Wednesday, September 09, 2009

GATHER 'ROUND ALL YOU CLOWNS...IN HONOUR OF THE RELEASE OF THE REMASTERED BEATLES BOX, I THOUGHT I'D CONTINUE THE DESERT ISLAND DISC THEME WITH MY TOP 50 FAVOURITE BEATLES SONGS. Here are my 50 favourite Beatles songs in alphabetical order:
  • ACROSS THE UNIVERSE (ALTERNATE TAKE FROM BEATLES ANTHOLOGY 2): "Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup"
  • ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE: "There's nothing you can do that can't be done"
  • AND I LOVE HER: "Bright are the stars that shine, dark is the sky"
  • ANOTHER GIRL: "I ain't no fool but I don't take what I don't want"
  • BABY YOU'RE A RICH MAN: "How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people?"
  • BECAUSE: "Because the world is round it turns me on"
  • BIRTHDAY: "Yes we're going to a garden party"
  • BLACKBIRD: "All your life you were only waiting for this moment to arrive"
  • CAN'T BUY ME LOVE: "I'll buy you a diamond ring my friend if it makes you feel all right"
  • CRY BABY CRY: "You're old enough to know better"
  • A DAY IN THE LIFE: "I read the news today, oh boy"
  • DON'T PASS ME BY: "I listen for your footsteps coming up the drive"
  • ELEANOR RIGBY: "Ah look at all the lonely people"
  • FOR NO ONE: "Your day breaks, your mind aches"
  • FOR YOU BLUE: "There go the twelve bar blues"
  • GOLDEN SLUMBERS/CARRY THAT WEIGHT/THE END: "And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make"
  • GOOD NIGHT: "Now the sun turns out his light"
  • HAPPINESS IS A WARM GUN: "She's not a girl who misses much"
  • HELLO GOODBYE: "I don't know why you say goodbye I say hello"
  • HELP!: "When I was younger so much younger than today"
  • HERE COMES THE SUN: "It's been a long cold lonely winter"
  • HERE, THERE & EVERYWHERE: "Changing my life with a wave of her hand"
  • HEY JUDE: "Take a sad song and make it better"
  • I'LL BE BACK: "If you break my heart I'll go"
  • I'M ONLY SLEEPING: "Please don't wake me now, don't shake me, leave me where I am"
  • I'M SO TIRED: "Curse Sir Walter Raleigh he was such a stupid get"
  • I AM THE WALRUS: "You should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe"
  • I WANT YOU (SHE'S SO HEAVY): "It's driving me mad, it's driving me mad"
  • IF I FELL: "Don't hurt my pride like her 'cause I couldn't stand the pain"
  • IN MY LIFE: "Some have gone and some remain"
  • LET IT BE: "Speaking words of wisdom"
  • THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD: "Yeah yeah yeah yeah"
  • MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR: "Roll up"
  • MOTHER NATURE'S SON: "All day long I'm sitting singing songs for everyone"
  • NOWHERE MAN: "The world is at your command"
  • OH DARLING: "I'll never do you no harm"
  • REAL LOVE: "Lonely to be alone"
  • ROCK AND ROLL MUSIC: "It's got a back beat you can't lose it"
  • RUN FOR YOUR LIFE: "That's the end little girl"
  • SAVOY TRUFFLE: "You'll have to have them all pulled out"
  • SHE'S LEAVING HOME: "Wednesday morning at five o'clock as the day begins"
  • SOMETHING: "You're asking me will my love grow"
  • THIS BOY: "He'll regret it someday"
  • TWIST AND SHOUT: "Shake it up baby"
  • WAIT: "It's been a long time now I'm coming back home"
  • WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLE WEEPS: "I look at you all"
  • WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS: "What would you think if I sang out of tune"
  • YOU KNOW MY NAME (LOOK UP THE NUMBER): "Good evening and welcome to Slagger's"
  • YOU NEVER GIVE ME YOUR MONEY: "And in the middle of negotiations you break down"
  • YOUR MOTHER SHOULD KNOW: "Let's all get up and dance to a song that was a hit before your mother was born"

2 comments:

Weaverman said...

Oh, you Yanks! The word is Git not Get! Good list. Are you buying the re-issues ?

Cerpts said...

Oh you Brits! Actually I know the word is usually "git" however in the lyric sheet provided with the White album (as well as John Lennon's pronunciation of the word) it is spelled "get". Don't ax me.

But oh yes I already bought the reissues the morning they came out and have been sufficiently beatlemaniafied since.