Your top 5 most hated Beatles songs (revisited)

[bettyrocker01]

Doubt it's drug induced. It was written by Lennon. When you take into account his sense of humor,it starts to make it more clear.

The way I heard it was it was based on John's son Julian's drawing of his friend Lucy

[EmergencyIan]

I love the Beatles and don't hate any of their songs. However, some of their songs that are obscure are so for good reason.

- Ian

[huedell]

This is one of my top five songs of all time, by any band.

I agree (about "I'm Looking Through You").
It really rocks... especially the chorus with the jarring non-lyric bit that follows it.

[huedell]

Heard it over the weekend and had to add it to the list; "Lucy in the sky with diamonds". If it is not a drug influenced / related song after all, then it is utterly stupid and pointless.

I guess that translates into that you prefer all your lyrics to have a point? That's cool.

But to me, it's all about melody hooks that I like... and lyrics that sound interesting me. I can't stand clichés in lyrics and would prefer nonsense to "Why can't this be love... yada yada"... and Lucy, along w/all the other material were never involved in clichés past the moptop phase AFAIC. But their moptop stuff still had a LOT of positives anyways cause they were GREAT with the melody hooks from the start.

Lucy is one of my favorite Beatles songs because it has the requisite non-cliché lyrics and hooky melodies... but I also think it conjures a dreamy mood that I enjoy every time I hear it (the Beatles Sgt. Pepper's version, at least).

[Iron Mego]

Lucy is not necessarily drug-induced, but rather drug-inspired. It is well known that by this time they had experimented with LSD and smoked plenty of marijuana. Julian drew the picture of "Lucy in the sky with diamonds," at school, and that inspired the song. Lennon was very much into concrete and non-sense poetry (like Carroll's Jabberwocky) and many of his later songs are simply lyrical experiments with no "real" meaning. I am the Walrus is another example of this.

[ctc]

Snopes to the rescue:

http://www.snopes.com/music/hidden/lucysky.asp

Don C.

[Mikey]

Actually, I always thought Sgt Pepper (the album) was a bit over rated.

It's a great album imo, but not the 60's best.

The individual songs are mostly forgetable throwaways

Now Abbey Road, that's a thing of beauty

[huedell]

Actually, I always thought Sgt Pepper (the album) was a bit over rated.

It's a great album imo, but not the 60's best.

The individual songs are mostly forgetable throwaways

This seems to be a modern common consensus... on the Internet anyway.

To me, Sgt. Pepper's is not really packed with the super-songwriting power of albums like RUBBER SOUL or REVOLVER.

It's still my favorite Beatles album... and probably a lot of that is because of the overall studio vibe... not the songwriting (that although a bit lacking is still a "Beatles-level" type of awesome... which leaves 99 percent of other band's albums in the dust).

And when McCartney tries to shake up his current setlist, he does so with "Mr. Kite".... throwaway or not... he played it on the talkshow circuit and I imagine there'd never be a time where I could conceive doubting his choice. The weaker songs on Pepper's have just been too elevated for me (and many others, I believe) at this point.

Now Abbey Road, that's a thing of beauty

Great album. And much more packed with tight tunes than Pepper's, and an awesomely clever medley finale to boot. But, in the end, it's "focus" is the very thing that is it's downfall for me when I'm comparing it to Pepper's. Abbey Road seems a bit too "smooth" for me to put it ahead of Pepper's.

[MIB41]

^^^ How many people had that blank look on their face, when Frampton and the Bee Gees released Sgt. Peppers in 1978? I couldn't believe it.

[Iron Mego]

"And when McCartney tries to shake up his current setlist, he does so with "Mr. Kite"."

He does? That's not even his song.

[Mikey]

IMO the only REAL songs in Sgt Pepper is ...

Help Friends
Lucy
64
Day Life

everything else is filler

If they would have put Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields on Pepper it would have been a different story

[huedell]

"And when McCartney tries to shake up his current setlist, he does so with "Mr. Kite"."

He does? That's not even his song.

????

He's been doing such things for years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlceSFER7gU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIHgslfYDpA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM0mGH1UITQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXOdkzog3j4

[huedell]

IMO the only REAL songs in Sgt Pepper is ...

Help Friends
Lucy
64
Day Life

everything else is filler

If they would have put Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields on Pepper it would have been a different story

It would've sucked for me because for me Pepper's holds it own while the hodgepodge that is the US version of MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR is that much better because of FIELDS and LANE.

Who knows WHAT would've been in place of the U.S. MMT if FIELDS/LANE were never left off PEPPER'S? Maybe absolutely nothing. But now MMT is kind of a classic album in itself.

[TMANSTOYS]

Only like 1 or 2 Beatles songs. Don't hate the rest but rather not listen to them.

[Mikey]

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