Revolution - Official ILX Beatles tracks poll results

...as one of the 20 best songs by the Beatles musical group.

This means that someone voted for Your Mother Should Know

OH YEAH

Let's all get up and vote for a song...

also Maxwell's Silver Hammer and You Know My Name

I love You Know My Name, although it didn't make my list.

Leaving Yer Blues off my list was VERY tough.

"I'm Down" would be the biggest surprise for me from your no-vote list. I think it's right there with "She's a Woman" and "Helter Skelter" as the hardest rock the Beatles ever did.

I voted for Your Mother Should Know and You Know My Name. The latter very high up.

So fuck you.

(jks, lol!)

('o')

hang on Mark, I voted for "It's Only Love" at #20 on my list - did you not get it? (sent July 7th to beatlespoll at hotmail dot co dot uk). do I need to resend?

will check.

So Paul did vote in this after all--excellent!

John, George, Ringo,

(always wanted to do that)

was totally thinking of throwing "I'm Down" points

Aw, I love Doctor Robert, it's just not quite as good as the other songs that sound like it on Revolver.

Right, I've reviewed a few songs' totals on my spreadsheet calc, and I'm finding a whole bunch of wrong ones.

I've not missed anybody's totals, I'm pretty sure, but I shall mail you to confirm I have yours.

Hopefully, this won't delay proceedings.

I'll honestly sleep easier tonight knowing that you've got my ballot.

I'll email confirmations tomorrow.

(lol)

You're the best, Mark G. Thanks for doing this

Right, have assimilated the votes properlt now, and used a SQL database to calculate it.

Boy, did I miss a fair bit out!.

Anyway, as a present:

A taster, the song that came in last place.

195: Misery (points: 12, votes: 1)

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

195: Misery (points: 12, votes: 1) (LP: Please Please Me)

I shall try to indicate the primary source.

nice tune, i never heard it before

No Votes At All

When I'm 64
I'm Down
It's only love
Yer Blues
From me to you / Thank You Girl
Doctor Robert
Little Child
I wanna be your man
Good Day Sunshine
Run for your life
What Goes On
Wild Honey Pie

Thanks again for doing this, Mark. Are you going to count down every song or just the top 50 or...?

Top 64 surely.

Just the Number Nine

Was the order the songs were submitted in supposed to be relevant? My submission was alphabetical as i picked my favorites from the Wikipedia list linked to.

Did you totally miss the scoring as it was laid out in the first thread? Copied verbatim from all the other single-artist threads?

A Hard Day's Night is going to clean up

Currently kicking myself for not voting "Long Long Long" as my number one, and in fact, forgetting to vote for it entirely!

Love Misery.

hehe i voted "long long long" as my number one

That song really surprised me the first time I heard it again in my early 20s. As a teenager it was always the quiet dull thing after "Helter Skelter". Fast forward 5 or so years later and at the end of a long, drunken, fun summer day with friends we were listening to this album and one of them made sure when it got to that song the volume was turned up all the way. It was like hearing it again for the first time. And the ending always sends chills up my spine more than perhaps any other music I've ever heard.

Heh, glad to have helped "Misery" attain this exalted position.

I am really hoping this all happens between Monday and Wednesday next week, because I'll be totally away from computers on Thursday and Friday. If not, that's okay.

no NOW NOW NOW

Yeah, or NOW NOW NOW would be cool.

I just hope it doesn't happen over a weekend, I only ever really use the computer during the week.

let's have a poll to decide! seriously, don't wait until next week, some of us don't have a life

also it is reaaaallllly slow at work today

also: i'm impatient.

NOW NOW NOW works for me!

NOW

"Misery" was one of my last cuts and now mocks my bottom 5. How can my feelings about the Beatles be so changeable after 30+ years?

GO!

There were 58 voters, thanks for all your hard thinking. 195 songs got votes, umm, let's do it!

(And Yes, Lee26, I did manage to invoke your properly listed version, so all is well)

60. Eight Days A Week Beatles For Sale (Points: 155, Voters:6, Number ones: 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs5qsk0pc6Y

My ballot:
1. Strawberry Fields Forever
2. Here There and Everywhere
3. Ticket to Ride
4. Day Tripper
5. If I Needed Someone
6. Julia
7. Revolution (take 20)
8. Something
9. Twist & Shout
10. Not Guilty
11. I'm Only Sleeping
12. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
13. No Reply
14. She Loves You
15. Within You Without You
16. You Never Give Me Your Money
17. A Hard Day's Night
18. We Can Work It Out
19. There's A Place
20. The Night Before

mine:
1. I Saw Her Standing There
2. Here Comes the Sun
3. I Should Have Known Better
4. Penny Lane
5. Tomorrow Never Knows
6. Love Me Do
7. She Loves You
8. Day Tripper
9. Dear Prudence
1o. All My Loving
11. I Want to Hold Your Hand
12. You Won't See Me
13. Come Together
14. If I Needed Someone
15. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
16. With A Little Help from My Friends
17. Nowhere Man
18. Hey Jude
19. Hello, Goodbye
20. Yellow Submarine

So many songs pop up that give you a warm glow in a poll like this because their catalogue is stuffed with them. John and Paul singing together on There's a Place. I remember trying to replicate that song aged 15 with my band's equipment and multi-tracking experiments with a pair of tape recorders.

Hi,

Last night I was playing some of these youtubes, as back when I compiled these I basically played a small section to check if they were awesome (or awful) enough.

I think this guy should be re-seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxm3x6wiiD4

You know that pic of Robert Johnson with the cig and the guitar, those spindly fingers? This is like watching that photo. (Also check out the Hey Jude vid upthread)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaRz-3DYV7c&feature=youtu.be

nice. don't think i'd seen all of that.

nice

lennon's sideburns are kind of nuts there.

He had just come from playing keyboards at a Doors show.

That incidentally is the *only* Beatles song where's there's a video of the final track (as heard on the album) being recorded in the studio

Nothing from "Let It Be"?

Only "One after 909" as recorded at the rooftop.

The rest were re-recorded in a studio. The film shows rehearsals, ostensibly.

A Day in the Life video was shot while they did the orchestra overdub, fwiw.

Something I hadn't heard before...

The DVD "Unsurpassed Videos" set you can find ... Volume 2 of the "Studio Years" has a whole section of instrumental mixes of side 2 of "Abbey Road", which are quite amazing.

In isolation, "You never give me your money" onwards sounds a lot like "Dark Side of the Moon".

I also came across the "Cathode Ray" DVD series, basically all the TV appearances between 1962 and 1967 or thereabouts, that they made that haven't been officially issued.

Their version of the end-play of "Midsummer nights dream" that I only had fanmag pics of, then found a VHS at a record fair for 'howmuch?' money, and plenty more.

The sort of stuff I would have ended up paying a fortune for but now, thanks to the internet, I can get plus the quality is as good as possible...

In isolation, "You never give me your money" onwards sounds a lot like "Dark Side of the Moon".

I can see that. "Sun King" and "Because," especially. And maybe the latter part of "Polythene Pam."

On my way into work in the car this morning, the "Helter Skelter" mono remaster came up, and I had it turned up pretty loud and was blown away by how much more powerful and aggressive it sounded than the stereo version. That song must have absolutely blown people away in 1968.

This is a good read on a quiet day..

Results are really quite unpredictable until the top 3.

Never mentioned this here on this thread, but this actually wound up happening:

Download & Listen to COMP TOGETHER - ILX Covers The Beatles (Available Now!)

yes.

107 Every Little Thing (Points: 70, Votes: 3, NumberOnes: 0)

This is low! I might have voted for it in retrospect.

I rank their run of 15 top tens b/w 1964-1965.

Would move several of your "solid"s up to "good to great" but can't truly disagree with much else.

all of those songs are amazing. you’re crazy

also, unrelated, what was the name of the (taiwanese i think ?) director whose screenshot you had on your blog for the longest time before you changed it ?