"Long, Long, Long"'s stock must have risen in the past decade then, maybe connected to George's death.
P'raps "Revolution in the Head" might have caused people to listen to it more carefully?
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 11:09 (thirteen years ago) link
I always liked Long Long Long since I first heard the White Album. It's a pool of tranquillity among a sea of egos, pastiches and Revolution 9.
― Post-Manpat Music (dog latin), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 11:11 (thirteen years ago) link
14. Penny Lane Single (Points: 370, Voters: 16, Number Ones: 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H6PdlJshCo
― Mark G, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 11:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Geir will cry @ this only making #14 :(
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 11:14 (thirteen years ago) link
My #2.
― Post-Manpat Music (dog latin), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 11:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Anyone hating on Penny Lane has gotta have a cold hard rock for a heart.
― Post-Manpat Music (dog latin), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 11:15 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm not 100% sure, but I think Hello Goodbye was my number one, unacknowledged on this thread, but correctly attributed on the accidental post to the News International thread.
― There is power in an onion (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 11:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Can't imagine such a thing, come on ILM prove me wrong! (xp)
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 11:17 (thirteen years ago) link
NB&S - Hello Goodbye is on this thread.
― Post-Manpat Music (dog latin), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 11:18 (thirteen years ago) link
A double a-side, a picture sleeve, a special video, and it became the first single since "Please Please Me" (or "Love Me Do" depending on your chart source) not to make Number One!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 11:18 (thirteen years ago) link
I do apologise. Yes, I missed it when I messed up.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 11:19 (thirteen years ago) link
although I didn't vote for it after all, it's still one of my beloved McCartney tracks.
― V79, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 11:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Xp - I know the song is, but it's down here as having no number one votes
― There is power in an onion (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 11:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Can't hope to mess with Please Release Me though. I still have hope that one day downloads will somehow right that wrong.
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 11:20 (thirteen years ago) link
That's certainly the reason I first really paid attention to LLL. My highest-placed George song.
Love Penny Lane but it didn't seem right for this poll.
― Volvo Twilight (p-dog), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 11:20 (thirteen years ago) link
How could it not seem right for this poll?!
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 11:21 (thirteen years ago) link
"Penny Lane" was my Number One.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 11:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Because its by the Moody Blues
― Mark G, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 11:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Long Long Long is more of a Moody Blues song.
― Post-Manpat Music (dog latin), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 11:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Penny Lane was my #8.
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 11:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Long Long Long: Shy unassuming wallflower song, last in line, keeps its beauty, after all the look-at-me tunes on the White Album have long lost theirs.
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 11:30 (thirteen years ago) link
for me, this poll was about songs that I thought were personally meaningful (either to the songwriters or to me!). I guess that's why I favoured John so heavily. Strawberry Fields Forever is the obvious counterpoint to PL and to me the lyrics of that are a genuine excavation of memory - whereas with PL, Paul recasts his own childhood memories as a magical universal nostalgia. It's perfectly done but not as affecting imo.
xposts and apologies for the muddied expression, you put me on the spot there Ismael!
― Volvo Twilight (p-dog), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 11:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha, sorry! That works though, usually that kind of statement turns out to mean person X thinks poll Y should be about Z instead, so I was awaiting an explanation about why it wasn't actually a Beatles track.
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 11:36 (thirteen years ago) link
"Paul recasts his own childhood memories as a magical universal nostalgia"
Yes, that's the effect that PL has had on me since the age of 11. I bought the double blue album just after my parents split up (it was the first album I bought with my own money), and by conjuring up images and feelings from my childhood with almost synaesthesic accuracy, PL instantly induced a deep longing for the past. I think it was my first experience of nostalgia.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 11:38 (thirteen years ago) link
no worries - that differentiation is so ingrained in my own thinking that it's kind of interesting to have to spell it out for myself every once in a while...
xp
― Volvo Twilight (p-dog), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 11:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, I given up on my early favs like It Won't Be Long even placing at this point.
― Darin, Monday, July 18, 2011 11:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
Keep hope alive, it was #16 on my ballot.
― BIG HOOBA aka the stankdriver (Phil D.), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 11:48 (thirteen years ago) link
My #17
― Volvo Twilight (p-dog), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 11:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Also my #17. I love it, but it can never outrank She Loves You.
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 12:06 (thirteen years ago) link
13. In My Life Rubber Soul (Points: 389, Voters: 19, Number Ones: 0)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ns6wBo0gzk
― Mark G, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 12:23 (thirteen years ago) link
god that's dire
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 12:25 (thirteen years ago) link
12. And Your Bird Can Sing Revolver (Points: 415, Voters: 17, Number Ones: 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4opGA4o8ag
― Mark G, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 12:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Some of these songs have got really interesting vids attached on youtube.
And some have very lean pickings.
Was trying to avoid "slide shows" and "karaoke word" ones, beyond maybe one of each.
With "In my life", it was either Ozzy or Dave Matthews.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 12:28 (thirteen years ago) link
No fucking way am I clicking play on Ozzy singing In My Life. Not a chance.
― lol sickmouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 12:30 (thirteen years ago) link
And Your Bird Can Sing: Anthology 2 version > Revolver version
― V79, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 12:32 (thirteen years ago) link
oh go on, live a little
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 12:32 (thirteen years ago) link
more And Your Byrd Can Sing
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 12:33 (thirteen years ago) link
'and your bird can sing' would've been my no. 1.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 12:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh sorry, forgot to add:
(1 vote, 19 points were for the Anthology 2 version)
― Mark G, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 12:34 (thirteen years ago) link
well I like the bass a lot better in the A2
― V79, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 12:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Revolver version was my #4.
― BIG HOOBA aka the stankdriver (Phil D.), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 12:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Can't remember my ballot, but And Your Bird Can Sing was either #1 or 2
― Z S, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 12:55 (thirteen years ago) link
11. We Can Work It Out Single (Points: 432, Voters: 11, Number Ones: 0)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN-Ee7uXKYo
― Mark G, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 12:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Was hoping Rain would be higher (my #1). When I was a kid, long before I knew anything about rock music, I used to listen to the Paperback Writer/Rain 45 at my grandparents' house and it was captivating (my grandmother had bought it at a garage sale in the 70s anticipating it being valuable one day). Was tempted to actually make Paperback Writer my #2 after Rain, but knew it would do just fine without much help from me.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 12:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Right, that leaves the Top Ten, pop pickers.
I was going to start a 'pick the remaining ten' thread, but I sacked that idea as it would be Spoiler city arizona. Let's keep the chat to what's gone before, ay?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:03 (thirteen years ago) link
:) I'm glad it placed so high! This song single-handedly ended the stupid period in my life of dismissing The Beatles as "that stupid pop group". It only took the the chorus of "Life is very short and there's no time / for fussing and fighting my friend" and that jarring transition to 3/4, to change my life. A truly enlightening experience. One of the most genius moments in pop music.
― V79, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:05 (thirteen years ago) link
I thought that might be #1. Beautiful song, ruined only slightly for me when I saw a guy, who turned out to be a complete prick, using it as a text to show he could turn anything into a piece of public speaking.
Go on, do the top ten, you know you want to!
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:07 (thirteen years ago) link
The first time I've heard that chorus I literally felt like somebody punched me in the stomach. Stunning. Should have made the top five IMO. (it was my #2)
― V79, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Really love 'And Your Bird Can Sing', John Peel's favourite Beatles track too.
― The multi-talented F.R. David (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Paperback Writer / Rain were my #1/2. It didn't even occur to me that they were the A/B of the same single.
― Josef K-Doe (WmC), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:10 (thirteen years ago) link
WOO for Peel Fave "And Your Bird Can Sing". In fact, I first heard it on his show.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:11 (thirteen years ago) link