To celebrate iTunes bold move into issuing the highly obscure Beatles catalog, I opted to put together a top ten. Not your usual top ten. Anyone who needs to be validated by a list that includes "I Want to Hold Your Hand" or "She Said She Said" or " A Hard Day's Night" or "Strawberry Fields Forever" should book themselves a room into the Hotel Obvious and hang out with others who have just seen a face.

For anyone who has been following the Beatles for the past few decades, it should be readily obvious that we've covered that ground before. I'm trying to help history not repeat itself by choosing ten Beatles songs that are plenty great but not on every single list I see.

I didn't choose deliberately "hip" or "lousy" songs. There's no "Revolution #9" for the Sonic Youth clan. And no "Within You Without Me" or whatever its called because I've been avoiding Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band since I realized I didn't care for it when I was 12 years old.

This is an honest list. These are

Leonard Cohen recently requested that people stop covering his song "Hallelujah." Was it the fact that Neil Diamond covered it along with "Yesterday," the world's most covered song (covering "Happy Birthday" at your niece's birthday party doesn't count) on his latest album, Dreams? If I hadn't laid off my intern three years ago, maybe we could find out.

Since this is a blog that--you may have noticed--makes a lot of lists, I thought it was would be appropriate to dig up some tunes that I've heard covered by quite a few people over the years.  You have your own and you should share them below!

10) "Me & Bobby McGee" - Kris Kristofferson, Janis Joplin: Yes, yes, "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose." I suppose you could sing this if your company pension goes bye-bye or you lose your retirement savings to the Atari Corporation or if things don't work out with your trusted financial advisor. Anyone want to buy some preferred stock in Thunder Muscle?

9) "Proud Mary" -

I tried to put a list together that wouldn't be your usual "Halloween" favorites. I've compiled those lists in the past and faithful readers know how much I hate to repeat myself. (But just to keep people happy, I've made a few lists that violate my own principles!) I always focus on having new ideas. For example, I'm planning on eventually writing about music that hasn't happened yet.  This way I can be ahead of everyone. I'm filling out my Top Ten List for 2014 this weekend. It's so good.

For now, how about 10 tracks that will cause nightmares? The only rule is no rule. Let's go to hell! Now! While it's still half-price admission and kids get in free!

10) Soundtracks to Psycho, Vertigo, North By Northwest--Bernard Herrmann: This is kind of obvious, but I've never given Bernard Hermann much space in my column and I really should. He didn't exactly fit that list of Best Heavy Metal Bands or even Songs About Delaware, but his soundtracks to such fine movies as Psycho, Vertigo and North

Faithful readers of this blog know I'm all for letting everyone into the Hall of Fame. I can't see the silliness of having to decide these things. Sure, folks like Elvis Presley and John Lennon are pretty obvious, but then there's a question of what to do once the music gets away from itself. Besides, isn't it a bit presumptuous to fall for the idea that Elvis Presley invented rock n' roll? Try reading Nick Tosches' Unsung Heroes of Rock n' Roll, for starters, and then figure out what Billy Joel is doing here.

But, as I said, I'm all for letting everyone in. That includes garage-bands who made one great single and synth-pop bands who made five terrible albums. You can't institutionalize a music that's supposed to be about rejecting institutions. As far as I'm concerned, if a guy who was in The Frost wants to fill out the forms to get into the Hall of Fame, then his band should be in.

I sympathize with KISS fans. For every rock critic and journo who calls them silly and stupid, there's