All Time Favourite Beatles Track?
 

I am hoping this has'nt been done before. I will make an official thread when all the nominations are in ONE MONTH from today. Choose your track and explain why you chose it. I will then compile a MB top ten and use the best appraisals for each song in the top ten. GO.

Voted:

A Day In The Life - 2
Across The Universe - 1
Here Comes The Sun - 2
Hello Goodbye - 1
Happiness Is A Warm Gun - 1
I Want You (She's So Heavy) - 2
Helter Skelter - 1
Eleanor Rigby - 2
We Can Work It Out - 1
Martha My Dear - 1
Dear Prudence - 3
For No One - 2
Hey Jude - 1
Blackbird - 2
You Never Give Me your Money - 1
In My Life - 2

"A Day In The Life" -- The Beatles' compositional talents came together the best in this one. Perfect melodies, varied pacing, evocative and absorbing lyrics. A candidate for best song ever.

Across The Universe - Such a timeless ballad, there's something about how stripped down it sounds along with the message it carries that really hits me.

Here Comes the Sun
I remember walking down the aisle as a flower girl at my aunts wedding when I was 3 years old. Still gives me the chills everytime. One of the best love songs ever, and simply beautiful. It was sung to me when I was little to get me to sleep, and just brings back so many memories. Maybe not their all-time best track, but definately my favorite.

An easy choice.... not!:crazy:


I`ll go for a childhood memory, around age 8 `ish sometime....

Waking up to Hello Goodbye as the radio alarm came on - sweet.

Happiness is a Warm Gun: The way this song flows is incredible to me. I mean there's all these pieces to it that if you'd listen to them on their own sound like completely different songs but they've manage to transition them into a blissful and creative masterpiece.

I Want You (She's So Heavy) as explained in the other thread.

Helter Skelter Where the band who wrote songs like When I'm Sixty-Four was put to sleep for about 4 minutes and they decided to kick arse. It still sounds fairly heavy these days, those choppy guitars, the drums and bass that sounds like they're being battered to within an inch of they're lifes, and Paul who always seemed so innocent screaming his arse off. A large proportion of this a pretty experimental jam but deep down it's still a pop song that gets me moving every time.
A lot of people praise this song as they see it as the first birth of heavy metal, i praise it as it was another re-invention for a band that had many. It just might have been their best.

I think i may have to go with 'Eleanor Rigby'. It was such an unusual track for it's time and is a classic case of quality not quantity (in terms of instruments used). Also it is one of the few instances when lyrical content greatly enhances the composition.

Honourable mentions to:

And I Iove Her
A Day In The Life Of
Yesterday
Paperback Writer
I Want You

I hate to be a square, but...

A Day In The Life - Sonically, it may be one of their worst, but to me, this is the most compelling and forceful track on Peppers and in their entire discography.

My honourable mentions go to:

Norwegian Wood
Ticket To Ride
In My Life

we can work it Out

I really like how the tempo changes

I can't even narrow it down to a top ten, sorry. But 'yes' to all of the above!

It changes alot, but the other day I put on my vinyl copy of the white album, and "Martha My Dear" was the first song, and I had never really noticed it before-but its SOOOO good. I feel like it envelops every aspect of the Beatles' sound, which is tough considering all the genre hopping they did. But yeah, right now, definately "Martha My Dear".

Just listening to the instrumental version of it shows how remarkable a track Eleanor Rigby was. Lovely strings throughout.

Life On Mars by Bowie would also be included. So much genius going on behind the vocals by the orchestra.

Eleanor Rigby - It's just such a beautiful and sad ballad. Lennon and McCartney's songwriting reached its height in Revolver

Runner-ups:
Yesterday
In My Life
For No One
Penny Lane
A Day in the Life
Dear Prudence
Hey Jude
Revolution (single version)

I agree with that. I would also say that George Harrison, however, peaked later, on Abbey Road, Beatles-wise.

Dear Prudence

Aaggghhh!

Am I the only one who finds Revolver overrated? Too many goofy forgettable tracks, IMO. Like "good day sunshine", "yellow submarine, "i want to tell you", "got to get you into my life", "dr. robert", are all mediocre. Believe me, everything else I LOVE especially, "Im only sleeping", but top ten album of all time? No. Best album of all time? You gotta be kidding me. Paul McCartney even said Pet Sounds blew it away, and I agree.

'I Want To Tell You' and 'Got To Get You Into My Life' are quite good. George's shy voice and Paul's upbeat tempo and vocals make them both great songs.

Im just not blown away by them. Ill take and your bird can sing or love you to over them anyday. A matter of preference I suppose, but I still dont understand why revolver is praised more than any other Beatles album.

What's your favourite?

Usually Abbey Road, sometimes sgt. pepper though. Sgt. Pepper would be perfect if they replaced "within you without you" with strawberry fields and penny lane, which were supposed to be on the album. But yeah, Abbey Road is far superior.

I'd say Revolver is my fave because it's by their standards the most consistent for me, but the more i listen to Sgt Peppers the more i lean towards that. It has a certain charm.

Ive always felt Revolver was missing something Sgt Pepper had, and that something is "A Day In The Life"

I have to go with Here Comes The Sun

honorable mentions: eleanor rigby, in my life, across the universe, hello goodbye, and dear prudence

For No One: Such a beautiful melody, such a sad song.

Keep them coming people.

Within You Without You has my favorite lyrics ever and I like Indian music (from the little I have heard). The worst song is either Kite or 64 for me.

Dear Prudence just has everything for me...

Lead Vocals: Sincere and gorgeous. The lyrics are about trying to show a depressed person the beauty of the outside world. Very Uplifting.
Backing Vocals: High pitched harmonizing sounds beautiful
Guitar: The dubbed one in the beginning is wonderful, and as the song progresses a faster one which raises the
Bass: My favorite bass-line ever.
Other Instruments: They all fill nicely into the song, especially the drums.

The build up is subtle but it becomes an even more beautiful song as it progresses.

I like Georges Indian music stuff on revolver alot, Within you without you just sort of makes sgt. pepper lose its momentum for me.

And Dear Prudence is bomb. I first got the white album when I was 15, and I wasnt that into it. I rediscovered it 3-4 years later though, and I LOVE it now.

Dear Prudence is my fav.

HM: In My Life, Oh! Darling, Something, Happiness is Warm Gun.

Abbey Road is my favorite album, followed ever so closely by the White Album.

I Want You (She's So Heavy)

I love the randomness of The White Album... Nothing quite fits but I never really care...

blackbird...i think.

definitely dear prudence

Blackbird or Day Tripper

In My Life

I don't know why, I just really love it.

You Never Give Me Your Money

Wonderfully played, so many time changes, it's just one of the best-written songs I've ever heard

I was never impressd by the beatles much, but I'd say, Hey Jude

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