MUSIC: The Top 10 Beatles Songs

Due to the Beatles being one of (if not the) greatest music artists of all time, I have decided to make a list of my ten favorite Beatles songs. These songs, requested by some of my friends, are the Beatles songs that I believe are the most artistic, well-made, and great to listen to Beatles songs. I will be making many of these top 10 (sometimes top 25 or top 50) lists, so stay tuned.

10. "Strawberry Fields Forever"

Lennon sings about how "living is easy with eyes closed" in this lyrical wonder-wall. While it's nothing to get hung about, Strawberry Fields is a musical wonder and a joy to listen to, psychedelically classical and epically colorful.

9. "Something"

Ringo gives the performance of his life in a music video accompanying a fountain of romance and doubt with a smooth melody and wonderful Harrison guitar solo.

8. "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"

A song so influential Shatner covered it and they named a caveman after it, Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds is a perfectly confusing and mind-blowingly creative song with underlying messages of all sorts that don't even need to be analyzed to know that Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds is a roller-coaster of an emotional masterpiece.

7. "I've Got a Feeling"

A feeling deep inside told me to put this on the list. Better than the Black Eyed Peas' average party hit, I've Got a Feeling is awesome, plain and simple. Everybody had a bad year, but everybody had a good time, according to Lennon, and McCartney "has a feeling". None of this really matters, however, because the song is so brilliant in it's simplicity and its excellent guitar playing.

6. "Revolution"

An anthem so rocking, so rolling, and so communist-trolling that it couldn't be left out of the list, Revolution was the choice for my 8th grade music video project, and I have no regrets. Everything is always gonna be alright in rock-and-roll as long as Revolution is there to guide musicians with it's pristine guitar solos and sheer capacity for multimedia productions.

5. "I Want You (She's So Heavy)"

The Beatles' heaviest song is also their most simplistic- the same 14 words repeated over practically the same (save the odd solo) guitar work for almost seven minutes. The song fundamentally should fail due to its banality, but it succeeds because what little it gives it gives so fruitfully. It is long and winding, tumultuous and addictive, a song that proves the musical integrity of the Beatles with no want of color.

4. "Come Together"

The perfect accompaniment to a "shoot of coca-cola", Come Together is funky, political, crazy, calming, angering, delighting, enlightening, meaningful, meaningless, and brilliant before it even starts playing. A gigantically fantastic song, Come Together is the most head-bangable of all of the Beatles' songs, and a true example of just how well the Beatles worked together, even under pressure (although that list is for another time).

3. "Hey Jude"

A lengthy ballad about love and optimism, Hey Jude is one of the most well-remembered Beatles songs and is the one of the most hackneyed due to being overplayed. Still, Hey Jude continues to be a classic, a thoroughly enjoyable song with the greatest tangent in music history.

2. "A Day in the Life"

A lyrical giant, musical dragon, and a conveyor belt of amazement, A Day in the Life is the greatest Lennon-McCartney coalition- it is soothing, moving, grooving, and, most importantly, great to listen to. Lennon sings softly of his aloof live experiences, and half way through McCartney bursts in with a spectacle of upbeat psychedelia, only to be replaced again by Lennon. The exuberant song ends with a lengthy musical tornado and a combination of a dozen booming pianos.

1. "I am the Walrus"

I am the Walrus is sheer brilliance. It is musically entertaining, with roaring violin and Ringo's thumping drums. It doesn't need a message to bring across it's musical euphoria- in fact Lennon wrote the song to confuse song analysts (including his old music teacher). This song of the upmost trollery is my favorite because it is simple and complicated, random and robust, angry and happy. It is sheer quality, a song that never gets old listening to. This song's case for being my #1 is definitely not unassisted by the fact that my favorite band, Oasis, made a superb cover of the song. I am the Egg-man, they are the Egg-men, I am the Walrus!