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

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.

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

List way too biased against Paul but fun speculation regardless.

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

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

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.”