, Maxwell’s Silver Hammer and Yesterday are some of the worst Beatles songs then you confirm that the Beatles are really the best music group ever …

  19. The world at large for the past 50 years says you’re wrong about Yesterday, so enough said about that one. Within You Without You…you apparently just haven’t been there. Maybe take a hit of acid and listen to it. You might get it.

  20. Dumbest list ever.

    My list would be in no particular order
    1 Her Majesty
    2 Old Brown Shoe
    3. Blue Jay Way
    4. Wild Honey Pie
    5. Boys
    6. Dizzy Miss Lizzy
    7. Everybody’s Trying to Be My Baby
    8. Revolution 9
    9. The Inner Light
    10 Maggie Mae

  21. I thought I was the only one who didn’t think Yesterday was a masterpiece.I also totally agree with Revolution 9 being the worst song.Within You,Without You,is also pretty dire.

  22. The Earth will fly into the sun before the Beatles and their music is forgotten, whereas I’ve already forgotten this idiotic list compiled by a guy who no one ever heard of, and likely never will.

  23. You don’t like the songs, fine. Personal taste is different for us all. But your description as to why you hate them is so ridiculous I can’t believe you have the job that you do. You’re definitely not a musician, as you have no idea what you’re talking about as to how the songs are played, or what they were going for when they recorded the songs. This is a useless piece of journalism, and will make my top ten list of worst wastes of time reading top ten lists.

  24. Great list. Anytime someone makes a list like this, there are going to be omissions. You should have made it 20.

    Obvious ones missing:
    1. Bungalow Bill
    2. Mr. Moonlight
    3. Blue Jay Way
    4. Love You To, George’s preview of Within You Without You
    5. The Inner LIght
    6. Think For Yourself Thankfully George matured as a songwriter because until 1969, he had some real stinkers
    7. Yellow Submarine, too stupid for words

    There are others that are good songs, that I don’t personally like but not terrible, just not my taste. Come Together, and Across the Universe, Can’t Buy Me Love come to mind.

    Ringo is the anti-Christ. Too lazy to write songs, along for the ride and when he writes one, he rips off Yellow Submarine

    1. Yellow submarine? Have yourself a dose of valium…listen to the song…you’ll get it. If you don’t? Lol…wow…stick to something you know.

  25. While Revolution #9 certainly is garbage, well I imagine in your world that music is all written for you to hear. You probably just shouldn’t listen to what you don’t like. You’re otherwise another clueless Beatles hater. According to some Yesterday is the most covered song ever.

    Yesterday http://mentalfloss.com/article/20811/quick-10-10-most-covered-songs-ever

    Obla Di Obla Da ranked 68 http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/950716/a-look-at-early-beatles-rankings-on-itunes

    I can tell you that “Expert Textpert choking smokers…” too often think they now more than the people that buy the music.

  26. You can argue all you want about “bad” Beatle songs. But the reality is that what you might consider a “bad” Beatle song is probably better than most ‘good’ songs by other artists. The Beatles were churning out 2 albums a year and touring in the early days. They recorded one album in a single day. And of course some of their songs were not as good as others. And yes, they experimented with music quite a bit. In the end, aren’t we all lucky that they did? Want to be critical? Then try to do better! By the way, including Yesterday on this list clearly shows that the author best leave criticism to those who understand music.

  27. This is the most offensive list I have seen. First off, Ringo is a hell of a drummer, he reinvented drumming you know! He is also a great singer! Have you never heard deep singers before? He is quite good. Listen carefully to “With A Little Help From My Friends” or “Good Night” and then try to even think he is a bad singer!

    Also, you didn’t even bother to properly explain why you hated “Yesterday”! You can truly feel Paul’s soul in this song! It is so beautiful, from the guitar to his voice. However you decide to spit on a masterpiece without even thinking about what the song represents and the sheer genius of it!

    You are also such a jerk to Ringo, I cannot believe it. “Octopus’s Garden” is beautiful, if you cannot understand it, than stop listening to the Beatles. It is so cosmic, it touches the soul. It is calming to the mind. It represents a dream of peace for Ringo in a difficult time for the band! You don’t have to love t, but you don’t have to be so cruel about it!

    Also, I bet you couldn’t write a catchy tune like “Don’t Pass Me By” (which is pretty good for Ringo’s first attempt, you idiot!), “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer”, or “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” even if you tried! I admit those aren’t the best songs they wrote, but they are certainly not bad and not their worst work!

    By the way, get your goddamn facts right! John Lennon did not make “Tomorrow Never Knows” an Indian song, have you ever heard Indian music? “Tomorrow Never Knows” is not an Indian song, and traditional Indian music is quite good. The first Indian Traditional Beatles song was “Love You To”! “Within You, Without You” is beautiful and has deep, powerful lyrics. Yet you rank it down because it is not your style. Give me a break!

    “Birthday” is still to this day played at many birthdays, so if it is an annoying song, why do people still like it?

    Before you act so smart, look at the facts and learn to understand art, dammit!

  28. Within You and Without You is a beautiful song, and is on my top 10 Beatles list. My least favorite song of theirs is Mr Moonlight, though Maxwell’s come close.

  29. Screw you. Yesterday is such a good song wether you like it or not. You might think it is meaningless, but the song relates to me so much. stuff you

  30. Including ‘yesterday’ is just tiresome, it really is clear this was just included to wind people up. Oh, let’s pick a really popular Beatles song and argue against it contentiously, but for no reason. The others are just personal choice. I agree Revolution 9 is garbage, but that is not because it is a sound collage, it happens to be a badly put together sound collage. I can’t stand ‘yer blues’ personally.

  31. Ringo sucked as a drummer. Most 50s drummers far out rocked him and out played him- just listen to the drummer on Suzi Q by Dale Hawkins in 1957, Ringo couldn’t have out rocked that on his best day. Hell most garage rock drummers in the USA in the 60s out played him. From June 62 to August 62 they asked at least 7 other drummers to join and they all turned the job down. When they got to Ringo, they were getting desperate.

  32. I’ll list all the songs that suck, Martha My Dear, Maxwell’s Silver Hammer, All I’ve Got To Do, Mr. Moonlight, Good Day Sunshine, Revolution 9, Something, You Know My Name Look Up The Number, Long And Winding Road, Chains, I’ll Be Back, If I Fell, All My Loving, Yes It Is, You Won’t See Me, It’s Only Love, All Together Now, Here There And Everywhere, When I’m Sixty Four, For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite, All You Need Is Love, Yesterday, Paperback Writer, I’ll Cry Instead, Birthday, Get Back, Obla Di Obla Du, The continuing Story of Bungalow Bill, Rocky Raccoon, Honey Pie, Wild Honey Pie, Your Mother Should Know, For No One, If I Needed Someone, The Inner Light, Penny Lane, (There are just too many that suck to list them all)

  33. Songs I LIKE or EVEN LOVE are, Taxman, Helter Skelter, Drive My Car, The first BBC album in 94, Everybody’s got Something To Hide Except Me and My Monkey, Cry Baby Cry, Come Together (Even though it’s a ripoff of a Chuck Berry song.} I Feel Fine, I like the Guitar but the song itself sucks. Tomorrow Never Knows, The anthology version of I Am The Walrus. Overall a short list.

  34. Really don’t think this guy listens to music of this era, and probably isn’t a musician. Like seriously, what the heck bro. Some of the songs have decent arguments, but like this is really just a list of songs this person doesn’t like personally, not an objective list. I really feel like he only put Yesterday on there to mess with people.

  35. No I don’t agree with a lot of the. Yesterday is an awesome song. Yes it’s very simple but sometimes even most times, simple is better than otherwise. It’s one of their best. I actually really like ob-la – do and don’t pass me by. They aren’t greats but they aren’t the Beatles worst. Birthday I kind of give you. But maxwells silver hammer is actually a good song though if you pay attention to the words, it may not sound great because of their nature but tune wise it’s great. I’ll agree to a point about within you without you cause I’m not a big fan of the vocal version. But the instrumental track on anthology is great so I really wouldn’t include it cause of that. I have a big playlist on Spotify so I would say any not on it would be the worst though to be honest some are great songs, I just don’t care for them like hey bulldog, I am the walrus, the long and winding road.

  36. Well some of the songs are indeed worst. But I doubt this entire list because it doesn’t have Hello, Goodbye but Within You Without You. Hello, Goodbye is one of the most overrated songs by The Beatles. It is so embarrassing, even the tune is so stupid. Obla-di Obla-da is still the best of all granny songs by Paul.

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