What the World Needs: Another Top 10 Beatles Songs of All Time List

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Come now, it must have been at least 72 hours since the last one.

Thursday’s top 10 comes courtesy of Rolling Stone magazine, and is part of a special issue which counts down the top 100. And at least they’ve had the decency to pick a track that doesn’t often (if indeed ever) rank as the Fab Four’s finest ever effort: “A Day in the Life.” To see the full top 10, click here. And to see TIME’s photo essay of The Beatles final year, click here.

To quote the magazine, here’s what they write about their no. 1, “The ultimate Lennon-McCartney collaboration, ‘A Day in the Life’ wasn’t recognized as the band’s masterwork until the Eighties, after Lennon’s death. It pairs lyrics inspired by the newspapers and Lennon’s own life with McCartney’s idea to have classical musicians perform what producer George Martin called an ‘orchestral orgasm.'” Listen to the song below.

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You know what would make an interesting Beatles top 10? Next time, someone should actually ask the Rolling Stones.