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Which song by The Beatles is the best?

It`s like having to pick one of my sons as "my favourite" ...

gruesome question this one :)

My top 3 (will probably look different next month)
#1:In My Life
#2:While My Guitar Gently Weeps
#3:Rain
 
'Ticket to ride' is a fav that springs to mind.
'While my Guitar gently weeps' was a fav until I heard Jeff Healey (RIP man!) cover it and just loved his version better...sorry to all those that believe a beatles cover couldn't possibly be better than the original.
Otherwise there's many a good track that could be here instead. :yes:
 
Yeah :) AND "if I needed someone" ... <- it is SOOO far away from Something or While my guitar...... as it is possible to get.. it`s incredible that George wrote such a sad song and then write amazing classics as the other two? (IMHO ofcoz) :)

Njord Noatun said:
I thought it was an almost universally accepted fact that the worst Beatles song ever was Revolution 9. :scratch2: :D

I don't think I ever managed to listen to it all the way through.
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Having been a fan since they appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show (Feb. '64), I'd have to say I like their older stuff (pre-'67) better.

My favorites (in no particular order):
1. Norwegian Wood
2. Paperback Writer
3. We Can Work It Out
4. And I Love Her
5. If I Fell

My least favorite:
1. Helter Skelter
2. Revolution #9
3. Why Don't We Do It In the Road
4. Old Brown Shoe
5. Dig It
 
Man, you guys are tough on "Old Brown Shoe". I love that song! Only one I have to get up and skip over is Revolution 9.
 
Sorry

I love Revolution #9 and agree with Ian McDonald that its a modern avant garde, musique conrete masterpiece. Scares the **** out of me too, ever since I was 13, listening to it backwards.

Some of my favorites are:
Rain
Day in the Life
In My Life
Money (not their song but they kill it)
She Said She Said

I love it all and can't pick a favorite, but I think Lennon's best work is my favorite.
 
Modern avant garde space filler if you ask me.:boring:

Never cared for Mr Moonlight or What Goes On either. You Know My Name strikes me as a joke.

Too many favorites to list, but I will name Yellow Submarine. Not that its their best song, but I liked it as a toddler and thus its the only Beatles song I liked when the Beatles actually existed/were together, although I had not the foggiest notion of who they were until a few years later. My mother even bought me one of those Corgi Yellow Sub toys at Macy's for a buck. Its now worth around $200 but I left it in a sandbox at a playground.:stupid:
 
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"---edited version. (LP reference here): Take the "music hall" version from Side One, then, just as they're singing "Billlllly Sheeeears" punch in the "hup, two, three" intro from Side Two...thus adding the "heavy metal" version. Voila! 4:12 and always sounded great on the radio.
 
My earliest memory of being aware of an "album" was Beatles '65. My aunt played it when we visited once- I was 3- and she says I so obviously liked it so much she gave it to me.

It introduced me to my first favorite Beatles song- "I'm a Loser." Love that country shuffle.

I had several minor favorites until I saw an older brother of my friend with a Beatles LP that I had never seen. He told me I wouldn't like it. It was Revolver. It's still my favorite Beatles album.

New favorite song: "Tomorrow Never Knows." Seriously, I didn't know what it meant when I was eight, but it was my favorite, hands down.

I filled in my collection gradually- it was hard to do in those days, I had to rake the leaves and put away dishes to buy music- until I turned 14, when I lied about my age and got a job at a crummy restaurant. Then I could go ahead and buy the rest of the beatles albums. I remember being really knocked out by the "Big Medley" on Abbey Road- absolutely loved that part of the album, it got all nice and scratched from me plunking the tonearm down at the beginning of "You Never Give Me your money." I loved the fact the beatles returned to the song later in the medley. So, that was beatle favorite number three.

But then I got Magical Mystery tour and it was packed with songs that are still favorites. "Penny Lane" and "I am the Walrus" have both been my faves at different times.

I could go on and on, I'll spare you. The Single most favorite of all time:

Strawberry Fields Forever. Nothing else comes close. The words, the vocal delivery, the melody, the instruments, the clever way it was all knitted together by George Martin. If I wanted aliens to understand what the big deal was about these Beatles, I'd hand them a copy of that song. Yes.
 
Hifirob2 said:
I've always loved "Something".

I heard "Distractions" (maybe from their 1989 release of "Flowers in the Dirt") this past sunday on the radio - was blown away!!!! Is this really a Beatles song that wasn't released until 1989?

Rob
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It's a Paul solo effort.
 
It's hard to pick a best Beatles tune....sentimental fav's are "What your doing" and "Piggy's..."....and.....and.....




Bill
 
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