The editors at NME took a long, hard look at the 185 self-written Beatles tracks and rated each and every one of them.
The band’s 1966 Revolver closer, “Tomorrow Never Knows” topped the chart and the Beatles song that came in dead last at Number 185 was McCartney’s 1968 one-man-band snippet from the “White Album” — “Wild Honey Pie.”
The Top 20 ‘Greatest Beatles Songs’ – according to NME:
1. “Tomorrow Never Knows” – Revolver, 1966
2. “A Day In The Life” – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1967
3. “Hey Jude” – single, 1968
4. “Strawberry Fields Forever” – single, 1967
5. “Something” – Abbey Road, 1969
6. “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” – The Beatles, 1968
7. “Blackbird” – The Beatles, 1968
8. “Paperback Writer” – single, 1966
9. “All My Loving” – With The Beatles, 1963
10. “We Can Work It Out” – single, 1966
11. “Here Comes The Sun” – Abbey Road, 1969
12. “Eleanor Rigby” – Revolver, 1966
13. “And Your Bird Can Sing” – Revolver, 1966
14. “Yesterday” – Help!, 1965
15. “Golden Slumbers” – Abbey Road, 1969
16. “In My Life” – Rubber Soul, 1965
17. “Martha My Dear” – The Beatles, 1968
18. “Across The Universe” – Let It Be, 1970
19. “Got To Get You Into My Life” – Revolver, 1966
20. “All You Need Is Love” – single, 1967