10 Classic Rock Songs That Should've Been Singles
1. All My Loving - The Beatles
The Beatles always made a point not to distinguish between singles and album tracks. Throughout their entire career, Lennon and McCartney always aimed for their next song to be the biggest song they have ever created. While album tracks were typically sighted as not commercial enough, there's still something about "All My Loving" that keeps fans coming back for more.
Written on a piano during a tour, McCartney's letter to his love back home is one of the biggest musical jolts of the band's early career. As the song plods along, each verse leads you to the next, as McCartney grows ever more excitable as he awaits being back home with his significant other. Capping everything off with a country and western guitar solo by George Harrison, the song has you drowning in musical bliss right up until the last section.
Though McCartney never saw it as a hit single, "All My Loving" did hold up enough to be the first song the band played on their legendary Ed Sullivan Show performance. Since then, McCartney has had the song in almost every one of the his solo sets, where it continues to excite every generation of music fan. This track certainly isn't as ambitious as some of the band's later cuts, but given that everything's right where it needs to be, do you really need anything else?