10 Beatles Songs That Paul McCartney Hated
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2023
- If within the 4 Beatles we were to analyze the biggest fan of the band it would be almost obvious that McCartney was the winner, apart from a small period during the first years of the 70s. Paul always expressed and showed his love for the band, and in some way he was and is the one who has carried their legacy better, whether it is convenient for him or not, Paul has always been very diplomatic with his own perception of the group, he was not as explosive as Lennon or as sarcastic as Harrison, or as reserved as Ringo, so it is not common to find negative comments from Paul towards the band, towards his bandmates or towards their songs, but there are always exceptions, and today we present you 10 beatles songs that Paul McCartney hated.
I think it would be more accurate to say that Paul found these particular songs disappointing on some level for various reasons. But to claim he "hates" them? I think that's a stretch.
Absolutely! Manufactured storyline, overstated, BS. Especially in comparison to the whines - often petty - of the other three Beatles.
so when they did the same with john it is ok??
@@burcubiricik1838No, it is NOT!
@@waynej2608 but for macca fan it is ok and they say john was jealous that he didn't write shit songs like maxwell and rocky racoon :)
Not for Revolution #9. He truly hated that one.
Hold Me Tight has a kick ass guitar riff, Little Child isn't bad at all and I love the harmonica. I'm Happy Just to Dance With You sounds so happy with fantastic rhythm guitar, and it's nice to hear George sing especially back then. What You're Doing is very pleasant. The fact that these songs are considered rejects simply demonstrates how high the Beatles bar actually is.
"Hold Me Tight" deserves a lot more praise than it is given. That guitar motif by Harrison is BRILLIANT - very hard to play. And without it the song would be very ordinary. It is said that no one put much effort into the song. Well George certainly did!!
i agree. "hold me tight" and "little child" are both great rockers. the two worst songs on "with the beatles" are "this boy" and "til there was you." YUCK! "i'm happy just to dance with you" was a throw away song though. but i'm glad george got a song to sing in the film.
all i can say is i'm glad i have better taste in beatles' music than mccartney does. it also has to be remembered that a lot of artists are most critical of their past work. what they like is basically whatever they're doing at the moment.
what's my least liked beatle songs? there's a few. i really dislike "mr. moonlight" (a cover), "run for life" (i like the music but not the lyrics), "baby's in black, "the long and winding road" (i strongly dislike the orchestration), "blue jay way" (is too drawn out) and "yesterday" (which isn't a bad song just way overrated and ridiculously identified as the beatles best song.)
@@cjmacq-vg8um "I'm Happy Just To Dance With You" is very much one of my least liked songs on AHDN!!
@@cjmacq-vg8umI never liked Mr Moonlight.
In my eyes, I believe The Long and Winding Road was written by Paul but was about John. They were so tight, best friends. It was hard for Paul to lose that. I'm glad he had Linda to help him through that. I know he had to be tough on them later, but he wanted to make sure he got his money, (you never give me your money, you only give me your funny paper and in the middle of negotiations I break down.) Paul didn't trust Klein, and he wasn't going to get ripped off like earlier in their career. It broke my heart when they broke up; having loved them since I was 13 yrs; but it was a great ride!!!❤
I agree. I really like those songs, too. I think a lot of this stuff is taken a bit out of context. I mean, they have McCartney sounding like a bit of a cry baby. Actually, I wouldn't argue seeing Maxwell's Silver Hammer on there. But Across the Universe!? Wtf!!!
"Hold Me Tight" was one of those early Beatles songs that I just loved! Just a great "feel-good" song with some excellent vocal work.
I always hated it because the vocal is so distressingly out of tune!
It may or may not be a decent track but it's one of those few occasions where a Beatles track is diminished rather than enhanced by the quality of the lead vocal.
@@gerrycoogan6544 Paul clearly had a cold during recording of Hold Me Tight. His otherwise wonderful voice got nasal with his stuffed nose. And he got tired. Never having heard the song as a kid, when I finally heard it I loved it: for its chugging power rhythm guitar, and feel good Up.
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John had a cold when The Beatles recorded "Twist And shout"! It's still a classic because it sounds great.
"Hold Me Tight" does NOT sound great; it sounds rotten. It's one of the worst Beatles tracks that was ever released.
I'm sure it could have been a great track if Paul had done it justice with his vocal delivery but on this rare occasion he failed to do so. So, for all objective purposes, the track sucks to this very day.
I do wish he had revisited it in later years and sung it properly (just as I wish George would have re-recorded his vocal for "Dark Horse" once his voice had recovered from the hoarseness which afflicted him during the original recording.) They're both fine songs which deserved better recordings for posterity.
Nevertheless, "With The Beatles" is still one of my favourite Beatles albums.
@@gerrycoogan6544I wish I could say that you’re “objectively wrong” about Hold Me tight, but alas, it’s just my opinion. It’s a tight, fun little romp with chiming vocal melodies and it brims with energy. Def one of my favorite album tracks from the early days.
It’s always been a standout track for me due to the dreadful vocal. I find it hard to believe they allowed it to be released.
I always liked 'What Your Doing,' and 'She Said, She Said' is a wonderful song.
"What My Doing"? Never heard of it.
What You're Doing is a track from Beatles For Sale
Whereas "What Your Doing" is an example of subliteracy. 😉
@@kennethoats2322 or Beatles 6, the American album I guess.
There seems to be a lot of examples of this these days. I've seen people write things like "a waist of time" and mix up the meanings of effect/affect, imply/infer, etc. Perhaps The Beatles singing "I wanna hold your hand" started it all, even though the record label company replaced "wanna" with "want to" when the single was published.
Paul was a perfectionist and rather picky. "She Said, She Said" is brilliant. Like I have said before, John gave Pau's music some edge and Paul gave John some refinement. You can tell by a lot of "sappy" songs by Wings that John would have commented on and the raw songs on the "Plastic Ono" album, where Paul would has insisted on more takes.
"She said she said" is/was a Paul fav
More takes? Maybe. I've heard cute short demos by Lennon to find later that the definitive versions were boring and overly long.
His repertoire could be considered stronger, deeper, more committed, etc... then Paul's light output, but excluding the 2 masterpieces (Jealous guy, Working class hero) and the very pop songs of the final years, his output IMVHO has a strong lack of melody (yes, Imagine too).
Probably it would have been better using also better arrangements, alternating a more melodic voice a la McCartney, having more takes, etc... but the missing part is the melody in the compositions.
Just my 2 cents.
@@carlannerstedt6796 Yes, storming out of a recording session due to an argument doesn't necessarily mean Paul didn't like the song. That might have been a stretch. I do agree with the narrator that Paul was far kinder to the "throwaway" songs than John, who could be brutal. John also hated the "grandfolks" songs that Paul wrote like "When I'm 64" and "You're Mother Should Know". John could be tough on his own songs as well. "Run for your Life" comes to mind.
I've never heard what Paul's objections to She Said She Said were. I'm very curious since it's the only serious fight we hear of this early in their career. I think George's bass playing on it is fantastic and sounds like what Paul might have done.
@@norai.5826Strong lack of melody? “Hold on”, “How?, “#9 Dream”, “Out The Blue” lacks melody? Just to name a few.
"I'm Happy Just To Dance With You". One of my all time favorites of the early Beatles. Love the backing vocals. And "Across the Universe" is one of the best songs they ever wrote and recorded.
People trash the Let It Be album, but it's one of my favorites----especially because of Across the Universe. Frankly, I don't care for anything from McCartney's solo work except for Maybe I'm Amazed.
I agree with you. Of course I was 11 when Hard Days Night came out, but I liked Happy to Dance. Also, I really like Across the Universe.
@@rockyroad7345 I liked both Let it Be album versions, but I do prefer the Naked version. Like you except for a couple of songs, I am not that big of fan of McCartney's solo work. Same can be said for John and George Harrison and Ringo's individual works. Although each of them had good songs, but I think when the four were working together they could present a balance product.
I can’t stand to listen to Across the Universe because it is so poorly produced. I love the song but not the way it is recorded.
@@Sean-me4fv I can understand that. It is not everyone's cup of tea ,so to say.
Paul McCartney never ever said he hated She Said She Said! Not once. He also never suggested it was “not to his liking”. That is a ridiculous claim. In fact with maybe the exception of Revolution 9, I don’t think you can claim Paul “hated” any of these songs. Who writes this stuff?! Honestly!
Kudos to you. Here is my previous post if you care to read it.
This video would be better titled as "The One Song That Paul McCartney Hated" which was Revolution #9, and it would definitely have been better served as being released as a solo piece by John Lennon. Not really a song but just avant-garde music heavily influenced by Y-O. A couple of suitable replacements would have been "Hey Bulldog" and "Not Guilty" that latter of which really should have been on the White Album.
As for all the rest, maybe the versions released weren't the best but they're all good songs. "Hold Me Tight" and "I'm Happy Just To Dance With You" have always been a couple of my faves by them; but then again, for a group as renowned as the Beatles there is an awful lot of good material in which to choose from.
@@8176morgan Agreed. Except I've found, over the decades, that Revolution 9 actually grows on you. I didn't really dislike it when it first came out, I certainly didn't fully understand it, but it was an product of the times, for sure. Since then, I find myself enjoying it a bit like I enjoy a Jackson Pollack painting. And funnily enough, it never occurred to me until now that it was a product of Yoko's influence. But I guess I could concede that possibility. It was certainly very, very trippy.
All those others, except possibly for Little Child, are great songs.
@@8176morgan George's song was "Not Guilty", and yes, it should have made it on the White Album....instead of Revolution #9.
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The track yer blues was basically recorded live, they could rock with the best of them when they weren’t pissing on each other 8:08
The Long and Winding Road was our senior class song, 1971. When I hear it, I remember those days, old classmates and those who have passed. It really has been a long and winding road for all of us.
Most of the Beatles filler songs are way better than songs other musicians could write.
Personally I love She Said She Said, Yer Blues and Across The Universe, three "very Lennon" songs. I don't think Paul really hated them musically, but felt inconfortable with the circumstances they were recorded an released. For him they were associated with bad memories.
Likewise...and wise likes.
yah, man.
I find it funny because to me Across the Universe always sounded like a typical George prayer song. I always thought he made it and then Paul added some fancy lyrics to it.
I agree with all but Yer Blues. Hard to ever put those three on the same podium, shelf, or in the same sentence. Across the Universe and She Said are all-time classics I’ve worn the grooves out of from listening to them so much. Yer Blues is… fine. But def a track I’ve skipped more than once or twice.
Across the universe is the best Beatles Song
Across the universe is a fantastic song
I liked all of these songs. A part of my life growing up with the Beatles .
I have always loved 'What Your Doing".
I still have an original copy of Beatles VI and "What Your Doing", "Words Of Love", "Every Little Thing" and "I Don't Want To Spoil The Party" have some great harmonies.
What your Doing is a very good song. Tell me what you See isn't bad either.
*What You're Doing. (=What You Are Doing, not What Your Mom's Doing).
@@rodsmolter5046 *What You're Doing.
@@duffbaker9554The grammar police are everywhere. LOL
@@rodsmolter5046 We sure are! I'm especially chuffed and grateful to be serving and doing my part in this line of important work as an education is a terrible thing to waste. :-)
I'm surprised that 'I'm Happy Just to Dance With You' is on the list because i thought it was one of the highlights of the Hard Days Night movie.
I'm happy just to Dance with you is a great song. Based on the backstory it sounds like Paul just didn't want to show case George.
Long and winding road brilliant classic that holds up decades later . Thanks paul!
Sorry Paul, you're wrong. "Hold Me Tight" has such a beautiful tune and chords.
Hold Me Tight has a great chopping beat I've always loved
Unfortunately it was a poor arrangement and recording. As brilliant as George Martin was he couldn't do anything with it. Had he had his say the song would have been discarded. I find the song an embarrasement for all concerned.
"Tell Me What You See" is one of my favorite Paul songs as it is unique. The line "We will never be apart, if I'm part of you" is brilliant. Then that minor chord chorus.
The chorus chord is Gmaj7
There are no minor chords in the chorus or even the whole song for that matter.
“Tell me what you see” doesn’t try to be what it’s not. Not every song on an album needs to stretch for the most attention. This song sits comfortably in the company of the higher rated songs on the Help album as a counter balance whilst still capturing that wistful, hazy feel of a more innocent and “sunny” time that 1965 was and soon to be gone for ever.
0:49 Revolution 9
1:42 Tell Me What You See
2:19 Hold Me Tight
3:09 I’m Happy Just To Dance With You
3:36 What You’re Doing
4:06 Across the Universe
4:28 The Long and Winding Road
5:12 Yer Blues
5:35 She Said She Said
6:13 Little Child
Thank you, j. Stay free. R 👋 🕊
@@user-el3sh1xh3t But only by night.
Disagree about Yer Blues. Which is a good hard rock song and quite a contrast to Birthday which it follows on the White Album.. I do agree with Paul about Long and Winding Road, which I think of as Long and Boring Road. I'll have to look up Paul's simpler version of it. I agree that She Said She Said is good. Of course, none of these songs measure up to Paul's masterpiece with Wings, Bip Bop. Okay, Paul hates Bip Bop and there's not a lot to it. However, I like it. It's just a fun rock song, kind of reminding me of Tommy James and the Shondell's Hanky Panky. Rock doesn't have to be profound.
I have always loved Hold Me Tight - it was on the one and only LP my father owned it, he got it from a friend who was lucky enough to have an aunt in the UK.
@@alanlake4614 That's all cool. We just have different tastes in music. I do like Bip Bop though I know a lot of people don't like it. Hanky Panky is a better song and is a rocker. I'm not such a fan of Tommy James and the Shondells during the later era of the band when they had moved to a more psychedelic sound. It's not that I don't like psychedelic or freakbeat songs. But other than Crimson and Clover, that style for Tommy James and the Shondells just didn't work well for me. I prefer stuff like I think We're Alone Now.
Thank you for this video. When I first heard the album a hard day's night I absolutely loved George's vocals on happy just to dance with you as well as John and Paul's backing vocals. Thanks again for all you do. 😊
This guy is pure bull.
I guess I was a bigger fan than I thought, and I was a huge fan, but I loved all those songs. "Filler" or not, I sang along, loudly and enjoyed all of them!!❤
Agree. I've never felt any of their album tracks were filler songs. Even Revolution 9 has it's place in music history. Listening to other bands albums of the 60's and there's definitely filler tracks.
Wow, "I'm Happy Just To Dance With You" was always one of my favourites.
I've never heard "Coming Up" before, and it's so fantastic, thank you for that quick clip in beginning in the video! (I literally had to search "The Plastic Macs", LOL). I love the song, and I LOVE the video. One of my favs from Paul. I should check out more of his late 70-s-80s material.
Please keep up the Beatles videos, I love them!
If you like that solo Paul version of "Coming Up," be sure to check out the other version - it topped the Billboard Hot Hundred in 1980 - which was recorded in a live gig by Wings in the Glasgow Apollo in December 1979. It totally smokes!
I love John Lennon and he was an artist that needed to deconstruct his past, burn his canvases, to move forward. After he returned from India, he went off for a while. Incredibly, he still did some astonishing work. Barry Miles attests that he was at risk of being an acid casualty. Two Virgins and Rev 9 are like showing a pile of steaming crap. Paul kept trying to keep the ball rolling, like a boss sometimes, and we got some great music. For me, John didn’t return to his depth until Double Fantasy, and he was rusty but brilliant. Trading tracks with Yoko makes the album unlistenable for me. Thankfully, we have playlists now.
Revolution 9 is a high point of late modernism. It is a brilliant bit of audio collage. What I can't figure is why John didn't do more in that style. Yoko appears to have dried up his muse and desire to radically experiment.
Double fantasy is garbage
I listen to only the John tracks and I call it Single Fantasy.
@@loosilu you are awesome! I totally love that
Totally concur. When I hear kroko try to sing it reminds me of Aunt Bea in church.
Paul specifically hated the choir of The Long and Winding Road. Phil Spector was quick to point out that Paul uses his orchestral arrangement when he plays it live.
Phil was quick to shoot his gun.
I've seen Paul perform "The Long And Winding Road" brilliantly in concert through six different decades and not once has the live arrangement sounded anything like the sickly, saccharine treatment that Spector inflicted upon it for the *Let It Be* album.
For me, this version from the mid-70s is his definitive version and it has NO Mantovani strings and NO cheesy choirs. There are just a few very tasteful brass parts subtly enhancing McCartney's piano part, a superb vocal and a bass line played by a musician (Denny Laine) who took the trouble to learn the chords and play the part properly.
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i'm just repeating what Phil Spector said in his last interview. He knew far more than I ever would.
@@winsfordtown Phil Spector was a lying, self-aggrandising, manipulative psychopath who spent the final years of his wretched life in prison for a cowardly murder. I wouldn't place too much reliance on his word about anything.
ALWAYS have loved "She Said, She Said" :-) !
I can relate to Paul here. I have written songs that I love, and others that I am not thrilled about. What really matters is if your audience likes your songs. I love all of the Beatles' songs. Each has something unique to give.
Paul never disliked Maharishi. He's been a big advocate of TM his whole life and made sure his kids met Maharishi before he died. It was John that became disillusioned with him after hearing about alleged sexual harassment allegations and wrote Sexy Sadie trashing his reputation.
I went to a benefit concert for Sir George Martin at USC back in about 2008 or so and I'm sure that they said that the Beatles or Paul McCartney specifically wrote The Long and Winding Road for Tom Jones, but his label refused to let him record it. Tom performed it at this concert and his rendition was superb!
The Long and Winding Road is a typical McCartney song, never really liked it, he could write tens songs a day like that.
Exactly. He offered it to Tom Jones with the condition that it must be his next single. Tom’s label already had the next single ready to go, so he was forced to turn it down.
I’m Happy Just To Dance With You was covered perfectly by Anne Murray!
I thought I was the only one on the planet to remember that! I remember hearing this once on the radio around 1980/81 - it was a slow version version which really contrasted with The Beatles version, and it was quite good, which really impressed on me how good and memorable the melody actually was.
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She should have done a whole album of Beatles covers. Her covers of Day Tripper and You Won't See Me were also very good.
I recall reading somewhere that John Lennon loved her cover of You Won’t See Me. I agree, would have loved an entire Beatles covers album from Anne!
Those are all good songs.
They meant a lot to the culture at the time, regardless of how they hold up .
Thanks for putting this together. Perhaps a more apt description would be "Ten Recordings That Paul Hated"? I'm sure he loves "Long and Winding Road" and hating what SPector did to "Across the Universe" is different than hating the song.
Funny that he wouldn't like "Yer Blues." The others have always spoken enthusiastically about having dragged all the equipment into a small room/closet and recording "Yer Blues" really close together live. A lot of tension in that band at that time. We think about this stuff far more than they ever did or do.
I disagree with most of the examples/choices on the list, btw, but this is all about taste, right?
JUST ONE GOAT!
"Tell Me What You See", "Hold Me Tight" (yes with the slightly imperfect tempo in the official release), "Across The Universe", and "The Long And Winding Road" (exactly with the orchestration) are some of my Beatles favorites.
The Long Road is Crap ... Another Yesterday or Paul' saccarine.
@@catholiccowboy8545 Nope, it's good.
@@wsdfgesdfr5786 .. ok !
"What your doing" is a surprise. I love it! It's very melodic, and once I listen to it, I find myself
singing it all throughout the day ;)
A sleeper hit on the Beatles For Sale/Beatles V1 for sure. Great tune all the way.
Paul was indeed the one that was the most commited, especially in the last years. Without him, I'm not sure we would have that much quality music until 1970.
Anyway... I LOVE Hold me tight
It's interesting Paul didn't play on "She Said, She Said." That's one of my favorite Beatles songs.
Paul is on She Said She Said. That rumor has already been debunked.
The new Revolver remix has a take with Paul playing bass
With the new remix, Giles Martin said that it is 100% Paul on bass
Mark Lewisohn said it has to be Paul playing bass because of the way it was recorded. There are four people playing on the track so Paul must be playing bass
I was soooo not expecting that Macca joke at the end !! Nearly cried laughing!! Brilliant 😅
By Ono’s “avant garde influence”, he means “non-musical influence”.
From what's said here, it doesn't sound like Paul hated She Said She Said, but rather that he had had an argument with the rest of the band about some unspecified topic, and left, and this was just the song they worked on while he was gone.
I don't think the reason for his objection has ever been told. I'm very curious about it.
@@dmellis Same here. I think it's an outstanding cut on the Revolver album but having said that, I don't know what it sounded like before John, George and Ringo pulled it into the shape that we are all familiar with today.
Some of the early versions we can hear today of classic John songs are so rough that it's remarkable to realise that anyone thought they were worth working on. (For example, the various parts of "Happiness Is A Warm Gun" that we can hear on the final Anthology album are, to say the least, distinctly unpromising!)
I've read that it was George who was chiefly responsible for pulling the middle section of "She Said, She Said" into shape and I find that easy to believe, especially in the circumstances where - for the first time - George would have felt at ease to make a major contribution without feeling he was in the overwhelming shadow of Paul.
I think it's fairly telling that John, post-split, was keen to continue his very productive working relationship with George ("How Do You Sleep?", "Oh My Love", "Gimme Some Truth") until their relationship broke down in the wake of John's failure to help George for the Bangladesh Fundraiser Concert.
Paul is on She Said She Said. That rumor has already been debunked.
The new Revolver remix has a take with Paul playing bass
With the new remix, Giles Martin said that it is 100% Paul on bass
Mark Lewisohn said it has to be Paul playing bass because of the way it was recorded. There are four people playing on the track so Paul must be playing bass
@@ewest14 I didn't know that. Thank you.
Every day's a school day!
Whenever there is a disagreement about a song, where one person likes it, and another person dislikes it, the person who likes it is correct. You can fail to appreciate something, but you cannot mistakenly like something, without having some reason to like it.
That said, all of those songs are fine.
Really well said. It comes down to taste. I am a classical musician so my favoirte music is either Beethoven symphonies, or Wagner operas. I also still listen to rock and I will go as far as listening to 70s punk like the Sex Pistols, 90s alt like Nirvana, or even modern post grunge and speed metal. It all depends. If I like it I like it.
Oh, baloney...what you're saying is there's no such thing as bad taste. And each of the Beatles would strongly disagree with that notion. They were brought together as much by what they commonly disliked musically as by what they commonly appreciated.
@@jallen4458 Do you determine what is and is not "bad taste?"
@@jallen4458 There is bad taste, but the judgement of it is subjective. So in a sense, there isn't such a thing as bad taste !
"Hold Me Tight"? It's a GREAT song in so many ways.
Maxwell silver Hammer, ugh! Love their work
THAT's a Paul "granny song"!
George, John, and Ringo all absolutely hated this song. In fact, John used a recent car accident to get out of playing on it.
"Go out and find an anvil." As John said, nothing could've fixed that song.
Sucks big time
Wow. My all-time favorite Beatles song (I'm Happy Just to Dance with You) is on that list.😑
George's guitar playing is incredible. No one puts chords together like him.
John wrote it for george...maybe jealousy?
I would say Ringo was a far bigger fan of The Beatles than Paul for many years. Paul did not even play Beatles' songs in concert for about 6 years after The Fabs split.
And even though it might be convenient to now say that Paul's back-to-basics version of 'The Long and Winding Road' on 'Let It Be...Naked' conformed to Paul's original vision, Paul actually made a much more syrupy version (with strings) for his film 'Give My Regards To Broad Street', to which he added strings.
I've always enjoyed Little Child and Hold Me Tight (I thought inclusion in the film Across the Universe was cool). The use of What You're Doing in the Love project is one of my favorite parts and rocketed that song into my Beatles Top 50
Same here. I love the chugging rhythm of Hold Me Tight and the harmonica solo in Little Child.
I’ve always loved What your doing and then the Love version mixed with Drive my car made me love it even more
Hey, you got me with that joke at the end by Paul ! LOL 😂
I love most of these songs; this surprised me!
I always thought that Paul played, but never sang on "She Said She Said".
On the latest release of Revolver by Giles Martin it lists Paul McCartney as bass player on She Said She Said.
I agree; it sounds like Paul’s style. I think he played bass, then some argument ensued, and the band finished the song without Paul present. On the Revolver box there is an early take with two guitars, bass and drums. It doesn’t make sense that there would be bass on an early take that includes two guitars also.
I thought George played bass on this.
There was some dust-up during the recording of that song; John and George would not adhere to Paul's suggestions, and after some harsh words exchanged -or so I heard -Paul walked out of the session in disgust...
@@joycerichardson1810 Paul is on She Said She Said. That rumor has already been debunked.
The new Revolver remix has a take with Paul playing bass
With the new remix, Giles Martin said that it is 100% Paul on bass
Mark Lewisohn said it has to be Paul playing bass because of the way it was recorded. There are four people playing on the track so Paul must be playing bass
Wow! Some of my favorites are here. I remember re-discovering "Hold Me Tight" when I bought my first Beatles CD. I LOVE that song! It's raw and exuberant! To me, it sounds like he has a cold but he still sings great! Tell Me What You See, Happy Just to Dance With You... C'mon Paul! I love these songs! What You're Doing - That's one of there greatest and most memorable riffs! Love whatever version of Long and Winding Road.... She Said She Said - This is always my go to song for proving Ringo's brilliance. Name any other drummer on the planet who would have played the song this way - You can't! The song wouldn't be the same without his drumming but I love the song as well. I'll give you Revolution Number 9 and Little Child but they both still have their value. Like Paul himself said in the Anthology "..It's the Beatles. Shut up!"...
Agree, such as on loving "Hold Me Tight" after never hearing it as a kid -- chugging fun rhythm guitar, & Paul singing thru a nasal cold and tiring -- he's human! -- surprise. I too love Ringo's drumming on "She Said..." and I do on "Look What You're Doing." "Long and Winding Road" -- agree with Paul the Spector version is way too sappy. I despised it till I found Paul, the king of moderate sap, despised the Let It Be version too. "Rev. 9": Awful. A 'good' example of a piece you can listen to once --and never again.
Revolution no 9 - as a 14 year old I hated it - sort of scared me. Over the years it has become one of my favorites from the White Album. When Ringo comes in with "Good Night" it is like the bad trip is finally over. The two together, to me, are priceless: a perfect ending to the odd mix of songs which is the White Album.
Hear, hear (though I was 15)!
There are two reason "Revolution 9" gets hated on. Paul was against having it on the album. And fans think it was made by Yoko Ono. Truth be told, she hardly had any hand in it. Harrison said that he and Ringo were the ones who chose the tape loops used in it. I don't remember anybody making much of it when the album came out.
When you think that "Sour Milk Sea," "Not Guilty," could have replaced "Revolution 9," then yes, it should have been left off, not just hated.
@@Kermit_T_Frog Revolution #9 has elements of pop craft to it, which is not true of most Musique Concrete works. The big difference is that you actually hear what the loops are, quite clearly. That is the opposite of the Musique Concrete aesthetic, which was used on Tommorrow Never Knows. The screaming seagulls sound is really Paul's laugh looped.
@@canalesworks1247 I've no idea what this "Musique Concrete aesthetic" is. All I hear is John, George, Ringo and probably Paul, goofing around in the recording studio and coming up with sounds like something out of a dream. Not an easy accomplishment. Being as this is often layered into their music, I can see why they wanted to see if they could come up with something that stands alone.
Dang, like half that list are some of my favorites. It's interesting how the artists can have wildly different opinions on songs due to real life circumstances. I'm sure if they look at them from a fan perspective they're more forgiving, but I can see their side of it. I was surprised most by I'm Happy Just To Dance With You, but I couldn't agree more with the Long and Winding Road (Phil Spector version. That was a rough one)
Other bands would do what it takes to have written instead those "work/filler songs". Those are works of art.
I wish he'd hated Hey, Jude as much as I do.
I really like 'I'm happy just to dance with you'. The lyrics are not great, but it has a really nice groove!
I love the opening guitar riff on that song. It's just fab mates!
Well said.
Love "Little Child" and "Hold Me Tight".
These are all great songs, and Paul didn't hate any of them. Across the universe is one of his favorites by John.
Surprised that What Your'e Doing? is not to Paul's liking. It was always one of my favorite non-hits.
Sorry, Paul, but I love George's "I'm happy just to dance with you" & "She said, She said." (One song that George wrote & hated was one I love: "I need you." Simple but touching.)
Ahhh....not 'Yer Blues'. Love that song.
Paul may hate some of those songs. But billions of members in the worldwide Beatles community love them and are grateful that they have been released.
I was thought "I'm happy just to dance with you" ruled! What a groovy little tune!
Kind of heartbreaking to see the video clip with Linda McCartney in it, she was the love of Paul's life and I'm sure he still misses her. Gone too soon.
I love all the songs that you mentioned including revolution nine hold me tight across the universe especially the Phil Spector version of being a huge Spectre fan than I am and of course the long and winding road I think that’s the best version of her. revolution nine is one of the best avant-garde pieces ever made a little child is great it has a great harmonica throughout the song and what you’re doing is great and she said she said it’s fantastic especially the crazy time signatures on it.
Damn. I love She Said She Said, one of my favorite songs on Revolver. And I always thought Hold Me Tight was a catchy little ditty, although yeah, I get that it was a "work song."
I actually love the Let it be version of the Long and Winding road. I think the strings fit perfectly.
He complained about that but when he played it live it had all the orchestra bits on it.
@@user-fu2mi1nd5l Something to do with not being able to replicate JPGR's performance on the record, that's the special atmosphere Paul wanted on the record.
In regards to doing it live, as its just him- he may as well do the version everyone knows, that's what I think.
@@user-fu2mi1nd5l That scene in 'Get Back' when they play it live, its truly breath taking.
I see no basis for saying Paul hated Revolution 9, he just obviously thought it was not a Beatles song.
If he DID like it, then surely he'd be the only person in the world who does.
Can't pretend I liked it - I think the White Album could (and should) been reduced to a 2-sided album, there's a lot of filler on it - but you can dislike a track and still see its importance. Looking back, it's utterly amazing that a pop group could issue an album with such a track on it - only the Beatles (only John Lennon) could have done such a thing. It was a warning in a way - the party was over, the band were breaking up, Lennon had grown beyond McCartney and his pretty tunes. None of that makes it any more listenable though!
As for McCartney hating it, he probably did and still does. But there's an element of jealousy there too. When ever Paul was interviewed post-Lennon's death, he always made a point of claiming that it was him, and not Lennon, who was really into the avant-guarde - he knew the people, he went to the gigs and art shows. It must have really hurt to hear Lennon being constantly talked about as the serious one, the thinking Beatle, while Paul was just the pretty boy who wrote nice tunes. And when Lennon was shot, while still (more or less) at his peak, that view of him was cemented into history. Paul could protest as much as he liked (and he did!), but no one was listening.
However awful R9 sounds, McCartney must, in retrospect, long to have been associated with it, to be known as the dare-devil who showed his avant-guard side so daringly on the follow-up to Sgt Pepper. But, whatever the truth (which as always, is far more nuanced than it appears) is, McCartney will always be known as the pretty boy who wrote all those nice songs, whilst Lennon was the one on the edge, the one who dared, the one who transcended the greatest pop group the world has ever known - whilst all Paul did was form a sub-standard Beatles 2, and write pretty songs, none of which was remotely as good as the stuff he wrote with Lennon. And then Lennon died and became a god, so McCartney could never correct the record. That must really hurt. No wonder he hates Revolution 9.
@@kevinbush4300 Or would have wanted it on the album. What exactly is a Beatles song anyways? "Wild Honey Pie" ain't much of a tune and it too made it onto the album.
@8176morgan you're right... Wild Honey Pie is pretty poor. But that was Paul's song, I think... you always prefer YOUR rubbish to your mate's rubbish.
@paulhaynes8045 I used to think the White Album was a double to fulfill some contractual obligation to the record company, but then I realised that it was actually the first album released on Apple.
So I think, after Brian died, the business and politics of it all reared its ugly head to the extent that some Beatles tracks had only two or three Beatles playing. There's a lot on White Album that sounds very amateurish and immature and George later said that it was used as a vehicle to get some of their earlier stuff released... songs liked by whoever had written them but that had got bombed by the others.
I read that about 'She Said She Said' but Revolver just came out again, and there's a 15th take of the song with a live backing track of drums, bass and two guitars. You can actually hear Paul counting it off. Now you can say that maybe he left and a later take was used, but you can hear the same bass sound and same way of playing. If George would have grabbed the bass it would have sounded quite differently.
It's a wonderful song. And Revolver together with Rubber Soul are my favourite albums.
Paul is on She Said She Said. That rumor has already been debunked.
The new Revolver remix has a take with Paul playing bass
With the new remix, Giles Martin said that it is 100% Paul on bass
Mark Lewisohn said it has to be Paul playing bass because of the way it was recorded. There are four people playing on the track so Paul must be playing bass
Paul also hated "The Ballad Of The Green Berets", one of the non-Beatle related songs. He described it as a "terrible record promoting a terrible war."
Also, LOL to Paul imitating Spark's Ron Mael on the "Coming Up" video. He was brilliant in that video.
As Paul Simon would say, he'd been Barry Sadlered. 😆
@@stevenmaginnis1965 Funny!😆😆And the fact that Simon was poking fun of Bob Dylan on that song was more than merely coincidental .
"She Said She Said" is my favorite Beatles song. The harmony of John and George without Paul has its own phenomenal sound, and there should have been a lot more of that on their albums. Paul is great too, of course, but it is clear that there were different vocal combinations to work with that were excellent. Also, I love "Revolution 9." Yoko was a horrible singer, but she had a lot of abstract art talent.
do you hear a bass on it? paul walked out on the session. the rest carrried on, regardless.
@@georgiaflame9743, bass was recorded for the backing track. Some sources say Paul played it before getting pissed off and leaving the studio to miss the vocal recording, and some sources say George played bass.
Who is the "she" in She Said? (yes, I know and don't care about the "official" story of the lyrics involves Peter Fonda).When the LP was released, I played it over and over, and I thought it was a dialog between a former self and a new awakened self: the "She" is that newly woke (LOL) who realized it feels like "I've never been born" , , , until now, that is. Read all the lyrics with this clue and see if you can understand where I'm coming from....
@@georgiaflame9743 Paul is on She Said She Said. That rumor has already been debunked.
The new Revolver remix has a take with Paul playing bass
With the new remix, Giles Martin said that it is 100% Paul on bass
Mark Lewisohn said it has to be Paul playing bass because of the way it was recorded. There are four people playing on the track so Paul must be playing bass
Yeah she had the abstract art of breaking up bands
"Tell me what you see" is one of my favorite songs !!!!!!
"Tell Me What You See" is one of their most overlooked gems, in my opinion.
The story of the White Album was that the Beatles were keen to push as much material out to quickly fulfil their recording obligation to EMI. George Martin later admitted as much.
That may be so, but the White Album would have been much better if it were two separate albums with the lighter material being place on Yellow Submarine. EMI would have been very happy with that arraignment as they would have had two big selling Beatle albums rather than just one.
Exactly. The Beatles dredged up everything they had laying around because they owed EMI two more albums. There’s some great stuff here, but Number 9 obviously was a big chunk of filler. There’s a lot of Paul’s sing-songey crap like Obla Di and Rocky Racoon. The album sold like crazy because it was released for Christmas. I’m shocked that so many people site The White Album as their favorite.
More than 50 years later I and some of my friends sit around a coffee and sing Rocky Racoon at each other. “Her name was MaGill, she called herself ‘Lil’ but everyone knew her as Nancy.” Then we laugh uncontrollably.
@@georgesotiroff5080 It's great line for sure.
@@douglasjaeger1559 "{Revolution} Number 9 obviously was a big chunk of filler."
I disagree. It was a major piece for John. He said more money was spent on that track than half the tracks he ever did. It wasn't just tossed off to provide a song. In my opinion, it's awful, but that doesn't take away its significance for John.
If he didn't like "She Said, She Said" it was probably out of spite that he didn't win the argument they had as it's brilliant. George's vocals are awesome.
From what I read, John knocked it off quickly because at that time there were only thirteen songs on the album and it needed one more. It was the last song recorded for that fabulous album and its definitely a mind opening one.
She Said… was the same songwriting playbook as Tomorrow Never Knows, as Mr.Kite. Simply ‘lift’ from what comes to you in real life. A Day In The Life is similar.
@@Gk2003m And all great memorable songs nonetheless.
@@Gk2003m Yes, Peter Fonda had been hanging out with them, probably high, and was going on about "I know what it's like to be dead." John creatively made it "she said" to be more interesting.
Paul likes She Said She Said and has said so in an interview
Paul is on She Said She Said. That rumor has already been debunked.
The new Revolver remix has a take with Paul playing bass
With the new remix, Giles Martin said that it is 100% Paul on bass
Mark Lewisohn said it has to be Paul playing bass because of the way it was recorded. There are four people playing on the track so Paul must be playing bass
We need a compilation album of these songs
How do we know he “hated” these songs?
John called Paul's songs "Granny songs". Ringo agreed, but said, "We need those songs to sell the records". I'm with Ringo.
Paul's "granny songs" such as *Yellow Submarine* financed the unprecedented costs of making the entire *Sergeant Pepper* album.
It's interesting to note that John never ever turned down a royalty cheque for any of the songs, granny music or otherwise, which were written entirely by Paul.
John made a heck of a lot more of his beloved dollars from *Ob-La-Di* and *Blackbird* than Paul ever made from *Revolution #9, Cry Baby, Cry, Julia, Yer Blues, Happiness Is A Warm Gun* and "Everybody's Got Something To Hide (Except For Me And My Monkey)* put together. And that's just one album. Paul's songs were far more widely covered and got more radio plays than John's songs did. All of that added up to huge royalties.
As for *Yesterday,* John didn't write a single word or note of that song and he wasn't even on the recording of it but he was still happy to deposit the massive profits from it into his own bank account without protest. He made literally millions of dollars from a Paul song to which he contributed absolutely nothing other than resistance to even including it on a Beatles album.
McCartney is a fool for not loving What You Doing, its a damn good song!
And
Its a shame that Harrison was not given credit for She Said She Said
People are allowed to like or not like what they want. To call someone a fool for not liking something you like is childish.
@@chrispavlich9656 annoying,, it’s a clearly an exaggeration, Paul is not a fool for not liking it, I just disagree heavily with him.. this is basic English, people sometimes uses EXAGGERATION.
I think Revolution 9 is very clever and I like it.
I like "Tell Me What You See". To me it seems like the most overlooked original Beatle songs and one that people probably would forget to mention if asked to list all the Beatles original songs. It is on "Help!" but it sounds like it could be on anything from Hard Day's Night To Help! ...or Something New, Beatles 65, or Beatles VI ..
However, if anyone could today somehow come up with an album comprised of these 10 songs, they'd be hailed as geniuses.
These songs would be a legacy for most bands.
Beatles, we're a great band. It just shows that they were the greatest rock and roll song writers ever.
That's a ridiculous statement. Had anyone else recorded "Hold Me Tight" or "Tell Me What You See" we'd have never heard of them. Not all Beatles songs are memorable and more than a few are forgettable.
There was a Beatles cartoon show on Australian TV, aired most afternoons. I'd almost run all the way home from high school to watch that show. I'd tape the songs on a cheap battery powered tape recorder to learn the words, as well as the harmonies, and it was hilarious when I taped them with the batteries in the recorder on the way out. When I played them back with fresh batteries, they sounded kinda like the chipmunks! I used to hold the microphone near the TV set's speaker to record. I'm writing this comment because that cartoon show, produced without any involvement from the Fabs, and using voice actors to provide the dialog in between the songs, used to feature heavily ALL the songs that Paul didn't like! Mr Moonlight, I'm Happy Just To Dance With You, etc, they were all on show every week. Consequently we all grew to love them equally, right along with the No.1 hit songs. Decades later, the 50s and 60s covers band, in which I played lead guitar, covered a few of the "rarities" as well as the famous songs. I particularly love Mr Moonlight. To help me pitch my voice for the loud screaming vocal intro "MR MOONLIGHT!!" I'd have our keyboard player play softly the root chord note of the key in which we'd play the song. Incidentally I now live in a lane called Rarity Street. Couldn't pass that up when looking for a place to rent.
"huh huh huh, YEAH!" Ringo (in the cartoon)
Wow, I'm shocked at some of these.
Hold Me Tight, What You're Doing, Across The Universe, Yer Blues, She Said, She Said definitely some of my favorites.
Especially Across The Universe, Yer Blues and She Said, She Said
Government Mule does a kick a** version of She Said
There are very few Beatles songs that I don't particularly care for. But if I made a list, they'd be:
Do You Want To Know A Secret
Little Child
Not A Second Time
Honey Don't
Act Naturally
Run For Your Life
Doctor Robert
Yeah, I could do without these songs.
But, that's a pretty short list considering the sheer number of songs the Beatles have recorded.
Of course "Honey Don't" and "Act Naturally" were not Beatles' originals.
Even as a kid I found Yer Blues a very depressing cut, Want to die, I hate my rock and roll cheeze What the hell did that woman do to you John?
Hold me tight is a great pop song, as is Little Child! We shall never know why they hated those songs so much.
I love the call and response of "hold - hold me tight-me tight-tonight-tonight..." And the guitar chords of Happy Just to dance with you
another great video Music Box :) I hope you keep making videos like this because they're always a great watch.
That’s sad, Yer Blues is one of my fav Beatles songs. It’s like when Bob Dylan wrote along the watchtower. He laid down the foundation that lead Jimmy Hendrix to make it amazing! John laid it down in the Beatles then made it amazing when he did it live with the Dirty Mac
It’s a pretty good song
dirty mac version was the best
@@burcubiricik1838 Exactly. With Eric Clapton on lead guitar and Keith Richards on bass. Wow!
Its simple Paul liked Silly love songs and John liked rebellion edginess songs. They worked to collaborate together. It made them one of the greatest duo composers of the 20th century.
It’s not that simple at all. That’s an ignorant statement
First of all it's very subjective as to who the "greatest composers of the 20th century" were. You have to remember that 3/4 of all Beatles songs were written by one or the other. Just because they share a writing credit on the song doesn't mean they contributed 50/50 to it. Second of all there were amazing songwriting duos in the 20th century such as Lerner and Lowe, Rogers and Hammerstein, and of course Elton John and Bernie Taupin. Unlike Lennon and McCartney these duos did in fact contribute equally in the songs compositions.
I LOVE "Hold Me Tight," "Happy Just to Dance With You," "Yer Blues," and "She Said, She Said..." I sang "Hold Me Tight," in a mostly girls band in College. We were hot. And John's "Across the Universe" is gorgeous.
Didn't Paul play piano on Revolution #9?
I hated Revolution #9 and wondered why it was ever released. I liked all of the other songs, including Little Child and what Phil Spector did to The Long and Winding Road, in fact, I thought it was amazing when I first heard it. I wasn't aware that Paul didn't play on She Said She Said from Revolver and not I'm quite sure how I missed that one for all these years.
On the Box set outtake of She said you can hear his voice at the beginning,
Phil Spector's version of Long and Winding Road is much better than Paul's. Paul's version sucks.
@@jx14aby I agree even if I love Pauls work
I just liked little pieces of Revolution #9 here and there but it's not really a song except for the singing part at the beginning that Paul sang.
@@spiderontheweb7272 "Can you take me back"? I believe that's the end of Cry Baby Cry.
Paul is the winner.
Paul’s joketelling at the end!🤣Well done!
The Long And Winding Road, was one of his best.
In retrospect, once someone reaches a higher level of songwriting they can look back at their earlier songs and think that could have been much better or it was simply a mistake to release. But the fact is that most songwriters have their most energy and excitement and relate to their listeners best when they are just beginning their recording careers. The best songs The Beatles released in 1964 and 1965 are just as good as the best they made later on. I'll take Meet The Beatles over The White Album any day of the week.
Yes, I agree completely.
The Long and winding road is a master piece, the orchestra was simply beautiful it's really what makes the song such an emotional juggernaut, turns out George Martin was the real genius.
Agreed. It's a perfect song. It is a lesson in songwriting, arrangement and production. McCartney was doing some brilliant things in those latter years, this and Let it Be for example. Maxwell's Silver Hammer.... not so.
It wasn't George Martin who worked on the Long and Winding Road. Phil Spectre was the one who did the arrangements for this song and for the rest of the songs on the Let it be album. This album was on its way to being released in Spring 1970 and Paul was furious over how his songs on this album was arranged by Spectre. Paul wanted them to hold off the album's release so his songs could be fixed to his preference but because of contractual obligations, the planned release date couldn't be changed.
Also, Paul was about to release his own first solo album McCartney, which conflicted with the release date of Let It Be. So there were a lot of issues that Paul was upset about during the Spring of 1970.
George Martin had exactly nothing to do with that entire album. Phil Spector was the man who according to John took a pile of excrement and turned it into my favorite Beatles LP You could actually hear the band play. And the bass on that song is so expressive.
McCartney says he hated the orchestration on Long and Winding Road, yet he has his keyboard player play all those parts when performing it live. Go figure.
No way should a masterpiece like She Said She Said be in a video about most hated Beatles songs - especially claiming it was Paul McCartney’s own list. No real Beatles fan would accept that !!
The best thing about Revolution 9 is how nicely it leads into Goodnight. I like it.
Was there another band in history capable of that kind of transition? or the one from Within You Without You to When I'm 64, or Yer Blues to Mother Nature's Son?