Worst Beatles song on the White Album

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