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10 Best/Worst Beatles Songs?

posted 14 years ago by Covlat1
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WORST:

No covers. I'm also not including Revolution 9, because its less of a song than an experimentation with sound. Also not Wild Honey Pie, because that isn't a song.

10. I Want You (She's So Heavy)

--What saves this from being lower is the guitar riff, which is decent enough. However, the song drags for over 7 minutes, over half being that same dull monotone "She's So Heavy" riff over and over. The song also feels like it stayed back in the 60's, if you follow me. Most Beatles songs transcribe to present day well, but this doesn't. Also, the lyrics are God-Awful. Only 16 original words in the entire song.--

9. Why Don't We Do it In The Road?

--Pretty self explanatory. Would have been lower, but its a fairly fun song.--

8. Doctor Robert

7. Blue Jay Way

--"Please Don't Be Long" x 500--

6. Yer Blues

5. And I Love Her

--Some love this song. Some hate it. Im for the latter. Schmaltzy lyrics, even for an early beatles song, on top of a overly predictable guitar riff which is boring. Looking back, the lyrics also SUCK entirely.--

4. Don't Pass Me By

--Ringo...--

3. Flying

2. Honey Pie

--Take and I love her, cheese the lyrics up by 50 times, add a generic piano riff and some of the most over the top, schmaltzy as hell vocals, and you have this song. --

1. The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill/ Rocky Racoon (TIE)

--WTF is this crap??--

BEST:

This list was considerably more fun to conceive. If your looking for Hey Jude or Let It Be, prepare to be disappointed.

10. We Can Work It Out / All You Need Is Love (TIE)

9. Something

8. Nowhere Man/ Tomorrow Never Knows (TIE)

7. Here Comes The Sun

6. For No one

5. Rain/ Strawberry Fields Forever (TIE)

4. I Don't Want To Spoil The Party / I am The Walrus (TIE)

3. Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End

2. She's Leaving Home / While My Guitar Gently Weeps (TIE)

1. A Day In The Life

[–] Totoroisperfect 14 years ago

Worst:

Why Don't We Do It In The Road?

Wild Honey Pie

Yellow Submarine

Don't Pass Me By

The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill

Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except For Me And My Monkey

Your Mother should Know

When I'm 64

The Word

Glass Onion

Best by Album:

Please Please Me: Do You Want To Know A Secret?

With the Beatles: All My Loving

A Hard Day's Night: Can't Buy Me Love

Help!: The Night Before

Rubber Soul: Norwegian Wood/Girl TIE

Revolver: Love You Too

Sgt. Peppers: Good Morning Good Morning (Wake up to it every morning)

Magical Mystery Tour: All You Need Is Love

White Album: While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Abbey Road: Something

Yellow Submarine: It's All Too Much

Hey Jude: Hey Jude

Let It Be: Across the Universe (best Beatles song)

[–] hallogallo 14 years ago

Actually, "Flying" is a great little track, it's just an incidental piece of music, it isn't meant to be considered as a song. Bet you don't like "Revolution 9" either LOL

"She's Leaving Home" is awful, can't believe that and the dreadful "Lovely Rita" made it onto Sgt.Pepper, while "Only a Northern Song" and "It's All To Much" (probably THE BEST BEATLES SONG EVER) where left on the shelf.

"I think you're a load of old crap too, Mr Mulligan."

[–] porschesbs 14 years ago

Are you people real Beatles fans? I love 'I Want You (She's So Heavy);' that song really has an incredible hypnotic power. Just let yourself drown in heavy guitar.

'Why Don't We Do it In The Road?' is awesome and presents a very valid question.

'Yer Blues' is another song I find very powerful. I love the authentic blues-rock sound and lyrics John composed.

I like 'Honey Pie.' It pleases me to hear the 1940s-feeling of the woodwinds and Paul's singing.

'The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill' and 'Rocky Raccoon' are both awesome, especially the latter. Umm, have you actually listened to the lyrics? 'Rocky Raccoon' may be the very best Beatles song to sing along to (or at least one of the best).

I don't find any particular offence with any of the others, even if they're not as good as some other Beatles songs.

And 'When I'm Sixty-Four' is a darned near perfect pop tune. It has fantastic lyrics that are great to sing along with. The clarinet quartet makes the song particularly unique and memorable and adds a lot to the song. And finally, I find it one of the Beatles' more romantic love songs (really, think about someone you know when you listen to it).

[–] valro 13 years ago

For those who only grew up with CDs, I would like to say that "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" orignally was the last song on the A side of the record. Because of that, the way the song ended abruptly made it quite effective when it was heard that way.

[–] Druff 14 years ago

7. Blue Jay Way

--"Please Don't Be Long" x 500--

You sicken me.

[–] Covlat1 13 years ago

well excuse me for having an opinion

[–] Covlat1 13 years ago

well excuse me for having an opinion

[–] hallogallo 13 years ago

You're excused.

"I think you're a load of old crap too, Mr Mulligan."