First of all it's obvious that "You Know My Name (Look up the number)" was
done as a joke/tounge in cheek song that is supposed to be awful (at least thats the way I always took it, lol)
As far as Revolution 9; It is really not a song at all; but a bunch of various
recorded "sounds"; many of them are John (& Yoko) saying all types of strange things and making strange noises, some of them hilarious, backward recordings of orchestral pieces, slowed down and sped up, a baby cooing, a choir and dozens more unidentifiable sounds, all throughout John's repeating "number nine, number nine, number nine (Yoko: "You become naked") (John: "the watusi, the twist")
I wouldn't be surprised if there are literally 100's of various recordings in the mix, many layered over each other! I would call it more of a soundscape, to end the album before "Good Night" designed to blow peoples minds, or drive them crazy, lol!
Most of the songs people listed were some of my favorites; Across the Universe is one of my all time favorites (I think I love the version on "Past Masters Vol. 2 even better than on the Let it Be album) I also love Georges stuff, in fact sometimes I will play "Sgt. Peppers" just to hear "within' you, without you"
The songs I like the least though are the early "mop-top" songs, I love every album from Rubber Soul on, when they first "experimented" with pot & acid and started writing songs that were not always about being in love (I think the first in that catagory was "Nowhere Man")
So I'd have to go with the early (I wanna hold your hand/love love me do) stuff as my least favorite, although I can see why, when people first heard those songs they knocked their socks off, being a totally new sound.
I also am not a fan of some of the McCartney ballads like "Long, and Winding Road" & "Michelle". FINAL ANSWER !!
I have to go and watch "The True History of the Traveling Wilbury's" on Sundance now (it's only 25min. long, unfortunately!)
(Fortunately, for anyone reading this, I HAVE to go, lol!!!!)
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msbandaaron
17 years ago
wat is rong with u fluffhead?? their early stuff is just as great maybe better
n e ways i must say that the beatles are a great band but their worst song ever is I want you (shes so heavy) sorry but it is redundant and it drags on and it is going and cuts off to an abrupt end. Creative but terrible. R.I.P. John Lennon & George Harrison
GOO GOO GOO JOOB
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preppy-3
16 years ago
My votes for their worst are:
I Want You (She's so heavy)--like the previous poster said--it's redundant
Honey Pie
Only a Northern Song
Come Together--Areosmith's cover of it in the 1970s was much better
Revolution 9--like it or not it WAS considered a song
Some of their early stuff isn't that good but the five I listed are just impossible to listen to.
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musicuser_72
16 years ago
I think there´s no such thing as "the worst Beatle song",I think it is only those points of view from those so-called "fans" but are nothing but a bunch of ignorants who don´t know a damn about good music performed by the great Fab Four.Please,let all of us forgive them because they are kind of blockheads.Poor little ones!
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preppy-3
16 years ago
Hmmmmm--so we're the "ignorants"? Get a dictionary and learn how to put your comments in a gramatically correct way and I'll take them seriously. BTW, even the Beatles themselves said some of their work was lousy. John Lennon said he hated everything they did before "Sgt. Pepper's". Heck, he even bashed that album saying it wasn't that great! And no group has all good songs and no lousy ones. That's impossible.
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musicuser_72
16 years ago
Well, first of all,´scuse my poor grammar,I must do something about it(as the Wings at the Speed of Sound song).
They say Tchaikovsky himself DIDN´T LIKE his Nutcracker Suite.
I HAVE NO further commentaries.
Thanks a lot.
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16 years ago
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kenny24753
16 years ago
I hate "You Know My Name,Look Up The Number." Why the *beep* did they even make it?!
-From The Desk Of MrBrightside42
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msbandaaron
16 years ago
WHAT HAVE I DONE?!?!?!?!? I was listening to abbey road shortly after i posted this (and by shortly i mean about a couple of days) and I Want You (shes so heavy) played (no surprise there) and when it started I liked it! WOW! But their all time worst song... well 1. there is no beatles song i dont like to some degree & 2. i am a relatively new beatles fan being one only a few months (downloaded bungalow bill, while my guitar gently weeps, cant buy me love cover by sum1 else, and help!) and fell in love with their music but i haven't heard alot of their songs because someone i know is gonna give me all of them but is taking his sweet time but on the across the universe soundtrack i heard mr. kite and blue jay way and didnt enjoy them very much (note i have not heard the beatle versions yet) but these may possibly be their worst (dont criticize me if im rong... because i have not heard the beatle versions of either.) p.s. i love i wanna hold ur hand & while my guitar gently weeps but the across the universe soundtrack versions of them suck. Do those count as worst beatle songs??
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Desertman84
16 years ago
Add Revolution No.9 to the list of worse Beatle songs.So it is Blue Jay Way and Revolution No.9 as worse songs.And Revolution No.9 is a lot worse than Blue Jay Way.
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