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I swear every one of their songs has like 2 or 3 little moments where they do something unique but the rest is super straightforward. Whether it’s a moment of harmonic/tonal ambiguity, borrowing from the parallel minor, a secondary dominant, weird phrasing on a melody, a key change, whatever. The songwriting never overwhelmingly strange but their songs so consistently have these little moments where they’re breaking from standard diatonic pop songwriting. It’s so cool.

I really want to get more into analysing music and seeing what makes the songs tick. And like you say, The Beatles have such and extensive catalogue of interesting songs that move away from standard diatonics I think this might be the perfect place to start!