I send e-mails to myself anytime I get an idea for a post. Some of the time, I'll wake up and not understand what I wrote in the e-mail. One such e-mail had a subject line that read, "BW Post." That much I got. The body of the e-mail read, "10 bertles../"
Scrolling through various social media feeds, I saw a friend post his 10 Favorite Beatles songs, explaining, "This may seem like another boring list until you realize just how difficult it is to only choose ten."
That MUST be what I had written to myself.
So since I am Weekend Mix poor for this Friday, I decided to give this a shot, and as an extra added challenge, I put them in ascending order instead of taking the lazy, alphabetical way out.
I'm not completely sure I am satisfied with this, but I am completely sure I didn't want to think too hard on it. That said, this may be real.
10. Don't Let Me Down
9. I'm Only Sleeping
8. I Don't Want To Spoil The Party
7. No Reply
6. Penny Lane
5. If I Fell
4. Something
3. Rain
2. For No One
1. And Your Bird Can Sing
Have a great weekend and if you are in the path of the heat wave that is about to smother the east coast like a warm wet tweed suit, send in your Ten favorite Beatles songs before you pass out.
;)
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Here's my list, with a bonus track because (a) it's Friday and (b) it's The Beatles. This is spontaneous, off the top of my head. Tried not to overthink it.
11. Getting Better
10. Things We Said Today
9. In My Life
8. The Night Before
7. Here Comes the Sun
6. And Your Bird Can Sing
5. Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight
4. Penny Lane
3. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
2. I’ve Got a Feeling
1. Help!
10 Bertles in no particular order
Long, Long, Long
Rain
A Day In The Life
Yer Blues
Back in The USSR
Good Day Sunshine
Baby You're A Rich Man
You Never Give Me Your Money
Oh Darling
I Want you (She's So Heavy)
Bonus B side
You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)
You Know My Name is not in my top ten but it has a special place in my heart. I was drinking with a buddy in a bar just below Manhattan College and watching the Vietnam draft lottery. My number was low enough that I was gone after college.The draft ended the year that I graduated from college. Playing that song repeatedly that night in the bar jukebox (b side to Let It Be) drove the patrons crazy but it made sense in my head at that time.
Top ten
10. Rain
9. Anna (my favorite Arthur Alexander cover)
8. Help
7. This Boy (influenced by my wife)
6. We Can Work it Out
5. No Reply
4. Here, There and Everywhere
3. Two of Us
2. Its Only Love
1. Come Together
joe
I've always considered the Abbey Road side two medley my favorite Beatles song but that really doesn't apply here so...
(No particular order)
Revolution
I Want To Hold Your Hand
Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane
Ticket To Ride
Hello Goodbye
And Your Bird Can Sing
I Should Have Known Better
Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out
Paperback Writer/Rain
Come Together
Randy
Tough one indeed but here goes...
10. I Am The Walrus
9. Help
8. And Your Bird Can Sing
7. Paperback Writer
6. We Can Work It Out
5. Strawberry Fields Forever
4. She Said She Said
3. Rain
2. Daytripper
1. Ticket To Ride
Off the top of my head and in no particular order:
1. If I Needed Someone
2. Baby's In Black
3. Eight Days A Week
4. It's All To Much
5. Blue Jay Way
6. She Said She Said
7. Tomorrow Never Knows
8. I'm Only Sleeping
9. Dear Prudence
10. Help!
Very difficult one because I am missing other 120 but let’s try it
1. Baby it’s you
2. To know her is to love her
3. Things we said today
4. Drive my car
5. Strawberry fields forever
6. A day in the life
7. Tomorrow never knows
8. Here comes the sun
9. All I’ve got to do
10. Please please me
In no set order. This is quite difficult - get I get 20?
Paperback Writer
I’ve Just seen a Face
Something
Things We Said Today
Ticket To Ride
Here, There and Everywhere
Can’t Buy Me Love
Got To Get You Into My Life
We Can Work it Out
If I needed Someone
Harder than you think. I went through the albums and jotted down 16. I got it to 9, but picking the 10th out of those last 7 was hard. And I will admit to being biased as most of these songs I like playing "live"
In no particular order:
Something
Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight
I’ll Be Back
Hey Bulldog
She Said She Said
I’m Looking Through You
She’s Leaving Home
I’ve Just Seen A Face
In My Life
Martha My Dear -- the remaster of the White Album has forever changed how I look at this song. It's now top-10 Beatles.
(and it killed me to leave off "Twist and Shout", but I went with original material at the end.)
10. It's Only Love
9. Sexy Sadie
8. I've Got A Feeling
7. And Your Bird Can Sing
6. Baby's In Black
5. Penny Lane
4. A Hard Day's Night
3. For No One
2. You Won't See Me
1. If I Needed Someone
In no particular order:
Across the Universe
Dear Prudence
For No One
Not a Second Time
You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
Something
A Day in the Life
Don't Let Me Down
Here Comes the Sun
And I Love Her
10 today subject to change in an hour
Drive my Car -best opening song on two lps!
Day Tripper
Within you...
Dear Prudence
TNK
I’m Lookinng Thru You
Things We Said
Cry Baby Cry
Get Back
You Can’t do that from the greatest rock lp evah. Beatles 2 nd
Impossible to do. It changes by the minute. And besides, it hurts my head.
this is super hard
10. Help
9. Yesterday
8. While My Guitar Gently Sleeps
7. Penny Lane
6. Something
5. Ticket To Ride
4. I Am The Walrus
3. Let It Be
2. Here Comes The Sun
1. A Day In The Life
10. Revolution
9. Stawberry Fields Forever
8. Dr. Robert
7. Paperback Writer
6. Something
5. Two of Us
4. Things We Said Today
3. We Can Work it Out
2. Hide Your Love Away
1. I Saw Her Standing There
"Hold My Hand"
"Good Times Roll"
"Questionnaire"
"I Must Be In Love"
"Another Day"
"Living In Hope"
"Piggy In The Middle"
"Love Life"
"Cheese And Onions"
"Doubleback Alley"
I can't do a list for the Beatles, it's too hard. My favorite record of theirs (not the best my favorite) is "And I Love Her". I married that record long ago, as a mere tyke, and that's that. Loving the lists here from the braver, more discriminating souls than me. Thank you.
Have a great weekend, stay cool!
My fave 10 (at least for today):
Don't Bother Me
Long, Long, Long
I Don't Want To Spoil the Party
You Can't Do That
Ask Me Why
I'll Be Back
Hey Bulldog
No Reply
And Your Bird Can Sing
Every Little Thing
10 Eight Days A Week
9 All My Lovin'
8 Don’t Bother Me
7 No Reply
6 Can’t Buy Me Love
5 P.S. I Love You
4 I Saw Her Standing There
3 If I fell
2 All Too Much
1 I’m Down (Take 1/Anthology 2 version) no organ or backing vocals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CItI4Sj7qd4
Sophie had an easier Choice
My new Top 10:
7 of the 8 originals on Beatles For Sale
3 of 4 covers on Beatles For Sale
I can't list my ten favorite Beatles ALBUMS, much less songs! (Ok, I can actually.)
But songs? Please! No! Don't make me! No one put "My Bonnie"?
"Help" by Tina Turner may be my favorite Beatles cover. Can we do covers? That would be easier. No?
FOR NO ONE -- my single favorite Beatles record of all
These should be chronological but I got ahead of myself
1. SHE LOVES YOU -- epic, rousing, irresistible
2. DRIVE MY CAR -- beep beep beep beep yeah!
3. A HARD DAY'S NIGHT -- anyone who doesn't include it is lying; that chord! That film!
4. I'VE JUST SEEN A FACE -- it's in my key! very easy for me to sing, esp if I turn the record way up and can't hear myself
5. LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS and...
6. I AM THE WALRUS -- two songs with John absolutely wigging out and having a laugh to boot.
7. ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE -- deeply moving in its simplicity a la Imagine and their most radical record if you take it to heart -- plus they delivered on a world stage with a live simulcast and the Rolling Stones at their feet! I might have cried when it happened or imagined people all over would be changed by it. TRULY. I heard it in the car recently and imagining them introducing this to the universe via TV and everyone hearing it for the first time all together, literally everyone a la Live Aid and the like but it was just the Beatles, well struck an emotional chord w me to an embarrassing level.
8. CRY BABY CRY -- my friend Chris played it live on college radio w just an acoustic guitar and i can't help just digging it to death ever since
9. HERE COMES THE SUN -- "All You Need is Love" will be the first song played at my memorial. This one will be the last as thousands of my admirers stream out into a late morning sun, tears in their eyes as they think of me.
10. TWO OF US -- John and Paul had it, right from the start. Such an effortless charmer and exactly what the album Let It Be wanted to be.
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