By Mark Pukalo
I have joined a 12-person facebook group rating great artists' top 20 songs. The Beatles were first on the list and here's my effort, followed by REM and U2
It was not easy, because 100 could have made the grade for the Beatles, and I acquired additional respect for Bono, the Edge, Michael and the boys as I examined their impressive libraries.
The Beatles top 20
1. I Saw Her Standing There - The first track on the Fab Five's debut album "Please Please Me"
2. Revolution - Used to love hearing it booming out of the speakers at the end of New England Revolution games in Foxboro
3. She Loves You - I'm told this was the first song I liked when I was in my second year on the Earth
4. I Wanna Hold Your Hand - Just classic early work from the Fab Four
5. The Long and Winding Road - Just a haunting melodic song from the Let it Be album
6. All You Need is Love - Ended the under-rated movie "Across the Universe" with style
7. Yesterday - I agree with the movie by the same name. One of the best written songs of all time
8. While My Guitar Gently Weeps - There's quite a story behind this incredible song written by George Harrison
9. Hey Jude - Paul McCartney wrote this song about John Lennon's son Julian after John left his mom for Yoko Ono
10. Back in the USSR - Paul did not write it as a political song. The Ukraine girls really do knock you out
11. Ticket to Ride
12. Penny Lane
13. A Hard Day's Night
14. Help!
15. Something
16. I'll Be On My Way
17. Across the Universe
18. Here Comes the Sun
19. Can't Buy Me Love
20. Twist & Shout (ok, it's a cover)
Joe Lunardi's first four out
A Day in the Life
Michelle
Let it Be
We Can Work it Out
R.E.M. Top 20
1. Losing my Religion - It's a southern phrase about losing yourself in pursuit of something
2. Man on the Moon - Cheeky tune with tremendous lyrics performed well at Live 8
3. Radio Free Europe - The first song by the group I heard
4. Electrolite - Love this melodic tune from under-rated album "New Adventures in Hi-Fi"
5. South Central Rain - One of the first hits for the Georgia band
6. At My Most Beautiful - Made to sound like a Beach Boys tune. Well written
7. It's the End of the World as we Know it - I feel fine after listening to this song
8. Everybody Hurts - Emotional song about avoiding suicide
9. Man-Sized Wreath - Under-rated tune from the "Accelerate" album
10. What's the Frequency, Kenneth? - Hard to keep from from humming this song from "Monster" after you hear it
11. Country Feedback
12. The One I Love
13. Nightswimming
14. Pretty Persuasion
15. Imitation of Life
16. Find the River
17. Drive
18. Begin the Begin
19. Bang and Blame
20. Until the Day is Done
Joe Lunardi's first six out
The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight
Radio Song
Try not to breathe
Stand
Leaving New York
Fall on Me
U2 Top 20
1. Walk On - I think it's a masterpiece. The song was written about Aung San Suu Kyi, who was jailed for her pro-democracy efforts in corrupt Burma - where the tune was banned
2. Sunday Bloody Sunday - Bono stepped out on the stage at 1985's Live Aid in London and boomed out the song about British troops killing unarmed civil rights protesters in Northern Ireland. The 70,000-plus fans were with him
3. Bad - The tune is about heroin addiction and it was never sung better than at Live Aid
4. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - Just a beautiful song about "spiritual yearning"
5. Pride (In the Name of Love) - A historic song about the great Martin Luther King
6. Beautiful Day - The uplifting tune is definitely suited for big stadium concerts
7. Stay (Faraway, So Close) - Love this song, especially Bono's performance, from the Zooropa CD
8.. With or Without You - The group's first No. 1 in both the U.S. and Canada. It spent three weeks atop the Billboard chart
9. The Unforgettable Fire - Haunting, beautiful title track from their fourth album
10. One Tree Hill - Written in memory of Bono's friend Greg Carroll and the group's roadie, who died in a motorcycle accident in 1986
11. One
12. Angel of Harlem
13. Red Hill Mining Town
14. I Will Follow
15. New Year's Day
16. Vertigo
17. Where the Streets Have No Name
18. Wild Honey
19. The Miracle (of Joey Ramone)
20. Acrobat
Joe Lunardi's first six out
A Sort of Homecoming
Until the End of the World
All I Want is You
Every Breaking Wave
Magnificent
Gloria
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