This could have been my post. I finally chose Strawberry Fields Forever. I had to. Some of my favorite lyrics ever from any band.
My problem is my “favorite” song can vary by the day or the hour, usually.
*Living is easy with eyes closed
Misunderstanding all you see
It’s getting hard to be someone but it all works out
It doesn’t matter much to me
*
I screwed up and voted for “All Together Now” when I meant “Only A Northern Song” --can a mod edit the poll to reflect that? (Not that it’ll matter up against Strawberry Fields, but still… 
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This halfway answers the question I was going to post: Who in the hell voted for All Together Now? 
I nearly clicked on Penny Lane, then I heard John singing let me take you downnnnn… in my head and realized that Strawberry Fields is a much more mature, complex work than Penny Lane, which is really not much more than a pleasant ditty.
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That’s what I always thought, and I do still prefer Strawberry Fields, but as I mentioned above, Howard Goodall persuaded me of the merits of Penny Lane when he pointed out its subtle key modulations. It’s the middle section of this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLkBCNuiygs (warning: contains footage of Howard Goodall singing). I no longer think of Penny Lane as a “ditty”.
Since this is a public poll, your user name still shows up as a vote for All Together Now instead of Only a Northern Song. But I moved one vote to Northern song from All Together Now.
I voted for “All You Need Is Love,” but “Your Mother Should Know” would be not too far behind. Yes, I’m a heathen.
Read this, I Am the Walrus - Wikipedia, to see John Lennon’s puckish humor at its best.
Easy one for me (for a change): “Penny Lane” might just be my favorite Beatles song.
Maybe.
Went with I Am The Walrus. Been a favorite of mine since I was a kid.
Thanks for the interesting link. The changing of keys within a song was nothing new with The Beatles; they did it with ‘Here, There and Everywhere’, for example, which was written in '66.
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eta: Not to suggest that you claimed it was an original technique with Penny Lane
Thank you. Consider this a tremendous blow struck on behalf of a sorely neglected great song.
Plenty of incredible songs here, but I went with “I am the Walrus” because it’s the most fun to sing.
Strawberry Firleds for me. How can yo not vote for the song with the lyrics:
Always know sometimes think it’s me, but you know I know and it’s a dream.
I think I know of thee, ah yes, but it’s all wrong.
That is I think I disagree.
Wow. What a hodge-podge poll. I get the reasons for doing it this way, but in my head:
[ul]
[li]Penny Lane / Strawberry fields is pre- Sgt. Pepper[/li][li]Magical Mystery Tour is a double-EP, not an album, and[/li][li]there’s two years and a whole double album between MMT and Yellow Submarine.[/li][/ul]
But that’s only because I’m deliberately being an insufferable Beatles purist; and actually do see the merit of combining the soundtracks alongside the orphans that MMT already linked together.
I liked Hello Goodbye
Yeah, why mess with a straightforward poll-per-album format? Just follow how the records actually came out.
As much as I hated the film Yellow Submarine, I forgot how many truly great songs were on this album!
I do not regard this as a genuine, canonical Beatles album. Magical Mystery Tour was originally issued as a double EP (the excellent songs from the execrable TV special) and they just bunged in a few otherwise unanthologized singles and B-sides to make a regular album later on. Among the latter are Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane, the clear stand-out tracks here, but the best song from the real Magical Mystery Tour is I am the Walrus.