Favorite Beatles song?

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Flat Matt

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That's an almost impossible question to answer... but I'll try!

Yesterday
Revolution
Back in The USSR
Lucy in The Sky With Diamonds
Here Comes The Sun
With a Little Help From My Friends
Something
Baby You Can Drive My Car
Let It Be
She Loves You
Eleanor Rigby
Nowhere Man
Norwegian Wood

To be honest, I love almost every song they ever recorded. I'm a big fan.

As solo artists, the stand out songs for me are Imagine by John Lennon and My Sweet Lord by George Harrison.
 

blunthead

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Piggy-backing off the Billy Joel and Led Zeppelin threads here--favorite Beatles song(s)? Can include material from their solo careers. :)

That is just way too many. So many great songs from different times of their careers showing their growth and change.
I can't even limit it to a top ten. For a while my favorite will be one song, then my favorite will be moved aside, sometimes only temporarily, by a new favorite. This process had been ongoing for a very long time, which suggests to me it will continue to be in perpetuity.
 

AchtungBaby

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My top ten (at this very moment):
-Strawberry Fields Forever
-While My Guitar Gently Weeps
-Tomorrow Never Knows
-In My Life
-Maxwell's Silver Hammer
-Oh Darling
-Abbey Road medley
-Act Naturally
-I'm Only Sleeping
-She Said She Said

....so many songs I left off. Ha. It's nearly impossible to pick favorites when it comes to this band. Also, I tend to gravitate toward Lennon's stuff despite the fact that he's my least favorite Beatle.
 

Grandpa

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Probably Eleanor Rigby, for two reasons:

1. A melancholy tale that stays away from the standard themes.
2. The Beatles having the creativity to produce a song that is only acoustic strings. No drums, no keyboards, no electric.

While the Beatles made many deservedly memorable songs and, quite frankly, were musical savants who changed the world, after hearing their stuff a few million times, I don't look forward with keen anticipation to their song coming in over the radio. So "favorite" becomes an analysis exercise for me rather than the admittedly jaded listening experience.