stooka Posted August 16, 2012 Share Posted August 16, 2012 It stops the record dead in its tracks. wrong Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Moss Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Man that's a tough one. Very few songs I will actively skip. Revolution #9 certainly but that's kind of a cop out. If I have to make a tough choice I'm going to go with Glass Onion. Plus John needs some representation here. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lost highway Posted August 17, 2012 Author Share Posted August 17, 2012 Yes! Glass Onion is a lesser Lennon song. Half of the song lyrics are just references to other Beatles songs. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bleedorange Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 After thinking a lot about this topic, I've come to the conclusion that there is a grand total of zero Beatles songs that I dislike. I certainly prefer some over others, but don't actually dislike any of them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lamradio Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 After thinking a lot about this topic, I've come to the conclusion that there is a grand total of zero Beatles songs that I dislike. I certainly prefer some over others, but don't actually dislike any of them. This is correct, close the thread. It's pretty remarkable really, given the size of their catalog. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
choo-choo-charlie Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Maybe it sucks to have it in the middle of a CD, but I always loved it and thought it was a great track to start off Side B.Least favorite: their covers of stuff like Kansas City, Please Mr. Postman ...stuff like that. My wife can't stand "Roll Over Beethoven." Drives her nuts for some reason. Allow me to rephrase my stance on "Within You Without You." It's like the drone in "Less Than You Think." Sometimes I think it's great and I'll listen to the whole thing, other times I skip right past it. But the length of the track is perhaps what really gets me; I dig the Indian music, maybe if a minute or two were hacked off I'd like it more. I think "Love You To" is George's best foray into Indian music. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jff Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Long and Winding Road. They never should have allowed Paul two ballads on that album, and ifhe insited, it should have been Maybe I'm Amazed.Maxwell's Silver Hammer. Horrible. Long Long Long. I don't get it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lost highway Posted August 17, 2012 Author Share Posted August 17, 2012 Here's a controversial opinion. Sgt Pepper is there most historically noteworthy album, but by no means their best. If you look at a run of songs like Fixing a Hole, She's Leaving Home, and Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite to another mid-album run like She Said, She Said, Good Day Sunshine, And Your Bird Can Sing..... I don't know. Pepper seems to be a great achievement in concept, orchestration, studio wizardry and innovative pop music escapism. Nonetheless, I'll take Abbey Road, Revolver, or the White Album over it for songwriting any day. Lennon was a little short on ideas around the time they made that album. It's too bad Strawberry Fields was not available at the time of Pepper. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Winston Legthigh Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Long Long Long. I don't get it. It's Ringo's playing. It's the weird scary stuff going on at the end of the song. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
choo-choo-charlie Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Here's a controversial opinion. Sgt Pepper is there most historically noteworthy album, but by no means their best. If you look at a run of songs like Fixing a Hole, She's Leaving Home, and Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite to another mid-album run like She Said, She Said, Good Day Sunshine, And Your Bird Can Sing..... I don't know. Pepper seems to be a great achievement in concept, orchestration, studio wizardry and innovative pop music escapism. Nonetheless, I'll take Abbey Road, Revolver, or the White Album over it for songwriting any day. Lennon was a little short on ideas around the time they made that album. It's too bad Strawberry Fields was not available at the time of Pepper. I would agree with this statement, except that Strawberry Fields was available. Both that song and Penny Lane were the first to be recorded for the Pepper sessions, but I believe it was George Martin who made the call that the two should be released as the next single (the double A-side) rather than go on the album. What a difference it would have made.I'll always have a strong emotional connection to Pepper since it was the first record by The Beatles that I ever heard, followed shortly by the White Album -- but I do think Revolver is better than Pepper. I didn't come to appreciate Abbey Road until much later in my fandom... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Moss Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 It's Ringo's playing. It's the weird scary stuff going on at the end of the song. And the vibrating Wine bottle puts it over the top. Or maybe that is the weird scary stuff... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jff Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Here's a controversial opinion. Sgt Pepper is there most historically noteworthy album, but by no means their best. That's not controversial. I don't think many beatles fans cite Sgt. Pepper as their favorite. It's the one a lot of people know about because the album cover is so iconic. Sgt. Pepper has perhaps the highest percentage of throwaway tracks of any of their albums. It's Ringo's playing. It's the weird scary stuff going on at the end of the song. I shouldn't say I dislike Long Long Long. Dislike is the wrong word. It's just sort of invisible to me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sparky speaks Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 I know they didn't write them but I can't stand Mr. Moonlight, Anna, Taste Of Honey, Three Cool Cats, The Sheik of Araby, Clarabella, Boys and Searchin. Those they wrote, only a few, Baby's in Black, Being For the Benefit Of Mr. Kite, Good Night, If You've Got Trouble, Revolution 9 and You Know My Name, Look Up the Number. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Winston Legthigh Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 That's not controversial. I don't think many beatles fans cite Sgt. Pepper as their favorite. It's the one a lot of people know about because the album cover is so iconic. Sgt. Pepper has perhaps the highest percentage of throwaway tracks of any of their albums. I shouldn't say I dislike Long Long Long. Dislike is the wrong word. It's just sort of invisible to me. The White Album was always on the turn table when i was a kid, and the end of the song would make my hair stand on end - it really creeped me out. I thought it was scary as hell. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tinnitus photography Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Hey Jude is awful. horrible enough that i hope to never hear it again. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mr. Heartbreak Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Hey Jude is awful. horrible enough that i hope to never hear it again.Heresy, sir. However, I will admit that it should not be allowed anywhere as a karaoke tune. It's too long, and the ending cannot be handled by amateurs. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sweet Papa Crimbo Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 There are a few songs that I simply cannot listen to out of the context of the album on which it appears: THE CONTINUING STORY OF BUFFALO BILL, HAPPINESS IS A WARM GUN, PIGGIES, THE WORD, RUN FOR YOUR LIFE....hmm.Lennon songs... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lost highway Posted August 17, 2012 Author Share Posted August 17, 2012 HAPPINESS IS A WARM GUN, That's curious. That song is in my top ten all time beatles list. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
anthony Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 I Want to Hold Your HandPlease Please MeShe Loves YouI'll Follow the SunMichelleHere, There and EverywhereWhen I'm 64You're Mother Should KnowMartha My DearI WillHoney PieMaxwell's Silver HammerOctopus's GardenThe Long and Winding Road Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sparky speaks Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Honey Pie and Your Mother Should Know are the distant relatives of Capitol City. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mountain bed Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 PS I Love You and Your Mother Should Know are the first two that come to mind. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lost highway Posted August 18, 2012 Author Share Posted August 18, 2012 What did Lennon once call a certain thread of McCartney songs, was it "Granny music"? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sparky speaks Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Pre-dates Dad Rock... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sweet Papa Crimbo Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 What did Lennon once call a certain thread of McCartney songs, was it "Granny music"? Lennon was sour, angry, disillusioned, sad and more than a little jealous from late 1968 to the mid-1970's. I hear a lot of self-loathing and self-pity in Lennon's early solo work. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sweet Papa Crimbo Posted August 18, 2012 Share Posted August 18, 2012 Hey Jude is awful. horrible enough that i hope to never hear it again. Hey Jude suffers from the simple fact that it has been really over-consumed by the music listening public. My parents, my children and the grandchildren of friends all recognize the song. And I know my grandmother knew it too.A song doesn't become a part of the consciousness of four generations because it is a 'horrible song'. Shit. It isn't Afternoon Delight or I ain't gonna Bump no more with no big fat woman or Celebrate. McCartney has/had the gift/curse of being able to write songs that seem to be ingrained into the DNA of a large part of the populace. Yesterday; For No one; All My Loving; Here, there, Everywhere; When I'm 64; Fool on the Hill; Hey Jude; Let it Be; Band on the Run; Mull of Kintyre...fluff? Possibly...maybe even probably. But one cannot tell the story of the modern rock idiom without pointing to the sense of melody and the music hall that McCartney brought to the table.McCartney's optimish and mawkishness was perfectly balanced by Lennon's anger and cynicism. Together, they had seven year recording history that changed the face of music for the last half century Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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