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posted by Scot McKnight | 3:32pm Friday May 8, 2009

Beatles song? Well, this one’s hard, but my son Lukas got me into this song:



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Chaplain Mike

posted May 8, 2009 at 3:54 pm


Top Five: (1) A Day in the Life, (2) Let It Be, (3) Eleanor Rigby, (4)tie: Nowhere Man/In My Life, (5) Revolution (single version)
Top Three: (1) A Day in the Life, (2) Eleanor Rigby, (3) Revolution
Top One: (1) Eleanor Rigby
I’ve tried to do this before. This is one of the most difficult exercises imaginable. Kinda like choosing the most impenetrable Dylan lyric!



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Travis Mamone

posted May 8, 2009 at 4:10 pm


So many to choose! My faves include:
-Strawberry Fields Forever
-Hey Jude
-A Day in the Life
-Tomorrow Never Knows



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PDS

posted May 8, 2009 at 4:40 pm


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Current favorite: Across the Universe, especially after I heard what prompted John Lennon to write it . . . . “words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup . . .”
Somewhat related question: Is Danny Gokey emerging, or does he just look it?



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Kenny Johnson

posted May 8, 2009 at 4:56 pm


I’ve always loved Norwegian Wood. I don’t know what my favorite is. My wife and I chose “In My Life” as our grandparents dance (our parents didn’t want to dance with us!) at our wedding, so that has some sentimental value for me.



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Barb

posted May 8, 2009 at 5:05 pm


I remember as a teenager reciting the words to this song to my Mom and having her think that I’d written it. Can’t pick a fav–would be like choosing a favorite child. All Beatles songs take me immediately back.



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Kenton

posted May 8, 2009 at 5:17 pm


Tough choice. Contenders are “Elenor Rigby”, “Yesterday”, “Julia”, and the voices in my head particularly love “Helter Skelter”, but I will go with…
“She’s Leaving Home” from Sgt. Pepper



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Kenton

posted May 8, 2009 at 5:37 pm


Kenny-
Your post brought back a memory. When I got married I HAD to have a Beatles song sneaked into the ceremony. “In My Life” was the first choice, but it got vetoed over the line “All these friends and lovers” (even though it was to be done as an instrumental!).
The compromise choice was “Julia” for the seating of the mothers. (Since John wrote it for his mom.)



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willoh

posted May 8, 2009 at 6:22 pm


Kenton, how did the song, “Jesus, Lover of my soul”go over with that crowd? Lover can mean different things i guess.
“Yesterday”, superbly written.



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Scott M

posted May 8, 2009 at 6:31 pm


Wow. I still have the words to Norwegian Wood memorized. I remember singing it over and over at home or walking in the neighborhood when I was in 6th and 7th grade. But then I absorbed many of the songs from my Mom’s Beatles albums. And I think she had just about all of them. It’s extremely hard for me to pick a favorite. Within You Without You always resonated with me. (Hmmm. We had close Indian friends, my father was co-authoring an Indian cookbook, and I remember going to many Indian movies (this was in the 70s), so that probably had something to do with my appreciation of that song.) I loved Penny Lane, Back in the USSR, I am the Walrus, Help!, the list goes on and on.
But thinking back on that time in my life, I guess I would have to give the nod to She’s Leaving Home for reasons that would be difficult to articulate.



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Ted M. Gossard

posted May 8, 2009 at 7:01 pm


Wow.
I certainly like Norwegian Wood, but Eleanor Rigby would be possibly my favorite.
I liked a good number of songs from the White Album when I was younger and still like some of them- like O-bla-di-bla-da. Yesterday also a faorite. But so many good songs from them. Yes, and with Chaplain Mike I like the single cut version of Revolution.
Sounds like I’m on the same page as Chaplain Mike. Seems I like the Beatles best before they got heavy into their psychedelic era, somewhere in between that and their earlier music.



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Julie Clawson

posted May 8, 2009 at 8:12 pm


Norwegian Wood and Eleanor Rigby are two of my favorites. A Day in the Life though is the best imho.



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DanisLinus

posted May 8, 2009 at 10:27 pm


Without a doubt… Eleanor Rigby



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Richard

posted May 9, 2009 at 2:18 am


Yesterday
I also have a love/hate for “Eleanor Rigby”. As a pastor I identify with “Father McKenzie, writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear” Shudder!!!



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David Johnson

posted May 9, 2009 at 1:07 pm


Let’s see.
List of favorites: “And Your Bird Can Sing.” “Let It Be” (the version of “Let It Be” from Let It Be…Naked). “Real Love.” “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away.” “Here Comes the Sun.” “Here, There, and Everywhere.” “Octopus’s Garden.” “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer.”
Man, even choosing a top 5 is impossible. I guess if I had to whittle that list down to an actual 5, I’d say “And Your Bird Can Sing,” “Real Love,” “Octopus’s Garden,” “Here Comes the Sun,” and “Here, There, and Everywhere.”
I don’t want to pick a favorite.



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My 2 Cents

posted May 9, 2009 at 6:45 pm


I’ve never been a BIG fan of the Beatles…but Yesterday is an exquisite piece. The rest I can listen to or not.



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Steph Seefeldt

posted May 11, 2009 at 12:31 pm


I’m too young to know the ins and outs of the Beatles for real, but the ones I’ve always loved are [meaning, I don’t remember not knowing them – they were just part of forever for me0:
Norwegian Wood
In My Life
Yesterday
Imagine



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Brian

posted May 11, 2009 at 8:57 pm


For the fans of “Yesterday” perhaps this is old news, but for awhile Paul was wondering whether he had inadvertently ripped off the melody from some other song. Anyway, he would sing the melody to others and ask them “What song is this?” Eventually, after enough people responded that they’d never heard it, he decided it was original enough. Also, before he wrote the words that became “Yesterday” he would sing, “Scramble eggs…oh my baby how I love your legs” as he worked on the melody at the home of a girlfriend (Linda, perhaps?) in the morning. (I read Spitz’s “The Beatles” a couple years ago, hence some of my useless trivia which, hopefully, will be amusing and new to a least a few.)
My favs include Hey Jude, Yesterday, A Day in the Life, and She’s Leaving Home. If pressed, I think I go with A Day in the Life.



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Brian

posted May 11, 2009 at 8:59 pm


Uh, sorry, that was “scrambled eggs…”



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