The Beatles 5 best songs ?

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  1. alexpop

    alexpop Power pop + other bad habits.... Thread Starter

    What would you say are The Beatles five best songs, your crème de la crème?


    Get Back
    Magical Mystery Tour
    Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
    I am The Walrus
    While my Guitar Gently Weeps
     
  2. DJ LX

    DJ LX Forum Resident

    Location:
    Madison WI
    Tomorrow Never Knows
    Strawberry Fields Forever
    Something
    Hey Jude
    While My Guitar Gently Weeps
     
  3. DK Pete

    DK Pete Forum Resident

    Location:
    Levittown. NY
    My personal top ten Beatle songs/RECORDS
    1-I Want To Hold Your Hand
    2-Penny Lane
    3-Strawberry Fields
    4-Hey Jude
    5-Tomorrow Never Knows
    6-Nowhere Man
    7-And Your Bird….
    8-Paperback Writer
    9-It Won’t Be Long
    10-All My Loving
     
  4. tug_of_war

    tug_of_war Unable to tolerate bass solos

    Just five? Impossible!!!

    And while I'm here, let me give you the "oh no, not another Beatles thread award"

    :targettiphat:
     
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  5. tug_of_war

    tug_of_war Unable to tolerate bass solos

    Ok. The first five that come to mind, here we go:

    -Here Comes The Sun
    -I'm A Loser (that bass line!!!!) :love:
    -Mother Nature's Son
    -Any Time At All
    -What You're Doing?
     
  6. TomOli64

    TomOli64 Forum Resident

    Location:
    England
    Something
    Strawberry Fields Forever
    Hey Bulldog
    Only a Northern Song
    The Night Before
     
  7. Daniel Plainview

    Daniel Plainview God's Lonely Man

    All My Loving
    Nowhere Man
    Eleanor Rigby
    Penny Lane
    Here Comes The Sun
     
  8. Bowland

    Bowland Forum Resident

    Location:
    England
    Ticket to Ride
    Boys
    Twist and Shout
    Across the Universe
    Please Please Me
     
  9. David m bond

    David m bond Forum Resident

    Location:
    London
    She Loves You
    A Hard Day's Night
    Ticket To Ride
    Help!
    A Day In the Life
     
  10. Bill Pafford

    Bill Pafford Hyperactive!

    Location:
    Surveyor, WV
    Get Back
    Lady Madonna
    Something
    Strawberry Fields Forever
    Hey Bulldog
     
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  11. tim185

    tim185 Forum Resident

    Location:
    Australia
    Fresh content!
    Noice.
     
  12. AngusStanley

    AngusStanley Forum Resident

    Location:
    Massachusetts
    Something
    For No One
    In My Life
    Day Tripper
    We Can Work It Out
     
  13. Dansk

    Dansk rational romantic mystic cynical idealist

    Location:
    Ontario, Canada
    This thread will consist of:
    • People giving a list of their five favourite songs
    • People giving a list of a far greater number of songs
    • People refusing to give any songs because "how can you choose just five?"
    • People giving a list of their five favourite Rolling Stones songs because they're better than the Beatles
    • People making sarcastic posts about yet another Beatles thread
    • People arguing that what Paul had for breakfast on the day of recording disqualifies a certain song from competition
     
  14. Tord

    Tord Forum Resident

    Location:
    Kungsbacka, Sweden
    In no particular order:

    Yesterday
    Strawberry Fields Forever
    Here, There and Everywhere
    I Should Have Known Better
    A Day in the Life
     
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  15. UnderTheFloorboards'66

    UnderTheFloorboards'66 Forum Resident

    Location:
    San Francisco, CA
    1. A Day in the Life
    2. Strawberry Fields Forever
    3. Tomorrow Never Knows
    4. In My Life
    5. I Am The Walrus

    Ultimately though, narrowing it down to only 5 Beatles songs is unsatisfying and futile.
     
  16. alexpop

    alexpop Power pop + other bad habits.... Thread Starter

    :righton:
     
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  17. Wildest cat from montana

    Wildest cat from montana Humble Reader

    Location:
    ontario canada
    I see a few have listed ' Here Comes The Sun' as a Top Five Fab Four fave and maybe rightfully so.
    It's well written, well played, well produced and a world-wide favourite which is nothing to sneeze at.

    But the greatest and best song Harrison came up with was 'Within You Without You', a truly unique and different sound and direction and a top tier Beatles title.

    For John, I'd go with 'Strawberry Fields Forever'
    For Paul, either ' Hey Jude' or 'Yesterday' . Predictable perhaps but it is what it is.
     
  18. thos

    thos Forum Resident

    While I’m one of those who can’t pick a “top five” , I must say that is the song that comes to mind first for me, just brilliant in every way
     
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  19. Aleksander86

    Aleksander86 Forum Resident

    Location:
    Mexico
    If I have to choose five songs to show future generations the greatness of the Beatles, I would choose:
    - I Want to Hold Your Hand (the peak of Beatlemania)
    - Yesterday (Paul's greatness as a composer and balladeer)
    - Strawberry Fields Forever (Lennon's genius and psychedelic foray)
    - A Day in the Life (perhaps the "greatest" Beatles song)
    - Something (George's magnificent contribution).

    Not necessarily my top five. Of course, with the same arguments it could include:
    -She Loves You or A Hard Day's Night
    - Michelle or Here, There and Everywhere
    - I Am the Walrus or Tomorrow Never Knows
    - Hey Jude or In My Life
    - Here Comes the Sun or While My Guitar Gently Weeps
     
    Last edited: Nov 24, 2022
  20. Wildest cat from montana

    Wildest cat from montana Humble Reader

    Location:
    ontario canada
    When I bought ' Sgt Pepper's...' over 50 years ago (!) I didn't know a single song on it. And as I was spinning it on my pitiful portable picnic player I was just enjoying each song so much. They were all so good.
    Side one ended and I flipped it and 'Within You Without You' started.
    I almost went into a trance. Never heard anything quite like it before. Just dug it. Played it plenty.
     
  21. alexpop

    alexpop Power pop + other bad habits.... Thread Starter

    Nice assessment! :righton:
     
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  22. RickH

    RickH Connoisseur of deep album cuts

    Location:
    Raleigh, NC
    WTH, I'll take the challenge...

    Eleanor Rigby
    Strawberry Fields Forever
    Hey Jude
    Here There and Everywhere
    Yesterday
     
  23. wandique

    wandique >>> Senior Member

    A day in the life
    Tomorrow never knows
    Yesterday
    I am the Walrus
    Eleanore Rigby
     
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  24. alexpop

    alexpop Power pop + other bad habits.... Thread Starter

    A whole lot of macca :)
     
  25. breakingglass

    breakingglass Forum Resident

    Location:
    Atlanta
    Strawberry Fields Forever
    Tomorrow Never Knows
    Rain
    Abbey Road Side 2 Medley
    I Want To Hold Your Hand
     

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