YOU = ASS
― chaki, Saturday, 29 September 2007 00:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Yep.
― morningsaystoidleon, Saturday, 29 September 2007 00:21 (sixteen years ago) link
i voted "and your bird can sing", even tho "eleanor rigby" is probably the best song on the record (and I think top 5 or 10 beatles). i think I did the same last time
― Dominique, Saturday, 29 September 2007 01:53 (sixteen years ago) link
i voted for tomorrow never knows
― Lingbert, Saturday, 29 September 2007 03:12 (sixteen years ago) link
So so close between "She Said She Said" and "Love You To", but i've got to go with the latter.
― Stevie D, Saturday, 29 September 2007 03:22 (sixteen years ago) link
But yes this poll is ridic
― Stevie D, Saturday, 29 September 2007 03:23 (sixteen years ago) link
but i'm mildly intrigued as to what the result will be
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― ILX System, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Infinity percent more votes for Yellow Submarine than for Taxman is some bullshit.
― caek, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 23:04 (sixteen years ago) link
.. and this isn't even Geir's poll.
ILXors can't help votin for Revolver!
― Mark G, Thursday, 4 October 2007 08:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Low turnout.
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 4 October 2007 09:29 (sixteen years ago) link
No turnout would have been preferable
― Tom D., Thursday, 4 October 2007 09:29 (sixteen years ago) link
cmon, sky of blue, sea of green, that has to be more endearing than 2 votes
― j., Monday, 19 May 2014 22:09 (nine years ago) link
Donovan wrote that line
― Οὖτις, Monday, 19 May 2014 22:10 (nine years ago) link
but RINGO NAILED IT
― j., Monday, 19 May 2014 22:15 (nine years ago) link
'She Said She Said' still does it for me in the same way as it did on my first listen.
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Monday, 19 May 2014 22:34 (nine years ago) link
Dunno why this gets elevated as the pinnacle of their classic era, I like some songs but personally find it their weakest of that period
mostly cuz the McCartney tunes are uncharacteristically syrupy compared to his other work with 'em
― nova, Monday, 19 May 2014 22:54 (nine years ago) link
for no one tho
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 05:28 (nine years ago) link
I'm Only Sleeping way too low.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 13:12 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, some real dudly duds in here tbh.
― how's life, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 13:22 (nine years ago) link
actually agree with this -- never thought Revolver was a bad record, but never quite understood why it became such a symbol of greatness. The only thing I can think of is that critics got tired of giving Sgt Peppers the default best-Beatles prize, and couldn't bring themselves to shift praise to Magical Mystery Tour -- perhaps going on the logic that Revolver was Sgt Peppers stripped of fat, and feat a still-touring, fighting Beatles? Anyway, to me, Rubber Soul is a better record than both. (And I think today, Abbey Road or the White Album are the go-to albums for new fans)
― Dominique, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 16:39 (nine years ago) link
white album is the bestend poem.
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 17:30 (nine years ago) link
this always felt like a weird choice for 'best beatles album' because it really feels like the one that's easiest to overlook, lots of songs here that no one really talks about much (it always takes me a minute to remember what 'i want to tell you' even sounds like). it's probably consistently my second favorite beatles album, i espec love all the lennon songs.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 17:39 (nine years ago) link
I think nine of the fourteen songs are perfect, probably the highest hit rate of a Beatles album.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 17:44 (nine years ago) link
And the ones I'm not so keen on can't exactly be described as duds.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 17:46 (nine years ago) link
way bigger duds on abbey road and white album honestly.
― Darin, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 18:49 (nine years ago) link
Fuck no.
― how's life, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 18:53 (nine years ago) link
inferior songs to revolver:
mean mr. mustardmaxwell's silver hammerher majestyhoney piewild honey piepiggiesyer bluesrocky racoon
― Darin, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 18:56 (nine years ago) link
Oh, I think you mean inferior songs on Revolver?
Eleanor RigbyFor No One I'm Only Sleeping Love You To I Want to Tell You Taxman
― how's life, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 18:58 (nine years ago) link
ok, just know that the universe thinks you're wrong
― Darin, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 19:00 (nine years ago) link
those songs are all great except for 'love you to' imo.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 19:01 (nine years ago) link
tbh, an album consisting of darin's rejects on side 1 and how's life's rejects on side 2 would be a damn good album.
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 19:02 (nine years ago) link
superior 'Take 7' of Here There And Everywhere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRrZBj7vaSc
― piscesx, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 19:02 (nine years ago) link
i'm only sleeping has always been the height of revolver to me. TNK is spectacular obviously but for the backwards-guitar psychedelic jams i've always preferred IOS.
― marcos, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 19:04 (nine years ago) link
I'm happy being wrong in a universe Eleanor Rigby. I could probably get by with just Doctor Robert, got to get you into my life, and your bird can sing, and yellow submarine.
― how's life, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 19:19 (nine years ago) link
And Your Bird Sing also got robbed. hell, almost all of the songs got robbed. tomorrow never knows is a classic but it doesn't tower above the rest of the album like this poll suggests
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 19:23 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, there was so much hype about TNK before I heard it and then its just three minutes long? That song needed to be at least 7 minutes or so, imo.
― how's life, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 19:27 (nine years ago) link
I thought "Help" was the current "Best Beatles Album" thesedays?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 20:33 (nine years ago) link
I'd love to see where this album would rank in The Beatles' discography if 'Tomorrow Never Knows' was left off. While I love many of the songs on this album, it seems (at times) that the album's entire reputation hinges on that track alone.
Also, McCartney's songs on this record are much better than his contributions to Pepper.
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 20:37 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACRIrMcjBXY
― Pentatonic's Rendezvous Band (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 20:49 (nine years ago) link
― Darin, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 18:56 (1 hour ago) Permalink
love a bunch of these. lol are we really counting "Her Majesty" as something though?
dig the whole Abbey Road medley actually, my main beef is with the first side cuz I think Lennon'd basically checked out at that point. Which maybe makes me the reverse of people who hate "Maxwell's Silver Hammer"
― nova, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 21:01 (nine years ago) link
'Maxwell's Silver Hammer' gets an undeserved slagging from some, IMHO.
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 21:06 (nine years ago) link
the album version of 'maxwell' is a bit too cutesy for my taste -- all the sound effects et al just make me think of wings at their worst. but yeah it's certainly no worse as a song than 'bungalow bill' or 'rocky raccoon.' i like the anthology version where it's just paul + piano.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 21:13 (nine years ago) link
this thread hijacked my day and somehow led me to this youtube clip of all the revolver sessions, overdubs, etc:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMzGZCaHOfU
I've heard most of these bootlegs, but this one is incredibly exhaustive. Hearing the isolated TNK loops is really cool.
― Darin, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 21:29 (nine years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jMzGZCaHOfU
― Darin, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 21:31 (nine years ago) link
All this hate for Rocky Raccoon is inappropriate. That song is clearly in the top 10 Paul songs. That story telling, the amazing harpsichord ditty, and the chorus is simply beautiful. I get it can seem 'gimicky', but it is the best kind of 'gimicky' I've ever found in a song.
Barrel of fun to play as well.
― H.P, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 21:31 (nine years ago) link
I like silly Beatles
― now I'm the grandfather (dog latin), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 21:50 (nine years ago) link
I really, intensely dislike 'Rocky Raccoon'.
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 21:56 (nine years ago) link
i don't ever listen to any other beatles album now, just this. the older ones are too slight (tho i used to like to play rubber soul) and the later ones too indulgent and lousy w/ beatlesisms.
― j., Tuesday, 20 May 2014 21:56 (nine years ago) link
Recently noticed how crucial he is to ''Wait'' working at all as a song. Not flashy or anything, just really smart choices to inject interest into a below-average Lennon/McCartney product.
― DOCTOR CAISNO, BYCREATIVELABBUS (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 29 October 2016 20:44 (seven years ago) link
Ringo's my favorite player of the four by such a wide margin you can't even see the other three in the rearview.
― aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Saturday, 29 October 2016 20:45 (seven years ago) link
My #1 is She Said She Said or For No One, depending on the day
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 29 October 2016 20:45 (seven years ago) link
I love "Wait" purely for that line..
"and I've been good, as good as I can be"
i.e. not very 'good' at all
― Mark G, Saturday, 29 October 2016 21:06 (seven years ago) link
Wasn't 'Wait' a Help! reject that ended up on Rubber Soul because they needed one more song?
― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Saturday, 29 October 2016 21:12 (seven years ago) link
^yes. one of Rubber Soul's many duds
― flappy bird, Sunday, 30 October 2016 23:23 (seven years ago) link
btw thank you everyone for going in on this thread revive. question answered :)
Got to Get You into My Life 0Good Day Sunshine 0Taxman 0
scenes.
― piscesx, Monday, 31 October 2016 10:45 (seven years ago) link
^yes. one of Rubber Soul's many duds― flappy bird, Sunday, 30 October 2016 23:23 (yesterday) Permalink
― flappy bird, Sunday, 30 October 2016 23:23 (yesterday) Permalink
lol burned rubber
― Treeship, Monday, 31 October 2016 11:09 (seven years ago) link
Rubber Soul, why is it so burned and hated?
― From a Vanity 6 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 31 October 2016 11:36 (seven years ago) link
Oh, I bet it was a big hit back in 1965.
― pplains, Monday, 31 October 2016 13:51 (seven years ago) link
I think Ringo himself has gone on record as saying 'Rain' is his finest drumming, but for me it's between 'She Said She Said' and 'Tomorrow Never Knows', really!
for me it's always going to be the backing tracks to "Strawberry Fields Forever", especially that end bit with the multi percussion. it's at the one of one of the outtakes on Anthology 2 CD 2.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 31 October 2016 14:08 (seven years ago) link
OK after 45 years listening to this album I have just realised that only two songs make it to three minutes - and then only just. I would have thought Tomorrow Never Knows was, like, nine minutes. Every song a world.
― assert (MatthewK), Monday, 3 August 2020 12:01 (three years ago) link
Otm
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 3 August 2020 12:06 (three years ago) link
yup. i dug this and Rubber Soul out the other day and I was amazed that I managed to listen to them both in the space it took to cook, eat and wash-up my breakfast.
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Monday, 3 August 2020 13:39 (three years ago) link
Eight of the fourteen under 2:30 and three more between 2:30 and 2:40.
― timellison, Monday, 3 August 2020 22:11 (three years ago) link
The Overlanders in 1966: 'It's just mediocre [...] I'd be embarrassed to say that I had written some of the numbers on this LP."
"Revolver: it sucks" (Record Mirror, 3 Sept 1966) pic.twitter.com/D86CK0QlYK— Bowiesongs (@bowiesongs) July 25, 2022
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Monday, 25 July 2022 19:11 (one year ago) link
lol more like The Underlisteners
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 25 July 2022 19:12 (one year ago) link
From wikipedia: Although they released twelve singles on the Pye record label between 1963 and 1966, the Overlanders' only British hit was a cover version of the Beatles' "Michelle."
I guess they would've preferred more "Michelle"-type songs.
― birdistheword, Monday, 25 July 2022 20:06 (one year ago) link
"We haven't been in the charts of late"
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 25 July 2022 20:30 (one year ago) link
The Popular Overlanders thread is quite lovely IIRC - a lot of them turn-up and it turns into an ongoing reunion where they trade reminisces of others and a different era.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 25 July 2022 20:51 (one year ago) link
after two decades of being way too cool for the Beatles I have started listening to Revolver and it's really fucking great!!!
― frogbs, Monday, 25 July 2022 20:58 (one year ago) link
(re Overlanders' complaint)Yeah, and the L.A. jazz saxophonist Bud Shank also had a lounge-y hit w "Michelle"(not one of the better Beatles ballads, for sure: I enjoyed Albert Finney's sarcastically intoning the tres Frawnch lyrics in Shoot The Moon), after which he too dissed the Bs, though he may have taken it back when he very eventually swore off the cocktails."Tomorrow Never Knows" totally deserves to toppermost this poll, though I'm surprised that "Taxman" gets 0: wry and poised,not stingy with the rockin', to say the least: on my imaginary Beatles playlist, it follows"TNK" in perfect counterweight: two heavy views of dues, equally real.The original US Revolver appealed as something on the cusp and motorbike handlebars, wearing shades and a tie, on the way to and from high school: pop values, but slipping something else in there--especially dug the darker side of "She Said She Said," like notes passed in class, and high spirits x striving of "Good Day Sunshine" and "Got To Get You Into My Life," w final revelation-->intrigue of "Tomorrow..." Although this was US, so had to wait for "I'm Only Sleeping", "Doctor Robert" and "And Your Bird Can Sing" to appear on cobblefest Yesterday and Today with tracks left off American Help! and Rubber Soul, but resluts were cool, even groovy,in a raw collage-y way:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesterday_and_Today Though this says that the CD version, which didn't come out 'til 2014, uses some UK mixes and so on, and might not hit me the same way, but that's okay. More of a loss from this era's experience were "Rain" and "Paperback Writer," highlights of Revolver sessions, but I had them on a single single, and eventually on cobbled Hey Jude, and def on aforementioned imaginary friend playlist.
― dow, Monday, 25 July 2022 21:05 (one year ago) link
I suppose they might have been left off both versions of the LP because some of their devices, the droniness and so on, were considered to make other tracks less distinctive, also I've read that back then the inclusion of hit singles on UK LPs was considered a waste of space or some shit. Early pop-rock LPs that were mainly a few hit singles and a lot of filler may have led to this idea of "reform," so pop-rock LPs could be as legit as jazz and classical albums.
― dow, Monday, 25 July 2022 21:12 (one year ago) link
Oh wow, how did I miss the Overlanders comments gold on Popular back in the day?? An absolute treasure.
this one, from a band member who left just a few months before those Revolver comments hit the stands, is quite interesting in this light: Take it from me as one of the original trio comprising Laurie Mason Peter Bartholomew and myself Paul Arnold Friswell and the first to leave in summer 1966, we had no delusions of grandeur and we didn`t think we were the greatest thing since sliced bread as many do today.
from the same: Michelle was our tenth single getting to No 1 Jan 1966.I don`t really give a monkeys what people think of it, its history, Getting to No 1 was my Mount Everest and I climbed it alongside some great people. right on.
another member reports: When we returned to England (I think, New Years day 1966.) all the music papers were giving the release of Michelle, rave reviews and none of us imagined that how our lives would change in the course of the next few weeks. Fantastic times: touring, radio, TV and meeting an unbelievable galaxy of stars. It was very disappointing not to have a follow up hit and it all started to come unglued from the middle of 1966.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 25 July 2022 21:23 (one year ago) link
also I've read that back then the inclusion of hit singles on UK LPs was considered a waste of space or some shit
except for their soundtrack albums, the beatles in particular were pretty strict about keeping their singles separate from their albums for most of their career. (which is why the "past masters" cds exist!)
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 25 July 2022 23:03 (one year ago) link
Jeez come on guys
Got to Get You into My Life 0I Want to Tell You 0Good Day Sunshine 0Taxman 0
― piscesx, Monday, 25 July 2022 23:12 (one year ago) link
Ha, contextually funny because they made their first exception to that rule with the Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby double A-side. Why? to supposedly thwart any hit covers of Eleanor Rigby (a decision which likely doubles as a sly dig at the Overlanders' Michelle).
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 25 July 2022 23:14 (one year ago) link
I think that exclusivity was mostly for the "lead" singles - I'm not sure what to call them because even though they're not on the forthcoming LP, they kind of promoted them as a preview of how they'd sound. Either that or the singles couldn't be on an LP before the single was released (only at the same time or after).
― birdistheword, Monday, 25 July 2022 23:36 (one year ago) link
Or I should say, I always thought that exclusivity etc
another road where maybe i could see another kind of mind there
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 17 November 2023 22:51 (five months ago) link
Was about to moan about the number of songs that got zero votes, only to see I’ve done it twice already.
― piscesx, Friday, 17 November 2023 23:32 (five months ago) link
Third time is the charm
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 18 November 2023 11:58 (five months ago) link
Three times!
0__o
― piscesx, Sunday, January 4, 2015
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― Eyeball Kicks, Saturday, 18 November 2023 18:34 (five months ago) link
haha oh man.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 22:07 (five months ago) link
Good Day Sunshine is Paul at his most unbearable. I agree that the other three got robbed though
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 22:31 (five months ago) link
agreed, perhaps my least favorite Beatles songdoes anybody else really really love the “got to get you into my life” demo on anthology?
― brimstead, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 23:18 (five months ago) link
I don't mind "Good Day Sunshine." I'm not a fan of "Taxman." George Harrison grumbling about having to pay taxes drags it down. The Jam did use the bassline and guitar riff to good effect, though.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 23:23 (five months ago) link
quite like Good Day Sunshine, even more so in the "Bad Night Moonlight" version by Peter Serafinowicz where he puts it into a minor key and changes all the lyrics "I need screams / and when the moon is out / I've got something you can scream about"
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 23:40 (five months ago) link
Got To Get You Into My Life is straight up magnificent
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 28 November 2023 23:41 (five months ago) link