PMA is giving away an awesome Lithograph of the Fab Four in honor of the release of their remastered discography in mono AND stereo (and the release of the awesome, awesome Beatles Rockband). You can see the lithograph pictured above (click to enlarge).
Read on to enter, leave a comment with your favorite Beatles song OR album (up to comment #17, if you submitted your favorite Beatles album, you’re OK) and why it’s so special to you. Make sure to leave your name and email address in the given fields. Open only to US addressees. And if you don’t live in the US, I would still be interested in knowing what your favorite Beatles song is. 
Mine? “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” “Come Together,” “Across The Universe,” AND “Hey Jude.” So that’s four songs, sue me. I run this bitch.
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“In My Life”. When you can assign several wonderful memories to one song, you know it’s special.
This one’s mine. Followed by “Ticket To Ride” and “You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away”.
I prefer the Stones.
Damn~
It’s hard to say which Beatle’s song is the best, in my opinion.. It changes all they time.. I suppose one of my favorite albums from the Beatles is Revolver.
1 I love the art work.
2. I love Eleanor Rigby, it’s so British i love the strings. Macca’s vocals. The song tells a story…not some crap vocals put together – like some music made today.
3.She Said, for it’s guitar riffs are off the hook! John’s voice amazing I’m Only Sleeping – It just effin rawks It makes me happy! catching lyrics. ” Everybody seems to think I’m lazy-I don’t mind I think their crazy” lol
4.Here there & Everywhere- freakin genius -poetic…
5. For No One-haunting and the hopsicord brings it all together, not to mention the vocals & lyrics
These are some of my reasons The Beatles the most important, Brilliant band of OUR time!~
hb
Lately I can’t get “I’m so tired” out of my head, but ultimately “Help!” has the most lasting value for me.
While my Guitar Gently Weeps.
It is just absolutely beautiful.
“Because” – for a memory inspired, in part, by a (psychelically-influenced) viewing of Cirque du Soleil’s “Love”, and the concomitant remixing of the song. Pardon my cliché:
She and I are enveloped in wilderness – warm blue air, painted clouds, trees. The grass feels as soft as her hair. Nothing is agitated… nor is anything static.
Silence and time flow through the space, each more fluidly than the other.
Suddenly the ground begins to sing. As if the Earth were humming, sounds emanate from branch and slope, Gaia sings, and it says:
Because the world is round… because the sky is blue… because the wind is high…
It blows my mind.
“I Will” =)
Is there such a thing as an obscure Beatles song? I think we’ve collectively poured over their back catalog so extensively that no such wonder exists.
As for me, it’s definitely ‘Girl’.
My favorite song and the first Beatles song I remember hearing is Across The Universe. It is the most poetic piece of art I have ever experienced.
I’ve Just Seen a Face. I love it because it’s like an espresso shot- it’s only two minutes but instantly makes any womper day brighter.
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“We Can Work It Out.” When I was really young, I remember my dad playing nothing but the Beatles for me on my way to Kindergarden and lower school. I remember singing this song in particular with him on the way there, and now whenever I hear it, I always reminisce about what was a bright, innocent time, and something I’ve always related The Beatles with.
I love the way the song ebbs and flows, but never loses it momentum with that intense tambourine, and I also love the way John’s middle section (“Life is very short…”) is the perfect foil for Paul’s sunny optimism.
Now, 15 years later, whenever I put on that song, I feel like a kid again.
Happiness is a Warm Gun. I had two phases of Beatle exploration and appreciation. First, as the son of an avowed rocker (every Hendrix, the Who, Beatles, Rolling Stones vinyl providing a landscape of discovery to 8 year old me, stacked in a bookshelf in our living room)(my dad playing his guitar, giving me Chocolate Watchmen tapes to listen to), I was exposed explicitly to the Beatles early on. My two favorite cartoons were TMNT & Yellow Submarine. But it wasn’t till late in high school, when I’d long abandoned the classics for punk, metal, and such, that I finally went back and listened to The Beatles with a developed sense of music, and I was able to fall in love all over again. The beautiful harmonies, rockin’ guitars, and underlying venom and sardonic commentary, – Happiness is a Warm Gun perfectly captured, for me, the legitimation of rock n roll as art.
Oops – typo – it was ‘64!
“All My Loving,” because it takes me back to September of ‘65, seeing the Fab Four at Chicago’s Universal Amphitheather (tickets were $6.50). By the way, I deserve the litho as an indirect payback for the three shoeboxes of Beatle cards that my mother dis-carded (no pun intended) when she cleaned out the crawl space ten years after.
“Eight Days a Week” cuz it’s sic. Holla
I don’t live in the US either.
My favourite has to be Across the Universe. its poetic, psychedelic, and just so hauntingly beautiful (especially the one featured in the beatles anthology 2 disc).
I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
That song is 7 minutes of absolute madness. They just hit everything so hard. And there are all of these minute style changes within the song. It just keeps giving and giving for 7 minutes straight, never growing weary.
Hey Jude
It was the first song I taught myself how to play by ear on piano when I was growing up.
in my life
my dad introduced me to the beatles when i was very little and i’ve grown to appreciate all their songs. this is also my dad’s favorite song. it’s a good song to listen to while you reminisce about all the things you’ve done and all the people you have met that have changed your life.
I won’t do the classic name the most obscure beatles track possible trick to earn some kudos here but i have to say my favorit songs are two of the most over analyzed and cliched “Eleanor Rigby” and “A day in the life” respectively these songs were the first beatles song i heard and the only one i have heard sung live by a beatle. Elenour Rigby is a song i can i can listen to again and again with it never losing meaning also @Aliah i dont know the exact details but Elenour Rigby was real person who is buried at the church Paul Mcartney(correct me if i have the wrong beatle) sang at when he was a young boy. I also had the strange privelage to hear Paul Mcarteny join Neil Young onstage in london for a day in the life which was amazing moment for me!
If I had to choose only one, Penny Lane.
I did a year abroad in Liverpool, and visited all the old Beatles haunts. The Beatles Story Museum (go visit, it’s a must for any fan) and Mathew Street and the Cavern Pub where they got their big break. But my favorite part was walking down Penny Lane, while listening to Penny Lane. When I was able to be in the exact places they were singing about, it was as if I was listening to the Beatles in their Prime, instead of almost 40 years later. I was a mild Beatles fan until I lived in their hometown, but while I was there, I threw myself into all things Liverpudlian, and fell in love with them. The only thing I didn’t do was stay in the Beatles themed hotel, but that will be taken care of next May, when I go back for my annual visit.
For scientifical purposes, my other favorites are Come Together, This Boy, Yesterday, and Hard Days Night.
I do live in the US, and apparently someone on here dissed the Beatles… (wtf?!?) so…
I really love the Beatles! I remember when my dad used to play old LPs of the Beatles… Blackbird especially reminds me of him because he loved that song in particular. I would still have to say that my favorite album is Abbey Road and always has been and probably always will be. Not to put down the others, but there’s just a lot of really great songs on that one…
I don’t live in US but I’m sharing.
Eleanor Rigby. Because for years (and until now) I think she’s real and I want to meet her (if she’s sill alive).
Hey Jude is by far my favorite because it was one of a total of about 10 songs that were listened on repeat for 5 months while travelling across Australia. Whenever the end of it comes on and the na-na-na part starts everyone would start screaming along and the song would get sung over and over again after the next song had finished.
It’s pretty hard not to just say everything is my favorite, but I’ll go with Get Back. It’s my dad’s favorite song ever, so it always reminds me of him when I hear it, and the video of the Beatles playing the song on a rooftop always reminds me of how epic and just cool and fun music and musicians can be, even when they’ve spent much of their lives honing their work in studios and practice areas. Also, Get Back, like 90% of the Beatles’ catalog just makes me smile and lift my head no matter what’s been happening before I listen to it.
Strawberry Fields Forever.
My dad gave me a 45 single of this when I was a kid in the 80’s and I had a Fischer Price record player that I used to play it on. I didn’t understand what it meant but I knew it was something very different. I grew up in New York City and he took me to Strawberry Fields in Central Park. I remember asking where the strawberries were and we went on a “hunt” for them together…we never found any.
Yer Blues – White Album. It shows the blues side the Beatles have that we so rarely get to hear. It is performed better by the Dirty Mac the supergroup formed for the “Rolling Stones Rock ‘n’ Roll Circus”. But still a great song either way.
I Feel Fine. The intro is pure ear sex. knowing this song also helped me get extra credit on my last music midterm. couldn’t ask for a better song
Pfft, the Beatles? They haven’t put out a decent album in like forever
Hate on me all you want for choosing a song from their “boy band” era, but I love their version of Twist and Shout, purely because John’s voice is so raw in it. Think about it, when’s the last time you heard a popular song in which you could hear the singer’s voice on the verge of breaking every few bars? Everything is so polished and perfected now that singers basically sound like robots. I like hearing the intake of breath, the “mistakes,” the strain to hit the notes… it just makes the whole song come alive, and reminds you that despite all the fame, the drama, the larger-than-life personas… they were still just four guys.
‘Don’t Let Me Down’ is my all-time favorite Beatles song. You can hear the pleading and yearning in John’s voice, it’s so haunting.
My favorite album is Rubber Soul. The reason is quite simple: the first time I got laid, that was the record that happened to be on repeat.
Abbey Road. As the last chapter of a story of such breadth, power, and influence- it still amazes me how they were able to pull it off with such grace. Each Beatle got his chance to say what he needed to say for the very last time. And Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/End… just wow.
“and in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make”
“A Day In The Life” I used to love this song as a kid but I’d always change it once the strings build up came in. I still remember the first time I listened through the strings and realized there was more. I was so giddy I jumped up and down.
Still a sucker for their early stuff – think “Love Me Do” is probably one of the earliest pop songs, looking back long before I was born, that I really enjoy.
With 8 thumbs up it has to be Octopus’ Garden. This wasn’t one their ‘hits’ however it struck a chord with me in my teens. The thought of an octopus having a garden and the garden being in the shade was a parodoxal image of both bizzareness and some kind of real paradise that I wanted to be in. For about 10 years I thought I was the only one in the world who knew this song as I never heard it anywhere else aside from when I played it. I still listen to it every once in a while as it never fails to bring a smile to my face and those faces around me.
My favorite album would probably have to be Revolver. I am not really sure why, but it just really stands out to me compared to the others. It could be that for a time I listened to “For No One” for literally hours on replay. That is the song that got me into The Beatles, and it really isn’t a standout song, focusing more on Paul, who is also my favorite Beatle. But Revolver is also the one Beatles album that I feel meld their early collection with their later focus without going all crazy and drug induced.
My favorite will always be “Do you want to know a secret” off the album Please Please Me. My father used to sing it to/with me every night until I was about 7 years old as we sat at the foot of my parent’s bed. It’s what started my obsession with music in general and made the Beatles my all-time favorite band. It’s my earliest memory and favorite one with my dad. This lithograph would mean a lot to me, as I’d probably hang it in my parent’s room at home (my mother named my brother Paul after Paul McCartney — the Beatles obsession is a family thing).
“ob-la-di, ob-li-da” is my favorite song. when i was learning how to play bass, i thought i’d mimic my angsty teen youth faves, like new found glory (i’ve since matured extremely…trust me). anyways, my dad came in while i was listening to an emo cd, pulled it out, put the white album in and told me to listen to some real music and learn how to play paul’s bass line. to this day, i’m 23 now, i play it daily and still struggle to try and sing over it. it’s one of the best bass lines i’ve ever heard on top of the cheery sound and lyrics make this my favorite beatles song!
“Oh! Darling,” because my freshly post-pubescent heart ached with loneliness every time (out of the probably million plays) I listened to Paul’s falsetto in middle school.
I don’t know why anyone would want to revisit that kitschy, overly-sentimental period of their lives, but every once in a while I put it on and wallow in its bluesy goodness again.