what about "while my guitar gently weeps"?
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 8 June 2015 15:33 (eleven years ago)
"Yesterday" is great
― example (crüt), Monday, 8 June 2015 15:39 (eleven years ago)
(xpost) It seems like something very different to me. I wouldn't even call it a ballad, even though it's slow--seems more like trancey drug music.
― clemenza, Monday, 8 June 2015 16:17 (eleven years ago)
Am I supposed to vote for the song which most deserves to fuck off or which song can be spared whilst its brothers suffer a miserable, bloody death? I still like Michelle. Hey Jude on the other hand makes me want to walk around and slap strangers.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Monday, 8 June 2015 17:57 (eleven years ago)
"michelle" is definitely the one i enjoy most now, it seems a lot more jokey and droll than soppy. definitely feels more spontaneous and innocent than the other songs, you can just imagine 23-year-old paul beaming with pride at how sharp and sophisticated he sounds putting these french lines into his song.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 8 June 2015 18:19 (eleven years ago)
Vote for the one you like best, FFM, if there is one.
― clemenza, Monday, 8 June 2015 19:56 (eleven years ago)
J.D. OTM, "Michelle"'s lightheartedness wins it for me. Second place probably "Yesterday," and then a three-way tie of indifference.
― Little Latin Lupe Feebfiasco (Dan Peterson), Monday, 8 June 2015 20:08 (eleven years ago)
all great songs hope all ilmers die
― thoughts you made second posts about (darraghmac), Monday, 8 June 2015 20:18 (eleven years ago)
Paul's poking fun at himself and his limited French, right?
― jmm, Monday, 8 June 2015 20:20 (eleven years ago)
lord please take me first for posting in the ira kaplan vs neil haggerty thread
― brimstead, Monday, 8 June 2015 20:20 (eleven years ago)
I'm voting "Let It Be" right now partly because of the version with the better solo (the snarly one that rises out of the organ break). Also because the I-vi-IV-V progression can be so agreeably mashed up with "No Woman No Cry," "Tomorrow Wendy," "You're Beautiful," "Torn," and so very many other songs.
― Ye Mad Puffin, Monday, 8 June 2015 20:42 (eleven years ago)
well too late, i voted for the most unbearable (HJ)
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 June 2015 21:23 (eleven years ago)
NAAAAAA, NAA, NAA, NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA! NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA, Heeeey Juuude!NAAAAAA, NAA, NAA, NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA! NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA, Heeeey Juuude!NAAAAAA, NAA, NAA, NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA! NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA, Heeeey Juuude!NAAAAAA, NAA, NAA, NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA! NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA, Heeeey Juuude!NAAAAAA, NAA, NAA, NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA! NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA, Heeeey Juuude!(Judy Juude, a-juuuude, a-juuudey judey jude!)NAAAAAA, NAA, NAA, NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA! NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA, Heeeey Juuude!NAAAAAA, NAA, NAA, NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA! NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA, Heeeey Juuude!(Jude Juuuude, a-juuuude, a-juuudey wooo-yeah!)NAAAAAA, NAA, NAA, NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA! NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA, Heeeey Juuude!NAAAAAA, NAA, NAA, NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA! NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA, Heeeey Juuude!(Judy! Judy! a-juuuude looks like a juuude-ay!)NAAAAAA, NAA, NAA, NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA! NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA, Heeeey Juuude!NAAAAAA, NAA, NAA, NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA! NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA, Heeeey Juuude!(a-Jude jude, wooo, a-yeah whoo-oa-yeah jude!)NAAAAAA, NAA, NAA, NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA! NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA, Heeeey Juuude!NAAAAAA, NAA, NAA, NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA! NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA, Heeeey Juuude!(I said a-Judy Juude, a-juuuude, a-juuudey judey jude!)NAAAAAA, NAA, NAA, NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA! NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA, Heeeey Juuude!NAAAAAA, NAA, NAA, NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA! NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA, Heeeey Juuude!(Whoa now Jude Juuuude, a-juuuude, a-juuudey wooo-yeah!)NAAAAAA, NAA, NAA, NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA! NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA, Heeeey Juuude!NAAAAAA, NAA, NAA, NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA! NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA, Heeeey Juuude!(Judy! Judy! a-juuuude looks like a juuude-ay!)NAAAAAA, NAA, NAA, NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA! NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA, Heeeey Juuude!NAAAAAA, NAA, NAA, NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA! NA-NA-NA-NAAAAAAAA, Heeeey Juuude!(I said whoa a-Jude jude, wooo, a-yeah whoo-oa-yeah jude!)(repeat hundreds of times until audience is dead)
― Karl Malone, Monday, 8 June 2015 21:30 (eleven years ago)
a-juuuude looks like a juuude-ay!
irl lol
― Οὖτις, Monday, 8 June 2015 21:36 (eleven years ago)
oh, someone transcribed paul's adlibbing during the outro:
“Jude Judy Judy Judy Judy Judy… ow, wahow!""Ow ho, my my my""Jude Jude Jude Jude Joooo……""Na na na na na, yeh yeh yeh""Yeah you know you can make it, yeah Jude, you not gotta break it""Don’t make it bad Jude""Take a sad song and make it better""Oh Jude, Jude, hey Jude, woooooow""Oh, Jooooooode""Yeah""hey, hey, hey-yay""Hey, hey, hey""Now Jude Jude Jude Jude Jude Jude, yeah yeah yeah yeah""Woh yeah yeah""ah nanananananana cause I wanna""Nanananana…. nanalalal ow ow ow""oh God""The pain won’t come back Jude""Yeah, eh hehe heh""Make it through""Yeyeye Yeah… yeah y-yeah… yeah hahahaha…""Godeveningladiesandgentlemen mymymymy mahhhhh""ooooo""woooooh""Well then a na-nanan”
― Karl Malone, Monday, 8 June 2015 21:41 (eleven years ago)
I'm voting for the version of "Yesterday" that my college a capella group did that had an interpolation of Schuetz-style choral arrangements on the reprise of the first verse.
― DJP, Monday, 8 June 2015 21:43 (eleven years ago)
can we poll those options
xpost
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 June 2015 21:45 (eleven years ago)
Yeah
― Οὖτις, Monday, 8 June 2015 21:46 (eleven years ago)
imagining this as a Beavis and Butthead exchange:
"The pain won’t come back Jude""Yeah, eh hehe heh"
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 June 2015 21:49 (eleven years ago)
I like this story:
http://www.stereogum.com/4447/love_is_hey_jude_on_repeat/news/
predictably/gratifyingly someone has uploaded a 10 hour edit of the Hey Jude outro to youtube
― THREE WOMEN IN THE LIFE OF TUFFY CRAG (soref), Monday, 8 June 2015 21:54 (eleven years ago)
though listening to it, it seems like they have just looped the first couple of minutes of na na na nas and don't even get to the 'ju-deh ju-deh ju-dehwow oh-wow!' part? maybe they kick in around the six hour mark or something
― THREE WOMEN IN THE LIFE OF TUFFY CRAG (soref), Monday, 8 June 2015 21:58 (eleven years ago)
why the need to make a sad song better in the first place? what if it was a good sad song? what if jude, by mucking with it, makes it worse?
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 8 June 2015 22:05 (eleven years ago)
julian doesn't have to worry about having good songs
― Karl Malone, Monday, 8 June 2015 22:08 (eleven years ago)
Saw a possible vanity license plate today on a car that had a help! window sticker and some kind of beatles license plate holder. It doesn't make any sense, but doesn't fit any of my state's standard alphanumeric configurations either. Any chance it's beatles-related?
027M527
― how's life, Monday, 8 June 2015 23:27 (eleven years ago)
OATMEAL?
― jmm, Monday, 8 June 2015 23:28 (eleven years ago)
oh fuck, maybe that's it.
― how's life, Monday, 8 June 2015 23:30 (eleven years ago)
nvm, that's probably not it. They'd have used a 3 for the E.
― jmm, Monday, 8 June 2015 23:31 (eleven years ago)
"Julia"
― billstevejim, Monday, 8 June 2015 23:33 (eleven years ago)
Tempted to vote for Hey Jude just for
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNDs571E9k4
― JoeStork, Monday, 8 June 2015 23:38 (eleven years ago)
argh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNDs571E9k4
― JoeStork, Monday, 8 June 2015 23:39 (eleven years ago)
One thing "Hey Jude" has going for it is the audible "Aw fuckin' 'ell" at 2:59.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 14:47 (eleven years ago)
I'm voting for "Something".
― mike t-diva,
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 14:54 (eleven years ago)
As it stands, Yesterday. I quite dislike Jude, LAWR and LIB, Michelle is pretty but minor compared to Yesterday I think.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 14:55 (eleven years ago)
Although JoeStork makes a very fine point.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 14:56 (eleven years ago)
"Michelle" does have a cool early 60s Euro vibe to it. I imagine there were lots of suave French-language covers.
anyone know of any good ones?
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 17:56 (eleven years ago)
"Hey Jude""Let It Be""Yesterday""The Long and Winding Road""Michelle"
― timellison, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 20:16 (eleven years ago)
"The Long and Winding Road" would have worked better in a more diversified, eclectic album context, the same way that "Good Night" works on the White Album.
― timellison, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 20:18 (eleven years ago)
Tim's order is very close to my own--switch the bottom two. I still like "Hey Jude" fine; don't know why. "Let It Be," I don't mind. Like someone said earlier, I wish I could hear "Yesterday" for the first time again--I think there's genius in it, but I wore it out at a young age. (There's a George Martin interview clip somewhere where he talks about "Yesterday" and how it was done in the studio...it's fantastic--you can tell it's just about the proudest moment of his life.) I recognize "Michelle" for the good song it is, very unusual, but even going back to when I was a teenager, I was always indifferent to it. "The Long and Winding Road" is the only one of the five I flat-out dislike. Maybe a different arrangement would work for me--I find the orchestral original hopelessly saccharine.
Back in 1971, the big hit-radio station here did a Top 300 countdown. I was 10, and it was a very big deal. Three of these songs--"Let It Be" (#1, I'm pretty sure), "The Long and Winding Road," and "Hey Jude" were in the Top 10.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 20:57 (eleven years ago)
These must rank amongst the five worst songs in the Beatles catalogue. Something pisses over all of these sappy ballads.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 21:45 (eleven years ago)
i've always had a soft spot for "Let It Be" and "Yesterday" has never been dimmed by overplay for me, so one of those. might have to flip a coin.
"Michelle" is probably the most famous Beatles song that i can never hum, no matter how times i hear it. just now i put it on and went 'oh, that one,' but i'm sure i'll forget how it goes tomorrow.
― fetty wap, kombucha, where to trap queen (some dude), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 22:34 (eleven years ago)
but michelle is so easy to hum, the melody is in the name, just sing the name and the tune unfolds straight from there.
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 05:30 (eleven years ago)
rong and whining choads itt
― Killarney Hilton (darraghmac), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 06:42 (eleven years ago)
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 14 June 2015 00:01 (eleven years ago)
Michelle....you smell.
― dlp9001, Sunday, 14 June 2015 17:05 (eleven years ago)
someday monkey play piano song
― Darin, Sunday, 14 June 2015 17:24 (eleven years ago)
lol, had forgotten that one.
― Never Mind The Blecchs, Here's The James Redd Orche (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 June 2015 17:38 (eleven years ago)
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 15 June 2015 00:01 (eleven years ago)
lurkers, defend yourselves or face mass reprisal
― Heroic melancholy continues to have a forceful grip on (bernard snowy), Monday, 15 June 2015 00:03 (eleven years ago)
― Darin, Sunday, June 14, 2015 1:24 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
someday monkey won't play piano song
― Lee626, Monday, 15 June 2015 00:36 (eleven years ago)
I just want to know how "Hey Jude" fit on one side of a 45 when usually 4 minute songs got a verse chopped so it would fit
― Lee626, Monday, 15 June 2015 00:38 (eleven years ago)