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At our annual family reunion this year (on my mom's side), we played Rock Band II and Beatles Rock Band. I've always been kind of a fan of the Beatles, but actually "playing" these songs really made me like them. So, I figured there must be Beatles fans here as well. So, here's what I want to know:
1. Favorite Beatle
2. Favorite song(s)
Here are mine.
1: Favorite Beatle: John Lennon. I find his post-Beatles career to be better than everyone else's.
2. Favorite songs:
"Come Together" (I love the bass line in this song and it's just so sweet)
"Get Back"
"Ticket to Ride"
"Revolution"
"You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"
"Helter Skelter"
"Let It Be" (yes, I know it's not really a religious song, but it's still pretty)
"I Feel Fine"
For the record, I really don't care for the weird songs, like "I Am the Walrus". They took waaay too many drugs to come up with songs like that.

I have both those games and they rule!! I love The Beatles. Still waiting on that Time Machine so I can go and see them

1: Favourite Beatle: George Harrison
2: Favourite songs:
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band / I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends"
"While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
"Hey Jude"
"Let It Be"
"Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds"
"A Hard Day's Night"
"I Am The Walrus"
"She's Leaving Home"
"A Day In The Life"

Oh God I could go on! Trust me this isn't it on my list of favourites; there's so darn many!

I'll play!

Favorite Beatle: Paul

Favorite Song: "Don't Let Me Down"

John is so witty, George so spiritual, Paul so charming, and Ringo so funny, I like them all. Of course all of them were witty, charming and funny.

If I had to pick two favorite Beatles, it would be John and George. I might be biased because I am a guitarist myself. I identify with John's ideas of what it is to be an artist and with George's Hindu-inspired spirituality. I appreciate John's way with words and George's dedication to his guitar craft.

Favorite albums would be Rubber Soul and Revolver.

Favorite song: Help! The past six years I have played along to this song on guitar many thousands of times (not exaggerating). A couple days ago I recorded a cover version of this song. It is pretty faithful to the original version, but after the ending of the Beatles arrangement of the song, I add an extra verse more of an instrumental arrangement I came up with inspired by the Beatles song.

The Bicycling Guitarist plays Help! June 11, 2011

Favorite songs: every single one of them.

Favorite Beatle: Paul
favorite song: Elenor Rigby
Favorite Abbum: A Hard Days Night

Favourite Beatle: George, John. I actively dislike Paul and positively detest Ringo.
Favourite songs:
"While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
"Getting Better"
"I've Just Seen a Face"
"Here Comes the Sun"

Favorite Beatle: George Harrison. Why? because I like his cover of "Got my mind set on you" plus I like him playing the ukulele which makes him really cool. I also like Paul because he can play like 20 instruments or something.

Favorite song:

All you need is love.

A little late to the party here, but...

1. Favorite Beatle: Hmmm, that's a hard one. At the moment, probably George Harrison.
2. Favorite Songs: Now this is a hard one. The best song, for me, in technical terms is "Strawberry Fields Forever". It is good because it's a personal song, too. Favorite? Hard for me to choose, I love 95% of The Beatles' songs. (The other 5% are songs that are good, but not all the great) Best albums, I think, are "Sgt. Pepper" and "Abbey Road" with "Revolver" and The White Album by a close second.

Favorite Beatle: Paul
favorite song: Penny Lane and Yellow Submarine
Favorite Abbum: Yellow Submarine

1. Favorite Beatle - George and John. Not a Paul fan past 1966.

2. Favorite songs - Plural?

In My Life, Here There and Everywhere, Sun King, Something, Two of Us, For No One, Hey Bulldog, While My Guitar, literally the entire Revolver album (esp. She Says She Says, Tax Man, And Your Bird, I'm Only Sleeping, Love You To, Good Day Sunshine, Tomorrow Never Knows), Across the Universe, Abbey Road medley, If I Fell, You're Gonna Lose that Girl, HELP, The Night Before, Ticket to Ride, All of Sgt Peppers, I Wanna Hold Your Hand, I Saw Her Standing There, Sour Milk Sea, Glass Onion, Helter Skelter demos, Nowhere Man, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Dear Prudence, Please Please Me, Norwegian Wood (early demo with sitar), One After 909, I've Got a Feeling, All My Loving, Here Comes the Sun, Sexy Sadie, I Me Mine, I'm So Tired, Blackbird, Magical Mystery Tour, Fool on the Hill, The Ballad of John & Yoko, Back in the USSR, For You Blue, Long Long Long, Dig a Pony, Dig It, She Loves You, Blue Jay Way, It's All Too Much, Inner Light, I Want You (She's So Heavy), Twist n Shout, Don't Let Me Down, Within You Without You, You Won't See Me, Girl, Think For Yourself, Child of Nature / Road to Marrakesh, Revolution 1, Paperback Writer, If I Needed Someone, The Night Before, Drive My Car, Baby You're a Rich Man, RAIN.


Basically every song ever written with Brian Epstein, and then the Esher / Glyn Johns Demos of everything after.
Anthology is great.


Not a big fan of:

Yesterday, Michelle, Yellow Submarine, Ob-La-Di, Hey Jude, Lucy in the Sky, Let it Be, Come Together, Strawberry Fields, Eleanor Rigby, and The Long & Winding Road

I love the original versions of LWR pre-Phil Spector

I forgot one two.





https://youtu.be/ja7P5890yIM?si=4Co8_cR5j7tOouOo







https://youtu.be/a396v8kuViw?si=4Y647OSwz4jfp-23

Bearing in mind that I'm still 'discovering' the Beatles...

Favourite Beatle: John. Poor sad, angry, nasty, brilliant, dead John.

Favourite Songs: Get Back, Two of Us, Help!, Day Tripper, Blackbird, Come Together, Don't Let Me Down, I want you (She,'s so Heavy), but if I have to pick one then Dig a Pony. I just love thinking on those lyrics and wondering what the hell they meant. You can syndicate any boat you row? WTF does that mean? Anything? Nothing? Many Beatles songs are lyrically a bit too simple for me to really like them but John's are mental chewing gum.

Someone please punch me in the head for forgetting one of my very faves - not to be confused with my very faves, my faves, or even my bests.






https://youtu.be/TmZw8BuqU10?si=Rv2jAfBx-nKO8r6p


Because

Let it Be era Ringo is my second favourite. He looks constantly like he's just woken up from a nap and wants a cuddle. But there's no one to cuddle. Who would he cuddle? Not Paul, he's too busy working harder than anyone else. Not John, he's not interested in anyone except Yoko. George might be up for it but he's so thin and pointy, no good for cuddles at all. Poor Ringo