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My George Harrison Favorite songs

These blog will be covering my Favorite songs from one of my favorite artists – George Harrison, it will be covering songs from his days in the Beatles.

Though these will have numbers they are in random order :-

1) If I Needed Someone – a song structured around the D chord, as many song’s of the time. George said he was inspired from The Byrd’s songs and guitar work at the time. The song is mid-tempo level semi-ballad with lyrics reflecting the singers aloofness to love and relationships at the moment, and though he isn’t reluctant to tell the girl if she wants him, she has to wait for him. Fun fact : this is the only song written by George Harrison that was performed live by the Beatles.
2) You Like Me Too Much – A fun song with even funnier lyrics which could be seen as progressive for the time. It has a memorable piano line which pops across the songs, even the lyrics are playful where at one line “You’ll never leave me and you know it’s true Cos you like me too much and I like you” but it’s refuted with such lines like “I will follow you and bring you back where you belong Cos I could’t really stand it I admit that I was wrong I wouldn’t let you leave me cos it’s true Cos you like me too much and I like you”. This song was the 3rd song used of George on an Beatles Album.
3) Within You & Without You – this song is one of the most deep cuts on the Sgt pepper album, with lyrics reflecting his thoughts on Humanity and the perceiving of souls, the song is accompanied by Indian instruments and ragas. The lyrics reflect on the insecurity of an individual who thinks only his/her problems are significant than others, which George sums up with the lines “Life goes on Within you and Without you”
4) While My Guitar Gently Weeps – A rocker of a song with an rocking of a personality playing guitar on it. Eric Clapton participated in the recording of this track. On the song, he visits the theme of universal love. ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’ is a simple song. With a basic structure built around two verses in A minor and a bridge in A major, followed by an outro where the lead vocals drop and Harrison leaves us with just the guitar by itself. There are many great versions of this song, like the live version or the acoustic version and the original which still holds up today.
5) Something – If you put a gun to my head and asked me to answer my favorite song in under 5 seconds then it would be this song. With simple but effective drumline, complex but melodic baseline and killer guitar playing from George elevates this song to a whole new level. The lyrics portray a simple love song but it does add other elements such as confusion with lines like “You’re asking me, will my grow, I don’t know”

These were my Favorite songs by Beatle George
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Rebellion in Music

“How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?” ― Jane Swan

Music has the power to reach potentials unknown but music has only moved forward when a new rebel genre has come into the mainstream, with the rebellion in Jazz, The birth of Rock in the 50s leading to its supremacy being legitimatized in the 60s and early 70s. Rock and Roll was seen as the ultimate form of rebellion. But Disco which originated in gay clubs in the mid to late 70s tried to prove them wrong. Disco itself was the antithesis of Rock. Punk, Heavy Metal & New Wave with their ridiculous hairstyles and choice of clothes was another. Some white collar folks saw Punks as the scum of Earth while others saw Heavy Metal as the runt of the society but some of them also got the title of Devil Worshipers. The 80s also saw a Pop scene being established with the release of “Thriller” though now in this day & age Pop is not such a rebellious genre, In those days it was different, Michael Jackson an African-American had the biggest album in the world & Madonna with her sexually charged lyrics and music videos which could be dated back to the Feminism movement of the 70s.

By the Mid 80s a new genre developed out of Metal called Glam Metal this was a mix of both the elements of metal and Glam rock. The music industry at the time then became saturated with such bands. The overflow of these type of glossed up rock then lead to the beginnings of the alternative scene. The late 80s brought 2 different but equally important genres to the forefront of World music it was Rap & Alternative Rock. Both have taken today different trajectories while one genre can be found in the mainstream of every country, the other genre Alternative will be found in the underground scene. Both Genres were born out of rebellion, Alternative was the rebel to the rock scene and in general to the whole music industry too. Rap originated from the disco clubs of 70s and did not use original beats or sounds rather invented a new way of creating beats through mixing, scratching & sampling. Rap in the 90s was more anti establishment then rock. Alternative Rock faded out and the influence of Rap also started seeping into Rock with the invention and quick fame of nu metal. Rap shocked mainstream audiences by sharing the reality of the situation or by verbal imagery intended to shock. Though by the time of the late 90s came, the boy band or teen pop phenomenon took over and according to me that’s when the rebellion in Music stopped.