Revolution - Official ILX Beatles tracks poll results

I think we know...

I'd better do it now, before someone posts that Village People song...

1. A Day In The Life Sgt Pepper (Points: 717, Voters: 25, Number Ones: 6)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xljFT44Y1Y&feature=related

My number 1.

Good, albeit predictable, top 3.

Only astonished that Nowhere Man didn't place. #4 on my (unsubmitted) ballot and the only one in my entire 20 not to appear. Total classic.

that's a quite anticlimactic ending IMO. but, well, congrats and all.

My number 17. Here's my ballot, songs that didn't make it in bold. Out of all of them I'm most surpsied that Girl didn't make the top 60.

1. I'm A Loser
2. We Can Work It Out
3. Paperback Writer
4. Dear Prudence
5. For No One
6. Girl
7. If I Needed Someone
8. Penny Lane
9. In My Life
10. And Your Bird Can Sing
11. Michelle
12. Things We Said Today
13. Here, There And Everywhere
14. Blackbird
15. I Am The Walrus
16. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
17. A Day In The Life
18. Here Comes The Sun
19. Because
20. And I Love Her

Nice work, Mark G.

There are dozens of omissions - some very surprising considering some of the obscurities in the lower rungs of the top 60.

Very enjoyable poll - thanks Mark!

My choices that didn't place, that I thought might:
Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except For Me And My Monkey
It Won't Be Long
Taxman
Flying

I also had I've Got A Feeling and Yes It Is.

agree that the last few were somewhat anticlimactic, that's inevitable tho given how these things work.

1 A Day In The Life
2 Penny Lane
3 You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)
4 I Want You (She's So Heavy)
5 Tomorrow Never Knows
6 Happiness Is A Warm Gun
7 Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite!
8 I'm Only Sleeping
9 The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill
10 I Am The Walrus
11 Don't Let Me Down
12 Because
13 Your Mother Should Know
14 Blackbird
15 Piggies
16 You Never Give Me Your Money
17 In My Life
18 Rocky Raccoon
19 Eleanor Rigby
20 For No One

As I implied upthread, "A Day In the Life" and "Paperback Writer" were neck-and-neck until halfway through, at which point PW stopped getting any votes at all for the longest time.

However, "Strawberry Fields Forever" was definitely catching up, and may well have overtaken with a few more ballots. But, only the people who did not vote would know.

Anyway, thanks to you all for voting, and/or watching, hope you found the Youtubes intersting (ha, leaving that genuine typo in), and...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaXnqw-Zv0Y

.. like a superman.

Thanks Mark!

Most glaring canonical no-show: Yesterday.
Also unexpectedly omitted: If I Fell, Day Tripper.
Would have been nice to see: It's All Too Much.

Songs from my 20 that placed: 19.
Song I voted for that didn't place: The Fool On The Hill.
Highest placed song that I didn't vote for: A Day In The Life.
Highest placed song that I couldn't hum to you now: Hey Bulldog.

I'm really surprised If I Fell didn't make it to the top 60. My totally personal ballot was, as follows:

1. I Will
2. We Can Work It Out
3. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
4. If I Fell
5. She Loves You
6. Martha My Dear
7. I'm So Tired
8. Blackbird
9. Helter Skelter
10. In My Life
11. You Won't See Me
12. Sexy Sadie
13. And Your Bird Can Sing [here I mean the Anthology 2 version]
14. You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
15. I'll Be Back
16. I'm Happy Just To Dance With You
17. I'm Looking Through You
18. Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
19. The Ballad Of John And Yoko
20. Boys

Thanks Mark a lot for this poll! It was super fun.

Song that I should have voted for, but didn't: She Loves You.

Thanks Mark, great work. Early finish though - Clemenza's going to be annoyed when he wakes up.

There are some amazing songs not in the top 60 - Don't Let Me Down for one. Here's my ballot:

01 Dear Prudence
02 I Am The Walrus
03 I Saw Her Standing There
04 Strawberry Fields
05 Hey Bulldog
06 Tomorrow Never Knows
07 A Day In The Life
08 Rain
09 Don't Let Me Down
10 Helter Skelter
11 Julia
12 Across The Universe
13 Savoy Truffle
14 Two Of Us
15 Ticket To Ride
16 Hey Jude
17 I Feel Fine
18 Hello Goodbye
19 And Your Bird Can Sing
20 Come Together

Song I really learnt to appreciate through this poll: We Can Work It Out. Had previously ignored this fantastic song. I love the harmonium, the signature change, wonderful!

My ballot:

1 Penny Lane
2 Help!
3 Something
4 Ticket To Ride
5 Got To Get You Into My Life
6 You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
7 Eleanor Rigby
8 Here Comes The Sun
9 And Your Bird Can Sing
10 Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
11 The Fool On The Hill
12 I Am The Walrus
13 Dear Prudence
14 Strawberry Fields Forever
15 While My Guitar Gently Weeps
16 For No One
17 She's Leaving Home
18 Here, There And Everywhere
19 In My Life
20 Across The Universe

mine:

Hey Bulldog
Revolution
Paperback Writer
I Saw Her Standing There
I want You (She's so heavy)
You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)
Any Time at All
You Can't Do That
Wait
Baby, You're a Rich Man
Money (That's What I Want)
Revolution 9
For No One
Tomorrow Never Knows
Help
Rain
Taxman
Within You Without You
Helter Skelter

(can we have a post that is just the final list please)

I shall do, probably tomorrow.

top 3 are pretty much straight hipster canon, but that's cool - they're great tracks and think i probably voted for all of them. also the left-field 60-4 kinda made up for predictability of the top spots. + was glad let it be (my number one) broke into the bottom of the charts at least, seems like i always hear ilxor's crapping on it in other "answers"

Is that the one where they do a sarcastic version of "Bits and Pieces" which collapses into "Jingle Bells"?

wait, what's a "Bits and Pieces"? they sing jingle bells the at the end of the 1963 one, is "bits and pieces" about good old old king wenceslas?

The 'intro' with the feet is a copy of the intro to Bits and pieces. By The Dave Clrk Five.

to celebrate the end of this poll I'm gonna watch the "rotten apple" series on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW0jr6TNwRs

by the end of the day I'm gonna be a believer

1. I Will
2. Lovely Rita
3. Back In The U.S.S.R.
4. A Day In The Life
5. Her Majesty
6. Got To Get You Into My Life
7. Octopus's Garden
8. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
9. It’s All Too Much
10. Only A Northern Song
11. Ticket To Ride
12. All Together Now
13. Because
14. Help!
15. Yellow Submarine
16. Here Comes The Sun
17. I've Got A Feeling
18. You're Going To Lose That Girl
19. Blue Jay Way
20.Day Tripper

whoops, Octopus's Garden in bold too. : )

Thanks, Mark. Again, I really liked the speeded-up countdown. (You just need to move to an EST country.)

Half the Top 10 was surprising to me, half was easy to guess. Actually, "A Day in the Life" making #1 was almost a reverse surprise, if that makes sense. My Top 20:

1. "Tell Me What You See"
2. "Martha My Dear"
3. "I Need You"
4. "Eight Days a Week"
5. "Rain"
6. "Don't Pass Me By"
7. "It's All Too Much"
8. "Baby, You're a Rich Man"
9. "Long, Long, Long"
10. "Ticket to Ride"
11. "I've Just Seen a Face"
12. "Yes It Is"
13. "Norwegian Wood"
14. "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"
15. "She Said She Said"
16. "Two of Us"
17. "I'm So Tired"
18. "She's a Woman"
19. "Christmas Time Is Here Again"
20. "I'm Looking Through You"

I don't think my Top 3 got another vote--wonder if that's true of anybody else.

1. Tomorrow Never Knows #3
2. A Day in the Life #1
3. Strawberry Fields Forever #2
4. Twist and Shout #30
5. I Want You (She's So Heavy) #33
6. Rain #18
7. Hey Bulldog #10
8. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
9. Things We Said Today #22
10 Julia #27
11 And Your Bird Can Sing #11
12 For No One #7
13 I Am The Walrus #8
14 Wait
15 Penny Lane #14
16 Happiness is a Warm Gun #6
17 All My Loving #56
18 Hold Me Tight
19 Revolution 1 (take 20) #124
20 Helter Skelter #44

xp I voted for Martha! wonder how did it place. also I briefly considered voting for Tell Me What You See, I like it very much

I'm surprised these didn't place: Lady Madonna, Please Please Me, Taxman, With A Little Help From My Friends, Within You Without You, Revolution 9, Because

Mein Ballot:

1. Lovely Rita
2. Flying
3. For No One
4. I'm Looking Through You
5. And Your Bird Can Sing
6. Don't Let Me Down
7. Julia
8. Lady Madonna
9. Ticket to Ride
10. Rocky Raccoon
11. I'm So Tired
12. I've Just Seen a Face
13. Baby, You're a Rich Man
14. Blackbird
15. You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
16. She Said She Said
17. Tomorrow Never Knows
18. Dear Prudence
19. A Day in the Life
20. A Hard Day's Night

My ballot. 12 of my 20 did not make it, and nothing below 13 made it at all:

1 While My Guitar Gently Weeps (31)
2 If I Fell
3 Hey Bulldog (10)
4 And Your Bird Can Sing (12)
5 Slow Down
6 You Won't See Me (57)
7 Two Of Us (45)
8 Dear Prudence (4)
9 I Call Your Name
10 Getting Better (39)
11 I'll Get You
12 Tell Me Why
13 For No One (7)
14 I Don't Want To Spoil The Party
15 That Means A Lot
16 It Won't Be Long
17 I'll Follow The Sun
18 You're Going To Lose That Girl
19 The Night Before
20 Good Morning Good Morning

When will we get to see the full ranking?

Was gonna do it tomorrow, just so it didn't stymie discussion of the 60-1 chart.

fair enough

thanks for this.

i'm not a big fan but bought all the reissues in order just to hear all those lp-only tracks that i'd never heard. turned out there weren't that many that were any good 8) am currently trying to prune the 200+ tracks down to a manageable set but i got sidetracked at about 150...

Yeah, what I meant to say was that my Top 3 didn't place in the Top 60, not that they didn't get another vote. Which probably was true of others.

great job mark, thank you

A Day In The Life
You're Gonna Lose That Girl
Every Little Thing
I've Just Seen a Face
Happiness is a Warm Gun
Things We Said Today
Here, There And Everywhere
For No One
What You're Doing
Back in the U.S.S.R.
You Never Give Me Your Money
Golden Slumbers
I Dig A Pony
Come Together
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Here Comes The Sun
Cry Baby Cry
I'm a Loser
Girl
No Reply

What a wonderful time! Not many of mine placed, unfortunately.. I must be listening to a different Beatles than y'all. Mostly, I'm just burnt out on the 'classics'..

1 You're Going To Lose That Girl
2 Rocky Raccoon
3 Honey Pie
4 Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da
5 Baby, You're A Rich Man
6 Do You Want To Know A Secret
7 And Your Bird Can Sing (#12)
8 Don't Pass Me By
9 She Came In Through the Bathroom Window
10 Girl
11 Happiness Is A Warm Gun (#6)
12 Martha My Dear
13 Please Please Me
14 Tell Me Why
15 Maxwell's Silver Hammer
16 Oh! Darling
17 One after 909
18 Devil In Her Heart
19 Two Of Us
20 Her Majesty

Turns out my unsubmitted top 20 is ridiculously canon-friendly, top three especially - I'm the anti-Finefinemusic

1. Tomorrow Never Knows
2. A Day in the Life
3. Strawberry Fields Forever
4. Nowhere Man
5. Hey Bulldog
6. Here Comes the Sun
7. Eleanor Rigby
8. I Am the Walrus
9. Helter Skelter
10. Blackbird
11. For No One
12. In My Life
13. Here, There and Everywhere
14. A Hard Day’s Night
15. Rain
16. You Won’t See Me
17. You Never Give Me Your Money
18. I Want to Hold Your Hand
19. Penny Lane
20. I’m So Tired

Fun poll, thanks Mark! Here's my ballot.

1. Paperback Writer (15)
2. Rain (18)
3. Helter Skelter (44)
4. Revolution 9
5. Strawberry Fields Forever (2)
6. Something (51)
7. Ticket To Ride (5)
8. I Feel Fine
9. Day Tripper
10. Tomorrow Never Knows (3)
11. Here, There And Everywhere (28)
12. I Am The Walrus (8)
13. Please Please Me
14. A Hard Day's Night (40)
15. Eight Days A Week (60)
16. A Day In The Life (1)
17. You Won't See Me (57)
18. I Want To Hold Your Hand (53)
19. The Ballad Of John And Yoko
20. Yesterday

ha, and if you *had* put that ballot in, "Nowhere man" would have had enough points to chart! (xpost)

DL's is spookily close to the final list.

awesome, someone else voted for "Every Little Thing"

I was glad to see "Ticket to Ride" show well, but disappointed that "I Feel Fine" wasn't there with it. I see them as companion pieces that reveal Ringo's greatness -- dragging the beat and tempo in one, and propelling the band and pulling the other guys along in the other.

DL: I challenge you to a FITE! :) Just kidding!

Rain
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
The Ballad of John and Yoko
Get Back
Tomorrow Never Knows
Revolution
Hey Jude
Yesterday
You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
Across the Universe
Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
I'm Looking Through You
Paperback Writer
Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
Here Comes the Sun
I Want to Hold Your Hand
Birthday
We Can Work It Out
Here, There and Everywhere
I Am the Walrus

I knew Monkey and Birthday were long shots, but I was definitely counting on the other ones bolded here to make the top 60. Oh well.

Damn, finefinemusic! And I thought my ballot was full out outsider picks. Big up for the Her Majesty vote. Also, because you voted for Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da and Rocky Raccoon, you win the "purest soul" award for this poll wrap-up.