<p>This is a spin off from another thread where we got on the subject of favorite Beatle. Given that the Beatles were such a big part of the culture of our generation, it was suggested that we give the subject its own thread.</p>
<p>So here it is…</p>
<p>Favorite Beatle??</p>
<p>Favorite Song??</p>
<p>Best Album (Well, someone might prefer something other than Sgt. Peppers!).</p>
<p>Lots more than that to discuss…</p>
<p>Still mad at Yoko??<br>
:)</p>
<p>Yippee - bz if you hadn’t started this thread I would have. All you triviality people head over this way–
Favorite Beatle: I was predictable as a child-- Paul (but later George).
Favorite song: Lots. Especially the early stuff. But- if I had to choose one it would be “I’ve Just Seen A Face.”
Album: Help! and of the later stuff, probably Magical Mystery Tour</p>
<p>Anyone been out to the Love show in Vegas? I would LOVE to go out sometime for it.</p>
<p>I love that cocktail napkin cartoon that says, “The guests aren’t leaving. Put on the Yoko Ono music.”</p>
<p>John
Across the Universe
Live at the BBC</p>
<p>Oh Curmudgeon - Haven’t seen Live at the BBC, but “Across the Universe” is so great! Great Poetry set to great music! One of my all-time faves.</p>
<p>Anybody been to Liverpool? That was fun!</p>
<p>fendergirl - is that Fender guitars??</p>
<p>lspf72–have you noticed that “I’ve Just Seen a Face” is the perfect song to sing when you need to walk somewhere and you are in a hurry?</p>
<p>John
A lot of favorites, but one that springs to mind is Blackbirds.</p>
<p>Favorite Beatle: First: George – sex appeal to my thirteen year old self.
Second: John, it’s the politics stupid! (I’m the stupid)
Paul: He’s all we got.</p>
<p>This is in chronological order, not order of preference.</p>
<p>Favorite song, OMG Curm: Across the Universe. Runners up: Come together, Here Comes the Sun.</p>
<p>Favorite Allbum: Abbey Road. (Well it is!) Runners up: Everything else.</p>
<p>Trivia tidbit: Went to Shea Stadium Concert 1965, met John and talked with him at length, 1976.</p>
<p>Favorite Beatle: John Lennon</p>
<p>Favorite Song : While My guitar Gently Weeps</p>
<p>Fav.Song for karaoke 
: A Hard Day’s Night</p>
<p>Album: Abbey Road</p>
<p>mythmom - lucky!!</p>
<p>Favorite song: “Back in the USSR” - it just makes me laugh and feel happy every time I hear it. I love the way it spoofs the Beach Boys. I really like “I’ll follow the sun” too.</p>
<p>Least favorite album - The White Album - especially the second disk. I hate everything on it.</p>
<p>Favorite Album - Revolver - except when it’s Rubber Soul…</p>
<p>Favorite Beatle - it used to be Paul, then I got older and thought it ought to be Lennon, but now it’s George because I really like his contributions to the records - especially Here Comes the Sun, While my Guitar gently weeps and the whole sitar thing.</p>
<p>Trivia - seeing John Lennon perform at the John Sinclair Freedom Rally in Ann Arbor in the fall of 1971. Yoko Ono performed so badly she was booed.</p>
<p>Favorite Beatle: George</p>
<p>Favorite Song: an impossible question because it depends on my mood. Here, There, and Everywhere. Here Comes the Sun. Norwegian Wood. While My Guitar Gently Weeps. </p>
<p>Favorite Album: also tough, but I’d have to say Rubber Soul, with Abbey Road a close second. I actually do like selected pieces of the White Album, but who ever listened to the whole thing, even though it meant lifting the needle and moving it to the next track? (I have been known to wake my son up on his birthday with a really loud rendition of “Birthday.”)</p>
<p>Biggest weeper (I mentioned this on the other thread): Watching Concert for George.</p>
<p>(Yes, still mad at Yoko. And I want those cocktail napkins.)</p>
<p>FAvorite Beatle: when young, Paul. Now, John.</p>
<p>Favorite Song: I agree; impossible to pick. Some favorites: Things We SAid Today, Across the Universe, I Should Have Known Better, Tell Me Why, Two of Us, All My Loving, Let it Be, Hey Jude.</p>
<p>Favorite Album: Again, hard to pick. Help, Let it Be, Revolver, Rubber Soul…
Sgt Pepper isn’t even close, for me–in retrospect, it feels too experiment-y, though I understand it’s groundbreakingness at the time.</p>
<p>Least Favorite song: She’s Leaving Home–like fingernails on a blackboard.</p>
<p>Trivia: my sixth grade class was obsessed with the “Paul is Dead” rumor, and played the albums backwards during recess, as well as combing the covers for clues. </p>
<p>Other trivia: when in London as a teen, I paid a pilgrimage to Paul’s house and saw Martha the sheepdog (but not Paul).</p>
<p>I’m not mad at Yoko. They were grown men capable of making their own decisions.</p>
<p>I loved the Beatles when I was 10 (the height of the British Invasion) and when I was 25, much less so during the years in between. Mick Jagger was who I wanted to be when I grew up. I was annoyed by the saccharine, music-hall element that McCarthy brought to them, by the half-baked Indian philosophy, and by Lennon’s always-evident smugness.</p>
<p>Favorite song: If I Fell. Until about five years ago, I thought it was Macca’s, but I now understand it was John’s. (I was never good at telling their singing voices apart.)</p>
<p>Favorite Beatle: Back in the day, Macca, because he was cutest and didn’t seem pretentious. When I thought he had written “If I Fell” and “In My Life”, it was probably him, too. Now I guess it’s John, but in spite of his solo work, which I never, ever liked.</p>
<p>Favorite Album: Probably the UK Rubber Soul. Sgt. Pepper, Revolver, White Album, and Abbey Road have all done service in this slot, but Rubber Soul is the only one I ever put on when I’m the only one listening.</p>
<p>Never mad at Yoko.</p>
<p>Favorite Beatle: Probably George.</p>
<p>Favorite Song: Depends on my mood. Right now, probably Let it Be.</p>
<p>Best Album: Hmm, I don’t have a strong opinion. I like the albums, but for me they are more of an individual song band than an album band. Which is actually fairly unusual for me.</p>
<p>Still mad at Yoko?: Too young to care, or to have ever cared.</p>
<p>Fav Beatle as a kid…Paul (“the cute one”)
Fav Beatle as an adult…George (the sincere one)
Fav album as a kid…Beatles '65
Fav album as an adult…All Things Must Pass
Fav song as a kid…I’ll Follow the Sun (sigh).
Fav song as an adult…Isn’t It a Pity
Fav Beatles movie…Hard Days Night </p>
<p>Never mad at Yoko, and had a pleasant conversation with her at an art gallery in Santa Monica about 6 years ago.</p>
<p>I do love John, and am still a heart pounder for Paul, just on a different level.</p>
<p>I went back and looked at the White Album it actually does have some of my favorite songs on it, but it has so many cringe-worthy ones too. Definitely a good one to edit on your ipod!</p>
<p>Not a Beatles fan.</p>
<p>H and I are “young boomers”–born in early 60s. H is only a couple years older than I am, but he hung out with older people growing up and somehow became a big Beatles fan. He knows every possible bit of trivia about the Beatles, and has annoyed me with it for 20+ years. </p>
<p>H goes around singing “I Am The Walrus.” My nostalgia comes from the 80s. Can this marriage be saved?</p>