What is your favorite Beatles song (see poll)!

[Bishka]

I suppose there are few here with appreciation for pre hippi Rock n Roll, you know from the 50's and early 60's. Oh well, I am one of them. The earlier beetles are definately the best. You don't have to get stoned or take an art appreciation class to try to figure out what they mean. I can only imagine some hippie smoking a dooby and saying "Ohhh Mannnnn, cooooool, I am the Walrus is soooo deep, they just don't get it!!" Vietnam is over Hippies, get over it. Get off drugs, and take a bath. Oh Yeah and eat NON-organic food! LOL!!!!

Seroiusly though this generations music is far worse than hippie music!

"Let it be" dudes!

Seriously, you don't have to be stoned or take an art appreciation class to figure out what they are saying either. I've done neither.

Just because you don't understand it, doesn't mean it isn't good.

It's some of the most amazing music I've ever heard.

BTW, not all hippies do drugs, not all hippies are dirty and not all hippies eat organic food.

 

[Katzpur]

That's my favorite, too. I think of my son awakening from autism when I hear it.

This is a story you absolutely MUST share with us!!!!

 

[dawny0826]

I'm not a Beatles fan at all.

I think Paul McCartney wrote "Live and Let Die". I do like this song but I don't like the original version. I like the Guns 'N Roses version.

And then you know, Lennon did his thing...Imagine... I LOVE A Perfect Circle's remake of the song. I can't stand the original version. Maynard made it beautiful.

My Mom was really into the Beatles. Maybe that's why I'm not. I've never made a connection and I'm very musical...I love music...the Beatles just don't do it for me.

 

[athanasius]

Becky said;

"Seriously, you don't have to be stoned or take an art appreciation class to figure out what they are saying either. I've done neither.

Just because you don't understand it, doesn't mean it isn't good.

It's some of the most amazing music I've ever heard.

BTW, not all hippies do drugs, not all hippies are dirty and not all hippies eat organic food."

My answer:

Could have fooled me! I go to a liberal infested hippie public school and just about every Hippie I see and have talked to fits that bill. My wife's friends are artsy fartsie! They just love the "creative hippie art". To them 3 red lines on a piece of paper is art! To me anyone who pays actual money for that stuff gets what they deserve.

Oh yeah and they all seem to love the later beetles because the songs are just soooooooo artisic and cryptic, like hey man I just wouldn't understand!

Half of them have been in rehab and several of them don't use deoderant! So maybe there are hippies like you are talking about but not in my area! Like I said, the Vietnam war is over, get over it dudes!

 

[dbakerman76]

That's my favorite, too. I think of my son awakening from autism when I hear it.[/quote}

I ,too, want to hear this story. Its an incredible thought. I always like how we all have different memories for the same songs. Its part of the magic of music.

 

[Kay]

Across the Universe. I love Fionna Apple's version of it from Pleasantville.

 

[Kay]

In My Life

There are places I'll remember
All my life, though some have changed
Some forever, not for better
Some have gone and some remain
All this places have their moments
With lovers and friends I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life, I've loved them all

That's my second favorite. Blackbird is my third (and I love Sarah's version from I Am Sam).

 

[Bishka]

My answer:

Could have fooled me! I go to a liberal infested hippie public school and just about every Hippie I see and have talked to fits that bill. My wife's friends are artsy fartsie! They just love the "creative hippie art". To them 3 red lines on a piece of paper is art! To me anyone who pays actual money for that stuff gets what they deserve.

Oh yeah and they all seem to love the later beetles because the songs are just soooooooo artisic and cryptic, like hey man I just wouldn't understand!

Half of them have been in rehab and several of them don't use deoderant! So maybe there are hippies like you are talking about but not in my area! Like I said, the Vietnam war is over, get over it dudes!

Don't judge something just because it's like that in yoru area. Perhaps they have a different appreciation of art.

You really shouldn't judge them just because they are different and have different tastes. You like the old and the like the new, that's no reason to call them dirty pot-smoking hippies.

 

[lizskid]

In My Life

There are places I'll remember
All my life, though some have changed
Some forever, not for better
Some have gone and some remain
All this places have their moments
With lovers and friends I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life, I've loved them all

But of all these friends and lovers
There is no one compares with you
And these memories lose their meaning
When I think of love as something new
Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life, I love you more

Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life, I love you more
In my life-- I love you more

Great minds!

On the other end of the spectrum, I love "Twist and shout" great party song.

 

[GoldenDragon]

Mine has always been
"Let It Be":
When I find myself in times of trouble, mother Mary comes to me,
speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
And in my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me,
speaking words of wisdom, let it be.

Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be.
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be.

And when the broken hearted people living in the world agree,
there will be an answer, let it be.
For though they may be parted there is still a chance that they will see,
there will be an answer. let it be.

Let it be, let it be, .....

And when the night is cloudy, there is still a light, that shines on me,
shine until tomorrow, let it be.
I wake up to the sound of music, mother Mary comes to me,
speaking words of wisdom, let it be.

Let it be, let it be, .....

Little known face(or maybe not so little) people always thought that mother Mary referred to the Virgin Mary when Paul McCartney was actually referring to his mother named Mary who died when he was fourteen. He had dreams about his mother coming to him saying let it be and that's how this song came to be.

I usually listen to this song when I feel stressed out or sad and often it makes me feel a lot better.

 

[sahra-t]

Great minds!

On the other end of the spectrum, I love "Twist and shout" great party song.

'Tis what I came to post too. I especially like the Sean Connery cover from the George Martin album of the same name.

 

[ChrisP]

I could um and aaahh about this for days, but in the end it's going to come down to 1 of 3 so I figured I'd just post those.

1 Across the Universe
2 A Day in the Life
3. Norwegian Wood
4. Let it Be

And yes I know I said 3... but I couldn't leave Let it Be out...

I'm actually wonder how you managed to leave it out Becky . It's possibly one of the greatest songs written designed for being carried by a vocal.

There's heaps more besides that... but the list would reach 10 quickly.

 

[Ulver]

Eleanor Rigby

Melancholic Beauty.

 

[Ulver]

I suppose there are few here with appreciation for pre hippi Rock n Roll, you know from the 50's and early 60's. Oh well, I am one of them. The earlier beetles are definately the best. You don't have to get stoned or take an art appreciation class to try to figure out what they mean. I can only imagine some hippie smoking a dooby and saying "Ohhh Mannnnn, cooooool, I am the Walrus is soooo deep, they just don't get it!!" Vietnam is over Hippies, get over it. Get off drugs, and take a bath. Oh Yeah and eat NON-organic food! LOL!!!!

Seroiusly though this generations music is far worse than hippie music!

"Let it be" dudes!

Yea... screw intelliegence in music. If it's not about having a straight up good time with a basic love song or about loving a male invisioned god, then I don't want to be part of it. Music that critiques the world or calls for greatness in the world, wow, that would be a scary thing.

Back to the church of the Patriarch and McDonalds.

:sarcastic

 

[Ulver]

Like I said, the Vietnam war is over, get over it dudes!

Yep! The Regan era is back with Bush and things are good. I can be a christian and a capitalistic pig and still act like I'm going to heaven. YEA! Hell, maybe I can even go to White Heaven! There God and I can laugh at mexicans all day long and then take trips in his divine yacht. Plus Jesus will be the life of the party making wine for everyone and telling us jokes about how all that liberal propaganda crap got brought on him. He hated the Poor! Ha....Ha.....Ha....

:sarcastic


Dear God on a popsicle stick.

 

[Arabis]

There are so many to choose, did they write a bad song? I think though it would have to be a toss up between "something in the way" and "across the universe". My 3 year old really likes "baby you can drive my car."

 

[michel]

Imagine

(by John Lennon)

Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
Nowhere below us
Above only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

An icredible song; that one is my favourite, but, as it was not listed, I voted for "Yesterday" which comes a very close second.

 

[Guitar's Cry]

"While My Guitar Gently Weeps."

 

[*Paul*]

Can't bear them or anything remotely beatlesy.

 

[Bishka]

I could um and aaahh about this for days, but in the end it's going to come down to 1 of 3 so I figured I'd just post those.

1 Across the Universe
2 A Day in the Life
3. Norwegian Wood
4. Let it Be

And yes I know I said 3... but I couldn't leave Let it Be out...

I'm actually wonder how you managed to leave it out Becky . It's possibly one of the greatest songs written designed for being carried by a vocal.

There's heaps more besides that... but the list would reach 10 quickly.

I could have sworn I put Let It Be in there!