Take a Sad Song and Extract Every Last Ounce of Spontaneity from It: the Beatles Uber-Ballad Poll

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.

can we poll those options

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Yeah

imagining this as a Beavis and Butthead exchange:

"The pain won’t come back Jude"
"Yeah, eh hehe heh"

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

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

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?

julian doesn't have to worry about having good songs

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

OATMEAL?

oh fuck, maybe that's it.

nvm, that's probably not it. They'd have used a 3 for the E.

"Julia"

Tempted to vote for Hey Jude just for

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNDs571E9k4

argh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNDs571E9k4

One thing "Hey Jude" has going for it is the audible "Aw fuckin' 'ell" at 2:59.

I'm voting for "Something".

― mike t-diva,

As it stands, Yesterday. I quite dislike Jude, LAWR and LIB, Michelle is pretty but minor compared to Yesterday I think.

Although JoeStork makes a very fine point.

"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?

"Hey Jude"
"Let It Be"
"Yesterday"
"The Long and Winding Road"
"Michelle"

"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.

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.

These must rank amongst the five worst songs in the Beatles catalogue. Something pisses over all of these sappy ballads.

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.

but michelle is so easy to hum, the melody is in the name, just sing the name and the tune unfolds straight from there.

rong and whining choads itt

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Michelle....you smell.

someday monkey play piano song

lol, had forgotten that one.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

lurkers, defend yourselves or face mass reprisal

someday monkey play piano song

― Darin, Sunday, June 14, 2015 1:24 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

someday monkey won't play piano song

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

Wtf

don't look at me i voted "Michelle."

i'm shocked that rong and whining choad got 7 votes

it will never disappear

I just don't get it, do people just really hate the coda of Hey Jude for going on so long?

i love hey jude but i've always found paul's ranting over the coda a little hard to take, it's like he can't quite give in to the good communal feeling and just sing along with everybody else, he has to keep on being the center of attention

I don't have a problem understanding people having issues with parts or aspects of Hey Jude but literally everything about TLAWR from the opening vocal line to the final note is just awful garbage

I salute the 7 people who voted for 'The Long and Winding Road', as I salute Phil Spector for adding the orchestra because my god it sounds like arse without it.

i love hey jude but i've always found paul's ranting over the coda a little hard to take, it's like he can't quite give in to the good communal feeling and just sing along with everybody else, he has to keep on being the center of attention

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.),

yet he blasted George for wanting to answer his lines with guitar wankery

I am sad there is not an isolated bass youtube of Lennon's LAWR bass part, just so I could torture all you Hey Jude voters w it

Um, Shakey, I think those were votes FOR "Hey Jude" and not against

Yes...I was getting progressively more confused in this thread as to what Shakey was trying to say.

Haha oops i thought we were voting for worst

In Edinburgh once I saw a two man, well man and woman, one-man band do a truly awesome version of "Hey Jude." Their names were Pete and Andrea.

This is them, although they don't perform that particular song, alas.https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=373542729400063&id=118032478296415&refsrc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&_rdr