"Granny-tunes" was a John Lennon term. He was all about Rock and Roll. Clearly Paul loved Rock too but also had an array of other musical influences. "64" is British music hall influenced and "Honey Pie" is 1930 Hollywood jazz influenced. Since Paul's dad played these styles at family gatherings as Paul grew up, I think we may have McCartney senior to thank for quite a lot of Paul's musicality and song writing, even those that aren't particularly "Granny." I just remembered my wife gave me the book McCartney wrote about his lyrics for Christmas a couple years back. Paul wrote the melody for "When I'm Sixty-Four" by age 16 or there abouts and the lyrics at age 24.I think the lyrics are pretty sophisticated for a 24 year old. It was recorded toward the end of 1966, before Sgt. Pepper was even a concept yet. I think it fits in with Pepper, 19th century circuses, and TV corn-flakes commercials, etc. It's funny, I was 12 when "Hey Jude" was released and remember thinking how amazing the melody was, I couldn't get over it, the beginning part, not the chorus. I played it on a piano over and over. It's a long melody, it takes it's time before it repeats. It's absolutely beautiful. I'd like to discover anyone who wrote melodies like that back then or writes them now, in popular song. It's amazing.
it's foolish to knock mccartney for songs he came up with in the 60's or for the ones he writes even now. if HE thinks "maxwell's silver hammer" was his next "penny lane", who's going to tell him different? (other than everyone in the studio while he works on it) but you can understand why he believed in himself then as well as now.
Is anyone here a singer because The Long And Winding Road is one of my shower songs and I happen to be a singer and I love this song so I think it’s a great song and a great melody and a great sentiment and I guess we all have different tastes but as a musician, I think it’s a great.
TOTALLY AGREE about Long and Winding Road. It's slowww tempo is like a funeral dirge, particularly how slowww Paul sings it. It's a song that seems to go on and on. If it was trimmed a bit to make it tighter, I'd like it.
Thanks so much for including yesterday. I always feel like it’s some sort of sacrilege to admit that it’s one of my least favourite Beatles songs. I would add fool on the hill, ob la di ob la da, and Mr. Moonlight. Disagree with hold me tight (great song) and what goes on (one of my favourites, I always thought it had a sort of Buck Owens Bakersfield sound to it!).
Mick Jagger once said: "It's the singer, not the song." I don't think that's true in every instance, but it is here. I love the Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 version, but the Beatles version can put me to sleep.
One of George’s best guitar solos is on Till there was You along with the rest of the guitar work behind the vocals. Remember it was 1963. They played that song for a couple of years prior to making it. And again the White album was purposely and deliberately different from Sargent Peppers. From elaborate to white with many of the tracks stripped down and spontaneous. Geez
White Album has three kickass Paul songs (Back in the U.S.S.R., Birthday, Helter Skelter) but the rest of his contributions are ridiculously indulgent. Especially when he only does a few notes of throwaway songs like "Why don't we do it in the Road." Paul's supremely talented but he was really reaching deep into his music-hall-inspired songs more and more each album.
Never listened to that album. Last McCartney album I ever bought was Flowers In The Dirt. I liked the collaboration he did with Costello on a few tracks.
Even though they didn't write it, ''Mister Moonlight'' is the worst! That organ solo in the middle of the song, Horrible! I can't believe no one in the studio picked up on that!
@@johnmohl7345 I purposely omitted their covers, because most of those would be my least liked in their entire canon, especially the ones from Beatles For Sale.
This is easy for me because there are only 10, and 8 eight them are on The Beatles, and the other two are on Rubber Soul: 1. Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill 2. Revolution No.9 3. Wild Honey Pie 4. Yer Blues 5. Birthday 6. Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me and My Monkey 7. Run For Your Life 8. Helter Skelter 9. Why Don't We Do It In The Road 10. What Goes On
Yep, The Long and Winding Road. Love Me Do. Most of those you mentioned. They should have given up the sitar after Norwegian Wood. What Goes On stops Rubber Soull from being a perfect pop album. I find the lyrics of Eleanor Rigby very depressing. Yellow Submarine.You can fairly well pick a Paul song without much John input - they tend to be twee.
Great list...I'm with you in regards to Paul's granny music. My own personal list: Hey Jude Honey Pie Martha My Dear Mr. Moonlight Yesterday Across the Universe What Goes On Oh Bla Di Oh Bla Da Run For Your Life All Together Now I debated putting the single version of Revolution on here. I much prefer the version on the White Album.
@linkz35 My point is the exact opposite...George's hypocrisy was overwhelming......He could complain about having to HALF as long on McCartney song as they worked on "Not Guilty "....And McCartney wasn't the one complaining about having to do that ..... Harrison was......
My least favourite original Beatles songs (but in my life I love them anyway) : - Mawell's silver hammer - For you blue - Tell me what you see - She's a woman - You like me too much - All together now - Yes is is - Hold me tight - Little child - Thank you girl Hard for me to do a top ten. My least favourite is without a doubt "Thank you girl", a real filler. Then it's "Little child", with a harp that fills the space and lyrics soso. "Hold me tight" seems to me a "I saw her standing there" retake ("Yes it is" being a "This boy" retake), but it's badly arranged from the start of the song. And "Revolution 9" doesn't bother me, it's a weird experience to listen to but it's got its place on the diverse "White Album". I don't dislike Ringo Starr songs.
Agree, except for Maxwell, She's leaving home and Hey Jude. The chorus is simply legendary, McCartney's soul-shouter phrasing is too spectacular, to be boring. My negative list would always include Harrison's "I need you". A track that, terribly arranged with the silly guitar volume pedal sound, is also pretty whiny and lame. Criticizing Ring-o-long's is a tricky thing. It was a very funny and nice tradition, to give him one song per album, no matter how it sounds, that one should just interpret it as a "running gag".
Hi Tom. Agree about the maudlin "Yesterday" and" Long and Winding Road". Also dislike "When I'm Sixty Four". - I'm going to be 74 in a few days so 64 sounds young to me! I like "Hey Jude" a lot. I quite like" Maxwell's Silver Hammer". My wife pointed out to me a couple of years ago that it's a cheery song about a serial killer. You mentioned a few Beatles songs which are unfamiliar to me so I now have a new listening project.
I agree with all of your picks except "When I'm 64" (which could have been better placed) and "Hold Me Tight". Never liked " Within You Without You", so call me a philistine. It would be amusing to compile all of Paul's "granny songs" on a single disc, especially if they were to magically disappear from the Beatles albums.
The only track I actually dislike is Revolution1, the out in song. Fortunately they redid it for the single. I love When I'm 64. It's one of the few tracks in keeping with the theme.
My dad is a huge Beatles fan and I played him wild honey pie recently and he said it made him not like them as much. Torturous tune, but I love playing it to annoy people. Agree that hey Jude is overrated but I still enjoy it. I tend to like songs that go on for too long.
Agree with ’Maxwell’, very weak track. But ’Yesterday’ is beautiful and sad, it is in my Beatles top-10. Among other songs, I like ’She's Leaving Home’ and ’Hey Jude’ even though they are not my favorites. I think the weakest songs in White album are ’Piggies’, ’Don't Pass Me By’ and ’Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da’.
Easy there George "Capo" Martin on the rearrangement of the Pepper LP....LOL!!!!! Just messing with ya! Pretty much agree but...I do like Good Night late at night when the smoke is right...And as for Yesterday well... Played it when I was young then lived it when I got old..And now yep..Time to bury it! I will say one thing I was 8 when The Beatles were on the Sullivan show and I still remember Macca singing it with a tear in his eye..A VERY Powerful moment........And Great performance!!!!
GTFOH!..."all you need is love" is perfect as is "hey jude". the only one i'd agree with capo tom about is "what goes on". "she's leaving home" needed george martin's touch but the singing of lennon and mccartney knocks it out of the park. "honey pie" is middling as is maxwell's and when i'm 64 but "the long and winding road" and "yesterday" are gloomy mccartney classics. disliking beatles songs is like trying to find the worst photos of claudia cardinale in the 1960's-keep your eyes peeled. they're few and far between!
In no particular order 1. Every Little Thing, 2. Revolution 9, 3. Don’t Pass Me By, 4. Mr. Moonlight, 5. Tell Me What You see, 6.Dr. Robert, 7. Tell Me Why, 8. I Wanna be Your Man, 9,A Taste of Honey, 10, Honey Pie, These can be replaced frequently, depending on my mood, as there are very few Beatle tracks that I can’t stand! As always a very thought provoking edition. I love reading, and in your case, hearing, everyone’s differing opinions including yours!
Get Back - when Paul shouts "get back Loretta" always bugged me. Don't really dig this bluesy tune The Long And Winding Road - for reasons you stated Got To Get You Into My Life - never thought it fit on the album When I'm 64 - what you said Why Don't We Do It In The Road - pointless Sun King - blah This one's gonna hurt - Let It Be She's Leaving Home - you said it What Goes On - I feel the same as you Probably unpopular but - Drive My Car - "beep, beep, beep, beep, yeah".
My least favorite Beatles track is the cover "Kansas City / Hey Hey Hey" from Beatles for Sale. It sounds like a generic rocker to me. The only way that "Good Night" could be tolerable is as a satire. I like to think it is but there's no evidence to prove it is. Yes, there's something about "Yesterday" that has always turned me off. I don't think I ever enjoyed it. "Maxwell" lets Abbey Road down. My favorite McCartney track from 'Abbey Road' is "You Never Give Me Your Money". Paul could do introspective if he turned his mind to it but "Maxwell" is a long way from that. Cheers.
I've been a big Beatles fan since the early '60s, but I never liked these tracks: Love Me Do Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da Wild Honey Pie Honey Pie Why Don't We Do It In The Road Revolution 9 Dig A Pony Come Together Lady Madonna Baby You're A Rich Man
agree with you on the upgraded sgt. pepper album. technically, SFF and Penny Lane were slated for that record to begin with. also agree with you on “goodnight”, “long and winding road”, “yesterday”. “what goes on” always struck me as a carl perkins song and i sort of tolerated it. also, i’ve never really been into “something”, “your mother should know”, “yer blues”, “fool on the hill”, “she’s leaving home”. “blue jay way” i have to be in the right mood for. same with “it’s all too much”. “you know my name” and “what’s the new Mary Jane” could have found a place on the white album. and “old brown shoe” could have been added to let it be to make a stronger album.
I'm just so glad someone did a Worse Beatles Song list and did not take the lazy route of trashing Revolution 9, for not being a pop song. A few of my least favorites are "Birthday". I originally thought that was not even a real song. "Strawberry Fields Forever" sounds like the cut-and-paste job that it actually is, and "Got to Get You Into My Life", which entered the Top 40 again in the '70s, and even then I could not understand why ...
Agree about Hey Jude, just a long bore and sounds terribly outdated. Others for the rubbish bin include Octopus' Garden, All Together Now, Obladi Oblada, Bungalow Bill, Revolution. But Long And Winding Road is a nice song, although I prefer the naked mix. Spector's added string arrangements I found syrupy. That was never a single in the UK, where Let It Be was there last, except later reissues.
Not Guilty didn't make the album because (drum roll) John said if Revolution 9 wasn't included, he was gonna pull all his songs off the album. What a shame Johnny was a pain at the party.
Yes, and most of them, almost all, are written by Paul: The Long and Winding Road; O-bla-di o-bla-da; Yesterday; Maxwell's Silver Hammer; When I'm 64; She's Leaving Home; Lovely Rita; Your Mother Should Know; Rocky Raccoon; and on and on ad nauseam. If Paul hadn't been such a good musician and singer, his songwriting would have been a liability for the band. His other talents made up for it.
Least favorite by John: No Reply (decent song; I just don’t like it) By Paul: Hello Goodbye (totally, utterly vacuous) George: Long, Long, Long (lethargic, with gloomy ending) Everything Ringo did was great
@@chicklets4ever51Chord sequence inspired by Sad-Eyed Lady is what George said. The melody is different. And if he hadn't have said that no-one would ever know.
@@gettinhungrig2 Of course they would have known, if they knew both Dylan's and Harrison's well. The principal melody of Long, Long, Long is very similar to that of the chorus refrain of "My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums etc." But it's okay. Dylan and George were good friends. I'm sure Bob felt flattered.
Tom, you don't seem to care for McCartney's songs very much on those iconic albums, and I agree with you. Paul was in love with Simon & Garfunkel's album "Bridge Over Troubled Water", and that was in inspiration for that horrible maudlin song "Long Winding Road" from Let It Be. I also detest "Hey Jude" and I'm not very keen about the song "Let It Be" I was always a George Harrison/John Lennon fan. Those two wrote the best songs, while Paul McCartney was more Pop oriented. Hey Jude is an endless song with all of that LaLaLa-LaLaLaLa on endless loop, it drags on like a Wagner Opera!
This falls into my least favorite category of UA-cam videos. I respect the fact you don’t like these songs, but so what. Tough! In order for such lists to be informative or interesting one would want to hear an in depth analysis. Even with that, it is still just one person’s opinion. Next on my list of least favorite UA-cam videos is “I listen to this or that song for the first time.” Without exception it is made by a person nobody ever heard about and we see somebody twisting for five minutes while a well known song plays in the background. Of course the only interesting part about it is that somebody by the looks of it in his/her mid thirties and with interest in music never heard Let it Be or Stairway before. BTW, Only A Nothern Song is Harrison’s early inept effort to compose a song. It has minimal musical material that quickly overstays its welcome and it only proves that John and Paul were quite supportive of his younger and inexperienced friend. But hey, it is only my opinion.
I have a really big Beatles collection, but I admit, I don't have everything and there are a few things I've never heard. They're one of my all-time favorite bands, but I don't like everything they did. The Beatles songs in my collection that I don't care if I never hear again are: 1. Little Child. 2. I Wanna Be Your Man. 3. Yes It Is. 4. Eleanor Rigby. 5. Yellow Submarine. 6. For No One. 7. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. 8. With a Little Help From My Friends. 9. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. 10. She's Leaving Home. 11. Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite. 12. Within You, Without You. 13. When I'm Sixty-four. 14. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) 15. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da. 16. Wild Honey Pie. 17. Blackbird. 18. Rocky Racoon. 19. Don't Pass Me By. 20. Why Don't We Do It in the Road. 21. Mother Nature's Son. 22. Long, Long, Long. 23. Revolution 1. 24. Revolution 9. 25. Good Night. 26. Octopus's Garden. 27. Dig It. 28. Let It Be. 29. Maggie Mae. 30. One After 909. 31. The Long and Winding Road. 32. For You Blue. 33. Lady Madonna. 34. Yesterday. 35. All You Need Is Love. 36. Hello, Goodbye. 37. Hey Jude. 38. The Inner Light. 39. The Fool on the Hill. 40. You Know My Name (Look Up the Number). I enjoyed this video,... but then I enjoy all of your videos. You always do a great job Tom!
IMO the first side of Abbey Rd is marred by Maxwells and Octopus's Garden, shame they didn't put Come & Get it and All things must pass on it, anyway, that's my two cents worth.
Come Together, don’t like the abrasive riff, and since hearing it as a kid, the lyric, “Hold you in his armchair, you can feel his disease,” always disgusted me. Hon mentions: Rocky Racoon, Yellow Submarine
The Night Before, Drive My Car, Here There and Everywhere come to mind as my least favourite. Also Words Of Love is ordinary, Kansas City too...and I don't care for Yesterday, don't believe in Yesterday. Worst Ringo song would be Act Naturally.
Never understood why, but Honey Pie is a favourite of mine. I totally agree with the rest of your choices. I read that The Long and Winding Road was actually written with the intention of pushing it to the likes of Cilla Black or Engelbert Humperdink. Paul was working with Mary Hopkins at the time. Intersting fact: Hopkins sings on Bowie's Sound and Vision.
I disagree with you about just about every song you mentioned. She's Leaving Home and Yesterday are my two favourite Beatles tracks. The one song I hate above all others is The Ballad of John and Yoko. I also hate Come Together and Maxwell's Silver Hammer. The White Album is my least liked of all the albums.
I agree with all your picks, but especially 'What goes on', for me Rubber soul could have been the perfect album and the fact 'What goes on' kicks off side two as well, makes no sense, its a terrible song.
Mine would be: Only a Northern Song, All Together Now, Goodnight, The Inner Light, Little Child, What Goes On, Wild Honey Pie, When I Get Home, Why Don't We Do It In the Road?, You Like Me Too Much.
one after 909 yellow submaire love me do yesterday whats goes on everybobys tryin to be my baby kancas city ive just seen a face wild honey pie dont pass me buy bonus tracks ballard of john yoko should never have been a beatle single should have been a plastic ono band song and finally you know my name look up the number
"A hard day's night" is perfect for me. Even the less good song "When I get home" is fine. For me "With the Beatles" and "Help" contain some filler soso songs. Don't forget that these albums were made in a hurry. I always prefered "Beatles for sale" than the 2 other albums.
A Hard Days Night is a perfect album. Love every track. Side 1 of Help (the songs from the film) might be my favorite Beatles side of all time. Joyous and life affirming.
@@tomrobinson5776 yes, but maybe I know too much the songs on "Help!". I don't love much "Another girl" but I love "the night before" and "you're going to lose that girl". I'm fed up with "Yesterday" too. I can listen too endlessly "A hard day's night" but I'm never too attracted by "Help!" Even if there are few excellent songs, I love the mood on "Beatles for sale".
@@tomrobinson5776 yes, the classic song is "eight days a week" but I prefer "spoil the party" too. "Rock and roll music" is fantastic sung by Lennon and "every little thing" is underrated. Not a bad album at all.
Hate all the McCartney granny music! Incl. Honey Pie, Your Mother Should Know, When I’m 64, Rocky Racoon, Good Day Sunshine, Maxwell’s Silver Hammer, ObLaDi ObLaDa
The Beatles recorded 218 songs, over 12½, and 33 singles. These twelve never clicked for me, interesting, different, and well-produced, but unappealing: Worst of the Beatles 01 R E V O L U T I O N 9 (The Beatles, aka the White Album) 02 T H E L O N G A N D W I N D I N G R O A D Let It Be 03 R U N F O R Y O U R L I F E Rubber Soul 04 S A V O Y T R U F F L E (The Beatles, aka the White Album) 05 MA X W E L L ' S S I L V E R H A M M E R Let It Be 06 S H E ' S L E A V I N G H O M E Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 07 M R M O O N L I G H T For Sale 08 T H I N K F O R Y O U R S E L F Rubber Soul 09 G O O D N I G H T (The Beatles, aka the White Album) 10 W I T H I N Y O U , W I T H O U T Y O U Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 11 T H E I N N E R L I G H T B-Side of Lady Madonna 12 Y O U K N O W M Y N A M E ( L O O K U P T H E N U M B E R ) B-Side of Let It Be
I am going to put all ten of my votes on A Long And Winding Road. It is embarrassingly bad song. It is a preview of what McCartney would do post Beatles. Paul wrote some brilliant songs while in the confines of the Beatles and that is why A Long And Winding Road is such a bad surprise.
When I'm 64 was always a sore spot for me. Long and Winding Song for sure is a sleeper. Here There and Everywhere was for me a low point on Revolver. The list can go on but the above are a few examples.
I agree with most of your list but I like The Long and Winding Road and Yesterday. I also like Hey Jude since it's such a great sing-along song when you are in a large group. A few I would add in their places that I've never really liked would be Octopus's Garden, Yellow Submarine, and Revolution 9.
You had me all the way through until your very last pick, "Hey Jude", but as Sly Stone said..."different strokes for different folks". Anyway, I enjoy your channel, thank you!!
My least favourite Beatles tracks: Taxman, Piggies, When My Guitar Gently Weeps, Something. George is definitely not my favourite Beatle (which is rather a stupid concept anyway).
I used to work in radio as a DJ. Hey Jude was one of those types of songs we called "bathroom break songs".
Yes we did! I worked at a small oldies station for a time. Needing to use the bathroom was one time when you definitely loved "Hey Jude!"
That’s hysterical 😉
"Granny-tunes" was a John Lennon term. He was all about Rock and Roll. Clearly Paul loved Rock too but also had an array of other musical influences. "64" is British music hall influenced and "Honey Pie" is 1930 Hollywood jazz influenced. Since Paul's dad played these styles at family gatherings as Paul grew up, I think we may have McCartney senior to thank for quite a lot of Paul's musicality and song writing, even those that aren't particularly "Granny." I just remembered my wife gave me the book McCartney wrote about his lyrics for Christmas a couple years back. Paul wrote the melody for "When I'm Sixty-Four" by age 16 or there abouts and the lyrics at age 24.I think the lyrics are pretty sophisticated for a 24 year old. It was recorded toward the end of 1966, before Sgt. Pepper was even a concept yet. I think it fits in with Pepper, 19th century circuses, and TV corn-flakes commercials, etc. It's funny, I was 12 when "Hey Jude" was released and remember thinking how amazing the melody was, I couldn't get over it, the beginning part, not the chorus. I played it on a piano over and over. It's a long melody, it takes it's time before it repeats. It's absolutely beautiful. I'd like to discover anyone who wrote melodies like that back then or writes them now, in popular song. It's amazing.
it's foolish to knock mccartney for songs he came up with in the 60's or for the ones he writes even now. if HE thinks "maxwell's silver hammer" was his next "penny lane", who's going to tell him different? (other than everyone in the studio while he works on it) but you can understand why he believed in himself then as well as now.
Is anyone here a singer because The Long And Winding Road is one of my shower songs and I happen to be a singer and I love this song so I think it’s a great song and a great melody and a great sentiment and I guess we all have different tastes but as a musician, I think it’s a great.
It almost seems heretical to admit it, but "Hey Jude" is one of my least favorite Beatles tracks too. And I love The Beatles!
TOTALLY AGREE about Long and Winding Road. It's slowww tempo is like a funeral dirge, particularly how slowww Paul sings it. It's a song that seems to go on and on. If it was trimmed a bit to make it tighter, I'd like it.
It's a thing of beauty
Thanks so much for including yesterday. I always feel like it’s some sort of sacrilege to admit that it’s one of my least favourite Beatles songs. I would add fool on the hill, ob la di ob la da, and Mr. Moonlight. Disagree with hold me tight (great song) and what goes on (one of my favourites, I always thought it had a sort of Buck Owens Bakersfield sound to it!).
even yoko acknowledges "the fool on the hill" is a classic song. the recently passed sergio mendes had no problem making it a hit.
Mick Jagger once said: "It's the singer, not the song." I don't think that's true in every instance, but it is here. I love the Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 version, but the Beatles version can put me to sleep.
@@marcyfan-tz4wj That’s a great version by Sergio. 😉
Noooo not fool on the hill
Upon watching your video, somehow I knew 'The Long and Winding Road' would be your first mention. 😄
Me too. Well, for a while I thought that it was just me. Glad that it is a shared opinion.
Yes. Among so many bad songs, that one is the very worst.
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Wild Honey Pie, Honey Pie, Obladi Oblada, Love Me Do, Mr Moonlight, A Taste of Honey, Till There Was You (yeah, I know those last few are covers...).
One of George’s best guitar solos is on Till there was You along with the rest of the guitar work behind the vocals. Remember it was 1963. They played that song for a couple of years prior to making it. And again the White album was purposely and deliberately different from Sargent Peppers. From elaborate to white with many of the tracks stripped down and spontaneous. Geez
White Album has three kickass Paul songs (Back in the U.S.S.R., Birthday, Helter Skelter) but the rest of his contributions are ridiculously indulgent. Especially when he only does a few notes of throwaway songs like "Why don't we do it in the Road." Paul's supremely talented but he was really reaching deep into his music-hall-inspired songs more and more each album.
Blackbird is a masterpiece
I Will is beautiful. Mother Nature's Son is charming. But Lennon was right: The White Album was his, just as A Hard Day's Night was.
@@Peter-Burbank Yes it is a fine song. I'll Follow the Sun, is also a great little short tune, yet is brilliant.
@@bobtaylor170yes of course, but don't forget that the walrus was Paul !
@@MarwinEthel-Mollusk quite so!
through are love of mccartney pipes of peace is ten times better than yesterday
Never listened to that album. Last McCartney album I ever bought was Flowers In The Dirt. I liked the collaboration he did with Costello on a few tracks.
Agree with you about Hey Jude track. I actually bought that 45 for the B-side Revolution, back in the day. I loved the raucous guitars.
Even though they didn't write it, ''Mister Moonlight'' is the worst! That organ solo in the middle of the song, Horrible! I can't believe no one in the studio picked up on that!
@@johnmohl7345 I purposely omitted their covers, because most of those would be my least liked in their entire canon, especially the ones from Beatles For Sale.
Most of their worst tracks are McCartney tacks, he wrote a lot of goofy and sappy songs.
I agree but he did a body of brilliant songs so I let him slide. (except for A Long And Winding Road.) Talk about sappy.
yes right and in his solo career too
I agree completely, but his rockers are usually pretty good.
This is easy for me because there are only 10, and 8 eight them are on The Beatles, and the other two are on Rubber Soul: 1. Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill 2. Revolution No.9 3. Wild Honey Pie 4. Yer Blues 5. Birthday 6. Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me and My Monkey 7. Run For Your Life 8. Helter Skelter 9. Why Don't We Do It In The Road 10. What Goes On
Yep, The Long and Winding Road. Love Me Do. Most of those you mentioned. They should have given up the sitar after Norwegian Wood. What Goes On stops Rubber Soull from being a perfect pop album. I find the lyrics of Eleanor Rigby very depressing. Yellow Submarine.You can fairly well pick a Paul song without much John input - they tend to be twee.
Great list...I'm with you in regards to Paul's granny music. My own personal list:
Hey Jude
Honey Pie
Martha My Dear
Mr. Moonlight
Yesterday
Across the Universe
What Goes On
Oh Bla Di Oh Bla Da
Run For Your Life
All Together Now
I debated putting the single version of Revolution on here. I much prefer the version on the White Album.
Across the Universe is a beautiful song. Listen sometime to the stripped down version, without all of Spector's schmaltz. You'll see.
Agree with everything you said about the sappy Yesterday and She's Leaving Home. What a couple of buzz kill songs....
@@DavidSmith-ui7ub That’s a perfect way to describe it. 😉
They recorded exactly twice as many takes of "Not Guilty" as they did of "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" 128 to 64....And didn't make The White Album....
George was always done dirty by the end.
@linkz35 My point is the exact opposite...George's hypocrisy was overwhelming......He could complain about having to HALF as long on McCartney song as they worked on "Not Guilty "....And McCartney wasn't the one complaining about having to do that ..... Harrison was......
@@TerryTutor-cv3hh Not Guilty is basically a jazz tune. The band wasn't used to that style.
My least favourite original Beatles songs (but in my life I love them anyway) :
- Mawell's silver hammer
- For you blue
- Tell me what you see
- She's a woman
- You like me too much
- All together now
- Yes is is
- Hold me tight
- Little child
- Thank you girl
Hard for me to do a top ten. My least favourite is without a doubt "Thank you girl", a real filler. Then it's "Little child", with a harp that fills the space and lyrics soso. "Hold me tight" seems to me a "I saw her standing there" retake ("Yes it is" being a "This boy" retake), but it's badly arranged from the start of the song. And "Revolution 9" doesn't bother me, it's a weird experience to listen to but it's got its place on the diverse "White Album". I don't dislike Ringo Starr songs.
Agree, except for Maxwell, She's leaving home and Hey Jude. The chorus is simply legendary, McCartney's soul-shouter phrasing is too spectacular, to be boring.
My negative list would always include Harrison's "I need you". A track that, terribly arranged with the silly guitar volume pedal sound, is also pretty whiny and lame.
Criticizing Ring-o-long's is a tricky thing. It was a very funny and nice tradition, to give him one song per album, no matter how it sounds, that one should just interpret it as a "running gag".
"i need you" is marvelous.
Hi Tom. Agree about the maudlin "Yesterday" and" Long and Winding Road". Also dislike "When I'm Sixty Four". - I'm going to be 74 in a few days so 64 sounds young to me! I like "Hey Jude" a lot. I quite like" Maxwell's Silver Hammer". My wife pointed out to me a couple of years ago that it's a cheery song about a serial killer. You mentioned a few Beatles songs which are unfamiliar to me so I now have a new listening project.
I agree with all of your picks except "When I'm 64" (which could have been better placed) and "Hold Me Tight". Never liked " Within You Without You", so call me a philistine. It would be amusing to compile all of Paul's "granny songs" on a single disc, especially if they were to magically disappear from the Beatles albums.
Within You Without You is a glorious song. Beautiful, profound.
The only track I actually dislike is Revolution1, the out in song. Fortunately they redid it for the single. I love When I'm 64. It's one of the few tracks in keeping with the theme.
My dad is a huge Beatles fan and I played him wild honey pie recently and he said it made him not like them as much. Torturous tune, but I love playing it to annoy people. Agree that hey Jude is overrated but I still enjoy it. I tend to like songs that go on for too long.
Agree with ’Maxwell’, very weak track. But ’Yesterday’ is beautiful and sad, it is in my Beatles top-10. Among other songs, I like ’She's Leaving Home’ and ’Hey Jude’ even though they are not my favorites. I think the weakest songs in White album are ’Piggies’, ’Don't Pass Me By’ and ’Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da’.
I wasn’t offended until you got to Hey Jude haha
Gigantic Beatles fan here. The only one that gets on my nerves is "Love Me Do".
Easy there George "Capo" Martin on the rearrangement of the Pepper LP....LOL!!!!! Just messing with ya!
Pretty much agree but...I do like Good Night late at night when the smoke is right...And as for Yesterday well...
Played it when I was young then lived it when I got old..And now yep..Time to bury it! I will say one thing I was 8
when The Beatles were on the Sullivan show and I still remember Macca singing it with a tear in his eye..A VERY
Powerful moment........And Great performance!!!!
All You Need Is Love is a weak song 🎵 😯 😯 😯 😯 😊😊😊😊😊
GTFOH!..."all you need is love" is perfect as is "hey jude". the only one i'd agree with capo tom about is "what goes on". "she's leaving home" needed george martin's touch but the singing of lennon and mccartney knocks it out of the park. "honey pie" is middling as is maxwell's and when i'm 64 but "the long and winding road" and "yesterday" are gloomy mccartney classics. disliking beatles songs is like trying to find the worst photos of claudia cardinale in the 1960's-keep your eyes peeled. they're few and far between!
Agreed. But I love the "yee-hey!" at the end
In no particular order 1. Every Little Thing, 2. Revolution 9, 3. Don’t Pass Me By, 4. Mr. Moonlight, 5. Tell Me What You see, 6.Dr. Robert, 7. Tell Me Why, 8. I Wanna be Your Man, 9,A Taste of Honey, 10, Honey Pie, These can be replaced frequently, depending on my mood, as there are very few Beatle tracks that I can’t stand! As always a very thought provoking edition. I love reading, and in your case, hearing, everyone’s differing opinions including yours!
It's Only Love (Lennon hated it).
Run For Your Life.
Maxwell's Silver Hammer
Piggies.
Savoy Truffle
What Goes On.
Lovely Rita.
Get Back - when Paul shouts "get back Loretta" always bugged me. Don't really dig this bluesy tune
The Long And Winding Road - for reasons you stated
Got To Get You Into My Life - never thought it fit on the album
When I'm 64 - what you said
Why Don't We Do It In The Road - pointless
Sun King - blah
This one's gonna hurt - Let It Be
She's Leaving Home - you said it
What Goes On - I feel the same as you
Probably unpopular but - Drive My Car - "beep, beep, beep, beep, yeah".
Good list, but Drive My Car is a pretty good tune.
@@chicklets4ever51 fair enough, thanks
My least favorite Beatles track is the cover "Kansas City / Hey Hey Hey" from Beatles for Sale. It sounds like a generic rocker to me. The only way that "Good Night" could be tolerable is as a satire. I like to think it is but there's no evidence to prove it is. Yes, there's something about "Yesterday" that has always turned me off. I don't think I ever enjoyed it. "Maxwell" lets Abbey Road down. My favorite McCartney track from 'Abbey Road' is "You Never Give Me Your Money". Paul could do introspective if he turned his mind to it but "Maxwell" is a long way from that. Cheers.
You Never Give Me Your Money is one of my fave Paul tracks as well. Amazing what they cram into 4 short minutes. Brilliant.
I've been a big Beatles fan since the early '60s, but I never liked these tracks:
Love Me Do
Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da
Wild Honey Pie
Honey Pie
Why Don't We Do It In The Road
Revolution 9
Dig A Pony
Come Together
Lady Madonna
Baby You're A Rich Man
agree with you on the upgraded sgt. pepper album. technically, SFF and Penny Lane were slated for that record to begin with. also agree with you on “goodnight”, “long and winding road”, “yesterday”. “what goes on” always struck me as a carl perkins song and i sort of tolerated it. also, i’ve never really been into “something”, “your mother should know”, “yer blues”, “fool on the hill”, “she’s leaving home”. “blue jay way” i have to be in the right mood for. same with “it’s all too much”. “you know my name” and “what’s the new Mary Jane” could have found a place on the white album. and “old brown shoe” could have been added to let it be to make a stronger album.
This was hard to watch LOL!
No Lennon sung songs in this list.....
@@xtstevie I can’t think of one Lennon Beatles track I dislike. 😉
I'm just so glad someone did a Worse Beatles Song list and did not take the lazy route of trashing Revolution 9, for not being a pop song. A few of my least favorites are "Birthday". I originally thought that was not even a real song. "Strawberry Fields Forever" sounds like the cut-and-paste job that it actually is, and "Got to Get You Into My Life", which entered the Top 40 again in the '70s, and even then I could not understand why ...
I feel sorry for Paul haters.
Agree about Hey Jude, just a long bore and sounds terribly outdated. Others for the rubbish bin include Octopus' Garden, All Together Now, Obladi Oblada, Bungalow Bill, Revolution. But Long And Winding Road is a nice song, although I prefer the naked mix. Spector's added string arrangements I found syrupy. That was never a single in the UK, where Let It Be was there last, except later reissues.
Not Guilty didn't make the album because (drum roll) John said if Revolution 9 wasn't included, he was gonna pull all his songs off the album. What a shame Johnny was a pain at the party.
@@davidrauh8118 Ha!
Ob La di Ob La da is one I always skip when listening to the white album, and I love revolution 9!
@@Juan-wo7zu Awesome 😉
How do you pick? There are so many.
Yes, and most of them, almost all, are written by Paul: The Long and Winding Road; O-bla-di o-bla-da; Yesterday; Maxwell's Silver Hammer; When I'm 64; She's Leaving Home; Lovely Rita; Your Mother Should Know; Rocky Raccoon; and on and on ad nauseam. If Paul hadn't been such a good musician and singer, his songwriting would have been a liability for the band. His other talents made up for it.
You know the name, look up the number is my least favorite Beatles song.
Also forgot to mention McCartney has as many duds on the album as he does great ones. Just saying.
Least favorite by John: No Reply (decent song; I just don’t like it)
By Paul: Hello Goodbye (totally, utterly vacuous)
George: Long, Long, Long (lethargic, with gloomy ending)
Everything Ringo did was great
The melody of Long, Long, Long is basically lifted from Dylan's "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands," but I like it anyway.
@@chicklets4ever51Chord sequence inspired by Sad-Eyed Lady is what George said. The melody is different. And if he hadn't have said that no-one would ever know.
@@gettinhungrig2 Of course they would have known, if they knew both Dylan's and Harrison's well. The principal melody of Long, Long, Long is very similar to that of the chorus refrain of "My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums etc." But it's okay. Dylan and George were good friends. I'm sure Bob felt flattered.
Tom, you don't seem to care for McCartney's songs very much on those iconic albums, and I agree with you. Paul was in love with Simon & Garfunkel's album "Bridge Over Troubled Water", and that was in inspiration for that horrible maudlin song "Long Winding Road" from Let It Be. I also detest "Hey Jude" and I'm not very keen about the song "Let It Be"
I was always a George Harrison/John Lennon fan. Those two wrote the best songs, while Paul McCartney was more Pop oriented. Hey Jude is an endless song with all of that LaLaLa-LaLaLaLa on endless loop, it drags on like a Wagner Opera!
Right on 😉 I always thought Lennon had the depth as well as Harrison. Those 2 guys wrote the most revolutionary songs in that catalog.
It's NaNaNa NaNaNaNa on endless loop, not LaLaLa LaLaLaLa.
This falls into my least favorite category of UA-cam videos. I respect the fact you don’t like these songs, but so what. Tough! In order for such lists to be informative or interesting one would want to hear an in depth analysis. Even with that, it is still just one person’s opinion. Next on my list of least favorite UA-cam videos is “I listen to this or that song for the first time.” Without exception it is made by a person nobody ever heard about and we see somebody twisting for five minutes while a well known song plays in the background. Of course the only interesting part about it is that somebody by the looks of it in his/her mid thirties and with interest in music never heard Let it Be or Stairway before.
BTW, Only A Nothern Song is Harrison’s early inept effort to compose a song. It has minimal musical material that quickly overstays its welcome and it only proves that John and Paul were quite supportive of his younger and inexperienced friend. But hey, it is only my opinion.
My take on your sentiment is if this is distasteful to you, don’t eat it!
@@dancranford5391 I did not. I found your other videos informative so I was disappointed to see something i could not relate to.
Yellow Submarine blows. And I walked out of the Peter Max movie when it came out. Ugh!
I have a really big Beatles collection, but I admit, I don't have everything and there are a few things I've never heard. They're one of my all-time favorite bands, but I don't like everything they did. The Beatles songs in my collection that I don't care if I never hear again are:
1. Little Child.
2. I Wanna Be Your Man.
3. Yes It Is.
4. Eleanor Rigby.
5. Yellow Submarine.
6. For No One.
7. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
8. With a Little Help From My Friends.
9. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
10. She's Leaving Home.
11. Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite.
12. Within You, Without You.
13. When I'm Sixty-four.
14. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
15. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da.
16. Wild Honey Pie.
17. Blackbird.
18. Rocky Racoon.
19. Don't Pass Me By.
20. Why Don't We Do It in the Road.
21. Mother Nature's Son.
22. Long, Long, Long.
23. Revolution 1.
24. Revolution 9.
25. Good Night.
26. Octopus's Garden.
27. Dig It.
28. Let It Be.
29. Maggie Mae.
30. One After 909.
31. The Long and Winding Road.
32. For You Blue.
33. Lady Madonna.
34. Yesterday.
35. All You Need Is Love.
36. Hello, Goodbye.
37. Hey Jude.
38. The Inner Light.
39. The Fool on the Hill.
40. You Know My Name (Look Up the Number).
I enjoyed this video,... but then I enjoy all of your videos. You always do a great job Tom!
@@nathanlaney4577 Thanks, much appreciated. 😉
I always hated "Within you, without you". "Taxman" is dissonant and "The Word" has weird lyrics.
Strange. I think those are excellent songs. And exactly how is Taxman dissonant?
You sir, have a real problem with Paul McCartney.
IMO the first side of Abbey Rd is marred by Maxwells and Octopus's Garden, shame they didn't put Come & Get it and All things must pass on it, anyway, that's my two cents worth.
@@gerardocarroll1158 I agree 😉
Octopuses Garden is a great song. Wouldn't be Abbey Road without it.
I love Paul's granny songs. They're excellent.
Indeed, Helter Skelter was great.
@@paulgoldstein2569 😂
They should have recorded a Beatles version of McCartney’s Come And Get It and placed it on Abbey Road.
Come Together, don’t like the abrasive riff, and since hearing it as a kid, the lyric, “Hold you in his armchair, you can feel his disease,” always disgusted me.
Hon mentions: Rocky Racoon, Yellow Submarine
Mostly Paul songs
The Night Before, Drive My Car, Here There and Everywhere come to mind as my least favourite. Also Words Of Love is ordinary, Kansas City too...and I don't care for Yesterday, don't believe in Yesterday. Worst Ringo song would be Act Naturally.
I was waiting for Lady Maddona and Ob-la-di Ob-la-da to came up, I do not like those songs.
Same here on the latter. But Lady Madona was passable.
Yeah these songs are definitely bummers
Never understood why, but Honey Pie is a favourite of mine. I totally agree with the rest of your choices. I read that The Long and Winding Road was actually written with the intention of pushing it to the likes of Cilla Black or Engelbert Humperdink. Paul was working with Mary Hopkins at the time. Intersting fact: Hopkins sings on Bowie's Sound and Vision.
It's upbeat
The short stuff on the White album succeeds as a whole, not so much as individual tracks.
Interesting. Never knew Hopkins sang on that Bowie track. 😉
Tom, I agree with your choices. Over time, I have grown to strongly dislike S Pepper. I gag over Yesterday. Feel the same about Something.
The Treasures did a cover of 'Hold Me Tight' produced by Phil Spector!: ua-cam.com/video/Ce27PZeyOPw/v-deo.html
Interesting version. Love that wall of sound vibe.
I disagree with you about just about every song you mentioned.
She's Leaving Home and Yesterday are my two favourite Beatles tracks.
The one song I hate above all others is The Ballad of John and Yoko.
I also hate Come Together and Maxwell's Silver Hammer.
The White Album is my least liked of all the albums.
I agree with all your picks, but especially 'What goes on', for me Rubber soul could have been the perfect album and the fact 'What goes on' kicks off side two as well, makes no sense, its a terrible song.
@@LightspeedAstronaut That’s why I dig the U.S. version the best. The 12 song version with I’ve Just Seen A Fave and It’s Only Love is perfection.
Mine would be: Only a Northern Song, All Together Now, Goodnight, The Inner Light, Little Child, What Goes On, Wild Honey Pie, When I Get Home, Why Don't We Do It In the Road?, You Like Me Too Much.
When I Get Home makes a lot of these lists and I have NEVER understood why. It's sensational rock, and Lennon's voice is at its best.
I particularly despise "Her Majesty"
one after 909 yellow submaire love me do yesterday whats goes on everybobys tryin to be my baby kancas city ive just seen a face wild honey pie dont pass me buy bonus tracks ballard of john yoko should never have been a beatle single should have been a plastic ono band song and finally you know my name look up the number
"A hard day's night" is perfect for me. Even the less good song "When I get home" is fine. For me "With the Beatles" and "Help" contain some filler soso songs. Don't forget that these albums were made in a hurry. I always prefered "Beatles for sale" than the 2 other albums.
A Hard Days Night is a perfect album. Love every track. Side 1 of Help (the songs from the film) might be my favorite Beatles side of all time. Joyous and life affirming.
@@tomrobinson5776 yes, but maybe I know too much the songs on "Help!". I don't love much "Another girl" but I love "the night before" and "you're going to lose that girl". I'm fed up with "Yesterday" too.
I can listen too endlessly "A hard day's night" but I'm never too attracted by "Help!" Even if there are few excellent songs, I love the mood on "Beatles for sale".
@@MarwinEthel-Mollusk I Don’t Want To Spoil The Party is another all time fave of mine from For Sale.
@@tomrobinson5776 yes, the classic song is "eight days a week" but I prefer "spoil the party" too. "Rock and roll music" is fantastic sung by Lennon and "every little thing" is underrated. Not a bad album at all.
Hate all the McCartney granny music! Incl. Honey Pie, Your Mother Should Know, When I’m 64, Rocky Racoon, Good Day Sunshine, Maxwell’s Silver Hammer, ObLaDi ObLaDa
Far out man ! I thought Paul sang Goodnight.
Yesterday! 😳 😮😮😮😮😮😊😊😊😊
Yellow Submarine kills Revolver for me.
Always thought Eight Days a Week was mediocre.
In the USA Yellow Submarine was left off --- not a good fit to that album. I like Eight Days a Week. A bit of light hearted music -- nothing grand.
Love me do .rubbish.yellow submsrine i turn off the radio to this track.
Hello Goodbye…
Yes, sorta weak.
The Beatles recorded 218 songs, over 12½, and 33 singles.
These twelve never clicked for me, interesting, different, and well-produced, but unappealing:
Worst of the Beatles
01 R E V O L U T I O N 9
(The Beatles, aka the White Album)
02 T H E L O N G A N D W I N D I N G R O A D
Let It Be
03 R U N F O R Y O U R L I F E
Rubber Soul
04 S A V O Y T R U F F L E
(The Beatles, aka the White Album)
05 MA X W E L L ' S S I L V E R H A M M E R
Let It Be
06 S H E ' S L E A V I N G H O M E
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
07 M R M O O N L I G H T
For Sale
08 T H I N K F O R Y O U R S E L F
Rubber Soul
09 G O O D N I G H T
(The Beatles, aka the White Album)
10 W I T H I N Y O U , W I T H O U T Y O U
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
11 T H E I N N E R L I G H T
B-Side of Lady Madonna
12 Y O U K N O W M Y N A M E ( L O O K U P T H E N U M B E R )
B-Side of Let It Be
I am going to put all ten of my votes on A Long And Winding Road. It is embarrassingly bad song. It is a preview of what McCartney would do post Beatles. Paul wrote some brilliant songs while in the confines of the Beatles and that is why A Long And Winding Road is such a bad surprise.
THE Long and Winding Road. Not "A" Long and Winding Road
When I'm 64 was always a sore spot for me. Long and Winding Song for sure is a sleeper. Here There and Everywhere was for me a low point on Revolver. The list can go on but the above are a few examples.
Here There and Everywhere is a brilliant song.
I agree with most of your list but I like The Long and Winding Road and Yesterday. I also like Hey Jude since it's such a great sing-along song when you are in a large group. A few I would add in their places that I've never really liked would be Octopus's Garden, Yellow Submarine, and Revolution 9.
You had me all the way through until your very last pick, "Hey Jude", but as Sly Stone said..."different strokes for different folks". Anyway, I enjoy your channel, thank you!!
@@billhiggins4264 Thanks for watching. 😉
My least favourite Beatles tracks: Taxman, Piggies, When My Guitar Gently Weeps, Something. George is definitely not my favourite Beatle (which is rather a stupid concept anyway).
Those are some of the best Beatles tracks ever. They tower over 90% of McCartney's twaddle.