Beatles Top 25 Songs. Ever. Period.
Apparently Rolling Stone recently published a list of “the” Top 100 Beatles songs. Just in time, too; you can only dodge the question so often at parties before your friends start wondering why you’re always in the bathroom. Having opinions is so much easier when you’re backed by an authority.*
*More good news: Next month Time will be compiling an ordered list of the Top 10 Best Colors, and Esquire will be doing the Best 20 Jelly Belly Flavors. Finally, right?
Now, despite certain moral aversions I have toward the Top Whatever, in the spirit of my 50 Albums Project (The 50 Most Important Albums in My Life, not The 50 Best) I’ve decided to play along. It was my cousin who piqued my interest in the idea when he sent over his personal 25 and I realized how similar, yet so totally different, my own picks would be. I mean, it’s The Beatles. Sophie’s choice was a cakewalk compared to this.
Since the 50 Albums Project started, I’ve not really been posting peripherally on here (and I think it’s better that way), but with this we’re sort of playing in the same ballpark. Consider it an extra. A bonus. It’s here maybe only for me to look back at years later to see how much my tastes have changed.
The trick is to try to make your list in no more than 30min. I won’t lie to you, it’s hard (especially when you get down to ordering). But it is interesting. And you’ve got to be honest with yourself that, given the day (or the stylistic phase), your entire set might change.
So here’s mine. It’s not perfect and the ordering is pretty meaningless but, it’s the best I can do.
Give it a try. And feel free to post what you come up with in the comments.
Honorary Mentions
Oh! Darling
She Said She Said
Wait
Nowhere Man
Run For Your Life
No Reply
And I Love Her
Glass Onion
Rain
We Can Work It Out
Girl
I Me Mine
Top 25
25. She’s Leaving Home
24. I’ve Got a Feeling
23. If I Needed Someone
22. I’ll Follow the Sun
21. Eleanor Rigby
20. Yer Blues
19. Help!
18. Ticket to Ride
17. Tomorrow Never Knows
16. Here Comes the Sun
15. And Your Bird Can Sing
14. I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
13. A Hard Day’s Night
12. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
11. Don’t Let Me Down
10. Helter Skelter
09. Norwegian Wood
08. Julia
07. For No One
06. Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey
05. I’m Only Sleeping
04. Let It Be
03. Happiness is a Warm Gun
02. A Day in the Life
01. Abbey Road Suite
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