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In this thread I rank my favorite Beatles songs: 204-1. (5 Viewers)

krista4 said:
With the Beatles:
All My Loving

Rubber Soul:
In My Life

Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band:
A Day In The Life*

Abbey Road:
Here Comes The Sun

Let It Be:
Across The Universe*
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My top five list of remaining songs I think Nipsey would be best at singing.  Looking forward to those double-tracked harmonies on All My Loving.   :)  

 
krista4 said:
28.  Two Of Us (Let It Be, 1970)
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I first heard this on the Kum Back bootleg.  Originally titled "On Our Way Back Home" and performed with a much faster tempo, as seen in the Let It Be film.  There were many attempts of this faster version during the Get Back sessions available on many bootlegs.     Here is one on YouTube along with Suzy Parker a song that was copyrighted but never released.  

I prefer the acoustic version but I like the rocker as well.

 
So, I share 7 top 25ers with our esteemed Krista.  I'm not sure how I feel about that.  I had "Something" at 26 also, so that's a thing.  Of course, I realize now, in a bit of Kristaesque second-guessing, that there was no possible scenario in which I can't have "And I Love Her" in my top 25.  I frankly have no idea what I was doing or thinking when I made my list to commit such an egregious oversight.  If I could do it over again, I'd boot "Drive My Car" out, but, that's what you get for doing it quick and dirty without a modicum of thought.  

 
Shaft41 said:
So, I share 7 top 25ers with our esteemed Krista.  I'm not sure how I feel about that.  I had "Something" at 26 also, so that's a thing.  Of course, I realize now, in a bit of Kristaesque second-guessing, that there was no possible scenario in which I can't have "And I Love Her" in my top 25.  I frankly have no idea what I was doing or thinking when I made my list to commit such an egregious oversight.  If I could do it over again, I'd boot "Drive My Car" out, but, that's what you get for doing it quick and dirty without a modicum of thought.  
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I feel the same way. I have 10 left of the list I sent in but if I REALLY put in the time, there are a few that I'd likely swap out. Of course, some of what I'd swap IN have already been ranked outside K4's top 25 so it may not make a lot of difference numbers-wise.  

As I said earlier, this thread has been great at pointing out great songs that aren't the mass-appeal "big hits" that pop to mind first.

 
krista4 said:
Update on #1 guesses, which covered 14 of my top 25:

  1. simey – Abbey Road medley
  2. Mister CIA – She Said She Said
  3. timschochet – Paperback Writer
  4. pecorino – Hey Jude
  5. Binky the Doormat – In My Life
  6. wikkidpissah – Taxman
  7. Dr. Octopus – Got To Get You Into My Life
  8. Nigel Tufnel – You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away
  9. Uruk-Hai – Ticket to Ride
  10. Dinsy Ejotuz – Let It Be
  11. Tom Hagen – Eleanor Rigby
  12. Spock – Rain
  13. Leroy Hoard – A Day in the Life
  14. rockaction  - I Want to Hold Your Hand
  15. Ted Lange as Your Bartender – In My Life
  16. shuke – Abbey Road medley
  17. Alex P Keaton – Something
  18. Getzlaf15 – With A Little Help From My Friends
  19. zamboni – While My Guitar Gently Weeps
  20. neal cassady – While My Guitar Gently Weeps
  21. Shaft41 – Hey Bulldog
  22. Ilov80s – Norwegian Wood
  23. Officer Pete Malloy – I Want to Hold Your Hand
  24. Godsbrother – Dear Prudence
  25. ManofSteelhead – Eleanor Rigby
  26. mike9289 – I’m Looking Through You
  27. heckmanm: Eleanor Rigby
  28. Atomic Punk – A Day in the Life
  29. [Mrs. Punk – In My Life]
  30. bananafish – Abbey Road medley
  31. bonzai – Abbey Road medley
  32. fatguy – Here Comes the Sun
  33. ScottNorwood- Yesterday
  34. Sebowski – I’m So Tired
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Did you not read her first post??!!

krista4 said:
The Process:

This is not a list of the Beatles songs I think are “best”; it is a rank order of which songs I like the most.   IMO A Day in the Life is the best Beatles song, but it is not my #1 favorite song.
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...and that's your spoon for your entire life.  And if you lose it you starve to death.  Unless somebody in your family wills you their spoon.  And they have spoon-millionaires in England.

 
Tired and moving slowly today.  Somebody else do something interesting in here for a while.  Maybe more cutlery chat.

 
This month's Beatle Wine Club:

The John: 2012 Il Poggione Brunello di Montalcino Riserva Vigna Paganelli. Face-slapping tannins & complexity.

The Paul:  2014 Chateau Doisy Daene L'Extravagant Sauternes. Shreddingly sweet but versatile. And don't you just want to hear Paul say "Doisy Daene" about 14 times?!

The George: 2008 Penfolds G3 Shiraz. Peppery & surprising with notes of fuzztone

The Ringo: 2016 Domaine Drouhin Oregon Chardonnay Arthur. Can play with anything. Peace.

 
wikkidpissah said:
This month's Beatle Wine Club:

The John: 2012 Il Poggione Brunello di Montalcino Riserva Vigna Paganelli. Face-slapping tannins & complexity.

The Paul:  2014 Chateau Doisy Daene L'Extravagant Sauternes. Shreddingly sweet but versatile. And don't you just want to hear Paul say "Doisy Daene" about 14 times?!

The George: 2008 Penfolds G3 Shiraz. Peppery & surprising with notes of fuzztone

The Ringo: 2016 Domaine Drouhin Oregon Chardonnay Arthur. Can play with anything. Peace.
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ahhh the french

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFevH5vP32s

 
wikkidpissah said:
This month's Beatle Wine Club:

The John: 2012 Il Poggione Brunello di Montalcino Riserva Vigna Paganelli. Face-slapping tannins & complexity.

The Paul:  2014 Chateau Doisy Daene L'Extravagant Sauternes. Shreddingly sweet but versatile. And don't you just want to hear Paul say "Doisy Daene" about 14 times?!

The George: 2008 Penfolds G3 Shiraz. Peppery & surprising with notes of fuzztone

The Ringo: 2016 Domaine Drouhin Oregon Chardonnay Arthur. Can play with anything. Peace.
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Brilliant.

And I’d drink any of these other than the Sauternes.  (Paul guys:  “You just hate Paul! :cry: “)

 
I always had an irrational hatred for the Monkees growing up.  My brother and sister loved them, even well into the 90's, but I couldn't stand them.  

 
25.  Helter Skelter (White Album, 1968)

Beatles version:  Spotify  YouTube

@wikkidpissah, do you want to comment on this one, since (1) it's in your top three, and (2) you're a better writer than the rest of us combined?  If not (and probably also if so), I'll come back in and do a write-up later.

Mr. krista:  "Everything about it is great.  Everybody calls it proto-heavy-hetal, but there were heavy bands already playing (Blue Cheer, etc.), but there are whole bands that wouldn’t exist without that.  Hüsker Dü owes a huge debt to how terrifyingly noisy that was.  There are thousands of noisy, heavy bands that can just point their origin story to that song.  I think Paul McCartney tried to out-Who the Who, and it turns out they were better than that.  And they were ####ed up as a band, so it’s a chaotic recording.  It’s just a ####### mint jam from a mint band."

Suggested cover:  This seems like a bad idea.

 
krista4 said:
25.  Helter Skelter (White Album, 1968)

Beatles version:  Spotify  YouTube

@wikkidpissah, do you want to comment on this one, since (1) it's in your top three, and (2) you're a better writer than the rest of us combined?  If not (and probably also if so), I'll come back in and do a write-up later.

Mr. krista:  "Everything about it is great.  Everybody calls it proto-heavy-hetal, but there were heavy bands already playing (Blue Cheer, etc.), but there are whole bands that wouldn’t exist without that.  Hüsker Dü owes a huge debt to how terrifyingly noisy that was.  There are thousands of noisy, heavy bands that can just point their origin story to that song.  I think Paul McCartney tried to out-Who the Who, and it turns out they were better than that.  And they were ####ed up as a band, so it’s a chaotic recording.  It’s just a ####### mint jam from a mint band."

Suggested cover:  This seems like a bad idea.
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Here you go. This is what the American reactionary hippie theme of race revolution is based on - a bad carny ride in Blackpool.

ETA: Soooo British - a dry water slide by the seaside. You gave your pence & got a burlap sack so your sweaty ### didn't stick to it.

 
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krista4 said:
Tired and moving slowly today.  Somebody else do something interesting in here for a while.  Maybe more cutlery chat.
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I don't know why this is such an amazing thread, but I think part of it is the personality that you have conveyed here over the years which shines through in both humor and serious when necessary.  The topic is one that invites debate because whatever you call their top 50 songs won't match other people and no one is wrong because of the massive amount of greatness they had.  It's fun, the world sucks generally speaking right now, and there are probably other reasons.

Overall, this is without question a top FFA thread.  All time.  And it's not even done yet.  Sure, I don't agree with what you've done to some songs, but that is the point.  This isn't you claiming to be the definitive ranker of Beatles' lore, but just sharing your opinion, mixed with some musical fact and backbone that makes it hard to disagree with you.  Had you just said, Let It Be isn't a top song because the first time I heard it I had bad gas and it always reminds me of that - then you deserve mockery.

No one else is as interesting within this thread.  I wasn't kidding at the beginning that it made me think I really should do a Billy Joel one mainly because I can probably name every song in album order from start to finish off the top of my head so the knowledge base is there.  But Billy isn't a 10th as important as the Beatles, you've set a bar so high here that any similar thread is likely going to suffer as a result, and the amount of work you have put into this (which shows, and if you are faking it, even better) just might be a slight too much for me to want to undertake.  The President thread thing I did was enough work to last a lifetime on internet message board discussion of no real consequence in the real world bucket of things you measure a life by.

Your top 25 isn't going to match mine so much.  That has made this more entertaining.  Carry on.  Take your time.  The ride has been a blast. 

 
Yankee23Fan said:
I don't know why this is such an amazing thread, but I think part of it is the personality that you have conveyed here over the years which shines through in both humor and serious when necessary.  The topic is one that invites debate because whatever you call their top 50 songs won't match other people and no one is wrong because of the massive amount of greatness they had.  It's fun, the world sucks generally speaking right now, and there are probably other reasons.

Overall, this is without question a top FFA thread.  All time.  And it's not even done yet.  Sure, I don't agree with what you've done to some songs, but that is the point.  This isn't you claiming to be the definitive ranker of Beatles' lore, but just sharing your opinion, mixed with some musical fact and backbone that makes it hard to disagree with you.  Had you just said, Let It Be isn't a top song because the first time I heard it I had bad gas and it always reminds me of that - then you deserve mockery.

No one else is as interesting within this thread.  I wasn't kidding at the beginning that it made me think I really should do a Billy Joel one mainly because I can probably name every song in album order from start to finish off the top of my head so the knowledge base is there.  But Billy isn't a 10th as important as the Beatles, you've set a bar so high here that any similar thread is likely going to suffer as a result, and the amount of work you have put into this (which shows, and if you are faking it, even better) just might be a slight too much for me to want to undertake.  The President thread thing I did was enough work to last a lifetime on internet message board discussion of no real consequence in the real world bucket of things you measure a life by.

Your top 25 isn't going to match mine so much.  That has made this more entertaining.  Carry on.  Take your time.  The ride has been a blast. 
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Such a lovely post; it means a lot to me.  Thank you.

With only 25 to go, I feel at a point of exhaustion.  I've used up all the adjectives I know, and 87% of the adverbs.  We're into the songs I love the most, though, so I want to give them proper attention.  Speaking of which, I'd better go give Helter Skelter a real write-up.   :)  

 
krista4 said:
25.  Helter Skelter (White Album, 1968)

Beatles version:  Spotify  YouTube

@wikkidpissah, do you want to comment on this one, since (1) it's in your top three, and (2) you're a better writer than the rest of us combined?  If not (and probably also if so), I'll come back in and do a write-up later.

Mr. krista:  "Everything about it is great.  Everybody calls it proto-heavy-hetal, but there were heavy bands already playing (Blue Cheer, etc.), but there are whole bands that wouldn’t exist without that.  Hüsker Dü owes a huge debt to how terrifyingly noisy that was.  There are thousands of noisy, heavy bands that can just point their origin story to that song.  I think Paul McCartney tried to out-Who the Who, and it turns out they were better than that.  And they were ####ed up as a band, so it’s a chaotic recording.  It’s just a ####### mint jam from a mint band."

Suggested cover:  This seems like a bad idea.
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It's hard to comprehend the musical genius of certain groups even for those of use that play and write (no matter the level).  When you look at this and know that part of the entire reason for the song is Paul getting annoyed that people said he could only write ballads so he figured, watch this..... I mean, c'mon.  It's almost not fair.  It's not at all one of my favorite Beatle's songs but it's a massively important one.  

I just want to be that cool for once.  You know, have a day where I hear someone say, look at that Yankee23fan, all he does is practice law, and then I get all angry and just, I don't know, open a BBQ place that becomes the cornerstone of Northeast BBQ for the next 50 years.  Yeah, that's Paul.  And me.  Practically twins.

 
krista4 said:
25.  Helter Skelter (White Album, 1968)

Beatles version:  Spotify  YouTube

@wikkidpissah, do you want to comment on this one, since (1) it's in your top three, and (2) you're a better writer than the rest of us combined?  If not (and probably also if so), I'll come back in and do a write-up later.

Mr. krista:  "Everything about it is great.  Everybody calls it proto-heavy-hetal, but there were heavy bands already playing (Blue Cheer, etc.), but there are whole bands that wouldn’t exist without that.  Hüsker Dü owes a huge debt to how terrifyingly noisy that was.  There are thousands of noisy, heavy bands that can just point their origin story to that song.  I think Paul McCartney tried to out-Who the Who, and it turns out they were better than that.  And they were ####ed up as a band, so it’s a chaotic recording.  It’s just a ####### mint jam from a mint band."

Suggested cover:  This seems like a bad idea.
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To be honest, this is my favorite Beatle song. For all you headbangers who know how glorious it is when music hits that spot where rage turns into triumph, imagine the first time that spot was ever hit by music and you have Helter Skelter. The fact that every scintilla of noise in this thing is as musical and and tactile and sensible to me as Chopin makes it indeed a triumph. I also actually knew the Helter Skelter "ride" in Blackpool from my Irish summers and the first stanza...

When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide
Where I stop and I turn and I go for a ride
Till I get to the bottom and I see you again

....of the song actually meant something to me, because i know the buzz of cheap joy, as well as the smells of rancid chip grease and holiday coach buttsweat, that came with a hazy, July day on a Lancashire boardwalk. nufced.

 
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If you haven't read the book Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry, I can't recommend it enough. Beyond being the definitive story of the Manson murders and trial, it dedicates a fair amount of space to Charlie's fascination with the Beatles. 

 
wikkidpissah said:
To be honest, this is my favorite Beatle song. For all you headbangers who know how glorious it is when music hits that spot where rage turns into triumph, imagine the first time that spot was ever hit by music and you have Helter Skelter. The fact that every scintilla of noise in this thing is as musical and and tactile and sensible to me as Chopin makes it indeed a triumph. I also actually knew the Helter Skelter "ride" in Blackpool from my Irish summers and the first stanza...

When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide
Where I stop and I turn and I go for a ride
Till I get to the bottom and I see you again

....of the song actually meant something to me, because i know the buzz of cheap joy, as well as the smells of rancid chip grease and holiday coach buttsweat, that came with a hazy, July day on a Lancashire boardwalk. nufced.
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This line is actually from John's first attempt at the third verse of "Come Together."  

 
krista4 said:
25.  Helter Skelter (White Album, 1968)

Beatles version:  Spotify  YouTube

@wikkidpissah, do you want to comment on this one, since (1) it's in your top three, and (2) you're a better writer than the rest of us combined?  If not (and probably also if so), I'll come back in and do a write-up later.

Mr. krista:  "Everything about it is great.  Everybody calls it proto-heavy-hetal, but there were heavy bands already playing (Blue Cheer, etc.), but there are whole bands that wouldn’t exist without that.  Hüsker Dü owes a huge debt to how terrifyingly noisy that was.  There are thousands of noisy, heavy bands that can just point their origin story to that song.  I think Paul McCartney tried to out-Who the Who, and it turns out they were better than that.  And they were ####ed up as a band, so it’s a chaotic recording.  It’s just a ####### mint jam from a mint band."

Suggested cover:  This seems like a bad idea.
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Top 25 for me. 

And, it made for an apt soundtrack while making my list:

When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of my list
Where I stop and I read and I see what I missed
Till I get to the bottom and I start it again

Do, don't you want me to rank you
I'm counting down fast and I may have to yank you
Tell me, tell me, tell me, come on, why you the answer? 
Well, you may be a winner but see my eraser 

Helter skelter, helter skelter
Helter skelter

Will you, won't you want me to pick you
I'm counting down fast and may have to kick you
Tell me, tell me, tell me the answer
You may be a winner but meet my eraser 

Look out
Helter skelter, helter skelter
Helter skelter
Look out, 'cause here it comes

When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of my list
And I stop and I read and I see what I missed
And I get to the bottom and I start it again, yeah, yeah

Well do you, don't you want me to list you
I'm counting down fast and I may have dissed you
Tell me, tell me, tell me your answer
You may be a winner but eat my eraser! 

Look out
Helter skelter, helter skelter
Helter skelter

Look out, helter skelter
She's counting down fast
Yes, she is
Yes, she is
Counting down fast
 

 
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