10 Most Underrated Beatles Songs

10. Martha My Dear - The White Album

As brilliant as the White Album is, it's a little difficult to get through the entire thing in one sitting. When you really think about it, here is an album that is longer than some feature films, and some of it has stuff like Revolution 9 which is...let's say divisive and leave it at that. Venturing into the deep cuts though, you do get a bunch of diamonds in the rough on here.

Case and point: Martha My Dear. Up until this point in the Fabs' career, we had gotten used to Paul McCartney's balladeer tendencies, and yet this one feels specifically different. Being an ode to his sheepdog that he acquired around this time, the structure of this song is the same as something like Happiness is a Warm Gun. For most Beatles fans, there's no real chorus of this song, instead going through different movements that makes the whole thing feel akin to classical music.

Apparently this kind of style was outside of Paul's usual tendencies as well, with him saying later that the piano lick was outside of his skill range and he decided to write the song to challenge himself as a composer. Considering how far they'd come as musicians, it's interesting to see one of the greatest songwriters on Earth make a song that makes them want to improve.