8.05pm
18 December 2011
I’m Happy Just To Dance With You
Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby
If I Needed Someone
Love You Too
There you go!
Personally, I haven’t really decided yet, but of course my biggest favorites are: “Here Comes The Sun “, “Something “, “While My Guitar Gently Weeps “, “Long, Long, Long “, “Within You Without You “, “Roll Over Beethoven “, “Everybody’s Trying to Be My Baby” and “I Me Mine ” to name a few :p
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9.38pm
12 April 2012
Well my favourite ones are: I Need You , Taxman , While My Guitar Gently Weeps , Piggies , Long Long Long, Savoy Truffle , Here Comes The Sun , Something , I Me Mine . There are some other songs george sung or wrote, You Know What To Do and Not Guilty on Anthology and some bbc songs like Crying, Waiting, Hoping and Young Blood. Not Guilty is one of my favourite john songs too
And you have also forgotten Old Brown Shoe
Once there was a way to get back homewards. Once there was a way to get back home; sleep pretty darling do not cry. And I will sing a lullaby
10.08pm
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1 May 2011
You Know What To Do is a highlight of mine.
Others (oh i need to rank, erm)
Long Long Long
All Things Must Pass (the studio demo on Anthology 3 is every bit as good as his solo album version, if not better)
I Forgot To Remember To Forget
Love You Too (the intro is fabulous)
Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby
Crying Waiting Hoping
Not Guilty (tho the anthology edit is garbage)
Within You, Without You
Young Blood
Hopefully everything is there but i will missed something.
"I told you everything I could about me, Told you everything I could" ('Before Believing' - Emmylou Harris)
3.48am
22 May 2012
Top 10 Beatles tracks written by George:
While My Guitar Gently Weeps – Damn what a song! First off, what a great idea for an ode to the guitar. He should’ve had Hendrix play on the f****r with Clapton. That would’ve been so cool. Maybe a backwards solo! Paul’s bass and backup vocals almost make the track.
Not Guilty – What a classic proto-metal jam. I will never understand why it was left off The White Album . They could’ve even released it as a single. Maybe the b-side for Hey Jude and put Revolution (single version) on record one as Revolution 2.
Taxman – Again, Paul’s bass…damn! And what a great lyric.
Something – Gorgeous, or Georgeous!
Think For Yourself – Paul always rocked the bass lines on George’s songs. I like the way the rhythm picks up on the chorus and grooves with the verse.
Old Brown Shoe – More great bass from Paul (I’ve read where George played bass on this one and I’ve read that Paul played it. Sounds like Classic Paul to me…). Just a good old Rock ‘N’ Roll number really.
Only A Northern Song – Again, the bass is tasty! Nice dissonance on this one. It’s got that nice bitter lyric too.
I Me Mine – Great lyric, great lyric! Sweet time change too. No John needed.
Love You To – The best of his three Indian-influenced tracks. “There’s people standing round who’ll screw you in the ground”, how true!
Savoy Truffle – Do I need to say it…more great bass work from Macca. Witty lyrics and a delicious brass line as well.
Long, Long, Long – Beautiful song. Written to God . George was the spiritual Beatle and he wrote love songs to the Lord. I love it!
I picked eleven, so what?
1-2-3-4-5-6-7-All Good Children go to Heaven
3.50am
1 May 2010
4.00am
22 May 2012
3.38pm
1 May 2010
Old Siam Sir said
mithveaen said
I saw the list and I thought “Wow, you really like George” and then I read the headline “10 Best Beatles song by George”.
That’s what the topic was about. “Rank your favorite George songs” I picked eleven.
Yes I know. I’m not well these days so I get confused easily.
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…
2.32pm
28 November 2012
Old Siam Sir said
Top 10 Beatles tracks written by George:While My Guitar Gently Weeps – Damn what a song! First off, what a great idea for an ode to the guitar. He should’ve had Hendrix play on the f****r with Clapton. That would’ve been so cool. Maybe a backwards solo! Paul’s bass and backup vocals almost make the track.
Not Guilty – What a classic proto-metal jam. I will never understand why it was left off The White Album . They could’ve even released it as a single. Maybe the b-side for Hey Jude and put Revolution (single version) on record one as Revolution 2.
Taxman – Again, Paul’s bass…damn! And what a great lyric.
Something – Gorgeous, or Georgeous!
Think For Yourself – Paul always rocked the bass lines on George’s songs. I like the way the rhythm picks up on the chorus and grooves with the verse.
Old Brown Shoe – More great bass from Paul (I’ve read where George played bass on this one and I’ve read that Paul played it. Sounds like Classic Paul to me…). Just a good old Rock ‘N’ Roll number really.
Only A Northern Song – Again, the bass is tasty! Nice dissonance on this one. It’s got that nice bitter lyric too.
I Me Mine – Great lyric, great lyric! Sweet time change too. No John needed.
Love You To – The best of his three Indian-influenced tracks. “There’s people standing round who’ll screw you in the ground”, how true!
Savoy Truffle – Do I need to say it…more great bass work from Macca. Witty lyrics and a delicious brass line as well.
Long, Long, Long – Beautiful song. Written to God . George was the spiritual Beatle and he wrote love songs to the Lord. I love it!
I picked eleven, so what?
Better still, Not Guilty as B side for Revolution as a single. This would’ve been great for band harmony for John to have an A side at that point in time with Hey Jude to follow. He wanted Revolution to be a single but the band said no even after it was re-recorded for that purpose. It would easily have been a number 1. It got a lot of air-play anyway. And who knows John may have never gone to America and been shot and the Beatles would’ve stayed together till 2001 when George died. Alas.
Who cares about the bass. I never hear it anyway. I get sick of hearing about McCartney’s bass playing. Yes he was talented. No one doubts that but the thread was about George’s best songs.
8.42pm
26 July 2011
TOP TEN (AS A BEATLE)
1. “While My Guitar Gently Weeps ” (both versions — the Clapton one and the acoustic on on ANTHOLOGY) — epic song
2. “Here Comes The Sun ” — what a song about sunshine should sound like
3. “Something ” — gorgeous recording of a gorgeous song
4. “Don’t Bother Me ” — I never understood why George was so dismissive of this song — it’s great
5. “If I Needed Someone ” — great riff, good performance, George arrived as a composer with this one
6. “Old Brown Shoe ” — highly underrated — great bassline (played by Harrison & McCartney) — but I don’t like the “singing into a tight corner” vocal effect that much
7. “Roll Over Beethoven ” — George could rock (on other people’s work)
8. “Taxman ” — George could rock (on his own)
9. “Within You Without You ” — “that’s George’s innate talent — he really made that sound come together”, said John Lennon
10. “I Me Mine ” — good recording of a decent song (the much maligned Phil Spector really enhanced the sound of this recording)
TOP GEORGE SONG OF ALL TIME
(Released as a solo artist)
“Isn’t It A Pity ” — EPIC!!
I've got nothing to say, but it's okay..
GOOD MORNING!
GOOD MORNING!!
GOOD MORNING!!!
11.34pm
3 September 2012
Let’s see here.. I’m gonna make a list of what I like without grabbing all of them off of someone else.
1. Taxman is a favorite of mine because it’s a great opener to my favorite album.
2. Don’t Bother Me is a great early one by George. It may be his first, but that doesn’t mean it’s bad (at all).
3. Savoy Truffle ; underrated gem near the end of the White Album . It’s like John’s Glass Onion , which I also enjoy.
4. If I Needed Someone ; I really, really enjoy the harmonies on this one.
5. Long, Long, Long ; it may take a bit to appreciate, but it’s worth it once you do.
6. Think For Yourself ; its bass probably inspired Seven Nation Army, which is everywhere lately (the White Stripes are awesome anyway, so that’s a good thing). It’s also nice to hear the studio chat which is on YouTube and etc.
7. Old Brown Shoe ; a lot of the time when George played bass, it managed to be a great bass line anyway. This, Maxwell’s Silver Hammer , Two of Us, among others under disputes are examples of such occasions.
8. I’m Happy Just To Dance With You ; The rythm guitar makes this song pretty great within itself, and so do the harmonies.
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In terms of solo work, Dark Sweet Lady, Let it Roll, Awaiting On You All , and Ding Dong, Ding Dong are among my favorites. I still have a lot to hear, though.
Please don't wake me, no don't shake me, leave me where I am, I'm only sleeping~.
12.16am
12 November 2012
My top song has to be Something . My other favorites include For You Blue , Devil In Her Heart , Piggies , Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby , I’m Happy Just To Dance With You , Blue Jay Way and The Inner Light .
"The world is a very serious and, at times, very sad place - but at other times it is all such a joke."-George Harrison
2.53am
3 December 2012
Everything on “All Things Must Pass ” along with “Something “. Actually, it’s funny, because I’m 17 years old & I’ve already decided I want “Something ” playing at my wedding (I know…I’m weird) but I just adore that song! I think George should have gotten more attention with his songwriting when he was in the Beatles than he actually did. A lot of that stuff on “All Things Must Pass ” was material he had been sitting on when the Beatles were still together! He was ingenious & he should have been recognized more for it.
Kerry Moynihan
~Philippians 4:13~
Smile! It could be worse!
6.12pm
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14 April 2010
WonderWoman said
I’m 17 years old & I’ve already decided I want “Something ” playing at my wedding (I know…I’m weird)
Nothing wierd about that at all! Welcome to our Forum.
To the fountain of perpetual mirth, let it roll for all its worth. And all the children boogie.
9.04pm
5 December 2012
11.55pm
23 January 2011
Every time I hear a different George song, I think, “This is the best George song.” I always forget how good they are until I hear them. I won’t rank them all, but my favorites are as follows:
Here Comes The Sun …one of my absolute favorite songs, bar non.
Good job,
"You can manicure a cat but can you caticure a man?"
John Lennon- Skywriting by Word of Mouth
11.26pm
21 November 2012
As for the song itself, I really can’t choose.
As for vocals: Does the anthology version of While My Guitar Gently Weeps count? His voice on that is perfection <3
1.35am
1 November 2012
WonderWoman said
Everything on “All Things Must Pass ” along with “Something “. Actually, it’s funny, because I’m 17 years old & I’ve already decided I want “Something ” playing at my wedding (I know…I’m weird) but I just adore that song! I think George should have gotten more attention with his songwriting when he was in the Beatles than he actually did. A lot of that stuff on “All Things Must Pass ” was material he had been sitting on when the Beatles were still together! He was ingenious & he should have been recognized more for it.
You should play “Savoy Truffle ” at your wedding, and have a giant wedding cake chock-full of all the sweets George describes!
Faded flowers, wait in a jar, till the evening is complete... complete... complete... complete...
1.41am
1 November 2012
What!!??
No one picked Sunshine Life For Me (Sail Away Raymond)…!!???
That’s one of my favorites.
He wrote it for Ringo, for Ringo’s 1973 solo album (famous for having all four Beatles on one album, even though they were never all together at any one time):
Faded flowers, wait in a jar, till the evening is complete... complete... complete... complete...
9.02pm
12 November 2012
All three of the songs that George wrote for Ringo are the highlights of the album for me. I like how the other three helped Ringo create one of the best solo albums of his career.
"The world is a very serious and, at times, very sad place - but at other times it is all such a joke."-George Harrison
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