Cause I wanna know

[ericcoleman]

What is your favorite Beatles song?

Mine is usually Rain, and it is at the moment.

I will make fun of anyone who posts more than one, or tries to include side two of Abbey Road

Comments

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

At the moment "In My Life".

[barondave.livejournal.com]

"Till There Was You"

*ducks*

[madladyred.livejournal.com]

I danced to that at my wedding. :) :) :)

[uberhill.livejournal.com]

Eleanor Rigby, for reasons long and complex and not entirely clear to me.

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

I suppose the Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band/I Get By With a Little Help From My Friends would also deserve a mocking.

But my actual answer would be Across the Universe (WWF version).

[ericcoleman]

They are two different songs ... both quite good, but two different songs

Oddly enough, I just listened to that very version. It's gorgeous

[ruisseau.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, this is hard, but I think I have to go with "And Your Bird Can Sing" on Revolver.

[s00j.livejournal.com]

"Don't Let Me Down" just now. :) Subject to change at any moment.

[phillip2637.livejournal.com]

Sorry, can't get my count of favorites below 50 or so, but The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill is the one I'd most like to learn for filk circles. (Well it *does* mention a superhero.)

[ravenclaw-eric.livejournal.com]

I honestly don't know. There's a lot of their ouvre I don't think I've ever heard---as you know, the radio plays some Beatles stuff, but it's maybe twenty or so songs out of about three hundred they did. And they play those twenty songs to death and back again.

If I had to choose, I'd go with "Let It Be."

[allisona.livejournal.com]

"Strawberry Fields Forever". Or "Norwegian Wood".

Yeah, go ahead and make fun of me :).

[ericcoleman]

You're too nice to make fun of ... now if it had been Debbie, who we all know is evil ...

[scott-lynch.livejournal.com]

"Eleanor Rigby," ever since I was a kid.

[lickintoadz.livejournal.com]

Ticket to Ride.

[sweetmusic-27.livejournal.com]

Come Together, probably. (And this'll open me to mocking for many reasons, but I always liked Penny Lane for singing.)

[awfulhorrid.livejournal.com]

I have difficulty with 'favorite' anything, but one of my most comforting Beatles songs is Let It Be. In the right moment this is a song that can make me cry, lift me up, or just make me remember things that make me happy.

Nowhere Man

[sexybass.livejournal.com]

Tough choice!!! I guess I like "Nowhere Man" since I used to do this with a musician friend back in Winnipeg and I loved the harmonies and the lead instrumental.

[sibylle]

This is super bizarre ... but mine is "Revolution Number Nine" - my dad played the White Album a lot when I was small, and this one stuck with me ... .

[sibylle]

Being more traditional in the definition of "song" - While My Guitar Gently Weeps. Same album, same 'heard it A Lot' reason.

[ericcoleman]

That explains ... so ... much ... about ... you.

[sibylle]

:-P

[ericcoleman]

It's why we love you ...

[budsharpe.livejournal.com]

"A Day in the Life"

In my mind, it's the perfect encapsulation of Lennon and McCartney's unique and diverging styles, Geoff Emerick's experimental engineering, and George Martin's production. I never tire of it.

[fredhuggins.livejournal.com]

The first time I heard "Day In The Life," I was SURE it must have been a Lennon solo record from the '70s, on which McCartney had made a guest appearance.

[fredhuggins.livejournal.com]

If you put a gun to my head and FORCED me to pick just one favorite?

"Run For Your Life," from Rubber Soul. Not just a great song, but one that beautifully sums up Lennon's unique penchant for the psychotic. Despite what the documentaries will tell you, the dude wasn't all "Imagine" and peacemongering.

[born-to-me.livejournal.com]

That's definitely on my top five! That was the side of Lennon I like the most.

[madladyred.livejournal.com]

I love that song! I am always amazed something so creepy can be so fun.
(like the Police's Every Breath You Take)

[fredhuggins.livejournal.com]

The scariest part is that from the very first line - "Well I'd rather see you DEAD little girl, than to be with another man!" - it REALLY sounds like John MEANS it, at LEAST as much as he meant "War is over if you want it."

Beatle song?

[markiv1111.livejournal.com]

If you are specifically talking about a Beatles *record*, I would pick "You're Gonna Lose That Girl." There are other songs that survive the translation to "my friends and me, playing our acoustic guitars and singing" better, but I'm not allowed to mention a second.

Nate

[born-to-me.livejournal.com]

This is the hardest question in the world for me. I think that, after the dust settles, my very favorite might be "I'll Follow The Sun".

[davidkingsley.livejournal.com]

Across the Universe (Rarities album version)

Hmm.

[the-ogre.livejournal.com]

Currently, it's "Fixing a Hole".

[philady.livejournal.com]

"Blackbird"

[ldwheeler.livejournal.com]

"I'll Follow the Sun."

And now the time has come ...

[xap]

At this moment? Michelle, for not-very-Beatle reasons.

x1's choir did a Beatles montage last year. He did a completely kick-butt solo on that :) So now i always hear him singing it in my head :)

[archiver-tim.livejournal.com]

The Long and Winding Road.

When listening to the radio station (WOMC) playing the new tracks during their A to Z on 9/9/09, Please, Please Me just came over with the sonic WOW I knew it had that I only could hear on the VeeJay 45 played with a good needle for 45s with big groves. The high end and clean bass this time really impressed me, as LP and CD versions seemed to be a dymanicly constrained. When that came out of the radio in 1964 you knew something was new in Rock and Roll.

[madladyred.livejournal.com]

You've Got To Hide Your Love Away.
But it's so hard to pick just one. :(

[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

"Hello, Goodbye"

[bammba-m.livejournal.com]

"Octopus' Garden"

A friend of mine said, "that's what happens when you let the bass player try writing a song." I dunno. I kind of dig it.

[ericcoleman]

Ummm ... it was the drummer who wrote it.

[bammba-m.livejournal.com]

Heh. You're right, and I knew that. I must have been taking the stupid pills yesterday.

Crazy.

But I still think it's a cute little song.