When we first heard that The Beatles, MTV Games, and Harmonix are officially teaming up to create an all-new videogame based on the music of the Beatles, well, we here at EAR FARM collectively went bananas. As anyone who has ever played either Rock Band or Guitar Hero can attest to, the joy of “playing” one of your favorite songs ever on guitar, bass, drums, or vocals, can not be understated. To play the songs of The Beatles?!?!!! Get back.

After we tempered our excitement enough to hold a conversation, we sat down with The Beatles’ catalog to decide which twenty songs we were most looking forward to rock-banding out to, instrument by instrument (nerd alert). Sure, there are the obvious ones such as “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”, “Revolution”, the Abbey Road Medley, “Helter Skelter”, “Hey Jude”, “Get Back”, “I Am the Walrus”, etc etc; but we tried to come up with songs that were a bit beyond the usual suspects. In doing so, we limited our picks to one song per album per category/instrument - just to keep it fresh and more varied. Check out our choices below and let us know what you’re most excited to play, or what we missed, in the comments. (Note: all links below are YouTube links)

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  Guitar
  “Act Naturally” from Help!
  “Love You To” from Revolver
  “Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey” from The Beatles
  “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” from Abbey Road
  “Dig a Pony” from Let It Be
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  Bass
  “I’m Happy Just To Dance With You” from A Hard Day’s Night
  “Taxman” from Revolver
  “Lovely Rita” from Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
  “Baby You’re A Rich Man” from Magical Mystery Tour
  “I Me Mine” from Let It Be
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  Drums
  “Ticket to Ride” from Help!
  “In My Life” from Rubber Soul
  “Tomorrow Never Knows” from Revolver
  “Strawberry Fields Forever” from Magical Mystery Tour
  “The End” from Abbey Road

Vocals
“Do You Want To Know A Secret” from Please Please Me
“You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away” from Help!
“For No One” from Revolver
“Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!” from Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
“Yer Blues” from The Beatles

ED note: I’m curious how they’ll handle the piano parts and the horns and strings and tape loops and auxiliary instruments… whatever they do, I sure hope they’re able to figure out a way to have multiple mics/vocalists in this version of Rock Band - it’s essential with The Beatles. Even if the extra mics don’t have scoring capabilities but rather just allow you to freely harmonize with backup vocals… something! You hear me MTV Games/Harmonix??