Beatles Fans Top 10 Least Liked Beatles Songs
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- For me, there is no such thing as the Beatles worst song. Instead there are some you just like more than others. In this video, we took the data from over 100 Beatles fans who were asked what their least liked Beatles song was and put those results into this top 10. I'm sure there will be disagreements about the content of such a list, but it's all good fun and there are some interesting stories behind some of these tracks.
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Blue Jay Way does not deserve to be on this list. It's an amazing track, ahead of its time.
I just as an exercise tried to whittle down my 10 least favorite, and Blue Jay Way is my least on that album but had enough to keep it out of the bottom 10.
I genuinely LOVE that song. The atmosphere, the mood, the story and picture it paints...
Yeah, one of the best on Magical Mystery Tour album
I love 'Blue Jay Way'
Blue Jay Way, like many of his songs, lacks any time spent into making it a good production. The rhythm track was recorded in 1 take. It just feels like they tried to rush over and finish his songs as quickly as they could so they could move on to their own recording endeavors, and it shows. The production on some Harrisongs is downright lousy, in my opinion.
I never knew people disliked Maxwell until now. The juxtaposition of an upbeat/light pop song with the darkness of the lyrics is brilliant.
it's to dark and is a turnoff.
Sophisticated art is not for everyone
i start abbeyroad at oh darling bc of how bad that song is
I like it. My first exposure to it was that silly Bee Gees & Peter Frampton movie in the 70's. When I discovered it on Abbey Road, I found an appreciation for it. Not a bad track on that album.
Personally i have always enjoyed the track, some people just cant take dark humor or anything that deviates from the norm. To each their own ,but i can appreciate Love me Do and Maxwell for what they are.
I CANNOT stand how Blue Jay Way is on most of these lists. It’s one of the greatest psychedelic songs of all time. Such a spooky/trippy vibe, It’s one George should’ve been very proud of.
Agreed it’s one of their best during their psychedelic phase, magical mystery tour is underrated
Blue Jay Way is weird and wonderful. I find it strange people don't like it.
i agree completely it also was very innovative as far as it's production. 'only a northern song' is the one GEORGE tune i could most easily live without.
I love Maxwell's Silverhammer. English isn't my native language so when I heard it as a child I didn't understand the lyrics but the melody always made me happy. Decades later when I had learned English and actually got the lyrics, I found the clash between the happy melody and the dark lyrics hilarious.
Yes, it's very much like Tom & Jerry violence, cartoonesque.
Interestingly, Helter skelter was the opposite. Heavy heavy tune with fluffy lyrics (taking a ride on a playground slide?). But no one really talks about that.
The Beatles are kind of like Mozart. The “bad songs” are more like failed yet interesting attempts but very much a worthwhile listen to get the greater context of their songwriting genius. What’s crazy is the Beatles gave away more hits than their relatively small number of “bad songs”.
Lmao the Beatles are not mozart
@@boobtuber06 yes, just as "kind of like Mozart" doesn't mean the same thing as "are Mozart".
As someone who has conducted great Mozart works, such as Don Giovanni, Magic Flute, Marriage of Figaro and the late symphonies I can say that there is also "bad Mozart". It's true that comparing the Beatles to Mozart may not be the best choice. Lennon in particular despised opera, and could not sit through even a few minutes of a live operatic production. Mozart was a singular genius who did not need a "producer" "arranger" or "orchestrator". He was not however a lyricist, so he did have a writing partner for his operas, either da Ponte or in the case of Magic Flute Schickaneder. (The opera seria works are another matter. Those were long standing texts written by Metastasio, who by today's standards is not considered a good writer.)
In any event the blistering 3 minute Lennon song lyric is a completley different animal than even the best Mozart aria text. By the same token the layers of counterpoint in a Mozart operatic sextet blow anything John and Paul conceived away in terms of musical complexity.
It really is apples and oranges.
I am a fan of both.
@@canalesworks1247 Thank you for this interesting and informative post. As one who studied classical voice (back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, lol), I can tell you I enjoyed singing Beatles songs almost equally with warbling Mozart arias. Have to admit, though, that when it came to performing, "Martha My Dear", for example, was just a weence easier than The Queen of the Night's Vengeance Aria. 😉
I am telling you guys, what many will say the Beatles' worst song is better than many artists' best! And I love Run For Your Life.
People didn't like it also because John lifted that one line from Baby, Let's Play House. John himself didn't like it for that same reason. Also, the rather vicious vibe, I suppose. Personally, I've always loved the song.
@@magneto7930 Run For Your Life is great, it just is.
Nobody had a problem with Run For Your Life until the last couple decades. Even as a 8 year old kid listening to the song I knew the singer was just joking around. It's a good song.
Me too
Funny thing is, Nobody Sued John from the Elvis estate for this but when he lifted "Here come old Flat top" for Come Together....Chuck Berry nailed him.
'What Goes On' has that great rockabilly guitar on it, love it.
Same here. I love that track, especially how the guitars ate trying to shove each other out of the way. Great fun!
Was just gonna say this. Both George's and John's performances are stellar. It's first class honky-tonk, funky and crunchy. You can tell they had fun recording this song.
Sorry....I never liked that one. I always bypassed it on the album.
@@apexjoe4769 Oh, well. Too each their own.😃
@@cisium1184 I call it DRIVIN Country. LOVE THAT SONG. it is so Carl perkinsish!!! Like think of Matchbox and Honey Don't.
The full version of You Know My Name is one of my favorite tracks, you can feel the energy of John and Paul's friendship even at a time when their relationship wasn't at their best (mid 1969). The fact that they decided to pick up a track from two years prior and spend a day adding silly voices to it, just to have fun, is still amazing to me.
The song was mostly recorded in May 1967, just two weeks before the release of Sgt. Pepper. John and Paul were clearly getting along just fine during that period. I've always loved it too.
@@GusMozart1 AFAIK just the backing track (which they kept coming back to every few months). The vocals were recorded by Paul and John in a single session in late April 1969
Brian! 🎷
When I was in high school my younger brother, at my encouragement, called the local station in NYC, WABC, and requested that song. I remember the DJ praising him on the air for choosing a song that not everyone had liked or even heard of. Anyway, it was a kind of recognition that I remember almost 60 years later. My brother and I always loved that song and thought it was a riot.
You know my name song was featured on the Dr Demento radio show, his funny 10.
I LOVE You Know My Name (Look up the Number)! I'm with Paul here. Actually one of my favourites. I disagree with most of these top 10 picks, but everybody does indeed have their own likes and dislikes. Love your background stories however. Happy Easter sir.
YES!
I liked the longer Anthology version best.
There was a burger joint I used to frequent in the 1990s. They stubbornly held on to a vinyl 45 jukebox way longer than anyone else. They had a Let It Be single in there. Made the point of playing You Know My Name EVERY TIME. Not sure if I pissed off anyone else, but I sure enjoyed it.
@@captainape6807 Hearing the ska break in that version was a revelation for sure! Then I finally saw the complete Around the Beatles with ska legend Millie "My Boy Lollipop" Small as a guest, and it all made sense.
@@moxievision Funny how it was the skinheads in the UK who popularized Ska and Reggie.
Tell Me What You See's inclusion is insane to me. I love that track and had no idea it wasn't liked by so many. The harmonies are so good
The composition itself is pure subpar. They sound like a parody of themselves on that one.
I've always liked it too
@@HARALDEMANNIs it worse than Piggies and Act Naturally?
100% Agreed. In context NOW it may seem subpar, but think about what came BEFORE it.
It's okay. Kinda dull.
Personally, I love much of what John referred to as 'Paul's granny shit'. If Lennon had written 'Maxwell's Silver Hammer' it would probably be hailed as a work of genius. As you said in your introduction, Andrew, there aren't any 'worst' Beatles tracks, just some we like less than others. That sums it up for me.
And also for me, and I suspect many of the posters on this site. 😊
"You Like Me Too Much" is a great song! Yayyyy George! I recorded on my compilation CD!
I know. I used to think this was just OK, but one time I was listening to it and the magic grove just clicked . I thought, this a a great song! I learned to play it on guitar. I thought it was an awesome song to play.. It's my personal favorite George song.
I do like "You like me too much" and "Run for your life".
Two of their Best
@@beatlemaniacwaltdisneyfan4753 their best? I think you're getting carried away.
I like both. "Run for Your Life" in particular is a great song. Violence is a part of music, especially the blues and folk music driving RFYL.
Eid Honey Pie and Revolution 9 absolutely suck. Maybe the only two Beatles songs I say that about.
Always loved the Help album, and both George’s songs….I like ‘ you like me too much’ and ‘ I need you’ , what’s not to like? 👍
I didn't pay much attention to this song in Help! But when I got the US Album (I think Beatles VI) it's like I listened to it with new ears and it's a really good song.
I Like You Too Much is pretty lame.
I LOVE Don’t Pass Me By, my favorite Ringo song. I refuse to believe people skip that track.
I can't imagine a 'worst' song with Ringo singing lead. His vocals are among my favorites.
Don't Pass Me By is actually a well written song. It's the clunky arrangement that ruins it. However, Ringo's live performances of the song are 100x better.
Same here-all of Ringo’s songs are feel-good!
100% correct
Tell Me What You See has always been a deeply moving song to me. John and Paul's voices harmonize so powerfully and emotionally.
Cant believe Long and winding road nearly made the list . I think this is one of Pauls finest songs.
I think half of why a lot of people don't like it is because of McCartney's complaints about the album version
your prob. correct .
Love Long and Winding Road
That's my favorite Beatles song.
@@sebastianfischer2082I thought Paul was wrong about that, it sounded majestic and beautiful with the orchestra and choir, the mixing was brilliant.
I really like the ‘Within You Without You’ mash up with TNKs on the LOVE soundtrack.
Andrew, I used to absolutely hate Revolution 9. But a little podcast called Discord and Rhyme changed my mind about it. If you listen to it as a mini-suite alongside Cry Baby Cry and Good Night, it's actually a child going to bed and experiencing the nightmare, which is Revolution 9. Good Night is the lullabye than calms the child back to sleep. That was a genius move on John's part of the White Album.
I still hate it
I always skipped over it... and when I got the CD decades later, it made it easier to skip it.
Then again... ever since I bought my 1st CD player, I've loved how CDs allow you to play ANY given song as if it was a SINGLE!
I don't really like the suggestion of turning it into a "suite" or narrative, because I feel like that's applying a level of rationalization that the music fundamentally and aggressively does not want to have. I would recommend, to everyone, Ian Macdonald's writeup on the song in "Revolution in the Head". He goes through its qualities as sound collage and all of the 'personality' that The Beatles were able to inject into such abstract music.
I was always glad to hear the soothing Good Night right after suffering through Revolution No. 9.
I seriously doubt that was intentional...
Eesh! Justice for Maxwell’s Silver Hammer! ✊
There aren't really any Beatles songs that I don't like. I just happen to like some more than others. I appreciate and love them all. Thank you again, Andrew ! Great video.
I always liked maxwells silver hammer but the rest of the ten I could whole heartedly agree would be better if they weren’t on any Beatles albums. The fact that the white album is so marred by bad songs is a constant trouble to me.
LET IT BE
My least favorite is Mr. Moonlight, but it's a cover.
@@johnhoran9840 Ik,r? With its cheesy organ solo, MM sounds like an escapee from a skating rink.
@@ellynmacgregor8210 It's also one of the rare times when John sounds terrible. You can tell his heart really wasn't in it.
Many of the so-called bad songs are by and large decent songs. The Beatles wrote so many genuinely great, classic gems that many of lesser songs mentioned are still better than other's top tier tunes. Wonderful presentation!
I’ve always loved Blue Jay Way, and the story behind it! ❤
I just watched a video where the guy picked it as his favorite Beatles song and spent 20 minutes breaking it down lyrically.
There are no bad Beatles songs..some are just better than others
Disagreed
I disagree. I love the Beatles and they are amazing songwriters. But I am learning Taxman on drums for a cover band I'm in. God what a dull song. I would rather play any of their other songs lol.
There are Beatles songs that I absolutely detest, but they are few.
@@peteskyrunner4845 "Taxman" is very overrated
Good one ❤
Wild Honey Pie is too short for me to be bothered by. It's wacky, fun, and adds some personality to the album.
Yes! I think of it more as a link... like the short linking promos on The Who Sell Out.
It baffles me that people can get so pissed about a song that is like 50 seconds long. I mean you spend more time at a red light.
I think some of these songs that are "disliked" are people that are fans of solo Beatles not real Beatle fans, they dislike the song because their favorite (Beatle) said he disliked it. Revolution #9 is just sound collage and sounds great if you are stoned, sounds like a big nothing if you're not stoned and if it didnt say Beatles on it, nobody would even have payed attention to it.
Yeah. It's not even a song. It's a joke . That's all. People can't take a joke I guess.
“Wild Honey Pie” suits the wild eclecticism of the White Album. Everything, including the kitchen sink! They had nowhere to go, except back to basics for “Let it Be” and “Abbey Road”.
I knew that "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" would be #1 but I honestly love it because of how messed up it is. The paradox of a song with such a happy tune being about a homicidal maniac.
....released within 24 hours of the Manson murders......
Great point. I love how people say Paul’s songs were too shallow, but then he wrote this and Eleanor Rigby!
Very interesting subject and well-done on your part, Andrew. 👍 For me, on a personal level, this is a hard road to go down because I love almost everything The Beatles released. I look at some of these tracks in the context of the entire catalog. There is so much variety in the band's library and that is one of the reasons (to me) that their wonderful canon of music stays fresh. Good job, mate!
I never had issue with these songs. Enjoy them all for their originality an quirkiness. Love them all.
Never knew that Wild Honey Pie made the cut because Patti liked it.
Strange to think that thevl band would spend twenty four hours working on a sequence for these songs running order and such considerations were made.
Of course, if it were not for Patti introducing George, and therefore the Beatles to meditation, there would have been a very different album made without the impetus to go to India. She was there for pretty much the entire Beatles experience and is overlooked in importance in favour of Asher, Ono and Eastman... Even Mo gets a shoutout...
Say the words Patti and George to most fans and the focus is always on the breakup and Clapton, but she was so much more than that to a figure that despite the lyric, needed someone.
A real member of the inner circle, not really given her due.
Well said! She was also responsible for finding Friar Park for George.
Oh, I don't know. She is recognized as being the inspiration for three rock classic songs. That in itself is very impressive.
@@captainape6807I agree, but again, it's the Clapton/Harrison thing as an object of desire or love. I was referring more to the contributions she made herself, whether as a critic, catalyst or participant. I am not an expert, but Maureen seemed to be around, Cynthia was in the background, Jane was a bolthole when McCartney wanted to chill and Yoko was supposedly a disruptor. Even the much loved Linda is seen as a observer rather than a influence. Patti however I think, gets less coverage for her activities and influences despite being there from Beatlemania through to the breakup and beyond.
But then I am one of those guys that still thinks Ringo does not get his due.
Whenever there is a Beatles discussion it seems to end with the words 'and Ringo was just, being Ringo'. As if he were a man with no opinion, no character other than caricature.
Patti, though obviously no Ringo still seems to be a little overlooked. Recently, even Mal Evans, who though a close friend gets more credit for banging an anvil than Patti did.
Wonderful Tonight...
I must have encountered fifty teenage heartbreaks to that song. It was only many years later that I found out who it was written for. It seems anything even tangentially related to the Beatles holds some kind of magical longing quality.
@@NeoTrinity1111 Yes, you're right my comment was a little off point. I agree with you about Ringo. His name(Ringo) alone helped the band to success and he upstaged everybody in the movies. He also thought up titles "A Hard Day's Night" etc. His personae, was amazing and I actually believe that he led the most interesting life, of all the Beatles. He even got himself a Bond girl.
I don't know about Boyd being overlooked in favour of Asher. I never hear or see much of anything about Jane, but lots about Patti.
In my seventh-grade music class in 1982, my teacher Mr. Scatenato had us study Maxwell's Silver Hammer. He passed out copies of the score so we could follow along while he played the song on the Abbey Road LP. He regarded it as one of the Beatles' greatest songs, right up there with Eleanor Rigby, which he also had us study. 12-year-old me agreed. I loved Maxwell's Silver Hammer then, and I still love it today. But then, I've always been partial to dark comedy. ;)
a really bad song!
Sounds like you and I were both blessed with at least one teacher who appreciated contemporary music. In my senior year of high school, my English teacher Mr. Harriman broke the class into teams of five students. Each team chose one musical act to review; selections included The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Donovan -- in short, songwriters who were informally regarded as poets in 1970. It was a fun week, and it allowed us to come away feeling that poetry wasn't just the domain of those who wrote sonnets five hundred years ago.
BTW, I really like Maxwell's Silver Hammer too.
I agree. It doesn't get the credit it deserves. Fans heard the other three Beatles dissing it so they jumped on the bandwagon. One of McCartney's greatest tongue in cheek/satiric songs ever.
You should listen to John Entwistle then 😄
I read that it is the reason why the Beatles broke up. Paul wanted it to be perfect and the others were sick and tired of trying to record it.
Always loved Maxwell’s Silver Hammer
Blue jay way is extremely psychedelic and meaningful I think.
You Like Me Too Much has always been a favorite of mine! Really love the George and Paul harmonies on that track!
Always reminds me of my ex-girlfriend who (being Jewish) would sing it to me as “You like me too much and I’m a Jew”.
YOU LIKE ME TOO MUCH - I couldn't stand this one forever, I usually skipped it. Then one day the tune went through my head and I liked the chords, it sounded nice. It's still not as strong as anything else he ever wrote, even "Don't Bother Me" or "Baby I Love You" (In 1982's Gone Troppo), but Don't Bother Me has some great drumming and Baby I Love You is...cute. Now I like "You Like Me Too Much". No complaints
TELL ME WHAT YOU SEE - Are you kidding? A least favorite? The first time I heard it was on "Love Songs". It was either right before or right after "Every Little Thing", so I usually welded the two together, initially confusing the two until I'd listened to them at least 600 times 😅.
RUN FOR YOUR LIFE - Detractors don't know what they're talking about. It was an eye-opener, an ear-popper, it was pretty funny, too, with a wicked acoustic riff and electric guitar solo in the same track.
I agree with everything you’ve just wrote. 👍👍👍
Run For Your Life is just unpopular now because of the misogynistic lyrics.
It's a product of its time, similar to Connery's James Bond slapping women around.
Love Blue Jay Way! It's the height of Psyche-Beatle-Delia ! The production and mix makes the song happen.
That's funny, Maxwell's Silver Hammer is on my list of favorite songs! It's so ironic!
This is no new revelation: These “worst” songs would be crowning achievements for any other band.
They would be bad songs for any band!
@@shadrach6299I agree, the Beatles were absolute geniuses but there's no way denying that they simply had some real stinkers in their catalogue - songs that were objectively bad ... They often admitted it themselves... It's just inevitable when you release 2 albums a year
@@Cengert1979 : There is no such thing as "objectively bad" when talking about music. There are just some songs that you may not like (subjective opinion), that many others do like and think are good. I guarantee if you were to list songs that you claim are "objectively bad", someone will state that they think they arer good.
@@Housemartinuk I can see your point but I do think that art can sometimes be objectively bad ... There are quite a lot of examples of movies that are pretty much objectively bad ... Regarding the Beatles: I find it hard to think of any person that really unironically enjoys something like Wild Honey Pie 😉 ... I do think that that one was an attempt by Paul to create something intentionally bad and annoying
@@Cengert1979 : I can only repeat what I said before: There is no such thing as "objectively bad" when talking about music. All you have is subjective opinion. As regards "Wild Honey Pie", I like it (I like everything on The White Album), George Harrison's wife, Pattie, liked it (hence why it ended up on the album) and The Pixies liked it enough to do an excellent cover version of it in 1998 for the BBC. And I would be pretty sure that Pattie, The Pixies and I are not the only people who appreciate "Wild Honey Pie". Anymore (ahem) "objectively bad" song you'd care to name?
You Know My Name works SO WELL as an epilogue for The Beatles’ discography. Every time the piano starts the final verse my eyes tear up.
Genuinely very shocked to hear you only have 60K subscribers. That's criminal for such quality work.
Also, I love Ob-la-di and Maxwell's silver hammer and I think Revolution 9 is wonderful.
My parents were huge Beatles fans to the point I think I was confused whether they were family friends. I was born a couple months before they appeared on Ed Sullivan so they were always around.
I loved Maxwell’s as I had very macabre humor as a kid. Look up Gashlicrumb Tinies to get an idea of one of my favorite books.
The only song I really ever disliked was Piggies and only that because the chord change organ coda at the end came across as an audio jump scare.
Maxwell is a banger!
Bang bang 🔨
I've always liked it fine and I love the outtake versions like the whistling version and the version where John makes fun of it.
You nailed it there, but I need to get hammered to listen to it.
Indeed. I always get chills up the spine towards the end when the Moog takes over. I can't understand how so many people dislike it.
Probably because it dares to be funny...
This song contains my favorite line of all the Beatles tracks: "De do de DOO do"
Octopuses Garden is also solely credited to Ringo, although George did help to write.
He helped, just like the others helped each other. No need to bash the credits here
And Paul!
It's a great song. The Beatles' light songs get a lot of stick, but they wouldn't be the same band without those songs.
@@sergiocaplan1168in the documentary Ringo comes in with two lines and George pretty much writes the rest. Now it's a fairly simple song with only two sections, so ultimately I'd say it's fair to claim 50/50 credit.
@@SteveBluescemi Ringo had the words and the overall melody. Harrison help him with chord progression to enhance the melody. But what I was talking about was that when those guys helped each other out, they didn’t automatically add each other’s names.
As a fan of the macabre, I'm quite fond of Maxwell's Silver Hammer. It's a twisted little beast.
I quite agree
I must say, I consider, “you like me too much” and, “tell me what you see” to be two of the Beatles, finer “comfort food” songs.
That is, they are just so relaxing and have enough interesting nuances in the melodies and chords to satisfy my musical cravings. Hence, “comfort food”!
As "Let It Be" was on most jukeboxes in the 1970's, "You Know My Name..." was played a lot and was always a favorite in public settings.
What goes on is one of my personal favorite Beatles songs! It's one of the few Beatles tunes with an authentic 50s sound. The lead guitar line (Scotty Moore style) still sounds rich & beautiful & it's one of Ringo's best vocal performances. Man, what a great way to start side two of Rubber Soul
People don’t like obladi oblada?! !!! What??!
A couple of years ago I asked members of a Beatles Facebook group to name their least favorite Beatles songs (I was careful to phrase it that way). Though some participated, more than few group members were very angry about my request, and ultimately I left the group. The angry members were just being too precious about Beatles songs, something I think the Beatles themselves would find silly.
What Goes On? Those interwoven guitars are endlessly relistenable.
If they just were in tune. Which they isn’t.
Totally agree... I love the guitar tones and how they sit in the mix.
I like it because it has almost a ‘50s country sound.
I can still listen to Maxwell's Silver Hammer but in retrospect, I think offering Come And Get It to The Beatles would have been a better choice. By the way, I'm sure glad If You Got Troubles was never released at the time. That one while interesting to hear the outtake on Anthology, is flat-out bottom of the barrel material.
My thoughts exactly!!
And "That Means a Lot" too!
Congratulations Andrew on reaching 60k 🎥 👏 Just a superb informative channel. Thank you 🙏
Your number one is literally mine and my late father's favorite Beatles song. I get why other people may not like it, but I've always found it more campy than anything else. It was also one of the first songs I taught myself to play on piano as a kid because I loved it so much!
Great list though!! Keep up the great work! 😊
Great video Andrew, as always. 'Mr Moonlight'...dreadful! Yet it promises so much with Lennon's empassioned opening scream! Would love to have heard a better song in its place like a version of 'Some Other Guy' or 'I'll Be On My Way'.
I’ve always thought a cover of “Some Other Guy” would have been a way better choice than “Little Child” on With The Beatles.
I honestly thought Mr. Moonlight would be number 1!
Leave My Kitten Alone, recorded in same sessions, might've worked better...but I have come to have a very deep appreciation for Mr. Moonlight...especially *the way* John sings, "Yes we love you..."
@@bobbcarpenter7031 I presume "Mr. Moonlight" was left off the list because it only included Beatles originals, not their covers. There's a much better version of "Mr. Moonlight" on the Hamburg Star Club tape.
I love singing along to Mr Moonlight. LOL. I think it's great.
I agree with a lot of this list, but Maxwell's Silver Hammer being at #1 feels illegal.
It's because everyone likes different things: diff beer, diff jeans, diff fav color. Some like Maxwell, some don't.
@@cajunqueen5125 too many people like Maxwell for it to be last. The "worst" song should be relatively universally disliked
Being the most hated song doesn’t mean it’s the worst 😊
Yet another great video, Andrew...from the best Beatles CZcams channel EVER...and among the best CZcams channels in the world... Keep it up!! I hope this channel goes on for years and years. Every time I watch a new Parlogram video, I feel cheerful and listen to tons of Beatles that very day!! 🙂
Thank you! 😊
I love 'You know my name (look up the number)! It's so cool and fun. Isn't there a longer version out there?
You Know my Name is a treasure! At least we have one song featuring Denis O'Bell 😉
"You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)" is such a classic! I'm definitely OK with Maxwell at #1.
I can't fault people for hating on Yellow Submarine at all. It's only fondly remembered because the movie made it iconic; it's an objectively ghastly song.
Revolution 9 I have mixed feelings about. Some times I think it's delightfully artistic madness, some times I think it's just "weird for the sake of weird." My favorite things about it are, not only being succeeded by Goodnight as you said, but also the pitter-pattering end of Cry Baby Cry that unsuspectingly leads into it, as if tiptoeing into a haunted forest.
What Goes On is criminally underrated.
The very fact that it matters 60 years later. Still remarkable and still fresh.
Thanks a lot for your work on this amazing list. You can't be blamed for the songs on that list. It's an instering summary of other peoples votes.
But I have to confess: "You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)" is still one of my Beatles' favorites. Maybe it's because it's one of the last Beatles songs I came about to discover in my youth. And I loved from the very beginning. I wonder why Giles Martin didn't pick any opportunity to remix this song in proper stereo.
Keep going on your great work and keep on rockin'
Love & peace from Germany :-)
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it!
I love "You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)"! Many years ago when I read the song was originally 6 minutes 10 seconds long I hoped someday it would be released. Thankfully on 'Anthology' all the missing bits were there, but it faded too early, so I edited it all together in Adobe Soundbooth and I really enjoy listening to the full track. It really is more of a comedy skit than a pop song, in five sections, and I'm sorry the nightclub crooner Paul is hysterical!
It's the closest thing to their Christmas fan club record comedy bits, and reminiscent of Monty Python.
There's another one John and Ringo recorded around 67 - 68 called "Chi Chi's Bar" that is only available on bootlegs.
That's worth a listen if you like crazy Beatle humour.
It was on CZcams a while ago , I don't know if it's still there.
I always got a laugh from John's mumble-babble at the end
I love this song and especially Paul crooning.
"You know my name" is a killer track. So much fun! And many thanks for the idea, cdpetee! I'm going to hit the albums and sound app tomorrow and make my own 6 min 10 sec version. Very cool - a new Beatles song cometh! Now, let's hear it for Denis O'Bell ! 🙂🙃
Great video. As a lifelong Beatles fan, it's true that there's songs we don't listen to as much as the others. However, the thing with the Beatles is that even when they do songs that aren't as outstanding as their best, even their "worst" is still really good. Because they were just so fantastic as a band, there's always something in every track that appeals to the ear for me.
How they picked " Revolution #9 & wild honey pie " over George's " not guilty " is beyond me.
I always like " you like me too much " & " run for your life " but you must hear them with young 10 / 11 year old ears , that's my age back then.
" i'll kill ya " his jokes kill me , we're gonna murder the other team , etc., was just a way of saying you were mad back then. No one took it literally and the murder rate was lower among juveniles then. Its grown ups that have really screwed up things y'know....
And I still don't trust anyone over 30 !!! Lol.
Another great video.
I really enjoy your channel.
I can still picture my mam coming into my room with a worried look everytime Revolution 9 played (I was 8). 😂
Another brilliantly produced video from Parlogram
Thank you!
Revolution 9 is the only track I regularly skip, and the only one I don't have on my portable player.
I could easily pick 10 from the White Album and I’m a huge Beatles fan.
I absolutely love “You Like Me Too Much” and “Run For Your Life”. I thought for sure “Mr. Moonlight” would have been #1. - Roger
Mr. Moonlight was always a fan favorite in their early live shows, but never translated well in the studio. I agree, should have made this list.
I think the list was only supposed to include original songs, no covers.
25+ years ago this list would've looked much different. Other than a couple of surprises in this list (Revolution 9 didn't top the list? no Mr. Moonlight?) - the biggest difference is the general opinion of Within You Without You. It used to regularly pop up on "least liked" Usenet lists and was always "the one on Sgt Pepper that always gets skipped). What a change to now being revered and loved!!
I have disliked it since if first came out and still do today.
Blue Jay Way is one of The Beatles (George) best atmospheric tracks. #9 to Goodnight is a great transition, chaos to slumber, brilliant.
Mr Moonlight has some great Lennon vocals.
@@ronalddobis6782 For sure.
"You Know My Name," rear side of "Let IT Be," 45.
@Parlogram I’m deciding to single out three Beatles tunes..
As a Beatles fan, Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da is one I don’t mind hearing once or twice a year. I don’t need to hear it outside of listening to the album.
Same thing with Hey Jude. I know people love it, and I can see why, but after 1-2 minutes of the na-na-na’s, I don’t see a point in listening to it any further.
I didn’t like The Long and Winding Road for a while, until I heard the Let It Be Naked version, which made me appreciate it more than I used to.
Always entertaining and informative! I so look forward to Sunday mornings. Thanks, Andrew!
Fun topic Andrew. Thanks. :- ) When I first heard "You Know My Name" I thought it was an intentional attempt by them to write and record a rotten song on purpose to break the Beatles myth. Maxwell to me is a fine song that I feel people used to like until Lennon trashed it. Then is was 'uncool' to like it. As George wrote.. "Think for yourself." I'm a first generation fan and remember it that way.
Maxwell's Silver Hammer is surreal genius! People have no tester...
Bravo!! This is magically done, even though it's an uneasy topic. As I've gotten older, it's a cover that gets my vote as least liked, and it's "Mr. Moonlight." Nothing really wrong with the Beatles' version, but have you heard The Hollies' version? It really rocks.
I wasn't a fan of Honey Pie, but it grew on me years later. Same with Within You Without You. I was fascinated with Revolution 9. I guess I loved the weird songs like Wild Honey Pie, You Know My Name (Look Up The Number) and the then unreleased song "What A Shame Mary Jane Had A Pain At The Party. Songs (to me) that was poorly produced was the orchestra Phil Spector tracks. I seem to skip those tracks.
Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da would be greatly missed from the White Album. It is charming, has a great melody, arrangement and vocals plus one of the most infectious chorusses, ever. If John didn't care for it, it's not evidenced by his enthusiastic background vocals, and he apparently came up with the perfect, fanfare-like opening piano riff. I was a teenager when it was released and my parents weren't big Beatles fans, but they both loved this song and it softened their opinions of the Beatles thereafter.
I agree. It's always been one of my favorite Beatle songs. Just such a great melody, clever lyrics, and performed with such childlike joy.
Some of these were actually fun when hanging out with friends playing our guitars and drinking a few beers. Wild Honey Pie usually made the play list and at moments notice someone would start saying…Number Nine…Number Nine…after which we’d break into the next tune.
I like this so too...
Hey Andrew. Big fan! Just wondering how you do your title cards and transitions? I love the retro styling and would love to know how to recreate them!
Fun video Andrew. I for one would love to hear Paul play Maxwell's Silver Hammer live. Grumbles aside, I guarantee we'd all be singing along.
I can’t be the only person to sing along to Revolution 9 when it comes on in the car 😂
Number 9, Number 9, Number 9....
Take this, brother. May it serve you well.
@@donaldlush2822Turn me on, dead man.
They are standing still.
Onion soup.
Hi, Gaz here again from Melbourne/Australia. Great video. The main thing I've just thought about, is all the work that you do putting your clips together. The research, the editing etc. Luv your work. GAZ
Thanks Gaz. Much appreciated!
I love “You Know My Name (Look up the number), “Tell Me What You See” and “You Like Me Too Much”. I understand people choosing “You Know My Name…” but if you don’t appreciate it, I’m sorry. Even mentioning “The Long and Winding Road” is insane to me because it’s one of my favorites but when looking at these lists, you have to realize there are a lot of factors that weigh-in other than the song itself like where people are in their lives at the time they hear a song, emotionally and literally. I know it’s true for me. When it came out, a lot of the lyrics in “The Long and Winding Road” really hit home for me for my own personal reasons. Bottom line, it’s really interesting to see how all of this nets out, agree with it or not. Thanks for the video “Messenger”!
'Tell me what you see' is a great track
No.
As bad as some say those songs are, I'd be willing to bet that if The Beatles took all of those "bad" songs and put them on one LP, It probably would have topped the charts. Also, you hit it right on the head by saying that as bad a some folks feel that those songs are, I'd rather listen to them than to switch stations on my car stereo. Oh, but to put Little Child on that list will make me lose some sleep! That lyric.... When you're by my side you're the only one, don't you run and hide, just come on, come on..... That lyric is so very much the style of bad boy rock and roll at that time!
Hi Andrew... normally I never comment on these kinds of things, but this time I will make an exception. I am a bit surprised that "Yes It Is" didn't make it into your top 10 worst Beatles tunes. Whenever I hear it, I think two things, in this order: 1) Man, the boys must havd been *really* tired. And 2) Being able to sing that microtonally out of tune just proves what excellent singers they were. Cheers, and keep up the good work!
When it comes to bad Beatles songs, there's Revolution 9, and then there's everything else.
The Long and Winding Road is one of my absolute Beatles favourites. So full of majestic, solemn beauty as it literally travels along a winding musical road to "the door" - but because Beatles catered to such diverse musical taste, there will be fans who prefer stuff like Helter Skelter, Come Together etc. and for those, the Long and Winding Road must surely be... not very popular 😉
Generally I love the most melodic ones (and that includes songs that are often considered "fruity" like Ob-La-Di, Maxwell's, When I'm 64 etc.) and dislike the heaviest stuff, lsd-influenced tracks as well as the Hare Krishna-things.
Fight the real enemy: Mr Moonlight!
What?
They should've played it in the studio the same as on the Star Club recordings.
Mr Moolight. Wild honey pie. Maxwells silver hammer
i love that one
The struggle is real.
I am not surprised that public opinion doesn't match quality lol. And my problem is, I can only come up with 6 songs that are my least faves. Couldn't come up with 10. And I will preface this by saying I do truly love Paul McCartney and his work (although my list does not represent him well):
6. Hold Me Tight
5. Rocky Raccoon
4. Wild Honey Pie
3. Lovely Rita
2. Maxwell's Silver Hammer
1. Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da
Great video as always!
Thanks Christopher. Hope you're well!
Great video, me and a friend tried to do a top ten worst Beatles songs during lockdown, i struggled to come up with 5, even those i quite liked, an impossible task, says alot about the strength of their catalogue, enjoyed this list though....Needless to say i like all the ones mentioned.....even Revolution 9!!??? I know i must be in a minority there
Never understood why What Goes On is so disliked. I think it’s underrated, actually. The Help! picks I kinda expected, but I’d ad I’ve Just Seen A Face as well. And TBH, Maxwell’s Silver Hammer isn’t my least favourite, but it is on the Abbey Road album.
Couldn't care less about songs that people don't like. Negative energy is a waste of time! Love this channel though and Happy Easter! :)
_Maxwell's Silver Hammer_ and _You Know My Name_ are the only tracks out of all of those mentioned- including the ones that "bubbled under" - that I've got in my collection of Beatles songs - and neither are anywhere *_near_* being favourite songs... just ones that I didn't dislike enough to omit from my collection.
I quite like the tune and composition of _Maxwell's Silver Hammer_ - the story it tells is extremely dark, but I can handle that. Interesting to hear its background. _You Know My Name_ is one that I've *_really_* got to be in the mood for.
Okay, I'm going to say it... and I may very well be the only one who does... I love "Run For Your Life." John's voice is SOOO GOOD. Love the guitars. Let me have it, if you will, but it's always been one I've loved.
John has said in an interview that the worst Beatle song to him was "Dizzy Miss Lizzy". He thought it was cheap and disposable. Personally, i feel that song should have been vetoed as a track. It would have been far ballsy for the "Help" album to end on a downer with "Yesterday" than a sappy send-off to the album with "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" which is a lazy surface level cover song that had nothing really to say. That song was already an oldie that they performed during the Silver Beatles period that didn't need to be revisited for a great transitional album like "Help".
That is a bad song for me as well, that repetitive guitar line... i just can't be doing with it.
I would have preferred, Bad Boy, Slow Down, or Leave My Kitten Alone, in its place. Or I'm Down or She's a Woman but it isn't a bad track, just not a fave.
Great guitar work on the song though
Lennon was a contrary bugger.
Dizzy Miss Lizzie was possibly one of their most performed songs live.
I mean. He was still playing it in Toronto in 69 as a solo artist!
I like "Dizzy Miss Lizzy", but the best version to me is from the 1965 Hollywood Bowl show(s) - the one that was used for the official "Live At The Hollywood Bowl" album rocks big time, even if Lennon isn't at his best, vocally - but he and the other Fabs sound like dynamite on their instruments! However, it has to be the 1977 mix made by George Martin, the later Eight Days A Week-related HB-album sounds dull in companion. You miss so much of the tuff guitar riff on the latter one. And I don't mind the screams at all.
No matter what songs wind up on a "worst Beatles song" list, you'll find someone who'll say the song is great and it's their favorite. Even "Revolution 9," which is the only one I still actively avoid.
Hey, Revolution 9 is great and one of my favorites. 😉😉😉
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@@albarton7189And it works when using a vintage quadraphonic system and it would blow all 4 speakers away.
There also clues on the “Paul Is Dead” theory during “Revolution 9” like “Turn Me On Dead Man” when it was played backwards.
@@Musicradio77Network I happened to have been given an LP in the late 1960's of "musique concrète," a form of electronic music invented in France that involved recording actual noises and reassembling them, spliced together and electronically altered. So when The Beatles did "Revolution 9" I knew exactly what they were doing and where it came from: I remember walking around my high school saying, "Wow! The Beatles are doing musique concrète!" My fellow students probably wondered what drugs I was taking (none, actually).
For me, i don't have any problem with any of the later Beatles songs - except maybe "Dig It" & a couple of tracks from the White Album.. Most of the so called "bad" songs from this period are interesting in that they are "experiments". It's some of the early songs with childish or inane lyrics - & sometimes awkward musical forms that i tend to skip. Here's six of them: Little Child, Not A Second Time, When I Get Home, I'll Cry Instead, I'm Happy Just To Dance With You, Tell Me Why.
Ah man! I always found You Know My Name to be such a funny track. It makes me too happy to ever call it bad 😉. But the people have spoken i suppose.
I love it too!
My favourite part from the song is the first part with John and Paul screaming You, You Know, You Know My Name... the piano, guitar, bass and drums sounds awesome in this part but the rest is really good and funny, the ska part from the Anthology 2 version is great
I have to say that there is no such thing as a "least favorite song", I love them all. When it comes to my favorite album, I always choose the one I listened to last or the one I'm currently listening to 👍 Right now it's HARD DAYS NIGHT.