The first of two Harrison-penned songs in the top 10. Of course there are religious overtones, but I also interpreted this as McCartney knowing the Beatles were on their way to splitting and telling himself to “let it be.” 9. It starts as a pleasant song about an encounter with a woman and turns into something much more complex. “All the lonely people, where do they all come from?” Deep. Harrison and guest star Eric Clapton wail. A Hard Day’s NightĬan’t hear this title track from their film debut without seeing the Beatles running from their screaming fans, which opens up the movie.Ī bluesy, joyful tune with one of the best guitar solos Harrison ever recorded. Simple, gorgeous, and with a message to “take these broken wings and learn to fly.” 15. The best “One, two, three, four!!!” count-off ever followed by this raw, scream-filled number with a lyric that’s been much-cited (“Well she was just seventeen, you know what I mean”) for being just enough of a wink to listeners, who get it without quite completely understanding what McCartney means. If you wanted to explain to aliens who the Beatles were, this would be the first tune you’d play for them. What band ends their final recorded album ( Abbey Road was released before Let It Be, even though most of the latter was recorded first) with the group trading guitar solos and Ringo’s only drum solo, along with an epitaph? “And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.” 19. Stevie Wonder’s version made it an entirely different song.Ģ2. The album opener is great, but I think the reprise is juuust slightly better. Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) I know how ground-breaking this song was, but again: There are better Beatles songs. When you realize the Beatles were in their mid-20s and wrote/recorded a song like this that had so much depth to it, it’s pretty mind-blowing. In this short film, Beatles superfan Peter Dean sets out to recreate John Lennons circus poster that inspired the lyrics for the song ‘Being for the Benefit of Mr. This is a frame grab from WEBTV series from Make Productions Vimeo Channel. Also, one additional challenge for this list: I decided to rank the songs on the Abbey Road medley separately. I’m a sucker for songs when John, Paul and George do three-part harmony together. But there’s something cool about this coming after The End, like a little encore, with a chord that never resolves, leaving us eternally wanting more. I know, it’s a tiny little fragment stuck on to the end of Abbey Road. The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill 126. There are some songs that aren’t lyrically that great but that are undeniably great tunes. Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey I also tried to comment on my bottom 10 and top 20, with some thoughts in between. I spent the last few weeks re-listening to every cut and I tried my best to get rid of personal bias, but it was tough. Anything that was released as a single, B-side or on an album is on this list. It felt a little unfair to rank the Beatles singing other people’s songs, even if they were iconic. Here are the rules for this exercise, which we’ve done before with Bob Dylan’s songbook: No bootlegs, no live cuts, nothing from the Anthology collections and - this was tough - no covers of songs written by non-Beatles. What I am is a die-hard Beatles fan who grew up obsessed with the band, reading anything and everything I could find about the band while listening to the albums over and over. What qualifies me to do such a thing? I know, I’m not a music critic. In celebration of the seminal album’s 50th anniversary, I took on a challenge: To rank every Beatles song written by the band from worst to first. It was instantly one of rock’s greatest and most progressive albums, and another sign that John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr had officially put their mop-top Fab Four days behind them. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band on June 1, 1967. Indeed, in the United States, Beatles released Sgt. EDITOR’S NOTE: This was written back in 2017, but we’re updating it with Now and Then, the final single released by The Beatles in 2023.
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