beatles songs which are actually quite good

[killer b]

as with all right-thinking people, i've a general loathing for the beatles - but they spite me by having done a few lovely songs.

here, there and everywhere

norwegian wood

dear prudence

any other nominations?

 

[cliche guevara]

I always liked Eleanor Rigby. Don't rate The Beatles at all on the whole.

 

[Bakunin]

'There Are Places I Remember' and 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' both spring to mind.

Trivia Question: Who played the guitar on 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps'?

Clue: It was NOT George Harrison.

 

[Orang Utan]

tomorrow never knows
octopus's garden
piggies

 

[danny la rouge]

In my view, Revolver is their best work, but skip Eleanor Rigby. Which is dire.

 

[scifisam]

Almost all of Sergeant Pepper.

 

[Detroit City]

any other nominations?

how bout that one that goes "michelle my belle, son le mon qui blah blah blah..."

 

[danny la rouge]

'There Are Places I Remember' and 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' both spring to mind.

Trivia Question: Who played the guitar on 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps'?

Clue: It was NOT George Harrison.

Does anyone not know?

(And you mean the solo - Harrison did play guitar on the track).

 

[Detroit City]

'There Are Places I Remember'

indeed

 

[danny la rouge]

how bout that one that goes "michelle my belle, son le mon qui blah blah blah..."

Wrong!

(Good bass part, though).

 

[cliche guevara]

'There Are Places I Remember' and 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' both spring to mind.

Trivia Question: Who played the guitar on 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps'?

Clue: It was NOT George Harrison.

Clapton. Everyone knows that.

 

[electrogirl]

Agree with Here, There and Everywhere.

I like For Noone aswell. I put them in the same Macca category.

 

[Bakunin]

Does anyone not know?

(And you mean the solo - Harrison did play guitar on the track).

You are correct, Sir, Harrison did play guitar, but the solo was played by someone else.

Anyone not knowing the correct anser is, of course, a cloth-eared gibbon.

 

[isitme]

tomorrow never knows, come together, while my guitar, a day in the life, across the universe, strawberry fields forever, golden slumbers, back in the USSR....

they did as many great songs as they did rubbish songs imo

 

[Detroit City]

Clapton. Everyone knows that.

yea wasn't clapton banging harrison's wife at that time?

 

[Orang Utan]

oh yeah a day in the life is pretty mental

 

[Dillinger4]

My favourite Beatles song is 'here comes the sun'.

For sentimental reasons.

 

[electrogirl]

Charmingly put DC, anyway..

Pattie Boyd.

Famous for having 2 songs written about her, Layla, and Something.

 

[killer b]

Almost all of Sergeant Pepper.

fail.

good call on in my life and while my guitar gently weeps btw bakunin.

i guess we can allow tomorrow never knows, too.

keep this up and we might have a half-decent compilation by bedtime...

 

[Bakunin]

yea wasn't clapton banging harrison's wife at that time?

The story of the end of the Harrisons' marriage is quite a shocker, really.

According to one account, Clapton simply went up to Harrison at a party and said:

'George, I'm in love with your wife. What are you going to do about it?'

To which Harrison, with his then-wife standing right there next to him, is said to have replied:

'Whatever you like, man. You can have her and I'll have your girlfriend.'

 

[electrogirl]

oh yeah a day in the life is pretty mental

I like that one too.

TBF I really like the Beatles, I don't listen to them anymore but I find their legacy interesting.


Anyway is this the best thread to do while Jefe is laid up?

 

[Detroit City]

Charmingly put DC, anyway..

did you really expect anything less?

 

[MightyAphrodite]

Come Together

Penny Lane

Nowhere Man

Hey Jude


I like those.

 

[Detroit City]

To which Harrison, with his then-wife standing right there next to him, is said to have replied:

'Whatever you like, man. You can have her and I'll have your girlfriend.'

 

[killer b]

Anyway is this the best thread to do while Jefe is laid up?

i wanted to cheer him up.

 

[harpo]

as with all right-thinking people, i've a general loathing for the beatles - but they spite me by having done a few lovely songs.

here, there and everywhere

norwegian wood

dear prudence

any other nominations?

All 'right thinking people'? Why? I mean, some songs are good, some bad, but is there some kind of arse licking cult going on here?

 

[cybertect]

I can't let this thread go by without mentioning (B-side of Paperback Writer)

Awesome song and probably Paul's best bass moment.

 

[MightyAphrodite]

good call on in my life

oh yes, i really like that song.

 

[Roadkill]

I used to love The Beatles but I'm no great fan any more. I like 'You've Got To Hide Your Love Away,' 'Penny Lane,' 'Eleanor Rigby' and 'A Day in the Life' a lot, and I still think Abbey Road is a great album, but that's about it.

 

[killer b]

All 'right thinking people'? Why? I mean, some songs are good, some bad, but is there some kind of arse licking cult going on here?

do fuck off there.