Comments on: All Beatles Songs Ranked

By: Kevin Hines

Kevin Hines — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:59:11 +0000

Hey Will, this guy forget to list that great Beetles song, Walk Like an Egyptian!!! Can you believe it?

By: Doibles

Doibles — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:04:35 +0000

I guess I’m the only one who’s going to stick up for “Revolution #9″. Sure, even as sound collages go, it’s not the greatest, but it’s pretty awesome that the biggest band ever did it. Also, it’s not a song.

By: tony

tony — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 05:57:48 +0000

Yeah, the worst song on “Sgt. Pepper” is definitely NOT the #3 Beatles song of all time.

By: Bearsfan

Bearsfan — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:20:32 +0000

What Tanouye said. Also, She’s Leaving Home is Number 3???? It’s a good song, and spoke really well to the zeitgeist or the welschmertz or the Ring Dings of the time, but it’s not one I’d put that high up, just because it never comes up in my “you know what I’d like to hear that I haven’t heard in ages?” brain.

Whenever the Beatles come up, I always think three things.

1) How lucky I was to be alive (though just a wee thing) when they happened for the first time. It was incredible.

2) Mrs. Kelly, my third grade teacher, please give me back my Beatles card collection that you confiscated because it would probably be worth thousands of dollars now.

3) The last guitar riff on “You Can’t Do That” on the “Hard Day’s Night” album is one of the best album closers ever.

By: mitch

mitch — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:44:34 +0000

I kind of feel like if you put all the Beatles tracks into a random list generator, you could make a case for any list it spit out.

This guy has “Julia” near the bottom and “Octopus’s Garden” near the top—that’s pretty close to random.

By: D. Moe

D. Moe — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:57:33 +0000

The Beatles suck.

By: phil

phil — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:29:08 +0000

this guy completely overlooked Free As A Bird.

By: Will

Will — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:09:54 +0000

It’s insane how good the Beatles’ catalog is. But the second page you’re already into solidly good songs. They’re really unrankable in terms of goodness. It’d be easier to take the good songs and rank them in terms of ambition or scale, maybe.

Like A Day In The Life is impressive because of the orchestration, length and melding of two songs — but isn’t, say, I Want To Hold Your Hand a better constructed song? Certainly a better constructed pop song in terms of accessibility.

All of the songs are too good and should not be ranked and maybe never even listened to on account of being too good.

By: Achilles

Achilles — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:01:51 +0000

I agree, I’d rank all Beatles songs at #1 except for “Mr. Moonlight.” Even then, I don’t think it’s bad. I do like “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer,” though.

- Achilles

By: tanouye

tanouye — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:00:16 +0000

I Am The Walrus is number 2?
Goo goo ga WRONG.

Also, I Want You (She’s So Heavy) is not as bad as this list indicates.