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Started by Savonarola, June 20, 2019, 12:54:20 PM

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What is the Most Underrated Beatles Song

Hold Me Tight
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No Reply
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I'm a Loser
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Rain
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Hey Bulldog
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You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)
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Savonarola

June 20, 2019, 12:54:20 PM Last Edit: June 20, 2019, 01:00:40 PM by Savonarola
Saw this article on the BBC and wondered what Languish thought.

The picks on the poll are the BBC's, you're free to pick another, of course.  Their criteria:

QuoteOur criteria: We picked songs that weren't the standout tracks on albums at the time, and did not appear on the Red or Blue compilation albums (anthologies are a different matter).

For those of you who haven't listened to every Beatles album a thousand times:

Hold Me Tight
No Reply
I'm a Loser
Rain
Hey Bulldog
You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)

Some great songs on that list; I think "Hey Bulldog" would be my pick - it's given short shrift in the movie "Yellow Submarine" and I don't think it's that widely known.  I think "No Reply" is the best song on the list, but it's the lead track on "Beatles for Sale," so I think it's more well known.

For a song not on the list my pick would be Two of Us.  I think that's a great song that's overshadowed by the hits on "Let It Be," but they do perform it on the rooftop of Apple Records at the end of "Let it Be," so it's not that obscure.
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Eddie Teach

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June 20, 2019, 12:59:24 PM
I want you (she's so heavy)
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Savonarola

#2
June 20, 2019, 01:10:51 PM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on June 20, 2019, 12:59:24 PM
I want you (she's so heavy)

Good choice; Mötley Crüe's Slice of Your Pie ends with an homage to "I Want You, (She's So Heavy.)  The rest of the song they just stole from Aerosmith.
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The Minsky Moment

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June 20, 2019, 02:09:59 PM
"No Reply" and "I'm a Loser" were the lead 2 tracks on a highly successful album released at the height of the Beatles craze.  Odd choices for underrated or obscure tracks.  Also would not consider "Rain" to be an ignored or ill-regarded song.
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Savonarola

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June 20, 2019, 05:47:39 PM
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on June 20, 2019, 02:09:59 PM
"No Reply" and "I'm a Loser" were the lead 2 tracks on a highly successful album released at the height of the Beatles craze.  Odd choices for underrated or obscure tracks.  Also would not consider "Rain" to be an ignored or ill-regarded song.

Calling any Beatles song "Underrated" is going to be something of a stretch; they did sell over a billion albums after all.  The BBC's list has songs from albums that tend to end up on the bottom of critics; lists ("No Reply," and "I'm a Loser" from "Beatles for Sale" and "Hey Bulldog" from "Yellow Submarine") B-sides ("Rain" and "You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)") and "Hold me Tight" which is on the UK release "With the Beatles" but not on it's American counterpart "Meet the Beatles" (or Canadian "The Beatles Long Tall Sally.")
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Admiral Yi

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June 20, 2019, 05:49:17 PM
I'm not familiar with any of them.

The Minsky Moment

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June 20, 2019, 11:15:23 PM
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The Minsky Moment

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June 20, 2019, 11:21:36 PM
Quote from: Savonarola on June 20, 2019, 05:47:39 PM
Calling any Beatles song "Underrated" is going to be something of a stretch

I agree that's the problem. The good songs get full recongition and adulation, and even the not-so-good get respectable play and air time.

I'd pick "Tomorrow Never Knows".  Not that it's poorly regarded critically - far from it.  But there is some tendency to view it as a "drug song" and I don't hear it played a lot.
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Admiral Yi

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June 21, 2019, 02:36:35 AM
Maybe a better question is what's the most overrated song.

Savonarola

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June 21, 2019, 10:59:15 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 21, 2019, 02:36:35 AM
Maybe a better question is what's the most overrated song.

"The Long and Winding Road" would be my choice; it was a single and a number one hit in the US, and it sounds like Paul was trying to write a song for Andy Williams.

"Twist and Shout" would be the runner up; it's not a bad version of the song, but it tends to over-shadow the superior Isley Brothers version.

Though not a Beatles song; "Imagine" is the most over-rated song of all time.
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Valmy

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June 21, 2019, 11:45:44 AM
Quote from: Savonarola on June 21, 2019, 10:59:15 AM
Though not a Beatles song; "Imagine" is the most over-rated song of all time.

Imagine all the people not overrating this song ah ah ah
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June 21, 2019, 11:47:26 AM
Quote from: Savonarola on June 21, 2019, 10:59:15 AM
Though not a Beatles song; "Imagine" is the most over-rated song of all time.

Yup.
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The Minsky Moment

#13
June 21, 2019, 12:43:43 PM
1) Any pre-Hard Days Night hit Beatles song
2) Let it Be
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celedhring

#14
June 21, 2019, 01:17:56 PM
You Know My Name would be my pick from that list. It's too weird and too long for radio, so it's not played much. I guess "obscure" would be a better word than underrated, though.
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