the 10 least streamed beatles tracks on spotify

vote for yr 'best'. note yr least fave in the thread as well if you wish.

bad boy.

altho slow down also rules. especially the 'brrrrrr' bit he does on the vocal. possibly nicked from Orbison or some such.

"Thank You Girl" isn't one of my favorite of the early singles, but it's probably my second favorite here after "The Inner Light." That or "Honey Don't."

Which was always a highlight on Beatles '65, wasn't it? So was "Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby."

I Call Your Name

love: john singing larry williams, ringo singing carl perkins

voted 'honey don't' as it's the only one clearly being deliberately skipped

slowly (album a day or so) relistening to the beatles catalog for the first time since the remasterings and for many of them the second time since god knows when. one thing i've really appreciating more so far is how great john is doing those old (or not so old at the time) rockers, obv just one of the great rock voices but he's clearly having so much fun and committing himself to the vocals so much. man i wish live at the bbc was on there.

Narrowed it down to Matchbox, Slow Down, Long Tall Sally or Honey Don't.

Her majesty is great!

Her Majesty has probably the highest profile on the list, if only for how it works on Abbey Road, but voted Inner Light, and have always thought it was one of the more (only?) underrated beatles songs

i like all of these, past masters vol. 1 was always a favorite, but my fav is "i'll get you" which is just so adorable

also weirdly opens with two lines that begin, respectively, "imagine..." and "it's easy..."

I Call Your Name could be in my Top 10!

Well, OK, definitely Top 25, all right?

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inner light is fantastic

I always had a soft spot for ringo's matchbox

bad boy is terrible imo

Ringo is so charming on Honey Don't, 'Rock on, George, for Ringo one time' definitely one of my favourite Beatles moments. I have no idea why that would be the most skipped track from the original albums? (aside from Her Majesty) (I'm guessing that all of this is not including the George Martin orchestral stuff on side two of Yellow Submarine?)

voted for Thank You Girl, which I don't think I'd ever heard until this week

re:Her Majesty, next poll could be which of the below was the most excruciating

Cover versions[edit]

The song has been covered by:

Chumbawamba (with a length of 1:48, including new lyrics critical of the British Royal Family and a new bridge)[6]

Peter Combe (with a length of 2:19)

Tok Tok Tok (with a length of 0:22)

Zip Code Rapists (with a length of 2:55)

Dave Matthews (with a length of 0:29 including the recital of several lines from Come Together)

Twilight Singers (with a length of 0:27)

The Low Anthem (with a length of 0:29)

Bruce Coffin (with a length of 0:25)

Beatallica (with a length of 1:20 including several references to Lou Reed and Metallica's "The View".

Eddie Vedder performed the song live on 10 April 2008 at Arlington Theater in Santa Barbara, CA, and on 16 April 2008 at Spreckels Theater in San Diego, California.

McCartney performed the song live at the Party at the Palace concert from the Garden at Buckingham Palace in 2002, as part of the celebrations of the Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II.

Comedian Dennis Miller did a cover of the song at the end of the HBO special The 13th Annual Young Comedians Special. After the credits the screen went black for 14 seconds, and he came back with a recital of the song before the video abruptly ended.

Great Big Sea performed the song live on 17 June 2012 in Cambridge, Ontario. Remaining members spontaneously broke into the song (as an interlude) when Alan Doyle's electric guitar kept cutting out a few notes into a song he was trying to begin. There were 3 repetitions as Alan's guitar would repeatedly be fixed by a roadie, and then cut out again seconds into the intended song. This caused the other band members to revise the "Her Majesty" lines more humorously each time the roadie came back on stage, e.g. "Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl, but he's got no guitar to play..."

So, all the tracks on the 'stand-alone' Long Tall Sally ep?

I voted "Slow Down" with "I call your name" in reserve.

Least fav = Her Maj but there are other beatles tracks I like less

this is a pretty okay list of songs - if "the Beatles" were some totally obscure singles act that someone found and compiled a budget-priced ten-track best-of for, i'd kinda dig this tracklist for it. the Past Masters 1 stuff here has always been their most obscure material - I remember reading about the Long Tall Sally EP in collector's guides well before I got ahold of PM1 and I daresay the overwhelming majority of people who like the Beatles have never heard "Matchbox" and never will.

of those, "Bad Boy" kinda slays for the totally bitchin' Lennon vocal, though i've always been partial to the fun he (and Paul, in the background) are having on "Slow Down." my mom remembered and liked "I'll Get You" - no surprise, b-side to one of their biggest hits. "I Call Your Name" is a nice composition but I've never heard a version of it that didn't feel at least a little bit draggy. "Honey Don't" is the only true dud here - my absolute least favorite Ringo number and also the lamest of their attempts at country. voting "bad boy."

also "Honey Don't" notable as the only track here that's smack in the middle of a regular album - people have to be actively skipping it! ouch.

oops two people have already made that point i see

"Bad Boy" super fun to play in a dive bar dance band.

That's a Larry Williams song, philistine

*smh disproportionately*

Rumor had it that Carl Perkins plays on "Matchbox." I kinda doubt it; why would they waste such an anticipated collaboration on such a throwaway performance?

Always loved "Thank You Girl," the Beatles Second Album stereo mix (a couple of added harmonica bits here and there, and generally more raving-sounding). Ringo's bit at the end is killer, his finest let-off-the-leash moment until "Rain." And "Long Tall Sally" is easily the equal of "Twist and Shout" or "Money."

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"Her Majesty" is the most throwaway of these - I bet even Macca would agree!

"Bellybutton Window" is Jimi Hendrix's own "Her Majesty". told from an in-the-womb perspective, I think it would have been perfect as a "Her Majesty"-style afterthought positioned at the end of First Rays Of The New Rising Sun, outside the birth/death cycle bookended by "Freedom" and "Hey Baby (Land Of The New Rising Sun)".

The entire Long Tall Sally EP! That is one the best things they ever did.

seconded! funny that "I Call Your Name" is the only non-original on it - does fit well with the A Hard Day's Night sound.

recently listened to Please Please Me for first time in ages and John's cold was much more apparent: husky, deeper, raw voice.

*sigh*

"Bellybutton Window" is fantastic.

I once saw the Rock-A-Fire Explosion cover Abbey Road one night. The robotic animals sang the chorus to "The End" and the curtains closed. The lights came on, and I started bugging my step-dad for more tokens. Before I knew it, the lights went out again and Billy Bob's curtain opened up. He sang "Her Majesty", the curtains closed, and the lights came on again.

My step-dad just sat there slack-jawed.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, April 20, 2004 11:46 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oops, meant to say the "only original" above of course...

"Her Majesty" is the most throwaway of these - I bet even Macca would agree!

It literally was: it was edited off the end of "Mean mister mustard" (the big clang is that song's final chord), and it ended up on the final mix because an engineer mistook it for a bit of unused tape and stuck it on the end as lead-out.

George is great on "Honey Don't"! I like it.

It's Ringo.

Oh wait probably you're talking about the guitar.

Shocked that "Thank You Girl" was in the bottom 10

i think a lot of ppl just kind of overlook these songs and don't bother to seek them out -- i can't imagine that a lot of ppl would sincerely prefer, e.g., "revolution 9" or "wild honey pie" or any number of weaker numbers on more visible albums to "thank you girl" or "i'll get you." also kind of surprised "you know my name (look up the number)" isn't on here even tho i actually really love it.

Dunno, Rev9 was the top track on the White Album poll, a few years ago.

thank you girl and i'll get you are both so good; best when listened to in the context of The Beatles Second Album though, with the Dexter reverb.

^this

But also:
Thingumybob wuz robbed

I've been trying to work out how I knew (by 1976 or so) the early b-sides and the Long Tall Sally EP, since I didn't own them on the original vinyl releases and I hadn't heard the U.S. LPs (which featured some of them).

"Bad Boy" was on Oldies But Goldies, which I had on cassette. the Long Tall Sally EP was on the Rock 'N' Roll Music 2LP comp released mid-1976, which I also owned. but Rarities wasn't out yet and I didn't get it until later.

only thing I can think of was some kind soul taped them for me off the singles and that kind soul was Father Paul Watson, Prefect Of Discipline (and pioneer of the local folk mass!) at boarding school...

wonder what Ian McDonald thinks of them - I'm almost afraid to look!