If you’ve ever been in a band, you’re probably more than familiar with the feeling of hating at least one of your songs. It’s an unavoidable part of being an artist. And with a discography as rich as The Beatles’, it only makes sense that there would be a few songs that the Fab Four’s members hated. Let’s look at four examples! They might just surprise you.
1. “Dig A Pony”
This track from Let It Be by The Beatles is one of many songs that John Lennon openly admitted that he hated. At the time, he was dealing with drug addiction and was more or less done with The Beatles as a band. He likely wasn’t fond of a lot of the music that made it to those particular sessions. According to Lennon, he hated “Dig A Pony”, a more or less nonsensical song that he described as “a piece of garbage”.
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2. “Hold Me Tight”
Paul McCartney rarely had a bad thing to say about the Fab Four’s music. However, there have been a few songs through the years that he just didn’t vibe with. A song would have to be particularly bad for McCartney to even mention it, but he did mention “Hold Me Tight”. Specifically, he said that he couldn’t remember very much about the song.
“Certain songs were just ‘work’ songs… you haven’t got much of a memory of them,” said McCartney. Lennon had an even worse sentiment for this track, saying it was “a pretty poor song.”
3. “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer”
Paul McCartney notably loved this song and wanted it to be perfect. However, the band as a whole was sick of his pursuit of musical perfection, and they particularly hated “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer”. John Lennon told Playboy that he hated the song because McCartney “made [them] do it a hundred million times.” Ringo Starr and George Harrison agreed that it was “the worst session ever.”
4. “Good Morning Good Morning”
Yet another song that Lennon didn’t love was “Good Morning Good Morning” from Sgt. Pepper. It’s definitely not the strongest track on that album, but Lennon was pretty raw about how much he hated it. He said that it was “garbage” and simply came to be because Lennon had a song due and a Corn Flakes commercial came on.
“It’s a throwaway, a piece of garbage, I always thought,” Lennon said in an interview in 1980. “I always had the TV on very low in the background when I was writing, and it came over, and then I wrote the song.”
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