Post the best Beatles song of all time, iyo and your reason

RacquetballGangsta · Post by **RacquetballGangsta** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 1:42 pm

I will post an mp3 when i get home.

my pick?
"Girl"

Why?

fantastic song.
beautiful in its simplicity. lennon's vocals seem so sincere. the writing isnt overwrought, but still touches..tells a story like most great beatles songs do. great harmonies. beautiful, sparse guitar. talks about, well, a girl. not a complicated recipe for perfection.

your turn.

Career Over Like Mike(NJJ) · Mon Oct 29, 2007 1:48 pm

It it acceptable to choose the version of "Love Me Do" from Eddie Murphy's Clarence - the fifth Beatle SNL sketch where they overdubbed saxophone over the original and he's ad-libbing all on top of the lyrics?

citizen · Post by **citizen** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 2:01 pm

im not the biggest beatles fan or that knowledgeable but i think either hey jude or hello goodbye, cuz they werent too pop-ish, used the instruments and voices well, love the horns on hello goodbye

Myjah · Post by **Myjah** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 2:16 pm

Really hard to say, they have so many different top notch songs.

I changed my answer a bunch of times here, but I'm going to go with "Something". Just a beautiful song, not too pop-y but still has mass appeal (I feel). Also has some good guitar.

Icesickle · Post by **Icesickle** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 2:29 pm

"In My Life." Touching song about relationships come and gone that could have easily been turned into maudlin pap, but the Beatles pull it off well. The lyrics and the music are both perfection. Love that 5 second guitar solo at the end.

"She Said, She Said." Song about a girl with a gothic twist. "She saaaaid....I know what it's like to be dead." It's a straight up rocker too...not twee like some other popular Beatles songs.

Mo Cheeks · Post by **Mo Cheeks** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 3:26 pm

"I Want You (She's So Heavy)"

Unusual length for a Beatles song

its bluesy

song fucking rocks

RacquetballGangsta · Post by **RacquetballGangsta** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:08 pm

Mo Cheeks wrote:"I Want You (She's So Heavy)"

Unusual length for a Beatles song

its bluesy

song fucking rocks

i thought about this one. top 5 for sure.

ALASKA · Post by **ALASKA** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:27 pm

happiness is a warm gun. runner up something.

Captin Planit · Post by **Captin Planit** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:44 pm

"I'm Only Sleeping". I just love everything about it. Not to mention I use it as the theme song for my uneventful life.

T-Wrex · Post by **T-Wrex** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:56 pm

RacquetballGangsta wrote:
Mo Cheeks wrote:"I Want You (She's So Heavy)"

Unusual length for a Beatles song

its bluesy

song fucking rocks
i thought about this one. top 5 for sure.

This is my pick as well.

On a similar note... Blue Veins is my favorite Raconteurs song because of the same reasons.

GM Dizzy Skillespie · Post by **GM Dizzy Skillespie** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 5:22 pm

RacquetballGangsta wrote:
Mo Cheeks wrote:"I Want You (She's So Heavy)"

Unusual length for a Beatles song

its bluesy

song fucking rocks
i thought about this one. top 5 for sure.

word first that came to mind... but I want to think about this a little more.

Money Gripp · Post by **Money Gripp** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 6:59 pm

I'm choosing "Helter Skelter" because I listened to it recently and realized that "I've Heard It Before" by Black Flag kinda rips off the beginning. It was a revelation.

I've got blisters on my fingers

On other days - I Am The Walrus, In My Life, I'm Only Sleeping, She Said, Tomorrow Never Knows, Here, There, and Everywhere.

JaH BLaZe · Post by **JaH BLaZe** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 12:18 am

in my life

the arrangements and the melody

yeah that shit is fresh
them beatles were brilliant

arlene · Post by **arlene** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 12:38 am

a day in the life because its amazing

Y@k Bollocks · Post by **Y@k Bollocks** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 7:03 am

'Glass Onion', for the 'Tick, Tick...' break at the end.

GM Dizzy Skillespie · Tue Oct 30, 2007 11:42 am

Money Gripp wrote:I'm choosing "Helter Skelter" because I listened to it recently and realized that "I've Heard It Before" by Black Flag kinda rips off the beginning. It was a revelation.

I've got blisters on my fingers

I feel as though you can track some origins to nearly every genre that rock has taken (before and after) through a beatles song.
I listen to Helter Skelter and I hear so much shit that different punk bands did.
that song fucking tears

Myjah · Post by **Myjah** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 1:53 pm

SCARLENE wrote:a day in the life because its amazing

Yeah I almost picked this one and changed at the last second.

Captin Planit · Post by **Captin Planit** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 2:28 pm

GM Dizzy Skillespie wrote:
Money Gripp wrote:I'm choosing "Helter Skelter" because I listened to it recently and realized that "I've Heard It Before" by Black Flag kinda rips off the beginning. It was a revelation.

I've got blisters on my fingers
I feel as though you can track some origins to nearly every genre that rock has taken (before and after) through a beatles song.
I listen to Helter Skelter and I hear so much shit that different punk bands did.
that song fucking tears

Yeah, I've heard people make this argument about the entire White Album, and I've come to believe it.

Speaking of which, "Rocky Raccoon" is another one of my favorites.

ADR · Post by **ADR** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 11:02 pm

Not sure I've ever heard a Beatles song.

ackbar · Post by **ackbar** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 11:10 pm

probably tomorrow never knows

ackbar · Post by **ackbar** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 11:11 pm

and how is 'hey jude' not a poppy song?

Dunnnnleavy · Post by **Dunnnnleavy** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 12:12 am

"You Never Give Me Your Money"

love the lyrics on it "out of college, money spent, see no future, pay no rent, all the money's gone no where to go...

BUT OH THAT MAGIC FEELING, NO WHERE TO GO"

love the way the music keeps switching up to...gives me chills

close second is "Dear Prudence", but i'm a member of the "beatles are overrated" camp

Apathwhy · Post by **Apathwhy** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 1:45 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIGjkN12lhM

Apathwhy · Post by **Apathwhy** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 1:47 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIGjkN12lhM

Funk Docta Bombay · Post by **Funk Docta Bombay** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 11:57 am

Not gonna name anything that's already been said already, so I'm going to go with "Fixing a Hole" because it's psychedelic, uses harpischord and is a pothead McCartney song. Paul reached his apex when he was stoned out of his gourd.

Not necessarily my favorite, but "Run for Your life" deserves props for being a REALLY threatning song for the time period. Lennon was gonna wild out on that bitch.

PopeyeJones · Post by **PopeyeJones** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 4:04 pm

going with the theme of not naming anything that has been named before, and I can't really give a good reason as to why I like it so much, but Norwegian Wood is a dope, dope, simple song.

boogie shoes · Post by **boogie shoes** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 11:47 pm

octapuses garden

wizeguy · Post by **wizeguy** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 7:55 am

Elenore Rigby is another dope McCartney contribution.

AWAE · Post by **AWAE** » Sat Nov 10, 2007 2:20 pm

we can work it out
hide your love away

nobs · Post by **nobs** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 2:29 am

toss up between "A Day In The Life" and "Across the Universe"