This REALLY is a good question for wait.

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You Can't Always Get What You Want and Sympathy for the Devil are of a high order. And Miss You, from the Some Girls album, at the end of the Stones' creative period. I also like Keef's explanation for the title Some Girls: 'It's because we couldn't remember all their names.'

I was pleased to find this on YouTube. I didn't know it still existed, as so much British TV of that period was wiped. I remember watching it when it went out on David Frost's show, Frost On Sunday -- in September '68, it says here. Haven't seen it in 50 years and it's just as I remember, and just as uplifting, except in colour, and I think on transmission they rolled the credits over the last half-minute or so. To begin with, as an intro, they play the Frost show's theme.

I like all these except Jealous Guy....never liked that song, for some reason.

Townsend invented the power chord. Guy is a legend and The Who deserves to be spoken of in the same breath as the Beatles or Stones.

In fact, for me, it's:

Beatles
The Who
Zeppelin
Stones

Those are the Big Four.

The Stones have longevity, but except for Exile and maybe Some Girls, most of their albums are filled with forgettable filler. Great singles, tho.

lol I'm probably the only person on the word who loves the Wings album, London Town.

I got into the Beatles when I saw the LOVE Cirque du Soleil show in 2005. Blew me away. Then a friend got me an insane Beatles box set and I've been hooked ever since.

My proudest parenting accomplishment is making my kids Beatles fans. It's hands-down their favorite music. A year or two ago, we saw a Beatles cover band and my son was drumming the entire time. One song came on (don't remember which), and my kid - who would've been 7 or 8 - yelled, "I LOVE THIS SONG!"

I feel that the two songs George, Paul, and Ringo did with recordings of John - Free As a Bird and Real Love - are madly underrated. Real Love is amazing (though I like John's demos better). Both videos are very cool.

My top three: While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Strawberry Fields Forever, Real Love

Where are the fillers on Sticky Fingers? You Gotta Move, maybe, but no others.

And no one care about longevity. I mean, I turned down the chance of seeing them in the early 80s because they were too old and past it, and that was 35 years ago.

An amazing band, my favorite ever even though I don't listen to them very much these days.

I was introduced to them when my whole family watched Help! when I was 8. Me and my sisters didn't understand too much, being 6-10 years old, but especially my older sister and I really liked the music. My dad got me the album, and soon after all of their albums, on cassette, and I listened to them in my room pretty much on repeat non-stop. In fact, I know I listened to The Beatles every single day from age 8 to age 14. I credit them with helping me learn English so well from an early age.

I'm still a big fan of their early stuff, more so than the average Beatles listener probably. Some of their early pop songs are just terrific, I especially like Please Please Me and She Loves You. Of course, most of their A+ songs are found on the later albums; my favorite song overall is For No One, but there are too many great ones to list.

Their greatness and importance as a band can't be overstated, even with the amount of praise they usually get. Some of the tepid takes by the trolls ITT are, well, tepid.

I like all of them. Lots of other good bands too.

my 2 year old always asks for Hey Jude. 4&7 year olds know most of the big songs

The Beatles will always be my favorite, by a wide margin.

I remember bugging the heck out of my mom to take me to the store to get the white album the day it came out. I had been saving allowance for quite some time to get it. I wore it out. I remember, though, picking up the record player arm to move past revolution #9.

Of all the covers I think I like Fiona the best.

As far as other bands, Led Zeppelin is firmly number 2 for me. I appreciate the Who but they just never did much for me. I never liked the Stones when I was younger, but I've really come around on them.

I don't listen to the Beatles 24/7 but they are my usual goto on Sirius.

Gimme Shelter is one of many missing from this list.

I feel like I have done a good job with my five year old. He loves most Beatles' songs, but his two favorite songs are Dr Robert and Taxman.

He also loves to watch old videos of Queen. He spends most of his tablet time watching live Queen shows from the late 70s and early 80s. And plays the piano like Freddie Mercury.

Mm hm. Guess so. And Fool To Cry. And some of the early ones, Come On, Little Red Rooster and Route 66. They haven't kept going this long as a touring act without a bit of a repertoire. Unfortunately they also perpetrated Brown Sugar, which, for a depressingly long period in the Eighties and Nineties, every sports personality on Desert Island Discs always chose because it reminded them of some disco night at the height of their triumph. Which got really quite annoying. At one point it's rumoured Desert Island Discs actually had to forbid older and fatter castaways to pick My Way, the egotists' favourite anthem, because the repetition made the show boring. But I think I'd take My Way over Brown Sugar.

Top 3 Beatles songs for me :

A Day In The Life, Eleanor Rigby, Tomorrow Never Knows.

Favorite Beatles song: She Said She Said
Favorite Stones song: Beast of Burden

The funny thing about While My Guitar Gently Weeps is that, although George wrote it, the lead guitar part you hear is not George's, it's Eric Clapton's.

I was a bit of a Cream fan, and of course Cream's 'Badge' is only called Badge because of George. Eric and George co-wrote the song and George was round at Eric's and they'd both had a few glasses, and in the middle of the script George wrote 'Bridge,' meaning the bit where Eric would noodle on guitar, and Eric couldn't read George's writing and said, 'What's this -- "Badge"?' According to George, Ringo, who was also in the house (George and Ringo were always friendly, being the 'other two' who weren't involved in the ongoing Lennon-McCartney Ego Wars), then wandered in and came up with the line about the swans in the park.

+1 on Beast of Burden

I also love Tumbling Dice.

Favorite Beatles' song: Eleanor Rigby
Favorite Beatles' album: Revolver
Favorite Stones' song: You Can't Always Get What You Want

My daughter is a huge Beatles' fan and insisted on having at least one Beatles' song played at her wedding. I suggested "Here, There, and Everywhere" which she eventually settled on. We later ran into the guy who played it, and he said he had subsequently suggested it to others and several couples had included it in their weddings.

I performed the song for a friend's wedding. It must be going around.

I have always thought it was an under-appreciated song of theirs.

Favorite Zeppelin song: Tangerine
My wedding song : Never Tear Us Apart

[QUOTE=Dominic;54424705] "Imagine" is more treacly than any "silly love song" of Paul's.
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Am I the only one that had to look this word up? Dom never ceases to amaze.

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I had to look it up too. Dom is a true 2+2 legend!

Just to use that word, I maintain that nothing is treaclier
than this:




My favorite Beatles' song: Happiness is a Warm Gun