Yay, I love this one - it's from Let It Be though
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 15 July 2011 14:54 (twelve years ago) link
44. Helter Skelter The Beatles (Points: 197, Voters: 8, Number Ones: 0)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMfkVGCU_BA
― Mark G, Friday, 15 July 2011 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
xpost oops typo, yes.
― Mark G, Friday, 15 July 2011 14:56 (twelve years ago) link
Two Of Us was my #7. The last hurrah for early Beatles style John/Paul harmonies. So glad the song ended up the way it did instead of the more revved up version you initially see in the "Let It Be" film.
― BIG HOOBA aka the stankdriver (Phil D.), Friday, 15 July 2011 14:56 (twelve years ago) link
43. If I Needed Someone Rubber Soul (Points: 198, Voters: 9, Number Ones: 0)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYzVcFK4Ywc
― Mark G, Friday, 15 July 2011 14:58 (twelve years ago) link
Thought Helter Skelter would be higher. The slow, 27-minute version is another in the heavy Come Together vibe, come to think.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 15 July 2011 14:58 (twelve years ago) link
I'm A Loser was my #1. Sad to see it so low.
― nate woolls, Friday, 15 July 2011 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
If I Needed Someone was my #5, love it
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 15 July 2011 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
Apt title eh? (xp)
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Friday, 15 July 2011 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
If I Needed Someone - really? Most forgettable song on Rubber Soul.
― Post-Manpat Music (dog latin), Friday, 15 July 2011 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
I thought "Helter Skelter" would be MUCH higher.
― Josef K-Doe (WmC), Friday, 15 July 2011 15:00 (twelve years ago) link
That's broken my duck - Helter Skelter was my #2. Kind of surprised it's so low, I had imagined it might be an ILM favourite.
― Samantha Mumbahton (seandalai), Friday, 15 July 2011 15:01 (twelve years ago) link
I was going to look for a Hollies performance, but got surprised by actually finding a live perf.
― Mark G, Friday, 15 July 2011 15:01 (twelve years ago) link
.. of "If I needed someone" obv.
no way
― dave barry (absolutely clean glasses), Friday, 15 July 2011 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
"If I Needed Someone" is the best song on Rubber Soul!
― Euler, Friday, 15 July 2011 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
Hmm I'm a fan of all these songs but they were all outside my 20, I guess I really like the Beatles? Two Of Us was *just* outside Has that thing they do of having depth in apparent simplicity, I think...
xposts wow this moves fast. re IINS, always seemed to me to be an example of how on Rubber Soul (and Revolver to a lesser extent) they focussed on single-note pedals to great effect.
― Volvo Twilight (p-dog), Friday, 15 July 2011 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
42. Got To Get You Into My Life Revolver (Points: 199, Voters: 9, Number Ones: 0)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEIVI-E0oDM
― Mark G, Friday, 15 July 2011 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
41. No Reply Revolver (Points: 207, Voters: 10, Number Ones: 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_UGjyM_yOM
― Mark G, Friday, 15 July 2011 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
shocked Helter Skelter is so low!
― karma's ruthless invisible (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 15 July 2011 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
Didn't vote for "Got to Get You Into My Life," but I still remember how exciting it was when it was released as a single in '75 or '76, a kind of Beatlemania revisited hooked into the Red, Blue[/i], and Rock 'n' Roll anthologies.
― clemenza, Friday, 15 July 2011 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
Helter Skelter and Revolution. People not liking heavy Beatles, I guess. xp
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 15 July 2011 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
40. A Hard Day's Night Hard day's night (Points: 210, Voters: 10, Number Ones: 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Hr671HfXSo
― Mark G, Friday, 15 July 2011 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
I'm sort of trying to have some fairly esoteric videos amongst the 'not often seen' performances, etc.
But that last one could only be:
Anyways, that's it for today, so be back Monday for more totals, but by all means carry on with the chat.....
― Mark G, Friday, 15 July 2011 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
"Helter Skelter": I kept saying, "Send Charlie a ballot, send Charlie a ballot."
― clemenza, Friday, 15 July 2011 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
Shitter Skelter more like.
― Post-Manpat Music (dog latin), Friday, 15 July 2011 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
it's sad to see Helter this low.
― V79, Friday, 15 July 2011 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
A Hard Day's Night is way way way too low. It's a perfect song. Didn't make my number one, but it's up there. Along with "Please Please Me" and "She Loves You" it is the apotheosis of early Beatles.
― thewufs, Friday, 15 July 2011 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
I just realized I didn't vote for Helter Skelter. Maybe I should've spent more than five minutes on my ballot, but I thought "stream of consciousness" voting was more likely to produce honest results.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 15 July 2011 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
doing this poll makes me realise there's lots and lots of Beatles songs I'm just a bit "meh" about but won't skip when I hear the albums. They're very much an album band in that respect, for me.
― Post-Manpat Music (dog latin), Friday, 15 July 2011 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
The fast pace really works here. When these songs come at you one after another, you're reminded--and I do understand how, 40 years along, some people would be happy to never hear another word about the Beatles; I understand that--how dizzyingly great they really were.
― clemenza, Friday, 15 July 2011 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
4/20 for me so far, seems about right. Suspect 20-10 will be the most interesting section of this, can't imagine there'll be too many surprises in the top ten.
― Volvo Twilight (p-dog), Friday, 15 July 2011 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
can't imagine there'll be too many surprises in the top ten.
Ah. (taps nose..)
― Mark G, Friday, 15 July 2011 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
6/20 from my ballot has placed so far.
― Josef K-Doe (WmC), Friday, 15 July 2011 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
.. put it this way: When we get to number 11, I wil be verry surprised if anyone could guess all 10 'left' tracks.
There's a few in the positions 61 down ...
― Mark G, Friday, 15 July 2011 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
2/20!
― karma's ruthless invisible (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 15 July 2011 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
I've had no songs turn up yet.
― Post-Manpat Music (dog latin), Friday, 15 July 2011 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
Don't worry, Ringo's songs placed highly
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Friday, 15 July 2011 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
Light showing of Sgt Pepper's so far makes me think there's gonna be a cluster of that shit toward the top.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 15 July 2011 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
i figured most my picks would be either no-shows or bottom half, since i looked at my list and thought "no way is anyone else's list going to be like this!"so i was pretty happy when i saw what the last place song was because that means someone else voted for Don't Pass Me By!
xpost
― karma's ruthless invisible (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 15 July 2011 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
cool. (shades-wearing emoticon goes here)
― Volvo Twilight (p-dog), Friday, 15 July 2011 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
I only voted for the good Beatles tracks FWIW.
― Post-Manpat Music (dog latin), Friday, 15 July 2011 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
Or even two! (xpost)*2
― Mark G, Friday, 15 July 2011 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill FTW!
Mark, you really blasted us into the weekend in an excellent way...I like this method of heavy barrage and then the weekend to mull it over and anticipate. Have a great weekend!
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 15 July 2011 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
Woulda voted Don't Pass Me By if I'd had a couple more options. It's a good song.
― Post-Manpat Music (dog latin), Friday, 15 July 2011 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
In fact, I'd say "Don't Pass Me By" is the "pure essence" of White Album.
― Post-Manpat Music (dog latin), Friday, 15 July 2011 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
I just played the "No Reply" clip--charmingly inept. As someone who's collected something like 4,000 Beatles covers, I think you could do the whole countdown with such versions and you'd be saying something valid about the way the Beatles effect people.
― clemenza, Friday, 15 July 2011 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
Indeed.
The series "The Exotic Beatles" is four CD volumes of 'odd' cover versions and suchlike.
― Mark G, Friday, 15 July 2011 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
I've got the first three, so you just gave me something to look for.
― clemenza, Friday, 15 July 2011 15:30 (twelve years ago) link