Revolution - Official ILX Beatles tracks poll results

hehe i voted "long long long" as my number one

That song really surprised me the first time I heard it again in my early 20s. As a teenager it was always the quiet dull thing after "Helter Skelter". Fast forward 5 or so years later and at the end of a long, drunken, fun summer day with friends we were listening to this album and one of them made sure when it got to that song the volume was turned up all the way. It was like hearing it again for the first time. And the ending always sends chills up my spine more than perhaps any other music I've ever heard.

Heh, glad to have helped "Misery" attain this exalted position.

I am really hoping this all happens between Monday and Wednesday next week, because I'll be totally away from computers on Thursday and Friday. If not, that's okay.

no NOW NOW NOW

Yeah, or NOW NOW NOW would be cool.

I just hope it doesn't happen over a weekend, I only ever really use the computer during the week.

let's have a poll to decide! seriously, don't wait until next week, some of us don't have a life

also it is reaaaallllly slow at work today

also: i'm impatient.

NOW NOW NOW works for me!

NOW

"Misery" was one of my last cuts and now mocks my bottom 5. How can my feelings about the Beatles be so changeable after 30+ years?

GO!

There were 58 voters, thanks for all your hard thinking. 195 songs got votes, umm, let's do it!

(And Yes, Lee26, I did manage to invoke your properly listed version, so all is well)

60. Eight Days A Week Beatles For Sale (Points: 155, Voters:6, Number ones: 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs5qsk0pc6Y

Not a favourite.

59. Lovely Rita Sgt. Pepper (Points: 156, Voters: 7, Number Ones: 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l87Vvb7JcDU

Lovely Rita was on my shortlist, just missed out on the top 20.

58. Let It Be Single, and LP Let It Be (Points: 158, Voters: 7, Number Ones: 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SswjdoAAJb8

ha actually one of my favs tho admittedly I really don't know more than a third of the beatles
catalog.
xp 8 days a week

"Eight Days" almost made my list. Love the desperation in Lennon's voice, esp on the chorus.

Love the intro & outro of 8 Days A Week, the rest is a bit meh.

Hurray! I've been eagerly looking forward to this.

Wow these are going very quickly. All of these were outside my top 20, but not by too much.

57. You Won't See Me Rubber Soul (Points: 160, Voters: 8, Number Ones: 0)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc-sOgSgRG8

None of these are faves yet. I find Lovely Rita to be one of these slightly cumbersome mid-period tracks (like Good Morning, Good Morning and Dr Robert) that just sound contrived (the internal rhyme of Rita/Meter). Just not my thing.

56. All My Loving With The Beatles (Points: 160, Voters: 7, Number Ones: 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWvurnpKjE4

You Won't See Me is good. One of the tracks on Rubber Soul that goes with my theory that that album has a theme of invisibility, a longing to evade the material world (cF: Nowhere Man, I'm Looking Through You).

hey MArk, slow down pls!

Yeah, where is "Slow Down" then?

55. I'm So Tired The Beatles (Points: 162, Voters: 9, Number Ones: 0)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_h9OyyM3QU

YWSM - #11 on my ballot, and one of my fav McCartney's songs. I'm So Tired - #7. IMO both should score a bit better.

I'll do a batch at a time for the lower downs, then more time between for the higher ups.

Reason: I need to have finished before Friday next week..

So, will break off for a bit, and will hopefully get that youtube fixed for Let it be..

I like I'm So Tired well enough, but I associate it with Cry Baby Cry and I'm Only Sleeping, and both of those are much better.

Eight Days A Week is completely unremarkable (for them!). Let It Be is fabulous, a proper universal, and its neglect in these things is incomprehensible to me.

I'm So Tired my no.15. I had I'm Only Sleeping at no.14! What can I say, I relate to the sentiment.

I saw that, and yes it made me smile.

I'm glad to see Rita made it. That was #2 on my ballot. That sound at the end is a bong hit right? I don't see why Mark should have to slowly roll them out all day.

You Won't See Me is a bit throwaway; All My Loving a little also, but far more skilled with it. Lovely Rita I like and considered for its rich texture, but cut it quite early.

Let It Be is a beautiful song - great to sing along to no matter how bad your caterwaul.

I do love I'm So Tired, and any John Lennon songs about tiredness and apathy.

Blimey, have they changed it already?

(looks:) Ah, no.

I'm doing U2 in a couple of polls' time and plan on getting the results out quickfire. No need for single-band polls to take a week.

two i voted for so far -- always have had a soft spot for "Let It Be" and my wife's mother sang "All My Loving" to her as a child and now she sings it to our son

yeah weeklong rollouts are kind of interminable more often than not imo.

results! hooray!

Two of mine have shown so far, "Eight Days a Week" and "You Won't See Me"

You Wont See Me was my #6. None of the others on my ballot so far.

re Rubber Soul and invisibility, i'm trying to remember if it was You Won't See Me or I'm Looking Through You which was used very nicely in the reasonable Ricky Gervais movie Ghost Town.

From memory, I don't remember "You won't see me" in it.

54. I Will The Beatles (Points: 178, Voters: 7, Number Ones: 2)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxm3x6wiiD4

I Will is the epitome of McCartney-esque schmaltz. I can usually stomach that, but here it's just a bit too saccharine. I do like the rising harmony at the end, and the clip cloppy rhythm.

Boy, I'm batting zero percent, but I can't find fault with anything so far...especially happy to see YWSM--I might be turning into a McCartney fan, my god