Worst Beatles songs ever recorded

These guys here... The Beatles... like many, I love 'em. I really like 'em. I know their backcat like no other band. Possibly. Anyway, everyone likes The Fab Four don't they? Those that don't are generally stuck in that teen-spit thing of saying they don't like 'em based on the fact that everyone else really really really likes 'em. It ain't big or clever y'know?

However, The Beatles, as any fan will know, ain't perfect. So to highlight this and also to provide light relief from the constant praise that the Fabs get from Mojo, Q, Uncut (etc), let's give 'em a bit of a kicking and then go back to loving them do. Over, is a list of The Beatles' worst recorded moments.

Come Together

It's sleazy and smack-riddled... which is usually a good thing in my book. However, this never gets going and irritates the piss right outta my kidneys! When the chorus finally comes in, you can't help but feel let down. This is the wrong end of heroin.

Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da

An easy choice. I don't know anyone who likes this song. Of course, commentators could breezily chirrup that this is The Fabs letting their hair-down and having a laugh... but really... this is Thumbs Aloft fun... and I don't like Thumbs Aloft fun.

Here There and Everywhere

As a teenager, I swore I would never forgive McCartney for a couple of his misdemeanours on Revolver. This was the first. Songwriter-wise, it's very skilled and all that jazz... but it's the most saccharine heapajunk I ever did hear. I wouldn't let any other band get away with it, so why The Beatles? 

For You Blue

Man, there's bits of Let It Be that make me so sad, by virtue of the fact that, probably for the first time in their short career, JohnPaulGeorgeRingo took the collective foot off the gas and produced some decidedly pedestrian tracks. This is one of 'em. Bog standard boogie-woogie that never really hits full groove.

Hey Jude

Naaaa naaa naaaa na n'naa naaaaa... etc. It's a track that I once loved, but now, all I can think of is drunk morons in my pub as a teen belching it into the air. Not The Beatles' fault I'm sure... but they wrote it. So ner.

You Like Me Too Much

Aw man, this is one of the worst things on Help! And Help! ain't vintage Fabs

Free As A Bird/Real Love

The only use these tracks have are to fox people when you ask them "What was the name of the last Beatles' single". The world and his dog forgot all about Real Love. Free As A Bird wasn't any better either. Nice seeing 'em get back together and it heralded the staggeringly brilliant Anthology TV show... but still... these two don't exactly do justice to a backcat that includes Tomorrow Never Knows, Eleanor Rigby, Hey Bulldog, Oh Darling! (etc etc)

Fool On The Hill

When The Fabs 'mew', you kinda know it's gonna be Macca. This is one of the mewingest tunes you'll ever hear. In fact, the only thing I like about this song is that Lennon's Glass Onion takes this piss out of it.

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

I can't bear this. It's a banker for the 'just knock it on one wouldya?'. Whilst I know that, at the time, it was heavy, progressive and all that... now, it's just over long and too waily. There's a good song hidden under all that cocaine bluster. Anyone who heard the acoustic version on the Anthology LP will know that. Hell, the White Album version drives me nuts.

Good Day Sunshine

Good God I hate this song. It reminds me of all those bands I loathe like Ben Folds Five and The Hoosiers. It's jaunty jollity that sweats a certain kind of smuggery only found in prodigous talents. Along with Here There and Everywhere, I swore as a teen that McCartney would forever be my enemy. Of course, I've realised I was being a gobby little moron, but it was a close run thing for a while.

Got any of yer own? Spill in the comments.

[mof]

Comments

[Nigel Bevan]

Anything sung by Ringo gets my vote and yes even LSD (Lucy in the sky with diamonds) in case you didnt know!

[Wilde]

Probably something from the 'Let It Be' album which was a real disappointment to me. Also thought their only foray into seasonal music (as far as I know), 'Christmastime is Here Again' was really lame. Check out my tribute and see if you can spot the 36 Beatles song titles contained in the song.

[mary ann]

REVOLVER was the first album I ever bought, and talk about disappointed!
"Here, There and Everywhere" and "Good Days Sunshine" still brings on horrible flashbacks from my junior high church youth group, where it seemed someone brought that album (not me!) to the meeting every Sunday night. Arghhh!!!!