Your Favorite BEATLES song, and Why? You only get one! - Page 7

JackB1 · #91 07-11-2018, 10:12 AM

While my guitar gently weeps

Everton FC · #92 07-11-2018, 11:16 AM

"Yesterday"....

reeve21 · #93 07-11-2018, 12:57 PM

Depends when you ask!

Right now I really like She's Leaving Home. We have 2 grown daughters now married and living their own lives in far flung places, and while we are still very close I miss them mightily.

I have XM radio. The Beatles channel is one I listen to every day, without fail.

JimmerO · #94 07-11-2018, 04:06 PM

Early Beatles: "And I Love Her"

Late Beatles: "Don't Let Me Down" (the version done on the rooftop in Let it Be)

Matt M · #95 07-11-2018, 04:37 PM

Strawberry Fields Forever

It isn't even my favourite Beatles song but the chord changes of it have just seeped into my DNA. I just found it totally fascinating as a kid (well, the whole Sgt Pepper album really, but that song in particular). My whole life I have been a sucker for "descending semi-tone" chord changes (for want of a better description). That Mellotron sound too... and the notes played on the dividing sitar riff is a great introduction to whatever mode that is (can never remember the names of modes!)

guitargabor · #96 07-11-2018, 05:01 PM

Late:

'Something"

The melody,chords,I love C major 7,the guitar lead,lyrics(married 46 years and she still moves me...)

Early:"Things we said today" Minor chords with minor blues chord bridge part-genius.Decent lyrics for their early period...

Gabe

Swamp Yankee · #97 07-11-2018, 06:17 PM

Savoy Truffle

hairpuller · #98 07-11-2018, 07:30 PM

Today, it’s “she said she said “ & ‘In my life”.

Both tunes can wake me in the middle of the night...so good. Dare I say there will never be another like them.

I heard someone say that 100 years from now parents will be singing Beatle songs putting their kids to sleep.

Scott

Jukie · #99 07-11-2018, 10:36 PM

I Will and Something.

Fireside_Guitar · #**100** 07-11-2018, 11:38 PM

Early - I'll Follow The Sun

Later - For No One....They were so on the way with this stuff

mtcross · #**101** 07-11-2018, 11:52 PM

I do remember watching their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show... vaguely, but I have never been a huge Beatles fan. I don't turn their songs off when they come on the radio, but they, for the most part, just don't move me.

I can, and do, appreciate their talent and recognize the impact they'eve had on music.

That being said, I have no idea what era, or eras these songs come from, but I do really enjoy:

Come Together and Nowhere Man, I mean these two songs may wind up on the playlist I leave behind that will be played at my wake.

JeffreyAK · #**102** 07-12-2018, 12:03 AM

I Want You (She's So Heavy).

N+1 · #**103** 07-12-2018, 03:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Matt M

Strawberry Fields Forever

It isn't even my favourite Beatles song but the chord changes of it have just seeped into my DNA. I just found it totally fascinating as a kid (well, the whole Sgt Pepper album really, but that song in particular). My whole life I have been a sucker for "descending semi-tone" chord changes (for want of a better description). That Mellotron sound too... and the notes played on the dividing sitar riff is a great introduction to whatever mode that is (can never remember the names of modes!)

Interesting comment. I remember when I first heard it and being quite shocked. Even after Revolver, it seemed very strange - the sort of thing I couldn't imagine playing on guitar because it sounded as if they were using chords and chord changes they'd invented that ordinary people like me didn't know about. I wasn't sure I 'liked' it at first, but there was always something fascinating about it that kept me going back for 'one more listen', and before long it just worked its way into my brain as a masterpiece.

N+1 · #**104** 07-12-2018, 03:17 AM

Is there any love out there for Free as a bird? I know the general critical response to it was disappointment - that it sounded like a fatigued 'ELO play the Beatles' fabrication. But I never saw it like that. Ringo said, 'It sounds like them - because it IS them', and that's how it sounds to me, too. And the video that accompanied it seems like a tear-jerking Beatle-celebratory masterpiece.
Am I alone in this?

rokdog49 · #**105** 07-12-2018, 05:57 AM

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Originally Posted by N+1

Is there any love out there for Free as a bird? I know the general critical response to it was disappointment - that it sounded like a fatigued 'ELO play the Beatles' fabrication. But I never saw it like that. Ringo said, 'It sounds like them - because it IS them', and that's how it sounds to me, too. And the video that accompanied it seems like a tear-jerking Beatle-celebratory masterpiece.
Am I alone in this?

I really do like the song a lot but...
I have to agree with the critics on this one. Jeff Lynne's over-produced hands are all over this. I am not a fan of his style, too manufactured for me.