# What's the best song off of "Beatles For Sale"?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 13, 2010, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-beatles-for-sale/553647 "2010-09-13T20:19:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-beatles-for-sale/553647/21 "2010-09-16T01:44:03Z")

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Beatles bump. “Help” is on its way tomorrow…

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**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-beatles-for-sale/553647/22 "2010-09-16T01:47:54Z")

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I’m really surprised to see zero votes for “What You’re Doing”!

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**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:** [September 16, 2010, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-beatles-for-sale/553647/23 "2010-09-16T20:45:43Z")

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> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#):
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> I’m really surprised to see zero votes for “What You’re Doing”!

Damn! I was gonna go for that, and then decided I wanted “I’ll Follow the Sun” to place higher and figured my vote would do better there. Consider me a virtual vote for “WYD.”

(I was just listening to George Martin’s _Love_ mashup of “Drive My Car,” “The Word,” “Taxman” and of course, “What You’re Doing.” So much awesome it almost explodes my speakers.)

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**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-beatles-for-sale/553647/24 "2010-09-24T02:47:18Z")

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Gotta admit I don’t understand all the “Eight Days A Week” love. It’s one of the few Beatles songs I find totally boring and repetitive. I’d rather listen to “Why Don’t We Do It In The Road” or “You Know My Name, Look Up the Number.”

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**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-song-off-of-beatles-for-sale/553647/25 "2010-09-24T02:59:55Z")

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This was difficult for me. I think this is a hugely underrated album. I live it for the great vocal harmonies — the band were really hitting it vocally at this time. I chose “I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party” for the great harmonies between John and Paul, and for those wonderfully Lennonish chord changes. Runner-up was probably “Kansas City.”

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