One Song From Each Beatles' Album On Spotify That You Have To Listen To

On an album full of all their #1 hits from both the U.S. and U.K., it's hard to pick a favorite song by The Beatles in such a stellar lineup. It's a pleasant listen that you literally can't hear without having a smile on your face and imagining yourself walking down Penny Lane yourself. It puts you right in the subject of the lyrics. The most enjoyable part is the steadily building piccolo trumpet which winds down the song with a crescendo along a chorus repeat.

This version of "Get Back" is particularly enjoyable, because it comes from the recording of their famed Rooftop Concert atop Apple Studios in London in 1969. That was the last time The Beatles ever performed together live, so tracks from that concert are extremely special to avid fans. After the police broke up their performance, Lennon ad-libbed the line you hear at the end of the track:

"I'd like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we've passed the audition."

There may only be 13 words total in this song, but the instrumental parts of this song are what makes it so much more impressive than its lyrics. In fact, it feels like you've listened to more than one song by the end of it.

This song of sentiment is something that has become synonymous with what The Beatles are known for. The message, well, "it's easy!" You know what it is:

"All you need is love."

The message brings back the ideation of a generation redefining the path of American history every time it plays. 

There's a real Prudence that this song is about. In fact, the title is exactly what the song represents: it's a letter to Prudence Farrow, the sister of Mia Farrow. The Beatles met her while study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in India. Prudence was so into her studies she became a recluse, i.e. "Won't you come out to play?" 

To be completely and utterly honest, this is a song that had passed by me, a longtime fan of all thing Beatles, until now. As I was going through the entirety of their catalog on Spotify, this offered a fun change of pace, in which the song is titled aptly with how its music makes you feel.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is an album I'm lucky enough to own on vinyl, and this is the song I can't wait to get to–it's the final track if you were unaware. It's a song that's been called their seminal piece, and often regarded as their greatest song, according to Rolling Stone.

Revolver is known as a transitional album for The Beatles in which they began experimenting with various song types and straying away from simple, easy-to-digest pop love tunes. This heavy rock sound is one that cannot go unnoticed.

Getting back to what helped propel The Beatles into music superstardom, easy-to-digest couple minute pop songs. "In My Life" is a perfect example of a two-and-a-half minute song that is as easy to listen to as it is to do again, then possibly again.

When you think of The Beatles, one of the first songs that comes to mind is undoubtedly "Yesterday." As a self-proclaimed Team Lennon advocate of all things Beatles and the solo work of the members of the group afterwards, I can't even deny the beauty of this song written and performed by Paul McCartney alongside a string quartet, marking essentially the first solo performance by anyone in the band.

What's more loving that being told your love is needed more days a week than what actually exists? It's a perfectly written lyric, and what more can I say, except one thing: "Love you all the time." That's how I feel about the person in my life, and this song.

Recorded just once outside the studio, "And I Love Her" is a lovely song, and really there's not much more I can say or explain about this track from A Hard Day's Night other than that. 

This song has to be included because it was the opening song on their first performance on the Ed Sullivan, which as you most likely know is the performance that launched them into international music fame. After this song was played, young girls across the globe couldn't stop screaming for years. That's some powerful stuff, all wrapped up in just two minutes and eight seconds.

As one of the band's first #1 singles in a long line of chart-topping hits, this was a no brainer choice of the album Please Please Me. It came down to this or the song the album is named after, but in the end, the harmonica work by Lennon and harmonizing by him and McCartney makes this track the top choice off their first album as my favorite.

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