No two ways about it: "Across The Universe" is just a terrible song.
Meanwhile, "The One After 909" is an uber-primitive rocked-up skiffle song so simple that Peter Jackson didn't even deign to cover the story of The Beatles resurrecting it in the GET BACK doc. But it just knocks you upside the head w/gruff rockabilly joy.
My forever-image of the spirit of The Beatles at the end of January 1969 is George Harrison, grumbling and surling all month long, even resisting playing on the roof, and then just one-shot rattling off guitar fire on that song in 32 degree weather and high winds.
I see people recommending Fiona Apple's cover of "Across The Universe." Folks, 1.) a gold-lamé turd is still feces; 2.) that said, Apple's version is somehow *worse*. God, that generic late '90s trip-hop beat. God, that heroined-out vocal approach.
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