3 of the Best Beatles Songs That No One Talks About

There are a lot of songs that people talk about from the Liverpool-born rock band The Beatles. There are psychedelic tracks like “Strawberry Fields Forever” and the heartfelt tracks like “Yesterday” and “Let It Be”. But there are also some songs from The Beatles that no one seems to talk about, despite the fact that they’re great.

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Here below, we wanted to examine three examples. Let’s look into a trio of tunes from the former Mop Tops that stand out even though they don’t seem to, well, stand out. Indeed, these are three of the best Beatles songs that no one talks about for some reason.

“I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” from ‘Abbey Road’ (1969)

Released on the 1969 LP Abbey Road, which came out a year or so before the dissolution of the band, this song is one of pining love. But there are a lot of Beatles songs that decry loneliness and ask for companionship. Why this song stands out, though, is the instrumentation. The bubbling bass line and the trippy guitars that seem to constantly build and build into buzzing, terrible, beautiful, maddening, nightmarish, lovely explosions. This song is like getting into the collective psyche of the group, and it’s startlingly blissful as a result.

“Rain” (Single, 1966)

This song was the B-side on the single release for the track “Paperback Writer”, which, incidentally, is another song The Beatles’ fan nation should highlight more often. But what’s interesting about the song “Rain” is that it seems to exhibit the group’s potential for the strange, meditative sounds that they would be known for later in the decade. In 1968, the group traveled to India to study Transcendental Meditation. But years before, they released this B-side that seemed to pave the way for that ethereal floating sonic transition.

“Fixing A Hole” from ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ (1967)

An imaginative song, it’s almost like Paul McCartney is reading a note he wrote to himself about repairs around the house in “Fixing A Hole”. But quickly, the track bleeds into a meandering daydream. It’s a lovely little bridge between the everyday and the surreal. And it’s a great composition that inspires both melodically and lyrically. Released on the band’s seminal LP, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, this song is certainly a track that should be remembered more often. It’s a masterpiece hidden within a masterpiece.

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