Those Beatles Songs

[ericcoleman]

There was a thing on CNN about what is your favorite Beatles song ... so ... what is your favorite Beatles song?

Mine ... probably Rain, but that can change with my mood.

Comments

[mairzydotes.livejournal.com]

Not a big Beatles fan but I like "Maxwell's Silver Hammer".

[ericcoleman]

that surprised me, I don't see you getting into an odd little macabre song at all ...

wait ... never mind ...

[tlunquist.livejournal.com]

Is there a corner of the Intarweb where a complete list of Beatles song titles resides? A handful of them leap to mind, of which I don't think any is probably my "favorite" -- but if I saw a list, I'm sure I could choose more easily. (This is what happens when you ask auditory questions of visual-verbal learners.)

[ericcoleman]

geeze ... I have to do everything

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatles_songs

[mairzydotes.livejournal.com]

Beat me to it. Wah.

[ericcoleman]

You gotta get up pretty early in the morning if you want to get out of bed.

[tlunquist.livejournal.com]

Thanks. For that, you get my answer. It was a tough decision, but ultimately the winner is:

For No One

[born-to-me.livejournal.com]

I thought this was a great link, too:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Beatles_songs_by_singer

[mairzydotes.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia seems like that kind of place...

[geekymary.livejournal.com]

It's Only Love

[coburnsteeth.livejournal.com]

"Everybody's Got Something To Hide (Except For Me and My Monkey)"

from the odd start, to the clangy-clangy-clangy cowbell. It rules.

[blur01.livejournal.com]

Here comes the Sun
Blackbird
Cry Baby Cry

I even have versions that are more favorite than others. I really really love the version of Here comes the Sun that I have that was covered by Nina Simone.

[blur01.livejournal.com]

Gee, thanks, I was going to listen to Blue October but now I am listening to Beatles.

[artpaulrocks.livejournal.com]

I don't have one favorite but a couple I resently have been liking are I'm Only Sleeping & I'm Looking Through You.

[ericcoleman]

I'm Looking Through You

That is WAY up on my list of favorites.

[tlunquist.livejournal.com]

That is a REALLY good one.

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

Someone special has been singing me Beatles songs lately, so they're all kind of sparkly at the moment. If I have to choose, let's say "If (I Fell In Love With You) and "Blackbird."

[gamerchick.livejournal.com]

Come Together and/or I Am The Walrus. My tastes in Beatles songs are pretty lowbrow.

[tlunquist.livejournal.com]

Of the drug-induced ones, I have a particular fondness for "While My Guitar Gently Weeps."

[gamerchick.livejournal.com]

Man, I totally forgot that one. What a great song.

[controuble.livejournal.com]

"A Day In the Life" and "Blackbird"
So call me strange.

[artpaulrocks.livejournal.com]

Another one I like that I should mention that has gotten play on Dr Demento every now and then is:

You Know My Name Look Up My Number

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Eleanor Rigby
While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Lots are Way Up There. Everyone needs to hear Piggies now and again.

[blur01.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, a great song.

This is a great thread. I can come here and read, then play them. Better than putting my collection on full random!

Magically, piggies came up on its own just now!!

[blur01.livejournal.com]

Joe Cocker's version of "With a little help from my friends"

[ozarque.livejournal.com]

Either "Norwegian Wood" or "Here Comes The Sun." I can't choose between those two.

[bobolium.livejournal.com]

The fool on the hill, A day in the life, or Norwegian wood. I loves me some beatles though, so most of their songs are high up on my list.

[naomikritzer]

"Paperback Writer."

Kind of a predictable choice, I know, but I really like that song. It was also the favorite of one of my daughters for a while. (That and "Eleanor Rigby.")

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Side two of 'Abbey Road': though it's a suite, not a song.
Else impossible to say. However, IMHO, 'Abbey Road' does have perhaps the best guitar sounds ever recorded (this statement gets repeated often, to anyone who will listen).
And I write this on the anniversary of the death of Jimi, who opened the doors for many of us (me included).

[blur01.livejournal.com]

Wow. Someone else remembered!

[jermynsavile.livejournal.com]

He Said, She Said. Has the virtue of leaving far more to the imagination than most Lennon songs - most of which I think try too hard.

I'm very fond of Martha My Dear too, which seems like the quintessential McCartney Boy Genius song all classical allusions and music hall jollity..

Soon we'll be away from here, step on the gas and wipe that tear away...

[hardly-angelic.livejournal.com]

Freebird!

Okay, I'll behave for a change.

You Never Give Me Your Money is my favorite, but I can also make a case for:

Here There and Everywhere - a great love song, as is If I Fell.

Across The Universe is always amazing.

The riff from I Want You (She's So Heavy) is incredible.

A Day In The Life might be their crowning achievement; although not my favorite, it's still an incredible piece of work.

[archiver-tim.livejournal.com]

I have a fondness for 'Across The Universe', perhaps the unadulterated version over the Phil Spector version.
'Hey Bulldog' -- what a great piano intro, but it might also be the rariety of this getting airplay.

-Ryan

[archiver-tim.livejournal.com]

Amazin' minds think at the same time.

[s00j.livejournal.com]

little known s00j facts:
i was a beatles purist for two years, at age 13 and 14 (refused to listen to anything else, coincidentally this was around the time i started playing guitar and writing songs), and magical mystery tour was my first exposure to them, at age 3--the US LP, a gift from my grandfather, who found me something at an auction just about every Saturday.

my favorite changes from day to day; they're always in my head. right now i've got a jumble of everyone else's favorites that they've listed in comments all playing at once, which is really fun.

i'll say Your Mother Should Know and Blue Jay Way for today, because I can remember sitting on my bed as a tiny thing, playing the record over and over, having my wee mind warped thoroughly and by choice... I'm grateful to have been raised by fans who actually were around while the group was together, and all of them alive.

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[markiv1111.livejournal.com]

So many people said things I wanted to agree with, but I can't agree with all of them. My favorite Beatle songs include *Something* by George Harrison (the second most often covered Beatle song, after *Yesterday*), "Here, There and Everywhere" (reportedly Paul's favorite of his own songs), "The Fool on the Hill" -- but side 2 of *Abbey Road* is stupendous, and "For No One" is very, very good indeed. "Cry, Baby, Cry" is at the head of a list of ten or more that are quite closely grouped together, but behind those four songs and the one album side. It has been good reading all the comments.

Nate B.

[born-to-me.livejournal.com]

I could never in a million years answer this question definitively. I love the Beatles, always have - don't really have a song of theirs I *don't* like. My best friend in high school was terminally pissed off that she could never trip me up in lyrics quizzes when it involved them (don't try me now, that was almost 30 years ago).

One of my favorites has always been Dear Prudence, and it would probably hit the top five if I could actually do one of those... which I doubt.

Great. Now I want to queue up all our Beatles and just relax and listen.

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[sexybass.livejournal.com]

I am a huge Beatle fan and credit them for the reason I learned guitar and wanted to sing. I guess "In My Life" is a favourite because of the lyrics. I also love "Nowhere Man".

[bobolium.livejournal.com]

Steve's favorite right now is 'I am the Walrus'. He walks around the house singing and humming his little almost 3 year old brain out with it.

Those Beatles Songs

[(Anonymous)]

I've always taken a liking to the pseudo-live promo clip version of Revolution but they're really ALL my
favorites. Well, except for a couple.

THAT should be your question: What is your LEAST favorite Beatles song?