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    Posted: October 15 2007 at 21:36
I'd have made this a poll, but I'm sure I'd  be leaving people out.
 
Anyhow, my favorite is undoubtedly Back in the USSR.  What a great parody of the Beach Boys sound!!!
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Oh my god what a nightmare of a question.....way too many to weigh....the circuits are collapsing....

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A few are Yesterday, Penny Lane, Two of Us, Across the Universe, Long and Winding, Strawberry Fields, She's leaving home.

Least favorites.....Birthday, Back in the USSR, half of Abbey Road. 
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I think there is a forum for prog related and proto-prog topics. 
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We Can Work it Out
Hey Bulldog
It's All Too Much
Tomorrow Never Knows
Eleanor Rigby
Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
Yer Blues
Her Majesty






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Tie between "Eleanor Rigby" and "She's Leaving Home".
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Parody? More like rip-off. If Brain weren't such a whacked out moron, he woulda sued!
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Too many to choose from, so I'll write whatever pops into my mind.

Hey Jude
Revolution
Eleanor
I am the Walrus
Rain
Across the Universe
Yellow Submarine
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I want you (she's so heavy)
Revolution 9
Come Together
Helter Skelter



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Oh there are so many!

Rain
A nice and simple tune with a psychedelic feel. A relaxing piece of music.

Eleanor Rigby
A typical Paul-song with nice vocal melodies and beautiful orchestration. Great!

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
This song just kicks ass! Awesome vocal melodies and funny lyrics. I like the "reprise" as well.

Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!
A  very hilarious, experimental song. It's somekind of space rock or something... anyway I like it.

A Day In The Life
WOW!!! One of my favorite songs ever! A totally progressive work of art! It begins quietly with a verse sung by John Lennon, with some acoustic guitars. And then.... what the hell is happening? What's that noise? An orchestra? And now, a totally different section, and especially this section rocks. I love the alarm clock in the beginning, and that relaxing vocal melody sung by McCartney. And then comes another one of those orchestral crescendos, followed by a verse similar to the one at the beginning. And finally the last orchestral crescendo, and it's even more chaotic this time. Suddenly there is a chord out of nowhere.
Those orchestral things are just... amazing. Paul,  what the hell were you thinking? LOL
A perfect song... (!)

Strawberry Fields Forever
I don't know what to say, because this song is just TOO GREAT. "I Buried Paul!"

(yes I know, it's probably "Cranberry Sauce", but who cares anyway..)

I Am The Walrus
Another weird and hilarious song by Lennon. By the way, there are some interesting messages in the end. Just listen very carefully, and you'll hear all kinds of crazy things refering to the "Paul Is Dead"-thing!!

Helter Skelter
The birth of HEAVY METAL. Way to go, Paul! This rocks more than anything else made in the 60s. Paul screams better than Rob Halford!

Happiness Is A Warm Gun
What the hell? This song has more sections in 2 minutes than Close to the Edge has in 18 minutes! And there's even polyrhythm!!

Birthday
All I have to say is: THIS SONG ROCKS.
... because it does.

I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Another heavy song, and it's also very progressive. Actually, this is the first prog metal song ever LOL.

Abbey Road Medley
Well, it's basically one song. My favorite parts are Golden Slumbers, Carry That Weight and The End. Amazing!



Of course, there are also some songs I don't like. For example:
When I'm 64
A quite annoying pop-tune by McCartney. Without this song Sgt. Pepper would be perfect! Well, not quite...

With A Little Help From My Friends
Way too repetitive (!)

Yellow Submarine
Happy happy, joy joy... What is this?? A song for CHILDREN?!

Octopus's Garden
Instead of describing this song with a million words, I'll point out that the song sucks by saying:
RINGO STARR

And also all the songs before 1965. ESPECIALLY Love Me Do! Dead
And the sand-castle virtues are all swept away
in the tidal destruction the moral melee.
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Strawberry Fields Forever, without question. In My Life probably a close second.
 
then loads of others -
Hello Goodbye
Martha My Dear
Things We Said Today
You've got to hide your love away
Here, There and Everywhere
 
to name but a few.
 
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Here is my list
Every Little Thing- Folk Rock before the Byrds and Dylan. Check out Yes version of this song.
Norwegian Wood- Interesting fusion of folk rock with the sitar. A proto-psychedelic song to me.
Love You Too- George Harrison inventing classical Indian with rock. Check out the Backward feedback on this song.
Rain- The most underrated song they ever did.
Strawberry Fields Forever- The weirdest song to ever hit the top ten in America.
Mr. Kite-  Musique Concrete Rock or Prog Rock
A Day in the Life- Is this first symph prog song?
Happiness Is A Warm Gun- Radiohead copied this song years ago.
Because-  Classical music influenced without the use of classical instruments. The vocal harmonies on this song influenced Yes and Queen among others.
I Want You She So Heavy- What do you call this. The first part is bluesy. The other part is almost metal with progressive rock.
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Ooo forgot to mention while my guitar gently weeps



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Strawberry Fields Forever with its Mellotron use - wonderful! Clap


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This topic is a nightmare! Today I may answer that my favourite one is "Strawberry Fields"... but "Here comes the Sun" and "A day in the life" are close at hand...
 
there are also "Lovely Rita", "The Fool on the Hill", "Getting Better", "The Long and Winding Road", "You never give me your money" pushing to be first in my favourite list... HELP!
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The Abbey Road medley.

If that doesn't count as one song: The Fool On The Hill.
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Long long long
Savoy Truffle
Sext Sadie
I am the Walrus
Across the Universe
Whole B side of Abbey Road (Here Comes the Sun to Carry That weight)
I Want You (she's so heavy)
Sgt Pepper's
Mr Kite
Within You and Without You
Ballad of John and Yoko
Lucy in the Sky
In fact most of the White Album and Abbey Road and too many more to mention.
 
When people get lost in thought it's often because it's unfamiliar territory.
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probably, Tomorrow Never Knows.....Clap
Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Picking a single Beatles song is a moral dilema question best not answered IMHO.
 
Here's some suggestions of Beatles songs that I like a lot,
 
Lennon: Revolution 9 & Dear Prudence & I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Harrison: Blue Jay Way & It's All Too Much & Here Comes The Sun
McCartney: She Came in Through the Bathroom Window & The Fool On The Hill
Starkey: Octopus's Garden & Don't Pass Me By
What?
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I won't repeat what has been said in previous posts but I'd like to spot a forgotten and precious gem (IMO): "Cry baby cry"...
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Points: 2078 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 18 2007 at 13:32
o and Oh Darling!Paul is amazing on it



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