Hey guys! This week for Friday 5 we got to pick an artist we want to showcase 5 of their songs. Recently I picked my 200th song for Friday 5 and I haven’t redone any songs except for Over the Rainbow that I’ve done 3 different versions. However, surprisingly I had only done 1 Beatles song- Yesterday! This surprised me because I love The Beatles (most people do!).
I think what makes The Beatles so amazing is how much variety they had in their career. They have the early be-bop stuff from the 60s and then get psychedelic later on with a more subdued tone in later albums like Let it Be.
My personal favorite era is young The Beatles with songs like ‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand’ or ‘8 Days a Week’.
But for this list I picked 5 of my favorites from different eras:
(In no particular order)
- Hard Days Night
- Let it Be
- Hey Jude
- Can’t Buy Me Love
- Something
What are your favorite Beatles songs? What era of their music do you like the best. If you like the video please give it a thumbs up and subscribe. Thanks!
Tomorrow I am not doing the GSL race this year 😦 I’m a little sad about that but it is the right choice for me this year. With being sick and getting little sleep I just can’t do it this year but I will miss it.
Anyway, it’s a bummer but the right choice.
So what are your favorite Beatles songs? Hope you have a good weekend.
Rachel's Musings 
I just got The Beatles album Revolver (after being inspired by Mad Men for a long time) and I thoroughly liked it. My favorite is I’m Only Sleeping because it sums up how I feel when I wake up in the morning. The other one is “I Want to Tell You” because it sums up how I feel around people at school. Even the people who I consider friends there comment that I am extremely shy around most people.
“Yesterday” is a very meaningful song. When I was staying in Upper Valley Medical Center, there was a very strange girl who spent a lot of her time humming rap songs and making random statements to me like “My brother owns a big truck. My brother wants to own a Ferrari. My brother is going to college so he can work in the computer business.” I dislike rap music, but then when she hummed the Yesterday song, I said, “Hey, I know that one. I actually like the Beatles,” so we could talk about them for a while. And it helped me understand her. I realized that for all of her outside attempts to constantly mask her feelings with humor, she was a very thoughtful and unhappy person. She probably put it best with: “Yeah, I’m homeless, living on the streets, but I like The Beatles and I’ve got some stuff going for me.” Or perhaps: “I have learned so much hard lessons and gone through so much in all my many years of life on this strange earth. But then again, I’m only 20.”