Remember... This is coming from the narrator to get clicks. I have never heard Paul claim to dislike any of their music. He likes some more that others and that is reasonable.
Indeed ... ALL these tunes classic Fab Four SOUND. Still, agree with Sir Paul: "She Said, She Said", WAY TOO SLOW. Otherwise McCartney brilliant on Revolver.
That is how great the Beatles is. Even what they consider as throwaway songs are great songs to most people. Most other bands would be happy to take credits and record these songs as their own.
I never understood Paul's dislike of Hold Me Tight. The song has a terrific energy and a great guitar work. Of course it's one of my favourite - if not the favourite - from the LP....
I agree, with Moonie804 "Hold Me Tight" has wonderful chugging guitar patterns. A fun, unpretentious energetic Beatle song. I like it very much. Yes, Paul had a cold at the time of recording: his voice partly through his stuffed nose, and some notes don't quite have-it. It shows the Beatles' disciplined drive to produce.
The interviewer forgets that a “work song or a filler” still has to get over a fairly high bar and songs like “world without love” were rejected and went to Peter and Gordon. A Beatles filler is still worth a listen. I don’t dislike any of these songs.
@@jeanmyers1787 Quite right in terms of what happened to the song. I think either John or Paul struggled with the “please lock me away” I was making the point that even a “filler” song had to pass the test of group acceptability. I think the song is a fine one. They made best use of it by allowing another act to record it.
I agree with Paul on all of those songs he mentioned except for two. She said she said and Happy just to dance with You are classic Beatles songs and among my favorites which is 95% of their entire catalog..
I totally agree ! "She Said, She Said" and "And Your Bird Can Sing" are among my 2 favourite songs from the "Revolver" album - and one of the best songs they ever made ! If I should pick some songs that I'm not so fond of - it would be "Yer Blues" and the slow version of "Revolution." I find that one very sloppy. I could pick a few more songs that I tend to skip over - but then again that would be the whole career of any other band. The Beatles repertoire are that good !
I love watching AND listening to George singing & playing. Absolutely sweet & beautiful, and I love the song, too. It's actually a lot like "I Saw Her Standing There" and a few of their other early tunes. I love "Boys," too...one reason to throw Ringo a few more tunes! Too bad that John gave that'un to the Stones, because Ringo sang the hell out of it, way better than they did, can you believe it? Great early George guitar solo too
@@karaamundson3964 It's hard to believe they weren't all brothers. They were zoned into the same wavelength. I liked George's song 'Don't Bother Me', in the film, almost as much. And I liked the Latin influence in some of George's early playing.
Point 1: I didn't hear anything here about any song that Paul "Hated with a passion". More like, "didn't think much of". So, that title is kind of clickbait, isn't it? Point 2: So, you're saying here Paul "disliked" some of the Beatles' best songs?
Can't stand these Peter Pan revisionist posts that try to highlight the Beatles supposed divisions. You're completely missing the point about music's greatest band ever. Go make a post about Bon Jovi or something...
I haven't watched but just look at the songs that these young men made together in ten years you have such an amazing and enormous collection of all kinds of songs Revisionist 50 years later TV cannot explain anything ... of any value
Even the most forgotten unpolished, throw away tunes in thier catalog are all songs with catchy melodies that I can sing along too, and I seem to enjoy all the ones that Paul didn't care for.
Many Lennon devotees think that John never did anything wrong and that criticizing Paul somehow enhances Lennon's status. What nonsense! Lennon's post-Beatle career is full of acid, self-serving, savage remarks about Paul and his music, and he wasn't too nice to George either. Lennon was no god; he was a great song writer who sometimes produced crap just like everyone else, and he could be a real jerk if you caught him in the wrong mood. I love him but there is nothing wrong with admitting the truth...
I have no problem with saying John was a downright p**ck sometimes. What I DO have a problem with is people not acknowledging that ALL of them were at times. Not just John.
Paul got wrongly blamed for breaking up the group. It was actually Ringo, tired of the all the in-fighting, who first seriously tried to leave the group (not sure if it would have led to a breakup). Then Harrison (and that was when Lennon joked, let's just get Clapton instead). And then Lennon. But it was McCartney in the 70s who was adamant about not reuniting with the other three to make music. He was the most bitter at the time.
Even though a lot of Beatles songs are not huge hits, they are nearly all of the songs are very fun and listenable, compared to most other bands of the day whose albums have a few good songs and the rest of the album just puts you to sleep and makes you want to skip those tracks and go straight to the few good songs the next time you play the album. I never get bored like that listening to any Beatles album.
I die a little every time I hear one of The Beatles throw shade on one of his own or another Beatle's song. I want to cry out, "Your impossibly high standards are killing me!"
I just listened to it on youtubia and I like the atmosphere I would have liked it then too but in 1966 or so I wasn't the most Beatlie fan.. But oh so nice to discover it.. Thanks for highlighting it.
I would have never guessed that list. All of those songs are better than Maxwell's silver hammer. She said she said is one of the Beatles very best songs.
Now, wait a minute. She Said She Said is fab. A Revolver classic: Interesting concept and changes, cool lead licks; wonderful Lennon performance. Maybe a throwaway like, um, Hey Bulldog, but people have rediscovered both those songs recently.
I can't imagine Paul hating any of these songs with a passion. Even their "filler" songs were often hits and many fan favorites. IMO "She, Said, She Said" is one of their best songs of the era. Musical taste is subjective regardless and it would be impossible for every song to equal the level of the next.
The Beatles did some parody songs or just songs inspired by others, but often put enough of their own spin on it that it wasn't immediately obvious. It was probably 15 years on when it dawned on me that Back In The USSR was a parody or tribute to the Beach Boys' California Girls. I know that the Beatles admired the work of Brian Wilson. I only recently found out that Sun King was inspired by an early Fleetwood Mac Song called Albatross. I love Sun King for what it is - beautiful harmonies around the two guitars, bass, and a little Hammond thrown in there. I've been trying to learn to play it on my guitar. Lastly there's Yer Blues - to me the lyrics seem to be a parody of blues. "In the morning... wanna die. In the eeeeevening... wanna die. If I ain't dead already.... (guitar riff) girl you know the reason why". It's pure John and whether it was intended as a parody or not, I think the lyrics exaggerate the downer nature of a lot of blues. If the Beatles had never met, I think in the end all four would have ended up much as they did anyway. George as a strong session guitarist and sometime songwriter. Ringo as a session drummer. John with some way-out cutting edge rock and blues. And Paul as a long term pop hitmaker. But when you put the four together, you really got something special.
Absolute RUBBISH!!! All of these songs are ebullient, effervescent gems of pop perfection! Criticize all you want but the sheer youthful vigor, innocence, and enthusiasm along with the beats and scintillating melodies are powerful to melt the most skeptical cynical heart! These songs rule for all frickin' time!
"I'm Happy Just To Dance With You" was NOT a "Lennon and McCartney" collaboration (McCartney had absolutely nothing to do with the writing). "I'm Happy Just To Dance With You" was written by John Lennon, and John specifically to gave it over to George Harrison for him to then have a solo singing spot in the "Hard Day's Night" Movie (with that Movie's Title song also written by John Lennon). "I'm Happy Just To Dance With You" was written (by John) around the fairly involved Chord progression and John's syncopated Rhythm guitar structure. It was a nice up tempo number that worked very well for the Movie during the concert sequence, and worked well for that period of The Beatles. As with Lennon's song "She Said, She Said", McCartney probably didn't like it because he had nothing to do with it (aside from helping out with background vocals), or because John had given the singing role over to George to elevate his role in the Movie. I can't recall anytime when Paul McCartney had ever written a song for George Harrison to sing. Lennon also had written the song "Do You Want To Know A Secret" for George to sing.
This list sounds pretty honest on Paul’s part because it’s mostly early throwaway songs. “She Said, She Said” is a great song. And it sounds like he didn’t have a problem with it as a song, just some of the drama when it was recorded, which happens in bands. Even “Yer Blues” wasn’t a real criticism. John on the other hand has been hard on some pretty decent Paul songs over the years, like lumping “Obladi Oblada” with “Maxwell S H” is pretty unfair. But a critical Lennon video prob wouldn’t get any clicks cuz it’s old news. People clicked to see if the nice Beatle had anything to say about actual good songs., but there’s no story here. He was just being honest about mostly early work for hire throwaway songs.
*_Thankfully, I'm a man devoid of all hatred in my life. Having said that, my least favored Beatle's song is Obla-Di Obla-Da, and yet I find myself singing it from time to time. Guess I must be getting old, huh?_* 🧑🏼🦳🧑🏼🦳🧑🏼🦳
I like What You're Doing and She Said She Said, and to a lesser extent, Yer Blues. I agree with Paul that Little Child and Tell Me What You See are 2 of their lesser efforts. Most of the other songs mentioned fall in between - good songs, but lesser songs by the Beatles high standards.
George Harrison singing lead vocals was NEVER a RARITY in The Beatles' career - early on or otherwise. Listen to their MANY performances from their early days on the BBC. John and Paul ALWAYS made room for George to sing and pretty much did the same for Ringo. Yes, in their earlier career, George mainly sang cover songs, but so did John and Paul. 'I'm Happy Just to Dance with You' is simply one that John and Paul wrote for George to sing. It's really amazing that with so much time having passed and so much information available on The Beatles, that people still get the most basic facts wrong. George has at least one (usually 2, 3 on Revolver and 4 on the White Album) vocal performance on EVERY Beatles' album, with the first song he wrote appearing on their second album, 'With the Beatles'. John and Paul did not only NOT "keep George down", they actively and excitedly promoted him and more than competently backed him.
Yer Blues would be more of a standard I-IV-V if not for the brilliant descending double stops at the end of verses. I applaud the creativity and the darkness.
The problem with the evolution of both John and Paul, an this comes from a Beatles fan of great fervor, is the came to believe that they were "John and Paul of The Beatles". However great they were they came to believe they were even greater and levitated above others. I didn't see that in George and Ringo who I always thought were just as important. Love their music but not a big fan of either of them personally. Take away the Beatles aspect of them and I wouldn't want to hang with either of them.
I love John, always found him compelling in about a million ways (and I eventually came to terms with Yoko...I was only twelve when I learned of her). I think his songs are better than Paul's, in the main. However, in an interview in, I think, the late '70s, he said that he thought he & Paul could have become The Beatles without George or Ringo, just pulling any other guitarist and drummer. That was a cold shock. Never mind G&R's absolute BRILLIANCE as fellow bandmates, contributing exactly what was needed to each tune, but throwing Scouser brothers under the bus after so much together. Really an unbelievable thing to think, especially as he was still working, periodically, with the very guys he thought he could've kicked to the curb in the Beatle years. I saw one video in which George was playing guitar for John in one of John's very raw (post-Beatles) tunes. George just walked in, tuned the axe, and started quietly picking along as John sang while he played the piano. John was impatient with the other guys in the studio, but he never had a cross word to speak against George, because, it seemed, he obviously knew that George was on page.
Paul liked Obla Di Oblada, he wrote it. The others got very tired of Paul's perfectionism trying to maintain a supposed jollity while having to do take after take to please Paul. When it first came out in 1968 it was one of the most popular songs on the White Album. And along with his "Blackbird" has themes and links with Caribbean blacks moved to England.
they hated working on it because Paul wanted it to be a single. so he pushed and pushed. I think they liked the song just not recording it. now maxwell they hated
Hold Me Tight, Little Child, Tell Me What You See, and What You’re Doing - yes these 4 are accurate picks for Beatles weak tracks from their early years when they were being pressured to crank out songs and just coming up with whatever. These sound like exactly the type Beatles songs that were mocked in The Rutles and Spinal Tap, parody comedies I love. They also sound like many of the songs by bands trying to copy them during early 60’s. However I’d disagree on She Said and Yer Blues which to me represent Lennon at his best and are important songs in the Beatles repertoire..
I have to agree with all of these selections. They are all pretty stale compared to the Beatles norm. Especially "Little Child" - not only was the song uninspired, but the lyrics were pretty awful.
With Ringo the Beatles were together like 8 years. All the album, all the movies, all the touring. I would prob be ready to strangle my band members doing that much in 8 years. Epically in my 20’s. They were kids for Gods sake. I don’t think any of them where in there 30’s when they broke up.
What your doing tell me what you see yer blues all great songs George's happy just to dance with you fantastic song hold me tight is good but not overly crazy about it
I’m must admit I thought most of those songs were album fillers, but as Beatle fans we loved it all.. but looking back in retrospect 60 years later they were album fillers. Tell me what you see was pre psychedelic John of what was to come. Yer Blues LOVE it. I personally think Let It Be was their worst album, although it had some great songs, Dig It, Dig A Pony, One After 909, Because Your Sweet and Lovely, I did not care for.
Paul will be Paul... I love them all... every song has it's purpose, time and place. The target audience was teen-agers. Everything worked. It's the effin BEATLES, shut up!
I agree with Paul's assessment on the first five songs. They are throw a ways and not very memorable. I disagree with what he says about She Said She Said and Yer Blues. I think both of these are well done and memorable. I truly admire him as a songwriter, singer and musician.
Some of them had great parts. Just to dance with you - ah ah. Hold, hold me tight, me tight, tonight, tonight....Plus He said she said and Yer Blues were great. Just a bit dark for Paul, dealing with death.
Paul was then (he wouldn't let John sing Oh!Darling) and is now full of himself. Think about the walrus in Lewis Carol's work Through the Looking Glass. The walrus IS the villan. Then in The Beatles Glass Onion, John sings "the walrus [is/was] Paul. Nuff Said---
Paul is a bad critic. I’m Happy Just to Dance with you is a great early song, and Hold Me Tight is an outright early classic. I LOVE its beat and buoyant energy. Little Child is a filler. I love Tell Me What You See. What You’re Doing is a classic! I agree that She Said, She Said is pretty cool. Yer Blues is rubbish.
One of the greatest musical talents ever, but these are some of my favorite Beatles songs. Maybe this is why I didn't like his material that much after the Beatles broke up.
I'm wondering why no one thought " I Am A Walrus " would be a song all of them would wish they never sang. It had lyrics that made no sense at all. ( I am the egg man I am the egg man I am the Walrus coo coo catch oo. Sitting on a corn flake.the whole entire song made no sense at all.
Paul said he dug that song. He wasn’t on the recording because he got into an argument when it was being worked on. I think it’s got its good points but it’s clearly not one of Lennon’s gems. It’s sloppily recorded, not that developed or very interesting. Regardless, the brilliant Billy Joel lists it as one of his favorites. There’s no accounting for taste.
@@davidgraham8299 Uhmmm...Dude?...Have you ever heard of a thing called a "JOKE"? (Apparently not. Since it appears to have flown totally over your head.)
If you watch enough clips like this you will come away with the (mistaken) impression that no one in the band really liked any of their songs. For example: In a clip I saw recently, Harrison trashed nearly every McCartney song after Rubber Soul as "Paul's granny music." In another clip, Lennon trashed everything but "Yesterday." It's unlikely that they really hated their own output - but it's always possible to find old interviews in which each member of the band was grumpy, sour, bitter, etc. Only Ringo emerges relatively unscathed -- but then, people often underrated his intelligence, emotional maturity and kindness -- so they didn't interview him as often or as deeply. The result? There's no "grumpy/bitter/sour" Ringo" interview material trashing their work. If Lennon were alive today, his opinions of various songs might also be mellow & measured.
I'm a HUGE Beatles fan/McCartney solo music fan....but remember, he's knocking other Beatle sons and yet.... he wrote "Maxwell's Silver Hammer?" ???? Worst one ever, or right up there with the worst.
You and/or Paul like the descriptor- Workman much? Sheesh. Paul's opinion on most of the songs mentioned here is cracked. I think Paul is/was a bit too critical.
George played some truly awful Lead Guitar on She Said She Said! Check out Giles Martin's new Stereo mix! George is on the left channel/speaker! If Paul had not walked out on the session, he would never have let George's sloppy Lead Guitar go onto the Master Tape! Paul would have re-recorded the Lead Guitar part himself!
McCartney has been talking garbage for a long time now. He was responsible for the worst Beatles songs and has since progressed to write such classics as "Mary had a Little Lamb" and "The Frog Chorus".
And this is exactly why I've never cared for McCartney and always really liked John Lennon Your blues is a great Anguish Gutfeld honest song something Paul was incapable of And she said she said was that McCartney never really expanded his consciousness like John lenon and George Harrison To me McCartney is the Taylor swift of the Beatles
Happy just to dance with you is one of my favorites. I love that song
Great guitar work and cool chords. Of course, not as complicated and profound as When I'm 94, Maxwell's Silver Bedpan.
@@angelomisteriosohaha thats a good one
@@steveclemons8191 ikr??!
Same!
Me too
Remember... This is coming from the narrator to get clicks. I have never heard Paul claim to dislike any of their music. He likes some more that others and that is reasonable.
Indeed ... ALL these tunes classic Fab Four SOUND. Still, agree with Sir Paul: "She Said, She Said", WAY TOO SLOW. Otherwise McCartney brilliant on Revolver.
Click bait douche bag loaded this.
I LOVED "What You're Doing"!!!❤❤❤ One of my favorite Paul songs.
That is how great the Beatles is. Even what they consider as throwaway songs are great songs to most people. Most other bands would be happy to take credits and record these songs as their own.
I never understood Paul's dislike of Hold Me Tight. The song has a terrific energy and a great guitar work. Of course it's one of my favourite - if not the favourite - from the LP....
He’s out of tune and straining to reach the high notes. Having said that i think the song is okay and not their worst by far.
I agree, with Moonie804 "Hold Me Tight" has wonderful chugging guitar patterns. A fun, unpretentious energetic Beatle song. I like it very much. Yes, Paul had a cold at the time of recording: his voice partly through his stuffed nose, and some notes don't quite have-it. It shows the Beatles' disciplined drive to produce.
he singing a bit out of tune otherwise it rocks
The interviewer forgets that a “work song or a filler” still has to get over a fairly high bar and songs like “world without love” were rejected and went to Peter and Gordon. A Beatles filler is still worth a listen. I don’t dislike any of these songs.
“World Without Love” is a great song! Maybe not suited to the Beatles but perfect for Peter and Gordon.
He gave it to his girlfriend’s brother. It was a gift because of his feelings for Jane, not because he rejected it.
@@jeanmyers1787 Quite right in terms of what happened to the song. I think either John or Paul struggled with the “please lock me away” I was making the point that even a “filler” song had to pass the test of group acceptability. I think the song is a fine one. They made best use of it by allowing another act to record it.
I agree with Paul on all of those songs he mentioned except for two. She said she said and Happy just to dance with You are classic Beatles songs and among my favorites which is 95% of their entire catalog..
She Said She Said is a Beatle classic. Forever.
I totally agree !
"She Said, She Said" and "And Your Bird Can Sing" are among my 2 favourite songs from the "Revolver" album - and one of the best songs they ever made !
If I should pick some songs that I'm not so fond of - it would be "Yer Blues" and the slow version of "Revolution." I find that one very sloppy.
I could pick a few more songs that I tend to skip over - but then again that would be the whole career of any other band. The Beatles repertoire are that good !
Happy just to dance with you is my favorite song from the movie. I like it!
I love watching AND listening to George singing & playing. Absolutely sweet & beautiful, and I love the song, too. It's actually a lot like "I Saw Her Standing There" and a few of their other early tunes. I love "Boys," too...one reason to throw Ringo a few more tunes! Too bad that John gave that'un to the Stones, because Ringo sang the hell out of it, way better than they did, can you believe it? Great early George guitar solo too
@@karaamundson3964 It's hard to believe they weren't all brothers. They were zoned into the same wavelength. I liked George's song 'Don't Bother Me', in the film, almost as much. And I liked the Latin influence in some of George's early playing.
Point 1: I didn't hear anything here about any song that Paul "Hated with a passion". More like, "didn't think much of". So, that title is kind of clickbait, isn't it?
Point 2: So, you're saying here Paul "disliked" some of the Beatles' best songs?
Can't stand these Peter Pan revisionist posts that try to highlight the Beatles supposed divisions. You're completely missing the point about music's greatest band ever. Go make a post about Bon Jovi or something...
I agree it’s like shitpost sometimes depends on the video
@Blakealkensongs.....I missed the part where it talks about the "Best Band Ever", which of course is the Rolling Stones !!!!!!
100!
I haven't watched but just look at the songs that these young men made together
in ten years you have such an amazing and enormous collection of all kinds of songs
Revisionist 50 years later TV cannot explain anything ... of any value
@@georgianwindow ....the stones have 60 years of awesome songs that's why they are the greatest R&R band EVER
Even the most forgotten unpolished, throw away tunes in thier catalog are all songs with catchy melodies that I can sing along too, and I seem to enjoy all the ones that Paul didn't care for.
Many Lennon devotees think that John never did anything wrong and that criticizing Paul somehow enhances Lennon's status. What nonsense! Lennon's post-Beatle career is full of acid, self-serving, savage remarks about Paul and his music, and he wasn't too nice to George either. Lennon was no god; he was a great song writer who sometimes produced crap just like everyone else, and he could be a real jerk if you caught him in the wrong mood. I love him but there is nothing wrong with admitting the truth...
I have no problem with saying John was a downright p**ck sometimes. What I DO have a problem with is people not acknowledging that ALL of them were at times. Not just John.
Paul got wrongly blamed for breaking up the group. It was actually Ringo, tired of the all the in-fighting, who first seriously tried to leave the group (not sure if it would have led to a breakup). Then Harrison (and that was when Lennon joked, let's just get Clapton instead). And then Lennon. But it was McCartney in the 70s who was adamant about not reuniting with the other three to make music. He was the most bitter at the time.
Lennon was an a-hole, he knew it too
He didn't even like his OWN songs!
freecake Get real. Absurd statement!
“Hold Me Tight”, he wrote another song with that same title and that song became part of a medley on “Red Rose Speedway”…
Even though a lot of Beatles songs are not huge hits, they are nearly all of the songs are very fun and listenable, compared to most other bands of the day whose albums have a few good songs and the rest of the album just puts you to sleep and makes you want to skip those tracks and go straight to the few good songs the next time you play the album. I never get bored like that listening to any Beatles album.
Hold Me Tight and Little Child were the 2 BEST songs on the album.
I love Hold Me Tight. One of my favourites.
"Some reservations" is not quite "Hated . . . with a Passion"
I'm Happy Just to Dance With You has always been one of my favorite Beatle's songs!
But, I'm a romantic and I just thought it was sweet!
This particular song in my opinion was a 'Classic' number !!!
I die a little every time I hear one of The Beatles throw shade on one of his own or another Beatle's song. I want to cry out, "Your impossibly high standards are killing me!"
I LOVE She Said! One of my favorite Beatles songs. Harrison's bass is rock solid and Ringo 's drumming is some of his best!
"Tell Me What You See" sucks. But "She Said She Said" and "Yer Blues" are masterpieces.
All good to great songs.
That was a great song, and a great vocal by George…!
I just listened to it on youtubia and I like the atmosphere I would have liked it then too but in 1966 or so I wasn't the most Beatlie fan.. But oh so nice to discover it.. Thanks for highlighting it.
Yer Blues is a great song and Lennon’s 2nd best White Album contribution, behind Dear Prudence! 👍
Paul complaining about fluffy songs?
King of Fluff is being ironic, I hope?
King of Fluff is right....Martha My Dear, When I'm Sixty Four, Maxwell's Silver Hammer, Rocky Raccoon, on and on...
And I thought good Rock n' Roll songs were dead. Thank you for proving they aren't!!
I would have never guessed that list. All of those songs are better than Maxwell's silver hammer. She said she said is one of the Beatles very best songs.
I’m Happy Just to Dance With You is great
Now, wait a minute. She Said She Said is fab. A Revolver classic: Interesting concept and changes, cool lead licks; wonderful Lennon performance. Maybe a throwaway like, um, Hey Bulldog, but people have rediscovered both those songs recently.
I can't imagine Paul hating any of these songs with a passion. Even their "filler" songs were often hits and many fan favorites. IMO "She, Said, She Said" is one of their best songs of the era. Musical taste is subjective regardless and it would be impossible for every song to equal the level of the next.
The Beatles did some parody songs or just songs inspired by others, but often put enough of their own spin on it that it wasn't immediately obvious. It was probably 15 years on when it dawned on me that Back In The USSR was a parody or tribute to the Beach Boys' California Girls. I know that the Beatles admired the work of Brian Wilson. I only recently found out that Sun King was inspired by an early Fleetwood Mac Song called Albatross. I love Sun King for what it is - beautiful harmonies around the two guitars, bass, and a little Hammond thrown in there. I've been trying to learn to play it on my guitar. Lastly there's Yer Blues - to me the lyrics seem to be a parody of blues. "In the morning... wanna die. In the eeeeevening... wanna die. If I ain't dead already.... (guitar riff) girl you know the reason why". It's pure John and whether it was intended as a parody or not, I think the lyrics exaggerate the downer nature of a lot of blues. If the Beatles had never met, I think in the end all four would have ended up much as they did anyway. George as a strong session guitarist and sometime songwriter. Ringo as a session drummer. John with some way-out cutting edge rock and blues. And Paul as a long term pop hitmaker. But when you put the four together, you really got something special.
Absolute RUBBISH!!! All of these songs are ebullient, effervescent gems of pop perfection! Criticize all you want but the sheer youthful vigor, innocence, and enthusiasm along with the beats and scintillating melodies are powerful to melt the most skeptical cynical heart! These songs rule for all frickin' time!
"I'm Happy Just To Dance With You" was NOT a "Lennon and McCartney" collaboration (McCartney had absolutely nothing to do with the writing). "I'm Happy Just To Dance With You" was written by John Lennon, and John specifically to gave it over to George Harrison for him to then have a solo singing spot in the "Hard Day's Night" Movie (with that Movie's Title song also written by John Lennon). "I'm Happy Just To Dance With You" was written (by John) around the fairly involved Chord progression and John's syncopated Rhythm guitar structure. It was a nice up tempo number that worked very well for the Movie during the concert sequence, and worked well for that period of The Beatles. As with Lennon's song "She Said, She Said", McCartney probably didn't like it because he had nothing to do with it (aside from helping out with background vocals), or because John had given the singing role over to George to elevate his role in the Movie. I can't recall anytime when Paul McCartney had ever written a song for George Harrison to sing. Lennon also had written the song "Do You Want To Know A Secret" for George to sing.
Paul wrote Tell Me What You See is great
Love Little Child. An amazing piece of music
This list sounds pretty honest on Paul’s part because it’s mostly early throwaway songs. “She Said, She Said” is a great song. And it sounds like he didn’t have a problem with it as a song, just some of the drama when it was recorded, which happens in bands. Even “Yer Blues” wasn’t a real criticism. John on the other hand has been hard on some pretty decent Paul songs over the years, like lumping “Obladi Oblada” with “Maxwell S H” is pretty unfair. But a critical Lennon video prob wouldn’t get any clicks cuz it’s old news. People clicked to see if the nice Beatle had anything to say about actual good songs., but there’s no story here. He was just being honest about mostly early work for hire throwaway songs.
I remember and love these songs. He sounds removed from the joy of the early years. Was he there?
Paul laid down most of the bass track for She Said She Said before he walked out, which still made it in the mix
*_Thankfully, I'm a man devoid of all hatred in my life. Having said that, my least favored Beatle's song is Obla-Di Obla-Da, and yet I find myself singing it from time to time. Guess I must be getting old, huh?_* 🧑🏼🦳🧑🏼🦳🧑🏼🦳
Just To Dance With You is a wonderful song!!
I love Hold Me Tight!! One of my favorites...
Tell Me What You See is similarly a wonderful song!
I like What You're Doing and She Said She Said, and to a lesser extent, Yer Blues. I agree with Paul that Little Child and Tell Me What You See are 2 of their lesser efforts. Most of the other songs mentioned fall in between - good songs, but lesser songs by the Beatles high standards.
George Harrison singing lead vocals was NEVER a RARITY in The Beatles' career - early on or otherwise. Listen to their MANY performances from their early days on the BBC. John and Paul ALWAYS made room for George to sing and pretty much did the same for Ringo. Yes, in their earlier career, George mainly sang cover songs, but so did John and Paul. 'I'm Happy Just to Dance with You' is simply one that John and Paul wrote for George to sing. It's really amazing that with so much time having passed and so much information available on The Beatles, that people still get the most basic facts wrong. George has at least one (usually 2, 3 on Revolver and 4 on the White Album) vocal performance on EVERY Beatles' album, with the first song he wrote appearing on their second album, 'With the Beatles'. John and Paul did not only NOT "keep George down", they actively and excitedly promoted him and more than competently backed him.
Fake News! I LOVE these songs! “Hate with a passion?” I really doubt that!! FAKE NEWS!
Yer Blues would be more of a standard I-IV-V if not for the brilliant descending double stops at the end of verses. I applaud the creativity and the darkness.
Am a HUGE Beatles fan, but I tend to agree with this list, with the exception of I'm Happy Just to Dance With You.
The problem with the evolution of both John and Paul, an this comes from a Beatles fan of great fervor, is the came to believe that they were "John and Paul of The Beatles". However great they were they came to believe they were even greater and levitated above others. I didn't see that in George and Ringo who I always thought were just as important. Love their music but not a big fan of either of them personally. Take away the Beatles aspect of them and I wouldn't want to hang with either of them.
I love John, always found him compelling in about a million ways (and I eventually came to terms with Yoko...I was only twelve when I learned of her). I think his songs are better than Paul's, in the main. However, in an interview in, I think, the late '70s, he said that he thought he & Paul could have become The Beatles without George or Ringo, just pulling any other guitarist and drummer. That was a cold shock. Never mind G&R's absolute BRILLIANCE as fellow bandmates, contributing exactly what was needed to each tune, but throwing Scouser brothers under the bus after so much together. Really an unbelievable thing to think, especially as he was still working, periodically, with the very guys he thought he could've kicked to the curb in the Beatle years.
I saw one video in which George was playing guitar for John in one of John's very raw (post-Beatles) tunes. George just walked in, tuned the axe, and started quietly picking along as John sang while he played the piano. John was impatient with the other guys in the studio, but he never had a cross word to speak against George, because, it seemed, he obviously knew that George was on page.
What You’re Doing is good
C mon yer blues is a masterpiece. It shows the intensity that was john Lennon.
Revolution 9 is BRUTAL, and brings the White Album to an immediate halt. McCartney probably still cringes when he hears it.
I remember Casey Kasem saying that The Beatles all hated Obladi Oblada. You didn't mention that.
Paul liked Obla Di Oblada, he wrote it. The others got very tired of Paul's perfectionism trying to maintain a supposed jollity while having to do take after take to please Paul. When it first came out in 1968 it was one of the most popular songs on the White Album. And along with his "Blackbird" has themes and links with Caribbean blacks moved to England.
they hated working on it because Paul wanted it to be a single. so he pushed and pushed. I think they liked the song just not recording it. now maxwell they hated
@@carlcushmanhybels8159 i'll see if I can find the Casey Kasem quote
@@victorarena23 Ironically it would up being a hit single for a band called Marmalade. I'm pretty sure it was a top ten.
Hold Me Tight, Little Child, Tell Me What You See, and What You’re Doing - yes these 4 are accurate picks for Beatles weak tracks from their early years when they were being pressured to crank out songs and just coming up with whatever. These sound like exactly the type Beatles songs that were mocked in The Rutles and Spinal Tap, parody comedies I love. They also sound like many of the songs by bands trying to copy them during early 60’s. However I’d disagree on She Said and Yer Blues which to me represent Lennon at his best and are important songs in the Beatles repertoire..
George wrote Dance with you...
Actually always liked "She Said She Said"
"She Said She Said" is one of John's best of the time.
I have to agree with all of these selections. They are all pretty stale compared to the Beatles norm. Especially "Little Child" - not only was the song uninspired, but the lyrics were pretty awful.
Not all of their songs were equally cherished by the band members. Really?
A lot of those songs sound way better than "Yesterday"..
Paul is playing bass on She Said She Said. He can be heard going into the used take. He left after that, so he’s not singing on the track.
You’re Blues is great
With Ringo the Beatles were together like 8 years. All the album, all the movies, all the touring. I would prob be ready to strangle my band members doing that much in 8 years. Epically in my 20’s. They were kids for Gods sake. I don’t think any of them where in there 30’s when they broke up.
The pic at 5:20 is when George briefly turned Indian.
What your doing tell me what you see yer blues all great songs George's happy just to dance with you fantastic song hold me tight is good but not overly crazy about it
I’m must admit I thought most of those songs were album fillers, but as Beatle fans we loved it all.. but looking back in retrospect 60 years later they were album fillers. Tell me what you see was pre psychedelic John of what was to come. Yer Blues LOVE it. I personally think Let It Be was their worst album, although it had some great songs, Dig It, Dig A Pony, One After 909, Because Your Sweet and Lovely, I did not care for.
Paul will be Paul... I love them all... every song has it's purpose, time and place. The target audience was teen-agers. Everything worked. It's the effin BEATLES, shut up!
If She Said, She Said has personal bad vibes baked into for Paul then I guess he has a right not to like it, like a song that reminds you of your ex.
I agree with Paul's assessment on the first five songs. They are throw a ways and not very memorable. I disagree with what he says about She Said She Said and Yer Blues. I think both of these are well done and memorable. I truly admire him as a songwriter, singer and musician.
I agree with Paul McCartney 😮
Some of them had great parts. Just to dance with you - ah ah. Hold, hold me tight, me tight, tonight, tonight....Plus He said she said and Yer Blues were great. Just a bit dark for Paul, dealing with death.
I find it peculiar that we don’t hear Paul saying any of this or snapshots of the supposed text backing up these claims.
Paul was then (he wouldn't let John sing Oh!Darling) and is now full of himself. Think about the walrus in Lewis Carol's work Through the Looking Glass. The walrus IS the villan. Then in The Beatles Glass Onion, John sings "the walrus [is/was] Paul. Nuff Said---
Paul is a bad critic.
I’m Happy Just to Dance with you is a great early song, and Hold Me Tight is an outright early classic. I LOVE its beat and buoyant energy.
Little Child is a filler. I love Tell Me What You See. What You’re Doing is a classic! I agree that She Said, She Said is pretty cool.
Yer Blues is rubbish.
Idk, she said she said is a great song!
I like them all. It is all just Paul s opinion.
Little Child is great
So all those songs are BETTER than "You Know My Name (Look up Number)"?
*_More than a song "You Know My Name" is musical jest, or humor, and I listen to it often._*
One of the greatest musical talents ever, but these are some of my favorite Beatles songs. Maybe this is why I didn't like his material that much after the Beatles broke up.
I'm wondering why no one thought " I Am A Walrus " would be a song all of them would wish they never sang. It had lyrics that made no sense at all. ( I am the egg man I am the egg man I am the Walrus coo coo catch oo. Sitting on a corn flake.the whole entire song made no sense at all.
ok, so which song did he hate with a passion ?
you have mentioned 7 songs here- not one just song.
I believe the name of this band is spelled with a “t” not a “d”.
Paul said he dug that song. He wasn’t on the recording because he got into an argument when it was being worked on. I think it’s got its good points but it’s clearly not one of Lennon’s gems. It’s sloppily recorded, not that developed or very interesting. Regardless, the brilliant Billy Joel lists it as one of his favorites. There’s no accounting for taste.
John said he wrote granny music. Paul never does ruminate about Maxwell's Silver Hammer, does he?
Oh that Billy!!! What a character.
He just doesn't possess the sound musical judgement that real Paul had before his car crash death.
You STILL buy into that bullshit? Ridiculous.
@@davidgraham8299 Uhmmm...Dude?...Have you ever heard of a thing called a "JOKE"?
(Apparently not. Since it appears to have flown totally over your head.)
If you watch enough clips like this you will come away with the (mistaken) impression that no one in the band really liked any of their songs. For example: In a clip I saw recently, Harrison trashed nearly every McCartney song after Rubber Soul as "Paul's granny music." In another clip, Lennon trashed everything but "Yesterday."
It's unlikely that they really hated their own output - but it's always possible to find old interviews in which each member of the band was grumpy, sour, bitter, etc. Only Ringo emerges relatively unscathed -- but then, people often underrated his intelligence, emotional maturity and kindness -- so they didn't interview him as often or as deeply. The result? There's no "grumpy/bitter/sour" Ringo" interview material trashing their work. If Lennon were alive today, his opinions of various songs might also be mellow & measured.
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She Said She Said is a classic
As he ages he looks less and less like the deceased Paul McCartney
This has A.I written all over it.
yer blues is a classic. I don't get that
I'm a HUGE Beatles fan/McCartney solo music fan....but remember, he's knocking other Beatle sons and yet.... he wrote "Maxwell's Silver Hammer?" ???? Worst one ever, or right up there with the worst.
I was always hated little child too
This is clearly written by A.I.
Giving my money back for buying all his records
You and/or Paul like the descriptor- Workman much? Sheesh. Paul's opinion on most of the songs mentioned here is cracked. I think Paul is/was a bit too critical.
Would be nice if the images picked were relevant to the time from which a song discussed originates. Why such disrespect for history? Sloppy editing.
George played some truly awful Lead Guitar on She Said She Said!
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George is on the left channel/speaker!
If Paul had not walked out on the session, he would never have let George's sloppy Lead Guitar go onto the Master Tape!
Paul would have re-recorded the Lead Guitar part himself!
Paul wasn't the brightest bulb on the tree.
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McCartney has been talking garbage for a long time now. He was responsible for the worst Beatles songs and has since progressed to write such classics as "Mary had a Little Lamb" and "The Frog Chorus".
And this is exactly why I've never cared for McCartney and always really liked John Lennon Your blues is a great Anguish Gutfeld honest song something Paul was incapable of And she said she said was that McCartney never really expanded his consciousness like John lenon and George Harrison To me McCartney is the Taylor swift of the Beatles
Question 🙋 why would Paul Mccarthy care about anything ?. The man is worth billions of dollars 💵 !.
Just north of one billion.
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@@Skedawg88 💰 And counting and counting 💵 !!.
McCartney. Just your first few words makes it obvious you know nothing 😅
He cares! That’s why he’s north of a billion, …and you’re not!