Worst Beatles song ever

The Long And Winding Road and When I'm Sixty-Four and All You Need Is Love do not deserve to be touched in this poll

Maxwell's Silver Hammer is my favorite beatles song.

'Yellow Submarine' is one of their very best.

Long and winding road.

Ringo does not deserve to be on this list, WGO and YS are great.

long and winding road, easily.

Actually, no, I hate All You Need Is Love more.

The real answer is Hey Jude though.

The people, they don't want their Beatles twee.

Would a similar series of Who polls result in wishes to excise "It's Not True", "Cobwebs and Strange", "Tattoo", "Belboy", "Squeezebox", etc?

really don't get the LAWR hate at *all*

Would a similar series of Who polls result in wishes to excise "It's Not True", "Cobwebs and Strange", "Tattoo", "Belboy", "Squeezebox", etc?

"Tattoo" is brilliant

really don't get the LAWR hate at *all*

I'm with you on that one, it's almost like received wisdom or something

Off this list I really like 64, All Together Now, and Maxwell.

The worst has got to be Long and Winding, Spector version or not...

Somewhat appropriate, via this week's Harper's Weekly (regarding the G-20 summit): "Anarchists in black sang, to the tune of theBeatles' "Yellow Submarine," "We all live in a fascist bully state."

i think a taste of honey is the one i could live w/o hearing ever again ...

"Long and Winding Road" by a long and winding mile.

Btw I love all those Who songs except I'm not sure on Bellboy...

I like that one too!

really don't get the LAWR hate at *all*

I think the excessive levels of drear have something to do with it.

It's nothing mindblowing, for sure, but the tune's kinda nice, kinda elegant. There's plenty worse by The Beatles.

Long and Winding Road by a comfortable margin - an interminably long, repetitive song that hinges on a dirgey melody and treacly lyrics. I don't blame Spector at all, the faults here are pure Paul. Its him at his most maudlin and self-indulgent, lacking in any energy or creative arrangements, it just goes on and on... and on

terrible

"Mr. Moonlight".

i might've voted Mr. Moonlight, but I listened to it yesterday and was kinda amazed by Lennon's batshit delivery.

kinda funny that so many of these are Paul's songs

"All You Need Is Love" for me.

kinda funny that so many of these are Paul's songs

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it's because they don't understand whimsy or fun, and they need john lennon to tell them how to feel.

Here I thought it was that McCartney was a music hall twat. My bad.

I think Paul is responsible for only 6 of these songs actually.

6 McCartney, 3 Lennon, 1 both and 4 covers. So the taint of Macca is strong.

Results 1 - 10 of about 221,000 for paul mccartney's taint.

Love Me Do

A Taint Of Honey.

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xpost - The taint of Macca is strong on every Beatles album. He contributed a lot more than the rest overall so it's not surprising that he's got a couple extra here.

Basically if you hate Paul McCartney, then you hate the Beatles.

I could have lived a happy life without ever seeing "The taint of Macca"

uhhhhhhhhhhhhh

these Beatles polls will prove the down fall of ILM

dizzy miss lizzy still the worst of this

Basically if you hate Paul McCartney, then you hate the Beatles.

I don't hate him, but I hate some of his material

Well, I love the Beatles and hate McCartney, so no.

When he was good he was quite good, but similarly his lowlights are truly low.

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i love the beatles and mccartney has some of my favorite beatles songs ever but his bad songs are fucking terrible

When he was good he was quite good

^ awesome tribute

Basically if you hate Paul McCartney, then you hate the Beatles.

this is kinda like Peter Bagge's argument that anyone who hates Mike Love doesn't really love the Beach Boys (which is kinda true. After all, he wrote Wrinkles)

No, it's more like anyone who hates Brian Wilson doesn't really love the Beach Boys.

in that case, i don't really hate Mike Love's contributions to the Beach Boys, I just kinda hate him as a person ... but hating Paul McCartney? Don't hate, haterz.

that these are the 'worst ever songs' written by the beatles is pretty amusing, cause I really like almost all of them

And really, why single out McCartney for the bad songs. Sure he wrote them. The rest played on them, put their names on it and released on their albums. Sure, Paul's a bit of a control freak by some accounts but they could've blocked the likes of Honey Pie if they could have been bothered. It does say THE BEATLES on the cover after all.

There are no bad Beatles songs. Live with it.

I agree with that.

what would a comp of these tracks sound like, i wonder (bet it makes for a better record than MMT)? anyone wanna do the honors?

diabolical!

...but fun.

This has been fun. I disqualified the German song as an of-its-time novelty, and all of the covers because they're not written by the Beatles (and because I like them!)

"When I Get Home" rocks, and the writing/playing on "What Goes On" is fine in my book (the vocal is, you know, Ringo.) "Long And Winding Road" I'm ambivalent about; dreary and maudlin, yeah, but nothing to get worked up about.

Of the twee-er tracks from "Yellow Sub" onwards, all the 1-2-3 A-B-C stuff in "All Together Now" grates like a Raffi song to me, and a quickly tossed-off one at that, so that one.

A comp of these tracks would be like the greatest Herman's Hermits record ever.

If you hate Raffi, you hate the Beatles

Fuck a Long & Winding Road

I hated Long and Winding Road for about 20 years, and I've finally come round to appreciating it - though prefer the Let It Be Naked version.

Let It Be Naked is so fantastic. Listened to it last night.

Some of McCartney's songs could better have stayed off those albums. I mean, "Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da" is horrible and harmonically boring, and he wrote "Yellow Submarine" too after all.

But his ballads and pre-rock numbers are mostly beautiful, and when they get all that shit it isn't because they are bad, but because some people have this stupid idea that rock is by definition supposed to be "rebellion" and that whatever your mum and teacher likes must be rubbish.

i really like the sound of his voice on ob-la-di, ob-la-da. i never thought of myself as a superfan but reasons to enjoy damn near any of their songs creep up pretty organically for me. i agree they wouldn't be 'half' the band they were if everything was all raw and curmudgeonly or whatever, i think folks wishing that would feel the same tbh.

Haha, some of these are pretty good, most are inoffensive.

What? No option for an Anthology track like "Free As a Bird" or "You'll Be Mine"????

i'll admit to loving "ob-la-di, ob-la-da" ... I think it's fun, nice beat/melody. I mean, if that's boring melodically, then so is every ska/reggae song.

Every ske/reggae song IS BORING.

Ska, even!

every ski/raga song is boring

i suddenly liked LAWR when i heard someone cover it with a bit of passion. paul's performance is very blah, like i don't picture him doing anything other than standing at the end of the "road", singing at the ground, shrugging, but i still think it's a better song than dizzy miss lizzy or roll over beethoven, for example.

> There are no bad Beatles songs. Live with it.
― Nate Carson,

closest to truth statement ever

long and winding road is great.

fucking hate mr.moonlight

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by that same logic my vote is for "A Taste Of Honey" which represents them at their most embryonic, therefore least enjoyable by whatever "objective" standards I'm able to summon here. I might hate some of the other songs more due to overexposure, but there's no denying their impact and importance to many people. I think ATOH probably summons up the least amount of memories in the collective unconscious. For example, I think I voted for Silver Hammer in the worst Abbey Road poll, but my enduring memory of that song is my sisters enacting a live action version as a play for our family. So I cannot in good conscience pretend it is "the worst", I guess it all comes down to people's subjective interpretations of what "worst" means.

"Tattoo" is brilliant

I would pump any of these songs before "Honey Pie" ..

"Free As A Bird" and "Real Love" were just fine.

> "Tattoo" is brilliant

A lot of what makes 60s albums so great is that the fey songs are right next to the slammers and the experiments. Maybe, even as they were forming the idea of the concept album, they didn't worry so much about the album as a unified thing. A statement. We're worse off for it.

The Anthology version of Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da is terrific, much better than the officially released version.

I really like the Anthology-era B-side remix of Yellow Submarine with all the sound effects boosted up; it shows what a gem of day-glo pop-art proto-psychedelic whimsy it is!

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No problem with the top two at all.

I don't get at all why All You Need Is Love is on this poll. But yeah, I can understand why people wouldn't like the first two.

LAWR never stuck out to me (naked or otherwise). But Maxwell's Silver Hammer has such awesome early Moog on it. I'm a sucker for analog synth.

Further proof that A Hard Days Night is perfect.

i like The Long And Winding Road, for all its schmaltz

anthology version > naked > let it be >>>>> many other beatles songs

my dad, the other day: "I heard this Beatles song on the radio this morning I'd never heard before. It was about this lad that kept killing people but it was, you know, quite jolly. Quite clever. I liked it."