Worst Beatles song, etc.

I'm a much, much, much bigger Beatles fan than Stones, but I don't think I would ever grow tired of Satisfaction.

 

Agree wholeheartedly with spnited
There is no "worst Beatles' song"

Greatest band, with the most lasting impression, of all time.
Period.

But since you asked, Revolution No. 9 is pretty bad.
That's the only one by the group that I can remember as being such.

.. the watuzi, the twist ...

hard to see how this passed as a song
Only the Beatles could have pulled it off.

 

I bet I'm older than you so I've been listening to it since it was first released.

Don't get me wrong--it's one of the greatest rock songs ever--but as they say, familiarity breeds contemp.

 

Revolution No. 9.
Unless you don't consider it a song at all, which is arguable.

 

I can't believe 'I Dig a Pony' was mentioned in this context.
Absolutely my favorite Beatles song.

 

Not "I Dig A Pygmy" by Charles Haughtry and the Deaf-Aids?

 

The Jam had a kick-ass cover of Rain that's on the massive boxed set of Everything Ever Recorded By The Jam that I recently bought.

 

Oh, dirty Maggie May
They have taken her away
And she never walked down Lime Street any more

 

And it begins horribly ... off-key, insipid lyrics ... terrible song.

 

Paperback Writer remains my favorite Beatles song.
Great bass work, kickass guitar, and a lyric that Ray Davies could have written.

 

"The Long and Winding Road" is Paul's attempt to rewrite "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" and his own "Hey Jude" (granted "BOTW" was itself a stylistic takeoff of "Jude,") so in the end, it seemed fuzzy and unfocused, like a third-generation Xerox copy (in addition to being swamped under all the Phil Spector kitchen-sink overproduction).

Although, in the "Naked" version, with all the Spector tabernacle choirs and marching bands stripped away, it does sound a thousand percent better.

 

Those 30-second tracks of the Fab Four talking back and forth in the studio on "Anthology" are pretty worthless.

As for actual album tracks, I'll go with "Michelle" and "Ob La Di, Ob La Da."