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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsOf all the incredibly marvelous Beatles' songs, which is the best?
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IMO, A Day in the Life
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Cartoonist
(7,323 posts)Plus Strawberry Fields Forever
I cant choose
ailsagirl
(22,902 posts)Seriously
OregonBlue
(7,755 posts)ailsagirl
(22,902 posts)Dem2theMax
(9,657 posts)ZZenith
(4,133 posts)Or Eleanor Rigby
Or Here Come the Sun
Or Good Night
Or She's Leaving Home
Or In My Life
Or Golden Slumbers
Or Across The Universe
Or Blackbird
Or You Never Give Me Your Money
Or Here, There And Everywhere
Or The Fool On The Hill
Or Nowhere Man
Or...
I should probably stop,huh?
ailsagirl
(22,902 posts)Maxwell's Silver Hammer is a strange one, though-- if you don't listen to the lyrics, it's fine
But... when you do... Yikes!
3catwoman3
(24,088 posts)Creepy lyrics, to be sure.
ailsagirl
(22,902 posts)DonaldsRump
(7,715 posts)...all of them!
ailsagirl
(22,902 posts)MiltonBrown
(322 posts)My vote would go to Please Please Me.
ailsagirl
(22,902 posts)Even the songs they covered, they sounded incredible
Twist and Shout
Shout
That'll Be the Day
Words of Love
Rock 'n Roll Music
Roll Over Beethoven
etc etc etc
And their own early compositions:
No Reply
I'll Be Back
Norwegian Wood
Don't Bother Me
I'm a Loser
ad infinitum
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)ailsagirl
(22,902 posts)Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)LAS14
(13,790 posts)lkinwi
(1,477 posts)MuseRider
(34,136 posts)at any moment is my favorite.
I long ago gave up trying to figure this one out. I do know that Sgt. Pepper's is my favorite album but mainly because of the change in their music that took place to create it. It really did change rock music in a huge way.
ailsagirl
(22,902 posts)I don't know why this is or how they did it-- I guess I should stop trying to figure it out
MuseRider
(34,136 posts)to have had them and this kind of music growing up or as a young adult. Really, we were so very lucky. From the very first they were unique and it just worked so very well. They were only around for such a short time but they changed the lives of so many of us. It really is something isn't it?
ailsagirl
(22,902 posts)happybird
(4,652 posts)Yeah, that's cheating and I don't care, lol!
I Feel Fine
Lady Madonna
Tomorrow Never Knows
Eleanor Rigby
I have deep love for the softer songs on the White Album, like Martha My Dear, Sexy Sadie, Long Long Long, Cry Baby Cry ... can't call them their "best" but I can't live without them. I love that whole album.
ailsagirl
(22,902 posts)argyl
(3,064 posts)A lot of Side One really left me cold. Maxwell's Silver Hammer, Octopus's Garden, I Want You( She's So Heavy)
Substandard for them.
But Side Two. I always play the entire side. Always. It's just perfect.
happybird
(4,652 posts)is the perfect length to cook dinner to. The hubs knows I'm starting dinner when he hears HCtS
It fits so well, I sometimes wonder if I am subconsciously timing tasks so I'm done right at the end.
edit: oops, brainfart. Was listening to Here Comes Sunshine by the Dead earlier, lol!
lpbk2713
(42,772 posts)They had talent and they came along at just the right point in time.
They owe a lot to Ed Sullivan. Sir Paul still puts on a hell of a show.
ailsagirl
(22,902 posts)mikehiggins
(5,614 posts)I loved it from the first and now that I'm in my 70's it's even more poignant.
ailsagirl
(22,902 posts)Yesterday, written entirely (or almost entirely- read on) by Paul McCartney, is the most widely recorded song of all-time. To date, at least 4,000 different versions of the classic Beatles tune have been recorded by artists as diverse as Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Liberace, Tammy Wynette, Daffy Duck (!), The Mamas and the Papas, Marvin Gaye, Ray Charles and Placido Domingo.
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/06/18/Yesterday-The-Most-Recorded-Song-of-All-Time/
Daffy Duck?
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,925 posts)I don't know if I've ever heard a cover of it (you should just see how large the rock is that I live under) and I can't begin to imagine any version could begin to be a tenth as good.
rurallib
(62,477 posts)ailsagirl
(22,902 posts)Skinner
(63,645 posts)While my guitar gently weeps
ailsagirl
(22,902 posts)Their (George's) greatest masterpiece! One of the BEST songs on the White Album
Those searing guitar notes... (Clapton?) The harmonies... the whole thing is moving and intense.
I read that George had to practically force the others to take this song seriously. Once Clapton joined the mix, they were quite amenable.
The others (esp John & Paul) could be rather cavalier at times.
Thanks, Skinner
Me.
(35,454 posts)Skinner
(63,645 posts)So good.
WheelWalker
(8,956 posts)ronatchig
(575 posts)was so far down the list. The ultimate Harrison imho. And my guitar stills weeps just not as gently.
Brother Buzz
(36,489 posts)And that's a tall order. I'm just saying.
ailsagirl
(22,902 posts)I just felt that Day in the Life was sort of in a class by itself--because it was so complex and novel-- no one had ever heard anything like it before.
It still stuns.
GReedDiamond
(5,318 posts)...Beatles song.
I, however, like it.
Brother Buzz
(36,489 posts)But when you play the entire Beatles Double White album, it totally works, especially if you listen to it on a well defined stereo system; there is a lot more going on then just a bunch of random sound clips glued together.
Ferryboat
(926 posts)My guitar gently weeps, off the demo outtakes.
Paul on bass George on acoustic guitar with a few more lyrics.
But what is really telling about Beatles songs is when other artists do a cover. Never thought much about The Things We Said Today until I heard Dwight Yokum play it.
Really opened my eyes as to how great they were as lyricist.
Favorite album Abbey Road.
ailsagirl
(22,902 posts)Always loved that song-- rather haunting, really
Thanks!
Ferrets are Cool
(21,112 posts)The Long and Winding Road
ailsagirl
(22,902 posts)Apparently Phil Specter ruined it by adding a "celestial chorus" to it without Paul's permission! Paul was furious!!
Ferrets are Cool
(21,112 posts)ailsagirl
(22,902 posts)but I'm not sure
Denzil_DC
(7,287 posts)It strips out the schmaltzy mess Spector made of that album.
YouTube seems to feature quite a few tracks from it.
Here's "The Long and Winding Road":
I was never a great fan of that song, but this version seems to me a lot more sensitive and sophisticated, and you can actually hear the cool piano part properly.
ailsagirl
(22,902 posts)Beautiful in its simplicity
Denzil_DC
(7,287 posts)Response to Denzil_DC (Reply #31)
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Denzil_DC
(7,287 posts)Paul was on grand piano, Billy Preston (who probably would have ended up being the 5th/6th Beatle if they hadn't split) was on electric piano/organ, George on guitar, of course, plus a restrained drum part from Ringo.
This take was mainly recorded five days after the one Specter messed around with, which was released in a stripped-back version in the "Anthology" series (which I think I have stashed away somewhere - must dig it out).
Here's the "Naked" version of "Let It Be".
And here's "Across the Universe":
Those three were the ones they did most to strip back. The details of what they did to these and the other tracks are at the Wikipedia link I gave above.
ailsagirl
(22,902 posts)Denzil_DC
(7,287 posts)so that's why he had to go overboard with the choir etc.!
It doesn't sound out of place on the version above.
ailsagirl
(22,902 posts)Mendocino
(7,520 posts)ailsagirl
(22,902 posts)is really a tape of the Beatles laughing, played backwards
Stargleamer
(1,992 posts)with Please, Please Me close behind
MiltonBrown
(322 posts)ailsagirl
(22,902 posts)I put them on when I'm cleaning the house and get the job done in half the time!
Lunabell
(6,133 posts)There are just so many. But if you twisted my arm, Let It Be or A Day In the Life. Sigh, I miss John and George.
ailsagirl
(22,902 posts)rickford66
(5,530 posts)ailsagirl
(22,902 posts)rickford66
(5,530 posts)Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)akraven
(1,975 posts)ailsagirl
(22,902 posts)Miss that man so much
rampartc
(5,453 posts)day tripper, here comes the sun, nowhere man. there are a lot of choices.
ailsagirl
(22,902 posts)DFW
(54,476 posts)So complex and sounding so simple. It seems to get lost among all the great songs, but that one always fascinated me.
ailsagirl
(22,902 posts)Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)ailsagirl
(22,902 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,648 posts)ailsagirl
(22,902 posts)There are so few
BigmanPigman
(51,648 posts)bmbmd
(3,088 posts)You can only pick the one that has personal meaning. For us, its I Will.
GrannyW
(17 posts)I honestly will not switch off ANY Beatles song. I can't even think of one that I dislike.
Back then, singles were used to sell albums. Only on their LPs, every song was a hit - or became one.
DownFromTheMountain
(226 posts)I've Just Seen a Face.. everybody sings!
fNord
(1,756 posts)That being said.....I do love the way I feel when I hear Accross the Universe.....
ailsagirl
(22,902 posts)GReedDiamond
(5,318 posts)...is my favorite Beatles song today.
ailsagirl
(22,902 posts)CanonRay
(14,131 posts)NNadir
(33,582 posts)fierywoman
(7,700 posts)and it just carries you away ...
ailsagirl
(22,902 posts)Another marvelous song! So many...
And the harmonies always knocked me out! So beautiful
LastDemocratInSC
(3,656 posts)ailsagirl
(22,902 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)But I'll throw this one on the thread cause I love it and nobody else did ... it's an alternate version ... Beatles seem to frown pretty hard on the released material being on Youtube ... still this one is pretty close ... and of course, you've all heard it
ailsagirl
(22,902 posts)OxQQme
(2,550 posts)ailsagirl
(22,902 posts)Thanks for posting!
LibDemAlways
(15,139 posts)red dog 1
(27,901 posts)I've asked this question before on DU, and have even done polls.
Today, "A Day in the Life" would be the one.
Tomorrow, it might be a different one, like "Here Comes The Sun"
[I also love "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" and "All You Need Is Love"]
ailsagirl
(22,902 posts)Amazing I should feel this way, after... 50 years!!
edbermac
(15,950 posts)redstateblues
(10,565 posts)It was the top seller
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Dave in VA
(2,041 posts)How could I possibly pick just one???????????
I can remember exactly what was happening in my life every time I hear one of their songs.
ailsagirl
(22,902 posts)I can't imagine how things would have been had not they taken over the scene!
Such enrichment!!
trackfan
(3,650 posts)since I don't see it mentioned here yet.
ailsagirl
(22,902 posts)Everything about it makes me want to start dreaming myself!
pressbox69
(2,252 posts)Because that's what it's about for all of us.