I had dubbed most of the later albums from my brother’s copies by the time I was 12. I thought I knew the Beatles pretty well. And at the end we get a bonus little McCartney toss off, so it’s like two songs in one, or at least a song and then the song equivalent of those little crispy bits of fried batter at the bottom of a Long John Silver’s box. If Lennon bellowed the impressionistic lyrics like a man with nothing to lose, they could easily be Jeff Mangum lyrics. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and Magical Mystery Tour, but still subtly unsettling, with its slowly descending guitar line and escalating tension as more instruments join in every pass through the simple two-part structure.
It’s a good Lennon song to fixate on: like much of The White Album, it’s more restrained than the psychedelic free-for-all of Sgt. It was your last taste of John Lennon before realizing that he either believed his own rep too much or else was even more of a genius than previously thought. If you listened straight through The Beatles in order, without jumping sides or skipping tracks, this was the last Beatles song you heard before hearing “Revolution 9” for the first time. To say the Beatles displayed incredible growth in their 10 years as a band is an enormous understatement, and that musical evolution is apparent in this track, which reveals a maturity that could only exist after years of songwriting. This symphonic track triggers a deep sense of longing and always invokes a sort of empty feeling-fitting, considering it marks the band’s last No. “The Long and Winding Road” begins quietly, but after those first five words when the strings swell up, it gets dramatic pretty quickly. Below, find our thoughts on the 50 best songs by The Beatles. We included 26 McCartney songs, 17 Lennon songs, three Harrison songs (two of which made the top 10), and four that were truly co-written by Lennon and McCartney. More than 20 staff members, contributors and interns participated, voting for 98 different songs-nearly a third of the band’s brilliant catalog. They are indisputably one of the greatest acts of all time.īut picking the best 50 songs out of the 300+ The Beatles recorded was a project Paste has planned for more than a year. 1 records than any other group in their native England, and sold more records than any other musician in America. No band has quite impacted the trajectory of popular music like John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr did in The Beatles.
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