100 Favorite Beatles Songs

100 FAVORITE BEATLES SONGS

Yay, time for another list that was inspired by the exact same list!  Last Christmas I got Stephen J Spignesi and Michael Lewis's book 100 Best Beatles Songs - An Informed Fan's Guide from a fellow gargantuan Fab Four freak, and I proceeded to quickly plow through it.  Naturally, I amused myself throughout the read, spending equal moments going "Yeah I can see that" ("Strawberry Fields", "In My Life"),  as well as "Huh? ("It's All Too Much", "Long, Long, Long").  Other entries were entirely predictable, ("Get Back", "Come Together"), yet they would not be choices that I would made in my own such list.  So what choices WOULD I make in my own such list, you are all clearly asking right this very second?  Read on good sirs and madams.

Now the authors of said Beatles songs volume chose not to include any of the group's excellent covers and I likewise stuck with this rule.  As much as The Beatles totally own "Baby It's You" and "You Really Got a Hold On Me", there are over two-hundred original compositions in the Fab cannon and virtually all of them are masterpieces.  The Beatles are and have always been my favorite band, (as I have said on this blog before), and I have been of the opinion for most of my life that they do not have any "bad" songs or albums.  There are less groups that I can say that about than I can count on one hand, John, Paul, George, and Richard topping them all.

So for consideration on these here originals, I went all the way back to the group's earliest recordings through the very last.  Meaning the two "new" Beatles songs "Free As A Bird" and "Real Love" count for inclusion, as does "You'll Be Mine", which is the earliest known recorded Lennon/McCartney original.  Granted the band was still known as the Quarrymen then, but we all know how that ended up, right?

Here's a hint, it did not fare well for the chap on the right.

There may be one other band that I will do a list like this for and you would be right to guess they are the band that rhymes with Piss, but more on that when and if I ever get around to it.  Me and my Beatles fan girlfriend just started watching The Beatles Anthology, which would make it my sixth or seventh time I believe, and that is not counting my reading of the massive book of the same name which is virtually a transcript of the documentary, plus a few extra thousand words or so.  So I have the utmost confidence to make both a well-informed and personal ranking.  If anyone else out there thinks that I like "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)" way too much, Paul McCartney has gone on record as saying that it is his favorite Beatles recording.  So argue with him, not me.  I will have plenty of other entries for you to argue with, I am sure.