Greatest Beatles Songs Ever.
Submitted by sydfloyd on Tue, 10/23/2007 - 03:55
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This list was mostly taken from a progressive music web site and on this site. I added a few songs also to. I also wanted to show how early the Beatles did these things compared to artists who I respect greatly like the Who, Byrds, The Kinks and the Yardbirds. I put some dates of the songs I thought were important.
what about revolution #9.....
well actually, strawberry fields forever kicks all the other songs off the list.
I think Strawberry Fields Forever is definitely their masterpiece. I used to say A Day in the Life but I just listened to it now sounds compositionally clumsy and relatively unsatisfying to me. 2nd would probably be Tomorrow Never Knows, then Across the Universe or While My Guitar Gently Sleeps. I suppose A Day in the Life would probably come next, then I am the Walrus & Happiness is a Warm Gun. For me (with understanding that I am no big Beatles fan) the rest becomes, with few exceptions, increasingly trivial.
I went back to listen to these songs I would say most of these songs contributed to the styles you listed. One song I would have put is Flying, Robert Wyatt considers this song one of most forward songs the Beatles ever did and I agree. A Day in the Life the sound of pop, avant-garde, classical and nascent underground sensibilities put together for mass consumption. Though the best song to me is the Frank Zappa like Happiness is A Warm Gun. Zappa like not in sound but for it's Doo-wop, different sections and polyrhythmic structure. The most influential acts in modern music are The Beatles, Velvet Underground and Frank Zappa.
Bob Dylan- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the Beatles influence on him.
Dylan’s gradual move from folk to rock and roll was inspired by the Beatles (whom Dylan “secretly dug") and the Byrds (whose electrified folk-rock arrangement of Dylan’s then-unreleased “Mr. Tambourine Man” eventually went to Number One in June 1965).
Another myth down the drain.
Roger McGuiin on the Beatles importance to folk rock.
When the Beatles had come out, the folk boom had already peaked," McGuinn notes. "The people who had been into it were getting kind of burned out. It just wasn't very gratifying, and it had become so commercial that it had lost its meaning for a lot of people. So the Beatles kind of re-energized it for me. I thought it was natural to put the Beatles' beat and the energy of the Beatles into folk music. And in fact, I heard folk chord changes in the Beatles' music when I listened to their early stuff like 'She Loves You' and 'I Want To Hold Your Hand.' I could hear the passing chords that we always use in folk music: the G-Em-Am-B kind of stuff. So I really think the Beatles invented folk-rock. They just didn't know it."
To everyone music evolves no one invents genres. The only things for certain is The Beatles started the British Invasion not really a music genre, Classic Rock many now consider it a genre. I agree with The Indian music in the true spirit with rock music. Other than that every thing is just opinions. There is no physical proof who did what first.
Tomorrow Never Knows could be the first alternative rock song but who knows. Who cares who invented Folk Rock, The Beatles, The Byrds and Bob Dylan were a big triangle. The ones who are knocking the Beatles are not musicians or just jealous.
Did Elvis invent rock and roll no, did the Kinks invent hard rock no, is Helter Skelter the first heavy metal song no. Did the Velvet Underground invent, alternative, experimental rock and punk hell no. The Beatles did experimental rock already, The Who and the Kinks could be considered first for being a punk rock first. Except for a few instances no particular artist invents whole genres, just ideas.
It's not on your list and wasn't necessarily a "hit", but after having most of their other songs drilled into my head for years - "In My Life" from Rubber Soul still stands out as my favorite.
I appreciate the time you spent at "genre labeling", but some of these are just plain funny.
I am a big prog fan and those so called genre labeling is actually correct. One more thing to you anti Beatles people like Scaruffi the Byrds did not invent folk rock they popularized it. The Byrds have stated the Beatles did it first and you plainly can hear it in 1964. The Byrds did not invent raga rock. True Raga Rock was done on Revoler. The fusing of avant garde and classical Indian Music with psychedelic rock was a big factor in progressive rock. Now I know where someone is getting his or her false opinions.
False opinions? Now that's an oxymoron if ever I heard one
Honestly, you're right, the Byrds did not invent folk-rock. But neither did the Beatles. I have no idea who actually did invent it, but I doubt it was invented by just one band. I think it's more more likely that it was slowly formed, through several artists, over several years.
It doesn't really matter.What I wanted to ask was: why do other people's opinions matter so much to you? They're just opinions, yet you seem to be intent on proving them "wrong" (a technical impossibility, considering they're subjective). Why not let other people have their own opinions?