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Nov 2nd, 2007 at 10:21 am by Susie

For the Beatle fans out there: What are your five favorite songs?

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on 02 Nov 2007 at 10:39 am1merciless

Only five? Geez. Does the entire Sgt. Pepper album count?

Okay, okay…in no particular order:

Yesterday
Blackbird
Rocky Raccoon
Revolution
With a Little Help from My Friends

and about a dozen others…
on 02 Nov 2007 at 10:54 am2Groucho Marxist

Across the Universe

You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away

Norwegian Wood (This Bird has Flown)

Yellow Submarine

Octopus’s Garden
on 02 Nov 2007 at 11:15 am3brendan

tax man
for no one
i am the walrus
helter skelter
day tripper (bad brains version)
on 02 Nov 2007 at 12:47 pm4Lionel

Long Long Long
She Said She Said
Norwegian Wood
The song cycle on side 2 of Abbey Road
I Dig a Pony

(If you ask me on another day, you’ll get another answer)
on 02 Nov 2007 at 1:15 pm5Michael Plank

Basically, all the astonishing singles and Rubber Soul/Revolver highlights of 65-66:

Paperback Writer
Rain
Day Tripper
Nowhere Man
Strawberry Fields Forever
on 02 Nov 2007 at 1:18 pm6Michael

No order:

I’m Only Sleeping (Lennon, Revolver)
Here, There, and Everywhere (McCartnery, Revolver)
If I Needed Someone (Harrison, Rubber Soul)
Rain (Lennon, Paperback Writer B-side)
This Boy (Lennon, I Want to Hold Your Hand B-side)
on 02 Nov 2007 at 1:24 pm7Susie

Like Lionel, my favorites change all the time. Right now, today, it’s:

And Your Bird Can Sing
I’m Only Sleeping
Don’t Let Me Down
Strawberry Fields
Revolution
on 02 Nov 2007 at 3:37 pm8Henry

I’m surprised that these aren’t on everyone’s list; chacun à son goût or something like that:

Help!
In My Life
I Feel Fine
She’s A Woman
Act Naturally

okay–the last one is for Buck Owens fans
on 02 Nov 2007 at 3:44 pm9Linkmeister

Got to Get You Into My Life
Get Back
All My Loving
Ticket to Ride

and a cover from “The Music Man,” on “Meet the Beatles: Till There Was You
on 02 Nov 2007 at 3:53 pm10tim serbo

what the heck, i’ll jump in

and your bird can sing
across the universe
it’s all too much
rain
hello goodbye

subject to whimsical change…
on 02 Nov 2007 at 4:43 pm11Motherlode

Eleanor Rigby
The Long and Winding Road
Hey Jude
In My Life
Blackbird
on 02 Nov 2007 at 5:01 pm12Izquierdo

The diversity of answers here is impressive.
And since no one’s mentioned Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
or Let’s Be Natural yet, I will.
on 02 Nov 2007 at 5:06 pm13John O

First of all, that is an entirely impossible and unfair question to ask. 5???

Also in no particular order:

Norwegian Wood
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Their cover of Long Tall Sally
Imagine
Helter Skelter.
on 02 Nov 2007 at 6:17 pm14wb

Five? Well, let’s see… today it would be:

Norwegian Wood, (This Bird Has Flown)
Let It Be
Yesterday
Because
With A Little Help From My Friends
on 02 Nov 2007 at 6:24 pm15John O

Crap. I like wb’s list better.

See, this is a question a little bit too much like, “Is God big enough to create a rock He can’t lift?”
on 02 Nov 2007 at 11:30 pm16Al in Portland

Penny Lane
Let it Be
Norwegian Wood
She Loves You
Abbey Road Side 2 (Really one song consisting of Here Comes the Sun, Because, You Never Give Me Your Money, Mean Mr. Mustard, Polythene Pam, She Came in Through the Bathroom Window, Golden Slumbers, Carry That Weight and The End).
And each of those, and a whole bunch more, still spark vivid memories of the times when they first came out.
on 03 Nov 2007 at 1:46 pm17Michael Bloom

Carefully chosen off the top of my head before reading anybody else’s:

Strawberry Fields Forever
And Your Bird Can Sing
All My Life
Girl
Got To Get You Into My Life (to throw Paul a bone)

I’ll stand by this list for at least the next 15 minutes!
on 03 Nov 2007 at 6:08 pm18astoworf1

The Magical Mystery Tour
Happiness is a Warm Gun
Strawberry Fields Forever
Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
Back in the USSR
on 04 Nov 2007 at 12:59 pm19Gary Denton

Last week I saw *Across the Universe* and it brought back memories. I also overheard some criticisms that it just celebrated hippies.

Yesterday
Hey Jude
Let It Be
All My Loving
While My Guitar Gently Weeps

I like hippies.

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