Rolling Stone is going to release a list of the 100 Greatest Beatle's Songs. Here's a preview I was emailed:
1. A Day in the Life
2. I Want to Hold Your Hand
3. Strawberry Fields Forever
4. Yesterday
5. In My Life
6. Something
7. Hey Jude
8. Let it Be
9. Come Togehter
10. While My Guitar Gently Weeps

And Here's how to first 10 Beatle's Songs were ranked on their 500 greatest song's list:
1. Hey Jude
2. Yesterday
3. I Want to Hold Your Hand
4. Let it Be
5. In My Life
6. A Day in the Life
7. Help!
8. She Loves You
9. Strawberry Fields Forever
10. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)

The new lsit is much better, aside from the fact that "Something" is ahead of "Come Together".

Pretty good,aside from the fact that I Want To Hold Your Hand shouldn't even be in the top 30...

Out of that top ten, the only songs that would make my Beatles top ten are A Day in the Life, Strawberry Fields Forever, and In My Life. That being said, it's not like they were going to leave out Yesterday in favor of And Your Bird Can Sing, so I wasn't expecting anything different.

I agree, this list is much much better. A Day and SFF are now pretty much universally agreed upon as The Beatles most acclaimed works. I Want to Hold Your Hand was going to be there no matter what as it's the song that broke them, so that doesn't bother me. While My Guitar Gently Weeps is a great inclusion.

I just picked up the issue. Here's the list, "ranked by the editors of Rolling Stone," according to the back cover. There are no covers included - the list is comprised of Beatles originals only.

1 A Day in the Life
2 I Want to Hold Your Hand
3 Strawberry Fields Forever
4 Yesterday
5 In My Life
6 Something
7 Hey Jude
8 Let It Be
9 Come Together
10 While My Guitar Gently Weeps
11 A Hard Day's Night
12 Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
13 Revolution
14 She Loves You
15 Help!
16 I Saw Her Standing There
17 Ticket to Ride
18 Tomorrow Never Knows
19 Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
20 Please Please Me
21 All You Need is Love
22 Eleanor Rigby
23 Abbey Road Medley (from You Never Give Me Your Money through The End)
24 Happiness is a Warm Gun
25 Here, There and Everywhere
26 If I Fell
27 You're Going to Lose That Girl
28 Here Comes the Sun
29 Can't Buy Me Love
30 We Can Work It Out
31 You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
32 Penny Lane
33 I Am the Walrus
34 Eight Days a Week
35 Paperback Writer
36 I Should Have Known Better
37 She Said She Said
38 Blackbird
39 Day Tripper
40 For No One
41 Get Back
42 I Feel Fine
43 Drive My Car
44 All My Loving
45 No Reply
46 Don't Let Me Down
47 Things We Said Today
48 The Ballad of John and Yoko
49 The Night Before
50 Got to Get You Into My Life
51 If I Needed Someone
52 Helter Skelter
53 It Won't Be Long
54 Two of Us
55 Taxman
56 I'm Down
57 I'm Only Sleeping
58 I've Just Seen a Face
59 I Want You (She's So Heavy)
60 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
61 With a Little Help from My Friends
62 Girl
63 Dear Prudence
64 I've Got a Feeling
65 And I Love Her
66 Nowhere Man
67 Oh! Darling
68 Baby, You're a Rich Man
69 Julia
70 You Can't Do That
71 I'm a Loser
72 From Me to You
73 Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey
74 Yellow Submarine
75 Think for Yourself
76 Yer Blues
77 Because
78 And Your Bird Can Sing
79 I'll Follow the Sun
80 Mother Nature's Son
81 Hey Bulldog
82 She's Leaving Home
83 I'm So Tired
84 Across the Universe
85 Back in the U.S.S.R.
86 Lady Madonna
87 Love Me Do
88 Rain
89 Good Day Sunshine
90 The Long and Winding Road
91 Every Little Thing
92 Dig a Pony
93 Sexy Sadie
94 You Won't See Me
95 Any Time at All
96 Within You Without You
97 All I've Got to Do
98 Long, Long, Long
99 Yes It Is
100 Hello Goodbye

I don't really have any complaints about the top 100 other than what the hell is "Across the Universe" doing at 84? That song is easily a top class Beatles song in my opinion, and is miles ahead of "Let it Be". Also, I'm strongly against counting the Abbey Road Medley as one song. Other than that, a great list.

Here are some stats RS gave about the list:

17 John and Paul songs
35 Paul songs
40 John songs
8 George songs

By Year
1963 5
1964 16
1965 17
1966 17
1967 12
1968 16
1969 12
1970 5

By Album
Please Please Me 3
With the Beatles 3
A Hard Day's Night 8
Beatles for Sale 5
Help! 7
Rubber Soul 8
Revolver 11
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 6
Magical Mystery Tour 6
The Beatles 13
Yellow Submarine 1
Abbey Road 7
Let it Be 7
Not On Any Album 15

I'm glad to see Revolution get some respect, but what's Lucy in the Sky doing in the top 20?

And Rain at 88?

Hey where's Revolution 9?

Tomorrow Never Knows at 18? She Said She Said at 37? For No One at 40? Maybe I'm a bit biased towards Revolver, but those three are criminally low. No matter what criteria you use, to me Tomorrow Never Knows beats Hey Jude and Let It Be in every way.

The Rain positioning is a joke, considering it was in the original 500 Greatest Songs. I know different people have compiled the lists but it's the same publication. In six years it's gone from among the 500 best songs by any artist to only the 88th best Beatles song? Consistency?

I got the magazine for my birthday, and it is an excellent read! I have been waiting for Rolling Stone to put out this type of list!

Some songs that placed too high (IMO):

I Want to Hold Your Hand (#2)
Please Please Me (#20)
You're Going to Lose That Girl (#27)
The Ballad of John and Yoko (#48)

Some songs that placed too low (IMO):

Here Comes the Sun (#28)
I Am the Walrus (#33)
Helter Skelter (#52)
And Your Bird Can Sing (#78)
Across the Universe (#84)
Rain (#88)
Hello, Goodbye (#100)

I am surprised at how few songs from Sgt. Pepper were included, especially compared to some other albums (A Hard Day's Night, Help!, Let It Be), and that "Within You Without You" made the cut over "Getting Better," "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!," or "Lovely Rita."

Some songs that are missing: "I Will," "It's All Too Much," "This Boy," "Magical Mystery Tour," "The Fool on the Hill," "Martha My Dear," "Do You Want to Know a Secret," "Michelle," "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da," "Rocky Raccoon," "Blue Jay Way," "Octopus's Garden," "The Inner Light," "Free as a Bird," "Real Love" (the first three I mentioned being the ones I think were criminally excluded), but hey, for the most part, they got the right 100. And it's nice to see some recognition for songs like "Every Little Thing," "All I've Got to Do," "Good Day Sunshine," and a few other overlooked numbers.

It is nice that, since they excluded cover songs from the list, that they had a section of "The Beatles' Best Cover Songs" ("Twist and Shout," "Long Tall Sally," "Words of Love," "Please Mr. Postman," "Money (That's What I Want)," "Act Naturally"), however, I think that "Twist and Shout" deserves its own place in the Top 100.

P.S. I think if they would have switched "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "Hey Jude"'s rankings, this list would have made a lot more sense, especially since "Hey Jude" was voted the 8th greatest song of all time by Rolling Stone (the Beatles' highest-ranking song on that list)

I wished they put Octopus's Garden in their list, really is a charming song (top 30 Beatles song for me I think) and there would have been at least one Starr song.
But the most surprising omission is Fool on the Hill still.

Lots of really underrated songs:

Tomorrow Never Knows (18)
Eleanor Rigby (22)
I Am the Walrus (33)
For No One (40)
I'm Only Sleeping (57)
Nowhere Man (66)
And Your Bird Can Sing (78)
Across the Universe (84)
Back in the U.S.S.R. (85)

This task is really, really difficult after the first few. That being said, a lot of the Beatles' more creative and interesting songs are rated below their earlier, more popular work. I'm not sure what the criteria were for this list, but I don't even think there's an argument that "Can't Buy Me Love" is superior to "I Am the Walrus."

I was curious to see which Beatles songs would have the biggest jumps and drops on Acclaimed Music when it is updated with Rolling Stone's list.

BIGGEST DROPS
(numbers in brackets indicate the difference between the Acclaimed Music rank for Beatles songs only and the rank in Rolling Stone's Beatles song list)

1. Rain (-67)
AM: #21 (#568 all time)
RS: #88

2. The Long and Winding Road (-63)
AM: #27 (#1084 all time)
RS: #90

3. Twist and Shout (-≥58)
AM: #43 (#2120 all time)
RS: did not rank

4. Across the Universe (-56)
AM: #28 (#1098 all time)
RS: #84

IN DANGER OF DROPPING OFF TOP 3000
5. Hello, Goodbye (-50)
AM: #50 (#2634 all time)
RS: #100

6. Love Me Do (-47)
AM: #40 (#1694 all time)
RS: #87

7. And Your Bird Can Sing (-47)
AM: #31 (#1267 all time)
RS: #78

IN DANGER OF DROPPING OFF TOP 3000
8. Back in the USSR (-33)
AM: #52 (#2711 all time)
RS: #85

IN DANGER OF DROPPING OFF TOP 3000
9. I'm So Tired (-32)
AM: #51 (#2636 all time)
RS: #83

10. Helter Skelter (-28)
AM: #24 (#832 all time)
RS: #52

11. With a Little Help from My Friends (-26)
AM: #35 (#1450 all time)
RS: #61

12. Paperback Writer (-24)
AM: #11 (#276 all time)
RS: #35

13. Penny Lane (-23)
AM: #9 (#180 all time)
RS: #32

14. Nowhere Man (-22)
AM: #44 (#2132 all time)
RS: #66

15. I Am the Walrus (-17)
AM: #16 (#351 all time)
RS: #33

16. Girl (-16)
AM: #46 (#2231 all time)
RS: #62

17. I'm Only Sleeping (-16)
AM: #41 (#1747 all time)
RS: #57

18. Day Tripper (-14)
AM: #25 (#992 all time)
RS: #39

19. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (-11)
AM: #49 (#2408 all time)
RS: #60

IN DANGER OF DROPPING OFF TOP 3000
20. Dear Prudence (-10)
AM: #49 (#2946 all time)
RS: #60

21. Happiness Is a Warm Gun (-10)
AM: #14 (#337 all time)
RS: #24

22. She Loves You (-9)
AM: #5 (#103 all time)
RS: #14

23. Tomorrow Never Knows (-8)
AM: #10 (#230 all time)
RS: #18

24. Help! (-8)
AM: #7 (#164 all time)
RS: #15

25. Eleanor Rigby (-7)
AM: #15 (#347 all time)
RS: #22

26. Ticket to Ride (-5)
AM: #12 (#286 all time)
RS: #17

27. Don't Let Me Down (-4)
AM: #42 (#2018 all time)
RS: #46

28. Get Back (-4)
AM: #37 (#1548 all time)
RS: #41

29. Hey Jude (-3)
AM: #4 (#35 all time)
RS: #7

30. Strawberry Fields Forever (-2)
AM: #1 (#17 all time)
RS: #3

31. She Said She Said (-1)
AM: #36 (#1545 all time)
RS: #37

***

BIGGEST JUMPS

1. You've Got to Hide Your Love Away (+16)
AM: #47 (#2285 all time)
RS: #31

2. Here, There and Everywhere (+14)
AM: #39 (#1668 all time)
RS: #25

3. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (+14)
AM: #33 (#1352 all time)
RS: #19

4. Something (+14)
AM: #20 (#466 all time)
RS: #6

5. I Saw Her Standing There (+13)
AM: #29 (#1155 all time)
RS: #18

6. Come Together (+13)
AM: #22 (#575 all time)
RS: #9

7. Eight Days a Week (+11)
AM: #45 (#2166 all time)
RS: #34

8. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) (+11)
AM: #23 (#578 all time)
RS: #12

9. Let It Be (+10)
AM: #18 (#391 all time)
RS: #8

10. All You Need Is Love (+9)
AM: #30 (#1159 all time)
RS: #21

11. We Can Work It Out (+8)
AM: #38 (#1649 all time)
RS: #30

12. A Hard Day's Night (+8)
AM: #19 (#434 all time)
RS: #11

13. While My Guitar Gently Weeps (+7)
AM: #17 (#388 all time)
RS: #10

14. I Feel Fine (+6)
AM: #48 (#2295 all time)
RS: #42

15. Here Comes the Sun (+6)
AM: #34 (#1373 all time)
RS: #28

16. Please Please Me (+6)
AM: #26 (#1057 all time)
RS: #20

17. Can't Buy Me Love (+3)
AM: #32 (#1297 all time)
RS: #29

18. In My Life (+3)
AM: #8 (#171 all time)
RS: #5

19. Yesterday (+2)
AM: #6 (#120 all time)
RS: #4

20. I Want to Hold Your Hand (+1)
AM: #3 (#23 all time)
RS: #2

21. A Day in the Life (+1)
AM: #2 (#20 all time)
RS: #1

***

MOST LIKELY TO "BUBBLE OVER"

1. Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight (#23)
2. You're Going to Lose That Girl (#27)
3. I Should Have Known Better (#36)
4. Blackbird (#38)
5. For No One (#40)
6. Drive My Car (#43)
7. Things We Said Today (#47)
(note: there are currently 53 Beatles songs in the top 3000, so any songs after this point likely would not get any boost)
8. Taxman (#55)
9. And I Love Her (#65)
10. Julia (#69)
11. Everybody's Got Something to Hide... (#73)
12. Sexy Sadie (#93)

***

BIGGEST JUMPS - PREVIOUSLY UNLISTED

1= You Never Give Me Your Money (#23)
1= Sun King (#23)
1= Mean Mr. Mustard (#23)
1= Polythene Pam (#23)
1= She Came in Through the Bathroom Window (#23)
1= The End (#23)
7. If I Fell (#26)
8. All My Loving (#44)
9. No Reply (#45)
10. The Ballad of John and Yoko (#48)
11. The Night Before (#49)
12. Got to Get You Into My Life (#50)
13. If I Needed Someone (#51)
14. It Won't Be Long (#53)
15. Two of Us (#54)
16. I'm Down (#56)
17. I've Just Seen a Face (#58)
18. I Want You (She's So Heavy) (#59)
19. I've Got a Feeling (#64)
20. Oh! Darling (#67)
21. Baby, You're a Rich Man (#68)
22. You Can't Do That (#70)
23. I'm a Loser (#71)
24. From Me to You (#72)
25. Yellow Submarine (#74)
26. Think for Yourself (#75)
27. Yer Blues (#76)
28. Because (#77)
29. I'll Follow the Sun (#79)
30. Mother Nature's Son (#80)
31. Hey Bulldog (#81)
32. She's Leaving Home (#82)
33. Lady Madonna (#86)
34. Good Day Sunshine (#89)
35. Every Little Thing (#91)
36. Dig a Pony (#92)
37. You Won't See Me (#94)
38. Any Time at All (#95)
39. Within You Without You (#96)
40. All I've Got to Do (#97)
41. Long, Long, Long (#98)
42. Yes It Is (#99)

***

NO CHANGE

Revolution
AM: #13 (#317 all time)
RS: #13

***

ANALYSIS / TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION

Could "A Day in the Life" (#20) surpass "Strawberry Fields Forever" (#17) as the Beatles' highest-ranked song on Acclaimed Music?

Could "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (#388) surpass "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" (#337) as the (rightful) highest-ranked song from the White Album?

Could "I Saw Her Standing There" crack the Top 1000?

Which other songs could break the top 1000?

Which songs could start bubbling under?

Which songs will enter the top 3000?

Which songs will drop out of the top 3000?

Which songs do you think will get the biggest bumps/drops?

Well, I think it would be fair if A Day surpassed Strawberry and Weeps passed Happiness, cause (and as much as a Strawberry Fields fan I am [all time #6; and #1 of The Beatles] ) it is almost a consensus that A Day in the Life is the best Beatles' song, with SFF being the second. I have never like ADTL that much, but I recognize it is considered the best, and so has been unfairly been ranked at 2nd. The exactly same thing goes for both the White Album tracks, with the difference that I really consider the George's song better than John's.

The list has some fails, but I've agreed much more with this than with the other best-Beatles lists. It's interesting that their great ballads/standards are listed from 4-8th in a queue, I only think Something shouldn't belong there.
And it would have been almost perfect if they had exchanged I Want to Hold Your Hand with She Loves You!

For me, Beatles songs are kind of interchangeable. I love them all and you all know that. But, if there was one that I loved more than any other it would be Rain. If that were released on a proper album I think it might be universally considered the greatest song of all time. It's still a Beatles song so it's not like it's underground or anything, but I feel it's underrated.

Ummm - no.
Geez,with the amount you ass-lick the Beatles,I swear your last name must be Lennon,come back to life...

Joe, I don't think "Rain" is the greatest song of all time either, but with all due respect to freedom of speech, there's absolutely no call for that. We may disagree here, but we do respect each other's opinions even when they're blatantly wrong.

Here is a breakdown of the songs in the list, by album:

Please Please Me
(1963, 3/14 songs, total 180 points, avg. 12.9)
I Saw Her Standing There (#16)
Please Please Me (#20)
Love Me Do (#87)

With the Beatles
(1963, 3/14 songs, total 109 points, avg. 7.79)
All My Loving (#44)
It Won’t Be Long (#53)
All I’ve Got to Do (#97)

A Hard Day's Night
(1964, 8/13 songs, total 429 points, avg. 33.0)
A Hard Day’s Night (#11)
If I Fell (#26)
Can’t Buy Me Love (#29)
I Should Have Known Better (#36)
Things We Said Today (#47)
And I Love Her (#65)
You Can’t Do That (#70)
Any Time at All (#95)

Beatles for Sale
(1964, 5/14 songs, total 185 points, avg. 13.2)
Eight Days a Week (#34)
No Reply (#45)
I’m a Loser (#71)
I’ll Follow the Sun (#79)
Every Little Thing (#91)

Help!
(1965, 7/14 songs, total 506 points, avg. 36.1)
Yesterday (#4)
Help! (#15)
Ticket to Ride (#17)
You’re Going to Lose That Girl (#27)
You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away (#31)
The Night Before (#49)
I’ve Just Seen a Face (#58)

Rubber Soul
(1965, 8/14 songs, total 400 points, avg. 28.6)[/i]
In My Life (#5)
Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) (#12)
Drive My Car (#43)
If I Needed Someone (#51)
Girl (#62)
Nowhere Man (#66)
Think for Yourself (#75)
You Won’t See Me (#94)

Revolver
(1966, 11/14 songs, total 566 points, avg. 40.4)
Tomorrow Never Knows (#18)
Eleanor Rigby (#22)
Here, There and Everywhere (#25)
She Said She Said (#37)
For No One (#40)
Got to Get You Into My Life (#50)
Taxman (#55)
I’m Only Sleeping (#57)
Yellow Submarine (#74)
And Your Bird Can Sing (#78)
Good Day Sunshine (#89)

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
(1967, 6/13 songs, total 287 points, avg. 22.1)
A Day in the Life (#1)
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (#19)
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (#60)
With a Little Help from My Friends (#61)
She’s Leaving Home (#82)
Within You Without You (#96)

Magical Mystery Tour
(1967, 6/11 songs, total 349 points, avg. 31.7)
Strawberry Fields Forever (#3)
All You Need Is Love (#21)
Penny Lane (#32)
I Am the Walrus (#33)
Baby, You’re a Rich Man (#68)
Hello, Goodbye (#100)

The Beatles
(1968, 13/30 songs, total 469 points, avg. 15.6)
While My Guitar Gently Weeps (#10)
Happiness Is a Warm Gun (#24)
Blackbird (#38)
Helter Skelter (#52)
Dear Prudence (#63)
Julia (#69)
Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey (#73)
Yer Blues (#76)
Mother Nature’s Son (#80)
I’m So Tired (#83)
Back in the USSR (#85)
Sexy Sadie (#93)
Long, Long, Long (#98)

Yellow Submarine
(1969, 1/4 songs, total 20 points, avg. 1.43)
Hey Bulldog (#81)

Abbey Road
(1969, 7 (actually 14)/17 songs, total 438 points, avg. 43.8)
Something (#6)
Come Together (#9)
Abbey Road Medley (#23)
Here Comes the Sun (#28)
I Want You (She’s So Heavy) (#59)
Oh! Darling (#67)
Because (#77)

Let It Be
(1970, 7/12 songs, total 274 points, avg. 22.8)
Let It Be (#8)
Get Back (#41)
Two of Us (#54)
I’ve Got a Feeling (#64)
Across the Universe (#84)
The Long and Winding Road (#90)
Dig a Pony (#92)

Non-album tracks
(15 songs, total 838 points)
I Want to Hold Your Hand (#2)
Hey Jude (#7)
Revolution (#13)
She Loves You (#14)
We Can Work It Out (#30)
Paperback Writer (#35)
Day Tripper (#39)
I Feel Fine (#42)
Don’t Let Me Down (#46)
The Ballad of John and Yoko (#48)
I’m Down (#56)
From Me to You (#72)
Lady Madonna (#86)
Rain (#88)
Yes It Is (#99)

the other day and saw a 100 Greatest Beatles Songs book- looked different than the Rolling Stone edition. I guess there can never be enough Beatles amor.

Was it the one discussed in this thread?
http://pub37.bravenet.com/forum/static/show.php?usernum=3172289350&frmid=10&msgid=642918&cmd=show

If only Strawbeery Fileds Forever and Penny Lane had been included on Sgt.Pepper, then it would not only have the Beatles' 2 greatest songs, but it would probably be the greatest album of all time.

There's probably a lot of truth to that, especially since Sgt. Pepper is already considered to be one of the greatest of all time, and by some, the greatest. The addition of "Strawberry Fields" and "Penny Lane" would no doubt have reinforced that belief.

At a curiosity, where would you place "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane" on the track list if you included them on the Sgt. Pepper album? I find this quite a challenge! :P

It's interesting to imagine how amazing some of the Beatles' already amazing albums would have been if they included the singles (or EPs) recorded during the albums' recording sessions:

With the Beatles + "I Want to Hold Your Hand"/"This Boy"
A Hard Day's Night + "Long Tall Sally," "I Call Your Name," "Slow Down," "Matchbox"
Beatles for Sale + "I Feel Fine"/"She's a Woman"
Help! + "Yes It Is," "I'm Down"
Rubber Soul + "We Can Work It Out"/"Day Tripper"
Revolver + "Paperback Writer"/"Rain"
Sgt. Pepper + "Strawberry Fields Forever"/"Penny Lane"
The Beatles + "Hey Jude"/"Revolution"
Abbey Road + "The Ballad of John and Yoko"/"Old Brown Shoe"
Let It Be + "Don't Let Me Down," "You Know My Name"

I think the only albums from that list that would not have benefited from the inclusion of the singles tracks would be Abbey Road, where I actually think all of the songs on the LP were better than "The Ballad of John and Yoko" and "Old Brown Shoe," and A Hard Day's Night, where a lot of the album's greatness is due to its exclusion of cover songs, and "I Call Your Name" is kind of a weak Lennon/McCartney number.

Just at a curiosity, which musical acts would you like to see Rolling Stone magazine next publish a list of "100 Greatest Songs" for?

I think the three acts that stand out the most as candidates would be Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, and Elvis Presley. Along with the Beatles, these acts filled out the top 4 positions on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Artists list, and are also the only four acts to have more than 10 songs in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list.

I would actually prefer a list of Elvis to be published before the Stones or Dylan, simply for the reason that their careers are still not over yet. However, I think lists of the Stones and/or Dylan would make for more interesting reads, since they actually wrote their own material.

Either way, I hope Rolling Stone magazine makes a habit out of publishing special Greatest Songs issues for artists.

Some other artists I would like to see a 100 Greatest Songs list from:
The Beach Boys
Chuck Berry
David Bowie (someday)
James Brown
Johnny Cash
Ray Charles
Marvin Gaye
Michael Jackson (someday, perhaps after material recorded before his death resurfaces)
Pink Floyd
Prince (someday)
U2 (someday)
The Who

100 greatest Dylan songs could make for a fantastic book.

"I Want To Hold Your Hand" is the most overrated song of all time.

Or it's definitely in contention. Critics, especially in the US, seem to include it purely on the basis that it launched The Beatles worldwide, was the first British invasion song, and cemented their place in British pop royalty. They seem to forget that it was, in fact, She Loves You which did all of those things, as well as having the catapulting drum intro, thumping chorus and faint-inducing 'oohs' to take audiences on a thrill ride which defined the early Beatles.

I would end side 1 one Sgt. Pepper with Strawberry Fields Forever, and open side 2 with Penny Lane.

And I think the Imagine is the most overrated song ever.

I had thought of the following tracklist:

1) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
2) With a Little Help From My Friends
3) Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
4) Getting Better
5) Fixing a Hole
6) Strawberry Fields Forever (with another John song in the album they wouldn't put 3 Macca songs in a row like in the original)
7) Lovely Rita
8) Penny Lane
9) Within You Without You
10) Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
11) She's Leaving Home
12) Good Morning Good Morning
13) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (reprise)
14) A Day in the Life

This would fit their tradition of putting 14 songs in each album, and with the inclusion of another Paul song, When I'm Sixty Four could have been released only as a B Side of some another single.
Listyguy's idea is another plausible one, maybe the most likely to have happened.
I don't know if the album would be generally considered the best of all time, but surely it would compete in an equal level with Revolver for the status of best Beatles' album.

And, yes, I think She Loves You is the song that should receive all the praise given to I Want to Hold Your hand. Not only for its importance, but, mainly, for its incredible quality.

I think that logic about singles making albums better could apply to the Stones too.
Imagine Beggar's Banquet with "Jumpin Jack Flash" or Let it Bleed with "Honkey Tonk Women"?