The Beatles OP10 (or, that would be, only pick ten)

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OK, kind of a new thread idea, and starting with the most obvious act at first:

1. From Me To You
2. Strawberry Fields Forever
3. I Should Have Known Better
4. Here There And Everywhere
5. I Want To Hold Your Hand
6. If I Fell
7. For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite
8. You Like Me Too Much
9. Something
10.A Day In The Life

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 27 March 2003 22:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Things we said today
You won't see me
I'll follow the sun
Rain
She said she said
If I needed someone
Baby's in black
A day in the life
A hard day's night
Don't let me down

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 27 March 2003 22:59 (twenty-three years ago)

In mY Life
A Day In The Life
Strawberry Fields Forever
You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
A Hard Day's Night
Across the Universe
I Want to Hold Your Hand
Money
Love Me Do
Let It Be

― Carey (Carey), Thursday, 27 March 2003 23:12 (twenty-three years ago)

1. Rain
2. Tomorrow Never Knows
3. Don't Let Me Down
4. Yer Blues
5. I'm So Tired
6. If I Fell
7. Sexy Sadie
8. Hide Your Love Away
9. Across the Universe
10. In My Life

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 27 March 2003 23:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Tomorrow Never Knows
Paperback Writer
She Loves You
Lady Madonna
Taxman
Penny Lane
Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
Within You Without You
All You Need Is Love
We Can Work It Out

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 27 March 2003 23:21 (twenty-three years ago)

golden slumbers/carry that weight x10!

― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 27 March 2003 23:26 (twenty-three years ago)

1) Tomorrow Never Knows
2) Here Comes the Sun
3) Golden Slumbers
4) She Said She Said
5) I'm Only Sleeping
6) Rain
7) Happiness is a Warm Gun
8) Mother Nature's Son
9) I Am the Walrus
10) Blue Jay Way

― Joe (Joe), Thursday, 27 March 2003 23:28 (twenty-three years ago)

1. Every Little Thing
2. I Should Have Known Better
3. Please Please Me
4. She Loves You
5. Money
6. Any Time at All
7. I Saw Her Standing There
8. A Hard Day’s Night
9. If I Fell
10. (tie) Eight Days a Week / No Reply

― Burr (Burr), Thursday, 27 March 2003 23:53 (twenty-three years ago)

1. "I Am the Walrus"
2. "Hey Bulldog"
3. "Tomorrow Never Knows"
4. "Helter Skelter"
5. "Savoy Truffle"
6. "Run for your Life"
7. "And I Love Her"
8. "Lovely Rita"
9. "Something"
10. "I'm Only Sleeping"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 28 March 2003 02:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I Am the Walrus
Happiness is a Warm Gun
Julia
Strawberry Fields Forever
Glass Onion
A Day in the Life
Ticket to Ride
Yesterday
Eleanor Rigby
I'm Down

― matthewomalley, Friday, 28 March 2003 03:04 (twenty-three years ago)

avoiding some bleeding obvious faves that I've heard too often,

"Julia"
"Fixing a Hole"
"Baby You're A Rich Man"
"Sun King"
"Long Long Long" (Harrison's rip of Dylan's "Sad-Eyed Lady..." vibe)
"Hey Bulldog"
"I'm a Loser"
"Old Brown Shoe"
"Flying"
"Bad Boy"
"Please Please Me" b/w "Ask Me Why"

― Paul (scifisoul), Friday, 28 March 2003 03:14 (twenty-three years ago)

What You're Doing
You Won't See Me
Run for Your Life
I'm Looking Through You
And Your Bird Can Sing
Rain
It's Only Love
I've Just Seen a Face
I'm a Loser
I Don't Want to Spoil the Party

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Friday, 28 March 2003 03:48 (twenty-three years ago)

am I the first to mention 'norwegian wood', the best song about burning down a girl's apartment because of sexual humiliation?
'run for your life' is good because of murder
same with 'maxwell's silver hammer'
'twist and shout'
'till there was you'
'please mr. postman'
'rock and roll music'
'roll over beethoven'
'money'
all of Abbey Road

― Neudonym, Friday, 28 March 2003 04:30 (twenty-three years ago)

1. A Day in the Life
2. Girl (best bridge ever?)
3. For No One (most underrated?)
4. Baby You're A Rich Man
5. You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
6. You Won't See Me
7. Help
8. Ticket to Ride
9. Golden Slumbers (carry that weight is just ok)
10. Don't Let Me Down

a. can't believe (in a bad way) I'm the only one who's picked 'girl'.
b. can't believe (in a good way) only one person's picked yesterday
c. can't believe I didn't pick anything from the White Album

― Adam A. (Keiko), Friday, 28 March 2003 04:36 (twenty-three years ago)

11. Don't Look Back in Anger

― Adam A. (Keiko), Friday, 28 March 2003 04:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Happiness is a Warm Gun
For No One
Julia
Strawberry Fields Forever
Because
I'm Only Sleeping
Paperback Writer
Rain
A Day in the Life
Helter Skelter

― Colin O, Friday, 28 March 2003 04:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I've Just Seen A Face
Norwegian Wood
I'm Only Sleeping
Yesterday
In My Life
I'm Looking Through You
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
If I Needed Someone
For No One
Run For Your Life

― bahtology runs amok, Friday, 28 March 2003 05:20 (twenty-three years ago)

1. "She Loves You"
2. "Revolution"
3. "I Feel Fine"
4. "A Day in the Life"
5. "A Hard Day's Night"
6. "Ticket to Ride"
7. "Long Long Long"
8. "And Your Bird Can Sing"
9. "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band (reprise)"
10. "Please Please Me"

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 28 March 2003 05:34 (twenty-three years ago)

1. Revolution
2. A Day In The Life
3. You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
4. Rain
5. Paperback Writer
6. Tomorrow Never Knows
7. Helter Skelter
8. Carry That Weight
9. Strawberry Fields Forever
10. Elanor Rigby

Hmm, that's turned out a bit rockist.

― Hayden Nicholls (Pop the Weasel), Friday, 28 March 2003 10:51 (twenty-three years ago)

"Because" (a cappella version)
Abbey Road's second-side-medley
"You Won't See Me"
"I'm Only Sleeping"
"Revolution" (the noisier one)
"Aross The Universe"
"Strawberry Fields Forever"
"A Day In The Life"
"From Me To You"
"Flying"

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 28 March 2003 10:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll pick one:

''sexy sadie''

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 28 March 2003 10:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Sub-thread:
Top Ten Creepiest Beatles Tracks
1. "Revolution #9"
2. "Long Long Long" (that wailing bit at then end? ::shiver::)
3. "Blue Jay Way"
4. "It's Only a Northern Song"
5. "Helter Skelter" (for the Charles Manson connection)
6. "Sexy Sadie" (ditto)
7. "Glass Onion" (the funereal strings at the end always spooked me).
8. "Strawberry Fields Forever" (the bizarre flue freakout & "John Buried Paul" still gets me scrambling for the remote).
9. "A Day in the Life"
10. "Yer Blues"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 28 March 2003 11:04 (twenty-three years ago)

"I Saw Her Standing There"
"She Said She Said"
"Think for Yourself"
"Happiness is a Warm Gun"
"Strawberry Fields Forever"
"You Won't See Me"
"Things We Said Today"
"I Should Have Known Better"
"I Am the Walrus"
"And Your Bird Can Sing"

― dave q, Friday, 28 March 2003 11:14 (twenty-three years ago)

nowhere man

― Tad (llamasfur), Friday, 28 March 2003 11:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Here Comes The Sun
She's Leaving Home
For No One
Norwegian Wood
Eleanor Rigby
I'm Only Sleeping
Tomorrow Never Knows
Something
Fool On The Hill
Ticket To Ride

― Tijn, Friday, 28 March 2003 11:14 (twenty-three years ago)

oh, and:
"here comes the sun"
"it's all too much"
"eleanor rigby"
"rain"
"she loves you"
"lovely rita"
"savoy truffle"
"lady madonna"
"and your bird can sing"

― Tad (llamasfur), Friday, 28 March 2003 11:18 (twenty-three years ago)

OK, here is my Top 10 worst Beatles tracks then (non-originals excluded):

1. Revolution #9
2. Yer Blues
3. Come Together
4. Don't Pass Me By
5. Why Don't We Do It In The Road
6. Good Night
7. Yellow Submarine
8. Savoy Truffle
9. I'm Down
10.Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 28 March 2003 12:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Top ten Beatles solo tracks -
"Number 9 Dream"
"Coming Up"
""Gimme Some Truth"
"Look at Me"
"Silly Love Songs"
"You're Sixteen"
"My Sweet Lord" [look I LOVE slide gtr OK!]
"Let Me Roll It"
"Mother"
"Nutopian International Anthem"

Q for Geir - would you like "Goodnight" if McCartney sang it?

― dave q, Friday, 28 March 2003 13:02 (twenty-three years ago)

I like 2, 5, 8 and 10

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 28 March 2003 13:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I've Just Seen A Face
Til There Was You
Drive My Car
For No One
And Your Bird Can Sing
Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds
Blackbird
Mother Nature's Son
Hey Jude
Let It Be

― dleone (dleone), Friday, 28 March 2003 13:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Yoko Ono - "Walking on Thin Ice"
Yoko Ono - "Midsummer New York"
Yoko Ono - "Death of Samantha"
Yoko Ono - "Yang Yang (Peter Rauhofer Yang Mix)"
Yoko Ono - "She Gets Down On Her Knees"
Yoko Ono - "I Felt Like Smashing My Face Through a Clear Glass Window"
Yoko Ono - "Rising"
Yoko Ono - "Rising II"
Yoko Ono - "What a Bastard the World Is"
Yoko Ono - "Yellow Girl (Stand By For Life)"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 28 March 2003 14:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What abt "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft"?

― dave q, Friday, 28 March 2003 14:25 (twenty-three years ago)

All hit radiooooo!

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 28 March 2003 14:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Here There And Everywhere
across the universe
everybodys got something to hide cept for me and my monkey
while my guitar gently weeps
she said she said
im only sleeping
here comes the sun
sexy sadie
getting better
dear prudence

"jealous guy" must be mentioned, too

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 28 March 2003 14:36 (twenty-three years ago)

1. Within You Without You
2. Here Comes the Sun
3. Across the Universe
4. A Day In the Life
5. Something
6. As My Guitar Gently Weeps
7. Mother Nature's Son
8. Everybody's Got Something to Hide...
9. Tomorrow Never Knows
10.Norwegian Wood

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 28 March 2003 14:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I still hold to my theory that "Helter Skelter" = the birth of heavy metal.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 28 March 2003 14:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Q for Geir - would you like "Goodnight" if McCartney sang it?

"Goodnight", like around half of The White Album, is a parody, with none of the harmonic sophistication usually associated with Paul.

However, I forgot one Paul song in my worst-of list. The awful "Helter Skelter" is probably ridning very high in that list.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 28 March 2003 15:07 (twenty-three years ago)

What abt "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft"?

That one didn't sound like The Beatles. "Sub Rosa Subway" did though. :-)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 28 March 2003 15:08 (twenty-three years ago)

"Helter Skelter" kicks ass! That's one of the few songs that reminds me how crazy, cool and utterly rockin' Paul could be when he wanted to.
McCartney lost his penis in 1970 and has been looking for it ever since.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Friday, 28 March 2003 15:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Here Comes the Sun
Yellow Submarine
Cry Baby Cry
Lady Madonna
Penny Lane
Hello, Goodbye
Lovely Rita
Happiness is a Warm Gun
What Goes On
Eleanor Rigby

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 28 March 2003 15:39 (twenty-three years ago)

"I Saw Her Standing There"
"Because"
"Helter Skelter"
"It Won't Be Long"
"In My Life"
"Drive My Car"
"Tomorrow Never Knows"
"With A Little Help From My Friends"
"If I Needed Someone"
"I Am The Walrus"

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Friday, 28 March 2003 16:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm very jealous of Paul's list (Long Long Long (which should be in my Top Ten) and Old Brown Shoe in particular) and I can't believe I forgot "Girl!"

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 28 March 2003 16:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Sexy Sadie
Yer Blues
Please Please Me
Any Time At All
I Want You
Girl
Day in the Life
Golden Slumbers
I'm Only Sleeping
And Your Bird Can Sing

Almost all Lennon songs. But McCartney's not praised enough etc. Here are five under-rated McCartney tunes:

Your Mother Should Know
I'll Follow the Sun
Rocky Raccoon
I'm Looking Through You
When I'm 64 (for the great clarinet parts)

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Friday, 28 March 2003 16:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Could someone explain the appeal of "Within You, Without You" to me. I mean it's cool if you're tripping or whatever and when the tabla beat comes in at the beginning I like it, but it's not really so special to me.

― Adam A. (Keiko), Friday, 28 March 2003 18:07 (twenty-three years ago)

"Helter Skelter" kicks ass! That's one of the few songs that reminds me how crazy, cool and utterly rockin' Paul could be when he wanted to.

He shouldn't.

Paul McCartney has always best at ballads. That's when he is at his melodically and harmonically most exciting. His rock'n'rollers are sound like The Beatles didn't actually happen at all, and that nothing had happened musically since 1957 or so.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 28 March 2003 18:37 (twenty-three years ago)

what's surprising is that (relatively) so many folks like "savoy truffle" enough to put it in their top 10. i mean, isn't "savoy truffle" seen as one of their throwaway tunes?

(i was one of those "savoy truffle" fans, and i think it's an underrated bit of witty, concise 'classical' songwriting)

― Tad (llamasfur), Friday, 28 March 2003 19:48 (twenty-three years ago)

For No One
Strawberry Fields Forever
Blackbird
Eleanor Rigby
Mother Nature's Son
Penny Lane
It Won't Be Long
Please Mr Postman
Happiness Is a Warm Gun
All My Loving

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 28 March 2003 20:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Just 10 is really hard though. There's so many that I already regret excluding.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 28 March 2003 20:29 (twenty-three years ago)

There's a mostly passable tribute to George Harrison CD that just came out with a really stunning version of "Savoy Truffle" by (wait for it)...They Might Be Giants. I don't know how to explain it, but it's just perfect.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 28 March 2003 20:33 (twenty-three years ago)

''Paul McCartney has always best at ballads. That's when he is at his melodically and harmonically most exciting. His rock'n'rollers are sound like The Beatles didn't actually happen at all, and that nothing had happened musically since 1957 or so.''

please.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 28 March 2003 22:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Skipping 34 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

Are we to infer from this thread's initial post that geir invented the OPX?

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 26 August 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

It Won't Be Long
Things We Said Today
I'm A Loser
Ticket To Ride
Norwegian Wood
Here There and Everywhere
I'm Only Sleeping
A Day in the Life
I Am The Walrus
I've Got a Feeling

― darin (darin), Friday, 26 August 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

Damn, can't believe I left "Baby's In Black" off my list! An eternal favourite.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

John
Paul
George
Ringo
Yoko
George Martin
Brian Epstein
Ravi Shankar
Pete Best
Stu Stutcliffe

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 26 August 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

no derek taylor or norman smith?

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

1. "Across The Universe"
2. "Oh! Darling"
3. "The End"
4. "Because"
5. "Sun King"
6. "If I Fell"
7. "A Day In The Life"
8. "Strawberry Fields Forever (take 1)"
9. "Tomorrow Never Knows"
10. "Martha My Dear"

― Deluxe (Damian), Saturday, 27 August 2005 07:48 (twenty years ago)

what a silly thread:
1.Tomorrow Never Knows
2.Just A Northern Song
3. Strawberry Fields Forever
4. A Day In Life
5. Across The universe
6. Taxman
7. She Said She Said
8. Eleanor Rigby
9. Shes Leaving Home
10. Blue Jay Way
is anybody gonna count it?

― karl76 (karl76), Saturday, 27 August 2005 11:35 (twenty years ago)

Penny Lane
She's A Woman
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
I Just Don't Understand
Norwegian Wood
I Want To Hold Your Hand
Things We Said Today
Don't Bother Me
I'll Cry Instead
The Night Before
Yes It Is
The Word
I'm Looking Through You
There's A Place
Mother Nature's Son

There's my 15. Is this enough?

― David Merryweather Goes To Far (scarlet), Saturday, 27 August 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

Why do so many people like "A Day in the Life"? Am I missing something?

― joe schmoe (joeschmoe), Saturday, 29 October 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

Yes.

― Bimble The Nimble, Jumped Over A Thimble! (Bimble...), Sunday, 30 October 2005 04:02 (twenty years ago)

And Your Bird Can Sing
Helter Skelter
Strawberry Fields Forever
She Said She Said
Rain
Cry Baby Cry
Eleanor Rigby
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
Eight Days A Week
Nowhere Man

Over the limit of 10 but unomittable:

Day Tripper
Paperback Writer
I Should Have Known Better
Ticket to Ride
I Am The Walrus

I don't even like the Beatles but making that list was no trouble whatsoever. Hmpf. I shall take comfort in the fact that I definitely hate Sgt. Pepper, except for "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds." OK, fuck it, I guess I don't hate the Beatles. Thanks a lot, ILM.

― xero (xero), Sunday, 30 October 2005 04:50 (twenty years ago)

while my guitar
i feel fine
ask me why
not a second time
i'll cry instead
penny lane
and your bird can sing
for no one
lovely rita
what you're doing

― Alex H (Alex Henreid), Sunday, 30 October 2005 04:54 (twenty years ago)

oh and "We Can Work It Out" too

xpost

― xero (xero), Sunday, 30 October 2005 05:16 (twenty years ago)

in chronological...
Don't Bother Me
Yes It Is
Girl
If I Needed Someone
I'm Only Sleeping
She Said She Said
And Your Bird Can Sing
I Am The Walrus
Dear Prudence
I Want You (She's So Heavy)

and the next 10 after that would probably be...
This Boy
I Don't Want To Spoil The Party
Getting Better
A Day In The Life
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except For Me And My Monkey
Sexy Sadie
Hey Bulldog
The Ballad Of John And Yoko
Because

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Sunday, 30 October 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

She Said She Said
Helter Skelter
I want you (she's so heavy)
Taxman
Getting better
Here Comes the Sun
Lady Madonna
Paperback Writer
I'm So Tired
Norwegian Wood

― casey (t. fiend), Sunday, 30 October 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

1. "Getting Better"
2. "I Feel Fine"
3. "All My Loving"
4. "Hello Goodbye"
5. "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
6. "Please Please Me"
7. "Penny Lane"
8. "Hey Jude"
9. "Revolution" (single version)
10. "A Day in the Life"

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 30 October 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

Strawberry Fields Forever
I'm So Tired
Sexy Sadie
I Am The Walrus
Eleanor Rigby
Dear Prudence
Julia
you never give me your money
She's Leaving Home
Cry Baby Cry

― snowballing (snowballing), Sunday, 30 October 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

Wow, the original POX thread--it's like holding a Honus Wagner T-206 in your hand.

― merritt ranew (merritt), Sunday, 30 October 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

1. Cry Baby Cry
2. And Your Bird Can Sing
3. The Ballad Of John And Yoko
4. You Won't See Me
5. No Reply
6. I Am The Walrus
7. A Hard Day's Night
8. You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
9. Norwegian Wood
10. Baby You're A Rich Man

― John Fredland (jfredland), Monday, 31 October 2005 02:26 (twenty years ago)

Some of the great unsung:
1. All I've got to do
2. If I fell
3. I'll be back
4. I call your name
5. You're going to lose that girl
6. Hey Bulldog
7. Kansas City
8. She said she said
9. No reply
10. She's a woman

― uncledaddy, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

A Day in the Life
Help
Ticket To Ride
Sexy Sadie
In My Life
We Can Work It Out
I'm Looking Through You
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
I'm Only Sleeping
Got To Get You Into My Life

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

Weather With You
Angels
Throwing It All Away
Love Plus One
Kayleigh
Angie
Bullet From A Gun
What Have I Done To Deserve This?
Angel
Speedy Sounds

― Comstock Carabineri (nostudium), Wednesday, 2 November 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...

We Can Work It Out
Eleanor Rigby
Tomorrow Never Knows
With A Little Help From My Friends
Fixing A Hole
Strawberry Fields Forever
Penny Lane
Hey Jude
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Helter Skelter

― Sebastian, Tuesday, 2 May 2006 18:54 (twenty years ago)

I'm only here for the sarcasm...v.disappointing.

― dr lulu (dr lulu), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 19:43 (twenty years ago)

What abt "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft"?
That one didn't sound like The Beatles. "Sub Rosa Subway" did though. :-)

-- Geir Hongro (geirhon...) (webmail), March 28th, 2003.

"Calling Occupants" has a mellotron intro a la "Strawberry Fields" and a total "I Am the Walrus" electric piano part.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 21:44 (twenty years ago)

"Calling Occupants" has a mellotron intro a la "Strawberry Fields" and a total "I Am the Walrus" electric piano part.

But also a very 1976 production that sounded way more like ELO or 10cc than like The Beatles.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 21:48 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

1. There's a Place
2. She Loves You
3. Hey Jude
4. In My Life
5. I'm Looking Through You (the version on Anthology)
6. With a Little Help from My Friends
7. Revolution (single version)
8. Ticket to Ride
9. Yellow Submarine
10. You've Got to Hide Your Love Away

Underrated:

Martha My Dear
Across the Universe

― Pete Scholtes, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

"universe" underrated lol

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 18 May 2007 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, maybe not, but did you really laugh out loud, so that people could hear you?

― Pete Scholtes, Saturday, 19 May 2007 05:09 (nineteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

And the Top 22 Beatles songs for ILMers with 5 votes or more is..
(number of votes in parentheses)

(17) A Day in the Life
(12) Tomorrow Never Knows
(11) Strawberry Fields Forever
(10) I'm Only Sleeping
(9) And Your Bird Can Sing
(9) I Am the Walrus
(7) Eleanor Rigby
.....

always fantastic and amazing the good showing for
I'M ONLY SLEEPING on this thread.

― pisces, Thursday, 8 May 2008 18:13 (eighteen years ago)

You Never Give Me Your Money
A Day in the Life
I'm Only Sleeping
Here Comes the Sun
Help!
Tomorrow Never Knows
Come Together
She Loves You
Fixing a Hole
She Came in Through the Bathroom Window

― chap, Thursday, 8 May 2008 18:22 (eighteen years ago)

Sgt. Pepper is BOE-RING

in no order

1. Savoy Truffle
2. Sexy Sadie
3. I Want You
4. Hey Bulldog
5. Blue Jay Way
6. I Me Mine
7. Two of Us
8. Money
9. Mean Mr. Mustard
10. Day Tripper

I like the Beatles pretty swell, but they sure are overrated. "Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da" almost by itself cancels out the considerable musical cachet achieved by the songs on my list.

I kind of wish I could've gotten "I'm Only Sleeping" onto this list, but there are plenty of bands--some of whom with fewer songs in their catalogue--for which making such a list would be far far more difficult for me.

― SecondBassman, Thursday, 8 May 2008 20:39 (eighteen years ago)

eight years pass...

for no one
here, there, and everywhere
everybody's got something to hide except me and my monkey
across the universe
happiness is a warm gun
she said she said
strawberry fields forever
penny lane
getting better
lucy in the sky with diamonds (mono)

― flappy bird, Friday, 1 July 2016 04:13 (nine years ago)

all my loving
if i fell
nowhere man
in my life
she said she said
with a little help from my friends
rain
happiness is a warm gun
hey bulldog
two of us

― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Friday, 1 July 2016 05:01 (nine years ago)

A Day In the Life
Ticket To Ride
Help
You Never Give Me Your Money
She Loves You
Sexy Sadie
Let It Be
No Reply
She Loves You
I'll Cry Instead

― kornrulez6969, Friday, 1 July 2016 05:41 (nine years ago)

rock and roll music
in my life
i'm only sleeping
tomorrow never knows
lovely rita
a day in the life
only a northern song
it's all too much
you never give me your money
she came in through the bathroom window

― brimstead, Friday, 1 July 2016 21:02 (nine years ago)

Blackbird
Penny Lane
For No One
Eleanor Rigby
I'm Only Sleeping
Martha My Dear
I Don't Want To Spoil The Party
Here Comes The Sun
You Never Give Me Your Money
The Long And Winding Road

― soref, Friday, 1 July 2016 21:15 (nine years ago)

Bump to annoy all the right ppl

― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Friday, 1 July 2016 23:28 (nine years ago)

Bump to annoy all the wrong ppl

― riverine (map), Friday, 1 July 2016 23:30 (nine years ago)

Im a results man goddammit

― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Friday, 1 July 2016 23:31 (nine years ago)

What are your ten favorite Beatles songs Darragh?

― riverine (map), Friday, 1 July 2016 23:31 (nine years ago)

I will do a list in a while i promise

― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Friday, 1 July 2016 23:32 (nine years ago)

You?

― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Friday, 1 July 2016 23:32 (nine years ago)

I couldn't name ten

― riverine (map), Friday, 1 July 2016 23:34 (nine years ago)

I know For No One is one

― riverine (map), Friday, 1 July 2016 23:37 (nine years ago)

I think that makes my list. Do you know any others and we can see if they would also make my list

― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Friday, 1 July 2016 23:45 (nine years ago)

one year passes...

here there and everywhere
revolution 9
penny lane
strawberry fields forever
she said she said
across the universe
for no one
glass onion
happiness is a warm gun
a day in the life

― flappy bird, Friday, 23 March 2018 05:30 (eight years ago)

Eleanor Rigby
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Paperback Writer
Come Together
Octopus’s Garden
Maxwell’s Silver Hammer
Her Majesty
With A Little Help from My Friends

idk…Hey Jude? Ticket to Ride?

Surprised I even have that many opinions.

― valorous wokelord (silby), Friday, 23 March 2018 05:39 (eight years ago)

Anyway how was this the biggest band in the world, most of it is kinda bananas, isn’t it

― valorous wokelord (silby), Friday, 23 March 2018 05:41 (eight years ago)

Magic Mushroom
Julie Oh Julie (How I Love-A You So-Oh)
Can You Feel the Heat?
The Cat's Pajamas
Imagine
Sausage King
Blips
The International Anthem of Peace
Where Were You? (And There You Were)
Horror Kingdom

― Toilet Paper Tube Bracelets -- Super Hero Themed? (Old Lunch), Friday, 23 March 2018 12:25 (eight years ago)

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