Underrated Beatles songs!

[TheBrazilianFly]

Yes, it's the counterthread! Anyway, list The Beatles songs that you feel are underrated. Here are mine: The Inner Light and Tomorrow Never Knows! I never see people talking about those songs, they are amazing! Sure they may not be as good as some of their classics like Come Together or Let It Be. But they're still amazing!


The Inner Light:
"The farther one travels
The less one knows
The less one really knows

Arrive without travelling
See all without looking
Do all without doing"


Tomorrow Never Knows:
"And ignorance and hate may mourn the dead
It is believing, it is believing"

 

[Zoots]

The Inner Light:
"The farther one travels
The less one knows
The less one really knows

Arrive without travelling
See all without looking
Do all without doing"

Tomorrow Never Knows, while an excellent song, is not exactly underrated I think... at least not among serious Beatles fans!

George Harrison's Old Brown Shoe is also severely underrated.

 

[VertigoGal]

Wait...I dunno if it's well-liked but it never gets mentioned around here and I like it.

 

[Reggie Thee Dog]

The Ballad of John and Yoko

I don't know that its underrated, but "In My Life" is one of the best songs ever recorded, even if it can seem sappy. I can't tell you how many weddings and funerals I've heard that at and it always makes sense.

 

[Zoots]

Wait...I dunno if it's well-liked but it never gets mentioned around here and I like it.

Most of Rubber Soul is underrated!

 

[Reggie Thee Dog]

Rubber Soul...the turning point in Beatle musicality...they started growing up. Great, great, great album, the precursor to Revolver and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

 

[BonosSaint]

Maxwell's Silver Hammer. I love Maxwell's Silver Hammer.

 

[VertigoGal]

Most of Rubber Soul is underrated!

Rubber Soul is my fav Beatles album .

 

[corianderstem]

And Your Bird Can Sing!

 

[Lila64]

The Ballad of John and Yoko

I don't know that its underrated, but "In My Life" is one of the best songs ever recorded, even if it can seem sappy. I can't tell you how many weddings and funerals I've heard that at and it always makes sense.

Reggie - you are earning pic points

I 'In My Life'. Makes me cry for some reason every time I hear it. Kinda of like "Imagine". Probably both on my all time fave list, if I had one

 

[yimou]

You Can´t Do That

Nice little rockish tune,, and Lennon really showed how good a rock singer he was.

Ticket To Ride

Love the drums. Love the backing vocals.. LOVES this track

 

[Lila64]

love that one too. My daughter sang it at her talent show

 

[yimou]

Which one Lila?? Ticket To Ride ?

 

[Reggie Thee Dog]

You daughter sang a Beatles tune at a talent show? Why Lila you old hippy...

 

[IWasBored]

i've got no idea what's considered underrated as far as the beatles go. but i'll second "you can't do that". there's a bunch of earlier stuff that i love that most people write off as being early pop crap.

 

[Lila64]

Which one Lila?? Ticket To Ride ?

Actually she just corrected me (again). She sang 'Ticket To Ride' at the try-outs for a play. For time constraints and other factors, she sang 'Tell Me Why' for the talent show

for Reggie:

 

[Reggie Thee Dog]

i've got no idea what's considered underrated as far as the beatles go. but i'll second "you can't do that". there's a bunch of earlier stuff that i love that most people write off as being early pop crap.

That's the fun and torment of Pop music. What I think is crap touches you and vice-a-versa. Someone was saying what crap "Can't Buy Me Love" is and while it's not my favorite, I certainly don't think it's overrated, it's just not the most relevant piece of music I've heard them perform.

Hey the Beatles were the New Kids and Backstreet Boys of their day, however their music progressed and got bigger and more mature. They weren't marketed to 7-15 year olds which lengthened their career immensely.

 

[Reggie Thee Dog]

Actually she just corrected me (again). She sang 'Ticket To Ride' at the try-outs for a play. For time constraints and other factors, she sang 'Tell Me Why' for the talent show

for Reggie:

Nice...Tell me whhhyyyy you cried....

Your kid will have great taste in music because she'll be able to appreciate everything that came before the stuff we have now.

 

[Lila64]

Exactly, and her first concert was Paul McCartney!

 

[Reggie Thee Dog]

Exactly, and her first concert was Paul McCartney!

Which is certainly better than the first concert my daughter attended.....Hilary Duff!!!

 

[Lila64]

Didn't you train her right man? What the hell were you thinking!?!?!?!

 

[Reggie Thee Dog]

TV and Disney are a powerful medium my dear...powerful. I do make them listen to The Beatles - 1 album. They like that a lot. It's not the best but it'll do.

 

[Lila64]

That'll do, pig. That'll do (movie quote)

 

[IWasBored]

hahaha, i'm loving that there's a babe quote in this beatles thread. i think i saw that movie the day i bought revolver. or it was the day after i got the cd, and my best friend came (the same best friend that got me listening to the beatles in the first place), we watched the movie, and listened to . i also got a cold because we went outside to play in the rain, and it was november so it was cold. funny thing is i remember what shirt i was wearing, and this was 10 years ago. sign of early senility?


:childhoodnostalgia:

 

[Lila64]

 

[U2FlirtMan]

Michelle

Don't know if it's underrated but some kids don't seem to know it nowadays!

VERY difficult to play.......

 

[Popmartijn]

i've got no idea what's considered underrated as far as the beatles go. but i'll second "you can't do that". there's a bunch of earlier stuff that i love that most people write off as being early pop crap.

Indeed, there's nothing wrong with perfect pop songs. Love Me Do is great, as is Eight Days A Week and Please Please Me. She Loves You is (even less than) 2 minutes of brilliance.

 

[blueeyedgirl]

She's Leaving Home. The Beatles song and the Billy Bragg version make me

 

[lazarus]

I'm Only Sleeping, from Revolver. Can you say "backwards guitar solo"? AWESOME.

I Want You (She's So Heavy) has a lot of supporters, but I think it showcases the band as musicians better than almost any other Beatles song.

Dig A Pony from Let It Be. One of my favorite Lennon tracks. I can't figure out why this isn't a classic. John screaming "All...I Want...Is You!" and then going right into that falsetto with the "Be...cause". Fucking amazing. Ringo crashing on the cymbals...

 

[TheBrazilianFly]

I Want You (She's So Heavy) has a lot of supporters, but I think it showcases the band as musicians better than almost any other Beatles song.

Man, I fucking love that song.