Forum Home Forum Home > Other music related lounges > Proto-Prog and Prog-Related Lounge
  New Posts New Posts RSS Feed - George Harrison's Beatles songs
  FAQ FAQ  Forum Search   Events   Register Register  Login Login

Topic ClosedGeorge Harrison's Beatles songs
 Post Reply Post Reply Page  <123>
Poll Question: Which is your favorite of the songs he penned for this band?
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
4 [5.48%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
10 [13.70%]
2 [2.74%]
2 [2.74%]
1 [1.37%]
3 [4.11%]
5 [6.85%]
1 [1.37%]
1 [1.37%]
4 [5.48%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
7 [9.59%]
0 [0.00%]
3 [4.11%]
1 [1.37%]
25 [34.25%]
4 [5.48%]
0 [0.00%]
This topic is closed, no new votes accepted

Author
Message Reverse Sort Order
  Topic Search Topic Search  Topic Options Topic Options
Matthew T View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: February 01 2007
Location: Australia
Status: Offline
Points: 5291 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 12 2010 at 14:24
While My Guitar Gently Weeps.
Matt

Back to Top
JLocke View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: November 18 2007
Status: Offline
Points: 4900 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 12 2010 at 12:27
Originally posted by Weirdamigo Weirdamigo wrote:

While my Guitar gently weeps is my favorite Beatles song!
Good one Mr. Harrison and good work on the guitar solo Mr. Clapton.

Sums up everything I was going to say. 
Back to Top
Lozlan View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: December 09 2009
Location: New Mexico
Status: Offline
Points: 536 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 12 2010 at 11:40
Had to vote for While My Guitar Gently Weeps.  Possibly the most beautiful, sorrowful, searing song The Beatles ever laid down.  I love the story behind it, too: apparently John and Paul were pretty dismissive of it, but Harrison persisted.  It's certainly head and shoulders above anything Lennon/McCartney produced for The White Album, with the possible exception of Happiness Is A Warm Gun. 

Also a TREMENDOUS fan of Blue Jay Way and I Me Mine.  Never really gotten into Here Comes the Sun, though...
Certified Obscure Prog Fart.

The Loose Palace of Exile - My first novel, The Mask of Tamrel, now available on Amazon and Kindle
Back to Top
chopper View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator

Joined: July 13 2005
Location: Essex, UK
Status: Offline
Points: 20030 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 12 2010 at 10:05
Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

never heard of them...are they any good?
 
 
 
I assume you're taking the p*ss
Back to Top
Slartibartfast View Drop Down
Collaborator
Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator / In Memoriam

Joined: April 29 2006
Location: Atlantais
Status: Offline
Points: 29630 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 12 2010 at 10:02
Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

never heard of them...are they any good?
 
 

It seem ole George was treated as something of a third class citizen when it comes to song writing credits.  They are and on impulse I went for Guitar.  I'm not sure I know all of these but I do know most.
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
Back to Top
someone_else View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar
VIP Member

Joined: May 02 2008
Location: Going Bananas
Status: Offline
Points: 24348 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 12 2010 at 07:14
Here Comes th Sun. Love You Too, Long, Long, Long, Within You Without You as well.
Piggies is a nice ditty, of course.
Back to Top
Intruder View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member


Joined: May 13 2005
Status: Offline
Points: 2206 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 12 2010 at 06:26
Always had a soft spot for George.  My vote goes to It's All Too Much....but that'll change as soon as I hit the "post" button.
I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there.....
Back to Top
Catcher10 View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar
VIP Member

Joined: December 23 2009
Location: Emerald City
Status: Offline
Points: 17869 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 19 2010 at 16:00
never heard of them...are they any good?
 
 
Back to Top
Chris S View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator

Joined: June 09 2004
Location: Front Range
Status: Offline
Points: 7028 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 19 2010 at 14:59
^ What an album
<font color=Brown>Music - The Sound Librarian

...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR]
Back to Top
Moogtron III View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: April 26 2005
Location: Belgium
Status: Offline
Points: 10616 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 19 2010 at 14:46
"Something" from Abbey Road. There you can see what a talent he was as a song writer. And then playing third violin after Lennon and McCartney. Yes, quite some talent in that band! Shocked
Back to Top
akamaisondufromage View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar
VIP Member

Joined: May 16 2009
Location: Blighty
Status: Offline
Points: 6797 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 19 2010 at 14:03

 
Followed by the certain Taxman who is the other thing certain in life
Help me I'm falling!
Back to Top
Cactus Choir View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: July 26 2008
Location: England
Status: Offline
Points: 1043 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 17 2010 at 10:10
I Need You, especially for the great guitar sound, but he did lots of other good ones like Here Comes the Sun and It's All Too Much (Steve Hillage did a great progged up version of that).
"And now...on the drums...Mick Underwooooooooood!!!"

"He's up the pub"
Back to Top
Hawkwise View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: May 31 2008
Location: Ontairo
Status: Offline
Points: 4119 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 17 2010 at 07:36
I Voted Taxman
Back to Top
Sean Trane View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator

Prog Folk

Joined: April 29 2004
Location: Heart of Europe
Status: Offline
Points: 20298 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 17 2010 at 03:45
It always amazes me to see that I Me Mine on Let It Be is sooooo overlooked.
 
Here Comes The Sun and Guitar Gently Weeps round out the top three.
 
 
I'd also mention Badge  that (from Cream) was written during Beatles days.


Edited by Sean Trane - August 17 2010 at 03:46
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
Back to Top
rod65 View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: January 28 2010
Status: Offline
Points: 248 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 16 2010 at 11:39
While My Guitar Genly Weeps, though It's All Too Much is a very close second.
Back to Top
halabalushindigus View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: November 05 2009
Location: San Diego
Status: Offline
Points: 1438 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2010 at 16:09
..there's a fog upon L.A....
.
.
rip George Harrison

assume the power 1586/14.3
Back to Top
javier0889 View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: March 21 2010
Location: Chile
Status: Offline
Points: 170 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2010 at 13:56
Blue Jay Way. I love the post rock vibe of that song, and the fact that this song was released like 35 years before post rock.
http://www.last.fm/user/javier0889
Back to Top
chopper View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator

Joined: July 13 2005
Location: Essex, UK
Status: Offline
Points: 20030 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2010 at 04:09
Has to be "Here Comes The Sun"
Back to Top
Chris S View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator
Avatar
Honorary Collaborator

Joined: June 09 2004
Location: Front Range
Status: Offline
Points: 7028 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2010 at 03:28
^ All Things Must Pass suffered from proximity to no-one. An absolute classic. I would put him on a par with the other two
<font color=Brown>Music - The Sound Librarian

...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR]
Back to Top
resurrection View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: August 08 2010
Location: London
Status: Offline
Points: 254 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2010 at 02:23
George made worthwhile contributions to the Beatles song catalogue, but didn't really have the same level of class as Lennon-McCartney. His best two songs were While my guitar gently sleeps and Here comes the Sun. He tended to be rather derivative in his structures and flow of melody was often lacking, more like B-sides of a single. Without probably intending to, he took other's ideas and developed them as his own. My Sweet Lord was sued for plagarism, and the whole concept of Something was taken from a James Taylor song Something in the way she moves (he produced James Taylor for Apple). But again, I stress that his contribution was worthwhile, probably suffering from proximity to two exceptional songwriters.
Back to Top
 Post Reply Post Reply Page  <123>

Forum Jump Forum Permissions View Drop Down



This page was generated in 0.441 seconds.
Donate monthly and keep PA fast-loading and ad-free forever.