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When my youngest daughter started school at LSU, we loaded my pickup and her car and drove 13.5 hours to Baton Rouge — me in the truck and my wife and daughter in the car. (As an aside, we also made several trips to Target once we moved her in to her dorm. In contrast, when I went LSU, I moved myself to and around Baton Rouge for five years in just my car.)

During the drive, I listened to every Beatles’ album and single in chronological order, excluding the compilation albums except for Love, and including the reissue versions that include demos and alternate tracks. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and not once did I think I was getting tired of listening to the same artist. It is a testament to how much good music they produced in such a short period of time and how much they evolved over that period.

I do that once a year or so. I have a jump drive of all my music in my car and in my Beatles folder I have folders of all of their songs (Beatles and solo stuff), but also have folders broken down by album and in order, including the singles. It's a cool journey to listen to their work from start to finish and hear them shift and create literally all kinds of different music.

Note: I don't have ALL of their solo music, just the songs that I actually like (which are not very many overall compared with their total output of solo stuff). Looking at it right now actually, and I only have 90 of their solo songs that I like (15 for George, 24 for John, 39 for Paul, and 12 for Ringo).

Weirdly for me, George is my least favorite. And he's a lot of peoples' choice as favorite. I just think he was pretty overrated as a songwriter. Sure, his absolute best could hang with top-tier Beatles songs, but as a whole he just paled in comparison to L/M. And that's not a knock on him as much as it is a tip of the cap to arguably the greatest songwriting duo in history (although I also think L/M's solo stuff also is much better than George's as a whole).