10 Scariest Beatles Songs, Ranked

The following ranking is not arguing that The Beatles are one of the scariest bands or anything, and more just that they were stylistically all over the place, and adventurous when it came to genres, so sometimes, their willingness to experiment and get weird led to them also getting scary. The following tracks are among the Fab Four’s creepiest, with the last one mentioned here being a genuine endurance test, and honestly nightmarish non-stop for more than eight minutes.
10 "Within You Without You" (1967)

The scariest song from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band will be mentioned in a bit, and maybe this spot should’ve gone to something like "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!," which is lyrically more unsettling, but oh well. Here’s “Within You Without You.” Even for a track on a psychedelic album like Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, this is musically quite adventurous, and the philosophical lyrics here are mysterious and a bit unsettling.
9 "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" (1969)

If you ignore the lyrics, then “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” is among the bounciest of all the Beatles songs, in step (for better or worse) with Paul McCartney’s sensibilities on a musical front. But the lyrics are a part of the song, and shouldn’t be ignored, and they are plainly about a student going around and murdering people with a hammer.

“Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” is sort of funny, though, contrasting the morbid lyrics with silly everything else, and it’s hard to ignore the humor by the song’s end, when Maxwell seems to murder the judge who’s presiding over his criminal trial. And all that goes to show why “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” is divisive, ultimately sticking out a little on the otherwise consistent Abbey Road, yet it being a song about killing people means it fits in with a ranking like this one, even if you might find it more silly than actually scary.

Source: Jeremy Urquhart/collider.com

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