Laugh a minute with Lennon
6
Long Long Long The push and pull, the whisper/shout, the rattling bottles, and the genius of Ringo on drums. I was obsessed with this song for about three months straight back in 2015, then again in 2018, and finally, it was the last song I chose for my stint as a DJ on Sirius/XM's My Fab Four. You missed out on contributing to something great, John.
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Something (10) I mean…! *sigh* It's one of the most romantic songs, ever. George trumps all the over Beatles love songs by creating a MOOD. But props to the rest of the band, this rock song was orchestrated to perfection.
8-TIE
If I Fell (28) and And I Love Her (44) More Lennon-McCartney ying-yang examples of brilliance from A Hard Days Night. I don't want to separate them.
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All My Loving (39) One of the first Beatles songs I was able to play on guitar. Makes a cameo in A Hard Days Night in the nightclub scene. I'm kind of surprised so much of the early work is right here in the top 10.
10
I Feel Fine (65) Feedback giving way to joy. Lennon is up there with Aretha in the fact his humming is better than 99% of the world’s singing. It's honeyed joy. John could be a cynical ass when he wanted, but his pop sensibilities betray him; he had to believe in it, there's no way this could exist without Johnny being the poppermost of the toppermost. And the three-part harmonies of those three singing "I'm in love with her and I feeeeeel fiiiiiine." If I make it to heaven, that's what I want to hear when I get there.
Sirius/XM did their annual Top 100 countdown over Memorial Day Weekend. A number in parenthesis is that song's position on that countdown. I may have to stuff the ballot box for L3 next year...
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