# Favorite Beatles song? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 12, 2017, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-beatles-song/793468 "2017-08-12T21:47:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2017, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-beatles-song/793468/101 "2017-08-16T03:45:14Z")
ETA: Also, it kind of sounds natural to me, because it feels like the song temporarily drifts into F major in the C-C9-F-Bb sequence, and then settles back into Am. With that hanging Bb chord, it feels like the song can settle back to the I of F, but instead goes Am. And the difference between F and Am is just one half-step: instead of F-A-C, it’s E-A-C, so it’s a pretty natural harmonic movement, with a twist. Actually, I suppose you can almost look at it as a tritone substitution. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2017, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-beatles-song/793468/102 "2017-08-16T18:20:32Z")
Just one? Ouch. Uh… “Good Morning Good Morning,” if I must be so outrageously limited in my choices. Great lyrics, brass and guitar work, and Ringo’s drumming was never better. ---
**Author:** ![priapus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@priapus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/priapus)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2017, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-beatles-song/793468/103 "2017-08-16T19:55:23Z")
My favorite is “Getting Better”. It seemed so personal and raw, or at least it did to my young ears. “I used to be cruel to my woman I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved Man I was mean but I’m changing my scene And I’m doing the best that I can (Ooh)” ---
**Author:** ![syncrolecyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@syncrolecyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/syncrolecyne)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-beatles-song/793468/104 "2017-08-17T03:56:13Z")
> [@priapus](#): > > My favorite is “Getting Better”. It seemed so personal and raw, or at least it did to my young ears. > > “I used to be cruel to my woman > I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved > Man I was mean but I’m changing my scene > And I’m doing the best that I can (Ooh)” It’s impossible to pick only one, but “Strawberry Fields Forever” sums up what made the Beatles great for me. (To cheat a bit, I also love the slower, more acoustic version). ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-beatles-song/793468/105 "2017-08-17T15:49:52Z")
Here’s every Beatles song from A-Z, in just 11 1/2 minutes: [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx2KTYkb1GA). Several in there I’d never heard before. I esp. liked the candids of them setting up for the _Sgt. Pepper’s_ album cover - and John with the poster that inspired “For the Benefit of Mr. Kite,” and Paul and Martha herself for “Martha My Dear”! ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2017, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-beatles-song/793468/106 "2017-08-17T16:33:50Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Here’s every Beatles song from A-Z, in just 11 1/2 minutes: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx2KTYkb1GA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx2KTYkb1GA). Several in there I’d never heard before. I esp. liked the candids of them setting up for the _Sgt. Pepper’s_ album cover - and John with the poster that inspired “For the Benefit of Mr. Kite,” and Paul and Martha herself for “Martha My Dear”! Loved that, **Elendil’s Heir**! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-beatles-song/793468.md?page=5)