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Also agree that The Long and winding road is one of the best  Beatles songs ever.. each to their own though.  I think although the Beatles did some amazing stuff and I love them there were a few turkeys... Hello Goodbye was lyrically shoite imo, and I am the walrus, octopuses garden, come together, back in the ussr.  A few that people have already out funnily enough.  There are many many many more that I love though!  

FM
Interesting! I can remember seeing "please, please me!" in the local record shop and hoping that someone would buy it for me. Subsequently I bought the lot! Most of the albums deserve to be listened to right the way through, including the masterpieces, MMT, SPLHCB, AB, and the so called White Album. I find it difficult to knock any track on any of these. At the end they were struggling and I found the songs "Let it Be!" and "the long and Winding Road" a bit isolated and crap tbh.
Garage Joe
Originally Posted by Garage Joe:
At the end they were struggling and I found the songs "Let it Be!" and "the long and Winding Road" a bit isolated and crap tbh.

IIRC, the NME described "Let it be" at the time as "a good half-album". There was a lot of filler there, which would probably be on my list of worst Beatles songs.


However, have you heard "Let it be... Naked"? Dreadful title, but very interesting album.

Basically, the Beatles had never been happy with how the album turned out, and the Phil Spector arrangement of the title track particularly rankled with Paul McCartney. "Let it be... Naked" was a "Take 2": the track list was re-arranged with most of the "filler" dropped; the Lennon song "Don't let me down" was brought back in; and the OTT Spector arrangements were redone. "The long and winding road" and "Let it be" in particular are stripped right down, with the latter sounding more like it belongs in a church than ever before...

Eugene's Lair
Originally Posted by Garage Joe:
Strictly speaking "with a little help from m' friends!" turned out to be one of their better songs. Step forward our very own Joe Cocker. A better vershum than Billy Shears IMO. Woodstock and all that!

Yeah, Joe Cocker, an' all that aside....The Beatles version with Ropey Ringo on vocals was a howler.

Cosmopolitan

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