{"id":25929,"date":"2021-03-26T11:52:22","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T00:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harryszmerlingco.stackedsite.com\/?p=25929"},"modified":"2021-03-26T12:13:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T01:13:45","slug":"my-40-favourite-beatles-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harryszmerlingco.com.au\/2021\/03\/26\/my-40-favourite-beatles-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"MY 40 FAVOURITE BEATLES SONGS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What follows is a list of my favourite Beatles songs ranked from number 40 to number 1.&nbsp; These are my <em>favourites<\/em>.&nbsp; It doesn\u2019t mean that I think that these are the best Beatles songs although in most cases I think they are.&nbsp; But I\u2019ve excluded songs such as \u201cYesterday\u201d and \u201cSomething\u201d that most people love because, as good as they may be, they are not amongst my personal favourites.&nbsp; All of the songs that follow were either written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney or by George Harrison.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number 40 \u2013 It Won\u2019t be Long<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the opening track of the Beatles second album \u201cWith the Beatles\u201d.&nbsp; It utilised the \u201cYeah Yeah Yeah\u201d phrase also used in \u201cI\u2019ll Get You\u201d, \u201cPolythene Pam\u201d and famously in \u201cShe Loves You\u201d.&nbsp; This track is an upbeat rocking number which would have been released as a single by just about any other recording act at that time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number 39 \u2013 Revolution<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which version? &nbsp;Both of them, the original version which was the flip side to \u201cHey Jude\u201d and the opening track on side 4 of The White Album.&nbsp; John Lennon\u2019s lyrics take a political turn: \u201cBut if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao \u2013 You ain\u2019t gonna make it with anyone anyhow.\u201d&nbsp; Did Don McLean refer to this in \u201cAmerican Pie\u201d when he sang \u201cWhen Lenin (Lennon?) read a book on Marx\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number 38 \u2013 There\u2019s a Place<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was a track from the \u201cPlease Please Me\u201d album.&nbsp; It\u2019s a John Lennon composition and although mention is made of a girl, it\u2019s really about introspection.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number 37 \u2013 Dear Prudence<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This John Lennon song was written whilst the group was spending time in India with the Maharishi in 1968.&nbsp; The reference to Prudence was to Mia Farrow\u2019s sister who was shy and introverted.&nbsp; \u201cDear Prudence, won\u2019t you come out to play?\u201d&nbsp; The song has a nice tinkling guitar intro and fade out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number 36 \u2013 You\u2019re Gonna to Lose That Girl<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a great pop song by John Lennon.&nbsp; As with many songs by the Beatles, this would have been a smash hit if released by almost anyone else.&nbsp; But for the Beatles, it was just another track from the movie soundtrack album \u201cHelp\u201d.&nbsp; In a way this was a continuation of the theme expressed in \u201cShe Loves You\u201d, where the guy being sung to must take some action or he might lose the girl.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number 35 \u2013 Hey Bulldog<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This song is underrated.&nbsp; It\u2019s hidden away as a track on the \u201cYellow Submarine\u201d album and is easily the best track on that album.&nbsp; Unusually for a Beatles song, it has a piano riff rather than a guitar riff similar to \u201cLady Madonna.\u201d&nbsp; Some ad lib banter can be heard towards the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number 34 \u2013 I Saw Her Standing There<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was the flip side of the Beatles first hit \u201cLove Me Do\u201d and is the opening track on the \u201cPlease Please Me\u201d album.&nbsp; It\u2019s a typical Beatles song from their early era and the lyrics \u201cWell my heart went boom, when I crossed that room\u201d was not exactly a portent of things to come but in its time \u201cI saw her standing there\u201d had a lot to offer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number 33 \u2013 No Reply<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This song has no musical introduction and commences with a double-tracked John Lennon.&nbsp; The narrative is about a man lamenting his lost love.&nbsp; It is the opening track of the \u201cBeatles For Sale\u201d album which was the last album the Beatles recorded that included compositions by others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number 32 \u2013 The Word<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is not a boy girl love song.&nbsp; But it is about love.&nbsp; \u201cNow that I know what I feel must be right, I\u2019m here to show everybody the light,\u201d is evangelical.&nbsp; It\u2019s from the \u201cRubber Soul\u201d album which exemplified the Beatles\u2019 musical development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number 31 \u2013 You Can\u2019t Do That<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was the flip side to \u201cCan\u2019t buy me Love\u201d.&nbsp; This is John Lennon at his menacing, aggressive best.&nbsp; \u201cI\u2019m gonna let you down, and leave you flat\u201d as a threat to his girlfriend not being true might be politically incorrect today but it packed a punch back in 1964.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number 30 \u2013 I\u2019ll Be Back<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This gorgeous ballad is the last track on the \u201cA Hard Days Night\u201d album.&nbsp; It was composed mainly by John.&nbsp; Apparently this song was created around the chords of Del Shannon\u2019s \u201cRunaway\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number 29 \u2013 This Boy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This song was not a hit but its flip side, \u201cI want to Hold Your Hand\u201d was a monster hit.&nbsp; It\u2019s a slow somewhat soulful ballad.&nbsp; George Harrison once said that this song was John Lennon trying to do Smokey Robinson.&nbsp; Perhaps.&nbsp; Music critic William Mann wrote in 1963 that the song had pendiatonic clusters.&nbsp; I have no idea what pendiatonic clusters are but it sounds impressive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number 28 \u2013 Taxman<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This song was written by George Harrison and he was the lead singer.&nbsp; John and Paul added some background vocals \u201cMr Wilson \u2013 Mr Heath\u201d.&nbsp; George was complaining about the very high level of tax payable in Britain.&nbsp; There are some clever lines and the lyrics are political and biting.&nbsp; \u201cAnd my advice for those who die, declare the pennies on your eyes\u201d \u2013 \u201cAnd you\u2019re working for no one but me\u201d.&nbsp; The Beatles must have thought that this was a pretty good song because it was the opening track to the \u201cRevolver\u201d album.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number 27 \u2013 Back in the USSR<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paul McCartney said that the concept of this song was inspired by Chuck Berry\u2019s \u201cBack in the USA\u201d.&nbsp; The main thing about this song is the tribute to the Beach Boys \u201cWell those Ukraine girls really knock me out, they leave the West behind, and Moscow girls make me sing and shout, that Georgia\u2019s always on my mind.\u201d&nbsp; The backing is pure Beach Boys and is a tribute.&nbsp; Paul McCartney has said that the Beach Boys album \u201cPet Sounds\u201d is his favourite non-Beatles album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number 26 \u2013 Do You Want to Know a Secret<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a great song which was a mere album track on the \u201cPlease Please Me\u201d album.&nbsp; I am not sure why it was given to George to sing and I don\u2019t think he sang it particularly well.&nbsp; There was a hit version by Bill J Kramer and The Dakotas that went to number 1 in England.&nbsp; The Beatles had so many hits up their sleeve that they could afford to dole a few out to friends and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number 25 \u2013 Got to Get You Into My Life<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the second last track on the \u201cRevolver\u201d album.&nbsp; It has a busting jazzy melody which is complemented by the use of brass, something unusual in Beatles songs.&nbsp; In the last verse Paul lets loose and the brass is joined by electric guitars.&nbsp; Superb stuff and a great intro to the brooding \u201cTomorrow Never Knows\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number 24 \u2013 Hey Jude<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was the Beatles best selling single record.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; It can be divided into two parts, the ballad and the extended fade out.&nbsp; The ballad is not bad.&nbsp; The melody is pleasant enough and the lyrics, giving advice (perhaps to John Lennon\u2019s son) are ok.&nbsp; The fade out goes on for a full five minutes and have lots of people jamming and shouting in the background (apparently including Mick Jagger).&nbsp; I have no doubt that the fade out is the reason for this song\u2019s enormous commercial success.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number 23 \u2013 When I\u2019m Sixty Four<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This track from the \u201cSgt Pepper\u201d Album clearly shows Paul McCartney\u2019s great versatility.&nbsp; It asks if a woman will still be with him when he gets older, when he is sixty four years old.&nbsp; The song was arranged in a 1920\u2019s band style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number 22 \u2013 With a Little Help From My Friends<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the second track on the \u201cSgt Pepper\u201d Album.&nbsp; It commences with the ending of the opening track.&nbsp; The expression \u201cWith a little help from friends\u201d has entered modern day vernacular.&nbsp; The Beatles were into LSD trips at this stage and some of the references in this song may have reflected that.&nbsp; \u201cWhat do you see when you turn out the light?&nbsp; I can\u2019t tell you but I know it\u2019s mine\u201d sounds like being on a trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number 21 \u2013 If I Fell<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This song was written by John.&nbsp; John and Paul sang together into the same microphone when recording.&nbsp; The structure is unusual.&nbsp; It opens with an introduction that isn\u2019t repeated later in the song and the body of the song has no real verse\/chorus structure.&nbsp; The song was featured in the movie \u201cA Hard Day\u2019s Night.\u201d&nbsp; Most of the Beatles slower songs are associated with Paul but this composition by John is wonderful and underrated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number 20 \u2013 Michelle<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This lovely Paul McCartney ballad is on the \u201cRubber Soul\u201d album.&nbsp; It incorporated a few French words and so far as I am aware, is the only Beatles song recorded in English which contained a foreign language.&nbsp; I am not including \u201cSun King\u201d which had some fake foreign sounding words.&nbsp; But \u201cMichelle\u201d is a beautiful song, quickly became a standard and showed Paul McCartney\u2019s versatility as a song writer.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number 19 \u2013 I Want to Hold Your Hand<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the song that propelled the Beatles to the number 1 chart position in America in 1964.&nbsp; It\u2019s a great rock n roll song from that era but really, the Beatles (as followed by the British invasion) were ready to bust open the American charts.&nbsp; In the same week that \u201cI want to hold your hand\u201d went from number 43 to number 1, \u201cShe loves you\u201d went from number 51 to number 11.&nbsp; This song will forever be associated with Beatlemania, those wild frenetic days when four lads from Liverpool with long hair drove girls wild and drove parents around the bend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number 18 \u2013 Norwegian Wood<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the second track on the \u201cRubber Soul\u201d album. &nbsp;If any song exemplifies the change in Beatles style then \u201cNorwegian Wood\u201d is it.&nbsp; George Harrison used a sitar.&nbsp; To my knowledge, this had never previously been done on a pop record.&nbsp; The lyrics tell of a strange encounter with a woman.&nbsp; It\u2019s a lament by John Lennon, a small vignette.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number 17 \u2013 I\u2019m Only Sleeping<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This song was about sleep, or meditation, or just lying in bed.&nbsp; Who knows?&nbsp; There are some lovely harmonies and a backwards guitar.&nbsp; It helped to set the psychedelic mood for \u201cRevolver\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number 16 \u2013 Things We Said Today<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This song is from the \u201cA Hard Day\u2019s Night\u201d album but it was not included in the film.&nbsp; It\u2019s haunting and eerie.&nbsp; It\u2019s an underrated song which is not played often but I regard it as first class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number 15 \u2013 Magical Mystery Tour<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some might say that this song doesn\u2019t deserve to be in this list and certainly not this high.&nbsp; It was written by John and Paul during a period in which most of their songs were written mostly by one or the other.&nbsp; It employed circus and fairground barkers \u201cRoll Up! Roll Up!\u201d Later on it was said that the song was the equivalent of a drug trip and that \u201cRoll Up\u201d was referring to rolling a joint.&nbsp; I love the trumpet playing and the lovely piano fade out at the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number 14 \u2013 Sgt Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the title track from the Sgt Pepper Album.&nbsp; It starts with fake tune ups and then the guys sing that they hope we will enjoy the show.&nbsp; This introduces the album\u2019s thematic quality.&nbsp; The second last track on the album states that they hope we enjoyed the show.&nbsp; The two tracks are different in that the opening track is slower and theme setting whereas the closing track is a rocking number that fades into \u201cA Day in the Life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number 13 \u2013 All My Loving<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is regarded as a classic.&nbsp; It was the third track on the \u201cWith the Beatles\u201d album.&nbsp; It was the first song that the Beatles sang in their famous appearance on the Ed Sullivan show on the 9<sup>th<\/sup> of February 1964.&nbsp; Over 73 million people watched that show which was the largest audience ever for a TV show to that time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number 12 \u2013 Day Tripper<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apparently this song had drug references.&nbsp; I don\u2019t get that but it doesn\u2019t matter.&nbsp; It has a sensational guitar riff and is a classic rocking song.&nbsp; It was the flip side to \u201cWe Can Work It Out\u201d which was more popular.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number 11 \u2013 Happiness is a Warm Gun<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whilst on Tour in the US, John Lennon saw a magazine which had an advertisement headed \u201cHappiness Is A Warm Gun\u201d.&nbsp; Great.&nbsp; You\u2019ve just shot something and you should be happy.&nbsp; John thought that this was insane but also a good title to a song.&nbsp; This song is the last track on the first side of the White album and can be divided into four sections.&nbsp; The last section which features the title of the song is brilliant classic doowop music.&nbsp; The Beatles could write just about any genre of music which they chose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number 10 \u2013 I Am the Walrus<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an interview, John Lennon once said that many of the lyrics which he came up with were utilised only for their rhyming qualities rather for any philosophical or esoteric reason.&nbsp; He probably had \u201cI am the Walrus\u201d in mind when he said that.&nbsp; Surely \u201cSemolina pilchard climbing up the Eiffel Tower\u201d was not meant to convey anything.&nbsp; If the Beatles ever wrote a song whilst they were tripping, then this must have been one of them.&nbsp; Although the lyrics are generally meaningless, I love this song.&nbsp; It\u2019s melodic and weird.&nbsp; Brilliant stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number 9 \u2013 Come Together<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This song is just so cool!&nbsp; It opened the \u201cAbbey Road\u201d album and had some unusual sound effects.&nbsp; The lyrics are largely nonsensical but it all worked seamlessly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number 8 \u2013 Here There and Everywhere<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a lovely song which is on the \u201cRevolver\u201d album.&nbsp; In a later interview Paul McCartney said that he was partly influenced by the Beach Boy\u2019s album \u201cPet Sounds\u201d in writing this song.&nbsp; In an interview he said it\u2019s his favourite song that he wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number 7 \u2013 Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the third track on the \u201cSgt Pepper\u201d album and is all about LSD.&nbsp; Or is it?&nbsp; Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds sounds like a reference to LSD although John Lennon said that his son Julian came home from school with a painting and declared that it was Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.&nbsp; Who cares!&nbsp; This song has amazing word pictures \u201cPicture yourself in a boat on a river, with tangerine trees and marmalade skies\u201d.&nbsp; How about that?&nbsp; I think it was about LSD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number 6 \u2013 Tomorrow Never Knows<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Lennon in writing this song was apparently inspired by Timothy Leary and the Tibetan Book of the Dead.&nbsp; \u201cTurn off your mind, relax and float downstream\u201d.&nbsp; How about that for an opening?&nbsp; Strange sound effects were used and lots of studio tricks which created an amazing soundscape.&nbsp; It\u2019s weird, ethereal and strange.&nbsp; It\u2019s brilliant!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number 5 \u2013 In My Life<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This song is from \u201cRubber Soul\u201d album.&nbsp; It was written by John Lennon and was very personal.&nbsp; John made references to friends; apparently there was a reference to Stewart Sutcliffe who was a great friend of the Beatles and who died before they became famous.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number 4 \u2013 She Loves You<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This song optimised what Beatlemania was all about.&nbsp; On release, it was a huge hit in Europe and Australia but went nowhere in the US.&nbsp; That is until 1964.&nbsp; Apparently the \u201cyeah yeah yeah\u201d was taken from a Bobby Rydell song called \u201cWe Got Love\u201d.&nbsp; The Beatles who weren\u2019t well known were an opening act for Bobby Rydell and they took note of the \u201cyeah yeah yeah\u201d.&nbsp; I wonder if Bobby Rydell got any royalties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number 3 \u2013 A Day in the Life<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This song was inspired by various articles that John and Paul read in newspapers.&nbsp; It\u2019s like a collage, a montage.&nbsp; \u201cI\u2019d love to turn you on\u201d is a reference to getting high or tripping surely!&nbsp; The soaring orchestral passages half way through and at the end of the song (followed by an interminable note) describe experiencing a trip.&nbsp; The middle part talks about waking up and going back to sleep again.&nbsp; This song closed the \u201cSgt Pepper\u201d album and is a masterpiece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number 2 \u2013 Eleanor Rigby<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This song was on the \u201cRevolver\u201d album.&nbsp; It tells a story in three brief verses.&nbsp; The violin backing gives the song a medieval baroque feel.&nbsp; Ray Charles made a great funky version of this song but frankly, his version is a different song.&nbsp; This song was written in 1966 when the Beatles were still in their early to middle twenties.&nbsp; Paul McCartney is a genius.&nbsp; So was John, but anyway\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>And so, before number one, I\u2019d like to do some honourable mentions.\u00a0 Now honourable mentions refers to songs that didn\u2019t quite make it into my top 40 favourites.\u00a0 But there are so many Beatles songs that almost made it that they could hardly be called honourable mentions.\u00a0 So instead, I am going to list my three favourite Beatles recordings which they did not write.\u00a0 And so, in descending order:-<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number 3 \u2013 \u201cRoll Over Beethoven\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the opening track on the second side of the \u201cWith the Beatles\u201d album.&nbsp; It features George Harrison double tracked and is frenetic and exciting.&nbsp; Perhaps Chuck Berry would have approved of this version of his classic song.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number 2 \u2013 \u201cMoney\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Lennon does a great shouting version of the old Barrett Strong classic song.&nbsp; There is heavy use of piano throughout and Paul and George so some great background harmonies.&nbsp; Apparently, this song led to near riots in the old cavern days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number 1 \u2013 \u201cTwist and Shout\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This song was released as a single in America and had huge sales.&nbsp; Well, all Beatles releases had huge sales but this song was really good.&nbsp; The song was originally recorded by the Isley Brothers and had a more soulful calypso feel to it and I actually prefer the Isley Brothers version.&nbsp; But the Beatles version is just great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Number 1 \u2013 Strawberry Fields Forever<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Strawberry Field was apparently a Salvation Army home in Liverpool about which John Lennon had fond memories.&nbsp; Everything about this song is remarkable.&nbsp; The production (George Martin was also a genius), the structure, the lyrics \u201cLiving is easy with eyes closed\u201d the wistful nostalgic feel.&nbsp; 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