List three of your favorite Beatles songs...

[Ellybelly909]

1) Hey Jude

2) If I Fell

3) Baby You're a Rich Man

and 50 others tied for fourth....

 

[Essex Boy]

1 All My Loving;
2 Here There and Everywhere;
3 Norwegian Wood.
Ask me again next week and Nos. 2 & 3 might be different but All My Loving is permanently at No. 1.

 

[unloadonme]

Whichever three are the shortest.

 

[Ellybelly909]

Bender--nice selection with She's Leaving home! Love the string orchestra!

 

[Ellybelly909]

Whichever three are the shortest.

Those would be 1) Her Majesty 2) Dig It 3)Mean Mr. Mustard

(I realize you were being sarcastic, or was it sardonic?)

 

[jensu846]

Revolution
Hey Jude
Yesterday

 

[HoodedRat]

Whichever three are the shortest.

Same here ... I utterly loath The Beatles.

 

[peeonme]

Revolution
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Hey Jude

 

[maxpowr9]

When I'm sixty-four
Hello, Goodbye
The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill

 

[pat grimshaw]

Same here ... I utterly loath The Beatles.

I became disenchanted when the penny finally dropped and I realised that all the 'profound magical' stuff they did back in the 60s was really two personalities battling against each other.

There was the sickly, sentimental McCartney stuff with fey lyrics.

And there was the satiric, self-obsessed, hating stuff from Lennon which is very influenced by Peter Sellers and lots of other anti-establishment North England people whose names have been lost to popular history (Alan Owun?, Philip Larkin?, Peter Nichols?).


Despite all that I do like 'Eleanor Rigby'— but that may be because the bones of the original song were enveloped and richened by Sir George Martin who acknowledged the influence of Antonin Dvorak and Bernard Herrman's score for Psycho.

This guy says Unusually, the song is in modern Dorian mode, rather than the normal major/minor modes of popular music.

It remains one of The Beatles' most recognizable and unique songs, with an eight-person string section working from a score by George Martin and its striking lyrics about the loneliness of old age, continuing the transformation of The Beatles started in Rubber Soul from a mainly pop-oriented act to a more serious and experimental studio band.

 

[bort138]

1. Octopus's Garden
2. Octopus's Garden
3. Octopus's Garden

 

[HoodedRat]

Despite all that I do like 'Eleanor Rigby'
This guy says Unusually, the song is in modern Dorian mode, rather than the normal major/minor modes of popular music.

Less common than straight Ionian (major) and Aeolian (minor) ... but not particularly rare.
Almost all of Pink Floyds popular stuff is in (present -day) Dorian (minor key with a major 6th) ... most of Dark Side, almost all of Wish You Here, The Wall, etc, etc ... not that it makes any difference to Dave gilmour (one of my fave guitarists) ... he's so pentatonic that he never plays 6ths anyway.

The string arrangement on Eleanor Rigby is great ... without it you'd pretty much be left with a droning E minor and the odd C major.

 

[ronboy]

In high school, one of my best friends was our Senior Class President.
He was also a HUGE Beetles fan.

Consequently, our Senior Class song was "The Long and Winding Road"
and our Senior Ball theme was "Yesterday."

To round out my personal top three, I would have to say it's "Penny Lane."

 

[smokeshadow]

Top 3 Beatles songs:

1) Hey Jude
2) Eleanore Rigby
3) Yesterday

then the rest of their catalog in whatever order you wish

 

[nycguydowntown]

Same here ... I utterly loath The Beatles.

that;s cool but know that groups like Pink Floyd (although primarily a blues based group) were influenced by the possibilities of rock music when they heard what the Beatles were doing during their experimental later period--lot's of groups were--at least from what I have read.

 

[gingentleman]

Give me Mick and the boys any old day. Never really dug the Beatles, but of their ouvre, Eleanor Rigby is the only one I have found tolerable.

 

[jft245]

Eleanore Rigby
Rocky Raccoon
Maxwells Silver Hammer

 

[eastofeden]

Yesterday
Eleanor Rigby
Come Together

 

[G-Lexington]

I've got stunted musical taste, which means I actually enjoy music by boy bands such as the Beatles. Top three are Rain, I Don't Want to Spoil the Party and Norwegian Wood. Bottom three are The Long and Winding Road, Girl and Mr Moonlight.

Lex

 

[ibill1]

1. With a little help from my friends.
2. Getting better all the time.
3. While my guitar gently weeps.