Piggies (track)
by The Beatles
Year: 1968
From the album The Beatles (The White Album) (track #12)
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Piggies appears on the following album(s) by The Beatles:
- The Beatles (The White Album) (track #12) (this album) (1968)
- The Beatles Box Set (track #142) (compilation) (1988)
- Anthology 3 (track #8) (compilation) (1996)
- The Beatles In Mono (track #133) (compilation) (2009)
- Mono Collection (track #133) (compilation) (1982)
- The Beatles (track #133) (compilation) (2009)
- The Collection (track #122) (compilation) (1982)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 07/13/2026 12:50 | beausteg | 138 | 60/100 |
| ! | 07/07/2026 19:22 | Johnnyo | 44,894 | 80/100 |
| ! | 05/14/2026 17:57 | michelefarina | 347 | 89/100 |
| ! | 04/20/2026 16:28 | Pavloss | 2,378 | 60/100 |
| ! | 03/16/2026 16:46 | Christian889 | 205 | 94/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 8% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 78.9/100, a mean average of 77.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.9/100. The standard deviation for this track is 14.4.
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Desconcertante, una rara avis en el corpus beatleiano, muy, muy curiosa.
So cute. So innocent. Nothing wrong with it.
One more time... DAAAAAAAAA DAAA DAAA DAAAAAAAAAA
Maybe the best anti-establishment song George ever wrote, if it weren't for "Taxman". Actually, George started to write the tracks around the same time, but "Piggies" was left unfinished. Two years later he discovered the manuscript in the attic of his parents' Liverpool house and decided to finish and record it for the upcoming White Album.
Surprisingly a personal favourite on the album, it's lush, creepy, sarcastic, and instrumentally awesome especially the piano/harpsichord and strings
One of those great songs that only the Beatles could make.
Not just bad in concept, but lyrically pretentious and annoying throughout.
PinkMind 03/22/2018 11:53 | #211473
Honestly this is my least favourite Beatles song. I just can not enjoy it.
Sharp lyrics, cool use of the instruments and just an awesome song :)
After While my guitar gently weeps, piggies, is George Harrison's next best contribution to the White album. It's an excellent cut, completely bonkers really, and unfortunately one of those songs on the album which Charles Manson completely misinterpreted for his own twisted needs. Anyway, it's a brilliant song, totally underrated.
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