Does a bad Beatles song exist?

No

Ok well the third option has an error in it. Somehow, it passed qualification. Wow, knowing most of the SC users, they never let that stuff go by. Well, anyways, yes, I do think that the Beatles have had BAD songs. And by "bad", I mean, NOT GOOD!

There are some tracks--"Hello, Goodbye" and "Lady Madonna", for instance--that can be skipped on a CD without major guilt. But even their worst stuff is aptly forgiven, because their best makes the toxic waste that is currently playing on the radio seem unbearable.

I know, it seemed wrong to me too and I was amazed that it wasn't "needs work"-ed indignantly by multiple users.

Yes, I think so, although I don't remember what it is. I seem to recall a song on the White Album that I don't like at all, but I don't own that CD so I couldn't tell you what it is.

I didn't care for the song Revolution # 9... number 9,number 9,number 9,number 9...
AAUGH!!!!!Hated that song.No matter how many times I played it I still couldn't bring myself to like it.There might be one other but,i just cant think of it right now.

Yes and no. I say this because there have been bad songs performed or written by one or more of the Beatles-usually anything done by Ringo Starr or George Harrison (Lady Madonna for example). I don't feel either of them had all that much talent, in fact Paul was a much better drummer than Ringo. Paul & John had the writing talent in the group, but John's singing kind of sucked.

"Good" and "bad", in this context, is such a subjective assessment that it can't really be answered. There are some Beatles songs that I like more than others, and it's probably fair to say that they included some throwaway material on their albums that even they would consider lower quality. But that's normal - not every song on an album is the same, and a good band can get away with including something that only appeals to a minority of people. And popularity is no real judge of quality. I've got the "1" album (their collected Number 1s), and it surprised me how many of my favourite Beatles tracks aren't on it - I had somehow assumed that all the good songs would have been automatic best sellers.

I agree with kate about the drumming - I'm listening to "1" at the moment, as a result of this survey - and the drumming on the early tracks is pathetic. Even I could do better!

I frisbeed 'My Bonnie', and 'the Saints' on 'the Beatles with Tony Sheridan' (a german record from `61 or `62). I didn't believe it was the same folks that did the fantastic music on my white album. Now that I collect vinyl I am so sorry.
I enjoy 'Bulldog', 'You know my name, look up the number'. All 3 versions of Revolution. Back before i realized I had psychic powers there was a Beatles A-Z contest on the radio where they spent 2 or 3 days playing back to back alphabetical Beatles and the winner, whoever called to identify the skipped song, was to win a CD set of everything they ever did. Before it even started I realized they would skip the slow Version of 'Revolution' (where John ads 'in' to 'don't you know that you can count me out'), unfortunately I wasn't able to be the 98th caller; I was like #5, 20, 80, then spent 2 hours on the phone not getting through. In later times I disturbed DJ's by calling a few seconds early on contests where you had to spot a song playing (they never let me get away with it, because it hadn't been playing the moment I called, just cued to play). Another time I wasn't going to a busy signal stop me; Some how I managed to get connected and through on the DJ's private cell phone; again, they were disturbed and wouldn't let me win.

might that be 'nO oNe wiLLL be Waaatching usss; WHyyYy doon't we do it in The Rooad'?

That one ended up being the model for entire genres of music to come. Nine inch nails and many others owe much to the Beatles.

The who?

Baba O'reilly!

no, there are no "bad" beatles song...... they are all amazing!!!

lady madonna was paul mccartney singing and a lennon/mccartney composition(mostly paul)!!!!! and george harrison became an amazing song writer and singer! and john had an amazing voice. all opinion, of course, except for the lady madonna thing!!!

Possibly, but none comes to mind

Yes. "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" comes to mind, as does "Maxwell's Silver Hammer".

I think they all suck. Maybe they should have tried writing off the acid.

"Lady Madonna" was a Paul McCartney tune (He wrote it and sang lead vocal). Ringo Starr only wrote a couple of songs, one of them was "Octopus's Garden". I think that George Harrison was a good song writer. Frank Sinatra agrees. He had this to say about "Something": "The greatest love song of the past fifty years."

"Why Don't We Do It In The Road?", that's one of my favourites! That's Paul doing everything.

No, that wasn't it. I think that song's really cute. I think maybe it was Revolution #9 that dabprovin mentioned above.

Oh, I love those two songs, especially Maxwell's Silver Hammer.

But they're so...smarmy!

That one where they just keep saying "Number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9, number 9..."

My boyfriend and I were listening to that one time, and he looked at me and said, "I think I understand now what pushed Charles Manson over the edge."
LOL

This to Zang as well. My bad, I thought Ringo wrote Lady Madonna. I still don't think John had much of a voice, but he had a real talent for writing songs as did Paul. Since I don't care about Sinatra's opinions or singing, I stand on my opinion of George Harrison. The song Zang mentioned isn't bad, but what about "I've got my mind set on you" which he did post-Beatles? It was awful!!

Revolution #9 was not at all cute. Most people didn't even interpret it as music. It was at the forefront of atmospheric sampling like Pink Floyds early work. It was full of interview quotes: "Block that kick", "you, you become naked", "Number 9, number 9". Cute: a lot of songs were cute. Could have been: Martha my Dear, Piggies, I Will, Julia, Mother Nature's son, Honey Pie, or Good Night. There was a lullaby quality to much of the album.

Tell me how does your light shine, in the halls of Shambala?

Beatles RULE!!!Beatles will always rule!!
So???Paul McCartneys getting married next year.Wow!! Is George really dying?? Nah!! What a nasty rumor!

To heathar. Saw that the moment I was regretting not succeeding marrying the heathar I knew, who looked somewhat similar.

I liked Martha My Dear,Honey Pie,I Will. &

dah,dah,dah,dah,dah,dah say it's your birthday,dah,dah,dah,dah,dah,dah,gonna have a good time,dah,dah,dah,dah,dah,dah,say it's your birthday dah,dah,dah,dah,dah,dah,it's my birthday too yeah!!
Happy birthday to ya!

lol lol lol That's funny!!!

I haven't heard that song in a while.

But isn't most of the post-Beatles solo stuff pretty crappy?

I agree that Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da is smarmy. But I think Maxwell's Silver Hammer is a really fun song. And the lyrics definitely don't befit a smarmy song!

I guess I just really love the Abbey Road album. It's right up there with Sgt. Peppers as my favorite Beatles.

I love that song I've Got My Mind Set On You! Sorry you hate it. I think it's an upbeat, fun song.

I've been with him for 5 YEARS now, and I know that that will forever be my favorite "Barry" story.
(Because... that's his name.)

That's cool that Paul is getting married. It must have been horrible losing Linda to cancer, so I'm happy that he's found a new love.

I had a white album on tape given for my birthday that started with that song.

Band on the run and Juniors farm were fun, but they don't compare to Abbey Road.

Yes it is. I wouldn't include John Lennon's "Imagine" in that though.

I really don't know what it is about that song that I don't like-I guess it just bugs me in general.

Well, you're certainly entitled to your opinion.

yep

Tanks!

I think it's weird because we seem to have similar taste in music (at least, I like almost all of the favorites you've mentioned here and in other surveys) so it seems funny that we would be at opposite ends of the love/hate scale on some songs. But I guess that's what makes life interesting!

Wouldn't life be boring if everyone one was the same or forced to be that way. Kind of like in the story, "Harrison Bergeron."

I'm not familiar with that story, but it would, indeed, be boring if we were all the same or liked all the same things. Then what would we complain about?

I'm the genius dad who has the distracting buzzer go off in his head whenever a brilliant thought appears.

It's a story by Kurt Vonnegut. It's set in a future time where everybody is rendered equal at a terrible price. Athletic personare forced to wear weights to inhibit their movements, artists must wear glasses that distort their vision, geniuses wear a device that disrupts brain waves. You get the picture. Equality with a very hefty price tag.

If that were true, you would be buzzed continuously as all your thoughts are brilliant!

I am. It often takes me three visits to the kitchen just to serve the cats some canned food. I have a trail of post it notes, computer files, and pnemonic (spelling) devices running through my head to remind me what I'm doing at any moment. There are often half a dozen topics running through my head at any minute; At others I'm in a complete fog. My consolation is Einstein had to have people looking after him to make sure his checks got cashed and his socks matched. Like him, I didn't start speaking till I was three.

He also failed math in school! Genius takes many forms doesn't it? I'm a great one for making lists so I don't forget to do some boring, but necessary task or errand.

They thought I was retarded until I was tested at age 10 and they put me in academically talented classes instead. After that I did quite well at math. My fifth grade teacher had me create my own algebra and solid geometry problems, eventually I created my own field of mathematics and solved a math enigma of 3 centuries standing. My ex-brother-in-law has me beat in some math aspects. At age five he saw a picture on the packaging of his magnetic numbers/letters board and derived how to do multiplication and long division. I don't consider math my greatest talent by any means, but I do have a knack for it. My last calculus final was used as the scoring template, but I don't recall fomulae or procedures well, and dread the the thought of having to refresh my memory to take more calculus.
I'm the queen of lists. I had a book of them as a teen with a rainbow spectrum index. Since then it has evolved to a binder in which I've pre-fabbed perforated index-tabbed pages to sub-&sub-&subclassify my subjects. The actual pages are filled with tiers of post-it notes in microscopic print. On my computer I have a to do list that automatically populates spread-sheet cells with the top three contenders from other subject lists then lets you rate everything by a dozen prioritization categories like fun, educational, lucrative, etc, and assign a weight to each category. At the push of a button it then sorts your priority list. I stopped using it when I realized that just a slight shift from 'inspirational' to 'prepratory' or any other prioritization category would entirely resort the list; that the wrongs and rights of what to do be doing with my life could not be sorted by rational analytical science. I spend much more of my life deciding what to do than actually doing anything. I've been curious about you for awhile; Perhaps you could start me off with age and basic life activities?

I don't know, but if you hum a few bars I can fake it.

& it's a cute story..Anyone that can make you laugh is always a keeper! I told my husband recently,"Honey if you hadn't told me that joke,we would not be together today,as I was on the verg of calling it quits with you,cause I thought you had no sense of humor!" He says well it's a good thing for me then,that I had said something funny,huh? I'm all,"Yep you got that right." Been with him 29 years now & he still manages to make me laugh.

Yeah,poor Paul,he so deserves to be happy after losing Linda.Good for him!! It's about time! I approve of her she looks like such a nice person for him.

I love that song!! I can sing it all day.

That warms my heart!! Congratulations!

It's true.....If your man still keeps you laughing,you are truely blessed. I gave my kids this advice:If you ever marry ,make sure that,they can make you laugh/smile during hard times.& make sure they can cook cause,the only one that knows how to cook,is my husband.Everybody in this household would starve,if it were not for his passion for cooking.We(the two kids & I) make canned soup,peanut butter & jelly sandwiches,& assorted fast food when David doesn't feel like cooking.In a sentence WE STARVE if he doesn't cook.
I hate cooking but I LOVE to eat!!

Thank you dear & congratulations to you too!!!Five years is a lot.Hang in there!

That sounds like a fabulous story! I guess I should get around to reading some Vonnegut one of these days. His nephew is active in community theatre in the town where I work. (Whoopee!)

I'm 48, female, short, gay, work for a market research company, share an apartment with my son (we split the bills). I love to read, love old sci-fi & horror movies, love cooking, hate to sew, am very opinionated on certain subjects, love classical music & 60's style rock. What else would you like to know?

I hope you enjoy him. Some of his works are a bit strange.

Do you live anywhere near LA,CA Jerome,AZ or Fairbanks,AK,US?
Old sci-fi.. Forbidden Planet? "Id - id - id - id" Plan 9 from outer space, Tom Corbett, Planet X, the original Outer Limits, Metropolis? Ray Harryhausen? Martian Chronicles, Voyage to Arcturus, The People no different flesh, Out of the silent planet?

or HR Giger, Logans Run, Dark Star "Bomb #20, What are you doing?" "In the beginning there was me. Let there be light" sort of sci-fi? Both?

I live in Springfield, Oregon which is right over the river from Eugene, Oregon (University of Oregon). Love Old Sci-Fi, Ray Harryhausen, Forbidden Planet, Plan 9 from Outer Space, H.R.Giger, Martian Chronicles-actually anything by Ray Bradbury, original Outer Limits, Superman & Batman comics from the 60's, original Star Trek, War of the Worlds, the orginal Twilight Zone series, One Step Beyond, Christopher Lee vampire movies-almost anything to do with vampires I like!

I stayed with a shaman not far from you one night while hitchhiking to LA from Portland. It was a beautiful cabin with apple trees in the yard. I was told to avoid the place, being transgendered, but I love to prove people wrong on such nonsense.
My relatives own a family ranch in Langlois (Coos Bay, Port Orford, Bandon area and most of my relatives live in that area again. They came from Ireland in the early '40s).
Cool sci-fi tastes. Did you see Dark Star?

My great-great-great grandmother came from Ireland. Her father disowned her for falling in love with a Catholic boy (they were Protestant) so she immigrated to America to seek her fortune and ended up in Missouri. I haven't seen Dark Star in years. Have you seen Silent Running? It's one of my favorite sci-fi movies. Thanks for the compliment. Where is this cabin that you speak of?

Looking at the map, it seems i was elesewhere. I was just short of Medford, could have been grants pass or Central Point. I was dropped off around midnight at some off-ramp with a gas station and diner a block away. No cars were on the freeway. I thought I was going to have to unfurl my sleeping bag there, but within 15 minutes this native who had been fasting 6 days picked me up (he went there to pick up his girlfreind christine who was not around). We drove for what seemed an hour or two to his cabin, so it could have been anywhere from Klamath Falls to Roseburg to Brookings. My ride the next day was excellent too (they all were). I got a ride with a trucker and was worried about what I was going to do in SF at half past midnight with a dollar to my name. Instead he missed his exit and i recognized that i was 3 blocks from the apartment i had left months earlier. Fortunately the neighbor let me stay the night. and I removed the battery from a smoke alarm that had been beeping ever since I left. She didn't know about low batteries in them.
I think I saw silent running, not sure.
I'm researching cabins in Jerome Arizona lately.

You would have been south of me. Those locations are down nearer to the Califoria border (especially Brookings) than I am.

I was taking the five down (other than the 101, about the only option). but the cabin trip was off the main highway. Perhaps I should have stayed in Eugene.

Thank you!

Oh! Have you read the Saint-Germain Chronicles by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro? Those are the BEST vampire books!!!

I LOVE Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. She is my favorite vampire author, my second being P.N. Elrod who writes the Vampire Files series. They are set in the twenties in Chicago and the vampire is a good guy, when living a reporter, a private detective after becoming undead. His character is very much like that of Nick Knight on the tv show, Forever Knight. He rarely consumes human blood, but goes to a nearby cattle yard and takes enough to sustain, but not to kill.

Oh boy! More good stuff for my reading list!

Enjoy! Did you get the recipe alright?

Yes, thanks! Didn't you get my e-mail?

I'm bummed...just read about bill being in the hospital. I hope he's feeling okay.

Haven't checked my e-mail today. I sent Bill a hug via Jen. I'm sure he will be fine as he knows all of us at SC are rooting for him to get well quickly!

Your so welcome!

Bill is sick & in the hospital???? Geeze,where have I been?? I hope it's nothing serious.What am I saying?? If he's in the hospital then it's serious.I hope everythings okay...Keep me up dated okay SueBee? Thanks dear!! Aloha Cleo

What happened to Bill?

Click the "Feedback" link at the top of the page and you'll see the message from jen (bill's wife).

Take a look at Feedback and you'll see the message from jen explaining it.

Thanks.

Thank you SueBee....

the beatles are cool, but there are a few songs that i dont like

Is the song "Run For Your Life" supposed to be a lesson, satire, or what?

Yes. "Happiness is a Warm Gun". They must have been desperate to fill the album because that one doth verily sucketh.

I'm sure it wasn't to be taken literally....

I like to think of it as "holding up a mirror" to those who might feel this overwhelmed and consumed by jealousy that they'd rather a gurlie meet a terrible end than not be with them anymore???????

Just my POV.

It always freaked me out. Maybe that's what it's supposed to do, I dunno.

Made ya think!

That song does not suck!!! like it

Actually, now that I've had time to think about the subject a little more, "Happiness is a Warm Gun" isn't nearly as bad as "Run For Your Life". The tune is catchy, but the lyrics give me the chills:

Well I'd rather see you dead, little girl
Than to be with another man
You better keep your head, little girl
Or you won't know where I am

You better run for your life if you can, little girl
Hide your head in the sand little girl
Catch you with another man
That's the end'a little girl

Well I know that I'm a wicked guy
And I was born with a jealous mind
And I can't spend my whole life
Trying just to make you toe the line

You better run for your life if you can, little girl
Hide your head in the sand little girl
Catch you with another man
That's the end'a little girl

Let this be a sermon
I mean everything I've said
Baby, I'm determined
And I'd rather see you dead

You better run for your life if you can, little girl
Hide your head in the sand little girl
Catch you with another man
That's the end'a little girl

I'd rather see you dead, little girl
Than to be with another man
You better keep your head, little girl
Of I won't know where I am

You better run for your life if you can, little girl
Hide your head in the sand little girl
Catch you with another man
That's the end'a little girl
Na, na, na
Na, na, na
Na, na, na
Na, na, na

That's on the par with another of my all time least favorites, '96 tears'.

? and the Mysterians, I believe. Annoying little ditty. Can't say I've never felt the way the guy in the song does, but the feeling usually passes after about 2 or 3 beers. He does sound as if his sole possibility for happiness is emotional revenge. Wonder if he ever got it?

wouldn't care to know.

Love Me Do and most of their other songs are both annoying and repetitious. The Beatles definitely improved as they got older.

Yes, I think it's called #9.

Ah give them a break. They and pink floydd pioneered sampling long before the digital studio. anyhow, I enjoyed it.

I guess I'm suffering from "over-kill". My husband is a true blue Beatles fan. We have every album (of which he brought along on our vacation! He brought a few Bowie cd's just to please me; somehow, I have grown out of Bowie too!) Now, I'm into anything that doesn't found like mainstream radio. You should check Sabar Koti; you just might like him.

I was big on bowie, beatles (had it all), simulatneous with fripp & eno, X, DK's. moved to Siouxsie, N Merchant.. Badalmenti. into ancients from islands, asian lands, swing, bluegrass, Dead can dance.
Mia Dei Todd, Pram & the songcatcher soundtrack are on my wishlist now. What does Sabar Koti do?
I just heard my son play on the guitar over the phone. I bought him a black acoustic guitar I named Radueriel (the angel that creates singing angels) and in march got myself a semi-acoustic violin bass. I was impressed, he's doing dungeon stairs and evil circus music, but I can sense a sweet undercurrent that will flow bright some day. I play quasar spiral dive or captain nemo surf punk though I want to hit more auroral sincrosa apetitosa.