Worst Beatles Single

of the greatest songs ever. (thanks iPhone/bumpy car ride)

i like johns vocals on the verses of AYNIS. the brass arrangement is kinda rough though.

aynil haha

quite an acronym

all you need is stuff (everybody!)

Amazed "Hello Goodbye" didn't 'win' this easy...

Day Tripper & We Can Work It Out 1

i must have been the one to vote for this one because i still hate both of these songs!

How anyone could hate We Can Work It Out is beyond comprehension.

I see I said the same thing 3 years ago.

if someone were to present that song to me i would just dump them -- "try to see it my way"?? "life is very short" ?? if that's all you got i don't even know

But it's just sung and played so beautifully!

And it's their tightest melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic composition! It's fucking astonishing!

All those hooks and melodies and tempos, in 2 minutes! Not a wasted second. Maybe my favourite Beatles song.

Many of these have brilliant b-sides. Baby You're A Rich Man is one of my favorite Beatles songs and All You Need Is Love is awful, I agree but it feels unfair to the b-side. Why would anyone vote for these following two as the worst in the Beatles catalogue is beyond me:

Something / Come Together
Get Back/Don't Let Me Down

Also Lady Madonna is awesome, Sublime rip-off aside. I'll assume you all voted for the horrid b-side instead.

these are all good singles imo

"the inner light" is good though

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"We can work it out" is great because the singer is all "I am right and you are wrong, let's compromise". Even Lennon's middle8 is "Fighting is wrong, I think we should talk some more before I lump you one"

Flopson: Not Working It Out

this is the dumbest ilm thread ever

half of the people who participated should be banned from talking about music in any capacity ever again

People who post on a thread merely to say it's the dumbest thread ever are the dumbest posters ever.

I agree with whoever said Baby You're A Rich Man is diminished by its association with the singalong all you need track.

Not sure how you could think Strawberry/Penny Lane is the worst Beatles single and still claim to like the Beatles, I mean that single basically is the distillation of mid-period Beatles

Long and Winding Bore

Long-Winded Road

Lady Madonna seems like a slick and cynical attempt to market to the underappreciated female head-of-household demographic.

I have always hated Lady Madonna. Come Together too. and Get Back also (it might be the Beatles song I hate the most, actually).

For a long time I have found Ballad of J&Y pretty bad but since the remasters I have enjoyed it a lot. It's got a good groove !

for all the complaints about it, Spector's production on Long and Winding Road actually saves it from being a total piece of shit, as demonstrated by the Anthology album.

It's still a song Paul should have given to, like Englebert Humperdink or someone, rather than the Beatles.

Spector's production is the only interesting thing about the song poliopolice otm. the demo version is an ineterminable bore

Or maybe he could have sold it to a movie studio. I could see it as the theme song to some late-60s dry love drama.

Hard Day's Night is kind of a bad song in my book too.

Ficking crazy talk.

My iPad is south African.

AHDN is stupendous. Mainly for Paul's "cos when I get home to you, I find the things that you do" backing vocals.

it feels very half-assed to me. I do realize it was written and recorded in less than 24 hours, for which they maybe deserve some credit, but not too much since the song sucks. XD

Probably would have voted for 'All You Need Is Love/Baby You're A Rich Man', actually! I've never been a massive fan of either song.

I think my least favorite of these is probably i feel fine/she's a woman. never cared for she's a woman and I feel fine is ok but I like almost every other a side more. barring that, I don't love lady madonna/inner light either.

"She's a woman" is too tautological for my tastes as well.

It's also not really a song.

Yes, and it's not a single b-side by The Beatles either..

you know what song kicks ass? "hello goodbye"

the most depressing transition on any beatles CD has to be the second disc of past masters, when you go from 'rain' to 'lady madonna.' the first four tracks are basically the beatles at the top of their game, just so sleek and confident and gorgeous, basically the coolest band ever, the james bonds of pop music. and then you jump ahead two years and already the band's turned into paul mccartney + three lazy stoners just fucking around in the studio.

Reminds me of that Fake Pinterest twitter joke: "a photo of young Paul McCartney and his three handsome butlers. YUM!"

Yeah, I adore Past Masters, especially disc 2, but it took me a long time to reconcile those four songs with what came later. They are, for me, the absolute peak of The Beatles. Which is why the crazy talk upthread is so crazy.

"Lady Madonna" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "Rain" imo

I agree with that.

One could also argue that with "Pepper" they stopped being quite so much of a singles band.

Old Brown Shoe >>>> Across The Universe

the james bonds of pop music

im sure this is true re how they treated women