Favorite Beatles song?

Too many to name just one so here are a few

Hello Goodbye

Let It Be

Od-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

In My Life

Blackbird

The Long and Winding Road

Here, There and Everywhere

Many others but I would just be listing at that point

Interesting, both are George Harrison songs. Too many to choose from but Dear Prudence and In My Life constantly invade my brain. It was cool to see Dear Prudence mentioned immediately in the thread.

"Strawberry Fields" is an obvious choice, but lately I find that the much more atraightforward "In My life" is my fave.

If I wanted to get up and dance, I'd put on "Hey Bulldog."

I'll Follow The Sun. Simply wonderful.

Blind Lemon Chicken wrote: You are totally clueless about that song. Read a biography of Lennon to learn the truth.

Hmmm, you are the clueless one. The song has several interpretations. Lennon was the primary writer. McCartney provided a small contribution. They each have different interpretations. Lennon's in is the one I based "Knowing She Would" on; an affair that is not actually an affair because nothing happened that night.

Lennon's Version:

"I was very careful and paranoid because I didn't want my wife, Cyn, to know that there really was something going on outside of the household. I'd always had some kind of affairs going on, so I was trying to be sophisticated in writing about an affair. But in such a smoke-screen way that you couldn't tell. But I can't remember any specific woman it had to do with."

MacCartney's Version:

"Peter Asher [brother of McCartney's then-girlfriend Jane Asher] had his room done out in wood, a lot of people were decorating their places in wood. Norwegian wood. It was pine, really, cheap pine. But it's not as good a title, "Cheap Pine", baby. So it was a little parody really on those kind of girls who when you'd go to their flat there would be a lot of Norwegian wood. It was completely imaginary from my point of view but in John's it was based on an affair he had. This wasn't the decor of someone's house, we made that up. So she makes him sleep in the bath and then finally in the last verse I had this idea to set the Norwegian wood on fire as revenge, so we did it very tongue in cheek. She led him on, then said, "You'd better sleep in the bath." In our world the guy had to have some sort of revenge ... so it meant I burned the place down ...."

so many classics. i prefer the early beatles

here are a couple of great one a little lesser known

and i love her

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96YQdiMV-Jc&feature=endscreen&NR=1

i'll get you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFsH2RCtIxM

oh yeah

anyone heard that "hey jude" and "a little help with my 'friend'" are about lennon's pe nis. Listen to the words.

actually these are great too

if i fell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPKYPI1jjdg&feature=related

you're gonna lose that girl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqs05VLlHB8

Original, possibly

http://youtu.be/Gc2KReUTm1s

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Cover, probably:

http://youtu.be/jvSdFr3niQM

Both Lennon, of course.

knowing she would wrote:

Hmmm, you are the clueless one. The song has several interpretations. Lennon was the primary writer. McCartney provided a small contribution. They each have different interpretations. Lennon's in is the one I based "Knowing She Would" on; an affair that is not actually an affair because nothing happened that night.

Lennon's Version:

"I was very careful and paranoid because I didn't want my wife, Cyn, to know that there really was something going on outside of the household. I'd always had some kind of affairs going on, so I was trying to be sophisticated in writing about an affair. But in such a smoke-screen way that you couldn't tell. But I can't remember any specific woman it had to do with.

Of course, you should ignore McCartney's interpretation in favor of Lennon's. And John's quote above is spot on.....except for the last sentence. It is now well known exactly who he was writing about. And it was certainly a full flung affair (not unusual for him). But he wasn't hiding it from just his wife. Do some more homework and learn the truth.

why don't you just tell us, instead of being a douche about it?

"Day in the Life" is mine too. Hard to pick a second favorite but I might go with "Penny Lane."

Mean Mr. Mustard.

Everything you need to know about this life and the next is in that song.

I'm kidding.

D3 Jamz wrote:

why don't you just tell us, instead of being a douche about it?

prolly cause its fairly common knowledge? at least for any Beatles fan

doesn't get much better than this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMTqvhV_nDM&feature=related

this boy

and

please please me

great harmonies - in both songs

I'm a huge George Fan so my favorite Beetles Tunes are align with that:

Here Comes the Sun

Something

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Don't Let me Down

"Goodnight" off the Beetles White Album. It is a song like no other they had ever done. It is a beautiful melodious lullaby. I sing it to my young son before he goes to sleep.

The Lennon qoute is correct. It is from an interview with the man himself. Your version is someone else's interpretation, and incomplete.

Quote Source: David Sheffi (2000). All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. New York

Knowing She Would wrote:

The Lennon qoute is correct. It is from an interview with the man himself. Your version is someone else's interpretation, and incomplete.

Quote Source: David Sheffi (2000). All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. New York

I am not questioning the origins of the quote. My point is that Lennon was being purposely deceptive with his last sentence. For obvious reasons, he was not about to let on about his affair with this particular woman.