Pick a favorite Beatles song.

[elperromagico]

If you don't have a favorite Beatles song, or you don't like the Beatles, you have no need to reply, do you?

As a matter of fact, you shouldn't keep reading this.

Go on. Stop reading.

Still reading? Seriously. Stop.

Okay. I think they're gone. Anyway, my favorite at the moment is "Across the Universe."

[Birthmark]

1. Good choice.

But I'll take "I am the Walrus."

[ropi]

2. Eleanor Rigby

Waits at the window
Wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door
Who is it for?

[Osamasux]

3. I Dig a Pony

[St. Jarvitude]

4. "With A Little Help From My Friends"

Flame on, biznatches. I love Billy Shears!

[MrSlayer]

5. I am the Walrus.

Great Tune.

[HeyManThatsCool]

6. Let it Be n/t

[bobthedrummer]

7. "Long long long", "Tomorrow Never Knows". "Come Together"

I can't have just one...

[njdemocrat106]

8. In My Life

Also, Taxman, Helter Skelter, I Should Have Known Better, The Night Before, and If I Fell.

[coloradodem2005]

9. Come Together.

n/t

[madison2000]

10. Yesterday

[last_texas_dem]

11. "I'll Be Back"

It's very hard to pick a favorite Beatles song since I love pretty much all of them, and have had probably a couple dozen as "favorites" sometime in my life so far, but I'll go with this one for the moment.

I just love the "feel" to it, the intensity, especially in the middle eight, and I like the lyrics.

FWIW, the Buckinghams (Chicago pop-rock group that used a lot of horns) do a great cover of this one on their second album.

[StClone]

"Across the Universe."

Yes mine too. I like Fiona Apple's version -- so dreamy, innocent and magical yet so simple.

The rest of Beatles stuff depresses me and I do not know why.

[alvis]

12. Free as a Bird

It's the favorite of the moment.

[Erika]

13. Hey Jude

by far.

[katusha]

14. hey bulldog

for today at least, tommorrow it will be something else.

[Deja Q]

15. "Paperback Writer"

Bubblegum, but very fun. :D

[SaveElmer]

16. My Guitar Gently Weeps

Followed by Norwegian Wood, Eleanor Rigby, and Blackbird

[Floogeldy]

17. Anybody who could pick JUST ONE favorite Beatles song . . .

. . . is a much happier person than I.

IT IS IMPOSSIBLE.

[elperromagico]

18. But I think it is possible to have a favorite at any one moment.

A constant favorite is practically impossible.

[Karenca]

19. long and winding road, hey jude, michelle, yesterday...nt

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

20. Within You, Without You

GH RIP <33

[JohnKleeb]

33. God I love that one too Maggie, its so Indian sounding aint it

[Sporadicus]

21. A Day in the Life

The protagonist in "A Day In The Life" is bombarded by media - film, newspapers, probably TV and radio as well - but can't connect to any tragedy reported therein. Either the subject is utter puerility (the holes in the road in Blackburn) or high misfortune (a young gent who had everything, now dead from a car wreck) or blackest commentary (the compulsion to watch the filmic horrors of wartime when everyone else is repulsed). How can one make sense of all this? How can life force us to pick and choose what matters, when it cajoles us relentlessly with images of unutterable senselessness and pain?

[elperromagico]

22. I've never read it interpreted in quite that way.

Good job. :thumbsup:

[koneko]

23. That's a toughie

If I had to choose, Come Together or Don't Let Me Down may win out.

[Ronnie]

24. Good Day Sunshine

always...ALWAYS...makes me happy.

[freethought]

25. Tough one! "Penny Lane" is a favorite! n/t

[fishwax]

26. Good Choice!

I sang it to my then girlfriend shortly before proposing, at a windswept scenic turnout high upon the Big Horn Mountains.

I guess my favorite right now is "I'm So Tired" ... constantly popping into my head for some reason :shrug:

[AntiFascist]

27. Strawberry Fields Forever...

It seems to make sense, or does it? I think its not too bad. Nothing to get hung about. It all works out...

[sir_captain]

28. Here, There, and Everywhere

[Redleg]

29. While my guitar gently weeps.

A great George Harrison contribution. "A day in teh life" has to be next in my list.

[jpgray]

30. Well, the one I'm obsessed with right now is "The Night Before"

It kind of sucks, but goddam if great production and great singing don't save that piece of shit.

[elperromagico]

31. One of the first uses of electric piano by the Fabs.

It's a simple part - played by Lennon, IIRC - but it really propels the song forward.

[blue agave]

32. Revolution ... after the split it's Imagine, of course n/t