The Beatles - 3 Favourite Songs

Post by **Athrabeth** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 7:17 pm

I've decided that the only way to do this is to list the three songs that immediately came to mind......deeper analysis will only make the task impossible.

In My Life
It's All Too Much
Here Comes the Sun

<sw00ns for George>

<is sad because it's not the favourite five songs>

<adds Norwegian Wood and A Day in the Life anyway>

Post by **vison** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 7:28 pm

Sun Jul 22, 2007 11:48 pm

Yup.

Post by **yovargas** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 1:12 am

You're all wrong!!!! It's so obviously Tomorrow Never Knows!!!!!!!!!!!

Post by **elfshadow** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 1:22 am

Maybe we should start a new thread called "30 Favorite Beatles Songs".

Post by **yovargas** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 1:49 am

The correct answer will still be Tomorrow Never Knows.

Post by **narya** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 6:07 am

Hey Jude, All the Lonely People, All You Need is Love.

At least, those are the ones that often pop into my head. I'm rather fond of all of their songs, in small doses.

Post by **axordil** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 3:11 pm

All the Lonely People

That would be Eleanor Rigby.

Tomorrow Never Knows is a great song. Did you know that under the right neurochemical circumstances, it lasts half an hour?

I actually like the overdubbing they did on the Love album for it with Within You, Without You, which otherwise is a bit shapeless. Adding the TNK beat helps a lot.

Post by **Aravar** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 3:19 pm

Yesterday

Let It Be

Hard Day's Night

Post by **yovargas** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 3:32 pm

axordil wrote:Tomorrow Never Knows is a great song. Did you know that under the right neurochemical circumstances, it lasts half an hour?

What amazes me so much about this song is that, unlike anything at all in their catalog, the song sounds like it could have been made yesterday as much as the late 60s. Everything else they ever recorded (that I've heard) sounds like a song from the 60s. Not that there's anything bad about that (w00t the 60s

) but there's something about the quality, the nature of that song's sound the makes it sound like it could have been recorded during any time since then. And that is so amazingly appropriate that this song's sound, with its edgeless swirling infinities, manages to trascend its time like that. I can't imagine that that's a coincidence and as such it really does strike me as the most radical and astonishing artistic feat the Beatles ever managed.

Post by **elfshadow** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 10:36 pm

I have to admit that I really don't enjoy Tomorrow Never Knows that much.

I'm not a huge fan of the really "strange" music that the Beatles put out. Revolution 9 gives me the creeps, for example.

Post by **axordil** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 12:05 am

It's hard to call Revolution 9 music. And it is creepy.

TNK is just challenging.

Post by **yovargas** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 12:08 am

Besides those two, I am not aware of anything the Beatles did that could qualify as "weird". Anymore, at least.

Post by **axordil** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 12:33 am

Thinking about it...TNK is an odd duck, because I can't think of any Beatles number MORE psychedelic (and therefore. you would think, rooted in the 60s), and yet it remains, as elfshadow describes it, strange and thus fresh to this very day.

Post by **narya** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 6:20 am

I'm in the odd circumstance of having heard most of the songs, at high decibel levels, as a kid, as they pounded through my brother's bedroom wall, but I never actually looked at the record album covers, so I don't know the names of any of the songs.

If I recall, the one with "I am the Walrus, coo coo cah choo" was pretty strange.

I never actually heard the "Tomorrow Never Knows" song, but I just found a clip with it here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow_Never_Knows

Post by **axordil** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 2:02 pm

I Am the Walrus is more paranoiac than psychedelic.

In my mind it's closer to Revolution 9 than anything else in the canon. The "found sounds" are the common denominator.

Post by **Sassafras** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 5:56 pm

I don't have three favourite Beatles songs. That is a very unfair question. It's on a par with asking for three favourite Dylan songs .... there are just too many to choose from.

No, what needs to be done is break up the body of work into categories and then choose three (or more) from each.

Thus: 1964-1965

1.Can't Buy Me Love (Hard Day's Night)

2. A Hard Day's Night (Hard Day's Night)

3. Ticket to Ride ( Help)

1965-1967

1. Norwegian Wood (Rubber Soul)

2. Tomorrow Never Knows (Revolver)

3. Fixing a Hole (Sgt. Pepper)

1967-1969

1. Strawberry Fields (Magical Mystery Tour)

2. Revolution 1 (White Album)

3. Get Back (Let It Be)

.......... What an unsatisfactory list!

Where do I put "Yesterday" or "Day Tripper" or "Fool on the Hill" or "When I'm 64"???? or .... or ..... well, you get the idea.

Choosing only three is like asking me to choose between Frodo and Sam. I just can't.

So there.

Post by **yovargas** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 6:09 pm

Sassafras wrote: Choosing only three is like asking me to choose between Frodo and Sam.

Sam.

Post by **themary** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 6:12 am

Across the Universe
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Something

Post by **baby tuckoo** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 6:40 am

themary wrote:Across the Universe
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Something

Oh, please.

Render unto the baby a break, and lay off the psychotropics unless you have enough to offer some to me, free, because I won't get paid until Sept. 30, given the absurd plan my union has worked out with the school district.

So . . . come on.