Log In
Register
7.36pm
10 August 2011
Offline
Runfyl said “”I Don’t Want To Spoil The Party “
100% agree. Even by Beatle standards, those harmonies are great.
And as an 11 year old, that super-electric electric guitar solo had me pining for an electric guitar…. (I tried to make my acoustic guitar sound electric by plucking way down by the bridge. No go.)
"Into the Sky with Diamonds" (the Beatles and the Race to the Moon – a history)
9.26pm
Reviewers
17 December 2012
Offline Watching the BBC’s re-recording of Please Please Me at the moment. Have been reminded of There’s a Place. Everyone talks about the end of their straight boy-meets-girl love songs coming in 1965, with songs like The Word . They binned the straight boy-meets-girl love songs with this one, the first song recorded for their first album, and a song that – if you look at the lyrics – gave hints at where they were to go. “And it’s my mind, and there’s no time, when I’m alone…”!
"I only said we were bigger than Rod... and now there's all this!" Ron Nasty
To @ Ron Nasty it's @ mja6758
The Beatles Bible 2020 non-Canon Poll Part One: 1958-1963 and Part Two: 1964-August 1966
11.02pm
21 November 2012
Offline Pff there’s a loooong list of underrated songs. I think that if I’d make a list of overrated Beatles songs, I’d be done sooner than underrated songs, because there are so many!
Few examples: I’ve Just Seen A Face , there’s a place, Love You To (actually most of George’s songs except for Here Comes The Sun and Something .), I’ll Follow The Sun (this is really one of my favourites), Things We Said Today , Tell Me What You See , etc.
11.16pm
8 November 2012
Offline My entire perception of what’s underrated is thrown off because I learned most of the songs through Revolver via the cartoon. So to my inner 8-year-old, if there was an episode and animation for a sing-along, there must have been some agreed-upon merit to the song. To this day, it surprises me to hear people slag certain songs as subpar. I have some I like more than others, of course, but usually I envision a storyline or at least a visual concept, increasing the song’s appeal.
parlance
11.53pm
Reviewers
Moderators
1 May 2011
Offline mja6758 said
Watching the BBC’s re-recording of Please Please Me at the moment. Have been reminded of There’s a Place. Everyone talks about the end of their straight boy-meets-girl love songs coming in 1965, with songs like The Word . They binned the straight boy-meets-girl love songs with this one, the first song recorded for their first album, and a song that – if you look at the lyrics – gave hints at where they were to go. “And it’s my mind, and there’s no time, when I’m alone…”!
Watching it on Sky+ and its weird as i keep expecting Beatle harmonies and backing vocals on the songs and either they’re not there or different (obviously). A Taste Of Honey is on and i keep expecting the “doo doo doo doo”‘s from George and John. And where’s George M, weird not seeing him in a Beatles show. Its certainly better than the Beatles ’62 Love Me Do BBC programme last October which really irritated me.
There’s A Place is definately underrated but also Anna which has a killer John vocal and wonderful backing vocals.
"I told you everything I could about me, Told you everything I could" ('Before Believing' - Emmylou Harris)
3.36pm
10 August 2011
Offline I agree with Parlance that if a song has a prominent role in a movie, cartoon, etc…, it’s hard to picture it as under-rated.
Here’s an under-rated song, if only because it never comes up in any discussion. It’s neither good nor bad, just filler presumably.
The Mamas and Papas, however, took the song to another level, and though the song still isn’t great, it’s better than the Beatles’ version; in fact, IMO, it’s probably the only Beatle song that sounds better in its cover version than in its original incarnation.
What do you think?
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you “I Call Your Name “
"Into the Sky with Diamonds" (the Beatles and the Race to the Moon – a history)
4.33am
27 December 2012
Offline I Call Your Name was “almost” never released for 2 years, having been shelved over that time period. We are lucky that it got released, such an under rated song.
4.02am
29 April 2013
Offline My under-rated songs are Hold Me Tight ; No Reply (a highly rated song that I think was a masterpiece…staggered rhyme where the first verse gets completed by the second verse, as well as their effortlessly changing the texture from the shuffle sound into the “I nearly died” part); When I Get Home ( John screamer complete with verses, middle parts and choruses, great ending); And Your Bird Can Sing; Helter Skelter ( just a masterpiece, love the bass, always assumed it was Paul, but read that Lennon played the bass on it.)
10.20am
Reviewers
Moderators
1 May 2011
Offline 
for "I told you everything I could about me, Told you everything I could" ('Before Believing' - Emmylou Harris)
10.02pm
30 April 2013
Offline Well i think we should put aside the underrated ones for the fans and no fans, ´cause they are different cases.
For no fans there are plenty of songs, Here,There and Everywhere, Blue Jay Way ,While My Guitar Gently Weeps , etc.
For me A Day In The Life , is very underrated even for fans,not for critics who always put it as a masterpiece, and they’re right
is such a masterpiece, beautiful song.I love the guitar intro and the sad tone of John´s Lennon voice.
10.08pm
5 November 2011
Offline I agree that Here, There, and Everywhere is underrated. Welcome to the forum, PETER!
All living things must abide by the laws of the shape they inhabit
10.18pm
30 April 2013
Offline “Good Night ” is a beautiful dreamy song, i love the Disney-ish feeling, perfectly fits in any Disney film.The kind of song Michael Jackson would love sing. Some may consider a little sugarcoating,but for me it’s just beautiful,but it doesn´t get that much praise. But even when i love it, i would prefer to be sung by Paul it fits his style.
10.19pm
30 April 2013
Offline Thanks Unknown.
8.48pm
14 September 2013
Offline 
It Won’t Be Long
All I’ve Got To Do
Bad Boy
Long Tall Sally
I’m A Loser
No Reply
Rock And Roll Music
I’ve Just Seen A Face
In My Life
The Night Before
Rain
For No One
And Your Bird Can Sing
Here There And Everywhere
Baby You’re A Rich Man
Dear Prudence
I Will
I’m So Tired
Sexy Sadie
Cry Baby Cry
Hey Bulldog
Oh! Darling
I’ve Got A Feeling
8.51pm
18 March 2013
Offline For No One is greatly underrated. ‘Nuff Said.
6.08pm
21 November 2012
Offline I think PS I Love You and You Won’t See Me are a bit underrated.
6.20pm
11 September 2013
Offline I’ve always thought “Long, Long, Long ” and “It’s All Too Much ” don’t get the credit they deserve, but I’m a bit biased towards George’s work.
"Sometimes they call me the proletariat, but I don't mind." -Stig O'Hara
11.27pm
20 September 2013
Offline I always thought that Revolution 9 – Even though it’s not technically a “song”- was somewhat interesting. You always here people talking about how terrible it was and how it’s worth nothing, but John spent a lot of time on it and it is thought of by some people as John’s sort of autobiography. They probably think so because it has a baby cry towards the beginning and Yoko towards the end. 
"Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun." -Paul McCartney
12.37am
18 March 2013
Offline 12.44am
Moderators
Members
Reviewers
20 August 2013
Offline 
hey, TwoAfter908, your signature just caught my eye. A few semesters ago, a student asked me to help him collect resources he could reference in a paper on the topic of Dubstep for his American Popular Music class. We didn’t find much at the time.
Can buy Joe love! Amazon | iTunes
Check here for "how do I do this" guide to the forum. 
(2017) 
(2018)
1 Guest(s)