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Best Beatle overall, considering both solo and Beatles work

Lennon
4 (11.8%)
McCartney
16 (47.1%)
Harrison
12 (35.3%)
Starr
2 (5.9%)

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Re: Ranking the Beatles
« Reply #30 on: January 05, 2009, 06:23:21 PM »
Listen to All Things Must Pass back to back with its contemporary album by the Moody Blues A Question of Balance and see if you can honestly say it isn't clearly the better album.  I'm no Moody Blues hater at all, I'm probably more forgiving of them than most FOT, just sayin'.

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Re: Ranking the Beatles
« Reply #31 on: January 05, 2009, 07:17:04 PM »
I guess if you can't hear something in a song like "All Things Must Pass," I don't really know how to convince you...

(George-related: The tribute concert given for George at the Royal Albert Hall is one of my favorite Beatle-related albums/dvds. In fact, I may even regard some of the recordings from that concert as near-definitive versions. At any rate, if you like George's songs, you'll love this concert. It's heartfelt, moving, and beautifully filmed/recorded. Below is Paul singing "Something.")

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Re: Ranking the Beatles
« Reply #32 on: January 05, 2009, 07:32:36 PM »
best beatles: (as ranked by how their names sound)

#1 Ringo
#2 George
#3 Paul
#4 John
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Re: Ranking the Beatles
« Reply #33 on: January 05, 2009, 07:38:38 PM »
I do like the song All Things Must Pass, but nothing else on the album comes remotely close to it.

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Re: Ranking the Beatles
« Reply #34 on: January 05, 2009, 08:06:53 PM »
I do like the song All Things Must Pass, but nothing else on the album comes remotely close to it.

Just about every song on that album (apart from the Apple Jam stuff) is a 5 star song for me.  To each his own.

Incidentally, when I was 9 or 10 I loved Cloud 9.  The music that kids that age are into from 8 to 12 is so random.  One of my nephews was a big Bon Jovi fan because of the influence of my sister.  Mind you, this was maybe 4 years ago.

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Re: Ranking the Beatles
« Reply #35 on: January 05, 2009, 08:09:04 PM »
george, ringo, the rest.
i was wearing short pants when you were in curls.