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Topic: Top 20 Beatles songs
Posted By: Wakeman's Birotron
Subject: Top 20 Beatles songs
Date Posted: January 26 2015 at 23:05
Well, I'm sure a topic like this one has been done before, but as I can't seem to find it, I'd like to see which Beatles song you guys prefer. 

So, among the rich discography of the Fab Four, try and choose just twenty! (I tried ten, but it was impossible). Mine would go like this:

1 - A Day in the Life
2 - Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight / The End
3 - Strawberry Fields Forever
4 - Tomorrow Never Knows
5 - You Never Give Me Your Money
6 - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
7 - I Am the Walrus
8 - Rain
9 - I'm Only Sleeping
10 - In My Life
11 - Something
12 - I Want You (She's so Heavy)
13 - Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
14 - Flying
15 - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
16 - Here Comes the Sun
17 - Lady Madonna
18 - And Your Bird Can Sing
19 - Get Back
20 - Blue Jay Way

Honorable mentions to:
-With a Little Help From my Friends
-Within You Without You
-Hey Jude
-It's All Too Much
-Nowhere Man
-Eleanor Rigby
-Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band




Replies:
Posted By: Friday13th
Date Posted: January 26 2015 at 23:26
Top 4 are basically mine. Lady Madonna though lol Eleanor Rigby slays that song.


Posted By: LearsFool
Date Posted: January 26 2015 at 23:38
1) "Revolution 9"
2) "Helter Skelter"
3) "I Want You"
4) "Norwegian Wood"
5) "Tomorrow Never Knows"
6) "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
7) "A Day In The Life"
8) "In My Life"
9) "What's The New Mary Jane"
10) "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away"
11) "Revolution 1 (Take 20)"
12) "Revolution 1 (Album Version)"
13) "Come Together"
14) "I Wanna Be Your Man"
15) "Get Back"


Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: January 27 2015 at 00:51
I'm no expert but I like them very much. I enjoy a lot of musique concréte n' stuff but never cared much for Revolution 9. Infact I rather listen to Bungalow Bill & Rocky Raccoon. 

 1 Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite
 2 A Day In The Life
 3 I Want You
 4 Flying 
 5 Tomorrow Never Knows
 6 Paperback Writer
 7 I Am the Walrus 
 8 She's Leaving Home 
 9 Norwegian Wood
10 Piggies
11 Within You Without You
12 Blue Jay Way
13 Happiness is a Warm Gun
14 Something
15 While My Guitar Gently Weeps
16 Strawberry Fields Forever
17 Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
19 Because
19 Girl
20 Across the Universe

Eleanor Rigby is obviously a timeless little masterpiece but I can't listen to it. I guess the same applies to Here Comes the Sun 


Posted By: ten years after
Date Posted: January 27 2015 at 00:56
A Day in the Life
Abbey Road Medley (this really is just one track)
Strawberry Fields
Hey Jude
Ticket to Ride
I am the Walrus
Tomorrow Never Knows
Across the Universe
Please Please Me
She Loves You
Help
Rain
Get Back
It's all too Much
I Want You
Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
Don't Let me Down
Only a Northern Song
Dig a Pony
Come Together
 
Honourable mentions -
I'm so Tired
All You Need is Love
Penny Lane
Hello Goodbye
Something
Within You Without You
 
The beauty of the Beatles is that you could easily list another 26 and still have to leave out some great songs.


Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: January 27 2015 at 01:02
Originally posted by ten years after ten years after wrote:


Abbey Road Medley (this really is just one track)


It would have been in my top five as well if I had allowed myself to include the suite as one track. 


Posted By: floflo79
Date Posted: January 27 2015 at 01:03
01. A Day In The Life
02. Abbey Road Medley (one song for me)
03. Strawberry Fields Forever
04. Here Comes The Sun
05. Hey Jude
06. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
07. Helter Skelter
08. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
09. She's Leaving Home
10. I Am The Walrus
11. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
12. Yesterday
13. Eleanor Rigby
14. Across The Universe
15. Tomorrow Never Knows
16. Day Tripper
17. Here, There And Everywhere
18. In My Life
19. Let It Be
20. Blackbird



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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: January 27 2015 at 01:53
I'll just do ten:
 
Tomorrow Never Knows
Eleanor Rigby
Its All Too Much
Strawberry Fields
Michelle ( partly because when I was very young we had a French exchange student staying with my family and she used to say my name in her wonderful French accent Smile)
Ticket To Ride
Paperback Writer
A Day In The Life
A Hard Days Night
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
 


Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: January 27 2015 at 04:20
 1. Eleanor Rigby
 2. A Day in the Life
 3. I Am the Walrus
 4. I Want You (She's So Heavy)
 5. Happiness Is a Warm Gun
 6. Strawberry Fields Forever
 7. Rain
 8. Here Comes the Sun
 9. Norwegian Wood
10. Tomorrow Never Knows
11. Within You Without You
12. Revolution 9
13. Love You Too
14. Dear Prudence
15. Helter Skelter
16. Paperback Writer
17. Octopus's Garden
18. We Can Work It Out
19. Let It Be
20. Blue Jay Way




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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: January 27 2015 at 04:33
what's so special about Revolution 9? I saw it a several lists. Confused


Posted By: Stool Man
Date Posted: January 27 2015 at 06:33
Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

what's so special about Revolution 9? I saw it a several lists. Confused


Because it appeared on a Beatles album, it was heard by more people than had ever heard musique concrète before - many of whom went on to be the next generation of experimental musicians and sound artists.  It's also very good to listen to, in my opinion.


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Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: January 27 2015 at 07:00
i think i can go for at least top 5:

1. A Day in the Life
2. Strawberry Fields Forever
3. I Am the Walrus
4. Tomorrow Never Knows
5. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
6. Penny Lane
7. Old Brown Shoe
8. Across the Universe
9. Something
10. Here, There and Everywhere
11. I Want You (She's So Heavy)
12. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
13. Abbey Road Medley (yes, the whole damn thing!!)
14. She's Leaving Home
15. Hey Jude
16. Revolution
17. The Fool in the Hill
18. Lady Madonna
19. Oh! Darling
20. Eleanor Rigby

out of the spur of the moment, and this will probably NOT be the definitive list (save for the top 4), so yeah.



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Posted By: The Son of Gorp
Date Posted: January 27 2015 at 07:08
1. I Want You (She's So Heavy)
2. Hey Jude
3. Good Night
4. Something
5. Hey Bulldog
6. Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
7. Let It Be
8. Penny Lane
9. Across The Universe
10. Get Back
11. I'm Looking Through You
12. Yellow Submarine
13. And Your Bird Can Sing
14. Lady Madonna
15. Yesterday
16. Rocky Raccoon
17. I'm So Tired
18. Mother Nature's Son
19. Abbey Road Suite
20. We Can Work It Out

This list is subject to change constantly. (Plus I forgot all of Sgt. Pepper's LOL)


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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: January 27 2015 at 07:11
1. Strawberry Fields Forever
2. The Long and Winding Road
3. I Am the Walrus
4. Revolution
5. A Day in the Life
6. Slumbers/Weight/End
7. Tomorrow Never Knows
8. Your Mother Should Know
9. Old Brown Shoe
10. Martha My Dear
11. I'll Be Back
12. If I Fell
13. I Want You (She's So Heavy)
14. The Fool on the Hill
15. Norwegian Wood
16. All You Need is Love
17. You Won't See Me
18. Not a Second Time
19. Oh Darling
20. Fixing a Hole

Hon. mention
I Dig a Pony
Lady Madonna

Some of these may seem kind of trivial but they're the ones I enjoy listening to the most at this point in time.  I'm not sure that qualifies as "best" except in my own mind, but if I were making a mix CD of my favorites, this would be it.


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Posted By: Stool Man
Date Posted: January 27 2015 at 07:23
Carnival Of Light
It's All Too Much
The Inner Light
You Know My Name
Hey Bulldog
A Day In The Life
Don't Pass Me By
Across The Universe
I Am The Walrus
Helter Skelter
Tomorrow Never Knows
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
Within You Without You
Magical Mystery Tour
Everywhere It's Christmas
Madman
Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite
Flying
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Strawberry Fields Forever




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Posted By: earlyprog
Date Posted: January 27 2015 at 09:14
Originally posted by Stool Man Stool Man wrote:

Carnival Of Light


You cannot possibly have heard this Wacko


Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: January 27 2015 at 10:10
Originally posted by earlyprog earlyprog wrote:

Originally posted by Stool Man Stool Man wrote:

Carnival Of Light


You cannot possibly have heard this Wacko

Maybe he can. I don't know if this is genuine:


... or this: ...


(I think both are fake...)


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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: January 27 2015 at 10:30
Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

Originally posted by earlyprog earlyprog wrote:

Originally posted by Stool Man Stool Man wrote:

Carnival Of Light


You cannot possibly have heard this Wacko

Maybe he can. I don't know if this is genuine:


... or this: ...


Well they can't both be the real thing. I've just listened to the first one and I don't hear "Lennon and McCartney screaming dementedly and bawling aloud random phrases like 'Are you alright?' and 'Barcelona!" as it says on Wikepedia.
Let's try the second one.


Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: January 27 2015 at 10:39
^The second sounds even less like the Beatles, but it is more listenable, a bit Floydish and organ-dominated.

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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: January 27 2015 at 10:39
I decided not to sit through another 14 minutes of weird sh*t. The general consensus on YouTube seems to be that they're all fakes - I guess only McCartney really knows for sure.


Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: January 27 2015 at 11:16
Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

I decided not to sit through another 14 minutes of weird sh*t. The general consensus on YouTube seems to be that they're all fakes - I guess only McCartney really knows for sure.
and he's dead!

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Posted By: earlyprog
Date Posted: January 27 2015 at 14:02
Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

Originally posted by earlyprog earlyprog wrote:

Originally posted by Stool Man Stool Man wrote:

Carnival Of Light


You cannot possibly have heard this Wacko

Maybe he can. I don't know if this is genuine:


... or this: ...


Well they can't both be the real thing. I've just listened to the first one and I don't hear "Lennon and McCartney screaming dementedly and bawling aloud random phrases like 'Are you alright?' and 'Barcelona!" as it says on Wikepedia.
Let's try the second one.

The latter of the two comes closest to Lewisohn's desription in The Beatles Recording Sessions:

"Track one of the tape was full of distorted, hypnotic drum and organs sounds; track two had a distorted lead guitar; track three had the sounds of a church organ, various effects (the gargling with water was one) and voices; track four featured various indescribaable sound effects with heaps of tape echo and manic tambourine. But of all the frightening sounds it was the voices on track three which really set the scene, John and Paul screaming dementedly and bawling aloud random phrases like 'Are you alright?' and 'Barcelona*. Paul terminated the proceedings after almost 14 minutes with one final shout up to the control room: 'Can we hear it back now?'".

But I 'avant garde a clue, really.


Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: January 27 2015 at 14:06
It's probably been a good 5 years since I last heard anything Beatles related...maybe 7Embarrassed

Still love A Day In The Life though. I know it by heart so I rarely need to refresh my memory. Pretty obvious choice on a prog forum, but it's always been my fave of theirs (John's).


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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: January 27 2015 at 15:34
Originally posted by HolyMoly HolyMoly wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

I decided not to sit through another 14 minutes of weird sh*t. The general consensus on YouTube seems to be that they're all fakes - I guess only McCartney really knows for sure.
and he's dead!
 
Most droll comment of the weekLOL


Posted By: zravkapt
Date Posted: January 27 2015 at 16:06
The Long Medley
Tomorrow Never Knows
A Day In The Life
Strawberry Fields Forever
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Eleanor Rigby
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
We Can Work It Out
Ticket To Ride
I Am The Walrus
Things We Said Today
Revolution
Hey Bulldog
Every Little Thing
Help!
It's All Too Much
Rain
Birthday
She Said She Said


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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: January 27 2015 at 16:17
man.. I'd really have to think about that. So many great ones... so many so ingrained into the subconscious that I probably haven't physically listened to a Beatles album in ages.


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Posted By: Stool Man
Date Posted: January 28 2015 at 03:30
Originally posted by earlyprog earlyprog wrote:

Originally posted by Stool Man Stool Man wrote:

Carnival Of Light


You cannot possibly have heard this Wacko

Of course I haven't heard it.  But the descriptions of it easily put it way up there among my favourite Beatles songs (incidentally, I prefer the mono version of Revolution 9 over the better-known stereo version).  If I hadn't heard the 1966 & 1967 Christmas flexis I would still love them just from reading detailed descriptions of their contents. 
And even though the above 14-minute things are fakes, I also like that several people have just listened to a bunch of weird sh*t just because you queried an item on my list LOL


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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: January 28 2015 at 07:48
Originally posted by Stool Man Stool Man wrote:

Originally posted by earlyprog earlyprog wrote:

Originally posted by Stool Man Stool Man wrote:

Carnival Of Light


You cannot possibly have heard this Wacko

Of course I haven't heard it.  But the descriptions of it easily put it way up there among my favourite Beatles songs (incidentally, I prefer the mono version of Revolution 9 over the better-known stereo version).  If I hadn't heard the 1966 & 1967 Christmas flexis I would still love them just from reading detailed descriptions of their contents. 
And even though the above 14-minute things are fakes, I also like that several people have just listened to a bunch of weird sh*t just because you queried an item on my list LOL
LOL
yeah, thanks for that.
 
And that's the first time I've ever come across someone ranking a song amongst his favourites just from a description.


Posted By: earlyprog
Date Posted: January 28 2015 at 09:20
Originally posted by Stool Man Stool Man wrote:

Originally posted by earlyprog earlyprog wrote:

Originally posted by Stool Man Stool Man wrote:

Carnival Of Light


You cannot possibly have heard this Wacko

Of course I haven't heard it.  But the descriptions of it easily put it way up there among my favourite Beatles songs (incidentally, I prefer the mono version of Revolution 9 over the better-known stereo version).  If I hadn't heard the 1966 & 1967 Christmas flexis I would still love them just from reading detailed descriptions of their contents. 
And even though the above 14-minute things are fakes, I also like that several people have just listened to a bunch of weird sh*t just because you queried an item on my list LOL

LOL....Wacko


Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: January 28 2015 at 09:25
Originally posted by Stool Man Stool Man wrote:


And even though the above 14-minute things are fakes, I also like that several people have just listened to a bunch of weird sh*t just because you queried an item on my list LOL

My pleasure LOLClap.


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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: January 28 2015 at 09:36
There ought to be an album compiling all the fake Carnival of Light songs that people created after reading McCartney's description.  Even invite more people to have a go at it.  I bet the resulting album would be pretty cool.


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Posted By: Stool Man
Date Posted: January 28 2015 at 09:57
Originally posted by HolyMoly HolyMoly wrote:

There ought to be an album compiling all the fake Carnival of Light songs that people created after reading McCartney's description.  Even invite more people to have a go at it.  I bet the resulting album would be pretty cool.

Carnival Of Light - The Tribute Album!  A double CD could just about fit five versions onto each disc (because just five versions wouldn't be enough)


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Posted By: Mista-Gordie
Date Posted: January 28 2015 at 13:37
1 - Abbey road medley
2 - A Day in the life
3 - Strawberry fields forever
4 - Tomorrow never knows
5 - I want you (she's so heavy)
6 - Something
7 - I'm only sleeping
8 - While my guitar gently weeps
9 - I am the walrus
10 - Eleanor Rigby
11 - Norwegian wood (This bird has flown)
12 - Rain
13 - Flying
14 - In my life
15 - Lucy in the sky with diamonds
16 - Get back
17 - Here comes the sun
18 - Hey Jude
19 - Sgt. Pepper's lonely hearts club band
20 - Penny lane


Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: January 28 2015 at 13:53
It's probably easier to list the songs I don't like. And like many, the Fabs don't get many turns on my old turntable these days.

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Posted By: Walton Street
Date Posted: January 28 2015 at 14:02
my top 20 are:
 
Everything on Revolver
Everything on Abby Road


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Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: January 28 2015 at 16:53
1. No Reply
2. Wait
3. Eleanor Rigby
4. Penny Lane
5. I Want To Hold Your Hand
6. Bluejay Way
7. Maxwell's Silver Hammer
8. Something
9. Helter Skelter
10. Bulldog
11. Piggies
12. Savoy Truffle
13. Sgt Pepper's' and reprise
14. Eight Days a Week
15. Help
16. I Feel Fine
17. Norwegian Wood
18. She's Leaving Home
19. I Am the Walrus
20. We Can Work It Out

Not necessarily the 20 best (and not necessarily in this order). These are just the ones that readily came to mind while preparing the list.


Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: January 29 2015 at 01:39
Originally posted by Rednight Rednight wrote:



7. Maxwell's Silver Hammer
.
 
I thought that song had been expunged from history?Wink


Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: January 29 2015 at 02:59
Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by Rednight Rednight wrote:



7. Maxwell's Silver Hammer
.
 
I thought that song had been expunged from history?Wink

Well, I think it should not be. It is just outside my top 20; I put it on my first draft list.


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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: January 29 2015 at 07:45
Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by Rednight Rednight wrote:



7. Maxwell's Silver Hammer
.
 
I thought that song had been expunged from history?Wink

I think you're thinking of Octopuses Garden.


Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: January 29 2015 at 09:47
Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by Rednight Rednight wrote:



7. Maxwell's Silver Hammer
.

 
I thought that song had been expunged from history?Wink

Well, I think it should not be. It is just outside my top 20; I put it on my first draft list.

''Hammer was this throwaway ditty that charmed in the end. I feel the best Beatle songs were probably written in this spirit-on the whimsical fly and thus being in league with Hammer. Again, when preparing the list, I just jotted down for me what instantly came to mind-that is to say, the most memorable. As for the Beatles on a prog blog site, I don't get it entirely with what little they put forward in that vein. By the way, wasn't Oh-Bla-Dee (or however it's titled) the one the British press washed their hands of?


Posted By: Walton Street
Date Posted: January 29 2015 at 09:55
Originally posted by Rednight Rednight wrote:


''Hammer was this throwaway ditty that charmed in the end.
 
 
I cant hear it without picturing Steve Martin singing it


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Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: January 29 2015 at 10:05
Originally posted by Walton Street Walton Street wrote:

Originally posted by Rednight Rednight wrote:


''Hammer was this throwaway ditty that charmed in the end.

 
 
I cant hear it without picturing Steve Martin singing it

Then it's a good thing I've never sat down and forced myself to watch that movie (or E.T., for that matter).


Posted By: Walton Street
Date Posted: January 29 2015 at 10:19
Originally posted by Rednight Rednight wrote:

Originally posted by Walton Street Walton Street wrote:

Originally posted by Rednight Rednight wrote:


''Hammer was this throwaway ditty that charmed in the end.

 
 
I cant hear it without picturing Steve Martin singing it

Then it's a good thing I've never sat down and forced myself to watch that movie (or E.T., for that matter).
 
I bought it recently - I hadn't seen it since it was theatrically released - and was curious to see what i'd think of it now .. there are a lot of interesting musicians on it and I freaking love Paul Nicholas's singing in this.
 
ET ...is unbearable


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Posted By: Stool Man
Date Posted: January 29 2015 at 10:28
Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by Rednight Rednight wrote:



7. Maxwell's Silver Hammer
.
 
I thought that song had been expunged from history?Wink


"The worst session ever was Maxwell's Silver Hammer. It was the worst track we ever had to record. It went on for f**king weeks. I thought it was mad." - Ringo.

"That's Paul's. I hate it. 'Cuz all I remember is the track - he made us do it a hundred million times. He did everything to make it into a single and it never was and it never could've been, but he put guitar licks on it and he had somebody hitting iron pieces and we spent more money on that song than any of them in the whole album. I think." - John.




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Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: January 29 2015 at 11:39

Octopus' Garden and I Want You were throwaways also, IMO. Here Comes the Sun makes one instantly forget about those two tracks and then your off to the great medley. 



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Posted By: Walton Street
Date Posted: January 29 2015 at 11:42
Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

 Here Comes the Sun makes one instantly forget about those two tracks and then your off to the great medley. 

 
my all time favourite Beatles song


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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: January 29 2015 at 13:47
Originally posted by Rednight Rednight wrote:

Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by Rednight Rednight wrote:



7. Maxwell's Silver Hammer
.

 
I thought that song had been expunged from history?Wink

Well, I think it should not be. It is just outside my top 20; I put it on my first draft list.

''Hammer was this throwaway ditty that charmed in the end. I feel the best Beatle songs were probably written in this spirit-on the whimsical fly and thus being in league with Hammer. Again, when preparing the list, I just jotted down for me what instantly came to mind-that is to say, the most memorable. As for the Beatles on a prog blog site, I don't get it entirely with what little they put forward in that vein. By the way, wasn't Oh-Bla-Dee (or however it's titled) the one the British press washed their hands of?
 
okay I must be confused because I thought the song was about a real life murder and is therefore considered in extremely bad taste?


Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: January 29 2015 at 14:11
^For the record. "Hammer" was considered an A-side song by McCartney as he was given to creating, as John Lennon so eloquently said, "granny music".

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Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: January 29 2015 at 14:35
Originally posted by Stool Man Stool Man wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by Rednight Rednight wrote:



7. Maxwell's Silver Hammer
.

 
I thought that song had been expunged from history?Wink


"The worst session ever was Maxwell's Silver Hammer. It was the worst
track we ever had to record. It went on for f**king weeks. I thought it
was mad." - Ringo.

"That's Paul's. I hate it. 'Cuz all I remember is the track - he made us do it a hundred million times. He did everything
to make it into a single and it never was and it never could've been,
but he put guitar licks on it and he had somebody hitting iron pieces
and we spent more money on that song than any of them in the whole
album. I think." - John.


John also said in the Playboy interview something along the lines that it was he and Paul; the other two blokes could have been anybody. Right! And long before Abby Road, John had turned into quite the malcontent as far back as the second U.S. tour. I don't think he liked much of anything after Sgt. Pepper's', so I don't give him much credence, no matter what kind of genius he may have been. Don't get me wrong-love that voice! By the way, he was said not to favor the Abby Road medley, either.


Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: January 30 2015 at 06:52
Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

Octopus' Garden and I Want You were throwaways also, IMO.

 
I Want You a throwaway? Confused You jest, surely.


Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: January 30 2015 at 07:01
OK, off the top of my head -
  1. You've got to hide your love away
  2. Things we said today
  3. Martha my dear
  4. In my life
  5. Hello Goodbye
  6. Strawberry Fields Forever
  7. You know my name (look up the number)
  8. Happiness is a warm gun
  9. Here there and everywhere
  10. For no one
  11. I'll follow the sun
  12. Here comes the sun
  13. Golden slumbers
  14. Rain
  15. The fool on the hill
  16. We can work it out
  17. What's the new mary jane
  18. I'm down
  19. No reply
  20. I want you (she's so heavy)
 
although ask me again tomorrow and the list will be different


Posted By: earlyprog
Date Posted: January 30 2015 at 07:03
Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

Octopus' Garden and I Want You were throwaways also, IMO.

 
I Want You a throwaway? Confused You jest, surely.

Says alot about the quality of their music Wink

(enough B-vitamin for today)


Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: January 30 2015 at 07:26
I Want You is one of my favorite Beatles songs
good thing the song ended up on the album I say! Big smile


Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: February 01 2015 at 22:02
In chronological order (and disregarding a 100 other songs I love):
Help
You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
I've Just Seen a Face
Norwegian Wood
I'm Looking Through You
Eleanor Rigby
Love You To
Tomorrow Never Knows
Strawberry Fields
Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite
A Day in the Life
Cry Baby Cry
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Blackbird
Here Comes the Sun
She's So Heavy
Something
Medley (starting with You Never Give Me Your Money)
Let It Be
I Me Mine
 


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Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: February 01 2015 at 22:25
1-      Hey Bulldog

2-      I Want You

3-      Come Together

4-      Ticket to Ride

5-      Birthday

6-      Norwegian Wood

7-      Glass Onion

8-      Happiness is a warm Gun

9-      Helter Skelter

10-   Michelle

11-   Julia

12-   Rocky Racoon

13-   Piggies

14-   Savoy Truffle

15-   Hey Jude

16-   Come Back

17-   Strawberry Fields

18-   Octopus’ Garden

19-   Maxwell’s Silver Hammer

20-   Eleanor Rigby



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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: February 02 2015 at 07:58
Originally posted by tszirmay tszirmay wrote:

Come Back

by

Confused 
that's one Beatles song I don't know


Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: February 02 2015 at 08:05
Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by tszirmay tszirmay wrote:

Come Back

by

Confused 
that's one Beatles song I don't know


I think he means Get back


Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: February 02 2015 at 09:43
I almost typed 'Get' Together LOL

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Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: February 02 2015 at 10:01
Come Back, Little Sheba!


Posted By: Jabez7
Date Posted: February 04 2015 at 00:03
1. Rain
2. Paperback Writer
3. Ticket To Ride
4. She Said She Said
5. Got To Get You Into My Life
6. Lovely Rita
7. Dear Prudence
8. Getting Better
9. We Can Work It Out
10. Strawberry Fields Forever
11. Penny Lane
12. In My Life
13. Here Comes The Sun
14. The Night Before
15. I Want To Tell You
16. I Am The Walrus
17. Day Tripper
18. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
19. Abbey Road Medley
20. Fixing A Hole 


Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: February 08 2015 at 07:23
My list changes from week to week but 3 songs are always on the top:

1. Happiness is a warm gun
2. Helter Skelter
3. Hey Bulldog

Other songs that I like a lot:
4. Cry, baby cry (a hidden gem)
5. Lady Madonna
6. Rain
7. I am the walrus
8. For no one
9. You won't see me
10. I want to tell you
11. We can work it out
12. Paperback writer
13. You never give me your money
14. It won't belong
15. Things we said today
16. I've just seen a face
17. In my life
18. Old brown shoe
19. Northern song
20. A day in the life


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Posted By: justin4950834-2
Date Posted: March 28 2015 at 20:52
In No Particular Order

I Want You (She's So Heavy)
The End
Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight
Dear Prudence
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Rocky Racoon
Mother Natures Son
Ive Just Seen a Face
Hey Jude
I Am The Walrus
I Saw Her Standing There
Eleanor Rigby
Yellow Submarine
And Your Bird Can Sing
Tomorrow Never Knows
In My Life
With A Little Help From My Friends
She's Leaving Home
A Day In Life
Hey Bulldog



Posted By: Upbeat Tango Monday
Date Posted: April 11 2015 at 08:45
With a Little Help From My Friends
Blackbird
I am the Walrus
Strawberry Fields Forever
Penny Lane
Norwegian Wood
Anna (go to him)
While my Guitar Gently Weeps
The Fool on the Hill
Across the Universe
Something
I'm Looking Through You
A Day in the Life
Fixing a Hole
Paperback Writer
Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite
Taxman
I Want You (She's so Heavy)
I Saw her Standing There
Drive My Car




Posted By: starless2112
Date Posted: April 12 2015 at 20:43
I don't listen to much Beatles anymore.  I still do like them though.  So off the top of my head....
 
 
 
Happiness Is a Warm Gun
Got To Get You Into My Life
Lovely Rita
Glass Onion
Ballad of John and Yoko
Paperback Writer
Baby You're a Rich Man
Why Don't We Do it In the Road?
Maxwell's Silver Hammer
You Never Give Me Your Money
You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
I'm So Tired
Fixing A Hole
One After 909
 


Posted By: madspace
Date Posted: May 04 2015 at 21:52
Eleanor Rigby
Paperback Writer
We Can Work It Out
Blackbird
Taxman
Drive My Car
Yesterday
Here, There and Everywhere
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
All My Loving
Ticket to Ride
I'm Only Sleeping
And Your Bird Can Sing
Day Tripper
Let It Be
I Saw Her Standing There
She Said She Said
Penny Lane
Getting Better


Posted By: thebeastmustdie
Date Posted: May 05 2015 at 19:24
Nowhere Man
She Said, She Said
If I Fell
Baby You Can Drive My Car
I Don't Want To Spoil The Party
Oh Darling
And Your Bird Can Sing
Martha My Dear
Taxman
I Am The Walrus
Rain
I'm A Loser
Baby's In Black
I'm Only Sleeping
Glass Onion
Julia
Abbey Rd Medley
Hard Day's Night
I'm So Tired
Because


Posted By: poeghost
Date Posted: May 30 2015 at 13:00
Very difficult to choose as there are just so many great songs. This is what I have today and in no particular order.

Strawberry Fields Forever
Penny Lane
With A Little Help From My Friends
A Day In The Life
Hey Jude
Yesterday
I Feel Fine
It's Only Love
I Should Have Known Better
Here Comes The Sun
She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight
Yellow Submarine
Don't Let Me Down
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
Let It Be
Eleanor Rigby
Norwegian Wood
Day Tripper




Posted By: Romano
Date Posted: June 23 2015 at 15:06
My list would be:

Let It Be
Come Together
Yesterday
Girl
Michelle
Ob-la-di, ob-la-da
Hey Jude
I Feel Fine
Help!
All You Need Is Love
Helter skelter
Lady Madonna
Yellow Submarine
Day Tripper
She's A Woman
I Saw Her Standing There
Free As A Bird
Matchbox


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Posted By: A_Flower
Date Posted: June 26 2015 at 09:03
Originally posted by Stool Man Stool Man wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

what's so special about Revolution 9? I saw it a several lists. Confused


Because it appeared on a Beatles album, it was heard by more people than had ever heard musique concrète before - many of whom went on to be the next generation of experimental musicians and sound artists.  It's also very good to listen to, in my opinion.

It IS very good to listen to. When I was younger, before my obsession with prog, I was just getting into music with The Beats and I discovered Revolution 9. I would always talk about how weird it was and judged it by listening to it many times, but secretly, I was in love and couldn't stop listening to it.

1. I am the Walrus
2. Strawberry Fields Forever
3. Abby Road Melody
4. Hey Jude
5. A Day in the Life
6. Tommarow Never Knows
7. All You Need Is Love
8. Revolution 9
9. I Want You (She's So Heavy)
10. Within You Without You
11. Helter Skelter
12. Hey Bulldog
13. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
14. Eleanor Rigby
15. Hello Goodbye
16. Norweigen Wood
17. Hello Goodbye
18. Oh! Darling
19. Blue Jay Way
20. Long, Long, Long


Posted By: agw801
Date Posted: July 22 2015 at 19:56
I am the walrus
Strawberry fields forever
She said she said
Hey Jude
Tomorrow never knows
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Helter skelter
It's all too much
Rain
Revolution
Bungalow Bill
Dear Prudence
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Paperback writer
Polythene Pam
Golden slumbers carry that weight
Hide your love away
Norwegian wood
All you need is love
Hey bulldog







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