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fendertele
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just wondering what songs of the Beatles you can't listen to, skip when it comes on or that just plain bores you, but others favor hugely?

for me i cant listen to these songs or tend to skip them quite a lot


A hard days night ( i always skip this when im listening to a hard days night)
yesterday ( just heard so much growing up on radio or tv and just does nothing for me now )
Norwegian wood
in my life ( apart from the nice intro i find it very overrated )
im only sleeping (yawn)
Taxman
lucy in the sky with diamonds
a day in the life
while my guitar gently weeps
let it be ( the worst offender for me, never listen to it )
something (nice bass work and drum work)
across the universe




so what songs dont do it for you ?


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Most of George's, with the exception of Taxman, Here Comes The Sun and Something
Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite
The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill
Revolution #1
Octopus's Garden
Maxwell's Silver Hammer
Let It Be
One After 909
Roll Over Beethoven
Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby
Run For Your Life
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fendertele
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Quoted from Bobber
Most of George's, with the exception of Taxman, Here Comes The Sun and Something
Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite
The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill
Revolution #1
Octopus's Garden
Maxwell's Silver Hammer
Let It Be
One After 909
Roll Over Beethoven
Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby
Run For Your Life


i also skip a lot of harrisons songs with the exception of blue jay way and its all too much.


also have you got any songs that you skip that would be in a lot of top tens for greatest beatles songs ? like let it be, hey jude, i am the walrus or are most of the ones you would skip be lesser known ?


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I skip Let It Be, sometimes Love Me Do, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, The Ballad Of John And Yoko and sometimes Come Together. These are songs I don't care about too much, but are pretty well known.
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"Helter Skelter." It's a noisy prank of a song that's hardly worth all the airplay it gets over here. Jokes get tired when they're repeated too often.
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Quoted from Bobber
I skip Let It Be, sometimes Love Me Do, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, The Ballad Of John And Yoko and sometimes Come Together. These are songs I don't care about too much, but are pretty well known.


i never listen to while my guitar gently weeps and also have a  disliking for come together


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a day in the life bores me to death. although i like paul's part and the ahhs after that.
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While My Guitar Gently Weeps - Way to long and boring
Strawberry Fields Forever - This song bores me too. Dont know why but it does. Its always skipped.
Lady Madonna - I hate this song
Get Back - Always gets skipped or turned off if its on the radio
All You Need Is Love - One of the most annoying songs ever
Long And Winding Road - This song has more fluff than a marshmellow factory
Dont Let Me Down - Never did anything for me
Across The Universe - Bores me to tears
Rock N Roll Music - Hate it
Twist And Shout - Its ok, but if I hear it again I might have to jam two railroad spikes in my ears


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Hmm...

The Long and Winding Road

Most others I like.  I mean there are some that I occasionally skip, but The Long and WInding Road I really dislike. I never listen to it.



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^^^wait, there are people that listen to that song???
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I read somewhere (and I can be wrong) that The Long and Winding Road was Paul's least favorite song.



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Quoted from HeatherBoo
I read somewhere (and I can be wrong) that The Long and Winding Road was Paul's least favorite song.


He didn't like what Spector did with it. The orchestra and women's vocals. Other than that, I'm sure he thinks it's brilliant. I like how John called it his "last gasp." I think he was a little off in that presumption though. As usual.


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I can't believe some of the songs people skip over! I'm shocked. And stunned. Shocked and stunned.


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This is what Paul originally had in mind for "The Long and Winding Road." I really like this version myself. There's a different take (or at least mix) on Anthology 3.

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Quoted from tkitna

Rock N Roll Music - Hate it


Yeah, I forgot about that one. A certain skip.
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Quoted from Geoff
This is what Paul originally had in mind for "The Long and Winding Road." I really like this version myself. There's a different take (or at least mix) on Anthology 3.



Different take on Ath 3, and my personal favourite. This is the version on 'Naked' isn't it? Can't stand Billy's solo.

Anyway, back to the subject at hand:

Michelle
Yesterday (Overplayed and overrated)
Don't Bother Me (Not difficult to see why George didn't get much of a look in)
A Taste of Honey
Dig a Pony (John has no right to critisise Paul if this is the best he can come up with)
Got to Get You Into My Life (Because it just doesn't fit)
Honey Pie
Octopus's Garden
Maxwell's Silver Hammer
Savoy Truffle
Till There Was You


I just want you to reassure him - talk to him, make him see the error of his ways. Then I'll hit him.
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'Mr. Moonlight'

Greasy and maudlin. Unworthy to be part of the legacy.





'...In the name of Preverti, daughter of the mountains, whose embrace with Rani made the whole world tremble...'
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Quoted from Klang

'Mr. Moonlight'

Greasy and maudlin. Unworthy to be part of the legacy.





I left it off because of the great vocal.


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Quoted from Sandra
I can't believe some of the songs people skip over! I'm shocked. And stunned. Shocked and stunned.


very stunned!  

well i never skip any beatle tracks to be honest, the only one i usually skip is Revolution #9  




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I left it off because of the great vocal.


Agreed. Nice lead and harmonies, but still a cheesy number. Sorry, Boys.





'...In the name of Preverti, daughter of the mountains, whose embrace with Rani made the whole world tremble...'
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Can't stand Billy's solo.


Yeah, doesn't work. His keyboards are mixed too far forward on the Naked version of "I've Got a Feeling," too: Spector was quite right to bury them, in my opinion.

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Quoted from Geoff


Yeah, doesn't work. His keyboards are mixed too far forward on the Naked version of "I've Got a Feeling," too: Spector was quite right to bury them, in my opinion.



Yes. Billy was a great musician, but his keys sound terrible on that song. It's just one of the many reasons I don't like 'Naked'.


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Quoted from Geoff
"Helter Skelter." It's a noisy prank of a song that's hardly worth all the airplay it gets over here. Jokes get tired when they're repeated too often.


i think it is a good song, but the mix of it is all wrong btu then again it was one of the first hard rock songs and George probably hadn't encountered something so heavy before.

guitars to quiet, vocals to loud and all you can hear is drum and bass.


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i think it is a good song, but the mix of it is all wrong btu then again it was one of the first hard rock songs and George probably hadn't encountered something so heavy before.

guitars to quiet, vocals to loud and all you can hear is drum and bass.


So they invented Drum 'n' Bass!


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i think it is a good song, but the mix of it is all wrong btu then again it was one of the first hard rock songs and George probably hadn't encountered something so heavy before.

guitars to quiet, vocals to loud and all you can hear is drum and bass.


I think Paul was sending up the then new hard rock/heavy metal idiom in much the way he sent up C & W with "Rocky Raccoon." I don't hate it actually, I just think it gets played too much and taken too seriously for what it is over here. People don't see that it's really a parody- which, of course, is funny in itself, too: but I've laughed at the joke often enough.

But I take your point about a remix, though: might be interesting.  
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So they invented Drum 'n' Bass!


yeah i think ive said it before my mate who isnt really a big beatles fan pointed it out that the beatles were drum and bass and vocals.

the guitars are always really quiet in the mix with the bass and drums right forward lol


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Blimey quite a lot of songs get skipped I only really dislike " The Long And Winding Road "


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the only thing i dislike about The Long & Winding Road is the orchestra.
i prefer the Naked version or the one on Anthology 3 myself.



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Blue jay way
A day in the life
Don't pass me by

Blue jay way and A day in the life are creepy, and Don't pass me by is just annoying to me.




  
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Quoted from freakchic9
Blue jay way
A day in the life
Don't pass me by

Blue jay way and A day in the life are creepy, and Don't pass me by is just annoying to me.


I love Don't Pass Me By. Anything with this lyric has got to be good:

I'm sorry that I doubted you
I was so unfair
You were in a car crash
And you lost your hair


Priceless.


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good topic

While I don't really dislike the song that much, Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds is my least favorite song on Sgt. Pepper's.

another song that I don't really dislike but will never understand why so many people love it is Here Comes The Sun.

Hello Goodbye is a song I used to hate because it's a bit cheesy (the lyrics in particular) but lately I have come around to the idea that it's just a fun, bouncy song with some pretty good riffs....but I still usually skip it.

I dislike several of John's popular pre-Rubber Soul songs including No Reply, I'm a Loser, If I Fell, and I'm Happy Just To Dance With You


It's great...it sold...it's the bloody Beatles' White Album, shut up
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I skip a lot of George when he started getting into western music. Mostly on Revolver.
I think the songs I skip depend on what kind of mood I'm in.
I know I do skip Dear Prudence every time, mostly slower songs of theirs with some exceptions, Yesterday, let it Be, ect.
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it just depends


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good topic

While I don't really dislike the song that much, Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds is my least favorite song on Sgt. Pepper's.

another song that I don't really dislike but will never understand why so many people love it is Here Comes The Sun.

Hello Goodbye is a song I used to hate because it's a bit cheesy (the lyrics in particular) but lately I have come around to the idea that it's just a fun, bouncy song with some pretty good riffs....but I still usually skip it.

I dislike several of John's popular pre-Rubber Soul songs including No Reply, I'm a Loser, If I Fell, and I'm Happy Just To Dance With You


oh iforgot about that one here comes the sun bores the &*^% out of me in the same way WMGW does.


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I realize this will make very unpopular, but I AM THE WALRUS. I hate it! It just grates on my nerves.

I'm not too keen on I Want You or Don't Let Me Down either.


You're so vain, you probably think this post is about you.
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Dudes, we're supposed to be listing popular songs that you don't like, not just songs you don't like. From what I know, A Taste of Honey is almost universally loathed and Dig a Pony is not too popular either.


You're so vain, you probably think this post is about you.
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I have to stop reading this thread. It gives me indigestion.  


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I have to agree though I am stunned at some of the answers.  But to each his own!  



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so why don't you have someone delete it?


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