Yesterday (track)
by The Beatles
Yesterday appears on the following album(s) by The Beatles:
- 1962-1966 (track #13) (compilation) (1973)
- Help! (track #13) (this album) (1965)
- 1 (track #11) (compilation) (2000)
- Yesterday And Today (track #5) (compilation) (1966)
- The Beatles Box Set (track #72) (compilation) (1988)
- Anthology 2 (track #7) (compilation) (1996)
- Anthology 2 (track #11) (compilation) (1996)
- The Essential Beatles (track #8) (compilation) (1972)
- A Collection Of Beatles Oldies (track #6) (compilation) (1966)
- Love Songs (track #1) (compilation) (1977)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 09/02/2026 06:19 | kinginsomniac12 | 6,238 | 100/100 |
| ! | 09/01/2026 18:30 | ikeguy | 97 | 85/100 |
| ! | 08/09/2026 21:15 | Spartakist | 2,655 | 81/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 1% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 92.0/100, a mean average of 90.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 92.2/100. The standard deviation for this track is 13.8.
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The most covered song in the history of popular music. Whether you like the song or not, you simply cannot argue with that kind of statistic. Yesterday, is one Paul McCartney's masterpieces, a timeless classic. Personally I feel that McCartney has written better songs, better ballads too, but it is still a fantastic track. The superb string section is the icing on an already delicious cake. It gives the song a poignancy, a feeling of regret, that it wouldn't have without it. Yesterday, is a haunting classic. (Edited)
John complained that the lyrics do not resolve, but that's the whole point; the narrator is trapped in universal, inexplicable sorrow. McCartney is a master of restraint here--lyrically and musically. (Edited)
Mother Nature's Son TOP 100 COMMENTER 04/06/2013 11:25 | #71583
One of the greatest Beatles classics, but piano lessons and other kinds of overexposure have killed it a bit for me which is why it has little to no emotional impact on me today, sadly.
Not a bad song, but overrated. Paul would end up making a similar (but better) song in Blackbird
9999 TOP 100 COMMENTER 09/29/2015 00:23 | #150663
This song has been so incredibly overplayed over the years that it's easy to forget how well-written it actually is. All in all, there's still no doubt in my mind that it's one of their best songs. (Edited)
