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re: What do you think is the most overrated song by The Beatles?

Posted on 10/22/17 at 8:56 pm to
Posted by LSU alum wannabe
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Posted on 10/22/17 at 8:56 pm to
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You need to put it in context.


Don't tell me what to do damn it!!

Posted by OceanMan
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Posted on 10/22/17 at 9:12 pm to
Long and winding road, Eleanor Rigby and a day in the life.

Think a lot of earlier stuff is underrated
Posted by Kafka
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Posted on 10/22/17 at 9:20 pm to
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Long and winding road, Eleanor Rigby and a day in the life
I have a curious fondness for "TLAWR". Even I have my sentimental side.
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Think a lot of earlier stuff is underrated
"She Loves You" is one of the greatest rock & roll records ever made
Posted by OceanMan
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Posted on 10/22/17 at 9:35 pm to
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I have a curious fondness for "TLAWR". Even I have my sentimental side.


I still like the songs I listed, they just aren't my favorite and I think all are on Beatles 1. So I take it that they are rated high. There are just a few songs of theirs I don't like at all, but wouldn't say they are many peoples favorites.

TLAWR I also don't just don't think it belongs on that album. Kind of messed up the flow. Sounds more like an Abbey Road song. A granny song.
Posted by OceanMan
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Posted on 10/22/17 at 9:37 pm to
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"She Loves You" is one of the greatest rock & roll records ever made


Actually the song I had in mind when I typed that. I think sometimes people limp all of their pre-rubber soul stuff together but there are some really high points in the early years
Posted by GreatLakesTiger24
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Posted on 10/22/17 at 9:59 pm to
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Think a lot of earlier stuff is underrated

i agree. i like a lot of the "teen heartthrob" stuff.

my answer is come together
Posted by Mizz-SEC
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Posted on 10/23/17 at 4:23 am to
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"She Loves You" is one of the greatest rock & roll records ever made


We've been singing this one in our garage band and when you hit that last note it's incredible.
Posted by Wtodd
Tampa, FL
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Posted on 10/23/17 at 7:55 am to
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Every one of them

This
Posted by hogcard1964
Illinois
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Posted on 10/23/17 at 8:10 am to
Overplayed-Hey Jude
Over-rated-The End Medley

However, the group never made a bad album. They were simply phenomenal and we'll never experience anything like them again.
Posted by maxxrajun70
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Posted on 10/23/17 at 8:45 am to
Every single song by the Beatles is god awful.

I would rather listen to as continuous loop of my dog barking.

Posted by parrotdr
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Posted on 10/23/17 at 10:38 am to
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"She Loves You" is one of the greatest rock & roll records ever made

We've been singing this one in our garage band and when you hit that last note it's incredible.


Even as a kid I thought the harmonies on that lingering note were one of the best sounds I'd heard in a song. From Wiki:

"George Martin, the Beatles' producer, questioned the validity of the major sixth chord that ends the song, an idea suggested by George Harrison.[16] "They sort of finished on this curious singing chord which was a major sixth, with George [Harrison] doing the sixth and the others doing the third and fifth in the chord. It was just like a Glenn Miller arrangement."[8] The device had also been used by country music-influenced artists in the 1950s.[13] McCartney later reflected: "We took it to George Martin and sang 'She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeeeeeaah ...' and that tight little sixth cluster we had at the end. George [Martin] said: 'It's very corny, I would never end on a sixth'. But we said 'It's such a great sound, it doesn't matter'".[6] The Beatles: Complete Scores shows only the notes D (the fifth) and E (the sixth) sung for the final chord,[17] while on the recording McCartney sang G (the root) as Harrison sang E and Lennon sang D.:"
Posted by Pettifogger
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Posted on 10/23/17 at 10:52 am to
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If I ever hear "Octopus' Garden" or "Yellow Submarine" again in my time on this earth someone's getting cut.



Don't put the opus that is Octopus in the same category

As for most overrated

Probably lucy, or long and winding road

Paperback writer is beloved and I don't really love it
Posted by Perfect Circle
S W Alabama
Member since Sep 2017
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Posted on 10/23/17 at 11:01 am to
Of the Beatles song that made the top ten, and this is purely subjective, Hey Jude and Let it Be are the only ones that make me change to another station.
Posted by DyeHardDylan
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Posted on 10/23/17 at 11:02 am to
All You Need is Love
Posted by litenin
Houston
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Posted on 10/23/17 at 1:27 pm to
I was going to also say Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.

There are about 5-10 songs that I think are overrated. There are also 25+ songs from The Beatles that I really love and aren't known very well by today's generation.

The Beatles were before my time but I'm amazed at how many songs they recorded in a fairly short amount of time.
Posted by Mizz-SEC
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Posted on 10/23/17 at 4:55 pm to
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Even as a kid I thought the harmonies on that lingering note were one of the best sounds I'd heard in a song.

From Wiki: "George Martin, the Beatles' producer, questioned the validity of the major sixth chord that ends the song, an idea suggested by George Harrison.[16] "They sort of finished on this curious singing chord which was a major sixth, with George [Harrison] doing the sixth and the others doing the third and fifth in the chord. It was just like a Glenn Miller arrangement."[8] The device had also been used by country music-influenced artists in the 1950s.[13] McCartney later reflected: "We took it to George Martin and sang 'She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeeeeeaah ...' and that tight little sixth cluster we had at the end. George [Martin] said: 'It's very corny, I would never end on a sixth'. But we said 'It's such a great sound, it doesn't matter'"


Interesting. When I was in Jr. High some college kids came and played Glenn Miller live in the gymnasium and the sound of those tight horn harmonies evoked similar chills up the spine. I had no clue what Big Band was, but I was instantly a fan. The power and vibrations of a true Wall Of Sound washing over you at 10 or 12 rows away was incredible.

What Geoege Martin failed to realize that George and the boys did was corny is only corny once you've experienced it. It was fresh and new to the generation they were playing to. Plus they had fresh young voices themselves, so what may have been old was still new.

Thanks for posting those comments.
This post was edited on 10/23/17 at 5:01 pm
Posted by GPTTiger61
washington dc
Member since Nov 2008
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Posted on 10/23/17 at 10:01 pm to
You hate fun
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
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Posted on 10/23/17 at 10:54 pm to
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You hate fun
"Eleanor Rigby" is a real party tune

all the kids play it on ski trips
Posted by Clint Torres
Member since Oct 2011
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Posted on 10/24/17 at 2:03 pm to
Hey Jude sucks and I'm a huge Beatles fan
Posted by Cdawg
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Posted on 10/24/17 at 2:16 pm to
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Even I have my sentimental side.


Haha, gay.
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