Worst Beatles song on Revolver

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!!

Yellow submarine is really annoying. I don't know if that's sort of the point in which case it's genius. Must be the second most annoying Beatles song after Obladi Oblada.
Here, there and everywhere is corny as fuck even by Beatles standards but has some nice moments. That'd be my second choice.

the lyrics to taxman (rich popstar whines about the inland revenue) are nauseating enough to distract from the groove.

Very surprised at how many people dislike "I'm Only Sleeping". When I first heard this album I thought it was one of the best things I'd ever heard.

I love this album, but there's a lot of throwaway and I can't seem to make up my mind which is worst out of Good Day Sunshine, Dr Robert and I Want To Tell You. Probably the first one, mostly because I always heard the line as "I've got something I can flap about", which sounds weird and conjures up images of Macca in a paedo-jacket flashing at people.

You're odd.

blame Paul, he mentally scarred me.

Taxman - fucking whingers.

I remember reading somewhere that Dr Robert is the only song from the original Beatles albums that has never been covered by anyone in an official release. Can that be true?

'Yellow Submarine' would be too obvious a choice. It's far from being my favourite, but as novelty songs go it's OK and deserves to survive this poll because we sang it as kids at school (without knowing it was a Beatles song). 'Love You To' is dull, but 'Here, There and Everywhere' is awful - saccharine Paul at his worst (and I like a lot of his stuff that gets on other people's nerves, like 'Good Day Sunshine' and 'Martha My Dear').

Dr Robert

There is a live version of this released in 2005 by Andrew Gold as a bonus track on a re-issue of his album All This and Heaven Too. Apart from that there is a dull one on the Beatlesgrass compilation CD and the nice solo guitar version by Steven King. Aside from those nothing I know of.

OK. I somehow knew there couldn't have been a Beatles song that has never been covered!

Blue Jay way is pretty much uncovered, apart from Colin Newman on a solo album. I think he did it *because* it hadn't been.

.. although that's not even listed on http://www.beatlescoverversions.com/tbl.html

i saw Robyn Hitchcock and Jon Brion play "Blue Jay Way" live once ... It was great!

Love you To, though the lyrics to Taxman are the album's real blot - thanks, George, for inventing rock star whining.

Not too up with my history, but wasn't there some ridiculous tax inflation thing that happened in the mid-60s and sparked at least a couple of "tax" songs, "Sunny Afternoon" being another?

Still, moaning about having to pay nurses is just mad gay.

true, the tax rates for high earners were pretty astronomical back then, but it still makes them sound like twats.

Incidentally, I like these "worst of" classic albums threads we've been having lately - not that I like to concentrate on the negative, but they do seem to start more discussion than everyone just posting "God Only Knows" over and over again.

I don't think there's anything twattish about "Taxman" at all - twattish is Phil Collins showing compassion towards the plight of the homeless by writing and recording a million-selling single all about them, rather than by inviting a few dozen of 'em to come live in one of his mansions.

no, there's definitely something twatish about taxman, but it rocks so hard I can't imagine voting against it.

xp

that is also twattish.

though it goes without saying given that we're talking about phil collins.

Also (re: that freakytrigger article about e. rigby), the review describes it as a"tense and fussy". I say "exactly".

Who hates Good Day Sunshine and Martha My Dear?! Wankers! Martha's about a dog!

the lyrics to taxman (rich popstar whines about the inland revenue) are nauseating enough to distract from the groove.

^^^ This.

Anyone with foolish reservations about "Here There And Everywhere" should listen to the Emmylou Harris version. (Same goes for the Earth Wind & Fire version of "Got To Get You Into My Life", obviously.)

Yeah but the Emmylou Harris version isn't on Revolver, and the version on Revolver IS a bit dull, so I'm still voting for it.

I'm fixating on "worst Beatles SONG", though. "HT&E" is a great song!

yeah, forgot the thread title: It's a bit undercooked (whereas they were in plentycook mode about now) but it's a great song.

I get what you mean, BUT we're talking about pop/rock here, and the platonic essence of the song is the recording, not the score, so I'm judging based on what's on the actual album, not the chord sequence of melody divorced from that.

OR melody.

I Want To Tell You is a bit perfunctory, isn't it?

I wish Paperback Writer and Rain were on here.

Anyone who votes for any of these obvious perfect classics is crazy:

1. Taxman
2. Eleanor Rigby
3. I'm Only Sleeping
5. Here, There and Everywhere
7. She Said, She Said
9. And Your Bird Can Sing

I get what you mean, BUT we're talking about pop/rock here, and the platonic essence of the song is the recording, not the score, so I'm judging based on what's on the actual album, not the chord sequence of melody divorced from that.

The melody and the chord sequence are always on the actual recording.

Yes, but we are not voting on the melody and chord sequence IN ISOLATION of the recording; we are voting on the Beatles' recordings of these songs as released on this album.

and people say my rhetoric gets tedious, gee

(that wasn't aimed at anyone particular but to be fair we are talking about the beatles here, not emmylou harris or whatever)

I always forget Good Day Sunshine and GOT TO GET YOU INTO MY LIFE BA BA BAAA BA are on this album. I have consistently unprogrammed them from the CDs and left them out of tapes for years and years.

I think it's easier to skip Good Day Sunshine since it was the first song on the second side (yes no?) but GOT TO GET YOU INTO MY LIFE is just this horrible cold bucket of awfulness between two otherwise fantastic songs. Honestly, it is the SURPRISE BUTTSECKS of Beatles segues.

Man, I have no idea how people can dislike GTGYIML. I wonder if there's some sort of inverse relationship between the people who hate Eleanor Rigby and the people who hate GTGYIML.

Then I suddenly see you
Did I tell you I need you
Every single day of my life?

Not that keen on Eleanor Rigby, either.

This was the first Beatles CD I bought - and one of the first maybe three or so CDs I bought, period - and it was specifically for "Got To Get You Into My Life." Awesome song.

xp: okay, so that's not it. It just seems like those two songs are where I differ with the majority on this poll so far.

I'm all about I'm Only Sleeping, Love You To, She Said She Said and Tomorrow Never Knows, really.