The 50 Best Beatles Songs

I received in the mail today my Entertainment Weekly featuring my all-time favorite band The Beatles on the cover.  This is in honor of the Rock Band Beatles edition set to hit stores next week (can't wait!).  As part of the issue, EW lists its version of the Top 50 Beatles songs.  Well, I love lists, and of course I disagree with EW's.  They got a lot right, and a majority of the songs on my list are probably on the EW list (I didn't count).  But EW says Here Comes the Sun is only the 48th best Beatles song.  I've got it in the top 5.  And EW's number one pick, A Hard Day's Night, is a joke.  It comes in a respectable 13th on my list, but a far cry from the top spot.  Here is my list:

1. A Day in the Life
2. Hey Jude 
3. The Long and Winding Road 
4. Penny Lane 
5. Here Comes the Sun 
6. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 
7. While My Guitar Gently Weeps 
8. Eleanor Rigby 
9. Norwegian Wood 
10. Yesterday 
11. Let it Be 
12. Something 
13. A Hard Day's Night 
14. Blackbird 
15. Across the Universe 
16. Help 
17. I Wanna Hold Your Hand 
18. From Me to You 
19. When I'm Sixty-Four 
20. Revolution 
21. Strawberry Fields Forever 
22. I Am the Walrus 
23. You've Got to Hide Your Love Away 
24. Can't Buy Me Love 
25. Day Tripper 
26. Ticket to Ride 
27. Eight Days a Week 
28. Paperback Writer 
29. Getting Better
30. Good Day Sunshine 
31. I Feel Fine 
32. I Saw Her Standing There 
33. I'm Down 
34. Lady Madonna 
35. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds 
36. Magical Mystery Tour 
37. Ballad of John and Yoko 
38. Back in the U.S.S.R. 
39. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 
40. We Can Work it Out 
41. Michelle 
42. All My Loving 
43. Please Please Me 
44. Love Me Do 
45. Nowhere Man 
46. Got to Get You into My Life 
47. Yellow Submarine 
48. Golden Slumbers 
49. Carry that Weight 
50. The End 

I actually think the last three songs should be ranked higher, but when I play this mix in iTunes, I like to end with that phenomenal medley from Abbey Road.  So, take that, EW!  Readers may notice that my list is top-heavy with later Beatles tunes, and that I am partial to McCartney's songs.  It is also a testament, though, the George Harrison's often underrated impact on the band that I've got three of his songs in the Top 12, and he didn't get writing credit for very many Beatles songs.