Originally Posted by rubber soul

Well, to be fair, the White Album also had its share of schmaltz mostly courtesy of McCartney (Ob La Di, Ob La Da, Martha My Dear, Honey Pie). Ringo's contribution, Don't Pass Me By, wouldn't win too many awards either and he also sang my least favorite Beatles' song, Goodnight (which I think was actually written by Lennon though I'm not sure). Anyhow, Octopus' Garden isn't all that bad, but Maxwell, yeah, we didn't need that (and neither did Ringo and George- McCartney made them go through about five hundred takes doing Bang, Bang, Maxwell's Silver Hammer... )