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The top 500 best music and songs from the 1960s. Song meanings, lyrics and interpretations from your favorite artists. The Beatles, Beach Boys, Simon and Garfunkel, Dylan. See who rates the highest!

1960s songs, new love

#29 Something- The Beatles

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You’re asking me will my love grow/
Well I don’t know, I don’t know.

“Something” was the song where George Harrison showed that he was on the same level as McCartney and Lennon in The Beatles. Well, in the same league. He wrote a great love song and shows off some of his finest guitar work. Ringo also makes a big contribution on this song. The drums play a large part and they sound solid.

George’s singing voice sounds superb. It sounds sort of like Lennon’s but less distinctive—and that is nice for a change. The verses are solid (Frank Sinatra said this is the best love song ever written) but the bridge really is spectacular. It is a very different vibe from the verse and Ringo’s drums play a key part here.

Something Beatles song Meaning
Harrison

Harrison’s guitar work is all over “Something”. The most obvious place to look is the solo. It is extremely smooth. That’s an understatement if ever there was one. The guitar fills during the verses are more nuanced. It is not that they deserve more attention, but her we see that Harrison is growing as a songwriter by using the power of production to layer sounds to create the sound he has in his head. I also really like the bass part on this song. It is fairly unique and does a lot to create the depth of sound that the song needs.

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Something Lyrics & Meaning

Something in the way she moves-
Attracts me like no other lover.
Something in the way she woos me…

I don’t want to leave her now,
You know I believe and how.

Somewhere in her smile she knows
That I don’t need no other lover.
Something in her style that shows me.

Don’t want to leave her now,
You know I believe and how.

You’re asking me will my love grow,
I don’t know, I don’t know.
You stick around, now it may show.
I don’t know, I don’t know.

Something in the way she knows-
And all I have to do is think of her.
Something in the things she shows me…

I don’t want to leave her now,
You know I believe and how.

written by George Harrison

1960s songs, epic rock songs

#24 Golden Slumbers Medley- The Beatles

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And in the end/
The love you take/
Is equal to the love you make.

This is The Beatles’ Abby Road Medley consisting of: “Golden Slumbers”, “Carry That Weight”, and “The End”.   The lyrics of each individual song don’t really go together; it is pretty clear that The Beatles had three short songs and stuck them together and it sort of felt right.

golden slumbers medley meaning
abbey road

And it does. In a short five minutes you get to experience all the different sounds of The Beatles, from their ballads to an anthem to a pensive ditty. In “The End”, you get to hear each of The Beatles with a solo, and this is also the last song they recorded together.

This song is a medley and you can’t listen to this as one song on on Spotify and other streaming platforms…which is how you experience it when you are listening to Abbey Road. Is there ever a time when you don’t want to hear all three at the same time? I suppose this is a first world problem.

Abbey Road Medley Lyrics

Once there was a way
To get back homeward
Once there was a way
To get back home
Sleep, pretty darling
Do not cry
And I will sing a lullaby
Golden slumbers
Fill your eyes
Smiles await you when you rise
Sleep pretty darling
Do not cry
And I will sing a lullaby
Once there was a way
To get back homeward
Once there was a way
To get back home
Sleep, pretty darling
Do not cry
And I will sing a lullaby.

Carry That Weight Lyrics
Boy, you gotta carry that weight
Carry that weight a long time
Boy, you gonna carry that weight
Carry that weight a long time
I never give you my pillow
I only send you my invitation
And in the middle of the celebrations
I break down
Boy, you gotta carry that weight
Carry that weight a long time
Boy, you gotta carry that weight
You’re gonna carry that weight along time

The End Lyrics
Oh yeah, all right
Are you going to be in my dreams
Tonight?
And in the end
The love you take
Is equal to the love you make
written by lennon/mccartney

1960s songs, memories

#15 Strawberry Fields Forever- The Beatles

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Living is easy with eyes closed/
Misunderstanding all you see.

“Strawberry Fields” is the name of an actual physical place in England, but the Strawberry Fields in this song represents a mystical place—perhaps a mental state—where things are better than how things are on earth. A lot of the success of this song can be attributed to producer George Martin. If you have any doubt, listen to the different outtakes of this song and compare that with where it ended up. Martin did that. This is clearly one of the best examples of great music production ever.

Strawberry Fields Forever Meaning
THE Strawberry fields

There are so many weird effects that help to create the dreamy atmosphere of this song. Some of it is John Lennon’s voice. He sings in a somewhat different voice. But Martin uses effects like recording at different speeds, the arrangement of the horns, the exotic instruments, strings, the mellotron, and an assortment of percussion.

“Strawberry Fields Forever” was one of the first songs The Beatles made after they decided to stop touring. It definitely opened them up creatively. It would be impossible to replicate this sound live. This is also one of the defining moments in psychedelic rock. The Beatles contributed to many genres and others followed.


Strawberry Fields Forever Lyrics

Let me take you down
‘Cause I’m going to Strawberry Fields.
Nothing is real.
And nothing to get hung about.
Strawberry Fields forever.

Living is easy with eyes closed.
Misunderstanding all you see.
It’s getting hard to be someone
But it all works out.
It doesn’t matter much to me.

Let me take you down
‘Cause I’m going to Strawberry Fields.
Nothing is real.
And nothing to get hung about.
Strawberry Fields forever.

No one I think is in my tree,
I mean it must be high or low.
That is you can’t, you know, tune in
But it’s all right.
That is, I think, it’s not too bad.

Let me take you down
‘Cause I’m going to Strawberry Fields.
Nothing is real.
And nothing to get hung about,
Strawberry Fields forever.

Always, no, sometimes think it’s me,
But you know I know when it’s a dream.
I think, er, no, I mean, er, yes
But it’s all wrong,
That is I think I disagree.

Let me take you down
‘Cause I’m going to Strawberry Fields.
Nothing is real.
And nothing to get hung about,
Strawberry Fields forever.
Strawberry Fields forever.
Strawberry Fields forever.

written by lennon/mccartney