Beatles Fans Top 10 Least Liked Beatles Songs 

Blue Jay Way does not deserve to be on this list. It's an amazing track, ahead of its time.

I never knew people disliked Maxwell until now. The juxtaposition of an upbeat/light pop song with the darkness of the lyrics is brilliant.

I love Maxwell's Silverhammer. English isn't my native language so when I heard it as a child I didn't understand the lyrics but the melody always made me happy. Decades later when I had learned English and actually got the lyrics, I found the clash between the happy melody and the dark lyrics hilarious.

I CANNOT stand how Blue Jay Way is on most of these lists. It’s one of the greatest psychedelic songs of all time. Such a spooky/trippy vibe, It’s one George should’ve been very proud of.

The Beatles are kind of like Mozart. The “bad songs” are more like failed yet interesting attempts but very much a worthwhile listen to get the greater context of their songwriting genius. What’s crazy is the Beatles gave away more hits than their relatively small number of “bad songs”.

I LOVE You Know My Name (Look up the Number)! I'm with Paul here. Actually one of my favourites. I disagree with most of these top 10 picks, but everybody does indeed have their own likes and dislikes. Love your background stories however. Happy Easter sir.

'What Goes On' has that great rockabilly guitar on it, love it.

Personally, I love much of what John referred to as 'Paul's granny shit'. If Lennon had written 'Maxwell's Silver Hammer' it would probably be hailed as a work of genius. As you said in your introduction, Andrew, there aren't any 'worst' Beatles tracks, just some we like less than others. That sums it up for me.

Tell Me What You See's inclusion is insane to me. I love that track and had no idea it wasn't liked by so many. The harmonies are so good

I am telling you guys, what many will say the Beatles' worst song is better than many artists' best! And I love Run For Your Life.

The full version of You Know My Name is one of my favorite tracks, you can feel the energy of John and Paul's friendship even at a time when their relationship wasn't at their best (mid 1969). The fact that they decided to pick up a track from two years prior and spend a day adding silly voices to it, just to have fun, is still amazing to me.

I LOVE Don’t Pass Me By, my favorite Ringo song. I refuse to believe people skip that track.

I do like "You like me too much" and "Run for your life".

Always loved the Help album, and both George’s songs….I like ‘ you like me too much’ and ‘ I need you’ , what’s not to like? 👍

Andrew, I used to absolutely hate Revolution 9. But a little podcast called Discord and Rhyme changed my mind about it. If you listen to it as a mini-suite alongside Cry Baby Cry and Good Night, it's actually a child going to bed and experiencing the nightmare, which is Revolution 9. Good Night is the lullabye than calms the child back to sleep. That was a genius move on John's part of the White Album.

"You Like Me Too Much" is a great song! Yayyyy George! I recorded on my compilation CD!

Cant believe Long and winding road nearly made the list . I think this is one of Pauls finest songs.

I really like the ‘Within You Without You’ mash up with TNKs on the LOVE soundtrack.

Tell Me What You See has always been a deeply moving song to me. John and Paul's voices harmonize so powerfully and emotionally.

I’ve always loved Blue Jay Way, and the story behind it! ❤

There aren't really any Beatles songs that I don't like. I just happen to like some more than others. I appreciate and love them all. Thank you again, Andrew ! Great video.

Wild Honey Pie is too short for me to be bothered by. It's wacky, fun, and adds some personality to the album.

There are no bad Beatles songs..some are just better than others

Blue jay way is extremely psychedelic and meaningful I think.

Many of the so-called bad songs are by and large decent songs. The Beatles wrote so many genuinely great, classic gems that many of lesser songs mentioned are still better than other's top tier tunes. Wonderful presentation!

I knew that "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" would be #1 but I honestly love it because of how messed up it is. The paradox of a song with such a happy tune being about a homicidal maniac.

Eesh! Justice for Maxwell’s Silver Hammer! ✊

Very interesting subject and well-done on your part, Andrew. 👍 For me, on a personal level, this is a hard road to go down because I love almost everything The Beatles released. I look at some of these tracks in the context of the entire catalog. There is so much variety in the band's library and that is one of the reasons (to me) that their wonderful canon of music stays fresh. Good job, mate!

Never knew that Wild Honey Pie made the cut because Patti liked it. Strange to think that thevl band would spend twenty four hours working on a sequence for these songs running order and such considerations were made. Of course, if it were not for Patti introducing George, and therefore the Beatles to meditation, there would have been a very different album made without the impetus to go to India. She was there for pretty much the entire Beatles experience and is overlooked in importance in favour of Asher, Ono and Eastman... Even Mo gets a shoutout... Say the words Patti and George to most fans and the focus is always on the breakup and Clapton, but she was so much more than that to a figure that despite the lyric, needed someone. A real member of the inner circle, not really given her due.

In my seventh-grade music class in 1982, my teacher Mr. Scatenato had us study Maxwell's Silver Hammer. He passed out copies of the score so we could follow along while he played the song on the Abbey Road LP. He regarded it as one of the Beatles' greatest songs, right up there with Eleanor Rigby, which he also had us study. 12-year-old me agreed. I loved Maxwell's Silver Hammer then, and I still love it today. But then, I've always been partial to dark comedy. ;)

I never had issue with these songs. Enjoy them all for their originality an quirkiness. Love them all.

I can't fault people for hating on Yellow Submarine at all. It's only fondly remembered because the movie made it iconic; it's an objectively ghastly song. Revolution 9 I have mixed feelings about. Some times I think it's delightfully artistic madness, some times I think it's just "weird for the sake of weird." My favorite things about it are, not only being succeeded by Goodnight as you said, but also the pitter-pattering end of Cry Baby Cry that unsuspectingly leads into it, as if tiptoeing into a haunted forest. What Goes On is criminally underrated.

You Like Me Too Much has always been a favorite of mine! Really love the George and Paul harmonies on that track!

YOU LIKE ME TOO MUCH - I couldn't stand this one forever, I usually skipped it. Then one day the tune went through my head and I liked the chords, it sounded nice. It's still not as strong as anything else he ever wrote, even "Don't Bother Me" or "Baby I Love You" (In 1982's Gone Troppo), but Don't Bother Me has some great drumming and Baby I Love You is...cute. Now I like "You Like Me Too Much". No complaints TELL ME WHAT YOU SEE - Are you kidding? A least favorite? The first time I heard it was on "Love Songs". It was either right before or right after "Every Little Thing", so I usually welded the two together, initially confusing the two until I'd listened to them at least 600 times 😅. RUN FOR YOUR LIFE - Detractors don't know what they're talking about. It was an eye-opener, an ear-popper, it was pretty funny, too, with a wicked acoustic riff and electric guitar solo in the same track.

Always loved Maxwell’s Silver Hammer

I must say, I consider, “you like me too much” and, “tell me what you see” to be two of the Beatles, finer “comfort food” songs. That is, they are just so relaxing and have enough interesting nuances in the melodies and chords to satisfy my musical cravings. Hence, “comfort food”!

As "Let It Be" was on most jukeboxes in the 1970's, "You Know My Name..." was played a lot and was always a favorite in public settings.

This is no new revelation: These “worst” songs would be crowning achievements for any other band.

A couple of years ago I asked members of a Beatles Facebook group to name their least favorite Beatles songs (I was careful to phrase it that way). Though some participated, more than few group members were very angry about my request, and ultimately I left the group. The angry members were just being too precious about Beatles songs, something I think the Beatles themselves would find silly.

That's funny, Maxwell's Silver Hammer is on my list of favorite songs! It's so ironic!

Octopuses Garden is also solely credited to Ringo, although George did help to write.

You Know My Name works SO WELL as an epilogue for The Beatles’ discography. Every time the piano starts the final verse my eyes tear up.

Love Blue Jay Way! It's the height of Psyche-Beatle-Delia ! The production and mix makes the song happen.

Genuinely very shocked to hear you only have 60K subscribers. That's criminal for such quality work. Also, I love Ob-la-di and Maxwell's silver hammer and I think Revolution 9 is wonderful.

What goes on is one of my personal favorite Beatles songs! It's one of the few Beatles tunes with an authentic 50s sound. The lead guitar line (Scotty Moore style) still sounds rich & beautiful & it's one of Ringo's best vocal performances. Man, what a great way to start side two of Rubber Soul

Great video Andrew, as always. 'Mr Moonlight'...dreadful! Yet it promises so much with Lennon's empassioned opening scream! Would love to have heard a better song in its place like a version of 'Some Other Guy' or 'I'll Be On My Way'.

Maxwell's Silver Hammer is surreal genius! People have no tester...

My parents were huge Beatles fans to the point I think I was confused whether they were family friends. I was born a couple months before they appeared on Ed Sullivan so they were always around. I loved Maxwell’s as I had very macabre humor as a kid. Look up Gashlicrumb Tinies to get an idea of one of my favorite books. The only song I really ever disliked was Piggies and only that because the chord change organ coda at the end came across as an audio jump scare.

Maxwell is a banger!

25+ years ago this list would've looked much different. Other than a couple of surprises in this list (Revolution 9 didn't top the list? no Mr. Moonlight?) - the biggest difference is the general opinion of Within You Without You. It used to regularly pop up on "least liked" Usenet lists and was always "the one on Sgt Pepper that always gets skipped). What a change to now being revered and loved!!

As a fan of the macabre, I'm quite fond of Maxwell's Silver Hammer. It's a twisted little beast.

When it comes to bad Beatles songs, there's Revolution 9, and then there's everything else.

What Goes On? Those interwoven guitars are endlessly relistenable.

I agree with a lot of this list, but Maxwell's Silver Hammer being at #1 feels illegal.

Your number one is literally mine and my late father's favorite Beatles song. I get why other people may not like it, but I've always found it more campy than anything else. It was also one of the first songs I taught myself to play on piano as a kid because I loved it so much! Great list though!! Keep up the great work! 😊

I love 'You know my name (look up the number)! It's so cool and fun. Isn't there a longer version out there?

You Know my Name is a treasure! At least we have one song featuring Denis O'Bell 😉

Thanks a lot for your work on this amazing list. You can't be blamed for the songs on that list. It's an instering summary of other peoples votes. But I have to confess: "You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)" is still one of my Beatles' favorites. Maybe it's because it's one of the last Beatles songs I came about to discover in my youth. And I loved from the very beginning. I wonder why Giles Martin didn't pick any opportunity to remix this song in proper stereo. Keep going on your great work and keep on rockin' Love & peace from Germany :-)

The very fact that it matters 60 years later. Still remarkable and still fresh.

Yet another great video, Andrew...from the best Beatles RU-vid channel EVER...and among the best RU-vid channels in the world... Keep it up!! I hope this channel goes on for years and years. Every time I watch a new Parlogram video, I feel cheerful and listen to tons of Beatles that very day!! 🙂

I can still listen to Maxwell's Silver Hammer but in retrospect, I think offering Come And Get It to The Beatles would have been a better choice. By the way, I'm sure glad If You Got Troubles was never released at the time. That one while interesting to hear the outtake on Anthology, is flat-out bottom of the barrel material.

I love "You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)"! Many years ago when I read the song was originally 6 minutes 10 seconds long I hoped someday it would be released. Thankfully on 'Anthology' all the missing bits were there, but it faded too early, so I edited it all together in Adobe Soundbooth and I really enjoy listening to the full track. It really is more of a comedy skit than a pop song, in five sections, and I'm sorry the nightclub crooner Paul is hysterical!

Congratulations Andrew on reaching 60k 🎥 👏 Just a superb informative channel. Thank you 🙏

Great video. As a lifelong Beatles fan, it's true that there's songs we don't listen to as much as the others. However, the thing with the Beatles is that even when they do songs that aren't as outstanding as their best, even their "worst" is still really good. Because they were just so fantastic as a band, there's always something in every track that appeals to the ear for me.

"You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)" is such a classic! I'm definitely OK with Maxwell at #1.

Another brilliantly produced video from Parlogram

How they picked " Revolution #9 & wild honey pie " over George's " not guilty " is beyond me. I always like " you like me too much " & " run for your life " but you must hear them with young 10 / 11 year old ears , that's my age back then. " i'll kill ya " his jokes kill me , we're gonna murder the other team , etc., was just a way of saying you were mad back then. No one took it literally and the murder rate was lower among juveniles then. Its grown ups that have really screwed up things y'know.... And I still don't trust anyone over 30 !!! Lol. Another great video. I really enjoy your channel.

@Parlogram I’m deciding to single out three Beatles tunes.. As a Beatles fan, Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da is one I don’t mind hearing once or twice a year. I don’t need to hear it outside of listening to the album. Same thing with Hey Jude. I know people love it, and I can see why, but after 1-2 minutes of the na-na-na’s, I don’t see a point in listening to it any further. I didn’t like The Long and Winding Road for a while, until I heard the Let It Be Naked version, which made me appreciate it more than I used to.

I can still picture my mam coming into my room with a worried look everytime Revolution 9 played (I was 8). 😂

I wasn't a fan of Honey Pie, but it grew on me years later. Same with Within You Without You. I was fascinated with Revolution 9. I guess I loved the weird songs like Wild Honey Pie, You Know My Name (Look Up The Number) and the then unreleased song "What A Shame Mary Jane Had A Pain At The Party. Songs (to me) that was poorly produced was the orchestra Phil Spector tracks. I seem to skip those tracks.

"You Know My Name," rear side of "Let IT Be," 45.

Fun video Andrew. I for one would love to hear Paul play Maxwell's Silver Hammer live. Grumbles aside, I guarantee we'd all be singing along.

I absolutely love “You Like Me Too Much” and “Run For Your Life”. I thought for sure “Mr. Moonlight” would have been #1. - Roger

I can’t be the only person to sing along to Revolution 9 when it comes on in the car 😂

Revolution 9 is the only track I regularly skip, and the only one I don't have on my portable player.

Bravo!! This is magically done, even though it's an uneasy topic. As I've gotten older, it's a cover that gets my vote as least liked, and it's "Mr. Moonlight." Nothing really wrong with the Beatles' version, but have you heard The Hollies' version? It really rocks.

Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da would be greatly missed from the White Album. It is charming, has a great melody, arrangement and vocals plus one of the most infectious chorusses, ever. If John didn't care for it, it's not evidenced by his enthusiastic background vocals, and he apparently came up with the perfect, fanfare-like opening piano riff. I was a teenager when it was released and my parents weren't big Beatles fans, but they both loved this song and it softened their opinions of the Beatles thereafter.

Fun topic Andrew. Thanks. :- ) When I first heard "You Know My Name" I thought it was an intentional attempt by them to write and record a rotten song on purpose to break the Beatles myth. Maxwell to me is a fine song that I feel people used to like until Lennon trashed it. Then is was 'uncool' to like it. As George wrote.. "Think for yourself." I'm a first generation fan and remember it that way.

I could easily pick 10 from the White Album and I’m a huge Beatles fan.

Always entertaining and informative! I so look forward to Sunday mornings. Thanks, Andrew!

As bad as some say those songs are, I'd be willing to bet that if The Beatles took all of those "bad" songs and put them on one LP, It probably would have topped the charts. Also, you hit it right on the head by saying that as bad a some folks feel that those songs are, I'd rather listen to them than to switch stations on my car stereo. Oh, but to put Little Child on that list will make me lose some sleep! That lyric.... When you're by my side you're the only one, don't you run and hide, just come on, come on..... That lyric is so very much the style of bad boy rock and roll at that time!

Never understood the dislike for “you like me too much”. It’s a fun little ditty with some dumb but charming lyrics.

I love “You Know My Name (Look up the number), “Tell Me What You See” and “You Like Me Too Much”. I understand people choosing “You Know My Name…” but if you don’t appreciate it, I’m sorry. Even mentioning “The Long and Winding Road” is insane to me because it’s one of my favorites but when looking at these lists, you have to realize there are a lot of factors that weigh-in other than the song itself like where people are in their lives at the time they hear a song, emotionally and literally. I know it’s true for me. When it came out, a lot of the lyrics in “The Long and Winding Road” really hit home for me for my own personal reasons. Bottom line, it’s really interesting to see how all of this nets out, agree with it or not. Thanks for the video “Messenger”!

Hi, Gaz here again from Melbourne/Australia. Great video. The main thing I've just thought about, is all the work that you do putting your clips together. The research, the editing etc. Luv your work. GAZ

'Tell me what you see' is a great track

Why do we need more negativity? Let’s just enjoy music for what it is.

Sexy Sadie should be on the list, but not Maxwell's Silver Hammer, which is a wonderful song.

John has said in an interview that the worst Beatle song to him was "Dizzy Miss Lizzy". He thought it was cheap and disposable. Personally, i feel that song should have been vetoed as a track. It would have been far ballsy for the "Help" album to end on a downer with "Yesterday" than a sappy send-off to the album with "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" which is a lazy surface level cover song that had nothing really to say. That song was already an oldie that they performed during the Silver Beatles period that didn't need to be revisited for a great transitional album like "Help".

No matter what songs wind up on a "worst Beatles song" list, you'll find someone who'll say the song is great and it's their favorite. Even "Revolution 9," which is the only one I still actively avoid.

I wish that I could write songs as good as the Beatles worst songs .

Revolution No. 9, absolutely the worst! My sister-in-law used to live in a place named Maxwell, guess what I sang when we passed it? I had a roommate for a while, she was blind, so music was very important to her and she always just laughed and laughed while I was singing it. Not a great singer here, but you know how it is. I wrote a bit of Beatles' fanfic and named it "Run For Your Life." I wrote another one named "Everybody's Got Something To Hide..." They are completely fiction. All I can say about my Beatles' fanfic... they are at least not slash.

The Long and Winding Road is one of my absolute Beatles favourites. So full of majestic, solemn beauty as it literally travels along a winding musical road to "the door" - but because Beatles catered to such diverse musical taste, there will be fans who prefer stuff like Helter Skelter, Come Together etc. and for those, the Long and Winding Road must surely be... not very popular 😉 Generally I love the most melodic ones (and that includes songs that are often considered "fruity" like Ob-La-Di, Maxwell's, When I'm 64 etc.) and dislike the heaviest stuff, lsd-influenced tracks as well as the Hare Krishna-things.

Never understood why What Goes On is so disliked. I think it’s underrated, actually. The Help! picks I kinda expected, but I’d ad I’ve Just Seen A Face as well. And TBH, Maxwell’s Silver Hammer isn’t my least favourite, but it is on the Abbey Road album.

Maxwell’s Silver Hammer, Ballad of John and Yoko, She’s So Heavy, Blue Jay Way, and Revolution 9.

The intro of You Like Me Too Much always made me think of a stranger coming into the saloon in a Wild West film!

Fight the real enemy: Mr Moonlight!

Ah man! I always found You Know My Name to be such a funny track. It makes me too happy to ever call it bad 😉. But the people have spoken i suppose.

One of the biggest regrets of my life is my failing both the Beatles and John Cage. I once asked Cage during a Q&A after a performance of some of his piano compositions at Boston’s Museum of Fine Art, “Were you surprised when John Lennon came up with ‘Revolution 9’?” He answered “I wasn’t surprised because I wasn’t paying attention.” The audience laughed-why would Cage, a serious avant-garde composer, listen to the Beatles? But I knew that Cage had shared a wall when he and John and Yoko lived on Bank Street in Manhattan and that Cage had had to ask John to please take his loudspeakers off that wall because it was transmitting into Cage’s apartment. (Later I learned that John would go next door to use Cage’s telephone so as to talk without being heard by the FBI who were tapping John’s.) I had assumed that Lennon would’ve at some point played Cage the Beatles track that was most Cagean, but I was wrong. I should’ve gone to Cage’s place to play it to him myself, but, because I’m a hodophobe (I hate/fear travel), I didn’t. Later Cage was commissioned to compose THE BEATLES 1962-1970. I asked him what he was using as his source for the Beatles sheet music, bought a copy of the book myself, and was dismayed to find “Revolution 9” was the only track omitted because the Japanese transcribers couldn’t figure out a way to transcribe it. I’m sure that had Cage heard it he would have worked out a way to represent it in his piece. Paul has credited Cage as an influence upon the SGT. PEPPER’S album; would that they had put a photo of him on the cover-they included Stockhausen.

Hi Andrew... normally I never comment on these kinds of things, but this time I will make an exception. I am a bit surprised that "Yes It Is" didn't make it into your top 10 worst Beatles tunes. Whenever I hear it, I think two things, in this order: 1) Man, the boys must havd been *really* tired. And 2) Being able to sing that microtonally out of tune just proves what excellent singers they were. Cheers, and keep up the good work!

I'm amazed that "Mr. Moonlight" and "Hold Me Tight" aren't quoted. As the chart was running down, I was starting to expect them to be the top two. "Tell Me What You See", "You Like Me Too Much" and even "Maxwell" are much more enjoyable than "Dig It" and "Maggie Mae". My ten most dispensable Beatles tracks: 10. Dizzy Miss Lizzie 9. All Together Now 8. Misery 7. I Wanna Be Your Man 6. Dig It 5. Maggie Mae 4. Hold Me Tight 3. Mr Moonlight 2. Revolution #9 1. You Know My Name