The Beatles: 10 Best Songs.
The Beatles are the most influential and successful group in music history. The quartet sold millions of records worldwide and has lots of hits on the UK charts during eight years since his first official album until the last one. The following article showed my opinion of ten favorite songs from the British group.
Important to note that covers are not included, my judgment is based on material made by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. Forget “Twist And Shout", “You Really Got A Hold On Me", “Money (That's What I Want)", “Please Mr. Postman", “Roll Over Beethoven".
10. I Saw Her Standing There
“One, two, three four” and a historical band begins. The great vocal from Paul McCartney as your bass lines following the catchy solo by George Harrison and the drums by Ringo Starr. Great album and the best opening impossible.
09. I’m Looking Through You
During the ’60s amount of folk artists emerged in the mainstream industry like Bob Dylan, The Mamas & The Papas, Joan Baez, Donovan, and the Beatles couldn’t stay out there. The “Rubber Soul” brought some influences on “Run For Your Life”, “Girl”, “Michelle”, and “I’m Looking Through You”. It was hard to choose just one, and I don’t know how I could.
08. Eight Days A Week
Remarkable. It is obvious to say George Martin made a fantastic job producing the British quartet, but he showed his skills using the fade-in and fade-out effects at the same time for the first time in music history. One of the first songs that I heard and start to get interested in the group. Furthermore, it's a fun song to listen throughout eight days a week.
07. Don’t Bother Me
George Harrison started his era as a songwriter on the second album. The lyrics about a turbulent relationship with simple arrange were the perfect formula to be the best single in the LP. At that time, his debut was good for him to establish your place among the figure leaders Lennon and McCartney. “Taxman” is sensational, “I Need You” is amazing, but the first one we never forget.
06. You’re Going To Lose That Girl
The lyrics might not be different from the “Beatles standard”, but the instrumental is exceptional, with Ringo Starr leading the bongos and great guitar solo by George Harrison. Despite I do not like the homonym song, “Help!” have huge tracks like “Another Girl”, “The Night Before”, “It’s Only Love”, “I’ve Just Seen A Face”, “Ticket To Ride”, “Act Naturally” (cover from Buck Owens, I love this one). I prefer to choose “You’re Going To Lose That Girl”.
05. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (including Reprise)
After the Beatlemania era, the quartet focused on the studio. No concerts, no television or radio appearances, just make songs and take more time to elaborate and experiment new things. “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” started the new era. The homonym song opens bringing a nice experience of hard rock illustrated by horns, claps, laughs, and whistles from the crowd (making you inside the real Beatles’ concert, which is a purposeful contradiction). Greetings from Jimi Hendrix.
04. Helter Skelter
This one showed they are not a cute and inoffensive band represented by Can’t Buy Me Love and Penny Lane. Actually, the White Album display a variety of crazy, hysterical and noise like “Wild Honey Pie”, “Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey” and “Yer Blues”. However, Helter Skelter represents better all these adjectives inside the context pre-Heavy Metal in 1968. I got blisters on my ears.
03. A Day In The Life
Complexity. It's hard to describe. Five minutes of your own imagination. When I listen to the Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band's last track, a film rolled to my mind following the lyrics and the whole instrumental that supported my creation (no, you don't need drugs to it. just a good earphone or headphone). Probably it's the best work by George Martin as a producer (with Geoff Emerick) and conductor, Ringo Starr and the orchestra's member Tristan Fry dictating the powerful percussion.
02. You Never Give Me Your Money
When you hear this four minutes of pleasure, quickly comes to your mind "This is Paul McCartney". Despite most of the songs written by McCartney and Lennon were credited as a duo (See more Lennon-McCartney. Harrison and Starr were the exception), sometimes it's possible to separate who aggregate more of your own style and I think the Macca's style ROCK.
It is amazing how McCartney could use a joyful and pleasant instrumental (impulsed by Ringo's beat) for a sad lyrical theme: “See no future, pay no rent. All the money’s gone, nowhere to go. Any jobber got the sack. Monday morning, turning back. Yellow lorry slows, nowhere to go”. This is not the first time they were trolling us.
01. Medley: Sun King/Mean Mr. Mustard/Polythene Pam/She Came In Through The Bathroom Window/Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End
One of the most incredible and original things I've heard from them. After a decade recording different materials in different ways, the Beatles couldn't do anything surprising during their decline in 1969. Wrong. The Abbey Road is one of the best masterpieces and showed another positive energy from the White Album. Supported by the success of “Come Together”, “Something” and “Here Comes The Sun”, the medley inside of the Side Two is the album's heart, likewise the studio represented the group demonstrated by its cover.
“Sun King” open the sequence connected with the previous and second track's rank (and it's important to note that Lennon does good Romance language's accent). Then, “Mean Mr. Mustard”, “Polythene Pam” and “She Came Through The Bathroom Window” comes abruptly and you have to listen inseparable again and again to try to understand the lyrical meaning that goes through to the local people, especially the Apple Scruffs.
With the orchestra handed by George Martin and Ian MacDonald, “Golden Slumbers” and “Carry That Weight” catch your attention for each detail and the only thing you can think is: "This live would be amazing". The sequence leads you to the Grand Finale, or just “The End”. Despite the Abbey Road isn't became the last album, in my point of view, this track was made to show the value of each Beatle. If the Ringo Starr's solo sings, it could be: “I was most important than you think”. Following the awesome trio jamming guitar solos, the Beatles say goodbye (not before the “Let It Be”) leaving the message: “And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make”.
It wasn't easy to choose only ten, these are the others that I like: “The Night Before”, “Come Together”, “You Can't Do That”, “You Mother Should Know”, “Being For The Benefit Of The Mr. Kite!”, “Sexy Sadie”, “Honey Pie”, “Maxwell's Silver Hammer” and “Old Brown Shoe”.
