# 5 songs that "typify the Beatles' sound" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 10, 2014, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-songs-that-typify-the-beatles-sound/695198 "2014-08-10T00:20:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 28
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> [@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](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=716149): the most popular song from admittedly one of their weaker albums, although it had its detractors, including myself: > [@Best of the Beatles: Beatles for Sale](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-beatles-beatles-for-sale/681686/26): > > 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. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-songs-that-typify-the-beatles-sound/695198)._