
I'm a Loser
Song by Lennon-McCartneyWikipedia
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Search complete. 25 mentions across 4 episodes found for "I'm a Loser".
Oct 13, 2026
334: A Hard Day's Night Deconstructed
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16:16Walter EverettGUEST
In fact, Lennon and Harrison had used that same voicing in Cry For A Shadow.
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16:23Walter EverettGUEST
This song may have brought it back into their arsenal because it came up in I Don't Want To Spoil the Party and I'm a Loser.
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16:31Walter EverettGUEST
The chord is buried in both of those tracks later in the year.
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16:35Walter EverettGUEST
But here it is, and so Harrison said it's an F chord with a G on top with a little finger, but it's better on the 12-string, right? So this is what it sounds like on an electric 12-string.
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13:54Peter TurnerHOST
Um, No Reply I quite like.
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13:56Peter TurnerHOST
I'm a Loser I think is good, uh, too.
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13:58Peter TurnerHOST
But it's no coincidence [laughs] they stuck those at the start of the album 'cause I think th- that brings you into the album, but it's a long slog through to I Don't Want to Spoil the Party, I think.
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14:09Peter TurnerHOST
It's, it's quite hard work.
22 MINS LATER
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35:52Sean HallHOST
So they, they, they'd, they'd, I think they'd come off a tour.
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35:54Sean HallHOST
But I, I think Le- they'd been hanging out in New York with, uh, Bob Dylan, and I think what I pick up on is there is a slight Dylan, um, influence on, on some of the good stuff on this album.
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36:09Sean HallHOST
Uh, s- particularly, you know, some of, some of the, uh, the Lennon stuff, you know, like, um, I- I'm a Loser and so on and so forth, you know.
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36:18Sean HallHOST
Uh, I think sorta lyrically, and perhaps the feel of it is slightly more ...
Episode 10: Beatles For Sale
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25:58Zak PlucinskiHOST
Yeah
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25:58Steve HollandHOST
... track two, I'm a Loser.
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25:59Ellis WarePANELIST
What Steve said.
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26:00Ellis WarePANELIST
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26:04Steve HollandHOST
Uh, track two, I'm a Loser, this is my favorite song on the record, I think, hands down.
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26:08Steve HollandHOST
Like, I love John's lyrics in it.
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26:10Steve HollandHOST
I also think, again, ballsy of them to put out a song called I'm a Loser-
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26:13Zak PlucinskiHOST
Yeah
Rubber Soul (republished from 2017)
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22:36Curtis GwynnPANELIST
like really weird and interesting places it's starting to feel like a like a poem uh rather than a song it's
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22:41Will HinesHOST
part of his help and i'm a loser and uh you know the the self-hating john lennon stuff i want to hear what you what what
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22:48Ariana LenarskiPANELIST
Well, I obviously must connect with it, and I must know that nowhere, man.
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22:51Ariana LenarskiPANELIST
It'd be like, do your laundry.
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31:29Will HinesHOST
You gotta fill an album.
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31:30Will HinesHOST
And
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31:30Joel SpencePANELIST
this is a good example of going deeper than hell, because I'm a Loser is sort of...
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31:36Joel SpencePANELIST
He's going deeper, like, lyrically.