Worst Beatles song on the White Album

Long Long Long is the best Beatles song

Ob la Di Ob La Da

This album is so varied and largely self-indulgent that I don't really begrudge votes for any of the songs. Except Long Long Long and Dear Prudence.

My standard answer was Honey Pie but I think I listened to it recently and found it just kind of mediocre as opposed to awful. So I don't know.

The line "Take these broken wings and learn to fly", is just devastating.

"Long Long Long" though - that is the ultimate hidden gem in the entire Beatles career.

The line "Take these broken wings and learn to fly", is just devastating.

Remember that Mr. Mister tune wasn't written until 17 years later though. ;)

Thanks thread for inspiring my new display name.

"Honey Pie" is the one I dread. The only one, really.

Yes.

"I'm in love but I'm lazy..." you gotta be kidding me .. one of the few beatles songs it hurts me to listen to

"Honey Pie". The only song I would have cut from this album.

Mother Nature's Son

^^^^^^^^^^crazy

I love every single one of the Paul songs that's gotten dissed here (and on every other White Album thread ever). No matter how lazy John got, Paul was still spinning out great hooks and catchy twists and so on. You just wish they'd been working as closely as they were early on, or that Paul had been humbler to listen or something - certainly there's some lyrics that might have needed another go-over.

Which isn't to say that John's lazy across the board here; he has probably the three best tracks, but he's definitely not burning the midnight oil on this thing the way Paul was, IMO. And then you have "Revolution 1," which beats out "Piggies" for worst by being not only draggy and pointless, but also redundant. The single version was awesome or at least distinctive - there's no reason at all to have this song here. It's not like this album needed filler for god's sake.

Shit! I forgot all about "Revolution 1." I change my vote.

never mind earlier, mother fuckin nature's son you disgust me snrub

I think there need to be more ladies on this thread so Honey Pie can get a little more love! Voted for EGSTHEFMAMM.

Woah it took 67 (!) takes to get "Long Long Long". I wonder what take one sounds like jeeez....

Doctor Casino pretty much OTM about this album in general.

I really like a lot of the usual suspects that ppl diss on when it comes to this record (DPMB, Rocky, Piggies, Yer Blues). So I'm voting for "Why Don't We Do it in the Road." One Lennon blues mantra is enough for the album & I'll take YB over WDWDIITR.

revolutiuon 1 is awesome.

o wait. Why don't we do it in the road is Macca. Well, whatever..

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.

(Voting for 'Dear Prudence' will automatically get you a life long site ban right? Because it should)

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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

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

"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.