{"id":183,"date":"2015-12-24T19:12:57","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T19:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisstoneman.com\/blog\/?p=183"},"modified":"2015-12-24T19:42:10","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T19:42:10","slug":"the-beatles-10-songs-you-need-to-hear-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chrisstoneman.com\/blog\/the-beatles-10-songs-you-need-to-hear-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beatles: 10 Songs You Need To Hear Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chrisstoneman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Beatles-Cross-Spotify-Road.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-206\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"206\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/chrisstoneman.com\/blog\/the-beatles-10-songs-you-need-to-hear-again\/beatles-cross-spotify-road\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chrisstoneman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Beatles-Cross-Spotify-Road.jpg?fit=960%2C480\" data-orig-size=\"960,480\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Beatles Cross Spotify Road\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chrisstoneman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Beatles-Cross-Spotify-Road.jpg?fit=300%2C150\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chrisstoneman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Beatles-Cross-Spotify-Road.jpg?fit=656%2C328\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-206\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chrisstoneman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Beatles-Cross-Spotify-Road.jpg?resize=656%2C328\" alt=\"Beatles Cross Spotify Road\" width=\"656\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chrisstoneman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Beatles-Cross-Spotify-Road.jpg?w=960 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chrisstoneman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Beatles-Cross-Spotify-Road.jpg?resize=300%2C150 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chrisstoneman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Beatles-Cross-Spotify-Road.jpg?resize=768%2C384 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><\/a>The Beatles are now are now on <a href=\"http:\/\/thebeatles.spotify.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify<\/a>. YAY! Oh how we&#8217;ve waited for this day.<\/p>\n<p>You may already know the more famous tracks and stories. About <em>Twist and Shout<\/em> and Beatlemania. About Ringo&#8217;s drumming on <em>Rain<\/em>, Paul&#8217;s forlorn <em>Yesterday<\/em>, George&#8217;s <em>Something<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0John popularising feedback on <em>I Feel Fine.<\/em>\u00a0About\u00a0<em>Tomorrow Never Knows<\/em> moving popular music forward about 30 years whilst\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rLLL9DKpUa4\" target=\"_blank\">simultaneously baffling the world.<\/a>\u00a0 About the orgasmic orchestra on <em>A Day In The Life or\u00a0<\/em>solos at\u00a0<em>The End or bla bla bla goo goo ga joob<\/em>. We don&#8217;t need to dwell on these.<br \/>\n(but if you do, go binge watch the excellent\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/The-Beatles-Anthology-DVD\/dp\/B00006GEMA\" target=\"_blank\">Anthology DVDs<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Instead, here&#8217;s some of my favourite Beatles songs that I think are\u00a0either overlooked, misinterpreted, have an interesting backstory, or are just so damn good\u00a0I wanna shout about them from the rooftops. Accompanied by a <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/user\/chrisstoneman\/playlist\/3nGQtTj0F3CSTP34XwMBfC\" target=\"_blank\">playlist<\/a>, obvs.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.spotify.com\/?uri=spotify:user:chrisstoneman:playlist:3nGQtTj0F3CSTP34XwMBfC&amp;theme=white\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>10. Dizzy Miss Lizzy<\/h3>\n<p>Though renowned for their own songwriting, the best examples of their early energy is often their cover versions. Here&#8217;s one of the best, a tearing Lennon vocal with Harrison\u2019s signature guitar repeated throughout.<\/p>\n<p>Tip: This song will immediately get a wedding dance floor jiving with each and every guest, young and old. Particularly effective if you just married a girl called Liz, as I did this summer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>9. This Boy<\/h3>\n<p>This throwaway 2 minute B-Side is a perfect love song. Their grasp of melody from so early in their career is undisputed, but it&#8217;s Lennon that steals the show with his desperate vocal and piercing cry.<\/p>\n<p>Driven by a rivalry with The Beach Boys, John, Paul and George would later push their vocals further (see <em>Nowhere Man<\/em>, <em>Because<\/em>). But here they are at their most raw and unpolished, just three kids in their early 20\u2019s singing a beautiful song.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>8. Only A Northern Song<\/h3>\n<p>In any other band he&#8217;d be branded a genius, but in The Beatles Harrison was often sidelined. <em>Only A Northern Song<\/em> shows George&#8217;s frustration vented through sonic experiments recorded during the Sgt Pepper sessions, but quietly released on the Yellow Submarine soundtrack.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It doesn&#8217;t really matter what chords I play<br \/>\nWhat words I say or time of day it is<br \/>\nAs it&#8217;s only a Northern Song.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These lyrics relate not only to his lack of creative opportunities, but to the business arrangements at the time.\u00a0Northern Songs was a publishing company setup in 1963 to exploit usage of all Beatles songs. As most were penned by Lennon\/McCartney, they were offered 15% of the company each. Harrison got just 1%.<\/p>\n<p>In later years, Harrison wrote more and more songs\u00a0(<em>Taxman, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Something<\/em>), but his share of the company did not increase. Therefore, for a time, John and Paul were earning more publishing revenue from George&#8217;s songs than George was himself. Welcome to the music biz, George.<\/p>\n<p>For those with an interest in the business side, the story continues. Northern Songs was floated on the stock exchange in 1965, then bought by Associated Television (ATV) four years later. In one of the shrewdest business moves of the decade, Michael Jackson bought ATV in 1985 for a bargain price of $50m, thankfully putting an end to any more dreadful <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/1diEQsD8PJC9hXB5Gpfgtn\" target=\"_blank\">Macca collaborations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>ATV merged with Sony Publishing in 1995 to form SonyATV, now the largest music publisher globally.<\/p>\n<p>Well I find it interesting anyway.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>7. Oh! Darling<\/h3>\n<p>It&#8217;s 1969, and The Beatles are close to splitting. They&#8217;re together for one last hurrah, a recording stint that would become the album Abbey Road.<\/p>\n<p>Though they no longer write collaboratively, they&#8217;re still fiercely competitive. Macca writes an old style rocker that needs a screaming vocal, but instead of passing it to Lennon (who\u2019s voice would suit it perfectly) he stubbornly keeps the track for himself.<\/p>\n<p>John is furious, but Paul is determined to do it justice. He arrives early at the studio every morning for a week to heavily practise the vocal. By the Friday his voice has been torn to shreds, allowing him to record the strained, last ditch take\u00a0take we hear on the finished version. Take that, John.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>6. For No One<\/h3>\n<p>&#8216;Revolver\u2019 is justifiably lauded by critics, but <em>For No One<\/em> is often overlooked in favour of the more famous <em>Eleanor Rigby<\/em>. It stands out to me as one of the most heartbreaking Beatles tracks, and is a testament to the evolution of Paul\u2019s songwriting.<\/p>\n<p>At its core is a standard breakup song but rather than focus on the teenage emotions, we\u2019re led through the seemingly mundane day-to-day moments that hurtle us towards the obvious conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no intro or closing. We feel the claustrophobic relationship engulfing us as we\u2019re thrown into the start of a day, the denial, the descending chords we can&#8217;t stop falling, the proud but defeated french horn and, eventually, the realisation that though you won\u2019t forget her, it\u2019s over.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You want her, you need her<br \/>\nAnd yet you don&#8217;t believe her when she says her love is dead<br \/>\nYou think she needs you<\/p>\n<p>And in her eyes you see nothing<br \/>\nNo sign of love behind the tears<br \/>\nCried for no one<br \/>\nA love that should have lasted years<\/p>\n<p>You stay home, she goes out<br \/>\nShe says that long ago she knew someone but now he&#8217;s gone<br \/>\nShe doesn&#8217;t need him<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>5. Good Night<\/h3>\n<p>The White Album is essentially 3 solo albums from three men at their creative peaks. For me, its diversity, depth and breadth place it above all other LPs, Beatles or otherwise. (and no it&#8217;s not &#8220;too long&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p><em>Good Night<\/em> is the epic closer that nobody heard, being placed after the 8 minute noise-fest of <em>Revolution 9 <\/em>. It&#8217;s so unexpected, many forget it even exists.<\/p>\n<p>Lavish strings twitter and twirl towards us as a soothing voice bids us farewell. But who&#8217;s voice is it?\u00a0Most assume Paul but no, it is (of course) Ringo, and he nails it. Where once he sung about Boys, Yellow Submarines and Octupus&#8217; Gardens, here he&#8217;s the ultimate 50&#8217;s crooner. A stroke of genius, and the only move more surprising than 8 minutes of noise.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>4. We Can Work It Out<\/h3>\n<p>Whether they were collaborating with, reacting to, or competing against the other, the Lennon and McCartney relationship elevated both to ever higher levels of genius. Here&#8217;s an example of the former.<\/p>\n<p>McCartney&#8217;s relentless optimism refuses to accept that his relationship (with Jane Asher, in case you&#8217;re curious) is over. With most of the song finished, Macca turns to Lennon to ask if he has any ideas for a bridge. His typically negative input is the perfect juxtaposition, and transforms the song entirely.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Life is very short, and there&#8217;s no time<br \/>\nFor fussing and fighting my friend.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This story is well documented, but it\u2019s often forgotten that it was Harrison who suggested switching Lennon&#8217;s bridge to a slow waltz tempo, resulting in the stretched harmonium bleeding over Lennon\u2019s voice of resignation. It&#8217;s the icing on the cake of another perfect song.<\/p>\n<p>Released at the end of \u201965, this would sadly be one of the last songs to be written so collaboratively.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>3. In My Life<\/h3>\n<p>Lives change. People grow up. We leave our birthplace\u00a0and return as different people. Friendships fade. New ones appear. For the nostalgic among us, we&#8217;ll always fondly remember times passed. But <em>In My Life<\/em> puts it all into perspective&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But of all these friends and lovers,<br \/>\nThere is no one compares with you,<br \/>\nAnd these memories lose their meaning,<br \/>\nWhen I think of love as something new,<br \/>\nThough I know I&#8217;ll never lose affection,<br \/>\nFor people and things that went before,<br \/>\nI know I&#8217;ll often stop and think about them,<br \/>\nIn my life, I love you more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Though well known, for me\u00a0<em>In My Life<\/em>\u00a0even eclipses any of Paul&#8217;s more renowned sentimental offerings, such as <em>Yesterday<\/em>\u00a0or <em>Penny Lane<\/em>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beatlesbible.com\/songs\/in-my-life\/\" target=\"_blank\">original lyrics<\/a>\u00a0(now on display at the British Library) even listed Liverpool landmarks, just as <em>Penny Lane<\/em> later would.<\/p>\n<p>John&#8217;s life had changed beyond compare by 1965. The life he once knew was gone, never to return. This song marks the first time he started to look inwards to\u00a0write about himself and his own life.<\/p>\n<p>This is another collaboration, this time including the underrated fifth Beatle George Martin. Paul helped write the middle 8 and pushed John to make the lyrics more universal (though this is disputed). But they still had an instrumental break to fill. John asked George Martin to fill it with &#8220;something Baroque sounding&#8221;. Martin obliged with a slow piano solo, then sped the tape up until it sounded more akin to\u00a0a harpsichord, the\u00a0finishing touch to one of the most perfect songs ever written.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>2. Help!<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>Help, I need somebody<br \/>\nHelp, not just anybody<br \/>\nHelp, you know I need someone.<br \/>\nHelp.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We all know and love this song, it&#8217;s anything but overlooked. We\u2019ve danced joyously to this 2 minute slice of pop genius thousands of times. But have we ever truly listened to the words? Seeing them written so starkly reminds us what this song is &#8211; a desperate plea for help. John had already tried singing &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/5zs8tSd7ZvwBgr4NUmF5zM\" target=\"_blank\">I&#8217;m a Loser<\/a>, and I&#8217;m not what I appear to be&#8221; a year earlier. Nobody noticed, so he tried again.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I knew I really was crying out for help. So it was my fat Elvis period. You see the movie: he &#8211; I &#8211; is very fat, very insecure, and he&#8217;s completely lost himself. And I am singing about when I was so much younger and all the rest, looking back at how easy it was.<br \/>\n<strong>John Lennon<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beatlesinterviews.org\/db1980.jlpb.beatles.html\" target=\"_blank\">Playboy interview 1980<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>People forget how constrained The Beatles were, they had to operate within the realms of Popular music. Blues or Country singers had been singing their woes for decades, but it just wasn&#8217;t done in Pop music at the time. Other artists before and since have experimented and pushed boundaries,\u00a0but none did so whilst simultaneously appealing to\u00a0the masses.<\/p>\n<p>It is of course a wonderful song in itself, particularly Paul&#8217;s counterpoint vocals and George&#8217;s descending guitar at the end of each verse. But it&#8217;s all about John. It breaks my heart to hear him\u00a0sing these words, particularly in the live versions\u00a0accompanied by\u00a0screaming, adoring fans.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s keep joyously dancing to <em>Help<\/em>, but in the back of our mind let&#8217;s remember that\u00a0even the most gifted among us are hiding insecurities that may never fade.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>1. She&#8217;s Leaving Home<\/h3>\n<p>As their songwriting progressed John looked inwards (<em>In My Life, Help, Julia<\/em>) whilst Paul looked outwards to seek inspiration from others. The Beatles didn&#8217;t do social commentary, they left that to Dylan and, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordsaboutmusic.co.uk\/05\/2011\/playlist\/playlist-sympathy-devil-rolling-stones\/\" target=\"_blank\">occasionally, The Stones<\/a>. Instead, Paul&#8217;s seemingly flippant stories offer an equalling compelling insight into the lives of others.<\/p>\n<p>Though impactful at the time, <em>She\u2019s Leaving Home<\/em>\u00a0has become a forgotten Sgt Pepper gem for us younger fans. It&#8217;s the heartbreaking story of a teenage girl running away from her parents home with a &#8220;man from the auto trade\u201d, a glamorous trade in &#8217;67. Paul wrote the narrative, whilst John wrote from the perspective of the heartbroken parents.<\/p>\n<p>This is a poignant story that would have been common for the time. Nowadays it\u2019s easy to forget the enormous generation gap that existed between the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greatest_Generation\" target=\"_blank\">Great Generation<\/a> who\u2019d just fought a war, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baby_boomers\" target=\"_blank\">Baby Boomers<\/a> who just wanted to move on and create their own history.<\/p>\n<p>The Beatles will forever be the reluctant voice of the latter group, but here\u00a0they instantly gave a voice to the elder\u00a0generation who were unable to tell their children their own story. \u00a0Who better to tell it than the most listened to men on the planet?<\/p>\n<p>Rather than add some lyrics, here&#8217;s a quote from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2008\/dec\/13\/people-inspired-pop-songs-muses\" target=\"_blank\">an interview 40 years later<\/a> with\u00a0the exact same young girl who&#8217;s story in a newspaper inspired Macca to write the song. There&#8217;s a lesson for us all, especially at Christmas &#8211; Let&#8217;s put our family differences behind us before it&#8217;s too late.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I can&#8217;t listen to the song. It&#8217;s just too sad for me. My parents died a long time ago and we were never resolved. That line, &#8220;She&#8217;s leaving home after living alone for so many years&#8221; is so weird to me because that&#8217;s why I left. I was so alone.<br \/>\n<strong>Melanie Coe<\/strong> (the girl who ran away), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2008\/dec\/13\/people-inspired-pop-songs-muses\" target=\"_blank\">interviewed in 2008<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>The Encore: All You Need Is Love<\/h3>\n<p>OK, one more. Let&#8217;s finish on a high.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than endlessly Na Na Na-ing to <em>Hey Jude<\/em>, I wish this got more attention as the go-to Beatles anthem. We all know the simple chorus, but the verses hold an inspiring message that incapsulates the hope and dreams of the time. For anyone who&#8217;s ever felt the world before them was a closed door with no way in, these words from Lennon should be enough to jolt you into action. We can&#8217;t achieve the impossible but we can all, every one of us,\u00a0get as close as anyone else.<\/p>\n<p>Picture the scene: It&#8217;s June 1967. Two World Wars are fresh in the memory. Mankind is taking its first steps into space, and the swinging 60&#8217;s are hitting\u00a0their peak in what would retrospectively be known as the Summer of Love.<\/p>\n<p>Using the latest satellite technology, global broadcasters have collaborated to broadcast &#8216;Our World&#8217; the first globally live TV show. Each country had a slot to fill; we have the US at a political retreat, Canadians herding cattle, the Japanese building a subway, and the Australians explaining trams (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Our_World_(TV_special)\" target=\"_blank\">no, really<\/a>). And then it&#8217;s the UK&#8217;s turn.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s The Beatles (and notable friends) huddled in Abbey Road. After an awkward couple of seconds of George Martin in the control room a trumpet announces their arrival, and they start playing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There&#8217;s nothing you can do that can&#8217;t be done<br \/>\nNothing you can sing that can&#8217;t be sung<br \/>\nNothing you can do but you can learn how to be you in time.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s easy.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing you can know that isn&#8217;t known,<br \/>\nNothing you can see that isn&#8217;t shown,<br \/>\nNowhere you can be, you&#8217;re where you&#8217;re meant to be,<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s easy.<\/p>\n<p>All you need is love.<br \/>\n(All together now)<br \/>\nALL YOU NEED IS LOVE.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Well said. <\/strong><strong>Merry Christmas, everybody.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.spotify.com\/?uri=spotify:user:chrisstoneman:playlist:3nGQtTj0F3CSTP34XwMBfC&amp;theme=white\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Beatles are now are now on Spotify. 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