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DUDES, DID YOU SEE THE WRITER'S BLOCK QUESTION TODAY? It's a question everyone must take very seriously and therefore answer. Of course, that means you have to decide on a song, which is the tricky part.
As everyone who actually reads me ought to know, "Here Comes the Sun" is my favorite song in the entire universe. But if you ask me what my favorite BEATLES' song is, I hem and haw, because there is TOO MUCH AWESOMENESS to single any out. And the weird thing about picking "Here Comes the Sun" is that it's a Harrison, and the majority of Beatles' songs are Lennon/McCartney, which makes it less DEFINITIVE as a Beatles' song. I'd feel weird not picking a Lennon/McCartney if I was going for Definitive.
And then of course you get back to the TOO MUCH AWESOMENESS to choose from.
I always like to add modifiers to this question. Which is your favorite Beatles song that not enough people know? for example. Earlier today "Dear Prudence" came on the radio while I was in the car, and I had a turning-up-the-volume-and-yelling-for-joy freakout for a moment (and also sat in the Rite-Aid parking lot with the keys on "auxiliary" until it finished). "Dear Prudence" is a FREAKING AMAZING SONG. And although it does get occasional radio play on the classic rock stations (like today), not NEARLY enough people know it.
Or split it by era: what's your favorite EARLY Beatles? (Will have to go with "I Want to Hold Your Hand"). Psychedelic? (Okay, um... I still can't narrow it down there. Don't ask the Psychedelic Rock lover such hard questions). Everything-falling-apart-at-the-end era? (Well that would be "Here Comes the Sun" then, wouldn't it!) By album? By album is definitely easier, though I've probably got at least four on most of them.
Here are the ones that come to mind immediately:
Abbey Road-- Here Comes the Sun, Something, and the medley
Let it Be-- Across the Universe, Let it Be, Two of Us
White Album-- Dear Prudence, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Blackbird, Julia, Mother Nature's Son
Stuff from that time period that wasn't on a proper album (I mean a PROPER album)-- Hey Jude, It's All Too Much
Magical Mystery Tour-- All You Need Is Love, I Am the Walrus, Hello Goodbye
Sgt. Pepper-- A Day in the Life
Revolver-- Eleanor Rigby, Here There and Everywhere, She Said She Said, For No One, Good Day Sunshine
Rubber Soul-- In My Life, If I Needed Someone
Help!-- I've Just Seen a Face (another one not enough people know), You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
...and the earlier albums I can never keep straight which songs are on what. I KNOW, YOU'RE SHOCKED. But there aren't any more songs particularly standing out as favorites.
Because keep in mind, that list there? That's my FAVORITES. Not songs I love. There are loads of songs I love that are not on this list. This is JUST FAVORITES.
So the REALLY more interesting question is, which are your LEAST favorite Beatles songs? And "Revolution 9" doesn't count.
Probably going to go with all the cover songs on their second album. George Martin really needed to trust them with their songwriting abilities earlier....
DUDES, DID YOU SEE THE WRITER'S BLOCK QUESTION TODAY? It's a question everyone must take very seriously and therefore answer. Of course, that means you have to decide on a song, which is the tricky part.
As everyone who actually reads me ought to know, "Here Comes the Sun" is my favorite song in the entire universe. But if you ask me what my favorite BEATLES' song is, I hem and haw, because there is TOO MUCH AWESOMENESS to single any out. And the weird thing about picking "Here Comes the Sun" is that it's a Harrison, and the majority of Beatles' songs are Lennon/McCartney, which makes it less DEFINITIVE as a Beatles' song. I'd feel weird not picking a Lennon/McCartney if I was going for Definitive.
And then of course you get back to the TOO MUCH AWESOMENESS to choose from.
I always like to add modifiers to this question. Which is your favorite Beatles song that not enough people know? for example. Earlier today "Dear Prudence" came on the radio while I was in the car, and I had a turning-up-the-volume-and-yelling-for-joy freakout for a moment (and also sat in the Rite-Aid parking lot with the keys on "auxiliary" until it finished). "Dear Prudence" is a FREAKING AMAZING SONG. And although it does get occasional radio play on the classic rock stations (like today), not NEARLY enough people know it.
Or split it by era: what's your favorite EARLY Beatles? (Will have to go with "I Want to Hold Your Hand"). Psychedelic? (Okay, um... I still can't narrow it down there. Don't ask the Psychedelic Rock lover such hard questions). Everything-falling-apart-at-the-end era? (Well that would be "Here Comes the Sun" then, wouldn't it!) By album? By album is definitely easier, though I've probably got at least four on most of them.
Here are the ones that come to mind immediately:
Abbey Road-- Here Comes the Sun, Something, and the medley
Let it Be-- Across the Universe, Let it Be, Two of Us
White Album-- Dear Prudence, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Blackbird, Julia, Mother Nature's Son
Stuff from that time period that wasn't on a proper album (I mean a PROPER album)-- Hey Jude, It's All Too Much
Magical Mystery Tour-- All You Need Is Love, I Am the Walrus, Hello Goodbye
Sgt. Pepper-- A Day in the Life
Revolver-- Eleanor Rigby, Here There and Everywhere, She Said She Said, For No One, Good Day Sunshine
Rubber Soul-- In My Life, If I Needed Someone
Help!-- I've Just Seen a Face (another one not enough people know), You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
...and the earlier albums I can never keep straight which songs are on what. I KNOW, YOU'RE SHOCKED. But there aren't any more songs particularly standing out as favorites.
Because keep in mind, that list there? That's my FAVORITES. Not songs I love. There are loads of songs I love that are not on this list. This is JUST FAVORITES.
So the REALLY more interesting question is, which are your LEAST favorite Beatles songs? And "Revolution 9" doesn't count.
Probably going to go with all the cover songs on their second album. George Martin really needed to trust them with their songwriting abilities earlier....
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Date: 2011-07-08 01:39 am (UTC)From:Now beyond that stuff, I guess here are my numerous favorites (in no particular order as I'm sifting through iTunes):
pretty much everything on Abbey Road (it's hard to separate the stuff that runs together), but especially Her Majesty
Help!
Yesterday - Nora also likes this one
Yellow Submarine - Easily Nora's favorite song ever, and I even have the Yellow Submarine toy from the cartoon that she plays with in the tub
Eleanor Rigby
Hello Goodbye
Lady Madonna
Hey Jude
Get Back - while waiting for Henry, I suggested the name Loretta to John after hearing this song (it didn't fly)
Something - very nearly our wedding song, and though it wasn't THE song, we made a point of having it played
Come Together
Taxman
Here, There, and Everywhere
For No One
The Fool on the Hill
Mother Nature's Son
While My Guitar Gently Weeps - probably in my top 5
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
I Will - this is the song I sing to Henry at bedtime
Because
Fixing a Hole
Blackbird - I sing this one to both kids
Norwegian Wood - also top 5
In My Life - in high school I would have easily claimed this as my favorite, it's still currently pretty high up there
I'm Looking Through You
Girl - top 10
You've Got to Hide Your Love Away - top 5
I've Just Seen a Face - top 5, was my ringtone for my brother on my old phone because it became his favorite after seeing Across the Universe
Yeah, that was a long list. I really can't narrow it down more than that. In fact, I could probably add to it. Believe it or not, I even have a fondness for Why Don't We Do It in the Road because the band I was in during college did it and me and the male singer just had a good time with it. The moral is that I have too much history attached to just about all of these songs to ever really pick just one.
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Date: 2011-07-09 01:22 am (UTC)From:My kids love to watch Yellow Submarine and become very excited anytime a song from it comes on elsewhere. "It's a submarine song!" they say. Also Sammy regularly sings "All Together Now" to himself and this makes me happy.
Also Maddie always points right at Paul on my Abbey Road t-shirt and yells "PAUL!" This just flat out impresses me.
ANYway. Yeah. So much goodness. There is so much on your list that came so close to being on my list...
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Date: 2011-07-08 09:31 pm (UTC)From:But seriously, "Blackbird." I'd seriously love to do a harmonic analysis of this one for my Duquesne kids one day...
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Date: 2011-07-09 01:18 am (UTC)From: