I feel bad for this post, but in order to answer a burning question, here are the songs I ranked with one star as the worst Beatles songs. Listening to these in heavy doses will give you the wrong idea about the Fab Four.

Mr. Moonlight

I reserve a fair amount of annoyance for this song. There’s so much wrong with it, from the night club vibe to the cheesy organ, or the caveman-like drum before the title lyrics. I think the Beatles had outgrown the lounge act by the time of this recording.

Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!

Another half-baked cover.

You Like Me Too Much

This is probably the first Beatles song I might say I hate. It’s cornball, and the middle always drove me up the wall with its strange resolution back to the verse. Plus, there’s that wimpy pseudo-ragtime piano trading licks with the guitar. George hadn’t hit his stride - although it appears on Help!, it’s A Hard Day’s Night material.

Dizzy Miss Lizzy

While it’s a rocking tune, with its placement right after Yesterday it fails miserably.

Dig It

This shouldn’t even be counted as a song, but it shows up as a separate track on Let It Be.

Maggie Mae

When I was a kid and watched Beatles cartoons, this sort of John goofing around thing was appealing, but feels like a mockery of the whole enterprise.

The Fool On The Hill

Some people might like this song, but I don’t, not since I turned 21. The melody is daffy, the recorder solo completely stupid, and I don’t enjoy hearing a stoned grown man discussing a fool, whom I have no sympathy for, getting dizzy watching the world go round.

Flying

This song makes me cry. “Flying”? “High”? Get it? Easily one of the worst Beatles song ever.

Blue Jay Way

You’d have to be stoned to listen to “please don’t be long” as many times as the Beatles repeat, here. Why didn’t George Martin put a stop to this? There’s a neat cello part, but that’s all. And only someone really out of it would think a song about someone hashed out, bored to death, waiting for his friends to show up, would make a good subject for a song.

Run For Your Life

I’m not really a fan of John the stalker here, threatening to hunt his lover down. It also has that country twang I’m disliking more and more. In comparison to everything else on Rubber Soul, it sounds like an afterthought.

Wild Honey Pie

This isn’t a song, nor an idea for a song, or even funny - it’s garbage. Paul could write this kind of thing in the bathroom - and it sounds like it was recorded there, too.

Rocky Raccoon

You know how I keep saying I don’t like it when the Beatles do country. This is the worst offender. I hate Paul’s Western accent, ugh. Couldn’t this song have been combined with Bungalow Bill and ended with a shoot-out, killing everyone involved?

Don’t Pass Me By

Another Ringo tune. This one, he wrote himself, which shouldn’t surprise anyone.

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