Best Beatle Songs

by category


Best Bass


Nowhere Man    Hey Bulldog


Honorable Mention:

With a Little Help From My Friends      Something

Drive My Car    Paperback Writer     Rain


Best harmonies


She Loves You        I Want to Hold Your Hand

If I Fell                     Nowhere Man

Baby’s in Black        Norwegian Wood

Two of Us                Because


Honorable mention:

This Boy      Yes It Is

and the entire Rubber Soul album


Most raucous vocals


Twist and Shout (Lennon)      Long Tall Sally (McCartney)

Rock'n'roll  Music (Lennon)    Dizzy Miss Lizzie (Lennon)

Bad Boy (Lennon)                  I’m Down (McCartney)

Everybody’s Got Something to Hide…  (Lennon)

Helter Skelter (McCartney)

Oh! Darling (McCartney)     I’ve Got a Feeling (McCartney)


Most Underrated Song


Hey Bulldog


Most poignant songs


Eleanor Rigby                      Let It Be

Yesterday                            For No One

She’s Leaving Home            We Can Work It Out

In My Life                            While My Guitar Gently Weeps

All My Loving                       Things We Said Today

Julia



Most poetic song


Across the Universe


Songs benefiting most from the Lennon-McCartney collaboration


I Want To Hold Your Hand          She Loves You

We Can Work It Out                    Drive My Car

In My Life                                    Strawberry Fields Forever

A Day in the Life                         Hey Bulldog


Songs benefiting most from the Harrison/McCartney collaboration


While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Something

Here Comes the Sun


Songs benefiting most from the Lennon/McCartney/Harrison/Starr collaboration


Come Together

Rain


Wackiest songs


I Am the Walrus              Yellow Submarine

Lady Madonna                Rocky Raccoon
Bungalow Bill                  Why Don’t We Do It In the Road?

Wild Honey Pie               Octopus Garden

Maxwell’s Silver Hammer


Most psychedelic songs


Strawberry Fields Forever

I Am the Walrus

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds


Most hypnotic song


I Want You (She’s So Heavy)


Best dance songs


I Saw Her Standing There

Twist and Shout

Back in the USSR


Most philosophical


Nowhere Man               Strawberry Fields

In My Live                     Help!

Within You Without You


Most Upbeat


She Loves You                I want To Hold Your Hand

Penny Lane                     Lady Madonna

Back in the USSR           Ob la di, Ob la da

Good Day Sunshine     With a Little Help From My Friends


Best Story line


Drive My Car
Norwegian Wood

Lovely Rita


Worst Song


Mr Moonlight (no close second)


Most Country-like


I’ve Just Seen a Face

(+ countless covers)


Best unreleased song


That Means a Lot


Song most liked by critics and cognoscenti….and disliked by everyone else


Tomorrow Never Knows