Worst Beatles song on Revolver

if anyone votes for 'she said she said' my head will implode maybe

even though I love it, "Good Day Sunshine" seems the slightest song here.

"I Want To Tell You" is possibly my fave George song of all time and may have overtaken "I'm Only Sleeping" as my Revolver fave, though like another personal Beatles fave "Julia" is a bit lo-fi considering other tracks on the album. sequence-wise the final 3 songs go together perfectly and seem the most Revolver-y part besides the bracing mindfuck of the first 4 songs - what must that have sounded like in '66?!

Revolver's my fave Beatles LP. seems the most unimpeachable (followed by A Hard Day's Night) - practically the template for a perfect experimental pop album.

eleanor rigby makes 2 minutes seem like 5. I don't want to listen to a song about old ladies and priests! "Ooo...she's darning her socks!"

I'd also like to vote for the album cover.

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get thee to Popular

Dr Robert is a skipper

"Yellow Submarine". The rest are all brilliant, even though I guess "Got To Get You Into My Life" is my least favourite among the rest.

no Geir will vote for Love You To

I like both of those "Indian" songs. The lack of different harmonies is compensated for in the fact that a lot is going on harmonically above the bass.

Here, There and Everywhere bores the tits off me.

You crazy. That one may be the single greatest composition by the biggest musical genius of the 20th century.

Even Harrison bests him, esp. in the funk dept. with "Taxman."

But who played the bass that brought that very funk, Kevin? Not to mention that guitar solo!

Whatever, though. I'm abstaining from this poll - there's not a track here whose feelings I'd care to hurt.

I just got called crazy by Geir Hongro.

The intro on "I Want To Tell You" is my favorite George riff. Note the seasick Lennon harmonies, and how Paul's get all raga in the last few seconds.

Eleanor Rigby for me, no contest. Love everything about it except the incredibly, maddeningly condescending lyrics.

Besides Eleanor, I think Paul's shit on this album is really strong.

Ppl voting Love You To are serious SB-bait.

"Yellow Submarine". The rest are all brilliant, even though I guess "Got To Get You Into My Life" is my least favourite among the rest.

― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro)

Who are you and what have you done with Geir Hongro?!?!?

Seriously, you prefer "Tomorrow Never Knows" to "Got To Get You Into My Life?!?!"

I just got called crazy by Geir Hongro.

― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 22 September 2009 21:42 (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

T-shirt for Samuel!

Geir still has the capacity for surprise I guess

I skip over "Love You To" every time.

Righto : Voted..

Here, There and Everywhere

It's mmm.... OK, as a song, but the arrangement seems to be missing something, and it's totally flat. In an oversmooth way.

OK, "Here, There and Everywhere" was the first song my wife and I danced to at our wedding reception, so fuck a whole lot of you people.

Anyway, I voted "Love You To" not because it is a bad song, but because a) out of George's efforts here I think it's the least of them, and b) I think he did what he was shooting for here much, MUCH better on "Within You, Without You" and "The Inner Light. Sorry, G.

voted "good day sunshine", one of the few beatles songs i absolutely cannot stand

I like "Love You To" best of George's Indian Trilogy - at least it has some drive. (The mashup of "WYWY" with "Tomorrow Never Knows" on the Love album improves that song considerably.)

This is the toughest Beatles album to find a dud on. I'm Yellow Submarining it because I'm over 11 years old, but really, I should abstain.

I like "Love You To" best of George's Indian Trilogy - at least it has some drive.

Love You To >> The Inner Light >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Within You, Without You

Dude was a dentist who gave them acid!

I know what the song's about!

― Hat Trick Swayze (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, September 22, 2009 8:44 PM

You guys, the dentist who dosed George and John's coffee is NOT Dr. Robert, it's the aforementioned dr who prescribed drugs to celebrities in order to hang out with them! Enough!

"For No One" isn't that good, a bit like a crappy cousin of "Eleanor Rigby".

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Ppl voting Love You To are serious SB-bait

What does this mean? (I voted Love You To) I can't believe Geir Hongro likes Love You To....this line of threads makes me nuts yet I can't stop looking at them!!!

For No One and Eleanor Rigby are brilliant and I am no Paul fan

Toss up between "I'm Only Sleeping" and "Here There & Everywhere" - the rest is wall-to-wall brilliance, not a flaw in it as far as I'm concerned. But both of those songs kind of wear out their welcome for me. I'll vote for IOS just because it seems like HT&E is getting enough votes already..

xpost SB = "suggest ban," the link under posts to suggest banning the poster from the boards.

"For No One" is maybe one of the three or four best songs on here - I guess it gets dismissed as "more maudlin Paul" but, as on "I'm Looking Through You" and just a few other songs, it feels like a maudlin-ness that actually comes from the heart - I believe in this sad sap with his ex's pet names ringing in his head while he's painfully aware that she's moved on and he hasn't. Feels real to me in a way that "Michelle" never will.

for no one is outstanding imo

love you to is subpar raga-harrison but i still like it. inner light & within you without you are awesome!

explain the pure brilliance of yellow sugbanrine plaese?

get thee to Popular

voted "Love You Too."

Paul, who wrote that sub-Pitchfork garbage? Though kudos that the writer was able to devote all of four utterly unconvincing sentences in defense of a song as poor as the writer's argument.

i love that this album was #1 in the u.s. and u.k. for more than a month in '66. so awesome. not to be all cliche, but it would still be a mindblowing #1 record today.

like "hard day's night," this is another one i'm sitting out. there's nothing i dislike enough to vote for it.

what else came out in '66 that could reasonably be called psychedelic? the dead, hendrix, pink floyd and a bunch of others all came in '67.

where did we come from? why are we here? where are we going to...?
(dble-x:p)

(ok, 13th floor elevators was '66. it's just really kind of astounding how fast it happened, the emergence of all of that.)

xp: dexy's, belle and sebastian, momus?

who is John GaltTom Ewing?

good day sunshine. actually, for my 'favorite' beatles album, there are several songs on it I don't care for (yellow sub, good day sunshine, got to get you into my life, doctor robert). I think the ballads (elenor rigby, here there and everywhere, and for no one) are fucking incredible though, the pinnacle of mccartney's writing.

oh yeah I Want to Tell You, a song so slight I forgot it even existed

GTGYIML is crap

Fucking madhead talk.

i was doing okay with the last few threads, but god, i hate you all

love you to rules

GTGYIML is crap

― goole, Wednesday, September 23, 2009 12:17 AM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

wtf

tbh finally hearing this shit in mono totally changed my mind about tons of their songs

i voted yellow submarine, totally corny -- cant stand when they got all kids songs

if you vote for no one or i'm only sleeping, expect an sb

in the mail

suggest fist to the face!!

ha, funny 'and your bird can sing' didn't get ANY votes b/c it's a pretty mediocre song and one that i could take or leave. lennon himself thought it sucked & was one of his least favorite songs

― mark cl, Saturday, September 26, 2009 11:58 PM (2 years ago)

lol at anyone caring what lennon thought of his own songs -- he also hated 'cry baby cry' which is awesome.

'and yr bird can sing' has been my favorite beatles song for at least five years, but there are no bad songs on this album. it's the 'last exit to springfield' of beatles albums.

and 'good day sunshine' is perfect, saying it sounds like 'adult contemporary' is just batshit crazy.

and why is "adult contemporary" pejorative?

Ask her.

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Why, Delilah?

lol at anyone caring what lennon thought of his own songs
yeah, so many of his judgments on beatles tunes in that wenner interview are pretty off -- probably colored by the recent breakup. i imagine if he'd lived we'd have plenty of quotes from him saying how much loved "bird can sing" or whatever.

His judgments much better in the Sheff interview of 1980; he even says quite nice things about "For No One," "Good Day Sunshine," and "Here There Everywhere."

KJB you know you love Delilah.

This poll has maybe the most accurate ever bottom two, those two are absolutely the highest highs of a very high album. "She Said She Said" still blows my mind every time I hear it, what a head trip that must have been in 1966: I know what it's like to be dead?! This guy is clearly going to different kinds of parties than the one he didn't want to spoil a few records back. And the guitars on "And Your Bird Can Sing," my god, talk about joy.

"No one can succeed like Doctor Robert!" guitars of delight

really wish they'd done just one more fuzzed-out mod psych album like this, Pepper's comes close in places but I just fucking love the sound and tone and crisp buzz of everything on this plus Paperback Writer.