Worst Beatle song?

You should check out Brainwashed. It's underheard because no one ever expects anything from posthumous releases, but it's a great album, possibly even on the level of All Things Must Pass if only due to consistency. But then it's easier to be consistent with a one disc album than it is with one that takes up three CRAB.
 
I disagree with a lot of your post, but you deserve kudos for putting your back into it, so I won't hold it against you ;)

Particularly this bit. Hello Goodbye's easily one of my favourites from Magical Mystery Tour, not because it's vapid bubblegum pop, but just because the melody, chorus refrain and that weird little guitar effect are all great in my books, enough so that the fact that the lyric's effectively just McCartney juggling two worRAB around takes a back seat. I absolutely love Blue Jay Way as well.
 
I have nothing to do with the average Beatles fan. My musical opinions are quite often outliers because I tend to look at music a little differently and more analytically than most people. I'm definitely not a "true" Beatles fan, just a guy who likes the vast majority of their stuff. A lot.
 
I meant "honey pie" and "why don't we do it in the road", tho I don't mind these two... but you just named really decent songs here (not ob-la-di obviously).
 
Because those lyrics are just soooo important and life changing? Lennon has written better lyrics in throw away filler songs.

I don't care what they mean to you, they are still meaningless to me, because they are shallow, pretentious, pedantic and among the weakest to ever appear on a Beatles' album.

We're clearly not going to agree on this, so just let it be.
 
Ha... tying in to my above point, people really can't agree on which songs are the best.

Actually I don't really think either of those are good either... the White Album is pretty inconsistent.
 
The height of Bubblegum music was '67 to '72 so describe Chuck Berry and Carl Perkins as Bubblegum is an anchronism, they started out in the 50's and couldn't be Bubblegum music. I don't know if you know this but the genre that Chuck Berry is classified under is "Rock and Roll" and Carl Perkins is "Rockabilly," "Rock and Roll," and "Country," neither of them are Bubblegum.

Wether or not a person like the cover songs The Beatles did is a matter of opinion, however imo The Beatles never did a bad cover song.
 
Most of the songs before Rubber Soul are utter shite. A few notable exceptions aside, it's dull, bland, commercial bubblegum pop. After that we have a few crappy tracks that really stand out in their awfulness. Run For Your Life and Revolution 9 comes to mind.

Not having heard a single Beatles song is a rather amazing feat. In fact, I would considered it impossible.
 
I can agree with that, marvelous work there.

All I meant is, if there's something you don't like, you can't just judge it as obnoxious and use it as an argument, then say ay well it's meant to be a discussion. Cause the whole rest of the discussion will be "I hate that so it's ugly", and not much can be debated there cause it is only your opinion that you're somehow you're trying to transform into fact.

And because everything that you felt were massive holes in those songs, I on the other hand felt they were the strong points of them. That's why there's no point it telling you that, cause it's obvious that we just have a very different way of looking at it, and there's bo right and wrong.

However, kudos on your musical knowledge, you do look like a very promising add to rab.
 
You better stop right there.

Now after listening non-stop, for more than a year, to the whole Beatles back catalog, there's one song, only that one, that I never was able to listen to completely. It's the song that I always skip.

It's Birthday, the ugliness incarnated:

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I'm in complete agreement I can't understand the dislike of Helter Skelter personally and would definitely say that Ob-La-di, ob-la-da Is a weak song for me. Although I will say it's very hard for me to find beatles songs I don't enjoy, I grow sick of the ones I have to cover every weekend. E.g Can't buy me love' paperback writer, the ballad of john and yoko, more recently helter skelter so I don't hate it yet.
 
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