Getting into the Beatles...

White Album is sublime.

Dear Prudence is their most underrated song.

 

Revolution # 9 never gets old

 

Revolver is as good as it gets with the Beatles. Stones? I like Sticky Fingers. Nice variety on that one. Anybody know why Let It Be isn't on video or DVD?

 

And that piercing guitar and the rough, aggressive McCartney vocals in Helter Skelter floor me everytime. I mean this was 1968! I obviously wasn't alive then, but I can't imagine what people were thinking when hearing something like this.

 

Revolver is stil their best, for me.
I, too, love the stuff where you can hear what a kickass bar band they must have been in Hamburg. Exhibit A -- Lennon's blasting cover of Barrett Strong's "Money."

 

You can get a high-quality DVD -- well, as high quality as a 1970 hand-recorded film can be -- on eBay for $20. And I've had it on VHS for years.

 

I like the Grey Album.

 

Good call. I'd throw "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" on that list as well.

I remember back in a high school English class, one day our activities consisted of picking/voting on the best Beatles song. Why? No recall of that, but it was 1979,so maybe that explains part of it.

Anyway, the teacher had 4 classes that she had do this. Three of the 4 (including mine) picked Back in the USSR as the best Beatles song. The other class picked Eleanor Rigby. Clearly, they were out in the parking lot doing bong hits before class.

 

Rocky Raccoon is my favorite by far.

 

OK, if you want to get into the Beatles, start with the Blue and Red albums. Then get Beatles for Sale, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Peppers, Meet the Beatles, Help, Hard Day's Night, Yellow Submarine, The White Album, Abbey Road, Let it Be, and Past Massters I and II.

That should do it. Acutally, as groundbreaking and varied at the White Album and Sgt. Peppers is. Beatles for Sale may be favorite album.

And, listen to Pet Sounds, too. It's McCartney's favorite album.

 

The only incorrect answer to "What Is Your Favorite Beatles Song?' is Revolution No. 9.