Favourite Beatles Song/Moment?

Stompbox

Know I'm probably gonna get slated by some of the regulars here by starting such a thread but seen as I missed Beatlemania by a couple of decades I love hearing any info related to them.

Few for me:

-A solo from each member in 'The End'.
- The 3rd part of 'Happiness Is A Warm Gun', the ska section!
- The Boeing 747 ushering in 'Back In The USSR'

and finally, All of 'Ob-La-Di,Ob-La-Da', a rare dabble with reggae with dazzling results.

PullMyFinger!

Hey Jude

All of it

Killaqueen!!!

Here Comes The Sun

Such a beautiful simple song. Just shows that for all the masterpieces the Beatles created, my favourite song is this.

damonjewel

"within without you", and "tomorrow never knows" stand out for me as real breakthrough songs that basically set the standard for psychadelia.

Mossy Monk

Killaqueen!!! wrote: »

Here Comes The Sun

Such a beautiful simple song. Just shows that for all the masterpieces the Beatles created, my favourite song is this.

Great song. My favourite is A Day In The Life.

guinnessdrinker

Mossy Monk wrote: »

My favourite is A Day In The Life.

Not a massive Beatles fan but gotta agree there, A Day In The Life is my favourite song by them too.

ShaneU

While my guitar gently weeps (Clapton :cool:) and Magical Mystery Tour

Stompbox

damonjewel wrote: »

"within without you", and "tomorrow never knows" stand out for me as real breakthrough songs that basically set the standard for psychadelia.

'Tomorrow Never Knows' is incredible alright.

That piano solo in 'In My Life', technically not played by a Beatles member but it was on the record.

funktastic

Outro to 'Strawberry fields'
'Sun King'
'Polythene Pam'
'Ticket to Ride'
Fast thrill bass note at start of 'Paperback Writer'

Latchy

The guitar solo in cant buy me love (with feed back )

the intro into I feel fine (apparently it's an electic razor)

Intro into the night before

Not a second time ..intresting vocal nasal change from lennon

Guitar solos on the end of abbey road

sure i will find many more ........i'll be back again

Jay P

The White Album. It's all just amazing

leincar

My tuppence worth:

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Norwegian Wood

Blackbird.

funktastic

The intro to 'I feel fine' is feedback via McCartney's bass playing a note.

Beatles had previously covered 'Watch your Step' by Bobby Parker (from 1961) in concert-has very similar guitar and drum patterns. http://youtube.com/watch?v=TvtabNAb_wE

Latchy

funktastic wrote: »

The intro to 'I feel fine' is feedback via McCartney's bass playing a note.

That's intresting because i remember reading a beatles article many moons ago were george harrison said the intro at the start of ' i feel fine ' was a barbers electronic clippers warming up and it does sound remarkably like one to although the note on McCartneys bass is more like it

Beatles had previously covered 'Watch your Step' by Bobby Parker

Does sound very like ' i feel fine .Also the chord structure on the Everly brothers Temptation (who were big influences on the beatles ) sounds remarkably like early beatles like ' a hard days night ' . This is a live version http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Us6UQ5W2xEY&feature=related

Keeping on topic the way snippets of songs are introduced into ' All you need is love ' like the french anthem at the beginning ,glen millers ' in the mood ' and ringo singing 'she love you yeah yeah yeah ........

funktastic

Well I'm pretty 100% that it's McCartney's bass-and everything else I've ever read about the song says so. Might sound a bit like a drill but it taint.

And to be annoyingly pedantic, it's McCartney singing 'Loves you yeah yeah yeah' at the end of 'All you Need Is Love'. :pac:

Latchy

funktastic wrote: »

Well I'm pretty 100% that it's McCartney's bass-and everything else I've ever read about the song says so. Might sound a bit like a drill but it taint.

I am only quoting from a long lost magazine article but we wont go into one of those 'paul is dead ' beatles mystery .It does both sound like an electric bass/elctronic shaving device

And to be annoyingly pedantic, it's McCartney singing 'Loves you yeah yeah yeah' at the end of 'All you Need Is Love'. :pac:

Sounds remarkably like ringo ,be intresting to find out for sure .I still say ringo

funktastic

'Loves you yeah yeah yeah' is sung in the kind-of sarcastic Liverpool tone that McCartney and Lennon put on (in stuff like Polythene Pam). Ringo's voice is more flat/dull.

According to wikipedia it's McCartney and Lennon singing together - '"She Loves You" (spontaneously ad-libbed by Lennon and McCartney)'' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_you_need_is_love

wikipedia entry also says the intro to 'I Feel Fine' is a bass

Latchy

funktastic wrote: »

'Loves you yeah yeah yeah' is sung in the kind-of sarcastic Liverpool tone that McCartney and Lennon put on (in stuff like Polythene Pam). Ringo's voice is more flat/dull.

According to wikipedia it's McCartney and Lennon singing together - '"She Loves You" (spontaneously ad-libbed by Lennon and McCartney)'' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_you_need_is_love

wikipedia entry also says the intro to 'I Feel Fine' is a bass

Thats what i hear at the end ,a dull flat scouse nasel tone like ringos and
Lennon and Mcarneys voice was far more pleasent but i will give you that , however wika has be know to be wrong/misinformed

funktastic

Yeah grand

dh2007

Fool on the Hill
Your Mother Should Know
actually all of Magical Mystery Tour - it's my fav!

and Martha My Dear - my boyf plays in on the piano so I like it cos it reminds me of him!

Bubs101

Octapus' Garden..... Wings

Latchy

Dr Robert
Taxman

The guitar chord changes are so cool .(Paul weller copied a lot of chords from the revolver album )

Mr Kite

Favourite Beatles bits

Raw energy of Twist n' Shout
Ringo's drum loop at the start of Tomorrow never knows
Lennon singing In my Life with so much emotion
Something - still gives me the shivers
Lennon and McCartney harmonising together on Shes Leaving home
When I'm 64 - learn the words, its one for the shower
and finally the demo for Strawberry fields forever with Lennon and guitar only and no artifical double tracking.

Dudess

Day Tripper
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
I Am The Walrus
Strawberry Fields Forever
Magical Mystery Tour
The Fool On The Hill
Come Together
Across The Universe
The Long and Winding Road
Here Comes The Sun, While My Guitar Gently Weeps (George deserves more credit imo)
And my fave: Happiness is a Warm Gun. A piece of genius. And The Breeders' version is as good (imo).

Latchy

Nowere man
The solo trumpet on Penny lane

Producer george martin on the Harpsicord solo during the midddle of Hard days night / In my life .He wasn't called the 5th beatle for nothing .

Notorious

Its gotta be Come Together for me, thats by far my favourite Beatles song.

St Bill

Get Back. I love the guitar and McCartney's voice in it.
Also Hey Jude, what an anthem.
The violin in Eleanor Rigby.
Lady Madonna for the piano and the relentless beat.
I used to love the iconoclastic Lennon compositions more..... Strawberry Fields Forever, I Am the Walrus, In My Life, Norwegian Wood. But now I've gone back to McCartney (seeing as he's single )

Dudess

I love The Ballad of John and Yoko too. I was playing it on a college radio show once and one of the guys burst into the on-air studio and yelled "what the fukk are you playing Stealers Wheel for?!"

I know what he meant. The guitars sound extremely like Stuck in the Middle With You...

The Ballad of John and Yoko - 1969
Stuck in the Middle With You - 1972

"Stealers" indeed...


Just listened to Happiness is a Warm Gun again - oh it's just remarkable. John was such a hot man. And he sounds so sexy when he says "When I hold you in my arms... And I feel my finger on your trigger..." Mmm... I'd have let him put his finger on m-... never mind

It's only hit me in the last couple of years just how ridiculously, insanely young he was when he died...

raindog.promo

A Day In The Life, If you're in the right mood at the right time, it's astounding.

Happiness is a warm gun
Everybody's got something to hide.

And I have a soft spot for Yes It Is.

White Album, Abbey Road and Revolver would be the albums I listen to the most.


Check out the book "Revolution In The Head". Great stuff


And it's McCartney singing "She loves you...." at the end of All you need Is Love. How you thought it was Ringo.....................

Bard

"A Day In the Life" is gorgeous. "Oh Darlin'" is nice too. And yeah, I like "The Ballad of John and Yoko" (and I believe it's "Steelers Wheel", not "Stealers", Dudess...)

But my favourite Beatles moment would probably "Get Back" - the live version, as performed on the roof of Apple - especially the ad-libbing (mostly by Paul) at the end when the police arrived. Great stuff!

Dudess

Oh yeah, A Day in the Life and Get Back - can't believe I didn't include those in the first post.

Boo-yah

- She Said She Said
- In My Life
- She Came In Through The Bathroom Window (hard to pick a favorite song from Abbey Road!)
- You Won't See Me
- A Day In The Life

grumpytrousers

You never give me your money - from Abbey Road. I'll keep on saying it, but there's a chord there, around the 'One Sweet dream/came true/today' part that sounds like the sun coming out.

'I should have known better'. It's simple as hell, it's simple boy-girl music, but listen to the enthusiasm in Lennons voice and the gob-iron work on it.

'I am the Walrus'...not for the song itself and the pschadelic bollocksology that went with it, but there are people who say Ringo wasn't a good drummer. Listen to the drums on that. Playing drums in *that* kind of floppy, sloppy, perpetually behind the beat style isn't easy, and this is one of the best examples. The fills in it are savage.

'Here there and everywhere'. McCartney once said that if there was one Beatles song that he could have with *just* the credit 'McCartney' on it, it'd be this one. I can see why. I remember the day of my 25th birthday, waking up and feeling crap cos i knew that McCartney had written HT&E by the time he was 25. I'm now 34 and i've got Live and Let Die to compete with. Roll on the Frog Chorus years...

'Two of us'. It's not a particularly brilliant song, but it's John'n'Paul doing the Everlys. Whilst they could hardly talk to each other, they could still sing.

While My Guitar Gently weeps...no need to justify it...it's just great, innit...

EamonnKeane

the second part of "you never give me your money"

the rising chords in "Hello Goodbye"

loyatemu

the end of "I want you (she's so heavy)" when they all lock into that circular riff and the static starts rising. So different from anything else in their catalogue...

grumpytrousers

what's quite amazing about reading this thread thus far is the massive bias towards Abbey Road and the White Album; if you ask people their favourite Beatles album, so many will say Sgt Pepper, and whilst there's nothing wrong with it, I've always been a HUGE Abbey Road fan, with Hard Days Night (rather inexplicably) coming in at number 2. Revolver at 3, now that you ask.

Save for a few votes for 'A Day in the Life' and the odd mention of 'Within You Without You' are we finally witnessing a time when people are rethinking the un-rethinkable, that perhaps Sgt Pepper isn't actually their favourite!

Latchy

Dudess wrote: »

It's only hit me in the last couple of years just how ridiculously, insanely young he was when he died...

Ah it annoys the **** out of me to think that they have made a film about the twat that killed Lennon ,therefore given him even more notriety than he deserves as in Quote '' i was a nobody till i killed john lennon '' .......jeesus ...* puke * No twat you were a nobody then and your even less of a nobody now !

grumpytrousers wrote: »

what's quite amazing about reading this thread thus far is the massive bias towards Abbey Road and the White Album; if you ask people their favourite Beatles album, so many will say Sgt Pepper, and whilst there's nothing wrong with it, I've always been a HUGE Abbey Road fan, with Hard Days Night (rather inexplicably) coming in at number 2. Revolver at 3, now that you ask.

Save for a few votes for 'A Day in the Life' and the odd mention of 'Within You Without You' are we finally witnessing a time when people are rethinking the un-rethinkable, that perhaps Sgt Pepper isn't actually their favourite!

I think all the beatles albums from please please me up to Let it be have their own gems on them .My preferences would be 'Hard days night ' revolver ' rubber soul' and abbey road but love all the others nearly as much .

I love on Polythene pam were john goes all scouse as in '' she's killer diller when she dressed to the ilt, she's the kind of a gal who makes the news of the werld ,yes you could say she was atractivley built , yeah yeah yeah ..

raindog.promo

I think the white album is a muso's favourite beatles album and sgt. pepper the average joes favourite album.

Then again, i could be talking out me hole.

Dudess

grumpytrousers wrote: »

'Two of us'. It's not a particularly brilliant song, but it's John'n'Paul doing the Everlys. Whilst they could hardly talk to each other, they could still sing.

Yeah, very true. Ah it's a gorgeous song all right. And I Want You (She's So Heavy) - forgot about that too.
And Norwegian Wood. And Lady Madonna.

lordgoat

Sir Paul's divorce. Or would this be part of his solo career. Total a-hole.

St Bill

Heather, is that you?

Latchy

Mother * the scary bell into before lennon blasts '' Mother you left me ''

The mangled solo betwen poythene pam and she came in through the bathroom window .Only a beatle could do a wonky guitar solo like that

Silly love songs * great brass section *

C-moon * Wings meets James last *

lordgoat

Maybe george harrisons appearance in the simpsons. Musically it was def a high.

norwegianwood

I cant pick just one,so here we go:
Ringo's drumming on Rain-cleared all doubts that he ever deserved a place in the band from my head.
In My Life- Lennon's best song by a clear mile.
A Day in the Life, not my favourite song but it was undeniably a work of art.
Harmonies in Because, sends shivers down my spine every time.
Oh, and Norwegian Wood, obviously lol.

gustavo

So many great moments


Elenoar Rigby - the strings , perfection


I love towards the end of "Ticket to Ride" when John ? sings "Ohhhh She's got a ticket to ride" the Ohh bit mainly

the "let it out and let it in" between lines of verse in "Hey Jude"

Pretty much all of "In My Life"

The little sigh in "I'm only Sleeping"

The last "with a love like that you know shouu --ulld ,,,,,,,,, be glad" in "She Loves you"

The "of the beginning" refrain in Tommorow Never knows

"Hey Up" at the start of While my guitar gently weeps

The bassline in "Drive My Car"

The lyrics in "Norwegian Wood"


and many many more

Glassheart

Cool thread.How did i miss it in the first place?

Favourite songs:

In My Life
Strawberry Fields Forever
A Day In The Life
If I Fell
Across The Universe

My favourite moment on a Beatles song would be the end of Dear Prudence.There is beautiful call and respond thing going on between Lennon and the lead guitar.Starts at 3:18.

The middle eight for No Reply is a great moment too.

Zangetsu

damonjewel
"within without you",

+1

Gently weeps anthology version aswell, I've just seen a face for mccartney, favourite of Johns would prolly be come together, thats where 'cool' came from and ringo octopus' garden, cant go wrong really

Hippo

Too many great songs to list a favourite ten, or even twenty, it's almost impossible.

For just one special moment though, the opening chord of Hard Day's Night....

jasonb

Excellent thread...

As already mentioned, the opening to 'I Feel Fine', excellent intro.

All of Side 2 of Abbey Road ( my favourite album ). It's just genius, fitting all those little parts of songs, a verse here, a chorus there, together.

My favourite thing about the Beatles though? If they did something once, whenever anyone else does it people say 'that sounds like the Beatles'. The Harpsichord in In My Life is a good example, whenever you hear any kind of Harpsichord solo ( or even the solo in Four Season In One Day by Crowded House for example ), you think of the Beatles. They had a Trumpet ( or French Horn? ) in Penny Lane, and whenever you hear a French Horn in a song, you think of the Beatles. That's the power they have...

Sad in a way, but I'm also really glad they were only with us for a few years ( the band, clearly I'm not glad that John and George are gone ), and they quit while still on top of their game. The Rolling Stones show what can go wrong if you just keep on going...

J.

raindog.promo

Hippo wrote: »

For just one special moment though, the opening chord of Hard Day's Night....

Or the opening phrase of Something.

Latchy

Hippo wrote: »

Too many great songs to list a favourite ten, or even twenty, it's almost impossible.

For just one special moment though, the opening chord of Hard Day's Night....

Here is that special moement .My own you tube tribute to that famous guitar chord Twang Twangggggggggggg

And Intresting article i found about that Twang Here . Apparently george Martin may have added a piano chord to ,ahhhhhhhhhha sneaky