Your favorite song by The Beatles??

Let It Be

Strawberry Fields

Penny Lane

I Am The Walrus

Within You Without You

Here Comes The Sun

 

Rain

 

And Your Bird Can Sing

 

Helter Skelter

 

 

 

My very favourite has to be "Tomorrow Never Knows". This song stands alone as the only bonafide psychedelic Beatles track. "Strawberry Fields", "Lucy in the Sky..", were trippy, but trippy pop songs. There may be an argument to be made that "I Am The Walrus" is the epitome of psychedelia, but to me it sounds more prog than anything, what with it's symphonic sting arrangement, time sig changes, and fast and slow movements.

 "Tomorrow Never Knows" jumps on a trancy groove from the very start and rides it all the way to the end, Ringo managing to hold a shuffling rhythm that seems always to be trying to catch up with, or even,  hold back the rest of the band. This is an illusion that is played to great effect, giving the rhythm a floating, dream-like quality. The lyrics are dark, dealing with the nature of consciousness and death, quoting from "The Tibetan Book of the Dead".

Ageless piece of  trip fodder. Play this track at the end of some sweaty rave and see the delight in the eyes of tired young ravers. They may not know what it is, but they just know it's cool as f*ck.