Comments on: The Top 20 Beatles Songs, #1: “A Day In The Life”

By: Rytone66

Rytone66 — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:47:10 +0000

Just simply too difficult a task. Most of the lists are heavy on Late Beatles, ignoring the fact that so many of the early songs were groundbreaking at the time. And, what really is the criteria? Are we talking about the musically best songs, or the most influential, or the most popular? Are we talking about SONGS or RECORDINGS? Some not so great songs are GREAT recordings. And, while I agree that Paul is often unfairly sidelined, what about Harrison? So, of course, as anything of this nature, it just comes down to “my favorite ten Beatles songs”… and here they are:
1. I Am the Walrus
2. We Can Work It Out
3. Two of Us
4. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
5. Strawberry Fields
6. And Your Bird Can Sing
7. It’s Only Love
8. Norwegian Wood
9. I Need You
10. Blackbird

By: mr white

mr white — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:09:52 +0000

DEAR PRUDENCE, i will cut Two of Us

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By: Jane Brown

Jane Brown — Fri, 14 May 2010 03:36:07 +0000

where’s “come together” and “eleanor rigby”???

By: Ken Kmak

Ken Kmak — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:05:36 +0000

Hard to pick the best of the best! Note, there are four “verses” in a Day in the Life. But Paul’s “Woke up, fell out of bed” is not one of them.

The four are:

1. I read the news today
2. He blew his mind out
3. I saw a film today
and the repeat of
4. I read the news today, about the holes in Blackburn.

The one you call number 3, Paul’s bit, is not a verse, but a break or bridge, and should not to be numbered with John’s other four verses.

By: Rick Sazon

Rick Sazon — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:17:25 +0000

“List way too biased against Paul”

So what else is new?

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By: Reggie

Reggie — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:58:51 +0000

List way too biased against Paul but fun speculation regardless.

By: Rick Sazon

Rick Sazon — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:47:54 +0000

“Penny Lane” should be on there too . I’d cut “Across the Universe.”

By: Whitcomb

Whitcomb — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:27:11 +0000

A good list, but there’s a few surprising omissions:

“I Saw Her Standing There,” one of the best garage-band rock ‘n’ roll songs;

“In My Life,” one of the top Lennon-McCartney lyrics;

“Eleanor Rigby,” ditto;

“Revolution,” (single version), with its distorted guitars, the hardest-rocking song the Beatles recorded.

To accommodate these songs, I would cut from your list “I Am the Walrus,” “A Hard Day’s Night,” “Blackbird,” and “Two of Us.”