My top 50 favourite Beatles songs.

[garycottier]

MY TOP 50 FAVOURITE BEATLES SONGS.(In rough chronological order ).
1. She loves you.
2. I'll get you.
3. It won't be long.
4. All my loving.
5. If I fell.
6. And I love her.
7. Things we said today.
8. No reply.
9. Ticket to ride.
10. Help.
11. Yesterday.
12. We can work it out.
13. Nowhere man.
14. The word.
15. Michelle.
16. In my life.
17. Eleanor Rigby.
18. Taxman.
19. Here, there and everywhere.
20. For no one.
21. Tomorrow never knows.
22. Strawberry fields forever.
23. Penny lane.
24. Lucy in the sky with diamonds.
25. Fixing a hole.
26. She's leaving home.
27. Being for the benefit of Mr. Kite.
28. Within you without you.
29. A day in the life.
30. All you need is love.
31. The fool on the hill.
32. I am the walrus.
33. Lady Madonna.
34. Hey Jude.
35. Revolution.
36. Back in the USSR.
37. While my guitar gently weeps.
38. Happiness is a warm gun.
39. Blackbird.
40. Julia.
41. Mother nature's son.
42. The ballad of John & Yoko.
43. Come together.
44. Something.
45. Oh darling!
46. Octopus' garden.
47. I want you (she's so heavy)
48. Golden slumbers/Carry that weight/The end.
49. Let it be.
50. The long and winding road. .

What's yours?

[Fischman]

Not a big fan, so I'm hard-pressed to find more than a dozen that really mean anything to me. Here's a short list of what one non-fan likes

1. Got to Get You Into My Life
2. A Day in the Life
3. You Won't See Me
5. Tomorrow Never Knows
6. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
7. Taxman
8. I've Got a Feeling
9. The Magical Mystery Tour
10. Blackbird
11. Why don't We Do it in the Road
12. Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
13. We Can Work it Out
14. The Fool on the Hill

Beyond that, I'm hard-pressed to think of anything that really grabs me or isn't horribly overrated.

[tgarritsen]

Early Beatles is nothing compared to their late period. Fun songs and nice tunes but not something that touches you the way a lot of their later songs do.

[WhySoManyCats]

I can't stand Hey Jude. I've heard it before so many times and even those first few times I never really cared for it. I think calling the song the Beatles best work is extremely closed minded. It drags on and on and on. Don't get me wrong, I can enjoy the first half of the song in certain moods but almost 4 minutes of "Na na na nanana na" is enough to make me never want to listen to it again.

[CharlieBarley]

Good list Gary. I started making my own top 100 Beatles list several weeks ago. It keeps changing. But here is the latest version of the top 50:

My Top 50 Beatles songs by Stover75:

1. Strawberry Fields Forever
2. And I Love Her
3. Let It Be
4. Twist And Shout
5. Revolution
6. Hey Jude
7. Eleanor Rigby
8. She Loves You
9. Yesterday
10. Happiness Is a Warm Gun
11. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
12. And Your Bird Can Sing
13. Something
14. She Said She Said
15. I Am The Walrus
16. A Day In The Life
17. The Fool On The Hill
18. Taxman
19. If I Fell
20. Dear Prudence
21. I Want To Hold Your Hand
22. While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Anthology version is ace too)
23. Can't Buy Me Love
24. I Want To Tell You
25. Here Comes The Sun
26. Across The Universe
27. Norwegian Wood
28. Yellow Submarine
29. We Can Work It Out
30. All My Loving
31. Good Day Sunshine
32. Drive My Car
33. Because
34. You Never Give Me Your Money
35. Nowhere Man
36. Come Together
37. A Hard Day's Night
38. Blackbird
39. All You Need Is Love
40. Hey Bulldog
41. Julia
42. Penny Lane
43. Please Mr Postman
44. Eight Days A Week
45. She's Leaving Home
46. Here, There and Everywhere
47. With A Little Help From My Friends
48. Get Back
49. Paperback Writer
50. Back in The U.S.S.R.

[badseed]

Ah man, I wish I could locate my old top 100 I did back when I was on my last big Beatles kick a couple years ago. I think it's on my laptop that fried. Oh well, I'll definitely take a stab at a top 50 since I have my notebooks in front of me to scratch on anyway. Here goes...

1. Something
2. If I Fell
3. Happiness is a Warm Gun
4. And Your Bird Can Sing
5. Here, There and Everywhere
6. All My Loving
7. Two of Us
8. No Reply
9. It's Only Love
10. Got to Get You Into My Life

11. I've Just Seen a Face
12. Sexy Sadie
13. She's Leaving Home
14. Yesterday
15. She Said, She Said
16. A Hard Day's Night
17. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
18. All I've Got to Do
19. Abbey Road Medley (Golden Slumbers - Carry That Weight - The End)
20. All You Need is Love

21. If I Needed Someone
22. We Can Work It Out
23. In My Life
24. She Loves You
25. Revolution 9
26. Strawberry Fields Forever
27. Dear Prudence
28. I Need You
29. Please Please Me
30. I'm a Loser

31. Dig a Pony
32. A Day in the Life
33. Martha My Dear
34. It Won't Be Long
35. Day Tripper
36. Paperback Writer
37. I Me Mine
38. You Like Me Too Much
39. I'm So Tired
40. Don't Let Me Down

41. Norwegian Wood
42. Help!
43. For No One
44. Things We Said Today
45. Penny Lane
46. Maxwell's Silver Hammer
47. I Feel Fine
48. Wait
49. Piggies
50. The Ballad of John and Yoko

[RoundTheBend]

Here's what BEA tells me I rated high and well...decided to sort them chronological as well. I removed duplicates through excel's automated way so the years aren't all true due to compilations. But close enough.

Title Year
I Saw Her Standing There by The Beatles 1963
Twist And Shout by The Beatles 1963
It Won't Be Long by The Beatles 1963
All I've Got To Do by The Beatles 1963
All My Loving by The Beatles 1963
Please Mister Postman by The Beatles 1963
Roll Over Beethoven by The Beatles 1963
You Really Got A Hold On Me by The Beatles 1963
Money (That's What I Want) by The Beatles 1963
A Hard Day's Night by The Beatles 1964
And I Love Her by The Beatles 1964
Rock And Roll Music by The Beatles 1964
Medley: Kansas City/Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey by The Beatles 1964
Eight Days A Week by The Beatles 1964
Drive My Car by The Beatles 1965
Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) by The Beatles 1965
Nowhere Man by The Beatles 1965
The Word by The Beatles 1965
Michelle by The Beatles 1965
Girl by The Beatles 1965
In My Life by The Beatles 1965
Help! by The Beatles 1965
Ticket To Ride by The Beatles 1965
Yesterday by The Beatles 1965
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away by The Beatles 1965
Taxman by The Beatles 1966
Eleanor Rigby by The Beatles 1966
I'm Only Sleeping by The Beatles 1966
She Said, She Said by The Beatles 1966
Good Day Sunshine by The Beatles 1966
Tomorrow Never Knows by The Beatles 1966
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles 1967
With A Little Help From My Friends by The Beatles 1967
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds by The Beatles 1967
Getting Better by The Beatles 1967
Fixing A Hole by The Beatles 1967
She's Leaving Home by The Beatles 1967
Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! by The Beatles 1967
Within You Without You by The Beatles 1967
Lovely Rita by The Beatles 1967
Good Morning Good Morning by The Beatles 1967
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) by The Beatles 1967
A Day In The Life by The Beatles 1967
Magical Mystery Tour by The Beatles 1967
I Am The Walrus by The Beatles 1967
Strawberry Fields Forever by The Beatles 1967
Penny Lane by The Beatles 1967
All You Need Is Love by The Beatles 1967
Baby You're A Rich Man by The Beatles 1967
Back In The U.S.S.R. by The Beatles 1968
Dear Prudence by The Beatles 1968
While My Guitar Gently Weeps by The Beatles 1968
Happiness Is A Warm Gun by The Beatles 1968
Blackbird by The Beatles 1968
Julia by The Beatles 1968
Birthday by The Beatles 1968
Yer Blues by The Beatles 1968
Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey by The Beatles 1968
Sexy Sadie by The Beatles 1968
Helter Skelter by The Beatles 1968
Revolution 1 by The Beatles 1968
Cry Baby Cry by The Beatles 1968
Come Together by The Beatles 1969
Something by The Beatles 1969
Oh! Darling by The Beatles 1969
Octopus's Garden by The Beatles 1969
I Want You (She's So Heavy) by The Beatles 1969
Here Comes The Sun by The Beatles 1969
Because by The Beatles 1969
You Never Give Me Your Money by The Beatles 1969
Sun King by The Beatles 1969
Mean Mr. Mustard by The Beatles 1969
Polythene Pam by The Beatles 1969
She Came In Through The Bathroom Window by The Beatles 1969
Golden Slumbers by The Beatles 1969
Carry That Weight by The Beatles 1969
The End by The Beatles 1969
Her Majesty by The Beatles 1969
Dig A Pony by The Beatles 1970
Across The Universe by The Beatles 1970
I Me Mine by The Beatles 1970
Let It Be by The Beatles 1970
I've Got A Feeling by The Beatles 1970
Get Back by The Beatles 1970
Rain by The Beatles 1988
Lady Madonna by The Beatles 1988
Don't Let Me Down by The Beatles 1988
Old Brown Shoe by The Beatles 1988
I Want To Hold Your Hand by The Beatles 1988
Long Tall Sally by The Beatles 1988
I'm Down by The Beatles 1988
I Want To Hold Your Hand by The Beatles 2000
I Feel Fine by The Beatles 2000
Paperback Writer by The Beatles 2000
Hey Jude by The Beatles 2000

95
Can't Buy Me Love by The Beatles 1964
Long, Long, Long by The Beatles 1968
Back In The USSR by The Beatles 1973
The Inner Light by The Beatles 1988
Revolution by The Beatles 1988
With The Beatles Mini-Documentary [Multimedia] by The Beatles 1988
Tell Me Why by The Beatles 1988
She Loves You by The Beatles 2000
Day Tripper by The Beatles 2000
Hello Goodbye by The Beatles 2000
Two Of Us by The Beatles 2003
Glass Onion by The Beatles 2006
Eleanor Rigby/Julia (Transition) by The Beatles 2006
Drive My Car/The Word/What You're Doing by The Beatles 2006
Gnik Nus by The Beatles 2006
Something/Blue Jay Way (Transition) by The Beatles 2006
Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!/I Want You (She's So Heavy)/Helter Skelter by The Beatles 2006
Blackbird/Yesterday by The Beatles 2006
Within You Without You/Tomorrow Never Knows by The Beatles 2006
Here Comes The Sun/The Inner Light (Transition) by The Beatles 2006
Come Together/Dear Prudence/Cry Baby Cry (Transition) by The Beatles 2006

90:
Love Me Do by The Beatles 1963
Do You Want To Know A Secret by The Beatles 1963
Till There Was You by The Beatles 1963
I Should Have Known Better by The Beatles 1964
Things We Said Today by The Beatles 1964
This Boy by The Beatles 1964
I Wanna Be Your Man by The Beatles 1964
Words Of Love by The Beatles 1964
I'll Follow The Sun by The Beatles 1964
Wait by The Beatles 1965
Dizzy Miss Lizzy by The Beatles 1965
You're Going To Lose That Girl by The Beatles 1965
Love You To by The Beatles 1966
And Your Bird Can Sing by The Beatles 1966
For No One by The Beatles 1966
Doctor Robert by The Beatles 1966
I Want To Tell You by The Beatles 1966
Got To Get You Into My Life by The Beatles 1966
When I'm Sixty-Four by The Beatles 1967
The Fool On The Hill by The Beatles 1967
Flying by The Beatles 1967
Blue Jay Way by The Beatles 1967
Your Mother Should Know by The Beatles 1967
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da by The Beatles 1968
Martha My Dear by The Beatles 1968
I'm So Tired by The Beatles 1968
Rocky Raccoon by The Beatles 1968
Mother Nature's Son by The Beatles 1968
Maxwell's Silver Hammer by The Beatles 1969
All Together Now by The Beatles 1969
It's All Too Much by The Beatles 1969
For You Blue by The Beatles 1970
Ob La Di Ob La Da by The Beatles 1973
Ballad Of John And Yoko by The Beatles 1973
You Know My Name (Look Up The Number) by The Beatles 1988
Please Please Me Mini-Documentary [Multimedia] by The Beatles 1988
A Hard Day's Night by The Beatles 1988
If I Fell by The Beatles 1988
Any Time At All by The Beatles 1988
I'll Cry Instead by The Beatles 1988
She's A Woman by The Beatles 1988
We Can Work It Out by The Beatles 2000