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6.36am
1 November 2012
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As I’ve said before occasionally here, I’m not that much of a Beatles fan when you measure that by how many songs I enjoy and/or know well.
The following is a list of Beatles songs that I’ve either never heard before, or my memory is so poor and I was so unimpressed, I can’t remember if I ever heard them. (A few of them are probably early covers). I do intend to try to listen to at least some of them in the near future. If I knew there was an undiscovered treasure on the level of a “Penny Lane ” or “Here, There And Everywhere “, I would of course immediately give a listen. But as it is, I don’t want to slog through a bunch of mediocre stuff that I don’t like much to try to find it
From my list, the more zealous fans can see how far I am from the measure of a Beatlemaniac:
12-Bar Original
A Beginning
A Shot Of Rhythm And Blues
Anna (Go To Him)
Carol
Christmas Time (Is Here Again)
Circles
Clarabella
Cry For A Shadow
Crying, Waiting, Hoping
Don’t Ever Change
Etcetera
Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby
Hallelujah, I Love Her So
I Don’t Want To Spoil The Party
I Forgot To Remember To Forget
I Got To Find My Baby
I Just Don’t Understand
I’ll Be On My Way
I’m Gonna Sit Right Down And Cry (Over You)
Keep Your Hands Off My Baby
Lend Me Your Comb
Los Paranoias
Love Of The Loved
Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues
Memphis, Tennessee
Money (That’s What I Want)
Moonlight Bay
Nobody’s Child
Nothin’ Shakin’
Ooh! My Soul
Pepperland Laid Waste
Rip It Up/Shake, Rattle And Roll/Blue Suede Shoes
Searchin’
September In The Rain
Shout
So How Come (No One Loves Me)
Soldier Of Love
Some Other Guy
Sour Milk Sea
Step Inside Love
Sure To Fall (In Love With You)
Sweet Little Sixteen
Take Good Care Of My Baby
Take Out Some Insurance On Me, Baby
That’ll Be The Day
That’s All Right (Mama)
The Hippy Hippy Shake
The Honeymoon Song
The Saints
The Sheik Of Araby
Three Cool Cats
To Know Her Is To Love Her
Too Much Monkey Business
Why
You Know What To Do
Young Blood
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8.02am
1 August 2013
Offline Funny Paper said
As I’ve said before occasionally here, I’m not that much of a Beatles fan when you measure that by how many songs I enjoy and/or know well.
There’s A Place and I’m A Loser are probably my favorite pre-Rubber Soul Beatles tracks. Give ’em a listen!
8.08am
17 January 2013
Offline Wow, I’m very surprised. I’m guessing you don’t own “With the Beatles”, “Beatles For Sale “, or any of the Anthology? Man, you are missing out! 
Now I’m curious, so I’m going through the list on this site to see which ones I have not heard…. and they are…
- A Shot of Rhythm and Blues
- Bad Boy
- Carnival Of Light
- Carol
- Child Of Nature
- Christmas Time (Is Here Again)
- Circles
- Clarabella
- Crying, Waiting, Hoping
- Don’t Ever Change
- Etcetera
- Glad All Over
- I Call Your Name
- I Forgot to Remember to Forget
- I Got to Find My Baby
- I Just Don’t Understand
- I’ll Be On My Way
- I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Cry (Over You)
- Johnny B Goode
- Lonesome Tears in My Eyes
- Love of the Loved
- Nobody’s Child
- Nothin’ Shakin’
- Now And Then
- Ooh! My Soul
- September in the Rain
- So How Come (No One Loves Me)
- Soldier of Love
- Sour Milk Sea
- Sure To Fall (In Love With You)
- Sweet Little Sixteen
- Take Good Care Of My Baby
- Take Out Some Insurance On Me, Baby
- The Honeymoon Song
- To Know Her is to Love Her
- Young Blood
Mostly old covers it looks like.
"Please don't bring your banjo back, I know where it's been.. I wasn't hardly gone a day, when it became the scene.. Banjos! Banjos! All the time, I can't forget that tune.. and if I ever see another banjo, I'm going out and buy a big balloon!"
9.02am
21 November 2012
Offline Pretty much LongHairedLady’s list except for I Call Your Name , Bad Boy , Child Of Nature , Circles, Clarabella and Carol.
@Funny Paper Don’t bother to listen to What’s The New Mary Jane . You’ll immediately regret it.
12.06pm
26 March 2012
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LHL, I strongly advise you to listen to Don’t Ever Change, maybe my favourite cover they ever did. A rare example of Paul and George sharing a double lead harmony vocal, and the song’s a beauty.
Funny Paper, you’re missing out on some classics, and some underrated gems – namely Every Little Thing , From Me To You , I Don’t Want To Spoil The Party , I’ll Be Back (great harmonies and rather dark and complex for 1964), I’m A Loser (one of John’s finest Dylan impressions, great bassline too), I’m Down (you’ll probably enjoy the excellent Paul vocal on this one), If I Needed Someone (one of George’s finest earlier songs), No Reply (one of John’s best ferocious jealousy-rockers), Tell Me What You See , There’s A Place , Yes It Is (stylistically similar to This Boy but I think it’s just as good), What You’re Doing (underrated minimal Paul tune with a jangly looping riff) and You Can’t Do That (another of John’s best ferocious jealousy-rockers).
I’d advise you to listen to that list and then report back to the thread 
SHUT UP - Paulie's talkin'
3.36pm
8 November 2012
Offline Ben Ramon said
LHL, I strongly advise you to listen to Don’t Ever Change, maybe my favourite cover they ever did. A rare example of Paul and George sharing a double lead harmony vocal, and the song’s a beauty.
Very much agree. I think every fan needs the Anthology and the BBC Recordings as well as the albums.
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5.01pm
1 November 2012
Offline Thanks to all the comments and recommendations — they may help me weed out as I embark upon a slow process of listening one by one.
LHL: you’re right, I don’t own those early Beatles albums and I don’t remember ever sitting down with them.
Linde — thanks for the heads up.
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6.34pm
16 August 2012
Offline It’s odd, because in the time it took to copy-and-paste all of those songs, you could have listened to side one of ‘A Hard Day’s Night ‘.
And that master list is kind of useless. Early live cover songs and stuff that never made it out of the vaults hardly count in the big scheme of things. “Carnival Of Light “, anyone…?
But still… I don’t see how people can simply refuse to listen to their first few albums for fear of not being impressed.
E is for 'Ergent'.
9.00pm
1 November 2012
Offline I would listen to a given early album right away if I knew it didn’t have bells and whistles and songs on it that weren’t on the American original, and all this crap I have to learn. I don’t want a history lesson, or the wrong album, or some different album than the one I think I’m listening to. In lieu of all those headaches, I opt to take it slow.
The songs I left *out* of my list would last me several lifetimes of enjoyment anyway.
P.S.: I took me under 3 minutes to create this topic: copy pasted the entire list, then went through and chopped out all the ones I recognized.
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9.09pm
1 November 2012
Offline SatanHimself said
It’s odd, because in the time it took to copy-and-paste all of those songs, you could have listened to side one of ‘A Hard Day’s Night ‘.
I’ve listened to, and like, most of the songs off “A Hard Day’s Night ” (asterisks by the ones I’ve listened to and like)–
* I Should Have Known Better
* If I Fell
* I’m Happy Just To Dance With You
* And I Love Her
* Tell Me Why
* Can’t Buy Me Love
* Any Time At All
* I’ll Cry Instead
* Things We Said Today
* When I Get Home
You Can’t Do That
I’ll Be Back
The only one from my asterisk list I really don’t like much is “I’ll Cry Instead “
(And as for the two stragglers, let me guess, they are ones that weren’t included in the American LP…)
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12.50am
1 December 2009
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Funny Paper, the revelation that you’ve never heard so much Beatles material is remarkable and bemusing to me! Without sounding like I’m making a you-don’t-belong-here! accusation, which couldn’t be true at all – I enjoy your posts very much, and you obviously know a hell of a lot about music in general and in specific areas – what exactly led you to this website/forum in the first place? Was it just something so simple as an extreme love for the 2/3 of Beatles music that you are strongly familiar with, to the extent that you never bothered to check out the other 1/3, which induced you to seek out a forum where you could discuss that 2/3 with others? (This wouldn’t be terribly strange: it took me until 1993 to finally hear all of Help !, a full dozen years after self-confirming the band’s greatest-band-evah status.)
GEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
12.55am
1 December 2009
Offline (Some especial favourites on that list: It’s All Too Much , Baby’s In Black , If I Needed Someone , What You’re Doing . And Anna and Rock And Roll Music , for two of John’s finest early vocal efforts.)
GEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
2.03am
10 August 2011
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Funny Paper, if you find the list too daunting, start by crossing out the covers – though you’ll miss out on “Rock’n’Roll Music” … and yes “I’ll Be Back ” did appear on an American LP, but not on AHDN (but Beatles ’65).
"Into the Sky with Diamonds" (the Beatles and the Race to the Moon – a history)
3.09am
16 August 2012
Offline See…? This is why I’m so curious about younger fans’ listening habits. As a lifelong fan (like vonbontee) I find it so absurd that people can be so involved with discussions about the Beatles without even being moderately familiar with their catalogue. To me it’s like saying you’re a HUGE Michelangelo fan because you like the statue of David.
This is why I question the future fandom of the Beatles. Modern listening habits have people cherry-picking their experience, which cheapens the overall Beatles history.
E is for 'Ergent'.
3.49am
1 December 2009
Offline Well, to be fair, Funny Paper is older than both you or I, and is familiar with a LOT of music. Including the majority, apparently, of the most celebrated Beatles stuff. Maybe it’s more appropriate to say she loves both David AND the Sistine Chapel?
GEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
5.11am
17 January 2013
Offline Funny Paper: I’m still surprised that after all these years you haven’t listened to so many of their songs. 
No offence at all, but is it just a different generation maybe, are you not as familiar with the internet downloading and such? I have all of their albums downloaded onto iTunes, with the exception of Past Masters …. so I have the privilege of having mostly all of their music literally at my fingertips. Although if I have been a fan as long as you have, I would think I would have bought all of their albums by now (I slowly buy them all on vinyl… only 4 to go!)
"Please don't bring your banjo back, I know where it's been.. I wasn't hardly gone a day, when it became the scene.. Banjos! Banjos! All the time, I can't forget that tune.. and if I ever see another banjo, I'm going out and buy a big balloon!"
9.54am
21 November 2012
Offline I realized yesterday, when I was cycling to work, that I had never heard When I get home in it’s entirety
I don’t even know why. Anyway, that problem is fixed now.
1.08pm
18 March 2013
Offline Lemme look at the list….
Circles
Don’t Ever Change
Take Out Some Insurance On Me, Baby
The Saints
Why
You Know What to Do
I’ve heard a lot.
1.23pm
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1 May 2011
Online I don’t get why if you have a favourite band why you wouldn’t want to hear everything they officially released (thereby omitting the bootleg stuff, I can see why folks might not bother with that tho there are some really good music out there).*
Re. Carnival Of Light , I doubt anyone here has heard that, please correct me if wrong (and if you have a true recording of that and not some crummy fake feel free to let us hear it).
Actually if they went down a different route like a rave album I would get that, I haven’t heard Pauls orchestral stuff or Johns Imminent Headache recordings with Yoko.
"I told you everything I could about me, Told you everything I could" ('Before Believing' - Emmylou Harris)
2.51pm
3 May 2012
Offline I’m really surprised that FP and, more surprisingly still, LHL haven’t listened to everything. I love Anthology 1 and the bbc recordings, and I wouldn’t feel like a big fan if I hadn’t listened to them. I don’t really know how you can sit there knowing there’s Beatles songs you’ve never listened to, but anyway, if you’re happy then I guess there’s no reason why anyone should tell you what to do. I, like everyone else who’s already posted, strongly advise you listen to some of them, at least. You’re both missing out BIG TIME!
The only song I haven’t heard is COL, ’cause nobody has, have they?
Moving along in our God given ways, safety is sat by the fire/Sanctuary from these feverish smiles, left with a mark on the door.
(Passover - I. Curtis)
