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3/26/15 Beatles
QotD: What is the best Beatles song?
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Glass Onion.
I was in that gap where the Beatles were old and broken up during my time of music awakening. So I didn't get into them until later in my 20s early 30s. At that time I realized how good they really were and started listening and reading up on their history. My friend and bass player at the time gave me the White album and said it's a lot like I write and he thought it might inspire me. He was right, it did. Still to this day, my favorite Beatles songs are on the White album. I even have a song called Glass Bridge I wrote back in the day a few days after I turned 25 inspired by Glass Onion. The only comparison would be the "glass" in the name and that it's looking back reflecting on my life at that time.
I was in that gap where the Beatles were old and broken up during my time of music awakening. So I didn't get into them until later in my 20s early 30s. At that time I realized how good they really were and started listening and reading up on their history. My friend and bass player at the time gave me the White album and said it's a lot like I write and he thought it might inspire me. He was right, it did. Still to this day, my favorite Beatles songs are on the White album. I even have a song called Glass Bridge I wrote back in the day a few days after I turned 25 inspired by Glass Onion. The only comparison would be the "glass" in the name and that it's looking back reflecting on my life at that time.
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It's impossible for me to pick a favorite. That's like asking me what my favorite Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, or Talking Heads song is. My mom actually saw the Beatles at Carnegie Hall, 2/12/64. Pretty awesome.
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I plan to ask all those questions over the next few days.Lunkhead wrote:IThat's like asking me what my favorite Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, or Talking Heads song is.
Oh, and my favorite is "I Want You (She's So Heavy)". I think that song is a masterpiece. I dream of a day that I can be in a band who wants to play that song and is willing to do the ending until someone throws us off the stage. The guitars. The basswork. The scream at 4:29. The organ. The vocals. It's everything I could want in a Beatles song for 7 minutes and 47 seconds.
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Impossible to state one. But I'll go with Strawberry Fields Forever. It's like a piece of classical music set to futuristic loops ad tape manipulations. Beautiful and gonzo.
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I think you'd have to narrow it down to ask "What's your favorite Beatles song of a particular era or genre?" because they had so very many "bests" based on different criteria.
Oh, and I Am The Walrus.
Oh, and I Am The Walrus.
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Like most other people in this thread, I found it exceedingly difficult to choose one, but if it's really just one, I gotta go with "All You Need Is Love."
It makes me weepy to exclude the likes of "In My Life," "Norwegian Wood," "I Am The Walrus," "Hey Jude," "Mother Nature's Son," "Dear Prudence," "Let It Be," "I Want You (She's So Heavy)," and the entire Side 2 of Abbey Road, but them's the breaks.
It makes me weepy to exclude the likes of "In My Life," "Norwegian Wood," "I Am The Walrus," "Hey Jude," "Mother Nature's Son," "Dear Prudence," "Let It Be," "I Want You (She's So Heavy)," and the entire Side 2 of Abbey Road, but them's the breaks.
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I remember hearing that John originally called himself the walrus from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. But interpreted the story wrong and later realized the the walrus was actually the bad one in the story. So in Glass Onion said that the walrus is Paul. They were going through their break up at that time. I suppose I could google it, but that's what I remember reading when I was getting into their song meanings 1,000,001 years ago.fluffy wrote:I think you'd have to narrow it down to ask "What's your favorite Beatles song of a particular era or genre?" because they had so very many "bests" based on different criteria.
Oh, and I Am The Walrus.
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Yeah, "She's So Heavy"... that's a great one. If I were forced to, I'd probably pick that. One of the best riffs I ever heard. It sounds so right, while being so off kilter and strange. Just makes you feel kinda dirty somehow. Other's I really love... "Sun King" such great harmony! "Because"... Yeah, I guess it would be much easier to pick a favorite album! But jeez, there's so many. "Helter Skelter", "I'm So Tired", "Day in the Life".
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+1user wrote:"Happiness is a Warm Gun"
Though I could also vote for "Run For Your Life". Or maybe "A Day in the Life"
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No. In certain Scandinavian countries, a walrus is considered a harbinger of death. John was just confirming that Paul had in fact died, and was replaced by a look-alike.Billy's Little Trip wrote:I remember hearing that John originally called himself the walrus from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. But interpreted the story wrong and later realized the the walrus was actually the bad one in the story. So in Glass Onion said that the walrus is Paul. They were going through their break up at that time. I suppose I could google it, but that's what I remember reading when I was getting into their song meanings 1,000,001 years ago.fluffy wrote:I think you'd have to narrow it down to ask "What's your favorite Beatles song of a particular era or genre?" because they had so very many "bests" based on different criteria.
Oh, and I Am The Walrus.
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I've heard this as well. To the Mystery Machine, gang!Caravan Ray wrote:No. In certain Scandinavian countries, a walrus is considered a harbinger of death. John was just confirming that Paul had in fact died, and was replaced by a look-alike.Billy's Little Trip wrote:I remember hearing that John originally called himself the walrus from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. But interpreted the story wrong and later realized the the walrus was actually the bad one in the story. So in Glass Onion said that the walrus is Paul. They were going through their break up at that time. I suppose I could google it, but that's what I remember reading when I was getting into their song meanings 1,000,001 years ago.fluffy wrote:I think you'd have to narrow it down to ask "What's your favorite Beatles song of a particular era or genre?" because they had so very many "bests" based on different criteria.
Oh, and I Am The Walrus.
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"The End"
DRUM SOLO
And I love George, Paul, and John trading bars.
Plus, it's, like, the end.
DRUM SOLO
And I love George, Paul, and John trading bars.
Plus, it's, like, the end.
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My favorite is the song "Revolution #9." I hate how, every time I request it on a radio station, they think I mean "Revolution" because they're both Beatles songs! I like "Revolution" but I like "Revolution #9" a lot better; the tape loops, the "number nine, number nine" bouncing on the channels, the samples of old recordings and classic production clips; I have the White Album on a two-CD set, so any White Album fans, listen for that one! It's just so psychedelic; it's like Terry Riley or that Brian Eno/Robert Fripp album.
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so when's the Beatles coverfight?
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Reportedly, John, Paul, and George really had to twist Ringo's arm to get him to do that drum solo. Ringo hates drum solos. It was absolutely the right call in that song.irwin wrote:"The End"
DRUM SOLO
And I love George, Paul, and John trading bars.
Plus, it's, like, the end.
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Revolution #9 isn't suitable for the radio, unless it's a late-night specialty show. Most people would not want to hear that in the background when they're working or driving. If you want to hear it whenever you want, play a CD or MP3.Tyler Zahnke wrote:My favorite is the song "Revolution #9." I hate how, every time I request it on a radio station, they think I mean "Revolution" because they're both Beatles songs! I like "Revolution" but I like "Revolution #9" a lot better; the tape loops, the "number nine, number nine" bouncing on the channels, the samples of old recordings and classic production clips; I have the White Album on a two-CD set, so any White Album fans, listen for that one! It's just so psychedelic; it's like Terry Riley or that Brian Eno/Robert Fripp album.
There's been a couple already, sort of:RangerDenni wrote:so when's the Beatles coverfight? :)
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Paul is my favorite Beatle, For No One is close to my favorite Beatles song, but Here Comes the Sun is just so perfect and beautiful and exciting. If George had more songs like that he'd be my favorite Beatle. Here Comes the Sun is my favorite Beatles song.
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Paul is not my favorite Beatle, but For No One is also close to being my favorite Beatles song too.glennny wrote:Paul is my favorite Beatle, For No One is close to my favorite Beatles song.
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One of the really evil but kind of light-sounding songs is Maxwell's Silver Hammer. I give that one credit just for saying "Joan was quizzical, studied pataphysical science in the home." I'm probably the only person on this forum who even thinks about pataphysical science! I prefer real science, but every so often I like reading someone else's perverse angle.