What Beatles Song Are You Today?
posted by on June 8 at 11:42 AM
I’ve long believed that one’s list of top 10 Beatles songs could effectively reveal much about one’s personality. The fact that the Beatles catalog encompasses so many styles and evokes so many emotions makes it a sort of sonic Rorschach Test. Hell, you might even be able to pick your soul mate by comparing his/her favorite tracks from the Liverpool quartet’s 200+ treasure trove to your own.
You could probably achieve similar insights by asking folks for their top 10 Rolling Stones songs or top 10s from any other band with a vast supply of stylistically diverse material. But, taking into account those of all rock/funk/soul bands of the past 50 years or so, the Beatles songbook perhaps conveys the most universal significance to the most people.
I will now list in no particular order my 10 favorite Beatles tracks as of June 2006. Feel free to critique and to contribute your own top 10s (with commentary, if you wish). Let the amateur psychoanalysis and sociological theorizing (and match-making) begin!
01 Tomorrow Never Knows
02 She Said She Said
03 I Am the Walrus
04 It’s All Too Much
05 Paperback Writer
06 Rain
07 Ticket to Ride
08 Strawberry Fields Forever
09 Dear Prudence
10 Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except for Me and Monkey
It's All Too Much--good insider choice.
1. A Day in the Life
2. Helter Skelter
3. Long Long Long
4. Dear Prudence
5. Across the Universe
6. I Want You (She's So Heavy)
7. It's All Too Much
8. Happiness is a Warm Gun
9. Carry That Weight
10. I've Just Seen A Face
In no order:
Tomorrow Never Knows
A Day in the Life
Happiness is a Warm Gun
Blackbird
You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
Julia
Hey Bulldog
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Two of Us
Across the Universe
the 2nd top 10, in no order:
Yesterday
Come Together
Rocky Raccoon
Revolution 1
Because
Eleanor Rigby
Norwegian Wood (This Bird has Flown)
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
The End
Not in order and subject to change:
I'm Only Sleeping
Things We Said Today
Cry Baby Cry
Hey Bulldog
Tomorrow Never Knows
Rain
I Will
Revolution
Two of Us
You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
Also, without a doubt, the worst Beatles song:
The Long and Winding Road
I tried to put them in order, but it's no easy task. I also tried to make a top 10 Least Favorite list, but all I could think of was Piggies.
My Top 10 Favorite Beatles songs:
1. Yer Blues
2. Her Majesty
3. Oh! Darling
4. Don’t Let Me Down
5. I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
6. In My Life
7. And Your Bird Can Sing
8. I’m So Tired
9. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
10. Sexy Sadie
There was a time when I, too, thought that the Long and Winding Road was a horrible song, but I have since learned the errors of my ways. Piggies, however, will always suck.
So I notice you're very, uh, John-heavy.
That's a difficult list to make without thinking about it for quite a while... so I defer. But my list would have way more Paul.
But this morning it was all "Birthday" and White Album side 2.
So I notice you're very, uh, John-heavy.
As are all right-thinking people.
I love me some Paul, too, but John (and occasionally George) pushes my psychedelic buttons harder. I will, however, give it up to Paul for his ill bass vibrations on "Tomorrow Never Knows." Dude's a wicked bassist, no doubt, but he poured on the syrup a bit too heavily with the songwriting for my palate.
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