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Location: Michigan | This one is an impossible question to answer for me.
Every time I think I have an answer I think of another song from another albulm that I like better.
Jeepers they had so many wonderful hit songs.GWB |
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Location: Utah | Abbey Road is my favorite album, except maybe for Sgt Pepper. My favorite song? That's pretty tough too. If I had to pick just one, it would be Yesterday. |
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Location: Tennessee | Impossible for everyone I think. So I have some qualifiers...
Song -- I'd most want to see them play live: "Don't Let Me Down" (and lady sb thinks this is the sexiest rock song ever made ;) )
Song -- I most appreciate for using the studio and turning the world on its ear: "I am the Walrus"
Album -- For putting on the Sennheisers, closing my eyes and listening: Side 2 of Abbey Road
Album -- For singing along with: Side 1 of Meet the Beatles
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | To Play, or to Listen?
"And Your Bird Can Sing" just came to mind, but I sure can't play it. But it is an oldie with a cool guitar riff. Of course it is only 2:45 long cuz it was the sixties. "Day Tripper", "Drive My Car", "Paperback Writer"...
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Beatles '65: I love this whole album!
Any song on the album but my favorites are: "I'm A Loser" and I Feel Fine"
The Beatles at their best!
I have every album and this is still my favorite! |
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Location: Tidal Mudflats of Virginia | When any one of their songs is over on the jukebox and the next selection is the King singing "Love Me Tender"... |
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Location: Michigan | :confused: I get in a mood of thinking their psycodelic era of Sgt.Peppers or Magical Mystery Tour are kicking ass and then I revert back to the early days of their simple songs like
THANK YOU GIRL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBfhWX6bEGM
with that reverberating harmonica riff that John was so good at putting into just the right part of the song and I start thinking that was their best stuff.How about I Should of Known Better , I just love that simple harmonica stuff that seems to take the songs up to another level.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P7P728pjLA .
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Too many to single out, I love em all!!
A particular favourite is
"While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
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Location: Michigan | The hits just keep on coming.This is like Crack Cocaine I cant stop myself HELP PLEASE.GWB
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Location: North Carolina | Originally posted by MusicMishka:
Beatles '65: I love this whole album!
Any song on the album but my favorites are: "I'm A Loser" and I Feel Fine"
The Beatles at their best!
Agree on that one. But my favorite song to play live on a gig is "You Can't Do That" |
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Location: South of most, North of few | white album |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Originally posted by AussieJames:
Too many to single out, I love em all!!
A particular favourite is
"While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
AJ Me to Jim. If I make a list of the Beatles songs I like most, the majority of them would be George Harrison's work.
Album, I kinda like Rubber Soul. |
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Location: Vernon CT | Best Song, Anyone of many. Best Album, Anyone of many. Why not tell me I have to give up my first born. IMPOSSIBLE!!!!! :) |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Album: Abbey Road
Song: "The Medley" |
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Location: NJ | The harmonies on "If I Fell" or "Sun King"(listen to a acapella version on the "Love" soundtrack),
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Location: Miami | Well, I have been a Beatles fan since the 60's. Could hardly wait for the new albums to come out. My wife wants me to copy my albums to cd because of the space (NOT!)
I do like Abbey Road, but I enjoy playing older songs such as You've got to hide your love away, I have seen a face and All I wanna do. They come out nice in acoustics.
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Meet the Beatles and Beatles '65. I prefer their early singles, some of their slow balads, and George's While My Guitar Gently Weeps. Another one that I love to listen to is Lennon's soaring solo in A Day in the Life. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | I just can't and won't select any single or album as a favorite.
BUT, "Rubber Soul" was the album that changed my opinion of the Beatles from just being another pop group to ' watch out world '! |
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Location: Cincinnati | It would be impossible to pick out a favorite song or album, but "Revolver" would definitely be one of my favorites. |
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Location: closely held secret | The 'B' side of "Let It Be" (the single). |
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Location: south east Michigan | Just look at all the great stuff listed here.
And that just scratches the surface.
It is hard to believe the this same group came up with.. "You know me name... look up me number". |
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Location: closely held secret | True. Genius knows no bounds. It's probably the only time you'll find McCartney doing an impression of Ringo doing an impression of Mel Torme.
On the other hand, "Have You Met the Real Mary Jane?" had to be the biggest waste of studio time. |
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Location: NJ | do any of the yoko and lennon duo lp's count?
like the plastic ono mothers ? live in New york? |
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Location: closely held secret | The 'plastic ono mothers'? |
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Location: Indiana | This is really tough. I'm gonna stay with my original thought, although reading all your answers made me think. For song it's gonna be "Nowhere Man". Close second "I Feel Fine". My favorite album will be Abbey Road which IMO, contrary to a lotta critics(experts), is the best album ever, period. But Rubber Soul sure is good, too. All in all, I really love all their stuff, early to late. Can ya tell?
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Location: Keller, TX | Sorry, never was a Beatles fan.
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Location: Tidal Mudflats of Virginia | Sorry, never was a Beatles fan. I was beginning to think I was the only one around here :( |
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Location: south east Michigan | It might be somewhat of a generational thing. There was a time in the mid-seventys when it was very un-cool to like the Beatles. |
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Location: NJ | Originally posted by The Wabbit Formerly Known As Waskel:
The 'plastic ono mothers'? the live in new york lp was a double the second lp was lennon and ono with zappa and the mothers live. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Sub Rosa Subway |
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Location: NJ | "the live in new york lp was a double the second lp was lennon and ono with zappa and the mothers live"
For those of you in the band that don't know what we're doing, . . . this is that "A minor" . . . but it's not Standard Blues Changes . . .
Wasn't that the "extra disc" that came with "SomeTime in NewYork"?? |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by alpep:
do any of the yoko and lennon duo lp's count?
 Not by any stretch of my drug free imagination!
Nor by my other one either! |
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Location: Cicero, NY | I was a Beatles fan (not a crazy one but they did make some great music so I still am) and really appreciated both Lennon and McCartney for what they brought individually and together but I could not BEAR to listen to one Ono era album all the way through. Just physically impossible for me. |
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Location: Tidal Mudflats of Virginia | It might be somewhat of a generational thing. There was a time in the mid-seventys when it was very un-cool to like the Beatles. Actually, I think more of the fact that I grew up under an environment of Elvis, Buddy Holly, Big Bopper as well as 40's period swing-big band music. The Beatles and later British music was just not something that played in the house...period!
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Location: Cicero, NY | Could very well be, Tim. I grew up with Johnny Cash, Roger Miller and Sonny James playing every day and there's no doubt those influences are still with me. Then came the Motown sound my cousin down the street was into and it wasn't until I was at least 12 or 13 before I even heard of the Beatles. By that time ('72 or so), it was pretty much over. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Originally posted by Tim in Tidewater:
Actually, I think more of the fact that I grew up under an environment of Elvis, Buddy Holly, Big Bopper Tim... you older than me??? |
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Location: Tidal Mudflats of Virginia | '63...Think it was the fact that my parents were stuck in American Graffiti time period.... |
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Location: NJ | Originally posted by cliff:
"the live in new york lp was a double the second lp was lennon and ono with zappa and the mothers live"
For those of you in the band that don't know what we're doing, . . . this is that "A minor" . . . but it's not Standard Blues Changes . . .
Wasn't that the "extra disc" that came with "SomeTime in NewYork"?? cliff
one in the same
FZ "the name of this song is scumbag"
"sing along with us"
scumbag
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | 19th NERVOUS BREAKDOWN...
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | to each their own interpretation, Al...I wouldn't argue your point...but is it the Beatles or John and Yoko? |
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Location: NJ | Originally posted by Beggin:
to each their own interpretation, Al...I wouldn't argue your point...but is it the Beatles or John and Yoko? john and yoko with Zappa |
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Location: Hong Kong | The acoustic version of "While my guitar gently weeps"... |
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Location: Huntington Beach, CA | Best beetle song? That would be "tveet, tveet...CRUNCH!" Oh, you said Beatles! Let's see, While My Guitar Gently Weeps is good, but wait, that's a Clapton song! I guess Across the Universe and, no, not because of the movie.
Best Beatle album would be Abby Road.
Did anyone come up with Revolution #9 as a favorite???
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Location: Fort Worth, Texas | Originally posted by stonebobbo:
Impossible for everyone I think. So I have some qualifiers...
Song -- I'd most want to see them play live: "Don't Let Me Down" (and lady sb thinks this is the sexiest rock song ever made ;) )
Song - My favorite: "Don't Let Me Down"
Song - I play in the band and at any guitar circle: "Rain"
Song - Covered by the Grateful Dead on some concert tape I heard on Lone Star Dead: "It's All Too Much"
Album - My favorite: "Hey Jude" (of which the two first songs listed are on!)
Album - First LP I bought with my own hard earned cash: "Abbey Road" (my two brothers and I had pooled money to by our first LP several years before: "Herman's Hermits Greatest Hits"! ;) )
I realized at some point in time most of my favorite Beatles somgs are George Harrison penned ones...
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Location: Fort Worth, Texas | Originally posted by TexasDoc (ttenn):
Sorry, never was a Beatles fan.
However, we do play a Bluegrass version of "I've Just Seen a Face" in our band. Does your band play around town anywhere???? |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by Paul Wag:
Does your band play "around town anywhere"???? Which album was that one on?  |
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Location: Michigan | Oh my gosh people in the audience that are my age.GWB
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Location: Hicksville, NY | This question is tough as I love The Beatles. Album-wise, I listen to both Rubber Soul and Abbey Road, more than the other Beatles CDs in my collection, so I guess that'll be my favorite. |
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Location: Michigan | ;) Its impossible , there is not an answer to this question ??? Its like answering what is the answer to PIE R SQUARED ? GWB |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Pi R Squared?
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Pie Are Round! |
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Location: Keller, TX | Originally posted by Paul Wag:
Originally posted by TexasDoc (ttenn):
Sorry, never was a Beatles fan.
However, we do play a Bluegrass version of "I've Just Seen a Face" in our band. Does your band play around town anywhere????
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | The White Album, the original one on white vinyl, much easier to see when skeet shoot'n. |
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Location: florida | (i have and 8 way tie)
while my guitar gently weeps
strawberry fields
octopus' garden
dont let me down
long and winding road
let it be
get back
shes so heavy
and as far as favorite album goes
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Location: Cork, Ireland | Haven't heard all their work but I love Octopus and Hey Jude.
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Location: south east Michigan | Originally posted by sycamore:
Bet no-one says 'Love Me Do' or 'I wanna hold your hand'? I'll claim those two and many others.
There is far to much varied types of material to choose from but I'll say that Abbey Road is an almost perfect album.
I don't see how you can "in general" dislike the Beatles. Maybe it's a generational thing. I do remember a time in the early to mid-seventies when being a Beatle fan was uncool.
But just look and the depth and width of their catalog all done mostly done while they were in their early twentys. Early twentys!
Imagine yourself writing a "Something", or "Nowhere Man", or "Imagine" at that age. |
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Location: Cork, Ireland | I agree, Slipkid, their work is very diverse and I don't think ANY of their songs are bad, I just figured the early work might be of less interest to most people. They were the perfect BAND, great songs, great singers, great instrumentalists, great production and arrangements... So many others with 0.000000000001% of their talent have been hugely succesful. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | I'm with Brad. Some of that early stuff impresses me because they were still kids. Amazing. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Hey Weazy....speaking of Beatle stuff.....didja ever? |
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Location: Cicero, NY | You know I have. Just haven't gotten around to thanking you properly, T. It's coming... :rolleyes: |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Another non-Beatles person here. I just never got into them. It's not generational with me. I'm 54 years old. I just was listening to (what I consider) much better music at the time. I already mentioned this in another thread. John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers made the Beatles sound like bubblegum. I DO however have to say that Ringo was pretty good in 200 Motels. (The Frank Zappa movie.) |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Interesting question - Who has the better catalog of material The Beatles or post-beatle Paul McCartney?
I was quick to choose Beatles, but then I started thinking about all the McCartney solo and Wings stuff. I'm not so sure anymore.
To me, the impact of the Beatles was that they were first, unique and really had no competition at least in the early days. That's of course a hell of an accomplishment. McCartney post-Beatles on the other hand had to live up to a huge expectation and do it against a wide array of competing writers and performers. Sure there was the occasional "Ebony and Ivory", but looking through his catalog I might tend to favor it over the Fab 4.
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Location: Cicero, NY | Point taken but I would still rate the Beatles material far ahead of Sir Paul's catalogue. For me there's no comparison between what they did together and what any of them accomplished (which I'm certainly not down-playing) afterwards. |
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Location: Glendale, AZ | "Help" is my favorite LP
"You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" my favorite single. |
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Location: Round Rock, TX | Favorite album - The Beatles (White album)
Favorite Song (to play) - Mother Nature's Son (followed closely by Day Tripper and I'm Looking Through You)
Favorite Song (to listen) - which ever one I'm currently listening to.
Favorite post-Beatles solo effort - All Things Must Pass
There are so many artists whose music I just love and that make an essential contribution to my life's soundtrack, but nobody equals, much less surpasses, the Beatles. There's never a time when I don't welcome a Beatles song - any of 'em. |
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Location: Round Rock, TX | Oh Lord, I forgot my absolute favorite songs to play (it's been that kind of day) - Here Comes the Sun and Dear Prudence followed by the rest I mentioned. |
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Location: Michigan | Everyone has to admit is that at any social gathering or cocktail party when we have to much to drink,smoke ,whatever,that when the Beatles songs start playing , it seems that everybody joins in the singing of most of their tunes and the thing that makes me think that they made such an impression on the listening world is that Grandma 95 years old to Grandson 15 years old can sing most of the lyrics to any of their songs.
What staying power for a band.
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Location: New Hampshire, USA | Can't pick just one. My favorite Beatles album changes regularly (depending on mood) between the following:
With The Beatles
Rubber Soul
Sgt Pepper
Abbey Road
Each represent a major shift in the band's evolution.
There are also certain songs that are favorites such as If I Fell, I Don't Want To Spoil The Party, No Reply, I Will, etc.
But my favorite Beatles song will always be I Saw Her Standing There. If you crank that song, it is sheer joy from the opening count-in to the final ringing E7 chord. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | My favorites are Rubber Soul, Revolver, and "Yesterday" and Today.
They fall in between the early "British Invasion" stuff and the later psychedelic stuff. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Mike (the CL one :D ),
I'm with you on those three and the reasoning. Earlier I said "Rubber Soul" which still holds true. But these would be the ones that I'd grab for my greatest listening enjoyment.
I will say that some of their subsequent material have some very sophisticated arrangements that are remarkable. But album wise, "RS" for me!
There are too many favorite songs for me to select just one... |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | The White Album --- a real ear opener for me.
Anthology 1 --- To listen how they were when they began. |
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WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE BEATLES SONG ? WHICH IS YOUR FAVORITE BEATLE ALBULM ?