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The Beatles: My Top 25 |
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jamesbaldwin 
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 Topic: The Beatles: My Top 25Posted: June 09 2020 at 11:26 |
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This is my Top 25.
9,5/10 1) A Day in the Life (John e Paul) 9,5/10 --------------------------------------------------------- 9,5 2) I’m the Walrus (John) 9,5 --------------------------------------------------------- 9+ 3) Strawberry Fields Forever (John) 9+ 4) While My Guitar Gently Weeps (George)9+ 5) Let it Be (Paul, LP version! ) 9+ --------------------------------------------------------- 9 6) I Want You – She’s So Heavy (John) 9 7) Being For the Benefit (John) 9 -------------------------------------------------------- 8,5/9 8) Happiness Is A Warm Gun (John) 8,5/9 9) Golden Slumbers/Carry That Way/The End (Paul) 8,5/9 10) Yesterday (Paul) 8,5/9 11) Eleanor Rigby (Paul + John) 8,5/9 -------------------------------------------------------- 8,5 12) Come Together (John) 8,5 13) Penny Lane (Paul) 8,5 14) Revolution n. 9 (John) 8,5 15) You Never Give Me Your Money (Paul)8,5 16) The Fool on the Hill (Paul) 8,5 17) Yer Blues (John) 8,5 18) Helter Skelter (Paul) 8,5 19) And I Love Her (Paul + John) 8,5 20) Girl (John) 8,5 21) Ticket To Ride (John + Paul) 8,5 22) Don’t Let Me Down (John) 8,5 -------------------------------------------------------- 8+ 23) Tomorrow Never Knows (John) 8+ 24) Oh Darling (Paul) 8+ 25)Within You, Without You (George) 8+ What do you think about it? From my Top 25 would you like to choose your 5 favorite songs and put them in order from numer 1 to 5? No. 1: 10 points No. 2: 7 points No. 3: 5 points No. 4: 3 points No. 5: 2 points Edited by jamesbaldwin - June 09 2020 at 11:27 |
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Posted: June 09 2020 at 13:24 |
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By and large a good list; we agree on some of their best and some are different (no. 1 of those I miss is probably I'm Only Sleeping; I'd also have more George on the list, but not Within You, Without You, and more Rubber Soul, but not Girl)! OK, to the task: 1 Tomorrow Never Knows 2 I Am The Walrus 3 Let It Be 4 While My Guitar Gently Weeps 5 A Day In The Life So out of these I choose four of your Top 5; in a free Beatles list I'd probably have these in the Top 8-10. Edited by Lewian - June 09 2020 at 13:25 |
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Posted: June 09 2020 at 14:12 |
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1. I am the Walrus.. I blame half my brain cell loss on this song alone.. the other half on Floyd albums.. 2. I Want to Tell You - one of George's finest.. and one of those songs that even when pissed at the world... if I hear it.. man I get a stupid smile of my face. 3. Eleanor Rigby - words fail me.. but one of the those songs that are like Oxygen man. 4. A Day in the Life - no words needed 5. Revolution 9. Was my.. suspect most people introduction to the avant garde side of life.. in particular musique concrete.. and even after all these years and hearing so much of it.. as one might expect with the Beatles and their never to be touched ear for melody.. none approach it. Though I love what Battiato did with it in the late 70's
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Posted: June 09 2020 at 14:31 |
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1 A Day In the Life 2 Strawberry Fields Forever 3 Eleanor Rigby 4 Something 5 Penny Lane 6 Hey Jude 7 Yesterday 8 I Am the Walrus 9 Come Together 10 For No One 11 In My Life 12 Taxman 13 We Can Work It Out 14 Yellow Submarine 15 Tomorrow Never Knows 16 Revolution 9 (!) 17 Things We Said Today 18 And I Love Her 19 Revolution (single version) 20 She Said She Said 21 Norwegian Wood 22 I Want You (She's So Heavy) 23 Long Long Long 24 Good Day Sunshine 25 Blackbird Just missing out (in chronologic order) She Loves You Can't Buy Me Love Yes It Is Help! You've Got To Hide Your Love Away Day Tripper You Won't See Me The Word Michelle Here There And Everywhere Getting Better Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite The Fool On the Hill Dear Prudence Happiness Is A Warm Gun I'm So Tired Julia
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Posted: June 20 2020 at 13:42 |
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1. Strawberry Fields Forever
2. Tomorrow Never Knows 3. Don´t Let Me Down 4. Happiness Is a Warm Gun 5. Eleanor Rigby
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Posted: June 20 2020 at 15:54 |
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without specific order; numeration just to keep count 1) Norwegian Wood 2) I am the Walrus 3) Looking through a Glass Onion 4) Fool on the Hill 5) While my Guitar Gently Weeps 6) Julia 7) Helter Skelter 8) Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds 9) Rocky Raccoon 10) Happiness is a Warm Gun 11) She's Leaving Home 12) Something 13) Tomorrow Never Knows 14) Eleanor Rigby 15) Nowhere Man 16) For No One 17) A Day in the Life 18) Sexy Sadie 19) I Will 20) The Long and Winding Road 21) Revolution No. 9 22) I'm So Tired 23) Piggies 24) The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill 25) Why Don't We Do It in the Road? this list could be different on another day, but some songs would always stay on it and I actually can't understand how a wonderful song like "Julia" is not on everybody's list
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That you're a Lennon man rather than a Macca man??   Personally, I'm a Harry Georgeson man  Not really in that precise order of preference, but there is a semblance of it in there. 1) While my Guitar Gently Weeps 2) Here Comes The Sun 3) I Me Mine 4) Come Together5) Eleanor Rigby 6) A Day in the Life 7) Rocky Raccoon 8) Helter Skelter 9) Hey Jude 10) Happiness is a Warm Gun 11) Norwegian Wood 12) I am the Walrus 13) Let it Be 14) Don’t Let Me Down 15)
I Want You – She’s So Heavy 16) Golden Slumbers/Carry That Way/The End 17) Revolution (not #9) 18) the rest of Abbey Road not yet named above. 19) Taxman 20) Got To Get You Into My Life Edited by Sean Trane - June 21 2020 at 02:02 |
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Posted: June 22 2020 at 07:44 |
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Hi,
I was thinking that a poll about which Beatles songs were redone by someone else, was better/worse and such ... but my listening totality, has been the worst since I got away from pop music, and the beeahtles. I haven't bothered with "pop music" or "top 100" for 50 years and am not starting now! Points off if you forget Stackridge, or Monsoon (Sheila Chandra), or Ides of March, or that one band from Argentina! Kudos from versions from Japan and China (specially!). Extra points if you find one of the "sauerkraut" bands doing it! BTW, in the Beatles Live in Hamburg (way before 1964), there are things that are way better and more fun than what the song eventually became ... and it takes out a few choices really quick ... you get to hear a band that was pretty obvious had something working well for them!
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Posted: June 22 2020 at 08:12 |
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This selection differs a bit from my own top 25, but most of the majors are here. My pick: 1. A Day in the Life
2. I’m the Walrus 3. Happiness Is A Warm Gun 4. Eleanor Rigby 5. I Want You (She’s So Heavy) |
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Posted: June 22 2020 at 10:23 |
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No particular order:
1) Eleanor Rigby 2) I'm Looking Through You 3) Help 4) Norwegian Wood 5) Love You To 6) You've Got To Hide Your Love Away 7) I've Just Seen a Face 8) Tomorrow Never Knows 9) Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite 10) Within You Without You 11) Blackbird 12) While My Guitar Gently Weeps 13) Something 14) Revolution 1 15) Here Comes The Sun 16) Cry Baby Cry 17) Abbey Road, Side 2 Medley 18) For You Blue 19) Piggies 20) I Want You (She's So Heavy) 21) I, Me, Mine 22) Let It Be 23) Strawberry Fields 24) I Am the Walrus 25) Hey Jude
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Posted: June 22 2020 at 11:10 |
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I’m substituting Eleanor Rigby with Tomorrow Never Knows 
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Posted: June 22 2020 at 11:55 |
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The order on these could change:
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I'd say I'm a Lennon-Martin man, because - A Day in the Life - I Am the Walruss - Strawberry Fields - Being For The Benefit of Mr Kite are masterpieces of production. Lennon said to Martin how he wanted the arrangement, and Martin did it. His hand is very important to determinate the final sound of these songs. Macca, instead, did the arrangement of his songs on his own, he didnt delegate to Martin, in a certain way he was more complete than John as musician. But I admit that the medium quality of his songs, especially in the second part of the career of the Beatles, is lower than that of John's songs. Anyway I love even the songs of Paul and George. About Paul & George: in my Top 50 there are these songs.
26) Hey Jude (Paul) 8+
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Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds (John + Paul) 8+
28)
I Saw Her Standing There (Paul + John) 8+
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Michelle (Paul) 8+
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Old Brown Shoe (George) 8+
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Something (George) 8+
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Back in the USSR (Paul) 8+
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Ob-la-dì Ob-la-dà (Paul) 8+
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She Loves You (John e Paul) 8+
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I Want To Hold Your Hand (John e Paul)8+
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Savoy Truffle (George) 8+
37) Dear Prudence (John) 8+
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All My Loving (Paul) 8+
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Twist and Shout (*cover - John) 8+
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Get Back (Paul, version 45r.) 8
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Taxman (George) 8
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Sgt Pepper’s (Paul) 8
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Here Comes The Sun (George) 8
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I Feel Fine (John) 8
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I’ve Got a Feeling (John e Paul) 8
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The Word (John e Paul) 8
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Norwegian Wood (John + Paul) 8
48)
We Can Work It Out (John e Paul) 8
49)
Sexy Sadie (John) 8
50)
I Me Mine (George) 8
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Side Two of the Mystery Tour:
- Hello Goodbye - Strawberry Fields - Penny Lane - Rich Man - All You Need Is Love Heck, throw in Side 1 as well - the band's greatest accomplishment, IMO.
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In no particular order.... 01. Don't Bring Me Down 02. Flying 03. Blue Jay Way 04. A Day In The Life 05. Help 06. Something 07. Got To Get You Into My Life 08. Come Together 09. Taxman 10. Daytripper 11. While My Guitar Gently Weeps 12. A Hard Days Night 13. Rain 14. The Fool On The Hill 15. Here Comes The Sun 16. I Want You (She's So Heavy) 17. And I Love Her 18. All My Loving 19. Helter Skelter 20. I Feel Fine 21. We Can Work It Out 22. Let It Be 23. The Ballad Of John and Yoko 24. Paperback Writer 25. Eleanor Rigby |
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