<i>Entertainment Weekly</i> Lists Best and Worst Beatles Songs

Glass Onion and Ob-La-DiOb-La-Da would make my worst list. On the other hand, the Pixies cover of "Wild Honey Pie" may be the best Beatles cover ever.

No Sgt. Pepper intro either... what a weak list.

Eff that list.

Nothing wrong with "Flying" or "Love".

They do have "A Day in the Life" at #2, I think that covers Sgt. Pepper.

Some interesting choices, but a couple of questionable ones near the bottom of the list: axe "I'm Down" in favor of "Don't Let Me Down," and I think there are a few better tunes than "I'm So Tired" off The White Album that aren't on the list.

The problem with any "worst of the Beatles" list is that it's inevitably filled with recognizable songs. The makers of such lists aren't really trying to tell you which of the Beatles songs are the worst, just which of the songs YOU RECOGNIZE are "the worst".

For example, there's no way in hell that "All you need is love" is worse than, say, "Everybody's got something to hide except me and my monkey" from the White Album. But since a list of their TRULY worst would consist entirely of songs nobody remembers, (and therefore would be boring) we instead get lists filled songs that really aren't that bad- I've seen "worst of the Beatles" lists with Yellow Submarine and Octopus's Garden on them, for hell's sakes. Those songs might not be the best the Beatles ever did, but there's no way they're worse than "Hey Bulldog", for example.

"All You Need is Love" is on both lists.

why?

Worst song ever - "Run For Your Life" - which promotes domestic violence. I realize things were different in the 1960's and I think if John were here today he would admit its lyrics were inappropriate... A Day in the Life is their masterpiece, as well as the Abbey Road suite... All You Need is Love twice - why - because it can be bad or good depending on how you look at it.

Good job guys. You can't please everyone. However, overall it's a good, fair list. I

I like "Run for Your Life" and I never considered it to be promoting domestic violence until the douchebag above mentioned it. That's also a pretty shallow reason for calling it the worst Beatles song of all time. My vote goes to "Octopus's Garden" or "Hey Bulldog".

To Joey - 'All You Need Is Love' is on both lists for one of two reasons. Either a) Entertainment Weekly figured in their journalistic arrogance that they were being all-stars of irony by having a song on both lists (to show EW's ability to recognize the 'impactive duality' of a pop song) or b) putting it on the worst list was a typo, and they actually meant to list 'Revolution No. 9'.
To Sam - I'm very surprised that it took the 'douchebag above' to turn you on to the fact that 'Run For Your Life' promotes violence. What part of "I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man" or "Catch you with another man, and that's the end" or, oh yeah, THE TITLE did you not understand?

I must be tasteless. Somebody let me know what's wrong with Hey Bulldog. I always liked that one. Sounds like a domestic dispute made into rocknroll but domestic disputes dont usually sound good. So what's wrong with it?