Greatest Beatles song

[lord bunberry]

My favourite will always be Here comes the sun, but it probably isn’t their greatest song. For me it’s All you need is love, because that’s really all we need. Peace out.

[patch1875]

Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

[BroxburnHibee]

Something

[Scouse Hibee]

I am the Walrus or Eleanor Rigby for me.

[hibbykeef]

A day in the life and While my guitar gently weeps,two classics but what a huge playlist to pick from.

[Smartie]

A day in the life is a masterpiece.

There was a great programme on the BBC I-player a while back about the making of Sergeant Pepper and the recording techniques they used (with Howard Goodall). I used to be very into my music and the geeky detail of stuff like that is right up my street.

[PeeJay]

For me it is "Ticket To Ride" - love the opening riff, the sound of the guitars, the drumming, the vocals/harmonies - and the fade out ... think it stands up with everything they did, even the really "clever" stuff

[Pretty Boy]

Helter Skelter. It's probably not their best in terms of melody or lyrics but it's just so raw, a departure from their usual sound and was a key influence on a whole new genre of music.

I'd also add While My Guitar Gently Weeps. George Harrison's masterpiece.

I could listen to the White Album forever and never get bored of it.

[The Modfather]

Back In The USSR is my favourite Beatles song. As for their best, probably I Want To Hold Your Hand simply because they really announced their arrival with that song. Although picking a single best song is near impossible.

[Hiber-nation]

Impossible to choose one. If I can split it between 62-66 and 67-70 and choose 2 from each period, I'll go for In My Life, Ticket To Ride, A Day In The Life and Hey Jude.

[.Sean.]

If I was to pick a top 5 right now

Day Tripper
Ticket to Ride
I Saw Her Standing There
She Loves You
Revolution

That could change by this afternoon though 😂

Ps The version of Yer Blues on the Stones rock n roll circus came on in the car this morning. Class

[hibs#1]

Eight days a week.

[Peevemor]

Don't know about the best song, but the most debated opening chord goes to Hard Day's Night.

https://www.beatlesbible.com/features/hard-days-night-chord/

[Sudds_1]

Don't know about the best song, but the most debated opening chord goes to Hard Day's Night.

https://www.beatlesbible.com/features/hard-days-night-chord/

I could probably list 2 dozen and still not plump for a favourite. Mind you, one of my favourite "shorties" is polythene pam....just love the thick liverpool accents 😃😃

[Eaststand]

They had so many great songs, Eleanor Rigby was simply brilliant.

GGTTH

[Peevemor]

I think the majority of people take them for granted because they've always been there (or for the last 50+ years in any case). The film "Yesterday" made me think again about how good their stuff was as it makes you think what it'd be like to present the songs for the first time in the present day.

[Hermit Crab]

I Am The Walrus. Love the outro to that song. The video is pure acid stuff as well.

Special mention to A Day In The Life too as thats a brilliant song

[Smartie]

I could probably list 2 dozen and still not plump for a favourite. Mind you, one of my favourite "shorties" is polythene pam....just love the thick liverpool accents 😃😃

I love Abbey Road as well. There are loads of mad wee quick songs on that which blend into each other and are amazing. It's hard to dissect stuff out of that album and have it stand alone but all together it is just beautiful.

The end of "side one" as I want you (she's so heavy) builds up and then just cuts out is phenomenal. Really dark, then the next side starting with Here Comes the Sun.

Magic.

[Killiehibbie]

I Am The Walrus or maybe Come Together.

[GlesgaeHibby]

So many too choose from, but for me it has to be 'In my Life'.

[NORTHERNHIBBY]

Strawberry Fields.

[JeMeSouviens]

Blackbird, partly because I spent ages learning to play it.

[Onceinawhile]

Eight days a week.

This for me too.

[Babyshamble]

I want you (shes so heavy)

[WeeRussell]

For someone who claims to not be a big fan of the Beatles, I find myself with a few contenders :greengrin

Obla-di Obla-da
Ticket to Ride
We can work it out
Come Together
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Strawberry Fields Forever

Possibly in something like that order

Still overrated mind :wink:

[lapsedhibee]

For someone who claims to not be a big fan of the Beatles, I find myself with a few contenders :greengrin

Obla-di Obla-da
Ticket to Ride
We can work it out
Come Together
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Strawberry Fields Forever

Possibly in something like that order

Still overrated mind :wink:

Had managed to completely wipe that from my mind. :grr:

[Mibbes Aye]

For me it is "Ticket To Ride" - love the opening riff, the sound of the guitars, the drumming, the vocals/harmonies - and the fade out ... think it stands up with everything they did, even the really "clever" stuff

I was going to say that. For me that mid-period Beatles stuff is their best, notwithstanding the groundbreaking late stuff. The guitars are perfect and the drumming is probably the best Ringo conjured up.

One other song I would throw in the ring is “If I Fell”. The melodic progressions are to die for.

Final contribution would be the cello in the second verse(?) of ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ that plugs away on some sort of minor descant and gradually mutates into a major key and ends on a ‘tierce de Picardie’.

[heretoday]

A Day in the Life

[PeeJay]

I was going to say that. For me that mid-period Beatles stuff is their best, notwithstanding the groundbreaking late stuff. The guitars are perfect and the drumming is probably the best Ringo conjured up.

One other song I would throw in the ring is “If I Fell”. The melodic progressions are to die for.

Final contribution would be the cello in the second verse(?) of ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ that plugs away on some sort of minor descant and gradually mutates into a major key and ends on a ‘tierce de Picardie’.

Good suggestions, Paul would probably say, I told Ringo what to play on Ticket to Ride :greengrin

Here's one of the neat little websites about the Beatles out there and a linked reference to Ticket to Ride - interesting how people hear it and see it in different ways: https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/ticket-to-ride/

There are of course so many GOOD songs that could also be chosen - Penny Lane (the wonderful bass line alone?) ...

The site also has a link to a Channel Four musing on Beatle music, quite well done too ...
(https://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/beatles-films-television-radio/the-beatles-a-musical-appreciation-and-analysis/)https://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/beatles-films-television-radio/the-beatles-a-
musical-appreciation-and-analysis/

[Dan Sarf]

I was going to say that. For me that mid-period Beatles stuff is their best, notwithstanding the groundbreaking late stuff. The guitars are perfect and the drumming is probably the best Ringo conjured up.

One other song I would throw in the ring is “If I Fell”. The melodic progressions are to die for.

Final contribution would be the cello in the second verse(?) of ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ that plugs away on some sort of minor descant and gradually mutates into a major key and ends on a ‘tierce de Picardie’.


Is Tierce a Hibby?

I'm hoping he'll know somewhere to watch the Cup game in Picardie...

[Tyler Durden]

I’d be here all day naming favourite Beatles songs and it would probably change every day. But a few that haven’t been mentioned yet.

Rain
Think for yourself
Yes it is

[heretoday]

There was The Beatles and then there was everyone else.

Tom Petty said that.

[lord bunberry]

I was just about to add my opinion when I saw that I actually started this thread. The worrying thing is that I completely disagree with the op. Strawberry Fields has always been my favourite Beatles song.

[Mibbes Aye]

Is Tierce a Hibby?

I'm hoping he'll know somewhere to watch the Cup game in Picardie...

Played twice under McLeish in the promotion season. Formed part of a formidable midfield with Fabrice Henry, Klaus Dietrich and Earl Jean at the spear of the diamond.

Those were the days my friend.

A ‘tierce de Picardie’ for those not classically trained, is where a piece of music performs in a minor key then resolves at the very end to a major key. The best example I can think of is the end of the Christmas carol “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” (separate thread needed for where the comma goes in the carol title, it is a contentious debate). It is essentially in a minor key but the last line resolves to a major key. Hard to describe but makes sense when you hear it.

I am not actually convinced the cello part in Strawberry Fields verse two resolves from the minor to the major, so am open to some of our classical colleagues commenting - Peevemor or Caversham Green perhaps? It feels like it does but I’m not sure. I could download the score I guess but it feels like it shifts though maybe it just from one major key to another?

[Bangkok Hibby]

Help
Eight days a week
I am the walrus
The long and winding road

Actually forget it. The greatest most groundbreaking band ever, with the best producer of the time. They're all great songs...well, maybe forget "yellow submarine" 😂😂😂😂

[pontius pilate]

For me it's in my life just listening to the words is like a story of my life even when they sing about that special someone. However it's really hard to choose like everyone else has said the back catalogue is vast with only a few exceptions

[heretoday]

I was voting for A Day in the Life but then started listening to Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds.

Quite the conundrum.

The chemistry that existed for that short and precious time was as important to our country as Beethoven or Mozart was for Germany.

The late Tom Petty said that there was The Beatles - and then there was everyone else.

They really were extraordinary - for a while.

[PeeJay]

I was voting for A Day in the Life but then started listening to Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds.

Quite the conundrum.

The chemistry that existed for that short and precious time was as important to our country as Beethoven or Mozart was for Germany.

The late Tom Petty said that there was The Beatles - and then there was everyone else.

They really were extraordinary - for a while.


Like Mr Hitler - Mozart was Austrian, they won't like you suggesting he was German, they really won't - the other guy they don't mind ...:greengrin

[O'Rourke3]

Nowhere man or the second side of Abbey Road. That said there's a bawhair between them and about 100 others

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[J-C]

So many to choose from but here goes, in no particular order.

For No One
Getting Better
Blackbird
Nowhere Man
Baby's in Black
Don't Let Me Down
The Night Before

[wpj]

Just listened to the White Album again, so good, "Mother Nature's Son" but it all makes total sense neven though they all were moving in different directions they managed to still blend. For me, The Band meant more and I am a total Stones fan but the White Album is genius.

[Mibbes Aye]

Just listened to the White Album again, so good, "Mother Nature's Son" but it all makes total sense neven though they all were moving in different directions they managed to still blend. For me, The Band meant more and I am a total Stones fan but the White Album is genius.

I thought this would be coming, and maybe you have started it - a greatest Stones song thread :greengrin

In a way, that feels almost harder than a greatest Beatles song.

[Mibbes Aye]

I thought this would be coming, and maybe you have started it - a greatest Stones song thread :greengrin

In a way, that feels almost harder than a greatest Beatles song.

And then after that, can we do Led Zeppelin, The Doors and Bob Dylan? :greengrin

[Tyler Durden]

I thought this would be coming, and maybe you have started it - a greatest Stones song thread :greengrin

In a way, that feels almost harder than a greatest Beatles song.

Keep coming back to Moonlight Mile recently....just a great song in the winter when it’s cold and you’re driving, perfection.

[Smartie]

I thought this would be coming, and maybe you have started it - a greatest Stones song thread :greengrin

In a way, that feels almost harder than a greatest Beatles song.

Nah, that one's easy.

Gimme Shelter by a country mile.

[hibsbollah]

A Day in the Life

Correct answer.

[wpj]

I thought this would be coming, and maybe you have started it - a greatest Stones song thread :greengrin

In a way, that feels almost harder than a greatest Beatles song.

Hmmm I can see how this looks. Stones? Love them and have several favourites but maybe for another thread? Dylan Doors, The Band so much rich musical history. The Byrds have always been undervalued to me, such a good band anyways, back to The Beatles, still The White Album for me

[IWasThere2016]

So many but I prefer the Rolling Stones personally..

[Hiber-nation]

Keep coming back to Moonlight Mile recently....just a great song in the winter when it’s cold and you’re driving, perfection.

:agree:

I think that 4 out of my top 5 Stones songs would be slow ones. If anyone wants to start a thread....:greengrin

[Jim44]

I love every one of their songs but my favourite is ‘I Should Have Known Better’ from a Hard Day’s Night, my favourite Beatles album.

[MagicSwirlingShip]

Dear Prudence is my personal favourite. Beautiful song