Worst Beatles song on Abbey Road

Also, the end of The End is spectacular! Ballsy rock-out to stripped down, quirky piano and voices (and those little cheeky guitar licks!) to big ballad finish out of nowhere, all in the space of thirty seconds. And it all works perfectly.

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"Also I've decided "I Want You" is one of my favourite Beatles tracks - it's so terrifically epic and towering and jazzy and heavy and crunchy and it just overwhelms. Sabbath, two years before the fact basically."

It sounds absolutely nothing like Sabbath. Nothing. Also it is a shit song and it has my vote.

Abbey Road came out four months before Black Sabbath s/t. Dont know where the 2 year timeframe comes from.

Know what you mean about 'Something', I always found it too saccharine and I hate the way Sinatra's verdict always gets cited as somehow conclusive - but I found Take 37 as a surrogate for not being able to afford the remasters and I love it now

The soaring middle eight in Something makes the song.

Hi. This is a wholly unfair poll. Wholly unfair.

can I vote for two? Maxwell and The Endy-poo (just the part from "...and in the end" forwards)

You know if "Faust Arp" had been added as an option, it'd win by miles!

(Nobody voting "Her Maj" ?)

"Also I've decided "I Want You" is one of my favourite Beatles tracks - it's so terrifically epic and towering and jazzy and heavy and crunchy and it just overwhelms. Sabbath, two years before the fact basically."

It sounds absolutely nothing like Sabbath. Nothing. Also it is a shit song and it has my vote.

Abbey Road came out four months before Black Sabbath s/t. Dont know where the 2 year timeframe comes from.

― Bill Magill, Friday, September 25, 2009 9:18 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

True, but that noise ending is DECADES ahead of it's time.

Voted "Maxwell's", though this bootleg recording from the sessions almost redeems it:

Maxwell's Silver Hammer (John Sings)

'Her Majesty' is the perfect way to sign off.

Would be amusing if IWY(SSH) won both the best and worst track polls

would also be a flaming disgrace and would necessitate the deletion of ILM XD

gonna go with 'Something', I have decided, because urgh

Adam, you've heard of The MC5, right?

Definitely "Oh Darling." Generally prefer flimsy-whimsy like "Octopus's Garden" and "Maxwell's MC Hammer" over Paul-in-late-60s-primal-scream mode.

Not a fan of Oh Darling, but this can really only be between Maxwell's and Octopus for me. The rest all is sublime.

Oh Darling was the song it took me the longest to love. The clincher is when Paul goes all shouty over the arpeggiated guitars.

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Adam, you've heard of The MC5, right?

Not much, do they have a track that has a lot of white noise over it?

Several, from 69. Jazz noise odysseys.

"the end" -- ponderous po-faced pretense.

― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Friday, September 25, 2009 1:59 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

don't think you have heard 'the end', friendo.

Sabbath, two years before the fact basically.

"Abbey Road" released September 1969
"Black Sabbath" released February 1970

this album rules and i like every song on it to varying degrees though 'maxwell's silver hammer' is a little repetitive and grating. 'i want you' is sick, you take away the vocals and it's a dope-ass jazz track.

i think the first side of this is remarkable, that said i voted for "maxwell's silver hammer" even tho i think it's a cool & buoyant song

this was the best of the reissues btw

Thanks Scik Mouthy, I will definitely look into them!

this album rules and i like every song on it to varying degrees

totally

i can't vote for any of these--a perfect album. can see why people hate Maxwells, though

voted octopus's garden, but for years I always skipped come together and here comes the sun. now i love come together, and at least appreciate here comes the sun. at one point i did go thru a "maxwell's is trite garbage" phase, but i'm over it

I hardly like any of this album. What was Lennon doing? Lazy bastard.

iirc "octopus's garden" was revelatory on the remaster

i also think that this is their best album

don't think you have heard 'the end', friendo.

the ponderous part is the vamp, which does almost nothing and for too long too. the po-faced pretense is the cutie-pie denouement. that couplet is maybe the dumbest lyric mccartney wrote for the beatles.

(and because of its title and placement in the catalog, it gets taken and used as this sort of epitaph for the whole band, which is an injustice.)

"Octopus's Garden" distracts me more than "Maxwell," because I've been to the House on the Rock.

So have I and I'm still voting for "Maxwell's," my choice for the worst Beatles song of all-time (to whatever extent it really is a Beatles song - so much of this sounds like tracks from early solo albums to come). It's the very definition of arch and no doubt influenced a lot of lesbian folk music (if you're wtfing at that line, you've never heard lesbian folk music). 2nd worst: "Oh Darling." John was right - he should've sang it instead of Paul (if it had to exist in the first place).

But yet again, he rights himself with "Golden Slumbers" vying with "She's Leaving Home" as his loveliest melody. "Golden Slumbers" into "Carry That Weight" literally stopped me in my tracks the first time I heard it. Why the fuck couldn't he keep this up?

It's the very definition of arch and no doubt influenced a lot of lesbian folk music (if you're wtfing at that line, you've never heard lesbian folk music).

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I see that you're not a fan of parenthetical expressions.

I love parentheticals (except when they contain crazy talk).

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You know what? Apart from IWYSSH, My favourite moment is on Here Comes The Sun, a song which I think is hugely overplayed and revered for perhaps the wrong reasons. The bit I like is the moog(?) organ harmony that creeps in very subtley towards the last part of the track, shining through the dinginess of what would be an accomplished but maybe slightly dull track.

"Golden Slumbers" into "Carry That Weight" literally stopped me in my tracks the first time I heard it.

and every time after for me.

My favorite moment is in the second verse of Golden Slumbers; right after he sings "Once there was a way to get back home", a couple bars of beautiful and sad orchestration brings the waterworks.

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.

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