What's the best?

einar · Post by **einar** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 10:09 am

No way is the Day Tripper riff stolen from John Mayall's Bluesbreakers! What'd I say contains a very traditional blues "theme" or lick which you think you've heard once or twice before, as for DT: Totally innovative! If Mayall's version of WDIS is to be remembered for something, it's for one of the poorest recorded and performed drum solos ever (by H. Flint)!

beatlefreak · Post by **beatlefreak** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 11:02 am

Dear Prudence is way up there for me.

bassbob · Post by **bassbob** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 11:07 am

Man that is an impossible question to answer. A few of my Fav's are Hey Bulldog, If I fell. If I needed someone, You won't see me, I've just seen a face, I am the Walrus, see, it's just too damn hard

sowhat · Post by **sowhat** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 11:15 am

Helter skelter. Just because.
While my guitar gently weeps. Great tune, great lyrics and great solo from Clapton.
Cry baby cry. Don't know why, just like it.

bassbob · Post by **bassbob** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 11:32 am

See, I would have put all those down too.

winston · Post by **winston** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 11:37 am

I love the song Helter Skelter but...too many bad memories attached to it for my liking.

While my guitar gently weeps is pure genius. That's another of my faves.

winston · Post by **winston** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 12:00 pm

Kent may have an urban legend type comment on who actually played or perhaps taught EC the guitar solo in WMGGW.

Sorry could not resist

beefandbones · Post by **beefandbones** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 12:11 pm

Yeah, the Bluesbreakers album was recorded in '66 - Day Tripper in '65.

wj350 · Post by **wj350** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 12:21 pm

Tough post...for me, off the top of my head:

Julia
Strawberry Fields Forever
Dear Prudence
Don't Let Me Down
Long, Long, Long
And I Love Her
Help!
I Want To Hold Your Hand
I Need You
Something

lyle_from_minneapolis · Tue Apr 10, 2007 1:45 pm

Impossible decision.

But right now, I am obsessed with "I Want You (She's So Heavy)".

There is always one right there at the top of my inner Top Ten shuffle. You know: you wake up and take a shower, and you realize there is a Beatles song playing in your head. Anyone else have this fine affliction?

fireglo · Post by **fireglo** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 3:47 pm

There are way to many great songs to choose from for me to say one is the best!

rick36 · Post by **rick36** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:13 pm

Peter, I agree with Einar. Although I think that "What'd I Say" (sub-conscious or not) is the basis of many of these related "E Riff" songs, I'm pretty sure The Beatles worked with (or at least saw) Ray Charles in Germany. Billy Preston was playing keyboards with Ray about that time...

John's "Day Tripper" riff was recorded in October '65, way before the Mayall/Clapton collaboration in 1966, and everybody (in the world) had heard The Beatles single by that time.

In fact, I think Roy Orbisons' "Pretty Woman" is just about as close to Lennons riff, in time and structure. Which one of those came first - too close to call?

rick36 · Post by **rick36** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:19 pm

Oh, almost forgot - The Best: "Hey Jude"/"Revolution", on radio, 45 AND Live Television!

longboard_ric · Post by **longboard_ric** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 6:15 pm

Far too many to choose from but a short list would include I Saw Her Standing There, In My Life, I Am The Walrus, Don't Let Me Down, And Your Bird Can Sing. For some reason I find Its All Too Much, while certainly not the best, an intriguing piece of work.

gregga41 · Post by **gregga41** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:12 am

I Saw Her Standing There, I Feel Fine, Day Tripper, these three songs, whenever i hear them,just tend to put me in a great mood! What more does a song need to do???
There are 2 or 3 hundred more i could name from their catalogue, but..., nah!