# Pick the only Beatles song you can ever listen to again, ever. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 11, 2011, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-only-beatles-song-you-can-ever-listen-to-again-ever/599239 "2011-10-11T01:03:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-only-beatles-song-you-can-ever-listen-to-again-ever/599239/21 "2011-10-11T03:13:03Z")
> [@missred](#): > > _My Life_ > > The older I get, the more meaning this song has for me. I did this one at karaoke a couple of weeks ago with the Fella. It’s a special song for both of us. In My life? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-only-beatles-song-you-can-ever-listen-to-again-ever/599239/22 "2011-10-11T03:15:05Z")
Definitely the Abbey Road Medley. However, if I had to pick one song, I’d go with “Hey Bulldog.” Love that piano and the growl. ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-only-beatles-song-you-can-ever-listen-to-again-ever/599239/23 "2011-10-11T03:22:42Z")
I’d rather die. Not a song title, I just love their music. Anyway, you can’t take them away as I can hear them in my head. I’m amazed nobody has mentioned Yesterday yet. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-only-beatles-song-you-can-ever-listen-to-again-ever/599239/24 "2011-10-11T03:31:15Z")
Something. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-only-beatles-song-you-can-ever-listen-to-again-ever/599239/25 "2011-10-11T03:35:53Z")
Never went for the ballady stuff much, and most of what they did before '66 or so is so familiar that I never have to hear it again, and so lightweight that I don’t really want to hear it again, nevertheless…And Your Bird Can Sing. Two minutes of pure crystalline power pop. Can’t concieve of ever getting tired of the guitar riff or the harmonies. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-only-beatles-song-you-can-ever-listen-to-again-ever/599239/26 "2011-10-11T03:40:09Z")
Let It Be ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-only-beatles-song-you-can-ever-listen-to-again-ever/599239/27 "2011-10-11T03:49:00Z")
_Yesterday_, because that is the day that I could listen to all the Beatles songs. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-only-beatles-song-you-can-ever-listen-to-again-ever/599239/28 "2011-10-11T04:23:25Z")
> [@K364](#): > > A Day In The Life Yup. ---
**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-only-beatles-song-you-can-ever-listen-to-again-ever/599239/29 "2011-10-11T04:33:30Z")
Oh man. What a scary premise! Thank God it’ll never happen as long as I’ve got the entire canon lodged in my brain, but still… This may be an odd choice but I think I’d go with [You Can’t Do That.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usQ8AhiRcNE&feature=related) It just makes me happy as heck and it’s a great song to sing along to (both melody and the background vocals). Or maybe “I’ll Follow the Sun.” Or “Here Comes the Sun.” Or “Taxman.” Or “Penny Lane.” Or and or and or… (Actually my favorite song is “She’s Leaving Home” but I think it’d be too depressing to make that the only Beatles song one hears ever again.) ---
**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:** [October 11, 2011, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-only-beatles-song-you-can-ever-listen-to-again-ever/599239/30 "2011-10-11T04:37:45Z")
I’d pick “Something.” ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-only-beatles-song-you-can-ever-listen-to-again-ever/599239/31 "2011-10-11T04:48:02Z")
“Hey Bulldog” ---
**Author:** ![Namkcalb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Namkcalb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Namkcalb)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-only-beatles-song-you-can-ever-listen-to-again-ever/599239/32 "2011-10-11T04:54:25Z")
“[Run For Your Life](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab4I1MAaK-c)” Why are you looking at me like that? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-only-beatles-song-you-can-ever-listen-to-again-ever/599239/33 "2011-10-11T04:55:35Z")
“Eleanor Rigby” Although I would miss “I’m Looking Through You” terribly. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-only-beatles-song-you-can-ever-listen-to-again-ever/599239/34 "2011-10-11T07:46:14Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > I’m probably going to make some heads explode, but I’m going to say Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da. I considered this, along with \*Lady Madonna. \*But I finally went in the opposite direction, and decided on _Let It Be._ ---
**Author:** ![multimediac17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@multimediac17](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/multimediac17)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-only-beatles-song-you-can-ever-listen-to-again-ever/599239/35 "2011-10-11T08:30:27Z")
Blackbird. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Mondegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/91b2a8/32.png) [@Lord\_Mondegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Mondegreen)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-only-beatles-song-you-can-ever-listen-to-again-ever/599239/36 "2011-10-11T08:57:31Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > Something. That was the one I came here to post. When George got it right, he _really_ got it right. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-only-beatles-song-you-can-ever-listen-to-again-ever/599239/37 "2011-10-11T09:24:09Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > Holy cow, what a decision. > > While My Guitar Gently Weeps. Oh, crap, off the top of my head I was going to say “Eleanor Rigby,” but “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” is the Beatles too, isn’t it? Yeah, I’m with Frank. So long, “Let it Be,” “Yellow Submarine,” and “Come Together.” ☹ ---
**Author:** ![mac\_bolan00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b3f665/32.png) [@mac\_bolan00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mac_bolan00)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-only-beatles-song-you-can-ever-listen-to-again-ever/599239/38 "2011-10-11T09:47:29Z")
ping-pong balls marked “here there everywhere”, “i will”, and “fool on the hill” are tumbling in the lotto casing. which pops out: HERE, THERE, EVERYWHERE! ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-only-beatles-song-you-can-ever-listen-to-again-ever/599239/39 "2011-10-11T10:18:13Z")
_She’s Leaving Home_ ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-only-beatles-song-you-can-ever-listen-to-again-ever/599239/40 "2011-10-11T10:38:07Z")
I’d be content to not hear the Beatles again, but the song I’d want to hear (if I had to hear one) is **Across the Universe**. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-only-beatles-song-you-can-ever-listen-to-again-ever/599239.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-the-only-beatles-song-you-can-ever-listen-to-again-ever/599239.md?page=3)