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Doesn't even benefit from any decent guitar work to save it....
I was at a hip, progressive school for a couple of years.
We also sang Purple Haze.
Yellow Submarine gets my vote.
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I'd go for Dig It off Let It Be. Not really even a song.
But if I had to pick the worst of the worst... Yellow Submarine.
I actually love Yellow Submarine for its sheer childish humour, but it doesn't belong on Revolver at all.
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"Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson
I'm pretty sure that John's yelling "full stern ahead. Mr Bastard!" in the section with the sound effects. Quite like that song.
Don't Pass Me By wins it for me. Total toss. I quite like Rocky Raccoon.
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@english_bob I almost put "Don't Pass Me By" as well. Atrocious song, especially that line, "you were in a car crash and you lost your hair". I remember being about 17 hearing that for the first time and thinking 'what is this SHIT?'
What's worse is that I think that's the song that, according to the excellent book Revolution in the Head, Ringo was working on for a year or two. The mind boggles.
And yes, as others have said, George was amassing a shitload of really great songs around this time. Why they didn't make it on to the White Album when some right old shite did I have no idea- was he knowingly withholding them, knowing that the Beatles weren't going to last forever (things were already starting to sour)? That said, he did contribute While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Savoy Truffle and Long, Long, Long, all of which are equal to any of John or Paul's songs on the album.
I need to read Revolution In The Head again. I recall yer man being positively scathing about John's bass "playing" on The Long And Winding Road.
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He was utterly scathing about Lennon's bass 'work' on The Long and Winding Road. IIRC he juxtaposed it directly with the bass AND electric piano work Macca did on Come Together, which does take the song even further up a notch, no question.
He also said something like 'if there's any one song which explains why the Beatles were going to break up, it's Maxwell's Silver Hammer'. Nice anvil work on that track though, tapping on the hammer rythmically.
Ringo had been working on it for six years too!
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson
I listen for your footsteps
Coming up the drive
Listen for your footsteps
But they don't arrive
Waiting for your knock, dear
On my old front door
I don't hear it
Does it mean you don't love me any more?
I hear the clock are ticking
On the mantel shelf
See the hands are moving
But I'm by myself
I wonder where you are tonight
And why I'm by myself
I don't see you
Does it mean you don't love me any more?
Don't pass me by, don't make me cry, don't make me blue
Cause you know darling I love only you
You'll never know it hurt me so
How I hate to see you go
Don't pass me by, don't make me cry, don't make me blue
I'm sorry that I doubted you
I was so unfair
You were in a car crash
And you lost your hair
You said that you would be late
About an hour or two
I said that's alright I'm waiting here
Just waiting to hear from you
Don't pass me by, don't make me cry, don't make me blue
Cause you know darling I love only you
You'll never know it hurt me so
How I hate to see you go
Don't pass me by, don't make me cry
Bloody good drummer though. For Revolution In The Heed, Ian MacDonald apparently totted up all the mistakes that led to unusable takes in the studio, and Ringo was by far the most consistent player of the band.
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Great drummer yes indeed. Very musical and sympathetic.