- Please Please Me - I Feel Fine - Norwegian Wood - Taxman - She Said She Said - A Day in the Life - I Am the Walrus - Dear Prudence - Happiness is a Warm Gun - Sun King Melody
My list: 10. Happiness Is a Warm Gun 9. Revolution 8. Blackbird 7. I Want You (She’s So Heavy) 6. Here Comes the Sun 5. For No One 4. Strawberry Fields Forever 3. While My Guitar Gently Weeps 2. Here, There and Everywhere 1. In My Life
In no particular order: Something; Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey; Sexy Sadie; Think For Yourself; Here, There, And Everywhere; Come Together; A Day In The Life; Day Tripper; All You Need Is Love; I Am The Walrus.
1. A Day in the Life 2. Strawberry Fields Forever 3. I Am The Walrus 4. Penny Lane 5. Tomorrow Never Knows 6. Eleanor Rigby 7. Here There and Everywhere 8. Things We Said Today 9. A Hard Day's Night 10. I Saw Her Standing There
Not enough early classics - I Saw Her Standing There, I Feel Fine and A Hard Day's Night are all great songs and I can testify that teenagers still love dancing to them today.
01 Strawberry Fields Forever 02 Here Comes The Sun 03 Across The Universe 04 For No One 05 Blackbird 06 A Day In The Life 07 We Can Work It Out 08 You’re Gonna Lose That Girl 09 Tomorrow Never Knows 10 Yesterday
1.Here comes the sun 2.Something 3.Let it be 4.Yesterday 5.While my guitar gently weeps 6.The long and winding road 7.Tomorrow never knows 8.I am the walrus 9.With a little help from my friends 10.Strawberry fields forever
My personal list: 1. A Day In the Life 2. Hey Jude 3. Something 4. While My Guitar Gently Weeps 5. Eleanor Rigby 6. Yesterday 7. Blackbird 8. Come Together 9. Help! 10. In My Life
Great list. I don't have a top 10 because most of them range from very good to incredible, and my moods changed. I, too, am a huge "Back in the U.S.S.R." fan, and saw Paul do it live. I thought I'd faint. But LOVED hearing your thoughts on these songs; very, very fun to hear the thoughts of a truly insightful music fan.
Such a tough undertaking. In no particular order here are my top 10 favorites: In My Life While My Guitar Gently Weeps Penny Lane Help Eleanor Rigby Norwegian Wood You've Got to Hide Your Love Away Eight Days a Week A Day in the Life We Can Work it Out
10-I am the walrus 9-You won’t see me 8-I want you (She’s so Heavy) 7-Tomorrow never knows 6-Strawberry fields forever 5-Here comes the sun 4-Happiness is a warm gun 3-Yesterday 2-While my guitar gently weeps 1-Penny Lane
My top 10: 1. And Your Bird Can Sing 2. While my guitar gently weeps 3. If I needed someone 4. Your mother should know 5. You wont see me 6. Martha my dear 7. Penny Lane 8. I want to tell you 9. With a little help 10. Yer blues Hm: I feel fine Ticket to Ride Sgt peppers Drive my Car You Never Give Me Your Money Happiness is a Warm Gun Paperback writer Day tripper It’s Only Love This boy Rain And I Love Her Nowhere man Fixing a hole Oh! Darling What goes on Don't Pass Me By Getting better Norwegian wood Don’t Bother Me Glass Onion Eight days a week Wait Something Because Got To Get You Into My Life I Want You (She's So Heavy) We can work it out Strawberry Fields Good Day Sunshine Taxman She Came In Through The Bathroom Window Michelle Helter Skelter A day in the life A Hard Day's Night Eleanor Rigby I Me Mine Birthday Long, Long, Long
It always changes but right now my top ten are ---- 10) Don't Bother Me 09) You Can't Do That 08) Martha My Dear 07) Two Of Us 06) Revolution 1 05) Any Time At All 04) A Taste Of Honey 03) Old Brown Shoe 02) You Like Me Too Much 01) All I've Got To Do
10. I Saw Her Standing There 9. Taxman 8. In My Life 7. Penny Lane 6. Dear Prudence 5. Here Comes the Sun 4. Paperback Writer 3. A Day in the Life 2. Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End 1. Strawberry Fields Forever. Honorable mentions: Rain, Got to Get You Into My Life, We Can Work it Out, Yellow Submarine, Across the Universe.
Nice video. My list would be (chronological order): Yesterday In My Life Here, There and Everywhere And Your Bird Can Sing A Day In The Life While My Guitar Gently Weeps Don't Let Me Down Something Oh! Darling I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Wonderful thoughts about wonderful songs . Day in the life is da Vinci and Hey Jude is the moon . Both out of this world . If only more could dance like these two did . Great words, great work Barry
1.) Strawberry Fields Forever 2.) Eleanor Rigby 3.) Here, There And Everywhere 4.) Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds 5.) A Day In The Life 6.) I Am The Walrus 7.) In My Life 8.) For No One 9.) Yesterday 10.) Girl
As posters have already stated - you could write any number of Beatles Top Ten's and they'd all be great; it depends totally on mood. It'd be easy to do by theme, style or even period, too. However, with as little thought as possible here's ten random Beatles songs (particular favourites of mine) that're all incredible: Tomorrow Never Knows, Things We Said Today, I Want You (She's so Heavy), Helter Skelter, There's a Place, Rain, Here Comes the Sun, Because, Penny Lane, For No One. Honourable Mentions (I think it were four in the video) Strawberry Fields (realise that should've been in my top ten), I Feel Fine, If I Needed Someone, Norwegian Wood, For No One
Nice list. I’d vote for: - [ ] A day in the life - [ ] I am the walrus - [ ] Penny Lane - [ ] I want you (she’s so heavy) - [ ] Helter skelter - [ ] For no one - [ ] Norwegian wood - [ ] When I’m sixty-four - [ ] Hey bulldog - [ ] Piggies
Where your top 10 figure in on my top 100: We Can Work it Out: 21 Lucy in the Sky: 19 Ticket to Ride: 15 While My Guitar: 28 Hey Jude: 1 Let it Be: 4 Penny Lane: around 50 Eleanor Rigby: 18 A Day in the Life: 3 Strawberry Fields: 2 Seriously, there is a lot of agreement there! Thank you for the background and detail. Being of an age, I have a lot of songs that impacted me at the time of their release, such as I Want to Hold Your Hand and I Feel Fine in my top 10.
Excellent list, very difficult to pare the list down to ten from the dozens of incredible songs they wrote. For me A Day In The Life is their greatest achievement.
Nice list, it is an impossible task to squeeze dozens of pretty equal, amazing quality tunes into a top 10. Just too many great songs which is so wonderful for us. I do know I would try to get Tomorrow Never Knows onto it. 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎺🎶
A great and informative video as always, but an almost impossible undertaking. Here goes 10. I want you she's so heavy 9. While my Guitar gently weeps 8. Dear Prudence 7. You never give me your money 6. Something 5. For no one 4. Nowhere man 3. Michelle 2. Because 1. Strawberry fields That doesn't even scratch the surface, and I'll read it back and wince at the many omissions I've made
Well done on whittling down to ten songs. A difficult task on doing that. Very subjective I know but I feel fine, tomorrow never knows for pushing boundaries deserve mentioning.
Ticket to Ride, Yesterday, Norwegian Wood, Eleanor Rigby, Tomorrow Never Knows, Strawberry Fields, Penny Lane, Within Without You, A Day in the Life, Helter Skelter, Here Comes the Sun.
"For No One" is my favourite McCartney song (and Elvis Costello agrees, so there). Brilliance right out of the blocks with "Your day breaks/Your mind aches" - notice that it's your mind that aches, not your head. The lad could write lyrics when he felt like it, just as John said.
Great to talk about the Beatles - always a reminder how astonishingly good they were. Do you remember there was always the search for the next Beatles? laughable to think of it now.
Really great list. This is my Top 11, but it is really so hard to choose just so few. So many of their songs are amazing, but there's something absolutely otherworldly with Don't Let Me Down. It has just a fantastic feeling to it, and such a wonderful groove. Billy Preston's contribution to this song is extraordinary. Don't Let Me Down Revolution While My Guitar Gently Weeps Happiness is a Warm Gun The Fool on the Hill A Day in the The Life Being For the Benefit of Mr.Kite Let it Be The Long and Winding Road In My Life For No One
Too bad Ray Davies took issue with the Beatles. And his brother. And Chrissie Hynde. And seemingly so many others. When asked by producer Rick Rubin about monumental musical moments of surprise, Paul McCartney starts with the Kinks. His recollection of the Kinks opening for the Beatles and him hearing 'You Really Got Me' likely did drive him (and John) to write riff rockers including 'Paperback Writer'. I add the link to that interview - the best and most insightful I've heard with McCartney - below. Not necessarily 'greatest', though my favourites: 1. Eleanor Rigby - a compelling mood piece with a brilliant string arrangement - a sombre vignette to loneliness 2. A Hard Day's Night - with that opening chord and driving pulse this is sheer excitement from start to finish 3. Strawberry Fields Forever - the harbinger of prog to come, this song was unlike anything that had come before 4. I'm Only Sleeping - this is so evocative of comfortable laziness, with sweeping guitar strums adding comfort 5. Rain - with rain and sun as metaphors for the downs and ups of life, Lennon asserts his grasp of life 6. Hey Bulldog - a great riff-driven groove with call-and-response lyrics that bounce atop the rhythm section 7. Paperback Writer - from boy-girl love to a narrative that reads like a pitch for a job...which is exactly what it is 8. I Am the Walrus - along with Cream, Hendrix and Pink Floyd. the Beatles were taking us into new spaces 9. You're Going to Lose That Girl - I picture the lads, windswept on the Salisbury Plain, playing this in 'Help' 10. Help - Lennon's plea is juxtaposed against a rock 'n' rolling backdrop that makes sadness sound happy Rick Rubin chats with Paul McCartney. This is great! th-cam.com/video/z-b4INqB85I/w-d-xo.html
The harmonies in We Can Work it Out are among my favorite from anyone. Paul said it took him years to find someone who could carry John's part properly and that was why he avoided playing it live for as long as he did. I did read an account that put forth the notion that We Can Work it Out and I'm Looking Through You were actually composed with John in mind but Paul has denied it. It does make you wonder though, since John has said Paul very rarely wrote honest songs about what he was he was feeling and was more of an observer who wrote about what he saw. I do agree While My Guitar Gently Weeps is George's best song but I would rank Hey Jude as #1, simply because of all the childhood memories attached to it for me. My Mom used to take me to this little greasy spoon and she would give me a dime as soon as we sat down so I could bring it up on the jukebox. I wore the single out as a kid. John did make that claim about it being about him but that was after he had been the woman whose name shall be uttered here for a while. He also convinced himself that How Do You Sleep was actually about him as well, more of that woman's influence, the selfish person she is. Okay, I'll end my rant on her there. Yeah, I have issues with her, like I do with anyone that incredibly narcissistic, selfish, and self-serving. Elanor Rigby is by far my favorite orchestration centric song by the band. It's not pretentious or overproduced and it shows that Paul could write lyrics that went beyond simple pop tunes. Word is when he played it for his music teacher at that time the guy gave it a lukewarm review. Paul fired him the next day. I love Strawberry Fields, one of my top five John tunes but as I mentioned earlier I wouldn't put it at #1. And I would replace Day in the Life and Lucy in the Sky with In My Life and If I fell. I dunno, maybe part of it has to do with my not being a big Sgt. Pepper fan but In My life is one of the most honest songs in their catalog and If I fell is a blend of perfect melody and harmony, their finest ballad in my opinion. Honorable mention has to go to Happiness is a Warm Gun and Nowhere Man, as well as Help. That is why I can't do a top-ten stand alone for this band. As a true Beatlemaniac I break their stuff down by era, early, middle, and late, with the middle period, between the albums Help and Revolver, being my favorite. That was when they were a band at the top of their game. A lot seemed to change after the whole "We're bigger than Christ" controversy and Brian Epstein's death. John said they stopped being a band after they quit touring and Brian died and that he wanted to leave in 1966 but didn't have the confidence in his ability to make it on his own. Some great stuff came out after 67, but it was more like four guys working with each other, not really together as a unit. George got lost in India, John got lost in...well his stuff, and Paul tried to run the band. Ringo, well he was always Ringo wasn't he. The working-class kid who approached it like a job and handled his end of the thing like a trooper. All that said, I have no real problem with the list. As long as Mr. Moonlight, Revolution 9, and anything with a sitar not named Norwegian Wood doesn't show up I'm good with just about anything.
In my top ten Beatles songs I have 20 tracks 😂 Your list is really good but can’t help mention Here, there and everywhere, And I Love her, In my life and For no one
I am constantly impressed by your ability to navigate these lists. I could never have whittled it down to 10, let alone been so articulate in my reasons why. That being said, the one song that I have always been drawn towards but which doesn't seem to be getting much mention here is "I Want You (She's so Heavy)". I feel like this song really points towards the 70s, as the Beatles ended the 60s. I love the back and forth between 4/4 and 3/4 time, and the way the jam at the end just abruptly ends, a metaphor for the band itself.
10 It's All Too Much 9 Not A Second Time 8 You Won't See Me 7 Ticket To Ride 6 I'm Down 5 While My Guitar Gently Weeps 4 I'm Down 3 She Said She Said 2 Penny Lane(only with Trumpet Ending) 1 Norweegin Wood.
1) A Day In The Life 2) Yesterday 3) Don't Let Me Down 4) Hey Jude 5) Norwegian Wood 6) Strawberry Fields Forever 7) Let It Be 8) In My Life 9) Something 10) Penny Lane Honourable mentions: Anna (Go To Him) Sun King Blackbird She's Leaving Home
1.A Day in the Life 2.Across the Universe 3.Strawberry Fields Forever 4.Mother Nature's Son 5.In My Life 6.Its All Too Much 7.Blue Jay Way 8.Because 9.Revolution 9 10.Tomorrow Never Knows
I’m glad to see you mention “Something”, which for me personally is my number one as it’s the first song I remember hearing. The 2nd song I have recall of is CCR’s Down on the Corner.
Checking my own list, I have 4 songs that intersect. Beatles' songs in particular are very much dependent on your personal associations regarding when and where and in which circumstances you first heard them, I feel. For that reason my own number 1 is Hard Day's Night. I was a 7-year-old, traveling by ship from Holland to New Zealand. The film with that title was shown at night, outdoors on deck, sailing through the tropics, and when I fell asleep in the middle of it those songs merged into my dreams.
Excellent. Your choices are bang on. 'Strawberry Fields Forever' remains (to me at least) the most radical single released in my lifetime, if perhaps not quite as influential in that sense as 'Like a Rolling Stone'. I was 12 years-old when it came out, and it was so unlike anything that came before it in pop that it took hearing it several times on the radio before I could even be certain that I liked it. Nice that you (nearly) bookended your list wth 'We Can Work it Out' and 'A Day in The Life', as these are the most stellar examples of Lennon and McCartney as songwriting collaborators. Their respective contributions to these songs in particular are both radically different from each other and yet blend perfectly. Cheers...
Excellent list Barry. As you said, very hard to pick just ten and all of your choices are excellent. Here are mine in no particular order- Eight Days A Week Help! Ticket To Ride Drive My Car Here, There and Everywhere Day In The Life Hello Goodbye Something Get Back Paperback Writer
1.help 2.strawberry fields forever 3. yesterday 4. i want to hold your hand 5. she loves you 6. come together 7. something 8. revolution 9. here comes the sun 10.the long and winding road
Eleanor Rigby - a song that none of The Beatles actually play on. Good list, Barry. I’d have liked to have seen a couple of earlier compositions - “I Saw Her Standing There” I think is terrific. Thanks for the vid.
An almost impossible task. My favourites which didn't make your cut include Paperback Writer, Rain (best b side of all time?), Think for yourself, Nowhere man, Tomorrow never knows, I've just seen a face, Hey Bulldog.
What I enjoyed about Eleanor Rigby was the group's lyrical collaboration. According to sources, Pete Shotton suggested changing the name of the priest from McCartney to MacKenzie. George suggested, "Ah, look at all the lonely people. " Ringo contributed the line, " Writing the words of a sermon that no one would hear " and darning socks. This cooperative effort and Martin's string arrangement created a reflective and poignant song. Once again, Ringo's drumming on " Ticket to Ride " was exceptional. Any other drummer would have applied a straight rock beat but Starr's off-the-wall groove lifted the the song up by its bootstraps! All in all, a good list. For me, having listened to the Beatles for sixty-four years, my list of favorites can change weekly. Right now, I'm listening to I Want You,( She's so Heavy. ) The repetitive guitar lick at the outro is a gas!
My list in no order:She Loves You, A Hard Days Night, I Feel Fine, Day Tripper, We Can Work It Out, It’s All Too Much, SFF, Revolution, Something, Come Together.
Good list however its an almost impossible task as tastes change over time and there are hardly any 'bad' songs! Some of my favourites are walrus, cry baby cry, help, for no one and come together but so hard to choose.
At least we can agree on Let it Be. Others in my top ten: Across the Universe Something Here Comes the Sun Yesterday Golden Slumbers Medley All You Need is Love Helter Skelter Come Together Happiness is a Warm Gun
Strawberry Fields Forever, Penny Lane, Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Something, Come Together, Help, Eleanor Rigby, Yesterday, A Day In The Life
Extremely tough to do a top ten for the Beatles. I am probably going to throw some wrenches in most people's minds. 1 You Know My Name (It's goofy and crazy but my favorite Beatles song. Just love it) 2 Eleanor Rigby 3 Tomorrow Never Knows 4 She's Leaving Home 5 Got To Get You Into My Life 6 Something 7 Dig A Pony 8 Revolution 9 Yellow Submarine 10 All You Need Is Love There's a ton that could have shoved their way into the list. Yesterday, With A Little Help From My Friends, Dear Prudence, The Long And Winding Road, I Am The Walrus, Taxman, Getting Better. And on and on. Probably need a complex song review for just The Beatles.
Great 'wrenches' ! 1 - Hey Jude 2 - Got to get you into my Life 3 - Revolution 4 - Yer Blues 5 - Ticket to Ride 6 - I am the Walrus 7 - Strawberry Fields Forever 8 - A Day in the Life 9 - Hey Bulldog 10 - I want to hold your Hand - ( I was 13 when released ) lol
Really great list minus let it be, which i always found worn out and mailed boring in from the outset. The long and winding road is a far better choice. Not to mention tax man or helter skelter or hey bulldog or glass onion or i want you she’s so heavy or or or…
Lovely to hear the mention of Percy Street in Newcastle. I spent many a Saturday in the cafe called Mark Toney's before the short walk to the Handyside Arcade which housed the iconic Kard Bar. Lovely memories.
I am the Walrus has to top my list. It's just so extraordinarily original. Many of rest are just too good to dismiss. A top 10 of this band is a tough ask.
my top 10: 10- Yesterday 9- Tomorrow never knows 8- I fell fine 7- Rain 6- I'll be back 5- The long and winding road (without the wall of sound) 4- A day in the life 3- Something 2- While my guitar gently weeps 1- Strawberry fields forever *** shout out to "Come and get it" which they gave to Badfinger ... The Athology version is amazing
Another great video, my friend! My two pence (in no particular order): Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! Getting Better A Day in the Life Maxwell's Silver Hammer Nowhere Man Eleanor Rigby Rocky Raccoon Helter Skelter Get Back Come Together
Great list and a tough task! I do think George’s top songs have aged incredibly well, with Something & Here comes the Sun worthy of top 5 status along with WMGGW
Coincidentally, I (finally!) ranked my personal list of all 213 album-listed Beatle Songs + Her Majesty just last week. Indeed, was a Herculean task, and it pained me watching some beloved older tunes slip down with each new song. These are just my Top 25. Again...just MY list: My Personal Ranking of The Beatles’ Songs 1) Hey Jude - S/PM2 2) The End - AR 3) While My Guitar Gently Weeps - TB 4) Here Comes The Sun - AR 5) Let It Be - LIB/PM2 6) A Day In The Life - SPLHCB 7) I Am The Walrus - MMT 8 ) Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band - SPLHCB 9) A Little Help From My Friends - SPLHCB 10) All You Need Is Love - MMT/YS 11) Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) - SPLHCB 12) Something - AR 13) Get Back - LIB/PM2 14) Day Tripper - S/PM2 15) Back In the USSR - TB 16) Strawberry Fields Forever - MMT 17) Revolution - S/PM2 18) Helter Skelter - TB 19) You Never Give Me Your Money - AR 20) I Want To Holds Your Hand - S/PM1 21) Come Together - AR 22) And Your Bird Can Sing - R 23) Oh! Darling - AR 24) Carry That Weight - AR 25) I Want You (She’s So Heavy) - AR
A very difficult task to say the least . I watched them as a 10 year old on the Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964 , and so I have a strong connection to the early part of their catalog . As of today , here's my list in order of preference : ( of course , tomorrow , it could differ by at least a song or two ) In My Life She Said She Said You Never Give Me Your Money Savoy Truffle Back in the USSR Revolution She Came in Through the Bathroom Window I Saw Her Standing There Think for Yourself There's a Place Honourable Mentions : Strawberry Fields Forever This Boy I'll Be Back Oh Darling Things We Said Today Fixing a Hole Help Any Time at All Sexy Sadie Eleanor Rigby Birthday Cheers !!
Great stuff Barry. My own number one is She's leaving Home. The sheer emotion conveyed by Paul in this song could bring a tear to a glass eye. My top ten would include Nowhere Man, Hey Bulldog, Paperback Writer and Tomorrow never knows.
Agreed, Superbokka, about She's Leaving Home. I particularly like the homophonic use of by. "... gave her everything money could BUY. " "...hard all our lives to get BY. " " She's leaving home, BYE, BYE. " Simply brilliant!
There's a profanity lurking within Hey Jude at 2-57 that never fails to surprise me. Apparently it was Paul..''Ah fkinell'' It's hard to zero in on but once heard you wonder how it escaped the censors of the day...and today.Even the remaster keeps it intact.Pearl clutching stuff eh ?....my choice- Norwegian Wood Penny Lane Here comes the Sun Rain I feel fine Come Together Mother Natures Son No Reply Paperback Writer Let it Be.
Great job as usual Barry. Keep the ammo coming up the line. My list would also have to include a couple of those early singles with their energy, joy and sense of liberation. The Beatles really did change the world with those releases. Please, Please Me with those harmonies and that marvellous ascending riff; I Want To Hold Your Hand; and A Hard Day's Night make my ten. Norwegian Wood; Ticket to Ride; Here Comes the Sun; In My Life; Let it Be; Penny Lane; Strawberry Fields...something like that. More top-ten's please.
Great list and as you say, an almost impossible task. Now for the top ten songs of The Who, Led Zep, Sabbath, Purple, Queen and Boney M. The last one will be tricky beyond belief..........
I only know my top four for sure: 1) Ticket to Ride 2) You're Gonna Lose that Girl 3) Fixing a Hole 4) Baby You're a Rich Man...after that I just can't figure it out.
Over the past six decades almost every cut in the Beatles' catalog has ranked in my personal top 10 at one time or another. It would be easier to name the ones that haven't ever rated that high: Long, Long, Long; Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby; When I Get Home; what else? Not many.... It's interesting how we tend to think of their original songs first, but I love so many of their covers, too. I'll never forget how their version of Roll Over Beethoven knocked me flat as a teenager, and it continues to do so periodically.
I like your picks for the top ten Beatles songs, and your honorable mentions. The Beatles are my favorite music group of all time. It's hard for me to make a top ten list , however. There are so many great songs that they made.
I agree that Strawberry Fields Forever is their greatest song and I think that SFF and Penny Lane is the greatest single ever released by anyone ever. I am the Walrus is also high on my list of The Beatles' songs.
You're right of course about the greatest ever single. One of my other favourite Beatles singles was Ticket to Ride with the lovely Yes It Is on the B side. Oh those harmonies...
@@PhilBaird1 Yes, Phil: a double hit of Lennon for a great single. I also appreciate Paul's lead guitar of Ticket to Ride and George's tone-pedal work on Yes It Is.
A late friend of mine was on a show with Beatles before they were famous, Paul told him he was a greaat song writer, his name was Johnny Worth(Les Vandyke) he wrote the songs for Adam faith and others, his friend John Barry arranged them, you can here the bond intro riff in "Poor me", so I guess the Boys didn't magical up a new style, rather, did what we all do, put other people ideas together and make are own creations, nice channel, I think if Robert Calvert was still with us you might have had him on, sad news about Nik Turner :(
An interesting list with useful background info. Yet again filled with the good use of the English language. I like some other tunes, but this list is full of merit. The Beatles produced plenty of bangers!
Union Street Ryde,my adopted home town and street.There's a pub nearby-'King-Lud' with long rumoured khazi-wall stencillings from one of the band.John and Paul apparently did a spot of hitchhiking here one summer.
That was a tough ask! For the record, your Top 3 coincide with my Top 3. As for the other seven, We Can Work It Out and While My Guitar Gently Weepswould be there but I’ve never understood the appeal of Hey Jude. I Am The Walrus would be somewhere as would George’s fabulous It’s All Too Much. As usual a fascinating and considered video.
- Please Please Me
- I Feel Fine
- Norwegian Wood
- Taxman
- She Said She Said
- A Day in the Life
- I Am the Walrus
- Dear Prudence
- Happiness is a Warm Gun
- Sun King Melody
My list:
10. Happiness Is a Warm Gun
9. Revolution
8. Blackbird
7. I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
6. Here Comes the Sun
5. For No One
4. Strawberry Fields Forever
3. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
2. Here, There and Everywhere
1. In My Life
In no particular order: Something; Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey; Sexy Sadie; Think For Yourself; Here, There, And Everywhere; Come Together; A Day In The Life; Day Tripper; All You Need Is Love; I Am The Walrus.
1. A Day in the Life
2. Strawberry Fields Forever
3. I Am The Walrus
4. Penny Lane
5. Tomorrow Never Knows
6. Eleanor Rigby
7. Here There and Everywhere
8. Things We Said Today
9. A Hard Day's Night
10. I Saw Her Standing There
Not enough early classics - I Saw Her Standing There, I Feel Fine and A Hard Day's Night are all great songs and I can testify that teenagers still love dancing to them today.
01 Strawberry Fields Forever
02 Here Comes The Sun
03 Across The Universe
04 For No One
05 Blackbird
06 A Day In The Life
07 We Can Work It Out
08 You’re Gonna Lose That Girl
09 Tomorrow Never Knows
10 Yesterday
num 8 is terrible just saying !!
1.Here comes the sun 2.Something 3.Let it be 4.Yesterday 5.While my guitar gently weeps 6.The long and winding road 7.Tomorrow never knows 8.I am the walrus 9.With a little help from my friends 10.Strawberry fields forever
My personal list:
1. A Day In the Life
2. Hey Jude
3. Something
4. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
5. Eleanor Rigby
6. Yesterday
7. Blackbird
8. Come Together
9. Help!
10. In My Life
Im so glad you put Yesterday in there.
You could make many top 10 Beatles songs lists, and they'd all be excellent
Very very true.
Great list. I don't have a top 10 because most of them range from very good to incredible, and my moods changed. I, too, am a huge "Back in the U.S.S.R." fan, and saw Paul do it live. I thought I'd faint. But LOVED hearing your thoughts on these songs; very, very fun to hear the thoughts of a truly insightful music fan.
Such a tough undertaking. In no particular order here are my top 10 favorites:
In My Life
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Penny Lane
Help
Eleanor Rigby
Norwegian Wood
You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
Eight Days a Week
A Day in the Life
We Can Work it Out
10-I am the walrus
9-You won’t see me
8-I want you (She’s so Heavy)
7-Tomorrow never knows
6-Strawberry fields forever
5-Here comes the sun
4-Happiness is a warm gun
3-Yesterday
2-While my guitar gently weeps
1-Penny Lane
My top 10:
1. And Your Bird Can Sing
2. While my guitar gently weeps
3. If I needed someone
4. Your mother should know
5. You wont see me
6. Martha my dear
7. Penny Lane
8. I want to tell you
9. With a little help
10. Yer blues
Hm:
I feel fine
Ticket to Ride
Sgt peppers
Drive my Car
You Never Give Me Your Money
Happiness is a Warm Gun
Paperback writer
Day tripper
It’s Only Love
This boy
Rain
And I Love Her
Nowhere man
Fixing a hole
Oh! Darling
What goes on
Don't Pass Me By
Getting better
Norwegian wood
Don’t Bother Me
Glass Onion
Eight days a week
Wait
Something
Because
Got To Get You Into My Life
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
We can work it out
Strawberry Fields
Good Day Sunshine
Taxman
She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
Michelle
Helter Skelter
A day in the life
A Hard Day's Night
Eleanor Rigby
I Me Mine
Birthday
Long, Long, Long
"A Day in the Life" is their greatest of all. A tough call with so many classics.
It always changes but right now my top ten are ----
10) Don't Bother Me
09) You Can't Do That
08) Martha My Dear
07) Two Of Us
06) Revolution 1
05) Any Time At All
04) A Taste Of Honey
03) Old Brown Shoe
02) You Like Me Too Much
01) All I've Got To Do
10. I Saw Her Standing There
9. Taxman
8. In My Life
7. Penny Lane
6. Dear Prudence
5. Here Comes the Sun
4. Paperback Writer
3. A Day in the Life
2. Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End
1. Strawberry Fields Forever.
Honorable mentions: Rain, Got to Get You Into My Life, We Can Work it Out, Yellow Submarine, Across the Universe.
Nice video. My list would be (chronological order):
Yesterday
In My Life
Here, There and Everywhere
And Your Bird Can Sing
A Day In The Life
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Don't Let Me Down
Something
Oh! Darling
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Wonderful thoughts about wonderful songs . Day in the life is da Vinci and Hey Jude is the moon . Both out of this world . If only more could dance like these two did . Great words, great work Barry
1.) Strawberry Fields Forever
2.) Eleanor Rigby
3.) Here, There And Everywhere
4.) Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds
5.) A Day In The Life
6.) I Am The Walrus
7.) In My Life
8.) For No One
9.) Yesterday
10.) Girl
As posters have already stated - you could write any number of Beatles Top Ten's and they'd all be great; it depends totally on mood. It'd be easy to do by theme, style or even period, too. However, with as little thought as possible here's ten random Beatles songs (particular favourites of mine) that're all incredible: Tomorrow Never Knows, Things We Said Today, I Want You (She's so Heavy), Helter Skelter, There's a Place, Rain, Here Comes the Sun, Because, Penny Lane, For No One. Honourable Mentions (I think it were four in the video) Strawberry Fields (realise that should've been in my top ten), I Feel Fine, If I Needed Someone, Norwegian Wood, For No One
Nice list. I’d vote for:
- [ ] A day in the life
- [ ] I am the walrus
- [ ] Penny Lane
- [ ] I want you (she’s so heavy)
- [ ] Helter skelter
- [ ] For no one
- [ ] Norwegian wood
- [ ] When I’m sixty-four
- [ ] Hey bulldog
- [ ] Piggies
Literally every Beatles song is amazing but Here , There and Everywhere is one of the most beautiful songs ever written and should be in there.
My Favourite Beatles songs ,In my Life,Norwegian Wood and For no One.
Where your top 10 figure in on my top 100:
We Can Work it Out: 21
Lucy in the Sky: 19
Ticket to Ride: 15
While My Guitar: 28
Hey Jude: 1
Let it Be: 4
Penny Lane: around 50
Eleanor Rigby: 18
A Day in the Life: 3
Strawberry Fields: 2
Seriously, there is a lot of agreement there! Thank you for the background and detail. Being of an age, I have a lot of songs that impacted me at the time of their release, such as I Want to Hold Your Hand and I Feel Fine in my top 10.
Excellent list, very difficult to pare the list down to ten from the dozens of incredible songs they wrote. For me A Day In The Life is their greatest achievement.
Nice list, it is an impossible task to squeeze dozens of pretty equal, amazing quality tunes into a top 10. Just too many great songs which is so wonderful for us. I do know I would try to get Tomorrow Never Knows onto it. 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎺🎶
A great and informative video as always, but an almost impossible undertaking. Here goes
10. I want you she's so heavy
9. While my Guitar gently weeps
8. Dear Prudence
7. You never give me your money
6. Something
5. For no one
4. Nowhere man
3. Michelle
2. Because
1. Strawberry fields
That doesn't even scratch the surface, and I'll read it back and wince at the many omissions I've made
Good list!.....Ticket to Ride and Norwegian Wood are two of my favourites, but of course there are so many to choose .
Norwegian Wood is a beautiful song with one of John's best vocals.
Well done on whittling down to ten songs. A difficult task on doing that. Very subjective I know but I feel fine, tomorrow never knows for pushing boundaries deserve mentioning.
Ticket to Ride, Yesterday, Norwegian Wood, Eleanor Rigby, Tomorrow Never Knows, Strawberry Fields, Penny Lane, Within Without You, A Day in the Life, Helter Skelter, Here Comes the Sun.
My best Beatles songs are One After 909 and Maxwells Silver Hammer. Hi im from Sri Lanka
"For No One" is my favourite McCartney song (and Elvis Costello agrees, so there). Brilliance right out of the blocks with "Your day breaks/Your mind aches" - notice that it's your mind that aches, not your head. The lad could write lyrics when he felt like it, just as John said.
Great to talk about the Beatles - always a reminder how astonishingly good they were. Do you remember there was always the search for the next Beatles? laughable to think of it now.
"I am the Walrus". It's unique.
Really great list. This is my Top 11, but it is really so hard to choose just so few. So many of their songs are amazing, but there's something absolutely otherworldly with Don't Let Me Down. It has just a fantastic feeling to it, and such a wonderful groove. Billy Preston's contribution to this song is extraordinary.
Don't Let Me Down
Revolution
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Happiness is a Warm Gun
The Fool on the Hill
A Day in the The Life
Being For the Benefit of Mr.Kite
Let it Be
The Long and Winding Road
In My Life
For No One
Absolutely, DLMD should be considered one of their greatest.So much power and soul.
Too bad Ray Davies took issue with the Beatles. And his brother. And Chrissie Hynde. And seemingly so many others. When asked by producer Rick Rubin about monumental musical moments of surprise, Paul McCartney starts with the Kinks. His recollection of the Kinks opening for the Beatles and him hearing 'You Really Got Me' likely did drive him (and John) to write riff rockers including 'Paperback Writer'. I add the link to that interview - the best and most insightful I've heard with McCartney - below.
Not necessarily 'greatest', though my favourites:
1. Eleanor Rigby - a compelling mood piece with a brilliant string arrangement - a sombre vignette to loneliness
2. A Hard Day's Night - with that opening chord and driving pulse this is sheer excitement from start to finish
3. Strawberry Fields Forever - the harbinger of prog to come, this song was unlike anything that had come before
4. I'm Only Sleeping - this is so evocative of comfortable laziness, with sweeping guitar strums adding comfort
5. Rain - with rain and sun as metaphors for the downs and ups of life, Lennon asserts his grasp of life
6. Hey Bulldog - a great riff-driven groove with call-and-response lyrics that bounce atop the rhythm section
7. Paperback Writer - from boy-girl love to a narrative that reads like a pitch for a job...which is exactly what it is
8. I Am the Walrus - along with Cream, Hendrix and Pink Floyd. the Beatles were taking us into new spaces
9. You're Going to Lose That Girl - I picture the lads, windswept on the Salisbury Plain, playing this in 'Help'
10. Help - Lennon's plea is juxtaposed against a rock 'n' rolling backdrop that makes sadness sound happy
Rick Rubin chats with Paul McCartney. This is great!
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The harmonies in We Can Work it Out are among my favorite from anyone. Paul said it took him years to find someone who could carry John's part properly and that was why he avoided playing it live for as long as he did. I did read an account that put forth the notion that We Can Work it Out and I'm Looking Through You were actually composed with John in mind but Paul has denied it. It does make you wonder though, since John has said Paul very rarely wrote honest songs about what he was he was feeling and was more of an observer who wrote about what he saw. I do agree While My Guitar Gently Weeps is George's best song but I would rank Hey Jude as #1, simply because of all the childhood memories attached to it for me. My Mom used to take me to this little greasy spoon and she would give me a dime as soon as we sat down so I could bring it up on the jukebox. I wore the single out as a kid. John did make that claim about it being about him but that was after he had been the woman whose name shall be uttered here for a while. He also convinced himself that How Do You Sleep was actually about him as well, more of that woman's influence, the selfish person she is. Okay, I'll end my rant on her there. Yeah, I have issues with her, like I do with anyone that incredibly narcissistic, selfish, and self-serving.
Elanor Rigby is by far my favorite orchestration centric song by the band. It's not pretentious or overproduced and it shows that Paul could write lyrics that went beyond simple pop tunes. Word is when he played it for his music teacher at that time the guy gave it a lukewarm review. Paul fired him the next day. I love Strawberry Fields, one of my top five John tunes but as I mentioned earlier I wouldn't put it at #1. And I would replace Day in the Life and Lucy in the Sky with In My Life and If I fell. I dunno, maybe part of it has to do with my not being a big Sgt. Pepper fan but In My life is one of the most honest songs in their catalog and If I fell is a blend of perfect melody and harmony, their finest ballad in my opinion. Honorable mention has to go to Happiness is a Warm Gun and Nowhere Man, as well as Help.
That is why I can't do a top-ten stand alone for this band. As a true Beatlemaniac I break their stuff down by era, early, middle, and late, with the middle period, between the albums Help and Revolver, being my favorite. That was when they were a band at the top of their game. A lot seemed to change after the whole "We're bigger than Christ" controversy and Brian Epstein's death. John said they stopped being a band after they quit touring and Brian died and that he wanted to leave in 1966 but didn't have the confidence in his ability to make it on his own. Some great stuff came out after 67, but it was more like four guys working with each other, not really together as a unit. George got lost in India, John got lost in...well his stuff, and Paul tried to run the band. Ringo, well he was always Ringo wasn't he. The working-class kid who approached it like a job and handled his end of the thing like a trooper. All that said, I have no real problem with the list. As long as Mr. Moonlight, Revolution 9, and anything with a sitar not named Norwegian Wood doesn't show up I'm good with just about anything.
In my top ten Beatles songs I have 20 tracks 😂
Your list is really good but can’t help mention Here, there and everywhere, And I Love her, In my life and For no one
I Am The Walrus is a signpost of a future never quite reached (Greil Marcus). Their best song.
I am constantly impressed by your ability to navigate these lists. I could never have whittled it down to 10, let alone been so articulate in my reasons why. That being said, the one song that I have always been drawn towards but which doesn't seem to be getting much mention here is "I Want You (She's so Heavy)". I feel like this song really points towards the 70s, as the Beatles ended the 60s. I love the back and forth between 4/4 and 3/4 time, and the way the jam at the end just abruptly ends, a metaphor for the band itself.
....and consciousness
10 It's All Too Much 9 Not A Second Time 8 You Won't See Me 7 Ticket To Ride 6 I'm Down 5 While My Guitar Gently Weeps 4 I'm Down 3 She Said She Said 2 Penny Lane(only with Trumpet Ending) 1 Norweegin Wood.
Great list, Barry; my top 5
Day in The Life
Eleanor Rigby
Tomorrow Never Knows
Something
Cry Baby Cry
1) A Day In The Life
2) Yesterday
3) Don't Let Me Down
4) Hey Jude
5) Norwegian Wood
6) Strawberry Fields Forever
7) Let It Be
8) In My Life
9) Something
10) Penny Lane
Honourable mentions:
Anna (Go To Him)
Sun King
Blackbird
She's Leaving Home
Nowhere Man - My #1 at the moment
1.A Day in the Life
2.Across the Universe
3.Strawberry Fields Forever
4.Mother Nature's Son
5.In My Life
6.Its All Too Much
7.Blue Jay Way
8.Because
9.Revolution 9
10.Tomorrow Never Knows
I’m glad to see you mention “Something”, which for me personally is my number one as it’s the first song I remember hearing. The 2nd song I have recall of is CCR’s Down on the Corner.
Checking my own list, I have 4 songs that intersect. Beatles' songs in particular are very much dependent on your personal associations regarding when and where and in which circumstances you first heard them, I feel. For that reason my own number 1 is Hard Day's Night. I was a 7-year-old, traveling by ship from Holland to New Zealand. The film with that title was shown at night, outdoors on deck, sailing through the tropics, and when I fell asleep in the middle of it those songs merged into my dreams.
Excellent. Your choices are bang on. 'Strawberry Fields Forever' remains (to me at least) the most radical single released in my lifetime, if perhaps not quite as influential in that sense as 'Like a Rolling Stone'. I was 12 years-old when it came out, and it was so unlike anything that came before it in pop that it took hearing it several times on the radio before I could even be certain that I liked it. Nice that you (nearly) bookended your list wth 'We Can Work it Out' and 'A Day in The Life', as these are the most stellar examples of Lennon and McCartney as songwriting collaborators. Their respective contributions to these songs in particular are both radically different from each other and yet blend perfectly. Cheers...
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I could listen to you speak about The Beatles all day . . . and a bit at night. ;-) Thank you!
Thanks for listening
Excellent list Barry. As you said, very hard to pick just ten and all of your choices are excellent. Here are mine in no particular order-
Eight Days A Week
Help!
Ticket To Ride
Drive My Car
Here, There and Everywhere
Day In The Life
Hello Goodbye
Something
Get Back
Paperback Writer
That Something didn't make Barry's list was a surprise.
1.help
2.strawberry fields forever
3. yesterday
4. i want to hold your hand
5. she loves you
6. come together
7. something
8. revolution
9. here comes the sun
10.the long and winding road
Eleanor Rigby - a song that none of The Beatles actually play on. Good list, Barry. I’d have liked to have seen a couple of earlier compositions - “I Saw Her Standing There” I think is terrific. Thanks for the vid.
An almost impossible task. My favourites which didn't make your cut include Paperback Writer, Rain (best b side of all time?), Think for yourself, Nowhere man, Tomorrow never knows, I've just seen a face, Hey Bulldog.
#2 and #1 - It's amazing how these two songs fit together musically.
What I enjoyed about Eleanor Rigby was the group's lyrical collaboration. According to sources, Pete Shotton suggested changing the name of the priest from McCartney to MacKenzie. George suggested, "Ah, look at all the lonely people. " Ringo contributed the line, " Writing the words of a sermon that no one would hear " and darning socks. This cooperative effort and Martin's string arrangement created a reflective and poignant song. Once again, Ringo's drumming on " Ticket to Ride " was exceptional. Any other drummer would have applied a straight rock beat but Starr's off-the-wall groove lifted the the song up by its bootstraps! All in all, a good list. For me, having listened to the Beatles for sixty-four years, my list of favorites can change weekly. Right now, I'm listening to I Want You,( She's so Heavy. ) The repetitive guitar lick at the outro is a gas!
Plus, Jimmy Page played on the Goldfinger session with Shirley Bassey and George Harrison contributed the waltz refrain in We Can Work It Out
What a great undertaking trying to pic 10. Respectful list. Thanks.
My list in no order:She Loves You, A Hard Days Night, I Feel Fine, Day Tripper, We Can Work It Out, It’s All Too Much, SFF, Revolution, Something, Come Together.
Good list however its an almost impossible task as tastes change over time and there are hardly any 'bad' songs! Some of my favourites are walrus, cry baby cry, help, for no one and come together but so hard to choose.
At least we can agree on Let it Be. Others in my top ten:
Across the Universe
Something
Here Comes the Sun
Yesterday
Golden Slumbers Medley
All You Need is Love
Helter Skelter
Come Together
Happiness is a Warm Gun
Always enjoy your references to literature and poetry, and your excellent reviews & insights
Strawberry Fields Forever, Penny Lane, Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Something, Come Together, Help, Eleanor Rigby, Yesterday, A Day In The Life
Extremely tough to do a top ten for the Beatles. I am probably going to throw some wrenches in most people's minds.
1 You Know My Name (It's goofy and crazy but my favorite Beatles song. Just love it)
2 Eleanor Rigby
3 Tomorrow Never Knows
4 She's Leaving Home
5 Got To Get You Into My Life
6 Something
7 Dig A Pony
8 Revolution
9 Yellow Submarine
10 All You Need Is Love
There's a ton that could have shoved their way into the list. Yesterday, With A Little Help From My Friends, Dear Prudence, The Long And Winding Road, I Am The Walrus, Taxman, Getting Better. And on and on. Probably need a complex song review for just The Beatles.
Great 'wrenches' !
1 - Hey Jude
2 - Got to get you into my Life
3 - Revolution
4 - Yer Blues
5 - Ticket to Ride
6 - I am the Walrus
7 - Strawberry Fields Forever
8 - A Day in the Life
9 - Hey Bulldog
10 - I want to hold your Hand - ( I was 13 when released ) lol
Really great list minus let it be, which i always found worn out and mailed boring in from the outset. The long and winding road is a far better choice. Not to mention tax man or helter skelter or hey bulldog or glass onion or i want you she’s so heavy or or or…
Lovely to hear the mention of Percy Street in Newcastle. I spent many a Saturday in the cafe called Mark Toney's before the short walk to the Handyside Arcade which housed the iconic Kard Bar. Lovely memories.
Damn. They were awesome. Thanks for another entertaining video.
I am the Walrus has to top my list. It's just so extraordinarily original. Many of rest are just too good to dismiss. A top 10 of this band is a tough ask.
my top 10:
10- Yesterday
9- Tomorrow never knows
8- I fell fine
7- Rain
6- I'll be back
5- The long and winding road (without the wall of sound)
4- A day in the life
3- Something
2- While my guitar gently weeps
1- Strawberry fields forever
*** shout out to "Come and get it" which they gave to Badfinger ... The Athology version is amazing
Another great video, my friend!
My two pence (in no particular order):
Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
Getting Better
A Day in the Life
Maxwell's Silver Hammer
Nowhere Man
Eleanor Rigby
Rocky Raccoon
Helter Skelter
Get Back
Come Together
Great list and a tough task! I do think George’s top songs have aged incredibly well, with Something & Here comes the Sun worthy of top 5 status along with WMGGW
Strawberry Fields at #1. That's the main thing. Greatest pop song ever.
Coincidentally, I (finally!) ranked my personal list of all 213 album-listed Beatle Songs + Her Majesty just last week. Indeed, was a Herculean task, and it pained me watching some beloved older tunes slip down with each new song. These are just my Top 25. Again...just MY list:
My Personal Ranking of The Beatles’ Songs
1) Hey Jude - S/PM2
2) The End - AR
3) While My Guitar Gently Weeps - TB
4) Here Comes The Sun - AR
5) Let It Be - LIB/PM2
6) A Day In The Life - SPLHCB
7) I Am The Walrus - MMT
8 ) Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band - SPLHCB
9) A Little Help From My Friends - SPLHCB
10) All You Need Is Love - MMT/YS
11) Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) - SPLHCB
12) Something - AR
13) Get Back - LIB/PM2
14) Day Tripper - S/PM2
15) Back In the USSR - TB
16) Strawberry Fields Forever - MMT
17) Revolution - S/PM2
18) Helter Skelter - TB
19) You Never Give Me Your Money - AR
20) I Want To Holds Your Hand - S/PM1
21) Come Together - AR
22) And Your Bird Can Sing - R
23) Oh! Darling - AR
24) Carry That Weight - AR
25) I Want You (She’s So Heavy) - AR
A very difficult task to say the least .
I watched them as a 10 year old on the Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964 , and so I have a strong connection to the early part of their catalog .
As of today , here's my list in order of preference : ( of course , tomorrow , it could differ by at least a song or two )
In My Life
She Said She Said
You Never Give Me Your Money
Savoy Truffle
Back in the USSR
Revolution
She Came in Through the Bathroom Window
I Saw Her Standing There
Think for Yourself
There's a Place
Honourable Mentions :
Strawberry Fields Forever
This Boy
I'll Be Back
Oh Darling
Things We Said Today
Fixing a Hole
Help
Any Time at All
Sexy Sadie
Eleanor Rigby
Birthday
Cheers !!
Great stuff Barry. My own number one is She's leaving Home. The sheer emotion conveyed by Paul in this song could bring a tear to a glass eye. My top ten would include Nowhere Man, Hey Bulldog, Paperback Writer and Tomorrow never knows.
Agreed, Superbokka, about She's Leaving Home. I particularly like the homophonic use of by. "... gave her everything money could BUY. " "...hard all our lives to get BY. " " She's leaving home, BYE, BYE. " Simply brilliant!
@@jamesdrynan Yes superb indeed.
There's a profanity lurking within Hey Jude at 2-57 that never fails to surprise me. Apparently it was Paul..''Ah fkinell'' It's hard to zero in on but once heard you wonder how it escaped the censors of the day...and today.Even the remaster keeps it intact.Pearl clutching stuff eh ?....my choice-
Norwegian Wood
Penny Lane
Here comes the Sun
Rain
I feel fine
Come Together
Mother Natures Son
No Reply
Paperback Writer
Let it Be.
Great job as usual Barry. Keep the ammo coming up the line. My list would also have to include a couple of those early singles with their energy, joy and sense of liberation. The Beatles really did change the world with those releases. Please, Please Me with those harmonies and that marvellous ascending riff; I Want To Hold Your Hand; and A Hard Day's Night make my ten. Norwegian Wood; Ticket to Ride; Here Comes the Sun; In My Life; Let it Be; Penny Lane; Strawberry Fields...something like that. More top-ten's please.
First thought was "I hope We Can Work It Out is in this list". Brilliant tune.
superb presentation. thank you
Great list and as you say, an almost impossible task. Now for the top ten songs of The Who, Led Zep, Sabbath, Purple, Queen and Boney M. The last one will be tricky beyond belief..........
I only know my top four for sure: 1) Ticket to Ride 2) You're Gonna Lose that Girl 3) Fixing a Hole 4) Baby You're a Rich Man...after that I just can't figure it out.
Over the past six decades almost every cut in the Beatles' catalog has ranked in my personal top 10 at one time or another. It would be easier to name the ones that haven't ever rated that high: Long, Long, Long; Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby; When I Get Home; what else? Not many.... It's interesting how we tend to think of their original songs first, but I love so many of their covers, too. I'll never forget how their version of Roll Over Beethoven knocked me flat as a teenager, and it continues to do so periodically.
One song I can never turn off or play at low volume is Hello Goodbye. Especially on headphones.
I like your picks for the top ten Beatles songs, and your honorable mentions. The Beatles are my favorite music group of all time. It's hard for me to make a top ten list , however. There are so many great songs that they made.
Excellent list. My only quibble with it is the omission of I am the Walrus. Otherwise, pretty hard to argue with.
I agree that Strawberry Fields Forever is their greatest song and I think that SFF and Penny Lane is the greatest single ever released by anyone ever. I am the Walrus is also high on my list of The Beatles' songs.
You're right of course about the greatest ever single. One of my other favourite Beatles singles was Ticket to Ride with the lovely Yes It Is on the B side. Oh those harmonies...
@@PhilBaird1 Yes, Phil: a double hit of Lennon for a great single. I also appreciate Paul's lead guitar of Ticket to Ride and George's tone-pedal work on Yes It Is.
No and no. I am the Walrus, greatest song by anybody ever. Best single hey Jude.
I really enjoy all of your reviews immensely. Thank you very much.
Great choices! My 10 favorites lean more towards the early Beatles
A late friend of mine was on a show with Beatles before they were famous, Paul told him he was a greaat song writer, his name was Johnny Worth(Les Vandyke) he wrote the songs for Adam faith and others, his friend John Barry arranged them, you can here the bond intro riff in "Poor me", so I guess the Boys didn't magical up a new style, rather, did what we all do, put other people ideas together and make are own creations, nice channel, I think if Robert Calvert was still with us you might have had him on, sad news about Nik Turner :(
An interesting list with useful background info. Yet again filled with the good use of the English language. I like some other tunes, but this list is full of merit. The Beatles produced plenty of bangers!
Cool, thanks!
A difficult task indeed to pick 'n defend yer top 10 Beatles songs but you did an excellent job Mr. Man. Tanks!
Union Street Ryde,my adopted home town and street.There's a pub nearby-'King-Lud' with long rumoured khazi-wall stencillings from one of the band.John and Paul apparently did a spot of hitchhiking here one summer.
I’ve been around TH-cam since the stone age, but, I’ve only stumbled across your channel recently. Been watching a lot of your videos.
Strawberry fields is best. You are right!
Interesting selection from a broad range of possibilities.
phantstic. I would never switch this out !
Tough to rate the best Beatles songs, they had so many. Good set of choices, but I would have put A Day in the Life as #1.
That was a tough ask! For the record, your Top 3 coincide with my Top 3. As for the other seven, We Can Work It Out and While My Guitar Gently Weepswould be there but I’ve never understood the appeal of Hey Jude. I Am The Walrus would be somewhere as would George’s fabulous It’s All Too Much. As usual a fascinating and considered video.
Come Together is the only song I still hear played on the radio these days.
Always a pleasure listening to this channel, finished the day off lovely.
Thanks for listening
She's leaving home, I am the walrus, The Long & winding road and Come together... are up there too..
"Yesterday" the perfect marrying of lyric and melody. Overfamiliarity may be a problem for some, not me truly a remarkable song