Those are more funny than "bad."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h95Gb-6Qje0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtWqqkbpZRM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZTh4-pSpGo

enjoy   

And supposedly this is a deliberately bad band:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eif0AY_8Weg

Believe it or not, but Wikipedia actually has a list of albums and songs considered the worst of all time
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_music_considered_the_worst

I checked out one of the bands in that list.

Beware:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViSZI6UJEUQ

Believe it or not, but Wikipedia actually has a list of albums and songs considered the worst of all time
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_music_considered_the_worst

With the release of the dreadfully gag inducing "Chinese Food" by Alison Gold (View here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWLhrHVySgA) a few days ago, discussions of what may be the worst song ever started yet again, with many saying this is the worst ever.
In my opinion, I'm sure I've heard worse, but I can understand the people's views. 
I have yet to decide what I personally believe to be the worst song of all-time, but I would be very interesting in seeing your opinion on the worst

That one had a link to another candidate. The thumbs up-thumbs down ratio is, ermm, interesting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSBq8geuJk0

How about Kooki Plopz with "This is the Song I Made."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pehHOqx7JXg

I disagree completely. To me, the first chorus and the bicycle rider choruses are the best part of the song!

[You've released quite a few albums and DVDs over the last 10 years. What's inspired you to be so productive?]

Even then, though, Brian can be ruthlessly efficient in interviews. When I interviewed him back in 2009, I tried to have a bunch of questions meant to draw him out -- and he still managed to finish up in about six minutes.


http://www.concordmonitor.com/article/six-minutes-with-brian-wilson

I loved this line!

You've released quite a few albums and DVDs over the last 10 years. What's inspired you to be so productive?

"Well, my synthesizer sounds so good that it makes me write good songs."

 

Well, there's no accusing him of yakking away and rambling on about off-topic stuff, is there.

OMG .....

[A flood of flat-sevenths]

Interesting for music nerds.

A flood of flat-sevenths

An overload of chords.

 Now we have grown used to them, but at the time of their release the songs on Revolver evoked many startled comments. For a moment even McCartney himself seemed overcome with doubts:

"... I was in Germany on tour just before Revolver came out. I started listening to the album and I got really down because I thought the whole thing was out of tune. Everyone had to reassure me that it was all okay" (Garbarini, 1980).

So even to McCartney the songs of the album, or at least some of them, seemed out of key. It was not the first time this remark was made in respect to the Beatles' songs. Other people had said the same thing before of the group's early songs. From the start of their career the Beatles filled their songs with daring harmonic experiments and that to some people did made their songs go wrong. To Classical trained critics, the songs sounded harsh and sometimes even downright out of key. Blues-oriented critics complained that the Beatles did not apply the right blue notes. Others, however, liked the songs for that very same reason. To their ears the compositions of the Beatles, though harmonically adventurous, were also remarkably melodious.

In their own way both the critical and the affirmative responses to the Beatles' songs were right. The musical style of the Beatles was so new and unusual, that one had to get used to it. To enjoy their songs one's ears first had to learn the musical grammar and to adapt to the underlying musical structure of the harmonies. What was so special about the Beatles' harmonies? The sheer number of chords the Beatles performed in their compositions, offers a first clue for an answer to that question. Compared with the standards of earlier popular music, the Beatles' songs show far too many chords. Most simple harmonies are built upon the three basic chords: the tonic (I), the subtonic (IV) and the dominant (V).

just a few months shy of his 81st birthday

Well, who can be surprised?

Nice career though, that's for sure.

^ Good points fool, never would have thought of the Jane Asher influence that way myself!

Rubber Soul is one of my top 1 or 2 favorite Beatle albums, but I don't find that it doesn't get the respect it deserves. I consider it to be "properly rated." It does get a lot of respect, after all, at least by most critics.

[this]

Without a doubt, this. More than any other song this makes me completely break down.

That said, I think it's emotional impact is as much in its beauty as its sadness.

Over rated: Abbey Road
Under rated: Hard to say, maybe Help!

[The Beatles and Stockhausen]

The Beatles and Stockhausen

Paul McCartney claims in several statements that he was the first Beatle to discover Stockhausen's music. Sir Paul
has named GESANG DER JUNGLINGE as his favorite Stockhausen work. McCartney probably introduced the late
John Lennon to Stockhausen's music in mid-1966. Lennon was also greatly influenced by Stockhausen. HYMNEN
was Lennon's inspiration for REVOLUTION #9 on the Beatles' White Album.

[Stockhausen]

In regards to Paul McCartney's experimental recordings:  I'm not sure who exactly inspired them...

Supposedly McCartney had been listening to some Stockhausen around that time.

[Carnival of Light]

And then there is Carnival of Light which, AFAIK, is the only truly unreleased Beatles full track left (as opposed to alternative mixes, early days jams and the like). Somewhere else I read that there exists only 2 copies of it - McCartney has a copy and I think maybe Geoff Emerick has the other. And Paul has said that it will, in fact, be released someday.

The world awaits.

EDIT: The Wiki article states there is also a master version at Abbey Road studios. So maybe there's 3 copies?

Another nice one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VihSZuHQvDY

Surprised not to see anyone mention the BBC4 documentary we did on Dennis  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClBfaGPD0mI  I remain proud of the job we all did on it.

I've watched that. Great job!

[Shameless promotion of my own posts on the Music Banter forum]

Shameless promotion of my own posts on the Music Banter forum (which I've linked here before, but might as well do another shameless promotion in this thread too).

BTW, I've noticed if you do a google search for "Beatles vs The Beach Boys," that page I linked ^above^ is the very first search result! I'm famous!

/shameless promotion

C'mon! They were all still teenagers! Give 'em a break!

Surprised no one has mentioned one of the greatest pop singles of the 1960's...

"The Girl I Knew Somewhere" by the Monkees, featuring Peter Tork on harpsichord. And had record biz politics not interfered with their original plans, the other side of that single would have been "All Of Your Toys"...the great single that never was which featured a harpsichord intro that was also a fantastic rhythmic and harmonic hook of the song, again played by Peter Tork.

On the TV show, they once rigged up a harpsichord onto a bicycle for Peter to drive around as he was trying to woo Julie Newmar,  the episode which featured "The Girl I Knew Somewhere" as the musical montage.

Has anyone ever heard the alternate version of this song? I like it better than the released one - for starters, the harpsichord line is much clearer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Doibz5eVNmc

Oh yeah...I've checked out every link in this thread...found some great stuff there (thanks again, everybody!)

This is one of the nerdiest Beatles websites I've encountered:
http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/awp-beatles_canon.shtml