Another incredibly great but underrated song from that album: I'll Be Back (new window)

This was the first truly great song that Paul wrote.

Was McCartney playing that Rickenbacker right-hand strung? If so, he must be added to those types of persons I loathe.

/great tune

"I'll Be Back" "If I Fell" "And I Love Her" and "Any Time at All" are all really farking good. The only crap song is "When I Get Home."

People laugh when I say Help! is me favourite Beatles album.

Great song.

/In before the inevitable "Beatles are overrated" trolls and the fun that will follow

I just watched "Help" on YouTube a couple weeks ago.

There wasn't enough 22-year old Paul nakedness

FDR Jones: "I'll Be Back" "If I Fell" "And I Love Her" and "Any Time at All" are all really farking good. The only crap song is "When I Get Home."



Not my favorite album, but Sir, I agree with you completely. I spent most my Beatlefan years digging everything from Rubber Soul on, but some of the early stuff really doesn't get the credit it deserves. I need to pick up some more CDs, as my "Help" LP is actually an original, scratched up radio station promo album with no cover - or what I like to call, the First White Album.

/"This Boy" harmonies are an aural orgasm

FDR Jones: "I'll Be Back" "If I Fell" "And I Love Her" and "Any Time at All" are all really farking good. The only crap song is "When I Get Home."

People laugh when I say Help! is me favourite Beatles album.

I'm gonna love you til the cows come home. That's all that needs to be said.

/It's still a great song, It's the freakin beatles

My best friend, who is a Beatles hater even likes this song. This, and "I've just seen a face"

The English Major: ketamoid: Another incredibly great but underrated song from that album: I'll Be Back (new window)

People laugh when I say this is my favorite Beatles album.

I feel ya.
When I let it be known that mine is Beatles For Sale I receive a slack-jawed, vacant eyed look followed by a deeply seriously quizzical "Huh?" or else a snide "That album sucks!" (a statement that definitively signals to me that these are people I don't really want to hang around with and whose music tastes I can very safely ignore).

Japancakes: The English Major: ketamoid: Another incredibly great but underrated song from that album: I'll Be Back (new window)

People laugh when I say this is my favorite Beatles album.

I feel ya.
When I let it be known that mine is Beatles For Sale I receive a slack-jawed, vacant eyed look followed by a deeply seriously quizzical "Huh?" or else a snide "That album sucks!" (a statement that definitively signals to me that these are people I don't really want to hang around with and whose music tastes I can very safely ignore).

It has "I don't want to spoil the party", so yes, it's awesome. Not to mention all the other great songs on it.

er, "...musical recommendations..."

Anyways. Thanks, subby.
This goes a long ways towards making up the ground lost by the green lit headline directly below it.

Recently, while I recuperating in the hospital, my friend got me a book from the bargain bin, "100 Best Beatle Songs" by a couple of unknowns.

The Top 10 is as follows:

1. A Day in the Life
2. Strawberry Fields Forever
3. Let it Be
4. Yesterday
5. All You Need is Love
6. Hey Jude
7. In My Life
8. Penny Lane
9. Revolution
10. While My Guitar Gently Weeps

I know the list is completely subjective, but I have to ask:

Does anyone really think that All You Need is Love ranks as some of The Beatles (or John Lennon's) best work? Can't retrieve where Rolling Stone placed it, but it routinely makes the Best of lists.

Frankly, I find the song completely sophomoric, and trendy (this was, after all, the Summer of Love). A case could be made that it was written for the One World satellite broadcast, and it is fun (with the "She Loves You" coda and the French National Anthem). But one of the best?

Just wondering what say you Farkers.

/Things We Said Today didn't make the book
//it's a stupid book

Joed112784: Japancakes: The English Major: ketamoid: Another incredibly great but underrated song from that album: I'll Be Back (new window)

People laugh when I say this is my favorite Beatles album.

I feel ya.
When I let it be known that mine is Beatles For Sale I receive a slack-jawed, vacant eyed look followed by a deeply seriously quizzical "Huh?" or else a snide "That album sucks!" (a statement that definitively signals to me that these are people I don't really want to hang around with and whose music tastes I can very safely ignore).

It has "I don't want to spoil the party", so yes, it's awesome. Not to mention all the other great songs on it.


A man of refined musical taste you are. That's also my go-to track. Followed by "I'll Follow the Sun" and "Baby's in Black"

The English Major: I think the one I enjoy the least is In My Life.

Not my Top 10 either, but maybe Top 20. The origin, like so many others, was basically, "John, write a song for this show". And he did.

Yesterday, while driving, I was thinking, hmmm, I hadn't heard In My Life for awhile.

20 seconds later it was on the radio. Wish I could pick lottery numbers like that!

/"In My Life" is one of my funeral songs
//Along with "Darkness Darkness" by The Youngbloods

Japancakes: Joed112784: Japancakes: The English Major: ketamoid: Another incredibly great but underrated song from that album: I'll Be Back (new window)

People laugh when I say this is my favorite Beatles album.

I feel ya.
When I let it be known that mine is Beatles For Sale I receive a slack-jawed, vacant eyed look followed by a deeply seriously quizzical "Huh?" or else a snide "That album sucks!" (a statement that definitively signals to me that these are people I don't really want to hang around with and whose music tastes I can very safely ignore).

It has "I don't want to spoil the party", so yes, it's awesome. Not to mention all the other great songs on it.


A man of refined musical taste you are. That's also my go-to track. Followed by "I'll Follow the Sun" and "Baby's in Black"

ya, those are all fantastic. "What you're doing" is no slouch, either. Also, I don't care what anyone says, I like "Mr. Moonlight"

The English Major: Joed112784: Japancakes: Joed112784: Japancakes: The English Major: ketamoid: Another incredibly great but underrated song from that album: I'll Be Back (new window)

People laugh when I say this is my favorite Beatles album.

I feel ya.
When I let it be known that mine is Beatles For Sale I receive a slack-jawed, vacant eyed look followed by a deeply seriously quizzical "Huh?" or else a snide "That album sucks!" (a statement that definitively signals to me that these are people I don't really want to hang around with and whose music tastes I can very safely ignore).

It has "I don't want to spoil the party", so yes, it's awesome. Not to mention all the other great songs on it.


A man of refined musical taste you are. That's also my go-to track. Followed by "I'll Follow the Sun" and "Baby's in Black"

ya, those are all fantastic. "What you're doing" is no slouch, either. Also, I don't care what anyone says, I like "Mr. Moonlight"

I find Got to Get You Into My Life to be one of my favorites too. (new window)

/even if it is about marijuana

Yeah, it's great, but that's on Revolver, and we were talking about Beatles for sale. I'm only sleeping is my favorite from Revolver, though.

KwameKilstrawberry: Recently, while I recuperating in the hospital, my friend got me a book from the bargain bin, "100 Best Beatle Songs" by a couple of unknowns.

The Top 10 is as follows:

1. A Day in the Life
2. Strawberry Fields Forever
3. Let it Be
4. Yesterday
5. All You Need is Love
6. Hey Jude
7. In My Life
8. Penny Lane
9. Revolution
10. While My Guitar Gently Weeps

I know the list is completely subjective, but I have to ask:

Does anyone really think that All You Need is Love ranks as some of The Beatles (or John Lennon's) best work? Can't retrieve where Rolling Stone placed it, but it routinely makes the Best of lists.

Frankly, I find the song completely sophomoric, and trendy (this was, after all, the Summer of Love). A case could be made that it was written for the One World satellite broadcast, and it is fun (with the "She Loves You" coda and the French National Anthem). But one of the best?

Just wondering what say you Farkers.

/Things We Said Today didn't make the book
//it's a stupid book

"All you need is Love" (which is nowhere near the top [or even middle] of my favorite Beatles compositions) did not place anywhere on Rolling Stone's recent (mid-2000s-ish) "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list.

This Beatles tunes did, however:
"Hey Jude" (#8)
"Yesterday" (#13)
"I Want To Hold Your Hand" (#16)
"Let It Be" (#20)
"In My Life" (#23)
"A Day in the Life (#26)
"Help" (#29)
"She Loves You" (#64)
"Strawberry Fields Forever" (#76)
"Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" (#83)


As of today, my personal subjective top 10 list of go-to Beatles tracks would consist of:

I'm looking through you (^)
I don't want to spoil the party (^)
Baby's in black (^)
I'll follow the sun (^)
I'm a loser (^)
I want you (she's so heavy) (^)
tomorrow never knows (new window)
Something (^)
she said, she said (^)
If i needed someone (^)

er, ...these Beatles tunes...

Japancakes: KwameKilstrawberry: Recently, while I recuperating in the hospital, my friend got me a book from the bargain bin, "100 Best Beatle Songs" by a couple of unknowns.

The Top 10 is as follows:

1. A Day in the Life
2. Strawberry Fields Forever
3. Let it Be
4. Yesterday
5. All You Need is Love
6. Hey Jude
7. In My Life
8. Penny Lane
9. Revolution
10. While My Guitar Gently Weeps

I know the list is completely subjective, but I have to ask:

Does anyone really think that All You Need is Love ranks as some of The Beatles (or John Lennon's) best work? Can't retrieve where Rolling Stone placed it, but it routinely makes the Best of lists.

Frankly, I find the song completely sophomoric, and trendy (this was, after all, the Summer of Love). A case could be made that it was written for the One World satellite broadcast, and it is fun (with the "She Loves You" coda and the French National Anthem). But one of the best?

Just wondering what say you Farkers.

/Things We Said Today didn't make the book
//it's a stupid book

"All you need is Love" (which is nowhere near the top [or even middle] of my favorite Beatles compositions) did not place anywhere on Rolling Stone's recent (mid-2000s-ish) "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list.

This Beatles tunes did, however:
"Hey Jude" (#8)
"Yesterday" (#13)
"I Want To Hold Your Hand" (#16)
"Let It Be" (#20)
"In My Life" (#23)
"A Day in the Life (#26)
"Help" (#29)
"She Loves You" (#64)
"Strawberry Fields Forever" (#76)
"Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" (#83)


As of today, my personal subjective top 10 list of go-to Beatles tracks would consist of:

I'm looking through you (^)
I don't want to spoil the party (^)
Baby's in black (^)
I'll follow the sun (^)
I'm a loser (^)
I want you (she's so heavy) (^)
tomorrow never knows (new window)
Something (^)
she said, she said (^)
If i needed someone (^)

My all time favorite may be "Sexy Sadie". There is just something magical about that song. Damn Radiohead had to steal the piano riff.

My Top Ten( and not in any particular order...this is not an easy task)

1. Dear Prudence
2. No Reply
3. You Really Got a Hold on Me (yes, I know they didn't write it, but I love all their nods to the Motor City)
4. Penny Lane
5. Tomorrow Never Knows
6. For No One
7. Two of Us
8. I Am the Walrus
9. Paperback Writer
10. Abbey Road Medley

Honorable Mention
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
This Boy
Words of Love
Hey Jude
I Want to Hold Your Hand
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Helter Skelter
I'm Down
I Saw Her Standing There
Let it Be
Baby You're a Rich Man
Hey Bulldog
Cry Baby Cry
Day Tripper

Oh fark it...with very few exceptions, I could just type out the entire catalog...

KwameKilstrawberry:

/"In My Life" is one of my funeral songs
//Along with "Darkness Darkness" by The Youngbloods

I think we have a lot of overlap wrt our respective lists of "songs to play while you're observing our lack of continued breathing".

WRT "Darkness Darkness":

(begin threadjack)

the song's composer, j.c. young [live in 2009] (^)
robert plant (^)
screaming trees (^)
cowboy junkies (^)
eric burdon (^)

(end threadjack)

KwameKilstrawberry:
Oh fark it...with very few exceptions, I could just type out the entire catalog...


True'dat.

not_an_indigo [TotalFark] Quote 2010-07-25 02:22:57 AM
Awesome song, and yes--very underrated!

Under-appreciated, but not under-rated.

I'll attempt a top 10:

1. Sexy Sadie
2. I am the walrus
3. Happiness is a warm gun
4. I don't want to spoil the party
5. If I fell
6. Fixing a hole
7. I'll follow the sun
8. Dear Prudence
9. For No one
10. Girl

there are so many I could have put in these spots instead, as someone else said, I could just type the whole catalog.

Joed112784: I'll attempt a top 10:

1. Sexy Sadie
2. I am the walrus
3. Happiness is a warm gun
4. I don't want to spoil the party
5. If I fell
6. Fixing a hole
7. I'll follow the sun
8. Dear Prudence
9. For No one
10. Girl

there are so many I could have put in these spots instead, as someone else said, I could just type the whole catalog.

Yep.
FWIW if I were to have instead created a top 15, half of your ten would have been the last 5.

I've never seen the words underrated and the Beatles used in conjunction before.

oh, come on guys, what about good day sunshine...?

Japancakes: Joed112784: I'll attempt a top 10:

1. Sexy Sadie
2. I am the walrus
3. Happiness is a warm gun
4. I don't want to spoil the party
5. If I fell
6. Fixing a hole
7. I'll follow the sun
8. Dear Prudence
9. For No one
10. Girl

there are so many I could have put in these spots instead, as someone else said, I could just type the whole catalog.

Yep.
FWIW if I were to have instead created a top 15, half of your ten would have been the last 5.

just out of curiosity, which ones?

Joed112784: oh, come on guys, what about good day sunshine...?

#16 (^)

There's never a bad day to all-but-laze around and listen to Beatles tunes for the morning.

My morning sorted.
Thanks Fark.

The English Major: Top Ten:

1) Eleanor Rigby
2) Things We Said Today
3) Paperback Writer
4) While My Guitar Gently Weeps
5) Twist and Shout
6) Come Together
7) This Boy
8) Hey Bulldog
9) A Day in the Life
10) Got to Get You into My Life

How could I forget Eleanor Rigby?

/I'm not handing in McCartney fancard...

Joed112784: Japancakes: Joed112784: I'll attempt a top 10:

1. Sexy Sadie
2. I am the walrus
3. Happiness is a warm gun
4. I don't want to spoil the party
5. If I fell
6. Fixing a hole
7. I'll follow the sun
8. Dear Prudence
9. For No one
10. Girl

there are so many I could have put in these spots instead, as someone else said, I could just type the whole catalog.

Yep.
FWIW if I were to have instead created a top 15, half of your ten would have been the last 5.

just out of curiosity, which ones?

if i fell (new window)
sexie sadie (new window)
fixing a hole (new window)
dear prudence (new window)
happiness is a warm gun (new window)

Japancakes: Joed112784: Japancakes: Joed112784: I'll attempt a top 10:

1. Sexy Sadie
2. I am the walrus
3. Happiness is a warm gun
4. I don't want to spoil the party
5. If I fell
6. Fixing a hole
7. I'll follow the sun
8. Dear Prudence
9. For No one
10. Girl

there are so many I could have put in these spots instead, as someone else said, I could just type the whole catalog.

Yep.
FWIW if I were to have instead created a top 15, half of your ten would have been the last 5.

just out of curiosity, which ones?

if i fell (new window)
sexie sadie (new window)
fixing a hole (new window)
dear prudence (new window)
happiness is a warm gun (new window)

Nice. My friend, who is also a Beatles obsessive like me doesn't get why I love sexy sadie so much. He also doesn't like Piggies, but that one is more of a guilty pleasure to me.

er..."sexy".
Think this means its time to walk my Aussies.

Lazing and lurking will continue shortly.

The English Major: FDR Jones: People laugh when I say Help! is me favourite Beatles album.

That's a great album.

Stating that it is a Beatle album and saying it is great album is redundant.

Joed112784: Japancakes: KwameKilstrawberry: Recently, while I recuperating in the hospital, my friend got me a book from the bargain bin, "100 Best Beatle Songs" by a couple of unknowns.

The Top 10 is as follows:

1. A Day in the Life
2. Strawberry Fields Forever
3. Let it Be
4. Yesterday
5. All You Need is Love
6. Hey Jude
7. In My Life
8. Penny Lane
9. Revolution
10. While My Guitar Gently Weeps

I know the list is completely subjective, but I have to ask:

Does anyone really think that All You Need is Love ranks as some of The Beatles (or John Lennon's) best work? Can't retrieve where Rolling Stone placed it, but it routinely makes the Best of lists.

Frankly, I find the song completely sophomoric, and trendy (this was, after all, the Summer of Love). A case could be made that it was written for the One World satellite broadcast, and it is fun (with the "She Loves You" coda and the French National Anthem). But one of the best?

Just wondering what say you Farkers.

/Things We Said Today didn't make the book
//it's a stupid book

"All you need is Love" (which is nowhere near the top [or even middle] of my favorite Beatles compositions) did not place anywhere on Rolling Stone's recent (mid-2000s-ish) "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list.

This Beatles tunes did, however:
"Hey Jude" (#8)
"Yesterday" (#13)
"I Want To Hold Your Hand" (#16)
"Let It Be" (#20)
"In My Life" (#23)
"A Day in the Life (#26)
"Help" (#29)
"She Loves You" (#64)
"Strawberry Fields Forever" (#76)
"Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" (#83)


As of today, my personal subjective top 10 list of go-to Beatles tracks would consist of:

I'm looking through you (^)
I don't want to spoil the party (^)
Baby's in black (^)
I'll follow the sun (^)
I'm a loser (^)
I want you (she's so heavy) (^)
tomorrow never knows (new window)
Something (^)
she said, she said (^)
If i needed someone (^)

My all time favorite may be "Sexy Sadie". There is just something magical about that song. Damn Radiohead had to steal the piano riff.

Get out of my brain!!!!! Magical is the correct description....I can't explain it, there is just something about it that brings goosebumps to the skin.

Personally, I can't do a top 10/15/20 list. I'd always remember one more song that needs added to the list.

I will say this, I still turn into this guy as I run into a song they did that I haven't heard in years. (new window)