Revolution - Official ILX Beatles tracks poll results

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

Not a favourite.

59. Lovely Rita Sgt. Pepper (Points: 156, Voters: 7, Number Ones: 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l87Vvb7JcDU

Lovely Rita was on my shortlist, just missed out on the top 20.

58. Let It Be Single, and LP Let It Be (Points: 158, Voters: 7, Number Ones: 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SswjdoAAJb8

ha actually one of my favs tho admittedly I really don't know more than a third of the beatles
catalog.
xp 8 days a week

"Eight Days" almost made my list. Love the desperation in Lennon's voice, esp on the chorus.

Love the intro & outro of 8 Days A Week, the rest is a bit meh.

Hurray! I've been eagerly looking forward to this.

Wow these are going very quickly. All of these were outside my top 20, but not by too much.

57. You Won't See Me Rubber Soul (Points: 160, Voters: 8, Number Ones: 0)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc-sOgSgRG8

None of these are faves yet. I find Lovely Rita to be one of these slightly cumbersome mid-period tracks (like Good Morning, Good Morning and Dr Robert) that just sound contrived (the internal rhyme of Rita/Meter). Just not my thing.

56. All My Loving With The Beatles (Points: 160, Voters: 7, Number Ones: 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWvurnpKjE4

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 ?