Beatles: the eight songs Paul McCartney never loved

Even Paul McCartney, one of the most celebrated songwriters in the history of pop music, hasn't always been kind to his own creations. Over the years, the former Beatle has admitted that some of the songs he wrote during his career weren't particularly successful, at times judging them with surprising harshness. In 2015, interviewed by Q magazine, McCartney even named "Bip Bop", from the 1971 album "Wild Life", as the worst song he'd ever written, dismissing its lyrics with a blunt verdict: "The words are really embarrassing".
But his reservations aren't limited to his solo output. Even in the Beatles' catalogue, amid immortal masterpieces and lesser-known tracks, there are compositions McCartney has since downsized in his own estimation, viewing them as mere filler, unconvincing experiments, or songs born more out of record-label demands than genuine inspiration.
The American magazine Ultimate Classic Rock has gathered eight such instances, piecing together the statements in which the Liverpool musician explained his misgivings. These aren't necessarily songs McCartney hates outright: in some cases what comes through is disappointment with the final result, memories of tension in the studio, or simply the awareness of having written something less than memorable.

Here are the 8 Beatles songs McCartney never loved, according to Ultimate Classic Rock (full feature here).

8. The Beatles – I'm Happy Just to Dance With You ("A Hard Day's Night", 1964) McCartney: "That was one of those songs written to please the fans, one of our less favorite ones".

7. The Beatles – Little Child ("With the Beatles", 1963) McCartney considered it a straightforward, workmanlike song, written to meet record-label demands.

6. The Beatles – Tell Me What You See ("Help!", 1965) McCartney: "Not particularly memorable. It wasn't one of our best songs, but it did its job".

5. The Beatles – Hold Me Tight ("With the Beatles", 1963) McCartney: "I don't remember much about that song. It was one of those tracks written just for the sake of working".

4. The Beatles – Every Little Thing ("Beatles for Sale", 1964) McCartney: "I thought it was good, but it ended up as album filler instead of the big single I'd imagined".

3. The Beatles – What You're Doing ("Beatles for Sale", 1964) McCartney: "It was a bit of a filler. The recording is probably better than the song itself".

2. The Beatles – Revolution 9 ("The Beatles", 1968) McCartney: "I was doing similar experiments myself, but I didn't think they were fit for release".

1. The Beatles – She Said She Said ("Revolver", 1966) McCartney mostly recalled the argument with Lennon that led him to walk out of the studio: "I think George played bass".

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