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