EW Lists Best, Worst Beatles Songs
In the September 11th issue of Entertainment Weekly the magazine looks at "The 50 Best Songs The World's Greatest Band Ever Wrote." No, not Grizzly Bear, the Beatles. Yes, they are a band your parents know about, too. So why now? As EW puts it:
With The Beatles: Rock Band and [remastered] reissues of all their albums hitting stores, it's time for another Beatles revolution. This week's Entertainment Weekly offers fans our guide to what's new -- and to the 50 best songs the world's greatest band ever wrote as well as a gallery of rare behind-the-scenes candid photographs.
That's right, The Beatles: Rock Band's out next week on 09/09/09. Because it's that monumental. According to EW, even Paul McCartney thinks "It's very cool." (Hopefully the 45 songs on it don't include any of the ones EW pans. That would not be very cool.) We'll have to wait until we get a hold of the actual magazine (on stands today) to see everything, but for now we do have EW's Top 20 best Beatles songs as well as the top five worst. (UPDATE: All 50 are now listed.) One thing we've concluded after spending a little time with these: The magazine hates The White Album and Magical Mystery Tour. EW's worst song made Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Songs Of All Time" back in 2004, which hints at something we already knew: Yes, there will be arguments. But what else are you gonna do over a holiday weekend? Also, EW forgot to list song 19 in their blast, so you'll just have to fill that one in yourself.
50 "All You Need Is Love"
49 "I'm So Tired"
48 "Here Comes The Sun"
47 "Helter Skelter"
46 "Ticket To Ride"
45 "Lovely Rita"
44 "Come Together"
43 "I Want To Hold Your Hand"
42 "I'm Down"
41 "Day Tripper"
40 "With a Little Help From My Friends"
39 "Taxman"
38 "You Won't See Me"
37 "She Said She Said"
36 "Dear Prudence"
35 "Nowhere Man"
34 "I've Got a Feeling"
33 "I Should Have Known Better"
32 "I Am The Walrus"
31 "All My Loving"
30 "I Want You (She's So Heavy)"
29 "I Saw Her Standing There"
28 "Rain"
27 "Happiness Is A Warm Gun"
26 "Paperback Writer"
25 "I'm A Loser"
24 "I'm Only Sleeping"
23 "We Can Work It Out"
22 "If I Fell"
21 "Revolution" (single version)
20 "Can't Buy Me Love"
19 "Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End"
18 "Blackbird"
17 "You've Got to Hide Your Love"
16 "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
15 "In My Life"
14 "Hey Jude"
13 "Help"
12 "Penny Lane"
11 "Eleanor Rigby"
10 "Across The Universe"
09 "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)"
08 "Tomorrow Never Knows"
07 "Let It Be"
06 "She Loves You"
05 "Something"
04 "Strawberry Fields Forever"
03 "Yesterday"
02 "A Day in the Life"
01 "A Hard Day's Night"
This is how they explain the choice of "A Hard Day's Night":
Forty-five years after this single hit the top of the charts on both sides of the Atlantic, it's still nearly impossible to get any two people to agree on what chord that famous opening clang! actually is. But with one majestic, mysterious Rickenbacker distress call, the Beatles as we first met them on The Ed Sullivan Show four months earlier were gone. They'd grown up. The lads had become unwitting passengers on a manic locomotive they'd never be able to disembark from, and the song's title hints at that weariness. It's right there in the opening scene of the 1964 film that bears the same name, as John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr are chased by a mob of screaming, ravenous fans. This isn't just a pop song, it's a cathartic cry for Help!
Nice of George and Ringo to get a mention since they don't appear on the cover. The worst Beatles songs according to EW:
05 "Flying"
04 "Don't Pass Me By"
03 "Dig It"
02 "Wild Honey Pie"
01 "All You Need Is Love"
You'll find more Beatles-related words over at EW.
Posted at 5:27 PM by brandon in List
Tags: The Beatles
Don't do it! Do not discuss the merits of this list.
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I'm not familiar with "Missing". Is that on the White Album?
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i would like to agree with the man who posted first which seems to be about a bajillion posts ago. bob you are a genius....honestly discussing the merits of this post is a waste of time. if EW is too lazy to find a photo of all the beatles on the cover think about how much time they spent putting together this list...
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fifty places for Bearles ten best. ok. But where is obla di obla dah. and Helter Skelter almost at bottom. Bollocks
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Fuck it. Seriously, flying is fine. Dig it, isn't a song. Wild Honey Pie isn't really a song either, and still managed to be more entertaining than The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill. All you need is love seems to be a pulled out of nowhere, I am sure the explanation is something "controversial" and "against type" for such an insidious publication. Fuck. Balls.
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"Don't Pass Me By" is better than "A Hard day's Night"
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When I was I kid I was in a car crash and I lost all of my hair. "Don't Pass Me By" felt like it was written especially for me, and really got me through a tough time. Now I have beautiful long hair and do landscaping for cephalopods. Thanks Ringo!
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RAIN, fucking RAINNNN! come on, not even in the top 20. for shame!
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some terrible beatles songs:
long and winding choad
alltogethernowalltogethernowalltogethernowalltogethernow
oh blah fuckin di lah di dah
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Only one song from Abby Road?
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This list is total garbage. I can't even begin to enumerate the glaring flaws and omissions here. I am so seriously sick of 'best of' track lists that ignore the obvious album content gold and shoot straight for the singles, one right after the other. Both number ones are painfully, tragically misguided.
Where are "If I Fell," "Golden Slumbers," "I've Just Seen A Face," "I Am The Walrus," "She Said She Said," "Fixing A Hole," "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds?"
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I believe golden slumbers was the missing number 19.
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I've read the full list at this point and what upsets me is that "Here Comes the Sun" is at number 48 in the top 50. Also, I like A Day in the Life more than A Hard Day's Night, personally.
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"Don't Pass Me By" is waaaaaaaaay better than "A Hard Day's Night"
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I've always hated Long and Winding Road. It's my least favorite by far, but whenever I state this fact, I seem to do it the presence of people who inexplicably love the song.
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I have a very soft spot for "Love Me To" from Revolver.
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okay, She loves you? I love that song, it's a great song, I love to dance to it myself, but it's not groundbreaking. "Lady Madonna" is groundbreaking, "I am the Walrus", GODDAMN that is groundbreaking, where any other band, it would have been a novelty song of the 60s, but because it's the beatles and they put so much thought into it, it's a warped up classic.
As for worst, the guys at EW, are they pessimistic or something? Every hardcore beatle fan knows that the WORST song by the beatles is "Revolution No. 9". It's just john going "number 9, number 9, number 9..."
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Revolution 9 isn't even the worst song on the White Album. That dubious honor belongs to "Honey Pie", another glaring omission.
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You must mean "Wild Honey PIe" because "Honey Pie" is a great little jazz number.
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Well it's nice to know that they see the artistic merit of "Revolution 9" to not put it on the worst song list like some "Beatles fans" might.
Or they just forgot of the song's existence/confused it with the other Revolutions.
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The Beatles are my gods. True Story.
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Worst Beatles song: ALL OF THEM!
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Hopefully all your rebellious friends will back you up and bump up your score
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worst troll ever. Please try again.
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I got your back man. I also think the beatles are highly overrated.
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My FAVORITE Beatles songs are
-Martha My Dear
-Dear Prudenace
-Baby You're a Rich Man
-Rocky Raccoon
-Lovely Rita
All deserving a little more recognition.
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My Best 5 in no particular order:
Here, There and Everywhere
Dear Prudence
Dig A Pony
Hello Goodbye
When I'm Sixty-Four (tie w/Tomorrow Never Knows cuz only 5 is IMPOSSIBLE)
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Rocky Racoon is my favorite Beatles song.
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Sorry for the "a" that found its way into Dear Prudence!
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Helter Skelter.
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Omission on best list: Get Back
Omission on worst list: Yellow Submarine
Waaaay too many songs on the best list from the early poppy stuff.
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Leaving comments on Stereogum takes longer than download porn on broadband in the 90's.
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I agree. Can you guys not borrow the same technology that the AV Club uses for comments?
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back in the u.s.s.r., ob-la-di, ob-la-da, and glass onion are clearly three of their worst post-help! songs. i mean, glass onion is a song about the songs that make up magical mystery tour.
and your mother should know is one of their more underrated songs. it's quite lovely.
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The best Beatles, ahem, THE Beatles, song is 'She Said, She Said." There. I said it.
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"The best The Beatles song"? Not grammatically correct. Even so, great song choice.
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i've always loved "flying"...
bonus: secret machines cover of it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BywXhFZkaI
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ignoring the fact that its essentially a lennon song, i really think "julia" should be on the list. one of the beatles' most lovely and understated songs.
and ive always had soft spots for "paperback writer" and "baby youre a rich man." id like to see where they rank on the full list of 50, if at all.
it also seems a tad ridiculous to me that "penny lane" is higher than "hey jude," but theyre both excellent, so i guess i can let it slide.
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Nice to see some appreciation for "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away".
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Number 19 is not omitted in the list...it is at the top of the page, with a picture...
It's "Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End."
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wow, if their "journalists" who compiled this list did a little fucking RESEARCH they would know a maths professer figured out the beginning of a hard day's night is just guitar chords mixed in with piano
overall, a shite list, but wht did one expect?
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What a lazy way to sell magazines.
Also, I'm pretty sure George said it's a C with a G on top.
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That's a horrible cover. Why did they pick the picture of John and Paul looking so drab, let a lone without George and Ringo?
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I think that list failed to realize we're talking about The Beatles. Also, "All You Need Is Love" cannot be the worst song, especially since it so captured the allure of the time. If you want an honest fan-made list of the Best to Worst Beatles sounds I suggest going here: http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2009/01/05/playing-the-beatles-backwards-the-ultimate-countdown/
Not only is the list done very nicely, but he gives a reason for picking each and every song. Sure its a bit long, but better than giving some off-handed logic that "A Hard Day's Night" is the band's "growing up" point.
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Maybe only the VU can match the Beatles in having strange unique gems that are worlds in the selves even way down at the bottom of the barrel...would Fellini give his vision to Cloudbusting?
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No 'Hey Bulldog"? Or 'And your bird can sing'?
amateurs..
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Brandon, explain how did this one avoid the S--t list tagging?
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I love the Beatles, but is there any good reason to make another freaking list about them. And this one is terrible by the way. She Loves You and A Hard Day's Night better than Tomorrow Never Knows and Hey Jude? I think not.
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A Hard Day's Night is not a cry for help or some kind of revolution in music. It's about working and then going to see your girlfriend. And people figured out that chord a long time ago.
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I don't care what they say, Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da or Why Don't We Do It In The Road are the worst fucking Beatles song. Flying kicks the living crap out of those two.
Something is the best (glad to see it at, 5).
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That's easy: the worst song is "Within Without You". Horrible
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This list sucks. I could shuffle the Beatles albums and come up with a more accurate top 20 than this garbage. A Hard Day's Night? Piss off.
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"All You Need Is Love" is one of my favorites. It's hokey psuedo-psychedlia but in a good way.
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uuuhh. "pseudo" psychedelia? really? the beatles were right at the forefront of psych. there's nothing pseudo about it.
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Waay too much early (pre-RS) stuff. The following songs are missing, in my opinion:
-Girl
-I'm Only Sleeping
-Rain
-Norwegian Wood
-I Am The Walrus
-Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
-Here There and Everywhere
-Being For The Benefit of Mr Kite
-Nowhere Man
-For No One (this song is amazing and underrated)
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Like half those songs are on there
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within you without you??/ i am the walrus?
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Lou Reed when asked if he thought that Sgt. Peppers was the best album of all time said something like "Mr. Kite? What the fuck is that shit?" I'm with Lou...
But Lucy in the Sky, Dear Prudence and I am the Walrus should be in the top 20. All You Need is Love is best list stuff, not worst...
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Even though "A Hard Day's Night" clearly isn't the Beatles best song, the rest of their best list is understandable (although it wouldn't look ANYTHING like mine)
"Come Together" is easily the worst Beatles song! (musically, anyway..)
"Flying" and "All You Need Is Love" are great though!
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What shite.
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what happened to 1oclock rock?
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"No, not Grizzly Bear, the Beatles." Huh? I hardly think of GB as a great band. I'm not even sure if they written a great song yet. Overhype is the norm these days.
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My favorite Beatles songs in no particular order would be: Martha My Dear, Im Looking Through You, She Said She Said, You Wont See Me, Getting Better, Taxman, And Your Bird Can Sing, Happiness is a Warm Gun, I Want You (She's So Heavy), and Get Back.
That is all
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I can't believe I had to scroll down this far before someone mentioned Happiness Is A Warm Gun. It's a brilliant, perfect song, and it would be at the top of my list.
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you're not a girl, who misses much
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#19 come together
weird that it hasn't been mentioned yet...
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That's not The Beatles on the cover, that's just John and Paul.
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DIG IT is like my fave beatles song
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It's *like* your favourite? So what would your *actual* favourite be?
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"you know my name (look up the number)" motherfucker
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how about we all need to relax right now.... lol
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What about Revolution 9?
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No more beatles, Please!!
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not even "get back." for shame.
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I can tell you as a guitar teacher that I hope I never hear "Blackbird" ever again. Specifically, I'm completely tired of 13-year-old kids who want to learn to play it. I might make it a rule of mine like "No Stairway to Heaven" in Wayne's World.
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Where is Happiness is a Warm Gun? That was the song that got me into the Beatles waaaay back when.
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NO. Worst list(s) ever.
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All songs are good. All songs are bad. Pick for yourself. I mean, really? People magazine chooses the best Rolling Stones album covers! This shit is an excuse to kill trees.
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um number 19 is Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/ The End.
Remember, reading is fundamental
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Why isn't Ob-La-Di-Ob-La-Da on there, that is the fucking worst Beatles song ever!
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Anyone who calls Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da a bad song shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the brilliance of McCartney's late 60's quirkiness. Lennon himself was short-sighted in this, calling "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" "granny music" when it is in fact a tongue-in-cheek song about a murderer (You know how commercial those have always been.). Lennon also claimed he could sing Oh! Darling better than Paul, and he was actually against the awesome suite format of Abbey Road's second half. If you want to know who the main innovator in the Beatles was post-1967, that distinction goes to Paul (Please also note that he has been the person pushing for Carnival of Light's release for over ten years and released an honest-to-God awesome indie rock album last year.). Moreover, I find it hilarious that many people who champion modern quirky artists are often some of the first ones to criticize anything the Beatles did that wasn't a straightforward rock song. These are also the people who claim the White Album is "spotty" when in fact it is their best album, one on which they explored and conquered every (then) existing genre of pop and rock and even invented a few.
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I enjoy the fact that almost no one who commented on here had the same favorite beatles song.
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Where the hell is "You Never Give Me Your Money"? that and "Happiness is a Warm Gun" are far and away my personal favorite Beatles songs.
The worst list really isn't fair, also I agree with whoever said "Within You, Without You" should've been on it. I hate that goddamned song.
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No mention of "Because" anywhere? Inarguably the most gorgeous song of all-time (Elliott Smith's cover is up there, with it).
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Oh hell, I'll jump on the wagon. Mostly cause I like lists.
Best Five:
1. Happiness is a Warm Gun
2. I'm Only Sleeping
3.Cry Baby Cry
4.Dear Prudence
5.Michelle
Worst:
1. While My Guitar Gently Weeps (I'm honestly not doing this to be contrarian. I detest that hideous octave on the piano in the beginning to no end, and Clapton's playing is boring.
2. Glass Onion
3. Come Together
4. I Want To Tell You
5. Run For Your Life
As you may have guessed, I'm rather partial to The White Album. It's definitely rather spotty, but I think it has some of their greatest songs on it. I didn't have space to include "Julia" or "I'm So Tired," but those would certainly be included in a longer list.
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Everything before Revolver was merely practice.
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Incorrect, sir.
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"Everything before Revolver merely perfect"
/fixed
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"For No One (this song is amazing and underrated)"
so true. glad im not the only one who thinks so. i never hear it on the radio or see it on lists like these, which is unfortunate because the lyrics and instrumentation are exquisite.
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Is EW trying to piss us off?! You can't just narrow Beatles songs to a small list and claim them to be the best! Everything written by the Beatles is worthy of being regarded as the best music ever released. Sad for me to state the obvious but even those you mentioned as being the worst are actually ten times better than anything popular in 2009. I don't plan to buy into this new rock-band video-game but I like the ad campaign going on now mainly because it serves as a reminder of how incredible the Beatles are.
I could care less what EW "writes", I force myself to "read" you when I'm at my dentist. NEXT!
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So they reissue the albums with no bonus tracks and make a Rock Band game for them...so this therefore means "The Beatles invade again"?
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As for worst song, where the heck is Mr. Moonlight? It's a cover and an awful one.
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the whole list
50 "All You Need Is Love"
49 "I'm So Tired"
48 "Here Comes The Sun"
47 "Helter Skelter"
46 "Ticket To Ride"
45 "Lovely Rita"
44 "Come Together"
43 "I Want To Hold Your Hand"
42 "I'm Down"
41 "Day Tripper"
40 "With a Little Help From My Friends"
39 "Taxman"
38 "You Won't See Me"
37 "She Said She Said"
36 "Dear Prudence"
35 "Nowhere Man"
34 "I've Got a Feeling"
33 "I Should Have Known Better"
32 "I Am The Walrus"
31 "All My Loving"
30 "I Want You (She's So Heavy)"
29 "I Saw Her Standing There"
28 "Rain"
27 "Happiness Is A Warm Gun"
26 "Paperback Writer"
25 "I'm A Loser"
24 "I'm Only Sleeping"
23 "We Can Work It Out"
22 "If I Fell"
21 "Revolution" (single version)
20 "Can't Buy Me Love"
19 "Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End"
18 "Blackbird"
17 "You've Got to Hide Your Love"
16 "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
15 "In My Life"
14 "Hey Jude"
13 "Help"
12 "Penny Lane"
11 "Eleanor Rigby"
10 "Across The Universe"
09 "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)"
08 "Tomorrow Never Knows"
07 "Let It Be"
06 "She Loves You"
05 "Something"
04 "Strawberry Fields Forever"
03 "Yesterday"
02 "A Day in the Life"
01 "A Hard Day's Night"
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First of all "All You Need is Love" is in no way shape or form the Beatles worst song. Actually it's quite good. And it baffles me that a piece like Wild Honey Pie consistently shows up on Worst Beatles "Songs" lists despite the fact that it is basically a skit, a throwaway that Paul threw on the album just because he thought it was funny. That's like saying Eminem's worst song is Ken Kaniff.
Also Hard Day's Night has a great opening chord but is musically and lyrically so far inferior to either a Day in the Life or Strawberry Fields Forever that its placement at number one almost instantly invalidates this list.
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Rain should be #1!
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MY TOP 5
5) Margarine Man
4) Love Is In You
3) Humboldt Bee
2) Take Me Away
1) Hand Job
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Never been a fan of Old Brown Shoe.
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Octopus's Garden!
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Why is "All You Need Is Love" the 50th best song, but also the worst song? I'm pretty sure the Beatles had more than 50 songs!
I'd say the worst Beatles song is "Mr. Moonlight", and while I don't want to spend all day bickering about what great cuts didn't make it, I think it's a crime that "Get Back", "Because" and "Twist and Shout" didn't get a mention.
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Wait. "All You Need Is Love" is both the 50th best song... and the #1 worst song?
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I listed my top 50 a while ago on another site in random order. I think it's appropriate I list it here as well:
Strawberry Fields Forever
A Day in the Life
With a Little Help From My Friends
Let It Be
The Long and Winding Road
Please Please Me
Get Back
Don't Let Me Down
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
In My Life
Eleanor Rigby
Nowhere Man
I Should Have Known Better
Think for Yourself
Paperback Writer
Rain
Day Tripper
Dear Prudence
Hey Jude
Revolution/Revolution 1
Helter Skelter
Mother Nature's Son
Something
Happiness is a Warm Gun
I'm So Tired
And I Love Her
I'll Be Back
What You're Doing
You Like Me Too Much
You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
I've Just Seen a Face
It's Only Love
Help!
Drive My Car
She Said She Said
I Want to Tell You
Got to Get You Into My Life
I Feel Fine
I'm Down
The Inner Light
I've Got a Feeling
Dig a Pony
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Revolution 9
Oh! Darling
Come Together
You Never Give Me Your Money
Across the Universe
Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End (counting it as one song)
It's All Too Much
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I heard Little Steven say "Help" was his favorite Beatles album recently...that's an incredibly bold thing to say where I come from...but then I thought about it and it made perfect sense...
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fuck lists.
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No self-respecting Beatles fan would give this list the time of day. There is no "bad" Beatles song.
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Golden Slumbers has always been my all-time favorite Beatles song.
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The production is almost always perfect... which is really amazing when you think about it...but then they were also geniuses at getting the whole feel across in those demos...not to mention always entertaining madlibbing "dig it" and "wild honeypie" are interludes not songs...
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All You Need is Love does have one of the worst recorded guitar solos of all time so maybe that's why they put it there
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yo I call bullshit, Flying is sick
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There are no bad beatles songs!!!
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Of course "Long Long Long" is missing from the best list. Gorgeous.
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I don't care which songs EW likes or doesn't like, BUT for the reasons they give(here followed by a Lennon quote re another song he wrote) maybe they picked the wrong song...
"distress call" - "Subconsciously(?), I was crying out for help."
"unwitting passengers on a manic locomotive" - "I didn't realize it at the time; I just wrote the song because I was commissioned to write it"
"it's a cathartic cry for(DUH?)
Help!"
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I'm a diehard fan so its very hard for me to dislike any of their songs but I've never cared very much for Get Back. And I've always thought Sgt. Pepper would've been THE GREATEST ALBUM EVER if Within You Without You had been deleted & replaced with Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane.
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I like "Bungalow Bill" personally...though in all seriousness I think "I'm Only Sleeping" and "Because" are what do it for me. agreed "kidacomputerok"
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I'm glad they put A Day In the Life as #2 though, but why A Hard Days Night? Its my old high school counselors ringtone...
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I don't know about this but I think I like all the beatles song...
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yeah, i can't say i could make my own best beatles song list.... but i do have my favorites like strawberry fields forever, hellogoodbye, because, yellow submarine, and of course michelle, cause thats my name and i was named after it lol and a lot mooorreeeee
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My fave Monkees songs
1. Listen To The Band
2. The Porpoise Song
3. What Am I Doin' Hangin' Round?
4. Pleasant Valley Sunday
5. Randy Scouse Git
6. Angel Band
7. Words
8. Goin' Down
9. (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone
10. Star Collector
11. Early Morning Blues And Greens
12. You Just May Be The One
13. Last Train To Clarkesville
14. Can You Dig It?
15. The Door Into Summer
16. Riu Chiu
17. Daydream Believer
18. Dont Call On Me
19. Circle Sky
20. Take A Giant Step
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wrong...there were 5, 6/7/8 (golden slumbers/carry that weight/the end) songs from abbey road on this list.
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HELLOGOODBYE! why is it not on there? Oh well, I figured Hard Day's Night would be #1.... too bad I am probably the only Beatles fans who enjoys Blue Jay Way, which I believe was written by Harrison.
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I like For You Blue and I, Me, Mine by GH too. Truth be told I could listen to the Beatles until I took my last breath, any and all Beatles!
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I have recently fallen in love with the song "Two of Us" and can't believe it hasn't been mentioned anywhere. Sure it is no "Happiness", "Strawberry Fields", "Eleanor Rigby", "Tomorrow Never Knows", or "A Day in the Life", but it has great lyrics and and shows how Paul and John can do so much with so little. I think it is in their top 50. It is such a simple song that anyone could identify with.
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Long, Long, Long and It's All Too Much should be on the list.
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1. Love to you
2. and your bird can sing
That is all
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For the love of God enough with the "mystery" chord, its not a mystery, any decent guitar player can figure it out. (Low to high) FAGECG, hold the low "F" with your thumb, make sure you're hitting all 6 strings and give it a good schwing preferably on a Richenbacher 12. Then proceed to the G chord (with the high D) and for the chorus hold the high G with each of the G, C and F chords, "but when I get home to you" do not hold the high D on the C and D chords. Bridge is Bm to Em to Bm, then Bm to G to Em to C to D then back to chorus as above.
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Correction: FADACG
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There is no way "A Hard Day's Night" is better than "Strawberry Fields Forever !"
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www.mybeatleslist.com
check it. my dad's website
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Come on. "I Want You (She's so Heavy)" #30. Lame. And nothing else from Abbey Road. Poor, poor list.
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Uhhh...HELLO?!? 'Here Comes the Sun' and 'Something' are both also from Abbey Road.
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THIS LIST IS CRAP. Wild Honey Pie has one of the best guitar solos I've ever heard (at the very end). And George Harrison didn't even want to include it in the song, because he was goofing around with it, and didn't take it seriously. GOOFING AROUND! COME ON, PEOPLE! Entertainment Weekly needs to seriously re-evaluate their editors. Helter Skelter and Here Comes The Sun at the bottom of the list? MORONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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This is a hits list.
There are many people on this site with awesome musical tastes that will have varying reasons why other songs should be in differing place of such numbers. Either way, look at the source. It's a conglomerate magazine, preaching nothing other than the antithesis of what true artists appreciate in music. Hits or not.
That being said, I wish, at any number, Rocky Raccoon made it. What is wrong with music today?
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It's official. The people who now consider themselves the Beatles' number one fans are the very people who would have hated the band and all they stood for when they first came out.
Like Elvis, the danger and true drama of the music has been watered down and paved over and turned into an aural pacifier so the toothless brainless masses can shop most happily. The humans from Wall-E are all no doubt big Beatles fans.
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And let me guess, Kevin Burton Smith, you're not?
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third on "for no one" deserving to be in the top 10 (and certainly in the top 50).
dear prudence should probably also be a little higher than 38.
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I'm a mega fan, but for me listing the 5 worst Beatles songs is liking listing the 5 worst colors. Yeah, you might have some that are not your particular favorites, but that's like your opinion man. I've been a Beatles fanatic since I was nine and the Beatles Anthology came on tv. My music tastes have been over the map since then, except for the unwavering love of the Beatles. If I was jumping in time like the folks on Lost, Abbey Road would probably be my constant. Just for the hell of it here are five Beatles songs that I would maybe label my favorite.
Abbey Road Side B (You Never Give Me Your Money to Her Majesty, It's cheating, I know, but I refuse to consider anything on this side out of context of the entire suite.)
Hey Jude
A Day in the Life
Let It Be
I Am the Walrus
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Haven't they made enough money?
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They had made enough money before the 60's were even over, BRAH.
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Has anyone noticed that Stereogum has REALLY killed off comment rating by making you sign in? Nothing but tons of of 0's on every post.
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What about "You're gonna lose that girl"? This list sucks.
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The first poster, Bob, is right. We should not discuss the merits of the list because it is music. That is all it is. Each song has it's own merit to everyone, for one reason or another. There is no definite answer to this "list" as is obvious. I understand the purpose of debate but I could make my own list and could conjure up a debate of my own without the aid of a huge magazine name. There are an infinite amount of things to be said about the Beatles and their music and to put a list together of what are their best songs only serves that point. Everyone has their own opinion on the band but like Zappa said "writing about music is like dancing about architecture".
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Revenge of the Sith sucked!!!
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I don't see "No Reply" in the Top 50. It's my favourite :/
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not that EW's opinion on anything is worth a damn, but no "love you too"? really? maybe they forgot Revolver was even an album. it happens to those who know nothing about music.
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?!?!?!?! All you Need is Love DOES NOT belong on worst songs.
I can't believe they even had a worst song list for the Beatles in the first place. But the fact that All you Need is Love is quite honestly bullshit.
What was this worst song list generated from a scrambler?! Just doesn't make sense at all.
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You know what would be funny? If the Beatles had penises
Don't Let Me Down is a good song
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ok, so this list is terrible. first of all, i don't know about you guys, but george is my favorite beatle, and he isn't on the cover. Hard day's night is a good song, but not even top 10 material in my opinion, not because its "bad" but the beatles have so many AMAZING songs. my top 10 favorite (in no order because that is impossible) are... Sgt Peppers/With A Little Help From My Friends, Something, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, I Want To Hold Your Hand, Dear Prudence, Girl, Within You Without You, Rocky Racoon, and Here Comes the Sun. That's 9, because the only "ordered" one is my overall favorite, "In My Life" off of Rubber Soul.
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we all do list our favorites?
top ten: things we said today, help, here there and everywhere, fixing a hole, getting better, all my loving, i feel fine, i want to hold your hand, long long long, i need you.
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This list is seriously gay.
And am I the only one to notice that 'All You Need is Love' is on both the best AND the worst list? You can't put the same song on both list you idiots. Besides I happen to really like that song.
Also why the hell is 'Hello Goodbye' not on the best list?! And what about 'Hey Jude'?! I don't know what the people at EW are smoking but they obviously need to stop especially when they can't even generate a decent list. This list was a HUGE waste of paper and ink.
Not only that I agree that all four of the members should be on there. I don't care that McCartney and Lennon wrote most of the songs. There are FOUR members of the Beatles, not two and its about ALL of them so it only makes sense to have a picture of all of them. Its not hard to find a picture with all of them in it.
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Flying....worst beatles song ever? Why is that? Because there is no singing? Has anyone listened to the guitar parts on that song....they are AWESOME!! Don't Pass Me By and Dig it are bad songs too? There must be something wrong with me...cause those are great songs as well! I love Paul, but unfortunately two of his songs, one surprisingly is in the top three of the best list...but I'm sorry....Yesterday and The Long and Winding Road, would top my worst of list.
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This is the worst shitty list ever made. The people that wrote this garbage clearly have no clue what The Beatles were or wrote. And there can't possibly a "worst list".
Even the front cover is all wrong, though I like the picture, it doesn't represent The Beatles. Where is George and Ringo? They wrote songs too.
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There is no worst song list by the Beatles they are all classics,like the class band they are and all you Nit-Tit-Wits that are running them down truly are not fans of the four greatest.You all missed one song Babys in Black,lets have your sick opinion on this one.
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This is one of the worsts "Best of The Beatles" list I've ever seen. "Let It Be" and "Yesterday" have been way overrated. What does "Let it Be" accomplish that "Hey Jude" already doesn't? What does Paul McCartney's cry in "Yesterday" accomplish that John Lennon's dreamy, haunting farewell in "Julia" doesn't accomplish more?
And "All You Need is Love" as their worst are you KIDDING ME?! That's one of their best songs. I'd like to see them try to make a pop song in 7/4 time and have it sound awesome. They must have something against love to rank it that low.
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my top 10 best Beatles songs:
1. A Day in the Life
2. Hey Jude
3. All You Need is Love
4. In My Life
5. Strawberry Fields Forever
6. I Am the Walrus
7. Tomorrow Never Knows
8. Dear Prudence
9. The End
10. I Want to Hold Your Hand
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all you need is love is easily a top 10 and don't pass me by is easily a top 25
revolution 9 should be the worst song despite not being a song really (It still shouldn't even have been released)
also, switch 1 and 2 on the best list please
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How can "All You Need is Love" be on both lists?
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