McCartney Times

I had always considered myself a firm card-carrying member of Team Paul until I was asked to name my Top 5 Beatles tunes by my brother-in-law. This was a few months ago. The two of us had been drinking, as bro-bros are wont to do, but while we had put to bed many super-important issues on this night, it’s not like we had totally run out of stuff to talk about. Alien? Better special effects than The Thing, which came out after it — how is that possible? Poor NFL officiating? Maybe if the refs got paid more, they wouldn’t suck as badly. Top 5 Beatles songs? You’ll have to gimme a minute, brah.

I’m pretty sure, knowing him, a Beatles playlist was wafting through the house, and he and I probably just got caught up in the greatness of it all. And there’s a lot of greatness to get caught up in. No band wrote catchier tunes or was more groundbreaking in the studio than the Liverpudlians. Maybe it was one of George’s rigid riffs or a particularly slippy-skippy Ringo fill, but the question came to me, and after easily ticking off “Let It Be” and “Get Back,” the other three were all John. My brother-in-law agreed.

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