What is the best Beatles song?

[Beanflicker]

Yeah it's an impossible question. As soon as I posted that I thought of more songs I love by them.

I'm sure I'm breaking no ground in saying they produced a ridiculous amount of good shit.

[Master]

Love me do.

[Beanflicker]

^ lol

[Mark TKO]

Impossible question to name best song \ single

Best album is easy though - The Anthology Box Set

[bradlee180]

Twist and Shout.

[Beanflicker]

Twist and Shout.

Of course you'd site a COVER as their best song lol, out of all the fabulous originals you have to choose from.

[Gandalf]

Okay scrap the best song, what was the best album?

For me The White Album.

[bradlee180]

Let's look at it from another angle.

The Beatles songs are classic songs, good songs, catchy songs, cutting edge at the time, but how deep are the songs, especially during the 1st few years?
Despite all their positive points, they still seem like lightweight fluff to me nowadays; I know some folks may scream "Sacrilege" over that declaration. But hey, these dudes were all in their early 20s at the time; how deep could they be?

The early stuff is fun songs, but where's the depth? Some of these early songs are just too saccharine sweet. They were a 60s band, no longevity. By the end of the decade, their songs were gaining more depth as they seasoned, and it was more solid music with more backbone, but then they broke up.

I think John Lennon's subsequent solo work trumped all the Beatles stuff.
There was serious depth there, there was some heavyweight material of real substance there. Classic timeless music, whereas Beatles music is dated.

Whaddya think ?