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Um… everything? With its scrappy instrumental, poor production values, unimaginative throwaway lyrics, boring melody, grating vocals and general ‘we knew it was bad so we gave it to ringo’ vibe it stands out on the warm, lush Rubber Soul like an sore, ugly thumb . @The Hole Got Fixed
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14 November 2017
Offline Birthday is another shocker. That’s another one that always gets skipped
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26 January 2017
Offline What Goes On was the primary reason that Rubber Soul was my favorite album as a kid. It and Nowhere Man are part of the distinct and unique blend of Beach Boys -ian harmony and old school rockabilly.
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Ok, What Goes On has a boring melody. But it’s in 3 part harmony, it’s got some very fun guitar work, and it’s perfectly suited to 
. And it benefits from being placed after actually worst song on Rubber Soul , Michelle .
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9 March 2017
Offline I think I’ll go album by album and list my least favorite song for each album. As a note, I’ve decided not to count Wild Honey Pie , Her Majesty , Dig It , or Maggie Mae because they are too short to be considered a proper song and I’m also not counting anything that isn’t part of the 13 album canon nor am I counting the B side of Yellow Submarine .
Love Me Do (too simple)
Devil In Her Heart (bland)
A Hard Day’s Night (overrated and annoying)
Every Little Thing (someone had to go)
Help !
You Like Me Too Much (bland)
You Won’t See Me (all songs on this album are great but someone had to go)
Love You To (not a bad song but I don’t like George’s Indian music)
Sgt. Pepper ‘s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Within You Without You (George’s Indian music)
Blue Jay Way (George’s Indian music)
Only A Northern Song (good song but someone had to go)
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Good Night (no musical contribution from John, Paul, or George, no conventional rock instruments, Ringo vocal, gentle lullaby on a rock album, poor choice to close the album, the list goes on)
Here Comes The Sun (not bad but overplayed)
The Long And Winding Road (someone had to go)
The Inner Light (George’s Indian music)
And the loser is
Overall, Good Night isn’t that bad of a song on it’s own but when you put into consideration that it’s a Beatles song, then it becomes the worst Beatles song in their canon.
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20 November 2017
Offline “Got To Get You Into My Life ” is my least favourite song, but it’s ok too
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26 January 2017
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@Dark Overlord, John had no musical contribution to Good Night ? 
He wrote the song.
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12.26pm
26 January 2017
Offline Father McKenzie said
Birthday is another shocker. That’s another one that always gets skipped
I don’t hate Birthday as the guitar riffs are great, especially the middle break. But the lyrics are awful and that kind of spoils the song for me. That’s a problem with many Beatles songs for me: I love the instrumental but hate the lyrics, an example being Drive My Car .
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Ok, What Goes On has a boring melody. But it’s in 3 part harmony, it’s got some very fun guitar work, and it’s perfectly suited to. And it benefits from being placed after actually worst song on Rubber Soul , Michelle .
Michelle ? What’s wrong with that? It has a great guitar intro that I’m assuming Paul played due to its similarities with Mother Nature’s Son and Blackbird , and the mini solo (that uses the minor and major third without it sounding bad) is awesome, evoking a sort of smokey, vaguely pot smelling atmosphere as it winds on and on. The lyrics aren’t Paul’s best, but the idea of a love struck couple blocked by a language barrier is an intriguing one, and Paul certainly puts it across in a charming way. For me, Michelle perfectly sums up the atmosphere that Rubber Soul conjures up, and is as essential to the album’s character as Nowhere Man or In My Life . WGO or RFYL on the other hand could be easily replaced by Day Tripper and We Can Work It Out and still have the LP retain its feel.
As for What Goes On , 3 part harmony is great when it sounds warm and lush like Nowhere Man or This Boy but on What Goes On , it just sounds grating. The guitar work sounds like the audio equivalent of a stumbling old man about to fall over and the fact it’s perfectly suited to Ringo’s below (Beatle) average vocal ability says it all really. The only thing that ‘Goes On’ is me, going on to the next track, Girl. Plus, when you compare the melody to those on Nowhere Man , Norwegian Wood , In My Life , or basically any other track here, it’s blown out of the water.
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12.36pm
26 January 2017
Offline If I go with DO’s album by album approach:
Ask Me Why – My cycle with this song is that I forget that it exists, then come back to it and remember why I forgot.
I Wanna Be Your Man – Another mediocre Ringo song that doesn’t really have any saving grace or characteristic that makes it worth my time.
Honestly I don’t actively dislike anything on here, it’s all pretty good.
Not familiar enough with this LP to give a least favourite, someone remind me about this in a couple weeks.
Help !:
Dizzy Miss Lizzy – While I’m not a fan of the boring The Night Before or Another Girl , this one takes the cake for the terrible guitar performance and unimaginative cover.
What Goes On – Need I say more? The absolute worst ‘proper’ Beatles song.
Revolver :
Doctor Robert – This one is actually a reasonably good song that has grown on me, showing how good Revolver is.
Lovely Rita – Bland and cloying. Some good elements but overall a very weak track.
The White Album :
Rocky Raccoon – There were several options for this one but I decided on this cut which has a nice enough guitar part and melody but again awful lyrics.
Everything here’s pretty good but I’ll go with Maxwell’s Silver Hammer as it’s another example of irritating lyrics against great music.
One After 909 – Close call between this and For You Blue (the non songs aside) but this got it as although it’s fun it’s really nothing special at all.
I've been up on the mountain, and I've seen his wondrous grace,
I've sat there on the barstool and I've looked him in the face.
He seemed a little haggard, but it did not slow him down,
he was humming to the neon of the universal sound.
12.44pm
9 March 2017
Offline sir walter raleigh said
@Dark Overlord, John had no musical contribution to Good Night ?
I meant that John Paul and George aren’t present on the final recording, I should’ve said it better.
QuarryMan said
I don’t hate Birthday as the guitar riffs are great, especially the middle break. But the lyrics are awful and that kind of spoils the song for me. That’s a problem with many Beatles songs for me: I love the instrumental but hate the lyrics, another example being Drive My Car .
I agree that the lyrics to Birthday aren’t that great but are they really so bad that they deter from the song. Usually when I hear a Beatles song with horrible lyrics such as I Want You (She’s So Heavy) I just shift my focus to the instrumental track.
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@QuarryMan I quite like the lyrics to Drive My Car , I think they’re very clever (and much better than Paul’s original thought of ‘I can buy you golden rings/ I can buy you anything/ Baby I love you’). 
I do agree with what you said about Michelle , though; I was intrigued by the very same myself when I first discovered it. And I’ve never liked What Goes On — I often skip it, and I don’t skip songs lightly. 
I consider my least favourite Beatles song to be Wild Honey Pie . I just
can’t
stand
it.
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2.57am
14 November 2017
Offline I forgot to add Octopus’s Garden here…….
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11.03am
26 January 2017
Offline Dark Overlord said
I meant that John Paul and George aren’t present on the final recording, I should’ve said it better.
QuarryMan said
I don’t hate Birthday as the guitar riffs are great, especially the middle break. But the lyrics are awful and that kind of spoils the song for me. That’s a problem with many Beatles songs for me: I love the instrumental but hate the lyrics, another example being Drive My Car .I agree that the lyrics to Birthday aren’t that great but are they really so bad that they deter from the song. Usually when I hear a Beatles song with horrible lyrics such as I Want You (She’s So Heavy) I just shift my focus to the instrumental track.
They don’t ruin the song, but I’d much rather have great lyrics and a great instrumental, which they were clearly capable of. What’s wrong with the I Want You lyrics? They’re extremely simple but that’s kind of the point of the song – John takes a few short ideas and phrases and strings them together into an eight minute masterpiece. Amazing how they could make so much from so little.
I've been up on the mountain, and I've seen his wondrous grace,
I've sat there on the barstool and I've looked him in the face.
He seemed a little haggard, but it did not slow him down,
he was humming to the neon of the universal sound.
11.08am
26 January 2017
Offline Father McKenzie said
I forgot to add Octopus’s Garden here…….
But George’s guitar solo is amazing!
I've been up on the mountain, and I've seen his wondrous grace,
I've sat there on the barstool and I've looked him in the face.
He seemed a little haggard, but it did not slow him down,
he was humming to the neon of the universal sound.
4.54pm
9 March 2017
Offline My problem with the I Want You (She’s So Heavy) lyrics is that they are meaningless simple and go nowhere all he says is i want you, i want you so bad, it’s driving me mad, and she’s so heavy the entire vocals consist of 4 short phrases and a couple of yeahs, they mind as well have made it an instrumental.
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6.07pm
15 March 2017
Offline Dark Overlord said
My problem with the I Want You (She’s So Heavy) lyrics is that they are meaningless simple and go nowhere all he says is i want you, i want you so bad, it’s driving me mad, and she’s so heavy the entire vocals consist of 4 short phrases and a couple of yeahs, they mind as well have made it an instrumental.
That’s one thing I love about that song and the same riff playing over and over again until it abruptly stops and then Here Comes The Sun starts playing. I love that moment of the album.
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Offline Dark Overlord said
My problem with the I Want You (She’s So Heavy) lyrics is that they are meaningless simple and go nowhere all he says is i want you, i want you so bad, it’s driving me mad, and she’s so heavy the entire vocals consist of 4 short phrases and a couple of yeahs, they mind as well have made it an instrumental.
Which leads to one of the greatest quotes ever by John.
“When you’re drowning, you don’t say, ‘I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me.’ You just scream.”
He wanted Yoko, he said it, and that was enough. Why spend all day trying to find extra words. In fact, you could argue that ‘Dig A Pony ‘ is John saying a whole pile of meaningless nonsense just to get around to saying
“All I want is you.
Everything has got to be just like you want it to”
and many moan about that song.
So basically John was screwed either way.
I love the everything about ‘I Want You (She’s So Heavy)’ and I really like ‘Dig A Pony ‘ .
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15 March 2017
Offline Well said @meanmistermustard. I also like both of those songs.
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Offline How does that make John screwed either way?
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Offline People complain about songs they think don’t have enough lyrics, @Starr Shine?, and they complain about songs they think have too many lyrics, and lyrics that they think don’t make sense. That’s what I’d imagine @meanmistermustard meant.
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