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10.02pm
4 April 2010
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I’m Looking Through You . Definitely. 
"The best band? The Beatles. The most overrated band? The Beatles."
6.22am
5 April 2010
Offline There are so many! I Feel Fine , Day Tripper , Hey Bulldog … I might need to give this one some thought.
I now declare this bridge open!
2.41pm
19 September 2010
Offline Helter Skelter , the opening, or WMGGW. Surprised they haven't been mentioned.
As if it matters how a man falls down.'
'When the fall's all that's left, it matters a great deal.
8.54pm
4 December 2010
Offline I Want You
Whole Lotta Love… oops wrong band.
Well we all shine on like the moon, the stars, and the sun.
9.28pm
1 May 2010
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*zigs with lemonade*
Here comes the sun….. Scoobie-doobie……
Something in the way she moves…..attracts me like a cauliflower…
Bop. Bop, cat bop. Go, Johnny, Go.
Beware of Darkness…
9.44pm
19 April 2010
Offline And Your Bird Can Sing – nothing else like it has ever been written by anybody else – think about it.
"She looks more like him than I do."
11.24am
26 June 2011
Offline Just found this forum, and all the cool Beatle history/trivia. I’d tend to agree with all the choices in the thread so far (and man I think there are a lot of guitar treasures the lads got down on tape). I may have missed previous mention of it, but when I think of “Riff” as opposed to say, “guitar part,” isn’t the Paperback Writer intro/riff the driving LOUD guitar lick that most suits the notion of “riff” of all the guitars in the entire discography? Maybe in the entire sixties? Makes you wait for it to come back around again the way hungry kids wait for the ice cream truck.
Dirty story of a dirty man.
I just thought of the incredible three guitar outro on The End (I think that’s the name of the song) on Abbey Road which is supposed to be John, Paul, and George having a friendly shootout, haven’t noticed mention of that one in the thread either, I’ve always found that exchange to be very powerful from the first hard stabbing downstrokes till the rising piano/vocal ending starts with such an airy, contrasting feel. Actually, come to think of it, the gritty Paperback Writer riff is set off against the soaring vocal “paperback writer…” part that it follows within the song with a similar sort of contrasting tonality (timbre?).
1.31pm
4 December 2010
Offline The Anthology version of The End extends that part and makes it even more impressive. I agree with your comments on Paperback Writer .
I told her I didn’t
3.30pm
1 May 2010
Offline Hey welcome Mojo Filter! I’m Mith from Mexico and I hope you enjoy BBF. 
You can introduce yourself in here.
Here comes the sun….. Scoobie-doobie……
Something in the way she moves…..attracts me like a cauliflower…
Bop. Bop, cat bop. Go, Johnny, Go.
Beware of Darkness…
5.13pm
26 June 2011
Offline The dual riffs in the coda to “I Want You (She's So Heavy)”. That and the white-noise generator always sends chills up my spine.
6.51am
16 July 2011
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3. I Want You (She's So Heavy)
3.47pm
7 November 2010
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Dig A Pony , Hey Bulldog , And Your Bird Can Sing , Something , The End , While My Guitar Gently Weeps , Taxman , She Said She Said … This is impossible!
I think it's great you're going through a phase,
and I'm awfully glad it'll all be over in a couple
of days
2020
9.10am
10 May 2011
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1.45pm
19 September 2010
Offline McLennonSon said:
kelicopter said:
I just thought the riff was to make it more romantic!
That doesn't make it a bad riff.
As if it matters how a man falls down.'
'When the fall's all that's left, it matters a great deal.
1.49pm
7 November 2010
Offline mr. Sun king coming together said:
McLennonSon said:
kelicopter said:
I just thought the riff was to make it more romantic!
That doesn't make it a bad riff.
What he said.
I think it's great you're going through a phase,
and I'm awfully glad it'll all be over in a couple
of days
2020
6.08pm
10 May 2011
Offline kelicopter said:
mr. Sun king coming together said:
McLennonSon said:
kelicopter said:
I just thought the riff was to make it more romantic!
That doesn't make it a bad riff.
What he said.
OK, you know what? I was wrong. 
My Music Blog.
One and one don't make two
One and one make one.
4.18am
10 August 2011
Offline Peter W. makes a good point about all the little guitar fills.
Even in their early years. The guitar in “I don't want to spoil the party” drove me to go electric back when. How about the solo on Nowhere Man ? Dripping with electricity.
But I'd like to figure out how to play the guitar to And Your Bird Can Sing (keeping in mind all the forward-backwards stuff).
"Into the Sky with Diamonds" (the Beatles and the Race to the Moon – a history)
2.35pm
12 August 2011
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9.27pm
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ALL OF THEM
I love Beatles riffs so much that one night when I was lying there and staring at the ceiling, waiting for a sleepy feeling, I compiled a list of 13 of them (okay, to be fair, I was trying to see if it was possible to make a Baker’s Dozen list of them. It was). Anyway, here are my top 9– all the regulars with some extras:
- If I Needed Someone (Trips. Me. Out)
- I Feel Fine (It makes me feel… fine!)
- What You’re Doing (Major jumping up and down material)
- Day Tripper (Classic.)
- And Your Bird Can Sing (I can’t help but play air guitar with this one)
- And I Love Her (yes, that’s a riff– of sorts– hey, if you can count Dear Prudence …)
- Something (Also classic.)
- Not Guilty – Anthology (The riff sums it UP, man. Why did he have to remake it sans riff?…)
- Here, There And Everywhere (As Peter Wetherby said. But hey, I love the whole flipping song so much..)
And I will surely think up some more and *facepaulm*. But that’s it for now.
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11.19pm
17 October 2013
Offline During the time…….contemporary to the music being created and released….I just didn’t realise the riffs were everywhere. They can all take credit.
Even Ringo….If you listen to the early. ‘And I Love Her ‘ tryouts you can see that George’s soft nylon string notes reproduced and rightly replaced what Ringo was knocking out on his kit.
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