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Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 10:09 am
by einar
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)!
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 11:02 am
by beatlefreak
Dear Prudence is way up there for me.
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 11:07 am
by bassbob
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
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 11:15 am
by sowhat
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.
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 11:32 am
by bassbob
See, I would have put all those down too.
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 11:37 am
by winston
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.
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 12:00 pm
by winston
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
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 12:11 pm
by beefandbones
Yeah, the Bluesbreakers album was recorded in '66 - Day Tripper in '65.
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 12:21 pm
by wj350
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
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 1:45 pm
by lyle_from_minneapolis
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?
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 3:47 pm
by fireglo
There are way to many great songs to choose from for me to say one is the best!
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:13 pm
by rick36
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?
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:19 pm
by rick36
Oh, almost forgot - The Best: "Hey Jude"/"Revolution", on radio, 45 AND Live Television!
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 6:15 pm
by longboard_ric
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.
Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:12 am
by gregga41
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!