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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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“Eight Days a Week” cuz it’s sic. Holla
“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.
Oops – typo – it was ‘64!
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.
“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.
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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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.
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’.
“I Will” =)
“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.
While my Guitar Gently Weeps.
It is just absolutely beautiful.
Lately I can’t get “I’m so tired” out of my head, but ultimately “Help!” has the most lasting value for me.
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
I prefer the Stones.
“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”.