I haven't listened to much Beatles. What songs do you recommend?

Happiness Is A Warm Gun
I Want To Hold Your Hand
She Loves You
Helter Skelter
Penny Lane
A Day In The Life
Hide Your Love
Taxman
Drive My Car
Get Back

the entire "revolver" album

'Sgt.Pepper Lonely Heart Club Band' album is in my opinion there best album


If I was to recommend an album to start with, I would suggest the "Love" album. It's a great mix of all of there most popular hits.

JasonWill1980 said:

After watching a documentary about Charles Manson, I don't think I'll enjoy listening to that song again
[Edited 5/21/10 6:52am]

I go with Eleanor Rigby even though its not my favorite.

A Day In The Life

Taxman

That one song that goes "Relax your mind and float downstrem..it is not dying.." or whatever...im lost but the Revolver album is the one to get like someone else already said.

Revolver is my favorite album.

Something is my favorite song (because that bass line is sick).

IstenSzek said:

ive bought it just for eleanor rigby and it was disapointing to me
it just doenst grow on me

paisleypark4 said:

That's Tomorrow Never Knows I think.

paisleypark4 said:

Tomorrow Never Knows

A Day In The Life – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Revolution – Past Masters, Vol. 2
Across The Universe – Let It Be
Hey Jude – Past Masters, Vol. 2
Something – Abby Road
While My Guitar Gently Weeps – The White Album (Disc 1)
Happiness Is A Warm Gun – The White Album (Disc 1)
Dear Prudence – The White Album (Disc 1)
For No One – Revolver
Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) – Rubber Soul
Girl – Rubber Soul
Eleanor Rigby – Revolver
Here Comes The Sun – Abby Road
Help! – Help!
No Reply – Beatles For Sale
A Hard Day’s Night – A Hard Day’s Night
She’s Leaving Home – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Blackbird – The White Album (Disc 1)
Helter Skelter – The White Album (Disc 2)
She Came In Through the Bathroom Window/Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End – Abbey Road

Harlepolis said:

To paraphrase Bono (on the Rattle and Hum CD), we've got to steal that song back. I'm not going to let my enjoyment of it be spoilt just cos he used it to fuel his psychosis

KeithyT said:

I know. Damn Manson! I love Helter Skelter

Harlepolis said:

yep understandable.


I haven't listened to in 38 years.

just listen to the red and blue hits albums (with them leaning over a balcony). if you don't like most off those, then you probably won't like anything else they did.

Stax said:

Twist and Shout!

8 days a week
love me do
cant buy me love
we can work it out
penny lane
i feel fine etc
alot from the 1 album and red and blue album

thx everyone.

Look, if you are going to go after The Beatles you need to listen to everything from start to finish. That's it. There is no Cliff Notes version that you can pursue that's going to give you a truncated version of their importance to what music has become today.

Yes, they are that big and that important.

Get the Red & Blue compilations.

DakutiusMaximus said:

crazydoctor said:

Let It Be
Ticket To Ride
Lovley Rita
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
Lady Madonna
Yesterday
Hey Jude
With A Little Help From My Friends
The Long & Winding Road
Maggie Mae
Come Together
[Edited 5/22/10 9:35am]

Being objective, I think these 10 songs were their most grounbreaking:

1.Strawbery Fields Forever
2.Eleanor Rigby
3.Hey Jude
4.Tomorrow Never Knows
5.Yesterday
6.Something
7.A Hard Day's Night
8.A Day in the Life
9.Drive My Car
10.Come Together


but yeah, as someone has said, get the red/blue box compilation...

Dude, this thread proves once again that the Beatles have like 80 AMAZING songs, I mean, LARGER-THAN-LIFE CLASSICS.

Best band of all time. Period.

TD3 said:

I can dig it.

I remember watching the movie Helter Skelter back in '76 on television. After watching, it made me not have the same like, for the song.

The only thing to do really is get the entire catalog. There aren't that many of them, and each album is absolutely essential.

But for a starting point, the #1's compilation is a nice distillation of their biggest singles.

NoVideo said:

Hey hey, easy there...

Hell, I'm not sure if Beatles for Sale, Yellow Submarine or even half of Magical Mystery Tour are essential. And Let It Be is not thaaaat great to begin with...the problem is that each of those albums have 5 or 6 killer songs, and many of them don't appear in any compilation , so...ehem, did I talk about down_ _ _ _ing the best songs of those albums and just forget about the filler?

But the rest of their albums are a must have that's for sure

JoeTyler said:

TyphoonTip said:

Yep.