I don’t talk about or listen to The Beatles all that much anymore.
Don’t get nervous, they’re still my favorite band with a bullet. And have been so since I was a wee turtle of 11. When it comes to my triumphant pantheon of most revered bands and musical artists… they ain’t even there. That pantheon has everybody else. The Fab Four are the entire universe that allows the pantheon to even exist.
I hope I explained that well. My day’s quizzicality has expanded at an exponential rate.
But therein lies the rub… I’ve listened to every last note, every last outtake, demo, remix, alt mix, mono and stereo variant, etc. beyond measure. I’ve gone down to many Beatle-related rabbit holes it hardly abides the telling.
And quite frankly, there is so much outstanding new music being released week after week, or new-to-me music I never sought out before, that the thought of pooh-poohing all of it in order to listen to the Abbey Road medley yet again seems counter-productive to my forward-looking artistic ethos.
It’s good to have an ethos.
But then, every now and then, I put the Fabs on and just melt away into their melodies — the music, the vocal harmonies, the arrangements and production — and like Pacino in Godfather III, they pull me back in.
Someone (nobody, actually) asked me if I love everything The Beatles ever did, and the answer is an easy “Good GOD, no!” There are songs I worship, some I really like, some I can live without, and maybe a handful I actively dislike. Maybe.
But I don’t think there’s a single Beatles tune that doesn’t have at least ONE THING I love about it.
Wait… too many double negatives. Let me rephrase that:
There’s at least one thing I love about every Beatles song.
Which leads us here today to Things We Love Today: The Beatles.
I’m going to go through each and every Beatle tune, in alphabetical order, and tell you one thing I love about it. And why.
It may not even be my favorite aspect of the song, but it will always be one I love.
