For no one.

Recently I received the following email from a good friend under the subject header "10 Best Beatles Songs Ever":

This list is off the top of my head...it includes both group and solo.

1. I Am The Walrus
2. God--Lennon
3. Come Together
4. Here Comes The Sun
5. Working Class Hero--Lennon
6. Tug of War--McCartney
7. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
8. I'm Only Sleeping
9. A Day In The Life
10. Long, Long, Long

My response was first to note the lack of one of my faves as well as that of the late John Peel: "And Your Bird Can Sing" and also wonder about what happened to songs from Rubber Soul. Suitably inspired I started this impossible task (only 10 Beatles songs—c'mon!)

My list (as dreamed up 4/20/06 and valid for today only):

1. I am the Walrus
2. And Your Bird Can Sing
3. In My Life
4. Working Class Hero-Lennon
5. Live and Let Die-McCartney and Wings
6. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
7. Please Please Me [eds. note in sleep deprived-state I picked the wrong early single, mea culpa]
8. You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
9. Beware of Darkness-Harrison
10. Across the Universe

10b-d honorable mention to "Happiness is a Warm Gun," "She's Leaving Home," and "Something"

O.K. fire away and tell me how "wrong" my very personal list is, or better yet passionately defend the tracks I forgot.