Worst Beatles song on Revolver

if you vote for any of the songs in this poll, expect an sb

That good, because I just can't decide on this one. I have deep love for all these songs. I could rank them, but couldn't ever say the lowest ranked song is "worst".

Wait, Donovan? Really? Never heard that before - any details?

you'd have thought donovan would've mentioned that

Folk singer Donovan, with whom McCartney had just begun a friendship, suggested the "sky of blue and sea of green"
http://oldies.about.com/od/thebeatlessongs/a/yellowsubmarine.htm

Donovan bringing the knowledge.

Daha, that sounds kinda familiar now. Thanks. Yeah, maybe not his best moment as a lyricist...but it does the job. (I can just imagine Paul sitting there, stuck for hours - "what could rhyme with 'submarine'?!" - and then Donovan swoops in with this line about the sky being blue....)

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would expect this and Sgt Pepper's to be the most contentious cos they're the hardest to pick bad or lesser tracks from. on the other hand there seem to be a bunch of loons on here that hate certain Revolver or Pepper's tracks or specific Beatles. kids nowadays!

Got it down to 'Here, There and Everywhere', 'And Your Bird Can Sing' and 'Doctor Robert', but I'm resigned to not being able to cast a vote here.

Folk singer Donovan, with whom McCartney had just begun a friendship, suggested the "sky of blue and sea of green"
http://oldies.about.com/od/thebeatlessongs/a/yellowsubmarine.htm

So far so good. But where, other than on the writing credits (as usual) does John come in?

He came in through the bathroom window.

Didn't anybody tell him?

It was Lennon's idea to hire the cello player and change what Donovan had originally conceived as a waltz to a straight 4/4. Also, he wrote the liner notes for the single...

OK, listened to the album, and decided "Good day sunshine" should get it.

A song about a sunny day, and that's about it.

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Oh jesusfuck ILM is just rong.

It's funny, I put "RubSoul" and "rev" on one cD, with the 4 single tracks between.

It's noticeable that the single tracks are mostly "rock", whereas the albums are more "pop".

So, the album they could have made with "Day Tripper", "Rain" and "Paperback Writer" as a basis?

(can you imagine)

Any statistician will tell you, the bigger your sample size, the weirder the outliers. She said she said, wtf?
closer to the median, why do all those strange people not like Dr Robert?

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

but seriously 'yellow submarine' and a whole bunch of other beatles children-oriented songs are probably why so many of you grew up with the fucking band to begin with. y'all are crazy

Can 24 of you please tell me why "Love You To" is bad? It's my favorite Beatles song ever.

Other than using Indian instrumentation, it is plodding and dull from just after the intro, and the melody is unpleasant...and what does the title mean? love you to what? lastly, i think everyone probably compares it unfavorably to within you and inner light. OK?

in honor of this poll's results, here's a cover of "Yellow Submarine" that I contributed the Ringo to. http://www.sendspace.com/file/bkl6fj My friend actually covered the whole of Revolver -- it's pretty good!

The only bad thing about "Love You To" is that it's called "Love You To" even though George sings "I'll make LOVE TO YOU." Like they had a typo when they submitted the tracklisting to EMI.

Another bad thing about it is it reminds me of that awful Boyz II Men song "I'll make love to you if you want me to." But we can't really blame them for that now, can we?

"Yellow Submarine" hate = you always hurt the ones you love.

Well, I Voted "Yellow Submarine" but it isn't bad. The Beatles didn't make any bad songs from late 1965 until mid 1968.

I would have thought Taxman would have picked up more votes, from people not apporving of the lyrics a la Run For Your Life. Both great tracks, but people like to moan.

"Taxman" is classy anyway. And he did organize the Concert for Bangladesh 5 years later anyway, so obviously not that right wing.

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love the original spoken intro to Yellow Submarine (link)

Loving that! So many more wacky sounds and voices throughout - I wish they'd released that mix instead of the standard one (or at least included it on one of the anthologies).

It's on the cd single for "Real Love"

Never noticed the finger snaps in "Here There and Everywhere" until just now.

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.