Not much to add here, except a) the song is depressing, because Paul wrote it as a consolation to Julian Lennon whose Dad had basically abandoned him for Yoko Ono and b) it’s really repetitive and tedious (“nah nah nah,” etc.).
“Hey Jude” sucks and was probably the worst Beatles song
Updated on May 10, 2020 in
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Hey Jude always annoyed me, especially the “Ju-Ju-Ju-Judy Judy” part at the end. And yet, I think it might be their top seller? Or near the top, at least.
I think it may be their biggest seller for some strange reason. The song really does suck. It’s boring, tedious, and seems to go FOREVER, yet people act like they really love it. Sort of like Maya Angelou. While we’re on the subject, how could Paul McCartney be so brilliant with the Beatles, yet suck so bad on his own.
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Aren’t the Beatles generally just overrated?
Horribly so. Their music was so basic that most five year olds can learn them in short order. Their lyrics were simple and overly repetitive. Was at an event last night where John Ratzenberger (Cliff from Cheers, and at least one voice from EVERY Pixar film) was speaking. He pointed out the greatest scam the Beatles ever played on the world in the song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
“Picture yourself in a boat on a river
“With tangerine trees and marmalade skies”
Really? Where did you hippies steal a boat, because it’s unlikely any of you studied carpentry. If you had, you would be working.
That’s just one of those things people say in an attempt to sound clever. “Isn’t Beethoven just horribly overrated?”
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Oh, Liz, Liz, Liz. It pains me to contradict you. I do consider “Hey Jude” to be one of their second tier songs (Admittedly, partly because it’s overplayed). but it’s nowhere near one of their worst. It is one of their most offensively catchy songs, though.
Off the top of my head, I might nominate “Why Don’t We Do it in the Road,” “The Long and Winding Road” or “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da.”
I think that stupid ditty about a yellow submarine is way worse than Hey Jude. And what about that posthumous release Bob Rivers parodied as “Free as a Turd?”
I was born in 1948 and was a DIE HARD BeaTles fan; in addition. I was (and still am, on occasion) in a band. This song simply SUCKS! It SUCKS in the generic sense; it sucks in the microcosm; and it sucks in the venereal [sic] sense … IT JUST SUCKS! It’s a pimp – a put-on that the BeaTles made of bucket of $ off of when they were too drugged-out to write anything with merit.
The melody is 3rd grade. The lyrics are vapid and banal; and, of the greatert offense to those of us who were gulled into thinking of the BeaTles were our “spiritual leaders,” the 17 minutes of mind-numbing NA, NA NA.. NA NA NA NA is an obvious attempt to brainwash the listener into thinking that basic keyboard finger exercises are art. Paul: FOR SMAME!!! You deserve to be a Walrus!!!
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Beatles are psychotic spiritualists and their music sucks so I hate all their songs. Hey Jude is about the Jews after the holocaust. Jude is German for Jew. Now go listen.
Paul said it was written about John Lennons son. Your interpretation of the song comes from your own mind and doesn’t reflect anything what the song was trying to convey at all. Of course, I didn’t expect any well thought out response from a guy who thinks the greatest band ever were a bunch of psychotic spiritualists.
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All these comments are so stupid. “Hey Jude” is by no means the worst Beatles song ever. Have any of you bothered to listen to revolution 9?
Hey Jude to me, has always been a heartfelt song, even it’s meaning is beautiful (it’s about John Lennons son, not Jews). Yes, the second part of the song is very repetitive and I can see why people hate this song so much, but calling it worse than a song which is literally some horrible sounding noises (revolution 9s only lyrics is “number 9”) is an insult.
Oh and let’s not forget, this song paved the way for other longer songs and is yet another example of the Beatles changing music.
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I always thought Hey Jude is if not the worst Beatles song it’s one of the worst. It’s boring and repetitive I cannot stand to even listen to it. Always amazes me that so many people love it.
I love the Beatles to me there are the Beatles and then there is everyone else, no other band even comes close to them but this song is just bad.
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