Maxwell's Silver Hammer (track) by The Beatles
Year: 1969
From the album Abbey Road (track #3)
Maxwell's Silver Hammer appears on the following album(s) by The Beatles:
- Abbey Road (track #3) (this album) (1969)
- The Beatles Box Set (track #178) (compilation) (1988)
- Anthology 3 (track #42) (compilation) (1996)
- The Beatles (track #167) (compilation) (2009)
- The Collection (track #156) (compilation) (1982)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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85/100  | 06/12/2025 21:52 |  jhuik | | 85/100 |
70/100 | 06/04/2025 16:36 | machiaj | | 75/100 |
85/100 | 06/03/2025 23:57 | miltiadis2001 | | 90/100 |
60/100 | 06/01/2025 17:41 | ShenBapiro | | 82/100 |
60/100 | 05/31/2025 14:08 | Larynx | | 83/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 5% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 80.7/100, a mean average of 79.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.7/100. The standard deviation for this track is 14.9.
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A marmite song and I'm in the love it camp, catchy and fun imo rather than silly and annoying as the haters say
Is this song really so bad ?. Worse than the lazy cant be arsed to do proper lyrics Sun King. I dont think so. By the way I like BOTH songs. For all their faults, they fit into the album well. The sum of its parts etc etc n all that!!!
teague 06/16/2020 20:24
Maxwell's Silver Hammer is a fun song with some pretty catchy hooks. I do have one pretty major problem with it though, what is with the bass tone? It sounds like Paul McCartney is playing a toy bass through a toy amp recorded with a toy microphone. It sounds so dinky and stupid. The rest of the album has McCartney's usual nice big powerful tone, but I can't stand the bass on this song.
Might have fitted better on the white album than Abbey Road.
Wouldn't have made the cut on that if they had slimmed it to a single album though.
Not the greatest song ever, but works with the album. It's little songs like this that make The Beatles what they are.
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mdbaxter 02/23/2018 16:43
Lovely morbid little ditty
Fun song. A good one.
Brad1770 12/18/2017 23:10
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flamingyesdept 09/10/2017 21:53
The only unnecessary song on an otherwise perfect album
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