Yesterday

Approval Rate: 78%

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    fitman

    Wed Sep 16 2009

    Even La Yii Yii, the fantastic La Lupe couldn't redeem this schmaltz... Here's La Lupe - with Mongo Santamaría - performing superior material... ...

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    djahuti

    Mon Sep 14 2009

    Maudlin & mediocre,far from their best.

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    jedi58

    Wed Sep 09 2009

    I imagine Yesterday is a song quite a few people can identify with - it's about saying something wrong to someone you care about and then regretting it, wishing that you could go back to before you'd said it. I suppose this is one of the Beatles' better known songs these days too.

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    spike65

    Thu Jul 17 2008

    Another gem from McCartney. People that don't like this song due to over- familiarity aren't able to understand what it was like to have heard this when first released by a rapidly maturing group of pop musicians. I was there and was very impressed by where the Fab Four were headed. Until they escaped from the Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, phase I much preferred The Stones or The Animals for their bluesy and more adult rock and roll. So when I hear it today it is still like hearing it in the sixties for me. Long before every garage band and aging swinger covered it to death. Paul still performs it well today.

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    kingguiness

    Mon Jan 16 2006

    A short sad song which really says a lot to all of us.

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    irishgit

    Sun Aug 21 2005

    Not a bad song at all, in fact a very good one, which accounts for it being covered by all hands and the cook. My rating is based on hearing it done so badly, so many times, by so many people.

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    callitdownthel_ine75

    Sun Aug 21 2005

    The Beatles were arguably the greatest rock 'n roll group ever. And suffice to say, all their songs are memorable. But for me, one of my all-time favorite songs is the beautiful-yet-mournful 'Yesterday'. The song inspires so many meanings such as lost love, or even the end of childhood innocence. Yet simply, it is just a beautiful song to listen to which evokes so many emotions from everyone whom hears it.

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    skizero

    Fri Mar 11 2005

    over-played and over-recorded by the still an extremely effective song about love lost. McCartney had never been better.

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    working_class_hero

    Wed Nov 10 2004

    Pretty Warm, you can almost feel the heat when you hear it.. also the combination of the instruments especially the guitar is perfectly right

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    eschewobfuscat_ion

    Tue Sep 21 2004

    Very pretty, melancholy song, capturing that pathetic love lost theme, so popular for pop songwriter in the 60's. The stringed instruments are very pretty and ahead of their time for the Beatles. Paul's personal masterpiece, although he had already written I'll Follow the Sun prior to this, released on Beatles '65, I think. Anyway, enough artists have covered this song to establish its classic validity.

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    sfalconer

    Thu Jul 08 2004

    Most recorded song of all time and the greatest ballad ever written bar none.

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    maccadarren

    Wed Feb 11 2004

    Will be remembered in 200 years

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    classictvfan47

    Sun Feb 08 2004

    One of the worst and most overrated of the Beatles songs ever. Boring, downbeat and not happy, this one also almost has no music too it. Avoid!

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    dickweener

    Mon Jan 26 2004

    The sounds of this song are so Yesterday.

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    scarletfeather

    Sun Oct 19 2003

    Its original title-Scrambled Eggs-suits it too a T. It sucks!

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    jason1972

    Wed Sep 10 2003

    One of the most copied songs of all-time according to Guiness. I can see why with it's beautiful string ararngment, great lyrics, and catchy melody.

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    alty6905

    Mon Sep 08 2003

    I'm really sorry, but this is my least favorite beatles song. It is so slow, boring, and un-rock and roll. They've done so much better

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    groucho1

    Thu Aug 21 2003

    Few songs are considered 'standards' as soon as they come out. I remember my elementary school music teacher, a middle-aged gentleman, telling us that this one would be...

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    kolby1973

    Wed Jul 02 2003

    It sounds like a cat wailing in the alley behind our house ! Turn it off please ! Gagorama !

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    ellajedlicka21

    Sun Jun 22 2003

    Originally titled "Scrambled Eggs," "Yesterday" is the most covered song ever. Written in 1965, it was McCartney's first solo songwriting effort. A magnificent tale of love lost and the ever more complicating world.

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    lukskywlkr

    Fri Jun 06 2003

    A haunting piece of music that was technically a Paul McCartney solo. Would you believe that before he had the lyrics written, the working title of this was "Scrambled Eggs"?

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    molfan

    Thu May 22 2003

    One of my more favorite Beatles songs. I like it because there is really nothing fancy about it. It is just a pretty song that is sung simply.A nice love song. I read somewhere that this is one of the most recored songs by other singers. I can see why it is such a beautifully done song.

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    getback

    Thu May 22 2003

    A beautiful pice of music.And like Paul has always done ,he never over does it.