The best Beatles' song

by **jonesthecurl** on Mon Oct 01, 2012 11:15 pm

One of the finest lyrics ever is

"The fool on the hill
sees the sun going down
but the eyes in his head
see the world spinning round".

by **tzor** on Mon Oct 01, 2012 11:30 pm

Woodruff wrote:By the way...Yellow Submarine. You cannot argue with this.

I'll argue with anything. Penny Lane >> Yellow Sumbarine and I wouldn't even say Penny Lane is the best. I think When I'm 64 is slightly better than both of them.

by **Woodruff** on Tue Oct 02, 2012 12:06 am

jonesthecurl wrote:Because Queen weren't all that good.

Clearly, you are a dangerous lunatic. And you probably like cauliflower. That's probably redundant.

by **jonesthecurl** on Tue Oct 02, 2012 11:05 am

Cauliflower is redundant?

by **Woodruff** on Tue Oct 02, 2012 11:07 am

jonesthecurl wrote:Cauliflower is redundant?

One is one too many.

by **comic boy** on Tue Oct 02, 2012 2:54 pm

Queen were a great band but not even close to being as good as the Beatles. I couldn't possibly pick a best Beatles song , top 10 would be hard enough , best I can do is venture that their later work ( 1967 onwards ) was better than the earlier work.

by **Symmetry** on Tue Oct 02, 2012 3:26 pm

There's always the possibilty of a mash up.

by **AndyDufresne** on Tue Oct 02, 2012 3:41 pm

Some of my favorite Beatles tracks are actually covers they have performed, like Please Mr. Postman or Twist and Shout.

But All Together Now always makes me smile.

--Andy

by **72o** on Tue Oct 02, 2012 3:49 pm

Live and Let Die, while not a Beatles song, was done by a Beatle and is an awesome song.

Actual Beatles songs:

Come Together - created as a Timothy Leary campaign song originally
A Day in the Life
Let it Be
While My Guitar Gently Weeps

by **Quirk** on Tue Oct 02, 2012 10:39 pm

by **Funkyterrance** on Wed Oct 03, 2012 1:56 am

Old Brown Shoe has always been a personal favourite of mine.

by **oVo** on Wed Oct 03, 2012 2:08 am

Woodruff wrote:I like the Beatles a great deal. They're not better than Queen, though, as I consider Queen to be the greatest band ever formed.

I had high hopes for Queen when their first album was released,
but they never matched my expectations. A great band though.

It's really hard to compare any band to the Beatles, simply because
their songbook is so broad and effortlessly merges so many influences.
I don't think there is a best Beatles song either or even a best album,
just a lot of great songs produced by some talented young guys who
somehow managed to be in the right place at the right time.

by **muy_thaiguy** on Wed Oct 03, 2012 8:44 pm

Twist & Shout. Don't care for their later work.

by **PLAYER57832** on Thu Oct 04, 2012 7:04 am

Several of my early teen years were spent with the Sergeant Pepper album in the background.

by **oVo** on Thu Oct 04, 2012 6:09 pm

It was 50 Years ago today when the Beatles released their 1st single.

by **nietzsche** on Thu Oct 04, 2012 6:42 pm

A couple of months ago I made a poll, A Day In The Life was triumphant.

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=172118&start=0&hilit=beatles+nietzsche

by **maxfaraday** on Thu Oct 04, 2012 6:54 pm

nietzsche wrote:A couple of months ago I made a poll, A Day In The Life was triumphant.

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=172118&start=0&hilit=beatles+nietzsche

Of course it was, A Day In The Life is the greatest song ever.

by **jonesthecurl** on Thu Oct 04, 2012 7:20 pm

oVo wrote:It was 50 Years ago today when the Beatles released their 1st single.

They've been going in and out of style.

by **Funkyterrance** on Thu Oct 04, 2012 11:58 pm

jonesthecurl wrote:
They've been going in and out of style.

How true. I basically listened to the Beatles and nothing else during high school, focusing on one album after another and settling on the fact that I liked their mid-late work best. I didn't find anyone else in the hundreds of kids I knew who cared for them in the least.

by **Juan_Bottom** on Sat Oct 06, 2012 11:33 am

PLAYER57832 wrote:Several of my early teen years were spent with the Sergeant Pepper album in the background.

ha, mine too.

by **oVo** on Mon Oct 08, 2012 1:50 pm

Listening to Rubber Soul and Revolver lately I'm still amazed by the music these guys produced in their youth. Yet Sgt.Peppers and Abbey Road are both hard to top.

Bob Dylan does it to me too... the early albums and his resent releases.
Few people can touch his lyrics, storytelling ability and music.

by **Symmetry** on Mon Oct 08, 2012 1:53 pm

oVo wrote:Listening to Rubber Soul and Revolver lately I'm still amazed by the music these guys produced in their youth. Yet Sgt.Peppers and Abbey Road are both hard to top.

Bob Dylan does it to me too... the early albums and his resent releases.
Few people can touch his lyrics, storytelling ability and music.

It's kind of one of those things gets lost with mp3s- listening to an album all the way through.

by **maxfaraday** on Mon Oct 08, 2012 3:28 pm

oVo wrote:Listening to Rubber Soul and Revolver lately I'm still amazed by the music these guys produced in their youth. Yet Sgt.Peppers and Abbey Road are both hard to top.

Bob Dylan does it to me too... the early albums and his resent releases.
Few people can touch his lyrics, storytelling ability and music.

Ever heard of Leonard Cohen?

by **nietzsche** on Mon Oct 08, 2012 3:47 pm

maxfaraday wrote:
oVo wrote:Listening to Rubber Soul and Revolver lately I'm still amazed by the music these guys produced in their youth. Yet Sgt.Peppers and Abbey Road are both hard to top.

Bob Dylan does it to me too... the early albums and his resent releases.
Few people can touch his lyrics, storytelling ability and music.

Ever heard of Leonard Cohen?