In response to Rolling Stone Magazines Top 100 Beatles Tracks (insulted elsewhere) here are some of their less than great moments.
I know I said that the Beatles never wrote a bad song and that’s true IN CONTEXT. Out of context? Some of this shit is surreally lazy, it is like “Golden Throat” by the original artists.
1. Baby’s In Black – Lennon wrote this so Jagger could point to the moribund song of unrequited love and death and say, ‘hey “Paint It Black’ is better than that”.
2. What’s The New Mary Jane – I have no problem’s with Lennon’s avant garde bent, my problems are with THIS AVANT GARDE bent. I heard it decades ago on the Off White boot and thought the melody was non existence, the singing a squawk and the lyric rubbish.
3. She’s Leaving Home – The blueprint for McCartney’s unbelievably lachrymose solo career and one of the worst moments on the wildly overrated Sgt Pepper’s album.
4. ‘The Long And Winding Road’ And ‘Let It Be’ – Fathead Macca’s atrocious “naked” re-production should where his head was at. Paul thought his crap religious ballads were the centerpieces of Let It Be. They weren’t. they were the anchors that sunk the otherwise excellent album.
5. Blue Jay Way – I was making fun of Harrison’s sitar playing the other day -this awful, tuneless piece of eastern flavored bad trippiness is one reason why.
6. Octopus’s Garden – Sure, “Yellow Submarine” got by on charm and context, it was weighted on Revolver and it was written by the big boys. Starr’s attempt to repeat is abysmal: a horrible metaphor (under water, again). It’s like a nursery rhyme that neither nurseries nor rhymes.
7. Michelle – Easily the worst moment on Rubber Soul, the French sucks, the sentiments are stupid and the melody sticks like gum to your shoe.
8. Ob La Di Ob La Da – Unforgivable skaish nursery rhyme. Survives on the White album, dies outside of it.
9. Within You Without You – Let’s make it real single 1) Sgt Pepper’s was a dog saved by Lennon and a concept and 2) except for “Love You Too” every single one of Harrison’s eastern excursions was a disaster and none more so than this piece of intellectual vapidity.
10.Yesterday – The single worst song in the Beatles entire oeuvre. Unbearable dross with those fucking strings you want to stick down George Martin’s throat one by one. It destroyed McCartney ) . He never recovered from it. People say Yoko broke up the Beatles? Nah, “Yesterday” did. Lennon scorned it, accurately I might add, as sentimental trash and Macca read the worldwide fellatio performed by SERIOUS MUSIC WRITERS the world over and thought “hey, maybe I am a modern day Schubert”.