Worst Beatles song on the White Album

I have never been able to get behind "Happiness Is A Warm Gun"

This is tough... face off between Honey Pie and Ob-la-di. Unlike n/a the latter has no redeeming factors. I just cannot hear the song anymore.

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I don't agree with SB but that is kind of OTM (ditto Happiness Is A Warm Gun)

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crutis you just broke my heart

and i just broke my promise, consider yourself either immune or loved yet

ob la di, or don't pass me by, which is the only one i don't remember

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"Long Long Long" has always kinda bored the piss out of me, but "Revo 1" is pretty pointless compared to the single, so it gets the axe. And "Ob La Di" is great, 'specially on headphones (the percussions!), so fuck all y'all.

And for those of you predicting a "Revolution 9" win, get thee to this thread: when i get to the bottom i go back to the top of the WHITE ALBUM POLL

(Wow, PERFECT thread title, in that context!)

I love Rocky Raccoon. The intro almost ruins the song but it's lovable when the real song starts. It's one of the few Beatles songs I love singing along to in public. I used to sing it on the streets with my guitar when I ran out of bus money in highschool.

"Rocky"'s one of the few I learned to play passably, too.

xpost - PERFECT title on that link, considering my context

The more I think about Revolution 1 the more smug, clueless and obnoxious it becomes - idiotic lyrics without the saving grace of the single's rebel energy. Yet Piggies is more obnoxious still.

As the years progress, I'm far more aggravated by smugness and petulance than by Paul's sappiness and gimmicks.

And for those of you predicting a "Revolution 9" win, get thee to this thread: when i get to the bottom i go back to the top of the WHITE ALBUM POLL

That track is the exact kind of track that might win both kinds of polls though, although I doubt it will win here.

Dunno, the "other haters" have not reached consensus, so it's possible.

I have the impression there is quite some agreement amongst "Revolution 9" lovers that "Honey Pie" is the worst song on this album. It represents, well, in many ways the opposite of "Revolution 9".

Savoy Truffle does nothing for me and it barely sounds like the Beatles. It's just dumb.

it's a shame that George got two incredible classic songs on here (Guitar and Long Long Long) and two giant stinkers (Piggies and Savoy)

If they had edited it down and decided that this should be the White Album:
Glass Onion, Ob La Di Ob La Da, Wild Honey Pie, The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, I'm So Tired, Piggies, Why Don't We Do It In The Road, I Will, Birthday, Savoy Truffle, Good Night
...that would be a terrible album.

eh, it would still be a pretty awesome album

hey Piggies is awesome!

btw does anyone know how they got that insane piano sound on "Birthday"

if Rev No. 9 wins this I am going to be v.v. disappointed

even though i bow to the awesomeness of the single version of Revolution, I also love Revolution 1 - becuz they seem to be taking the piss out of themselves a bit with it. also, need it be mentioned that y'allz need to get that recently discovered 10-minute Take 20 of Revolution? Because it is rad.

I believe the "Birthday" piano was amplified through a Leslie speaker - that was one of their favourite techniques for awhile.

where can i find it? xp

also where can i find the 20-minute helter skelter?

You can find the Revolution thang here: http://nevergetoutoftheboat.blogspot.com/2009/02/beatles.html
You can find the 20-min. Helter Skelter collecting dust in the EMI archives. You may have to do some Mission: Impossible-style shit to hear it, though.

Let me hear your balalaikas ringing out.

thanks tyler!

You can find the Revolution thang here: http://nevergetoutoftheboat.blogspot.com/2009/02/beatles.html

holy shit this is awesome

The "mama/papa" falsettos at the end of that extended Revolution take are awesome.

I think a lot of what I like about Martha My Dear, which is awesome, btw, is the fact that the right-channel trumpets during the first verse, the REALLY DEEP ONES, sound more like a phat 303 line than real trumpets.

Whoa that revolution take 20 is lovely.

i need to vote

went Wild Honey Pie

xxpost yeah! i think there's talk of it on the carnival of light thread ... it's pretty much the best unreleased Beatles thing floating around out there imo.

Revolution 9 is the worst song It's just gibberish

Went with 'Savoy Truffle', terrible dogshit.

http://www.fab4collectibles.com/images/158%29%20Savoy%20Truffle.jpg

erm it really is ob-la-di ob-la-da isn't it (he says having listened to all the potential worst songs)

No way! 'Ob La Di' is still the only remaster I've actually heard (over the speakers in hmv the day of release) and it sounded joyous. The snide touches are the bad things on this album (mostly George's, why was he so pissed off?)

They completely overdo the 'laughing' effect on OLDOLD, once would have been ok but more than once and it's tacky as fuck, plus the tune kinda sucks and not even a decent trumpet line can salvage it from pure skipness

(imo, not heard the remaster)

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well f-in' done

I cannot believe I'm the only one who voted for glass onion

I can only applaud this result!

I'm amazed at how much more "Honey Pie" is disliked than "Wild Honey Pie."

"Wild Honey Pie" is under a minute, and it doesn't really wear out its welcome. "Honey Pie" is interminable.

She was a working girl
North of England way
Now she's hit the big time
In the U.S.A.
And if she could only hear me
This is what I'd say.

Honey pie you are making me crazy
I'm in love but I'm lazy
So won't you please come home.

Oh honey pie my position is tragic
Come and show me the magic
of your Hollywood song.

You became a legend of the silver screen
And now the thought of meeting you
Makes me weak in the knee.

Oh honey pie you are driving me frantic
Sail across the Atlantic
To be where you belong.

Honey pie, come back to me.

I like it like that,
Oohh, I like this kinda, hot kind of music.
Hot kind of music, play it to me,
Play it to me Hollywood blues

Will the wind that blew her boat
Across the sea
Kindly send her sailing back to me.

Honey pie you are making me crazy
I'm in love but I'm lazy
So won't you please come home.

god this song fucking SUCKS

i think i've listened to it all of twice in the 12 years i've had this album and prob 100 times i've listened to it