Yesterday
Approval Rate: 78%
Reviews 23
by fitman
Wed Sep 16 2009Even La Yii Yii, the fantastic La Lupe couldn't redeem this schmaltz... Here's La Lupe - with Mongo Santamaría - performing superior material... ...
by djahuti
Mon Sep 14 2009Maudlin & mediocre,far from their best.
by jedi58
Wed Sep 09 2009I 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.
by spike65
Thu Jul 17 2008Another 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.
by kingguiness
Mon Jan 16 2006A short sad song which really says a lot to all of us.
by irishgit
Sun Aug 21 2005Not 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.
by callitdownthel_ine75
Sun Aug 21 2005The 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.
by skizero
Fri Mar 11 2005over-played and over-recorded by the still an extremely effective song about love lost. McCartney had never been better.
by working_class_hero
Wed Nov 10 2004Pretty Warm, you can almost feel the heat when you hear it.. also the combination of the instruments especially the guitar is perfectly right
by eschewobfuscat_ion
Tue Sep 21 2004Very 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.
by sfalconer
Thu Jul 08 2004Most recorded song of all time and the greatest ballad ever written bar none.
by maccadarren
Wed Feb 11 2004Will be remembered in 200 years
by classictvfan47
Sun Feb 08 2004One 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!
by dickweener
Mon Jan 26 2004The sounds of this song are so Yesterday.
by scarletfeather
Sun Oct 19 2003Its original title-Scrambled Eggs-suits it too a T. It sucks!
by jason1972
Wed Sep 10 2003One 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.
by alty6905
Mon Sep 08 2003I'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
by groucho1
Thu Aug 21 2003Few 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...
by kolby1973
Wed Jul 02 2003It sounds like a cat wailing in the alley behind our house ! Turn it off please ! Gagorama !
by ellajedlicka21
Sun Jun 22 2003Originally 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.
by lukskywlkr
Fri Jun 06 2003A 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"?
by molfan
Thu May 22 2003One 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.
by getback
Thu May 22 2003A beautiful pice of music.And like Paul has always done ,he never over does it.