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Originally Posted by Fuzz
If I had to pick a favourite group, it would probably be Daft Punk. Big fan of house music, but also like plenty of rock, 70's funk...not to restricted on tastes, just no dubstep, because that doesn't count as music.
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Okay, I'll give it a shot. The cool thing about the Beatles is that they were so experimental and talented that you can literally find songs that influenced many future genres of music and trends. You've probably heard these before, I tried not to go too deep cut hipster.
1- While My Guitar Gently Weeps
A cool song because it was written and song by George rather than John & Paul. George's songs didn't get much love in the early years and he was usually restricted to one song per album. As the band moved into the later 60s George actually wrote some of the bands more famous songs, including this one.
One of the most guitar heavy Beatles songs, and really kind of led the way into the lead guitar driven rock of the 1970s. Interesting enough the lead guitar on this song was actually played by his good friend and legendary guitarist Eric Clapton.
2- Got to Get you Into my Life
A Paul song, and might be more Soul/Motown driven than Funk, but still has some early funk sounds in my opinion. Paul actually wrote this about his growing love of marijuana... Eventually covered by Earth, Wind and Fire so I think it could appeal to your funk taste.
3- A Day in the Life
Most of the lyrics were inspired from the news stories in an open newspaper sitting in front of John while he wrote this one. Paul provided a snippet of a song that he had been writing for the middle of this song, and they were attached by a "crescendo of sound" played by a full orchestra in both the middle of the song, and then later with a massive buildup to the finale, in which the final chord was played by 5 people on 3 pianos and a harmonium. They had to make the mics so sensitive to create this enormous chord sound that if you listen with good headphones you can hear paper shuffling, etc... in the background.
John was notoriously self loathing and this was the only song he ever wrote that he thought turned out perfectly and how he had envisioned it.
4- I'm Looking Through You
Criminally underrated in my opinion, this was written by Paul for the Rubber Soul album. This album for many is when the Beatles first started getting away from their "Boy Band, Poppy" sound and began to experiment with different sounds. A nice acoustic guitar drives the song, but it features a Vox Continental keyboard supporting the mid-song riffs to add bite to the sound. Early example of Beatles adding some transistorized keyboards to their music.
5- Tomorrow Never Knows
This is a John song, and very much psychedelic. The lyrics were from the Timothy Leary's book on psychedelics and the Tibetan Book of the Dead. I honestly don't like this song as much as others as I prefer their more melodic stuff, but since you like house music this one is notable as one of the first examples of electronic music in the mainstream. It is primarily driven by Ringo's steady drum beat, with constant different tape loops prepared by John Lennon providing the iconic sound. John's voice was fed through an amplifier normally used with a Hammond organ to give it a distant and distorted effect. Even the guitar solo was looped backwards. It may not sound impressive now, but this stuff just wasn't being done by many in the mid 60s. This song couldn't be played live with the technology of the day.
6- Come Together
Everybody's heard this song. Originally intended by John to be a campaign song for Timothy Leary's attempt to become Governor of California. I figured I maybe losing you by song 6, so had to finish with a strong funky pick.