Worst Beatles song on Abbey Road

My favorite moment is when the

one two three four five six seven, all good children go to heaven

comes back in right before The End

d.l. the moog on here comes the sun is the farthest thing from subtle (love it though)

'Maxwell' because it's just so jarring on the album. I like the song in and of itself, but in the scheme of the album it's just..erm...ill-advised.

"you Never Give Me Your Money' and 'Golden Slumbers' I think redeem Paul somewhat of Maxwell.though. I can forgive him for it.

Also 'Sun King'...I get a lot of Jimi Hendrix out of that, the deep bass and the style of drumming, reminds me a little of 'May This be Love'.

And WTF at anyone voting 'The End'. The end is their 'koombayah' moment! the drum solo! the guitars!It fairly rocks the house. As Nick said: THE BEASTIE BOYS!!

I like Abbey because after all the fragmentation of The White Album, and the ice that had seeming set in on the Let It Be sessions, I just love that they found a way to just do what they loved, together, one last time. Cheesy, I know.

Coffee hasn't quite kicked in yet. Apologies for poor self-expression.

Oh, and one more thing about Abbey Road - it's perfect bathtub music. Make sure you bring the Matey and floaty toys too.

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"Oh! Darling" - so obviously a genre exercise and a pretty unimaginative one. (Would've made more sense as a White Album track.) And I kinda hate that arpeggiated-guitar part (surely there was no need to play that middle-eight TWICE.)

What's the genre? I just thought it was boring.

The genre was Paul.

have to be predictable and go with maxwell. just horrribly irritating. would have been better if bernard cribbins had sung it.

octopus's garden is harmless enough. and given that I harbour atlantean ambitions, I can appreciate the sentiment.

everything else is just too good to even vaguely contemplate voting for it.

standing on the cast-iron shore yeah xp

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I went with Polythene Pam, although to be honest a lot of side 2 sounds kind of patchy to me. It has some amazing moments to be sure, several of which have been mentioned, but it always sounds like what it is to me -- a bunch of song fragments pasted together, rather than some sort of larger piece. I find myself wishing that the best parts had been made into full songs and the worst parts discarded.

Also, "Something" is one of the greatest songs/recordings in the history of ever. I think it sounds incredible on the remaster. That bridge! That bassline!

And I like Maxwell's just fine.

My favorite parts of Polthene Pam are the yeah, yeah, yeahs.

anyone who votes in this poll hates music

(voted golden slumbers, but meant to vote sun king)

"Maxwell", easily. I love "I Want You"!

this is hard but it's 'oh darling'

not a bad song though, just kind of ordinary on an album full of extraordinary ones, and its not particularly interesting lyrically

maybe if i had gotten into the beatles as an adult i'd have issues with maxwell (and yellow submarine) but those ones are a lot of fun when you're younger and nostalgia kind of gets in the way now

voted maxwell's, duh. would like to hear Lennon singing Oh Darling -- does a bootleg of that exist or am I dreaming.

"Oh Darling"; simply the least interesting track here.

Voting Mustard. The weakest of the fragments, and none of the full songs is really worse! Took me a while to come around to "Oh Darling" and to re-appreciate "Octopus's Garden" after knowing it since kindergarten, but this is a really solid set of songs. No, it's not Revolver but there is some A game stuff here. It's hard for me to imagine the Beatles in the 70s not putting this on, individually, and going, "shit, my records now really don't sound this good."

I'm pretty sure John didn't, but more than any of the others (well, apart from Ringo, but he always knew anyway), he should have.

maxwell's silver hammer. i love this album, but there a more than a couple songs that i could've voted for. for all the credit the beatles got for making/inventing the "cohesive-album-as-unit" i think this is the only one that succeeds. the songs are actually inseparable in my mind-and not just the medley-i would never listen to "come together" or "maxwell's silver hammer" or "octopus' garden" but lord knows i wouldn't dare think of skipping them while listening to this precious, perfect album.

"Oh Darling" = Beatles doing Badfinger-style powerpop. (which is great btw). :)

oh darling is my favorite beatles song

yes the production on abbey road is generally very badfinger sounding.. moreso than other beatles releases

mean mr. maxwell

Wow, listened to that George Martin BBC thing, and the section where he isolated "Come Together" tracks is brilliant! I honestly can't see how anyone can hate it..

Not much of a song anyways. Just the same very short phrases being repeated all over and over, and hardly no chords at all. Still among my least favourite Beatles tracks overall.

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Maxwell's is actually giving me the creeps right now. Why would someone bother writing it? Oh and the subject matter too, obv

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Never in doubt

This and the White Album poll should be proof that Paul tryin' to force a hit during late-era Beatles just didn't work. His merciless enthusiasm for those two tracks is legendary.

whodunit?

2. Something 5
8. Because 4
6. I Want You (She's So Heavy) 3

At least no one was crazy enough to vote for You Never Give Me Your Money.

there is something so truly gratifying about the first 5 tracks finishing in the top 5 slots

can't believe there are 3 people on this board black hearted enough to vote for "her majesty"

i voted for the fucking unlistenable 'i want you (she's so heavy)'

I listened to it last night in a marathonesque feat of endurance obv

well done ILX

i'm content w/ these results

I've always thought "I Want You" was boring, hard to put my finger on why. The sheer force of the ending is something, but the path there has never done anything for me in 30 years of listening.

Part of it's how musch I love hearing the melodic pop etc Beatles get so heavy and repetitive, and how good I think they are at it, but if that's not yr thing I can see it not appealing... kinda goes for Come Together a bit too

I'm kinda happy to see how well Polythene Pam did

Not boring to me in the slightest... It's proto-metal, and I really like metal.

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"9. You Never Give Me Your Money 0"

"8. Because 4"

crazy

But "I Want You" doesn't just have that silly "I want you....*bah bah bah*" riff, it has that amazing bridge section where they hit that crazy organ chord and Paul answers it with this ridiculously cool bass line right before the metal part. In one section of the song John is screaming during this break and it overloads the mic. Later - right before the Santana-esque mini jazz odyssey section - you can hear someone switching the pickups on their guitar while they prepare to take you on an instrumental tour of latin-flavored psychedelia. I love so many parts of this song I hardly even notice the supremely banal riff it's built upon anymore.

whodunit?

2. Something 5

I think I accidentally voted for Something, thinking for a moment that I was voting for "Best Song of Ever." My bad.