beatles songs which are actually quite good

[bluestreak]

I agree. We seem to have the old 'I don't like them therfore they're rubbish' thing going on here.

Or possibly the "I like them therefore they must be good" thing?

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Rain
Helter Skelter
And Your Bird can sing
Happiness is a warm gun
I'm a Loser
Baby's in Black
Misery
Paperback Writer
Day Tripper
The entire B side of Abbey Road (apart from Her Majesty)
Long Long Long
I should have known Better
You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
There's a Place
Only a Northern Song
Taxman
Dr Robert

 

[Andrew Hertford]

Or possibly the "I like them therefore they must be good" thing?

True, but in this case I like them and they are good.

 

[rikwakefield]

Revolution

 

[TheDave]

The one on abbey road with the big long outro with the great riff and then it suddenly stops. That's a great tune.

That's I Want You (She's So Heavy)

You're right it is a great tune.

 

[clandestino]

I like the early rock'n'roll and pop stuff, am less keen on sgt pepper/white album and so on. i used to think rubber soul was their finest moment, but the rot might have set in even by then. they certainly managed to sneak in at least one dreadful song per album, usually courtesy of mccartney.

 

[rutabowa]

They've done lots of good songs in my opinion.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

They've done lots of good songs in my opinion.

Lots!

It's hip to slag them

 

[Knotted]

The Beatles generally bore me - even their apparently brilliant songs like Yesterday and Elanor Rigby - but I can listen to When I'm 64 again and again. Its just perfect. They should at least be credited with using an orchestra in pop in both an imaginative and tasteful way. How often does that happen?

 

[clandestino]

They've done lots of good songs in my opinion.

I agree.

But Yesterday is surely one of their worst songs?

 

[rutabowa]

I agree.

But Yesterday is surely one of their worst songs?

urgh yeah that song is puke!
however it is quite memorable and catchy, i couldn't say "it's a shit song" really, just like i wouldn't say "power of love" was a shit song.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

urgh yeah that song is puke!
however it is quite memorable and catchy, i couldn't say "it's a shit song" really, just like i wouldn't say "power of love" was a shit song.

Yesterday is just over done and over familiar, like Hey Jude, Long and Winding Road, In My Life etc..

Nothing actually wrong with them, there's just too much of them.

 

[rutabowa]

they're a bit cheesy though, not to my taste. there is loads of other stuff though.

 

[poului]

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A few scattered over their career.

Hard Day's Night
And I Love Her
You Won't See Me
In My Life
Here There & Everywhere
She Said She Said
Tomorrow Never Knows
With a Little Help from my Friends
Penny Lane
The Fool on the Hill
Dear Prudence
Mother Nature's Son
Something
You Never Give me Your Money
Across the Universe


15 songs. That good enough for a compilation?

 

[damnhippie]

'it's only love' is good.

oh and who tagged this thread with 'dogging'?

 

[clandestino]

I thought I was generally a Beatles fan but this thread - or rather the choices on this thread - are making me realise how many dreadful songs they were responsible for. No wonder Urban thinks the Beatles are shite if you collectively pick their worst songs as their best.

Bad Beatles:

Fool On The Hill - sickly
Yesterday - sickly
Michelle - sickly
Come Together - stodgy pub rock
Rain - so forced

 

[Knotted]

urgh yeah that song is puke!
however it is quite memorable and catchy, i couldn't say "it's a shit song" really, just like i wouldn't say "power of love" was a shit song.

The problem with Yesterday is the lyrics. It should be played by brass bands. Its by far the best tune they wrote IMO. Brilliant puke.

 

[electrogirl]

I like Michelle.

It was meant to be a comedy song aparently, but they ended up playing it straight so it just ended up naff.

 

[Dillinger4]

You know several Beatles fact. More than the average human.

 

[electrogirl]

I know, I got a bit obsessed with the 60's in general for a while and The Beatles were part of that.

Actually I watched A Hard Days Night the other day again. I still like it.

 

[the button]

The one on abbey road with the big long outro with the great riff and then it suddenly stops. That's a great tune.

Happiness is a warm gun? The Breeders did a cover of that, IIRC.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Rain - so forced

Yet it gave the Stone Roses enough to rip off for every song on their first album

 

[electrogirl]

Across the Universe is pretty too. I don't think the production on Let it Be did it any justice.

 

[Sir Belchalot]

Sexy Sadie, I'm Only Sleeping, I'm So Tired & She Said She Said for me.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

I'm So Tired

Good choice!

 

[killer b]

Lots!

It's hip to slag them

oh yawn. take this miserable argument to all those other beatles threads...

anyway, i wasn't slagging them. this is a thread about their good songs.

 

[Geri]

I like Michelle.

It was meant to be a comedy song aparently, but they ended up playing it straight so it just ended up naff.

It's not fucking naff! Fuck off.

 

[electrogirl]

It's not fucking naff! Fuck off.

I like it! It is naff though. Frenchy lyrics!

 

[Orang Utan]

It's horrible

 

[clandestino]

I know, I got a bit obsessed with the 60's in general for a while and The Beatles were part of that.

Actually I watched A Hard Days Night the other day again. I still like it.

So are you brimming with interesting 60s bands facts? Surely there's a thread in it if you are...!