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This will be hard, but I just did a top 25 on Tom Petty, so I've got adrenaline carrying and I need to get it out!

What are your top 25 favorite Beatles songs?

Mine:
1. A Day in the Life
2. Day Tripper
3. All My Loving
4. Ticket to Ride
5. You Can't Do That
6. Can't Buy Me Love
7. Eight Days a Week
8. I Want to Hold Your Hand
9. Hello Goodbye
10. Baby You're a Rich Man
11. All You Need is Love
12. I Saw Her Standing There
13. She Loves You
14. If I Needed Someone
15. Something
16. Get Back
17. Let it Be
18. Octopus' Garden
19. Yellow Submarine
20. Paperback Writer
21. Help!
22. Yesterday
23. What Goes On
24. I Feel Fine
25. While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Top 25, eh? Eh....I'll just write 'em down as I think of 'em....not in any ranking order.

1. One After 909 (from "Let It Be")
2. Revolution (the rockin' up tempo version)
3. And Your Bird Can Sing
4. Nowhere Man
5. I've Just Seen a Face
6. I'll Follow the Sun
7. You Can't Do That
8. I'll Cry Instead
9. Here Comes the Sun
10. Maxwell's Silver Hammer
11. Come Together
12. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
13. Another Girl
14. If I Needed Some One
15. With a Little Help From My Friends
16. Lady Madonna
17. Rain
18. All My Lovin'
19. Paperback Writer
20. Taxman
21. When I'm 64
22. Penny Lane
23. Day Tripper
24. Baby's In Black
25. You've Got To Hide Your Love Away


There, all done.
JimK

1) Rain
2) Dear Prudence
3) Nowhere Man
4) Norweigan Wood
5) I'll Be Back
6) No Reply
7) Taxman
I'm Only Sleeping
9) Help
10) Sexy Sadie
11) She Said, She Said
12) And Your Bird...
13) Back in the USSR
14) I'm A Loser
15) Day Tripper
16) Strawberry Fields
17) While My Guitar...
18) A Hard Day's Night
19) Drive My Car
20) If I Fell
21) A Day in the Life
22) All My Loving
23) Please Please Me
24) Revolution
25) I Feel Fine

I lean heavy Lennon.

Don't know how or why the Happy Face got on here.

Hard to pick just 25, but here are some of my favorites, more or less chronologically:

1. Please Please Me
2. There's A Place
3. It Won't Be Long
4. This Boy
5. I Should Have Known Better
6. Anytime At All
7. I Feel Fine
8. Eight Days A Week
9. What You're Doing
10. It's Only Love
11. I'm Down
12. We Can Work It Out
13. Girl
14. Nowhere Man
15. In My Life
16. Here, There And Everywhere
17. And Your Bird Can Sing
18. Strawberry Fields Forever
19. A Day In The Life
20. Baby You're A Rich Man
21. Dear Prudence
22. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
23. Oh! Darling
24. Here Comes The Sun
25. Free As A Bird

I can't do it.

I just can't.

lyle_from_minneapolis wrote:I can't do it.

I just can't.

Yea I can't either. On any given day my list would change and it would never be the same.

I doubt I know the name of 25, so I'll just say Here Comes the Sun and anything else George wrote/sang on.

Backpages66 wrote:

lyle_from_minneapolis wrote:I can't do it.

I just can't.

Yea I can't either. On any given day my list would change and it would never be the same.

Ditto here

Dittos
... although 'I Should Have Known Better' and 'I'll Be Back' will be on the list for sure. 'Tell Me Why' also.

Oh yeah...if I had posted my answer on another day, I'm sure my list would be different.

JimK

I do think that for 25 songs about 1/2 would change daily or so.
Saying that, I think I do have my 10 or so alltime "dessert island" songs. In no particular order:
1. Hey Jude
2. Come Together
3. I should have Known better
4. Revolution-with the David Frost vocals
5. For No One
6. Let it Be
7. This Boy
8. Golden Slumbers
9. Rocky Racoon
10. Back in the USSR
11. Birthday
12. I've Just seen a Face

craig55 wrote: Saying that, I think I do have my 10 or so alltime "dessert island" songs.

Mmm...dessert island...

I don't think there's any way for me to choose a top 25...I like certain songs at certain times. My list would change from day to day.

In no particular order---and some were covers done by the Beatles.

1. Ask Me Why
2. I Want to Hold Your Hand
3. All My Loving
4. She Loves You
5. Anna
6. Please Please Me
7. Long Tall Sally
8. Bad Boy
9. Twist and Shout
10. You Can't Do That
11. I Saw Her Standing There
12. Ticket to Ride
13. And Your Bird Can Sing
14. No Reply
15. Not A Second Time
16. You're Going to Lose That Girl
17. In My Life
18. Something
19. One After 909 (Let It Be)
20. Two of Us
21. Norwegian Wood
22. You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
23. This Boy
24. All I've Got To Do
25. Day Tripper

I honestly think that I would have to do two lists: one for the material that came with Revolver and earlier and then one that was the post-Revolver Beatles. There just seems to be two very different sounds that divide the music cleanly. I think that if I went that route, I could do it. It wouldn't be easy at all, but it would make the lists a simpler affair.