Worst Beatles song on the White Album

i mean, it might have been cool in the 60s when that kind of meta-textuality was an interesting novelty in pop songs. it just seems sort of disdainful of the audience's guile in a way that is annoying, and reminds me that john lennon was not the most interesting thinker ever. i hear it as him saying "you think this means anything? idiots." maybe that's the wrong reading of the song.

sorry, i meant "gullibility" not guile above

'glass onion' awesome if only for that weird sinister tone to it esp the part w/ lennon's 'oh yeah. OH. YEAH. OH YEAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!' over the strings and that beat. love that the beatles not only could do beatles songs better than anyone else could they did beatles songs better than anyone also, as if dylan had decided to top mouse and the traps. groan at 'revolution 9' (predictably) getting that many votes, was gonna moan at 'birthday' getting votes for worst (and no votes for best in the other) until i saw ppl giving votes for worst to damn near anything. i mean 'julia' got two votes.

I think my least favorite song on this album is actually Yer Blues. It's fine and all but kind of generic british blues and hence doesn't have the 'special' factor almost every other song on the album has, where everything feels like a discrete, unique little short story composition. Seems much more suited to a Lennon solo album.

three people voted for long, long, long!

they were so rong....rong...rong...this time

i know the white album is the best ever because pretty much any song that gets voted as the worst sparks visceral outrage

'glass onion' awesome if only for that weird sinister tone to it esp the part w/ lennon's 'oh yeah. OH. YEAH. OH YEAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!' over the strings and that beat. love that the beatles not only could do beatles songs better than anyone else could they did beatles songs better than anyone also

Harry Nilsson beat them to the punch by a year - pretty sure this is where they got the idea from given John and Paul's love for this guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-3IH3T1DoE

shameful fact: I got a fraternity jersey that said "GLASS ONION" on the back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MckifQZuIxE

Sound familiar? ;)

"Wild Honey Pie" is a classic interlude. Its placement in the sequencing on Side 1 helps to establishes the album's playful atmosphere.

A similar case could be made for "Honey Pie," but I just simply hate it as a song on its own. I would personally enjoy Side 4 a lot better if they had instead opted for "Not Guilty" or "What the New Mary Jane" or "Hey Bulldog" or "Junk" or "The Inner Light" or really anything.

so what all did Yoko do on this album...? It's weird how much I've listened to this music and still notice new details. For ex. it had never occurred to me that that's Yoko answering Paul's vocal in the "I would like you to dance/take a ch-ch-chance" bit of "Birthday". was wondering if some of the other high vocal harmonies on various songs are hers. I assume Lewinson's documented this somewhere...

She sings on "Bungalow Bill" too. Re-listening to this album it's kind of mindblowing once you've spent a few years getting to know "Plastic Ono Band", "Fly", etc. A shame The Beatles didn't just stick together and let Yoko join the band, they could've been the next Velvet Underground.

God, the sequence on this album that goes Piggies/Rocky Raccoon/Don't Pass Me By/Why Don't We Do It In The Road is really a slog.

I guess Patti Harrison also sings on "Birthday"...?

" A shame The Beatles didn't just stick together and let Yoko join the band, they could've been the next Velvet Underground"

not really

true say. shame Macca doesn't share the same view

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow6W7U-ccd0

My parents didn't own the White Album and my local library didn't have a copy of it so it ended up being one of the last Beatles albums that I got to hear, meaning I had spent several years reading about before I ever listened to it, and I was really disappointed by quite a few of these tracks. Everything I read about it made it sound so amazing, this sprawling mess of out-there weirdness, but it's more like an album and a half of really great stuff and then some outakes.

I think some of Yoko's albums actually have this out there weirdness thing that my imaginary White Album did.

Junk and Come And Get It shoulda been on it in place of Piggies and Rocky. IMO.

There's a few Beatles songs I'm not that interested in, but I thing Piggies and Rocky Racoon are the only ones that make me want to back in time and smack Harrison and McCartney around the head, Godfrey Bloom style.

make me want to go travel in time, even

to travel back in time, goddamnit

also you have to factor in the fact that they were partly responsible for multiple murder.

To all who don't like "Honey Pie", Lennon played the awesome pseudo-jazz guitar solo in it, which ought to make it immune to dislike. Somewhere I read that he played that off the cuff (just like the piano intro to OLDOLD), it wasn't like George's famous "thought-out" solos. Which makes it even more awesome because Lennon was a pretty rough 'n' ready guitarist.

i dunno, i think i'm just a white album believer at this point, it's all great

"Savoy Truffle" has become my favorite WA Harrisong.

I like Ob La Di Ob La Da, Honey Pie and Revolution 9 a lot, can't get my head around them being more unpopular than Piggies and Rocky Raccon.

Piggies has that rad harpsichord solo in it.

Terry Manning (engineer on Zep III & Tres Hombres) did a wild version of "Savoy Truffle" in 1969, it's what showed me the good news

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ4jeRWjQ0Y

i think the only WA track i could do without is the slow version of 'revolution,' lennon's wishy-washiness re: "you can count me out...IN!!!" always kind of irked me.

so the four best songs on this album include Martha My Dear eh

the Bee Gees song about Barry's dog is better fwiw

Martha My Dear is great. But that's not really how "worst song" polls work anyway.

I know and I can't remember if/what I voted for here but Martha always bugs me. Paul and his dopey cutesy shit.

It is how we should elect presidents maybe. (I'm think of the president as an involuntarily drafted service position a la one of those Arthur C Clarke novels).

so many animals on this album - raccoons, pigs, dogs, birds - what's up with that

monkey..

I also strongly dislike Martha My Dear, and I was surprised to see it show up in the top 70 in the big Beatles poll, just behind, like, Day Tripper and Can't Buy Me Love.

Martha My Dear. I like the way the guitars break in during the "take a good look around you" part. Depending on what day of the week it is Paul says it's inspired by a sheepdog, Jane Asher, and the voice in his head, his 'muse', that helps him write songs.

I'm not saying that when you look up the term "unreliable narrator" in the dictionary you see the term illustrated with a picture of Paul McCartney. I'm just saying that if you mentioned the term "unreliable narrator" to Paul, he'd tell you that he invented it.

Tiger + elephant in Bungalow Bill btw.

When we did the poll four years ago, I had "Martha My Dear" at #2 (looked it up). Didn't get a single vote otherwise. Haven't changed my mind.

Check that (same mistake I made at the time); I wasn't the only vote, but it missed the Top 60.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1ApYUxlw6I

so many animals on this album - raccoons, pigs, dogs, birds - what's up with that

― Οὖτις, Friday, April 17, 2015 6:02 PM (28 minutes ago)

Allegory, dude

Wow, that's amazing (xpost). Dave Hill looks like the Big Bang Theory guy.

The White Album is Noah's Flood but instead of an ark it's a psychedelic attic.

Did that harpsichord demo of "Something" ever come out? I remember reading George taped some stuff when they were SI'ing onto "Piggies".

I love that even later Slade also covered Moby Grape's "Omaha" and Fairport Conventions "It's alright ma it's only witchcraft" (up on youtube from the BBC collections)...and plenty more, they had pretty eclectic tastes