I did consider including both of those. But they just seemed to waffle on a bit.
You mean the lyrics? Well, but for a psychedelic/progressive Beatles album they are essential. Musically they are the most psychedelic of all their songs. Really adventurous stuff. Highly psychedelic sounds and mixing.
"Only A Northern Song"'s lyrics are pretty good, too. A very amusing comment on writing songs on acid using strange chords. With a song that is exactly doing that. And then saying: you may think they're wrong, but they're not, they're meant to be that way. I love that kind of humour.
May I add a few more songs, which I think are essential for this project?
* "Flying"
* "Long Long Long"
this is in fact a very deep psychedelic tune. The whole atmosphere is so dark and psychy. The drum fills are great. The end is as haunting as it gets.
* "I Want You (She's So Heavy)"
I was surprised that you took in most of the Abbey Road b-side, not because it's not progressive enough, but I really didn't expect you to like it; "I Want You" is essential, especially because of the heavy guitar riffs at the end plus the big wave that swallows the song.
* "Love You To"
no explanation needed I guess
* "Revolution #9"
it's not pop, but of course the most progressive the Beatles ever went. It's great, too. It's really haunting and provokes a whole world of images in your head. It's almost as walking over battle fields and through mental hospitals in dreamlike sequences. Totally psychedelic!
* "Happiness Is A Warm Gun"
another essential one, using one of the most heavily and interestingly destorted guitars the Beatles ever used; highly progressive song structure; besides it is one of my favourites
* "Think for yourself"
fuzz-guitar, weird riffs, chords and rhythmic structure, it's all there!
* "Piggies"
you don't like harpsichord? Too bad! The middle eight is ingenious songwriting and highly psychedelic, too. And the way the harpsichord is used is quite unique. Which other pop song has a harpsichord as aggressively thumping as that?
* "Cry Baby Cry"
very good tune. Psychedelic enough, too.
* "Baby You're A Rich Man"
not Lennon's best tune. But quite psychedelic.
* "Blue Jay Way"
most essential psych track on par with "It's All Too Much" and "Northern Song"!!! Great tune with an atmosphere unparalleled in pop history.
* "Fool On The Hill"
lyricwise essential. Great psych pop tune. One of McCartney's best compositions.
* "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)"
does it ever end? One song after the other... This one is not psychedelic, but if you consider the b-side of Abbey Road progressive this is even more so, as it puts it all into one song. 6 songs in 3 minutes. And you have Brian Jones playing the saxophone, which is psychedelic in itself!
* "Hey Bulldog"
This is one fine psychedelic rocker, that I wouldn't wanna do without.
Ah, maybe here it ends.
I think all of those are more psychedelic than "Get Back", "Birthday" and "Hello Goodbye". Those are a little too straight in my opinion.
Hey, sorry for the length of this post. Blame it on the Beatles!
