Best 3 Beatles songs

Instrumental in the development of music in that era (pun intended)

1 Norwegian Wood
2 Paperback Writer
3 Strawberry Field's

 

We can work it out
Eleanor Rigby
Across the Universe

 

You've completely thrown me now.

I never realised there was an apostrophe ...

... changes the entire meaning of the song for me!

 

You did well with the first two ...

... but seem to be struggling to think of the third.

 

Oh my, where to begin!

1. Hey Jude. Always loved it and links in with songs that remind you of the lads.

2. Here Comes The Sun. Harrison's writing at his finest.

3. Now and Then. Not a 'proper' Beatles track but I loved the way it was knitted together (and the accompanying video) after the Peter Jackson documentary.

 

Great thread this imo.

 

Too true. I've jumped right in as well rather than giving it proper thought. The online equivalent of premature ejaculation

 

'Fool on the Hill' for craft and subtlety

'Please please me' for simple happy brilliant pop music

This cover as the best version of any Beatles song ever ...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/W3ySKIbUELY?feature=share

 

The fields posses strawberries

 

I forgot how lyrically genius Eleanor Rigby was/is, and the music that seemed to match the mood exactly.

 

If you've never heard Norwegian Wood, which I'm sure 99% of you will have, for me it reminds me of my Army days hooking up with a local in Germany for a night.

 

Makes sense although I still disagree tbh.

My family have always worked for the Salvation Army, some in uniform, and my aunties were in the band ...

... they always talked about this song because they had a connection to it.

I'll need to do a little digging before I totally commit myself and send the money you've asked for.

 

Paperback Writer is in my top 3

Difficult to pick as there are so many crackers with their own distinct appeal.

 

Ive always preferred the earlier Beatles stuff, so my top 3 would be....

1. We can work it out.
2. Eight days a week.
3. Help.

Love the tone in Lennon's vocals on all them.

 

Wow! What a puzzler this is…

I’ll start with Let it Be and come back to you with the other 2

 

Always found this one quite hypnotic..

Come Together
Twist and Shout

 

I thought there was only one.

 

Hard one this!

1. Can't Buy Me Love.
2. Nowhere Man
3. Golden Slumbers.

On Golden Slumbers though, as much as McCartney clearly wrote the music, I always thought he was a bit of a cheeky fecker in not crediting Thomas Decker for the central lryic in the song, unless I missed it . Mind Decker had died 400 years before!

Fair play to Macca though in fairness, for reading 16 century poetry with all of the carry on in their lives at the time.

 

Please Please Me
Yesterday
I am the Walrus

 

Belting thread. I'm doing well not to have twenty goes at it!