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04-04-2025 11:31 AM
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I prefer "Scrambled Eggs"
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My wife and I agree that it's Hey Jude.
But, we also agree that there are a lot of great ones.
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I prefer poached.
Originally Posted by jazzshrink
Might as well makes jokes since the topic is BS to begin with.
But to kind of play along: I find Fool on the Hill has the most interesting harmonic structure. Starts with a major- 6, uses minor-7ths (and adding a #5), etc...
I got into this with a friend when he heard me playing the tune (as a bossa, and reharmonizing the chords). He said, "that is one of my least favorite Beatles songs".
I knew he didn't know the harmonic structure and thus I just replied: and you have the nerve to call yourself a jazz musician!
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"Because" has a great set of chords.
C#m
D#m7b5
G#/D#
A
C#m
A7
A13
D
Dm(b5)
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It is a great song of course.
And it has its special place both in discography of The Beatles - it stands a bit out and away from everything, the way it is arranged and performed (almost solo of Paul with a guitar, and the style guitar comping, even string quartet does not interfere this intimacy), the way it is composed (this 7 bar structure and motives symmetry, also the lyrics, and also how it eas released... everything looks like it is alone or lonely, somthing on its own (nothing before, nothing after)...
(I think the only other song of The Beatles that also stands out of everything so much is 'A Day In The Life' but has a totaly different (almost epic) character... )
I love and know every song of The Beatles and we look at their biggest ballads achievements... whatever we take: Here, There and Everywhere, Michelle, While My Guitar..., Something, In My Life... and many more. And I always preferred John but in this case Paul was really a medium of something else...
Yesterday is like out of nowhere...
and I cannot even say that I really love the song but I cannot but admit that the greatest or not this song is indeed something very special...
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Blackbird is unique... and also Strawberry Fields Forever and Norwegian Wood.
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Blackbird is much more conventional I think. Originally Posted by Mick-7
Most of the Lennon stuff is outstanding: simplicity, but unexepcted choices - very authentic always...
but Yesterday is still something different. there is something mysterious about it.
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From the article: "According to Leslie, that moment came in 1966, when McCartney wrote “Yesterday” with no input from Lennon."
My problem is that Yesterday was on the Help! album, which was released in the UK in 1965...
In the fall of 1965, when I probably first heard it, I was in the eleventh grade, and wrote a parody of the song, reflecting my maturity at the time:
Yesterday
Today was tomorrow yesterday;
Now I'm really in an awful way:
Today will soon be yesterday.
Suddenly
I feel as if something's gonna blow
It was just a couple days ago
That yesterday was tomorrow.
Why I'm so confused, I'm amused... I couldn't say.
You see: by tomorrow, today will be yesterday.
Yesterday
Was the day before the day today,
And a week ago this Saturday
Today's tomorrow's yesterday.
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It's the guitar arrangement that makes it unique, otherwise just a good folk song. John was more musically adventurous - Across the Universe, Tomorrow Never Knows, et. al. Originally Posted by Jonah
Come Together - Guitar Tribute To The Beatles, Vol. 1 - YouTube
Come Together - Guitar Tribute To The Beatles, Vol. 2 - YouTubeLast edited by Mick-7; 04-06-2025 at 12:08 PM.
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Im team Blackbird, Mick. Originally Posted by Mick-7
In general though Help is my favorite Beatles album. Perfect middle ground between bowl cut heartthrob Beatles and hippie ariste Beatles
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F no Originally Posted by Bob_Ross
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I wish the title was different because I read the link and the balance of power theory is an interesting one. But that theme has nothing to do with if Yesterday is the greatest Beatles song. Originally Posted by Stringswinger
As for that theory: Lennon did up his game with regards to his songwriting (verses his early overly pop style), but it is hard to tell if Yesterday or jealousy of Paul had anything to do with that. (maybe more the LSD?).
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Based on playing John or Paul songs I find the harmonies of Paul to fall outside the standard rock\pop structure more than John. E.g. Honey Pie with its Django (Stompin at the Decca) structure, Mitchelle (especially the intro, but the song uses interesting chords), You Never Give Me Your Money (with its Fly Me to The Moon chord structure), Here There and Everywhere (Ok, just the major harmonic chord in G, but hey it has a m7B5), Penny Lane, etc... Originally Posted by Mick-7
Of course this isn't a contest. Maybe I just feel that way because the John tunes I tend to play are from the earlier years. Tomorrow Never Knows isn't a very good campfire song, if you get my drift.
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I vote for "Back in the USSR."
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I always thought of it as a response to "California Girls." Originally Posted by Phil59
"Well the Ukraine girls really knock me out, they leave the West behind... The Moscow girls make me sing and shout...That Georgia's always..."
"Take me to your daddy's farm..." "Come and keep your comrade warm.."
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While Yesterday may be the most covered Beatles tune (and I have played it myself around a thousand times at gigs), I would call it one of the greatest Beatles songs. But there are so many great ones, I could not pick a single one to call the greatest. I like both John and Paul tunes the best. But there is this one by George:
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Something and Here Comes The Sun would both belong in any Beatles Top 5 list.
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When it comes to the Beatles greatest song I tend to go for the singles. I think Paperback Writer is up there, and I also like We Can Work it Out as the definitive Lennon/McCartney team up.
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That said, best McCartney for me might be between For No One and Mother Nature's Son.
But then there's also Golden Slumbers - which works better for me than the Long and Winding Road. It is a sad fact of history that so much attention was laboured on Maxwell's Silver Hammer when it could have been spent on turning Golden Slumbers into a full length song. But then, perhaps a full length version might have got annoying.
Ask me again next week lol.
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Those pair of scousers got their ideas 'Here, There and Everywhere'.
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Exactly why I cannot pick a "greatest" Beatles tune. My choice could be different in an hour. Originally Posted by Christian Miller
In fact, I cannot think of any Great American songbook composer who I prefer to Lennon/McCartney .
A great tune for a jazz combo to explore is "I Will".
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Helter Skelter hands down. The distinctive use of the descending bass line, and the greatest lyric of all times "Well do you or don't you want me to love you?" Doesn't that say everything?
It's such an iconic tune that nobody would even dare to try to cover it. Great tune to do at the next wedding I play.
You may be a lover but you ain't no dancer.
Oh yeah.
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