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28 November 2010
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25 November 2010
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My vote's for Because and I'm Only Sleeping.
7.04pm
19 April 2010
Offline Abbey Road – Octopus' Garden – easy to consider this a throwaway Ringo kid's type tune – but just listen to George's guitar work all through out – amazing! And the vocal harmonies and the underwater sounds – for 1969 – great stuff.
Revolver – For No One – just try and classify what type of song this is. Under-rated for sure.
"She looks more like him than I do."
7.24pm
1 May 2010
Offline robert said:
Abbey Road – Octopus' Garden – easy to consider this a throwaway Ringo kid's type tune – but just listen to George's guitar work all through out – amazing! And the vocal harmonies and the underwater sounds – for 1969 – great stuff.
I couldn't say it better. And it makes me happy. And any Beatle song that makes me happy it's not a throwaway!!! 
Why I never get a 9? I don't feel love from this damn anti-spam thing.. 
Here comes the sun….. Scoobie-doobie……
Something in the way she moves…..attracts me like a cauliflower…
Bop. Bop, cat bop. Go, Johnny, Go.
Beware of Darkness…
9.34pm
13 September 2010
Offline Abbey Road : Because – I have never once heard this song on the radio or anyone I know that's a Beatle's fan talk about it. The harmonies on this song are just completely exquisite. One of their best vocals out of all their songs.
Revolver : Love You To – This has to be one of my favorite George songs ever. The sitar in it rings out loud and clear and fits the mood of the song. The lyrics are also pretty awesome. (At least in my opinion they are)
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11.39pm
4 November 2010
Offline One of my all-time favorite songs, certainly deserves more attention. Great harmonies. It's hypnotic in a way.
Revolver : Goodday Sunshine
I feel like most casual fans turn to “Here Comes The Sun ” for their sunshine fill, but this song has always made me very happy.
“I need to laugh, and when the sun is out I've got something to laugh about!”
12.52am
9 June 2010
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I'm going to hop on the “Because ” bandwagon for Abbey Road . But “IWY(SSH)” is pretty underrated….
For Revolver ? I'll say “She Said She Said .” Everyone pays attention to “Yellow Submarine ,” but they overlook the VERY NEXT TRACK, which, in my opinion, is infinitely superior.
If I seem to act unkind, it's only me, it's not my mind that is confusing things.
6.10pm
7 February 2014
Offline I enjoyed reading Ian McDonald’s book “Revolution in the head” but, if I remember correctly, he didn’t rate this track, which I can’t understand because it’s one of my favourites. The guitar playing is terrific and I really like the middle eight and the cryptic lyrics.
The one I never liked on Revolver was Good Day Sunshine , which McDonald highly praised. I remember he said that it was one of Leonard Bernstein’s favourites too.
I personally would have replaced Good Day Sunshine with Rain , which I think is a better track and fits more into the experimental sound of the LP.
If I remember correctly McDonald didn’t think much of Here Comes The Sun . Here Comes The Sun is another one of my favourites so I think that is underrated too (at least by Mr McDonald).
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6 February 2014
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8 April 2014
Offline For the Album Revolver I would definitely choose “For No One ” It is such a beautiful song, it made me cry when I first heard it and I can listen to it for 20 times without getting bored. But then when I asked my parents they told me they had never even head of the song… It is a shame that hardly anyone knows it, so now I’m trying to promote it to my friends 
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Starr Shine?11.48pm
8 April 2014
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On Revolver , its definitely Got To Get You Into My Life . I never hear people talking about it and I love that track.
Abbey Road though, its got to be that Golden Slumbers Medley. Those tracks, again are not really spoke of.
Yoko burned the rice again, ya know.
5.49am
5 February 2014
Offline Abbey Road : You Never Give Me Your Money . My favourite Beatles tune EVER. One for the prog fans.
Revolver : She Said She Said . This seems to be forgotten, it’s one of their first truly psychedelic songs. Also, Doctor Robert .
9.52am
24 March 2014
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If you were looking at it from the “what’s my favourite song and so can never be rated highly enough” perspective. It would be You Never Give Me Your Money and Tomorrow Never Knows .
But if you were looking at it from the “what’s probably under-rated or maligned partly due to factors other than the song – such as the genre” perspective then I would choose Maxwell’s Silver Hammer because it’s a lot better than a lot of people make out. It’s actually quite a clever little twisted take on music hall, and Yellow Submarine because it’s a great kids song that they enjoy singing along too.
3.01pm
21 November 2012
Offline On Abbey Road , I think Because might be underrated, as I don’t often hear people about it. However, when I do hear someone talk about it, they always say how great and amazing it is. So maybe it’s not THAT underrated. Maybe I’ll just go for Oh! Darling then. Paul’s voice is amazing on that.
As for Revolver , I always tend to think George’s songs on that are a bit underrated, except for Taxman .
4.27pm
1 December 2009
Offline LOL I looked at the thread title and thought it was a slightly odd topic – reminded me of the type of thread that user Hammerdealer used to start. Then I look at the first post and discover that it was indeed one of his/hers!
buick6 said
But if you were looking at it from the “what’s probably under-rated or maligned partly due to factors other than the song – such as the genre” perspective then I would choose Maxwell’s Silver Hammer because it’s a lot better than a lot of people make out. It’s actually quite a clever little twisted take on music hall.
Well put & I fully agree! (There’s no way “Tomorrow Never Knows ” is underrated, though – it’s a lot of people’s favourite!)
GEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
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26 January 2014
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Starr Shine?11.23pm
10 November 2009
Offline It’s interesting to see that many people here list For No One and Oh! Darling as two underrated songs, but I actually find them close or as famous as Tommorow Never Knows, Come Together or any high-favorite Beatles song.
And I agree with those that think that Maxwell’s Silver Hammer and Yellow Submarine are the most underrated songs of those albums, as I have found some people here too (but not only here) where they hate it, don’t like it, or rank them as some of their least good songs.
Also underrated are the Lennon bits on the Abbey Road medley (Sun King , Mean Mr. Mustard & Polythene Pam ), even when the latter two are unfinished with some choppy lyrics, they all have very interesting stuff (Sun King has those Because harmonies, and the latter two are more music-driving).
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6.57am
15 April 2014
Offline Alissa said
Hmmm…
i was going to write just that. I love I’m Only Sleeping . 
Eleanor Rigby waits at the window wearing a face that she keeps in a jar by the door.
Mean Mr Mustard lives in the park shaves in the dark trying to save paper.
"Look! a cyclops!" "Can't be its got two eyes" "Must be a bicyclops then" -Yellow Submarine
4.55am
12 October 2013
Offline Like someone before said – underrated and overrated are simply opinons, but here’s my pair of pence:
“IWY(SSH)” is an excellent Beatles tune that doesn’t get the hype. One of my fav all-time Beatles tunes. (Was that Martin or Billy Preston on the organ? Emerick wrote that there were no outside musicians used so far when that track was recorded, but no way in hell McCartney played that part.)
“Because “? I hate that song. One of the points I like to throw at fans of these plastic Pro Tools so-called “bands” is that the Beatles actually made their own music and it ruled. In this song – the three voiced of the Beatles were TRIPLE-tracked. The song you hear has 9 voices on it. Yeah, like they could do that live even on their best day.
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