Don't get too excited about my blog being back... it's not. My writing rut most certainly continues. Sorry. I can still make lists, though... and as I sit here watching the 50th Anniversary Beatles special on CBS I thought I'd rank my Top 50 Beatles songs just for the hell of it:
- Please Please Me – a perfect record; arguably one of the purest, most genuine musical compositions of all time
- I’ll Follow the Sun
- Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) - my favorite song on my favorite album
- You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away – John Lennon channeling his inner Bob Dylan
- Got to Get You Into My Life
- We Can Work it Out
- I Saw Her Standing There
- I Will – I sang this one to my oldest daughter every single night until she was three
- Penny Lane
- Let It Be - I often wonder if Paul McCartney knew it was over when he penned this one
- All My Loving
- Here There and Everywhere
- I Should Have Known Better – how can you not love any song with a harmonica?
- Paperback Writer
- Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End – “And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make”
- I Feel Fine
- Here Comes the Sun – George Harrison at his absolute finest
- Fixing a Hole
- The Long and Winding Road
- Eight Days a Week
- While My Guitar Gently Weeps
- Do You Want to Know a Secret
- Twist and Shout – four words: “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”
- Real Love
- Revolution
- In My Life - an amazing nugget stuck smack-dab in the middle of "Rubber Soul" (Side Two)
- From Me to You
- Ballad of John & Yoko
- Blackbird
- Ticket to Ride – always reminds me of the Eddie Murphy “5th Beatle” skit on Saturday Night Live
- Her Majesty – the single best 23-second ditty this side of “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”
- Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
- Getting Better
- Can’t Buy Me Love – if only because it was the theme song to one of my favorite 80’s movies
- Free as a Bird – the only Beatles single I actually purchased myself (since it wasn’t released until 1996)
- Hello Goodbye
- Across the Universe
- Hey Jude
- Nowhere Man
- Julia – a wonderful song about Lennon's mother; I used to sing to my niece of the same name when she was a baby
- If I fell
- Eleanor Rigby
- Drive My Car
- I Want to Hold Your Hand – pointless and uber-poppy, but a sentimental favorite nonetheless
- Yesterday
- Good Morning, Good Morning
- Maxwell’s Silver Hammer
- With A Little Help From My Friends - because I had to get Ringo in here somewhere
- A Day in the Life
- Day Tripper
