The long and winding Beatles list

In the back of the most recent biography of Douglas Adams titled Wish You Were Here by Nick Webb, there is a list of what Adams considered the top 20 Beatles songs. If memory serves right, #1 was “The Long and Winding Road.” I don’t know if I could make a list of what I considered the best of their songs, but I will here make a list of their songs that I like the most. These are probably in order of release date, not by preference.

• Tell me why
• She's a woman (for the D7 chord)
• Help (interestingly, this and the 4 after are all from the Help album)
• The night before
• You've got to hide your love away
• Another girl
• I need you (by George Harrison)
• Paperback writer
• I am the walrus (for mentioning King Lear, as does the one above this, and for being clever)
• Revolution (the fast version that they released as a single where Paul is ripping out his vocal chords on the opening scream)
• Back in the USSR
• Birthday
• Hey bulldog (“if you’re lonely you can talk to me!”)
• Don’t let me down
• The Ballad of John & Yoko
• Come together (for that sound just after the chopped off word “shot” which sounds like a rotary phone being dialed – that sound amazed me as a child when the song was released)
• Something (also by George Harrison)
• Polythene Pam
• Her majesty (so short but so sweet)
• Two of us