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
Yes.
It has more Klaus Beyer.
― Mark G, Friday, 15 July 2011 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
you'd be saying something valid about the way the Beatles effect people.
AFFECT, schoolteacher!
(sorry)
― Josef K-Doe (WmC), Friday, 15 July 2011 15:33 (twelve years ago) link
No Reply would have been my number one, and it's from Beatles For Sale not Revolver.
also, clemenza otm about Eight Days A Week and Ticket To Ride
― gospodin simmel, Friday, 15 July 2011 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
I dunno, lots of ladies got preg listening to "revolution number nine"
OK, more than one then.
― Mark G, Friday, 15 July 2011 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
xpost yeah, another one I forgot to change the album name.
― Mark G, Friday, 15 July 2011 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
Damn--I'm keeping myself in at recess and recopying the entire nomination list 10 times.
― clemenza, Friday, 15 July 2011 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
Revolution single and Something are waaaaayy too low and both were pretty high on my list. voted for I'm Looking Through You too cuz the organ stabs are hilarious. Agree with whoever said it upthread that the Revolution single is the most rocking thing they ever did, just totally blazes, and the live clip is fantastic.
― i hate it when rats eat my bushels (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 15 July 2011 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
I'm a Loser also on my list. Lennon's self-loathing is great sometimes.
― i hate it when rats eat my bushels (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 15 July 2011 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
"If I Needed Someone" was the only song from my top 20 so far. Can't wait for Monday!
― Darin, Friday, 15 July 2011 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
oh! somehow i missed "If I Needed Someone". that makes three from my list.
xpost!!!
― karma's ruthless invisible (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 15 July 2011 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
2 of mine have placed so far, I'm A Loser (my #1) and If I Needed Someone (my #7). Calling IINS forgettable is crazy! The 2nd best song on Rubber Soul by my reckoning.
― nate woolls, Friday, 15 July 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
3/20 (ywsm, ist, ygthyla)
― get at me frog (symsymsym), Friday, 15 July 2011 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
wtfdatlm?!
― karma's ruthless invisible (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 15 July 2011 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
There's a Place and No Reply are my only two that have placed so far. But I like, if not love, just about every song that has placed so far...
― ColinO, Friday, 15 July 2011 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
Though I'm sick of Let It Be and to a lesser extent Revolution...
― ColinO, Friday, 15 July 2011 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
I thought I was sick of Revolution til it got played on the radio on the way home from work earlier, turns out I'm not sick of it at all.
― nate woolls, Friday, 15 July 2011 17:34 (twelve years ago) link