The 100% For Sure Top Five Worst Beatles Songs Ever (With Love)

Revolution 9 should definitely be on here. I'd even blaspheme and say Yesterday and any George Harrison song from the hippy-trippy sitar period belong on here.

P-P-P-PENNY LANE?!?! Heresy!!!

(Then again this is from a guy who admittedly loves the cheesier side of the Fab 4 - see, 'Submarine', 'Ob-La-Di O-Bla-Da', 'Maxwell's Silver Hammer', 'Octopus's Garden', et al.)

Hey author, I'm just trying to say... you have a crummy taste in music. Your ear is not good. You should leave the topic alone. Penny Lane rules. 

Revolution 9 should really be number 1, IMO.

Beatles will always be a Top 5 rock band?  How could anyone make a case against them being Number 1?  I'm a casual fan at best, but I'm not stupid.  The bands I adore would be nothing without The Beatles existence.

Also, if a song is on a greatest hits album, exclude it from a list of 'worst songs'. It simply means that you are in a minority in what songs happen to irritate you. I think "The Long and Winding Road" is a bore, but there are likely a lot of people who like it or it wouldn't have been a hit. There are better candidates than a band's #1 single.

This is really lame.  I don't much like Yellow Submarine, or Octopus's Garden, but my list of bad Beatle songs is really short; it consists of only "Maxwell's Silver Hammer." A funny song about murder? No, thanks. But, your list includes some of the best and most influential songs ever. Get a life.

I can't believe Savoy Truffle isn't on this list.

Your list sucks dude. Minus "Hey Jude;" the guy you cited in your opening hit it right on the head.

PENNY LANE? JUST FUCK OFF YOU HAVE NO APPRECIATION FOR MUSIC

Pfffft. This article is embarrassing - you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

If you can write better songs...OR write better IN GENERAL...than do it!Because...the WORST Beatles songs-and they're ALL pretty amazing, smile inducing, memorable, etc...are SO IMMENSELY OBJECTIVELY Better than your assinine, boring, opinionated, rank amateurish, poorly written piece of SH#& excuse of an article...it makes me want to fully defecate!!!

WHAT THE FLIPPING HECK yellow submarine?! Penny Lane?! You need to get a life and some taste some of the best songs ever written are on this list I am almost crying reading this go eat your stupid orange moulding frog. Have a nice day. x

Randy Newman has called Penny Lane one of the greatest pop songs of all-time.

......and The White Album.

really? youre giving more coverage to the Beatles?  Are you 8 years old?

haha that was really funny you have to know the LA Weekly Blog printed that as a joke.. no one can be that out to lunch

#1 worst fab song is Hey Jude.

the Beatles were the New Kids on the Block of their time. quit drooling on yourselves.

How about giving us your top 5 worst R. Kelly songs now?

I prefer "Cheese and Onions."

Don't Pass Me By, Honey Pie, Piggies, and the two German language re-records Sie Lieb Dich and Komm Gib Mir Diene Hand. Oi vey. I can't believe they still include those on the Past Masters comp.

Hey Jude was significant, because in those days, I was playing a lot of classical. It was the first "cool" piano, I could manage. Loved Glass Onion. Obla di Obli da wasn't great but we could con Mom into thinking it was " Polka Fest". We ate up Yellow Submarine because it sounded grown up. When you're only 12, you wouldn't be caught dead warbling " And I say to my self/ It's wonderful, wonderful" Mick Jagger at the time sounded too much like Mom on an air raid because she was fed up with my sister and me. Her Majesty is filler. They didn't do any really bad songs. The ones that wore out the fastest were from Feb 1964, Ed Sullivan. Kisses Sweeter Than Wine, my Bonnie, 'til there was You, I wanna Hold Your Hand,Love Me Do

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Of course when you get right down to it, the "worst" Beatles song is better than a lot of "great" songs by other artists...

Worst Beatles tuneage :1. "Yesterday"--Best criticism of it (by Richard Meltzer) : "Paul plus strings was essentially a tentative Z-move in the Beatles' A-to-Z re-introduction of rock-roll music in all its manifestations, y'know, start real simple with just four guys and work your way thru the whole thing till you get to an equally eschatological postulated endpoint. Much more obvious and devastating than the Drifters had been when they added strings to "There Goes My Baby" back in '58 or '59 or whenever but as things were later to turn out it wasn't anywhere near a Z-point nohow, closer to K or L actually. Paul musta thought it was the biggest deal ever, tho, and you finally knew once and for all that there were Lennon-McCartney compositions that John couldn't possibly've had a hand in..."2. "Honey Pie" : Paul goes Tin Pan Alley, only it sounds like he used a paper plate instead.3."The Long and Winding Road" : Phil Spector's first successful homicide.4."A Taste of Honey": Herb Alpert's version beats it by a mile. Several miles.5. "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" : Miniscule lyric with repetitious,heavy-handed performance overkill. Not in the same league as "Yer Blues" which moved and swung and knocked down steer from 500 yards away.

I agree on "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" but the others aren't so bad, especially "Hey Jude.' It's so weird cos a month ago I tweeted 5 Beatles songs I can not stand to hear on the radio, and Ob-La-Di... made the list. The Beatles cover of "Twist and Shout" is god awful. Paul McCartney's vocals are SO OVER THE TOP in it. Christ, it's supposed to be a cover of a soul song. I guess he thought that being soulful was being loud, and not from the heart and soul. I don't like "Love Me Do", "Revolution no. 9" and most of their cover tunes. Yellow Submarine is an awesome tune.

Here are some actual choices for worst Beatles song1. Run for Your Life. A John song where he condones threatening a woman physically.2. Within You Without You. A dull dirge that brings Sgt. Pepper to a screeching halt.3. Maxwell's Silver Hammer. It's a mistake all around.4. Bungalow Bill. Plodding. John phoning it in.5. Do You Want to Know a Secret. Well at least you got one right.  Honorable mention: Most of Lennon's contributions on Let it Be

Why did I know you were going to pick mostly Paul songs. Predictable and annoying. Penny Lane has an incredibly psychedelic lyric. Twee? Are you nuts? "And though she feels as if she's in a play, she is anyway" is one of the best lines by any Beatle -- period. Elvis Costello considers it a masterpiece along with anyone else with an ounce of musical sense. 

Long and WInding Road is one of the most heartbroken lyrics Paul ever wrote. Only someone with blinders on would miss that. 

P.S. Lennon loved Why Can't We Do It in the Road. I bet if Lennon had been the author, you'd be praising the song for his bare-bones honesty about sexuality. And besides Leonard Bernstein, Brian Wilson listed Good Day Sunshine as one of his top 10 favorite Beatles songs in Rolling Stone magazine for the sheer joy it conveys. Why must every music critic tow the cynical hater persona along? 

In short, you made some really dumb choices. Perhaps you should have titled this My Least Favorite Beatles Songs. Or Songs I am Too Dumb to Appreciate.

Also I will agree Abbey Road is there best album.

I will try and give you a real list.

You know my namePiggiesRevolution 9

Hell I can't even come up with anymore truly awful songs because the Beatles work is just that good.

What a crock of shit. All of these are great songs.

"long and winding road" is like the only song ringo ever overplayed on. what a paradox!

Wow, someone hates McCartney.  Revolution #9 didn't make your list?  Please.