The Beatles: Their Great Singles

Anyone in search of great singles would be foolish to overlook "Hey Jude." The B-side is fab as well. My candidate for the greatest record ever made.

 

You’re so cool and edgy.

 

These are my favorite 45's by The Beatles.

"I Want to Hold Your Hand"- The Beatles use power chords, different styles in different sections, driving rhythm guitars, Twist and Shout buildup, great melody, nice chord progressions and of course John Lennon powerful vocals. The US version has "I Saw Her Standing There" which is one of my favorite rock and roll singles. The combination of rockabilly, Chuck Berry, Little Richard and Ringo's drumming.

"I Feel Fine"- Intentional guitar feedback and recuring guitar riff. "She's A Woman" crunching guitar clips. On a side note I have heard this song may have been influenced by ska. Sorry don't hear it.

"Ticket to Ride"' - Circular guitar riff played by George Harrison and implicit drone sounds to me like a preview to "Rain". Interestingly, this song reached number one before The Byrds "Mr. Tambourine Man.

"Yes, It Is" the primary guitar figure is the use of volume swells and some of Beatles vocal harmonies in my opinion.

 

Made myself a 2CD-R with all the British a and b sides and it was fab.
It would seem to be a natural release but it's never been done.
Same deal with an all covers release.

 

Amazing how many great singles this group had in 7 years.

 

Err - all of them are great. Couldn’t think anything else.

 

…with some exceptions… like the phasing on Your Mother Should Know.

 

Probably trolling. For people who don't care for The Beatles, they obviously get agitated seeing new threads pop up about them. This is their way of showing their disdain. I tend to glance past them.

 

Let's be honest, you don't have to wait long for a Beatles thread or a thread to turn into one.

 

Day Tripper is a perfect song IMO.

 

I love all of their singles, but „Strawberry Fields Forever / Penny Lane“ must be the greatest single in the history of popular music

 

Was thinking about 'Day Tripper' a little while ago.
Remember the glitch it used to have where the sound dropped out for a second?
That seems to have disappeared.

 

'From Me To You' was one of their biggest British hits but I don't think it was even a single in the U.S..

 

Sometimes it looks like EVERY Beatles song was a single at one time or another!

And From Me To You was: it was first released in 1963 and went to a whopping #116!!
Then Vee Jay rereleased it in january '64 as a b-side to Please Please Me and went to #41

 

Going by their actual, UK, discography — I'd say their non-album singles are tremendous.

I was thinking other day, which I've reflected on before, about how The Smiths are last great rock 'n' roll band to do this thing the fabs exemplified— issue a bunch of their career highlights as non-LP singles — unless I am forgetting someone.

Magical Mystery Tour LP is perfect home for the ones that landed there, so always been glad it officially became de facto second '67 album in catalog. Mono / Past Masters is great for the rest, though I don't need to regularly hear different mixes of what, not accounting for overdubs and a coda, are same performances as album takes for the three songs that are on Let It Be / Get Back: the two single a-sides that share those names & the charity LP sped-up Across the Universe. For those three, I place my preferred version of each (two of them my own edits, one from another fan's hybrid) for use in my own Get Back era faux album (er, Let Back). And I don't much need Komm, gib mir deine Hand since it is same performance as English version but with overdubs. Leave those out, include the two Beatles-only Polydor sides issued during their career, the EP-only 1964 tracks, and what coulda shoulda been a great 1968 EP of what became "the four 'new' Yellow Submarine tracks," and there's a quartet of delightful extended play listens. If I had to pick "favorites" gosh, I dunno, This Boy, I Feel Fine and everything from Yes It Is on…

Mono Masters, 01: vol. 1+/-
Ain't She Sweet
Cry for a Shadow
Love Me Do [single version]
From Me to You
Thank You Girl
She Loves You
I'll Get You
I Want to Hold Your Hand
This Boy
Sie leibt dich

~22:30​

Mono Masters, 02: vol. 1+/-
Long Tall Sally
I Call Your Name
Slow Down
Matchbox
I Feel Fine
She's a Woman
Bad Boy
Yes It Is
I'm Down

~22:20​

Mono Masters, 03: vol. 2+/-
Day Tripper
We Can Work It Out
Paperback Writer
Rain
Only a Northern Song
All Together Now
Hey Bulldog
It's All Too Much

~25:50​

Mono Masters, 04: vol. 2+/-
Lady Madonna
The Inner Light
Hey Jude
Revolution
Old Brown Shoe
The Ballad of John And Yoko
You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)

~26:20​

 

I DON'T AGREE!
They were playing the Rock of the Hamburg days, songs like I Saw Her Standing There, Roll Over Beethoven, and Long Tall Sally. The audience's reaction doesn't dictate what type of band The Beatles were. The crowds went nuts because they had never seen a rock and roll band like that before! Absolutely nothing so-called boy band about the Beatles!

 

1). From Me To You (7 weeks at No1 in the UK)
2) Paperback Writer
3) I Want To Hold Your Hand (Aussie '76 1st stereo version)
4) Get Back
5) Lady Madonna

 

Neither do you understand what I was saying. The End.

 

Favourite...Hey Jude/Revolution

Next great single...all the rest.

 

Where and exactly when was this?

 

My favorite? I Feel Fine / She’s A Woman. And yes the heavy US version. Not clean. More noise. More excitement. My opinion only.

 

I understand perfectly, I just don't agree!

 

And if I'm not mistaken Del Shannon put it out as an early Lennon / McCartney cover.

 

You're absolutely right! That's what decided Vee Jay to release it as a single actually!

 

I think this is the first Beatles song that charted in America in 1963.