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fil karada 
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Posted: June 27 2009 at 20:51 |
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I wont post all the songs composed by each one and I wont post songs that one says is his and the other says its his.
John Lennon:
Come Together
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Dear Prudence
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
Revolution 1
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
Strawberry Fields Forever
Paul McCartney:
Blackbird
Helter Skelter
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
With A Little Help From My Friends
Getting Better
Hey Jude
George Harrison:
Something
Here Comes The Sun
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Within You Without You
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Posted: June 27 2009 at 21:06 |
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1) Lennon
2) Mac
3) Georgie boy
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Padraic
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Posted: June 27 2009 at 21:18 |
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With all respect to George, it's between Lennon and Mac really. Tough call....I'll go with Mac by the slightest of margins.
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Posted: June 27 2009 at 21:29 |
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Yeah, it will be interesting to see if George pulls any votes.
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...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell"
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Posted: June 27 2009 at 21:44 |
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George has my vote. Let's see if I'm the only one. Of course, he did not have the impact or the output of the other two, but all of his songs rank among the Beatles' best.
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Lota
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Posted: June 27 2009 at 21:45 |
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Tough On!!!!!!!!!! Love the three of Them
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Finnforest
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Posted: June 27 2009 at 21:47 |
 Progosopher wrote:
George has my vote. Let's see if I'm the only one. Of course, he did not have the impact or the output of the other two, but all of his songs rank among the Beatles' best. |
Well, that didn't take long!!  I like him too, very much. All Things Must Pass is wonderful.
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Posted: June 27 2009 at 21:47 |
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during and post-Beatles I reckon George takes it for some really solid, straightforward work, John close behind and Paul if the hit parade is one's thing
Edited by Atavachron - June 27 2009 at 21:49
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Posted: June 27 2009 at 23:02 |
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I go with George, only because While my Guitar Gently Weeps is his, my favourite Beatles song. Also Here comes the Sun is very good. Of Course, he is the one who contributed less songs for the band (not counting Ringo). I think McCartney did a greater amount of good songs for the Beatles. And certainly, Lennon is the one who made the best songs during their solo output.
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Posted: June 28 2009 at 01:08 |
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I'm glad to see George is keeping up with Paul and John so far. I had read the question as only concerning Beatles songs, and now realize it doesn't. That strengthens my choice. George has clearly had the best output since the breakup IMO. No other post Beatle album stands up to All Things Must Pass, not even Imagine. This is not to put John or Paul down, though.
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The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"
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Posted: June 28 2009 at 12:33 |
Finnforest wrote:
Yeah, it will be interesting to see if George pulls any votes. |
he's got mine and apparently not just mine....
ifyou add George's Badge on the Cream Goodbye album ans My Sweet lord on that list in ther first post (lust so mumùerically it's even), it's no-cinch the winner
he came about late in the Beatles career, but every sing of his starting with Taxman was useful to the group. But the other two didn't realmly wan't to leave him as much space as they were for themselves
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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
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Posted: June 28 2009 at 13:44 |
1. John
2. George
3. Paul
I Want You (She's So Heavy), Dear Prudence, Happiness Is A Warm Gun, I am the Walrus and Strawberry Fields Forever belong to my favourite Beatles songs and so does Here Comes the Sun.
John Lennon wins, but George Harrison added an essential touch to the Beatles oeuvre.
Edited by someone_else - June 28 2009 at 13:44
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lazland
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Posted: June 28 2009 at 13:44 |
George doesn't come into it. Paul by a very short straw for me, but it's close. 
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Moogtron III
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Posted: June 28 2009 at 14:23 |
George made the best songs IMHO, even though he wasn't given much space.
McCartney is an endless source of strong melodies and creative musical ideas, mixing of styles etc.: he would be my nr. 2.
Lennon made the most rootsy, bluesy sounding music of the three, although he also had some psychedelic experiments as well. I like a lot of his contributions, but he would be my least favourite of the three.
For me, they all come close, though.
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Posted: June 28 2009 at 16:19 |
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Harrison (My favorite song of all time is a Harrison written song- Here Comes The Sun)
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Posted: June 29 2009 at 03:49 |
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I had to vote for George. He may not match Lennon and McCartney in Quantity of songwriting output, but he certainly does in quality, and in my opinion surpasses both of them in that aspect. But it is a very tough call I must admit.
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Posted: June 29 2009 at 05:02 |
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Lennon, he always did the intresting and experimental stuff.
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Posted: July 11 2009 at 08:14 |
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George. He has less songs than the lennon/mccartney songwriting crew, but his songs were always higher in quality and very underrated.
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GaryB
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Posted: July 11 2009 at 08:49 |
For many years I considered John Lennon to be my favorite Beatle as far as songwriting, vocal style and experimentation. Back then, in my crowd there was a rule of thumb. If it was love song, it was probably Paul. If it was heavier, more controversial or if it pushed the envelope, it was probably John.
It has already been mentioned that George was not given as many songs per album so when you consider quantity, you realize how good Harrison's contributions were.
If I Needed Someone, Think For Yourself, Taxman, I Want To Tell You, I Me Mine, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Something, etc........quality wins over quantity.
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Posted: July 11 2009 at 11:15 |
GaryB wrote:
For many years I considered John Lennon to be my favorite Beatle as far as songwriting, vocal style and experimentation. Back then, in my crowd there was a rule of thumb. If it was love song, it was probably Paul. If it was heavier, more controversial or if it pushed the envelope, it was probably John. |
I don't know why most people believe that. Paul was as experimental as John, most of the sound effects on Tomorrow never knows were his contributions, he was mostly responsable for the Sgt Pepper album while the others weren't very interested, he wrote the Beatles heaviest song (Helter Skelter), I think his songwriting was even more diverse than John's, but still people like to believe he only wrote silly love songs.
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