# Your favorite Beatle songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 2, 2011, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-beatle-songs/604897 "2011-12-02T23:24:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-beatle-songs/604897/1 "2011-12-02T23:24:44Z")
Since we’ve got a thread about your favorite Beatle, I thought I’d steal an idea from the Fab Fourum podcast and start a thread about your favorite Beatle songs. Pick 5 Beatle songs as your favorites and 5 honorable mention. You can pick any Beatle tracks from the original releases, BBC recordings, Anthology recordings, anything as long it is a Beatle and not a solo recording. In no particular order Favorites. 1. Strawberry Fields Forever 2. In My Life 3. Help 4. I Want to Hold Your Hand 5. If I Fell Honorable Mention. 1. Got to Get You Into My Life 2. She Said, She Said 3. Here Comes the Sun 4. A Hard Day’s Night 5. Twist and Shout ---
**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:** [December 3, 2011, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-beatle-songs/604897/2 "2011-12-03T00:54:29Z")
1. Hey Bulldog 2. Abbey Road Medley 3. Got to Get You Into My Life 4. Only a Northern Song 5. Revolution (single version). ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-beatle-songs/604897/3 "2011-12-03T01:04:54Z")
I went to a website to refresh my memory of Beatle songs. Oh MY! Such a flood of memories! I remember listening to the songs, over and over and over! I go over the lyrics in my mind, and I’m transported to those days again. What is especially poignant for me is the fact I’m hearing-impaired, and it is a progressive loss. I can only enjoy music I’ve heard in the past. I’ll catch snippets of a song, and once I remember it, my recall of the lyrics and the melody allows me to follow the music in my head. New stuff, forget it, but the oldies are still there, just waiting to be reawakened. And they are wide awake now! There are truly too many to list, and I certainly cannot pick a favorite. In no particular order: Paperback Writer Eleanor Rigby I Should Have Known Better The Night Before and of course: I Wanna Hold Your Hand She Loves You How rejuvenating! I’m a kid again! ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![tomcar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tomcar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomcar)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-beatle-songs/604897/4 "2011-12-03T01:28:14Z")
She’s Leaving Home For No One I’m Only Sleeping Yer Blues Let It Be HM Hey Jude Yesterday Eleanor Rigby I’ve Gotta Feeling I Am The Walrus ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-beatle-songs/604897/5 "2011-12-03T02:00:45Z")
Tomorrow Never Knows (way ahead of its time) A Day in the Life While My Guitar Gently Weeps B-Side of Abbey Road All You Need Is Love Something ---
**Author:** ![Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prelude_to_Fascination)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-beatle-songs/604897/6 "2011-12-03T02:12:50Z")
Norwegian Wood Help Ticket to Ride A Hard Day’s Night You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away Anything sung from the Christmas album ---
**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:** [December 3, 2011, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-beatle-songs/604897/7 "2011-12-03T02:23:18Z")
Help! For No One Martha My Dear Within You Without You You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away I’m Looking Through You Here Comes the Sun Across the Universe Because If I Fell _and_ Oh! Darling ---
**Author:** ![Monkey\_Chews](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@Monkey\_Chews](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monkey_Chews)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-beatle-songs/604897/8 "2011-12-03T02:52:18Z")
God-_dayum_ that was hard to narrow it down to just 10. Let It Be In My Life I Want You (She’s So Heavy) Eleanor Rigby Hey Jude Norwegian Wood Come Together She Loves You Happiness Is A Warm Gun Here Comes The Sun ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-beatle-songs/604897/9 "2011-12-03T02:59:28Z")
Help from my friends Fixing a hole When I’m 64 Oh darling I want to hold your hand Maxwells silver hammer ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-beatle-songs/604897/10 "2011-12-03T03:18:18Z")
Blackbird Eleanor Rigby (only because every single Hammond player seems to quote the melody at least once when soloing, so it kind of stuck) Let It Be Get Back (an old running buddy met a guy in NoCal who claimed to have been “Jo Jo,” but that’s not why I like the song). ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-beatle-songs/604897/11 "2011-12-03T04:34:01Z")
Long and Winding Road Norwegian Wood Something Guitar Gently Weeps Old Brown Shoe, to name a few… Most of George’s, actually with the exception of BlueJay Way, which sucks to makes Dyson cream. ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-beatle-songs/604897/12 "2011-12-03T12:59:59Z")
In no particular order… I Am The Walrus It’s All Too Much A Day In The Life She Loves You Tomorrow Never Knows The Fool On The Hill All My Loving Strawberry Fields Forever Don’t Bother Me Hey Jude Though on another day, it could be another ten. ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-beatle-songs/604897/13 "2011-12-04T20:15:02Z")
Favorite is favorite. Just so long as we’re all agreed that the _best_ Beatles song is either “Penny Lane” or “Hey Jude”. The former is truly finely crafted as to be absolutely perfect. The only knock is that it employs studio musicians. The latter is great great great–and their biggest seller IIRC–but some of the lyrics are non-sensical. And much as I like long songs, the perfect pop song is not one that clocks in a 7 minutes. I’d put “A Day in the Life” as a rather more distant third. It’s a bit too experimental to be considered finely crafted. My _favorite_ may well be “Within You and Without You”, but that’s just me. These songs are all slickly produced. If I had to pick one that’s representative of the Beatles as a great rock-n-roll band, I’d go with “I Feel Fine”. ---
**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:** [December 4, 2011, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-beatle-songs/604897/14 "2011-12-04T20:19:01Z")
My favorite? “Something.” ---
**Author:** ![emcee2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@emcee2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emcee2k)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-beatle-songs/604897/15 "2011-12-04T20:30:58Z")
1. Happiness is a Warm Gun 2. Hey Jude 3. Strawberry Fields Forever 4. Getting Better 5. Help 6. I am the Walrus 7. Yesterday 8. Helter Skelter 9. Across The Universe 10. Come Together That was way too difficult. I can’t think of many bands that I could fill a top ten list all with songs that I really like. Even fewer that I have to pick and choose between songs that I really love to come with just ten. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-beatle-songs/604897/16 "2011-12-05T16:48:00Z")
Top 5 in chronological order: 1. Please Please Me. Their first #1, and in terms of pure pop, they never did anything better… there’s a new hook about every 2 measures. 2. She Loves You. Again, incredible pop, bursting with energy and joy. 3. If I Needed Someone. There should be one George song in the top five, and this is it for me. He took the sound the Byrds got from the Searchers and perfected it. 4. A Day in the Life. 5. Hey Jude. The Beatles emerging from psychedelia and demonstrating to the world that they were still number one. A wonderful, heartfelt, comforting and life-affirming song. My honorable mentions would change from day to day; at the moment they’re all Lennon songs: “In My Life”, “Nowhere Man”, “Rain”, “Strawberry Fields Forever”, “Revolution 1”. On edit: Wait, I forgot “Yesterday”. That might nudge out “She Loves You”. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-beatle-songs/604897/17 "2011-12-05T17:40:28Z")
In no particular order: I Need You The Night Before Please Please Me Ticket To Ride One After 909 ---
**Author:** ![Art\_Rock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/art_rock/32/525_2.png) [@Art\_Rock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Art_Rock)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2011, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-beatle-songs/604897/18 "2011-12-06T08:39:30Z")
1. She’s leaving home 2. A day in the life 3. Blackbird 4. Eleanor Rigby 5. Strawberry fields forever ---
**Author:** ![Lilacs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Lilacs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lilacs)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2011, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-beatle-songs/604897/19 "2011-12-06T12:47:17Z")
Strawberry Fields Forever Happiness is a Warm Gun I Want You (She’s so Heavy) For No One She Said, She Said That said, tomorrow my list will be different. Except Happiness is a Warm Gun. ---
**Author:** ![ScatteredFrog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@ScatteredFrog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ScatteredFrog)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2011, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-beatle-songs/604897/20 "2011-12-06T21:26:54Z")
Wow…even five is just too difficult. (BTW, to the OP – did you like my Fab Fourum intro about Chicago winning two World Series in a row? 🙂 ) But let’s see… Strawberry Fields Forever A Day In The Life If I Needed Someone She’s A Woman I Am The Walrus **Favorite cover:** Leave My Kitten Alone **Five Beatles songs I can’t stand:** Long, Long, Long (gawd, how boring) Things We Said Today (_yawn_) Hello Goodbye (very pointless and dippy) That Means A Lot (the re-make, not the version that’s on _Anthology_) Mr. Moonlight (except the intro) **By far, most underrated Beatles song:** Old Brown Shoe [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-beatle-songs/604897.md?page=2)