Again, this isn’t a terrible song–the drumming is solid and the beat is fine. But the backing vocals are a little off, the “bop-shoe-op, bop-bop-shoe-op” just doesn’t really work for me, and the guitar solo is pretty weak. You do have to give the guys some credit for leaning so hard into “I talk about boys, yeah” without any sense of shame, or trying to play it for laughs. They loved the Shirelles and wanted to play the song nothing more, nothing less.Ģ03. His songs did improve (some) over the years, after they found a more suitable groove for his limited voice to occupy. Poor Ringo was left hanging out to dry with this one. But there has to be something that sits on the bottom, and this is it. It provides a nice bit of texture, and the circular feel of that guitar line is plenty interesting.
Still, even the worst song isn’t without its charms. On any other record, this would have been scrapped. But it hardly even seems fair to call it that. It’s only a minute long and is more an interlude than a song in its own right–a product of the sprawl that characterized the White Album. I make no claim about what is truly ‘best.’ This is just what I like the most. I went into a bit more detail about the ground rules in the original introduction if you want to know more.īut the most important thing to say: this is a subjective list. You can rank them separately if you want to me, they go together. The one minor controversy: I’ve treated the Abbey Road side two medley as one single song. Ten years on, I figured it was time to consolidate those old posts into one comprehensive list, and make a couple minor edits along the way.įor this list, I’ve ranked every studio track from the British albums and the two Past Masters collections. In the early days of this blog, I published a series of posts ranking every Beatles song from worst to first.
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