*gasp!* Someone who has never heard The Beatles??

[Sandernista]

1. *While My Guitar Gently Weeps*
2. Rocky Raccoon
3. Yesterday
4. *I Want You (She's So Heavy)*
5. *In My Life*
6. *With a Little Help From My Friends*
7. Hey Jude
8. *The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill*
9. She Loves You
10. All My Loving
11. A Hard Days Night
12. Help
13. *Helter Skelter*
14. Paperback Writer
15. *Eleanor Rigby*

Oh god, this list is tearing me apart. I cannot pick just 15.

Let It Be
Across The Universe
Doctor Robert
Dear Prudence
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
I'm So Tired
Blackbird
Hey Bulldog
Don't Let Me Down
Come Together
Can't Buy Me Love
Please Please Me

ect.

Starred especial favorites. I generally have a total hard-on for the white album, but I Want You is such perfect song.

 

[Sandernista]

Spoiler: This song is just sex to my ears.

It really is. Goddamn.

 

[Sandernista]

tl;dr What crucial songs belong in a 15-song playlist introducing my friend to The Beatles? remember she's new so songs like Helter Skelter and I Am the Walrus may be a bit much...

So far I'm for sure including Strawberry Fields Forever, Hey Jude, Taxman, and Yesterday

Watch "Across the Universe" with her, thats what i did with some friends who didn't like the beetles. Its agreat movie, and the songs are faithfully adapted to fit modern tastes. The covers of Let it Be, While my Guitar Gently Weeps, and Oh Darling, are particularly spectacular.

The Let it Be adaptation is just amazing. Along with the imagery, that is one of the most powerful scenes in a movie, ever.

 

[Kimarous]

I'm a bit confused by the original post. Is it that she never heard of the Beatles before or that she simply didn't recognize the singer/style? If the former, then it is definitely surprising and warrants a little explanation, but if the latter, you are blowing this WAY out of proportion!

 

[mrc390]

Definitely remember Something from Abbey Road, also Eleanor Rigby and Norwegian Wood

 

[Shadu]

I didn't really know who the Beatles were exactly until I hit college. I mean, sure I had heard of them, and apparently had heard some of their songs, but I never had a name attatched to the group. And then I find out that people are in crazy love with them, and it all just goes over my head.

So, I don't find it odd that she hasn't heard of them or heard them. Some people just haven't. It's not the oddest thing to ever happen.

I was aware of them, sure, but I don't know most of their songs. And I certainly don't have to bust out singing them when they come on.

 

[Rule Britannia]

Let it be, drive my car

 

[soes757]

In my Life
and
Across the Universe

 

[Thundero13]

Well, i'd say you'd need a few from each era, psychedelic would be covered by Srawberry fields, maybe here comes the sun of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds too? And from their early rock period... rock and roll music? Not so sure about that era, Yesterday should be fine for their later stuff, oh and Sergeant Peppers is A MUST!
Anyway good luck with that =3

 

[999realthings]

Here are my suggestions. I still don't know how people haven't heard of the Beatles, I thought they are heaps of culutral reference of them and one of those bands that everybody love or at least like (like Queen)

Octopus Garden
Back in the USSR
Let it be
Yellow Submarine
Eleanor Rigby

 

[Xanadu84]

And? The majority of people don't know about my favorite band, but I don't act like that when they say so. Obviously, Rise Against are quite as famous as The Beatles, but I listen to them all the time, and love every single one of their songs like a child. I'm a huge fan, but I don't act like you when people say ''Who are they?''

I gotta back up the OP on this. It's not a matter of taste. It's a matter of the shock at how deeply under a rock you have to live to have never heard of The Beatles. Its not so much bad as it is surprising.

But she HAD heard of them, which makes it worse. She did know about them, and knew some of their songs! The majority of people don't even know half the bands I like exist, never mind name songs by them!

Yeah, but your not talking about one of the most popular bands ever. And again, it isn't about taste or preference, its about how in society, there's a number of things that you naturally assume that EVERYONE is aware of because they are ubiquitous. And though this person has heard of the Beatles, she is certainly a few deviations away from the mean in terms of Beatles knowledge. I don't think that the OP is floored by her taste in music, he is floored by how someone could manage to not be exposed to a variety of Beatles music. It is definitely an anomaly.

i disagree it will be an increasing trend to see a decreasing knowledge of beatles in the younger generations as time goes on, they don't get much airtime anymore (any guesses why) and acting as if its some kind of social faux pas as the OP has kind of paints the fans of the band in a bad light.

I don't see the OP saying that this is a Faux Pas, I see him thinking it highly unusual. Like if someone in a family of entirely blondes happens to have black hair (That may not pass muster of genetic knowledge I understand, that's just an example) Its not wrong, its just unusual. And in that unusual situation, desire to spread your interest is only natural. Of course now, there's no way of going further with the conversation without hard data, so really, who knows?

 

[XzarTheMad]

I'd go for:

Help
Yesterday
All you need is love
Hard Day's Night
She Loves You
Elanor Rigby (Probably my all-time favorite of theirs)
Can't Buy Me Love
Little Help From My Friends
Eight Days A Week
Let It Be
Love Me Do
Blackbird
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Back in the USSR

Personally I'm not fond of Yellow Submarine or I Am the Walrus, but for completion's sake I'd probably introduce those, too.

 

[Xan Krieger]

I didn't really know who the Beatles were exactly until I hit college. I mean, sure I had heard of them, and apparently had heard some of their songs, but I never had a name attatched to the group. And then I find out that people are in crazy love with them, and it all just goes over my head.

So, I don't find it odd that she hasn't heard of them or heard them. Some people just haven't. It's not the oddest thing to ever happen.

I was aware of them, sure, but I don't know most of their songs. And I certainly don't have to bust out singing them when they come on.

I gotta agree here, I hadn't heard an Ozzy Osbourne song till about a year ago and people thought I was living under a rock. It's not that, it's that I was listening to Avenged Sevenfold, Rise Against, and Green Day. As for the Beatles I hate how they sound and as a result tend to avoid their music. I know who they were, I just can't name them except John Lennon. Then again in 20 years you'll be saying the same thing when someone doesn't sing along to something by Nickelback.

 

[CthulhuMessiah]

I don't like The Beatles either. It isn't mandatory guys.

This isn't about LIKING them, this is about NEVER KNOWING that the band even exists.

 

[Mycroft Holmes]

I'm friends with a girl who had no idea who Bob Dylan is. I'm not sure if that's worse or better than not knowing who the Beatles were.

And shame on no one for suggesting The End. It was the last song the Beatles ever played together and it's a perfect ending for a a great band. It is a call back to the original band without orchestral backing and it showcases each member individually with a solo. Also For No One is a fantastic Beatles song and one of my favorites of any band(amazing french horn solos.)

If you're just trying to introduce her to the band then you should probably try to run the gamut of all their most well known pieces. If you're trying to get her to like the band then you may need to custom tailor the music more because the Beatles ranged hugely in style from 4-man-band love songs with vocal harmony, to much larger orchestral backed pieces, to the beginnings of hard rock style protest songs, to George Harrison dicking around on the sitar(much to Ravi Shankar's distress,) to them literally putting together jumbled garbage in an experiment to see if people would buy it anyways. My point being that it would help to know more about what music she actually likes.

Really all I listen to because I like the oldies the best.

I used to be this way, and at least with me it wasn't so much that the oldies are that much better than the stuff now. It's just that no one remembers the bad songs, and so time acts as a filter making basically all old music anyone plays nowadays really good.

 

[Jimmybobjr]

I have never listened to a Beatles song. Never got around to it; im not one that listens to music.

However, the small snippets i HAVE heard of Beatles songs were good enough.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

I then ask her if she's heard other well known Beatles songs and the only ones she knew were Hello Goodbye and Twist and Shout.

So she has heard of them? What is the point of this thread then. And just because you worship them, doesn't mean everyone likes them. I don't care for them because their music is that great, and they created boy bands.

*sits and waits for the untrue "if they weren't around the music you listen to wouldn't be" bullshit reply*

 

[shadow_Fox81]

Blackbird

i find it seriously hard to believe with a range from HelterSkelter to Shes leaving Home that there isn't something By the Beatles for every one.

I'm not the Biggest fan of lennon though

 

[walrusaurus]

Watch "Across the Universe" with her, thats what i did with some friends who didn't like the beetles. Its agreat movie, and the songs are faithfully adapted to fit modern tastes. The covers of Let it Be, While my Guitar Gently Weeps, and Oh Darling, are particularly spectacular.

The Let it Be adaptation is just amazing. Along with the imagery, that is one of the most powerful scenes in a movie, ever.

Indeed. Thats the other great thing about that movie, is that it helps to place the beetles songs in their proper social context, which is something I'd never fully appreciated.

 

[JoesshittyOs]

Good riddance, The Beatles were untalented hippies that released a bunch of inexplicably overrated tripe and deserve to be forgotten. Same with people who are so goddamn judgemental that they cannot believe someone hasn't heard of a band from 40-50 years ago, then criticize their friend for 'only' having heard the song of theirs that sound the most like Justin Bieber's drivel.
So piss off, mate.
Note to self: Do not post drunk...

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Loud and annoying.

OT: Well, technically she has heard of them.