5 songs that "typify the Beatles' sound"

[Thudlow_Boink]

@pulykamell

You ruled out a good number of songs, you said it was a well-known song (I think) and “Eight Days a Week” seemed conspicuously absent from the guesses so far, and it is a quintessential Beatles sound song to me, so there we go.

Yeah, when I saw your mention of it I thought it was a pretty good guess. It does have a pretty typical Beatles sound—but as such, it’s not one of my favorites, because I don’t hear anything particularly interesting in the melody, the lyrics, or the instrumentation.
So I had to go back to check and see how that particular song did in the “Best of the Beatles” album poll threads from awhile back. It turned out to be the clear winner: the most popular song from admittedly one of their weaker albums, although it had its detractors, including myself:

@Thudlow_Boink

I’m inclined to side with TreacherousCretin on this one. “Eight Days a Week” is, of all the songs on this album, the one that’s squarely in the mold of the classic early Beatles sound, but that’s a sound they were in the process of outgrowing, and unless I’m misremembering, it doesn’t do anything particularly interesting or new with that sound. So, while it’s a perfectly good song, it is to me perhaps the most dispensible song on the album.