Revolution - Official ILX Beatles tracks poll results

See, if I'm gonna pick an early Beatles hit (not a huge early Beatles fan - more of a post Rubber Soul person), it would have to be She Loves You - has everything you want from that song condensed into one.

Come Together has that lovely rolling riff, but I'll raise you Don't Let Me Down and She's So Heavy for lumbering smokewood mantras any day of the week.

That's where you get into everybody having a different version of the Beatles. For me, heavy Beatles is almost always a bad fit; with "Eight Days a Week," they're off in the stratosphere doing what they do best.

I can't stand the lyrics of Something but the melody and production (and that guitar solo! is that Paul?) are beyond george-ous

Definitely George taking the solo there. He finally 1) got more confident as a soloist, and 2) got more confident in telling Paul to fuck off.

Come Together is brilliant. Simultaneously heavy and groovy (man). love those "shhhhhhu" sounds in the rhythm. And yeah the guitar solo is blistering.

Something fails to move me.

Come Together is such a bum note to start Abbey Road. I don't hate it, but I tend to skip it. It's the Beatles' 'Tender' in that it's a big song full of empty gestures that starts off an otherwise quite weird and wonderful album.

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My old cassette version starts with "Here comes the sun", possibly to make the sides of a more equal length.

49. You've Got to Hide Your Love Away Help (Points: 188, Voters: 9, Number Ones: 0)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz7IjXu0DfQ

If anyone is wondering how I'm splitting ties, I'm just taking what my SQL query is giving me.

now I start to regret not having voted for Something, I feel it placed a bit too low.

^^ a good place for the song, one of my favs on Help, which I don't even like that much.

I've grown to unfairly hate this one, and In My Life, and Nowhere Man, due to the lionising of Wise Young John in various tv things about a decade ago. He's at his most boring and rhyming-dictionaryesque in these imo.

God, I love that clip from Help! I find some excuse to show it to my class every year.

48. I've Just Seen A Face Help (Points: 192, Voters: 9, Number Ones: 0)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CEZ7KHdApE

Revolution 1 (from "The Beatles" or, indeed, from the "Take 20" mp3 that circulated..

Album version is shit, single version is one of the best things they ever did

Oh wow, I must never have seen Help! - I love that, I take it all back.

I think "I've Just Seen a Face" suffers from a weak demo-esque arrangement. I'd like to have heard them take a stab at it with a slower tempo, more electricity and lusher instrumentation. I do like the opening though.

Come Together didn't make my ballot, but it was one of the last cuts. I am a sucker for songs that are about acid that aren't necessarily ~~~psychedelic~~~. See also Got To Get You Into My Life.

I also just realized that I may have accidentally cut You've Got to Hide Your Love Away from my ballot when I intended to cut You're Going to Lost That Girl. It was close between those too.

now this I love! almost made my list, dunno why it didn't.

I've Just Seen A face is classic! I think I might possibly have voted for it. Should've been a single.

47. There's A Place single (Points: 192, Voters: 8, Number Ones: 2)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L47eDqdQoE

I've Just Seen A Face - I only discovered that when I got the box set. Stunning song, so joyous. My #4.

Never heard this one.

Me either - what is it?

Great to see There's a Place on there, my #19

46. I'm A Loser single (Points: 194, Voters: 9, Number Ones: 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KynpC1e9I9E

I think "I've Just Seen a Face" was my highest Paul. Astoundingly perfect love song.

wow, I wouldn't ever expect There's a Place to place this high! two #1 are quite a pleasant surprise for me.

Funny, until about 3/4 way through, it had only got two votes, but both were number ones.

Nothing from my ballot has appeared yet...maybe I'm being uber-hivemindy on this one.

I'm A Loser was my #11. They sure understood the power of snapping into focus immediately.

45. Two Of Us Abbey Road (Points: 196, Voters: 10, Number Ones: 0)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1Y3PlmwnRM

Yay, I love this one - it's from Let It Be though

44. Helter Skelter The Beatles (Points: 197, Voters: 8, Number Ones: 0)

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

xpost oops typo, yes.

Two Of Us was my #7. The last hurrah for early Beatles style John/Paul harmonies. So glad the song ended up the way it did instead of the more revved up version you initially see in the "Let It Be" film.

43. If I Needed Someone Rubber Soul (Points: 198, Voters: 9, Number Ones: 0)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYzVcFK4Ywc

Thought Helter Skelter would be higher. The slow, 27-minute version is another in the heavy Come Together vibe, come to think.

I'm A Loser was my #1. Sad to see it so low.

If I Needed Someone was my #5, love it

Apt title eh? (xp)

If I Needed Someone - really? Most forgettable song on Rubber Soul.

I thought "Helter Skelter" would be MUCH higher.

That's broken my duck - Helter Skelter was my #2. Kind of surprised it's so low, I had imagined it might be an ILM favourite.

I was going to look for a Hollies performance, but got surprised by actually finding a live perf.

.. of "If I needed someone" obv.

If I Needed Someone - really? Most forgettable song on Rubber Soul.

no way

"If I Needed Someone" is the best song on Rubber Soul!

Hmm I'm a fan of all these songs but they were all outside my 20, I guess I really like the Beatles? Two Of Us was *just* outside Has that thing they do of having depth in apparent simplicity, I think...

xposts wow this moves fast. re IINS, always seemed to me to be an example of how on Rubber Soul (and Revolver to a lesser extent) they focussed on single-note pedals to great effect.

42. Got To Get You Into My Life Revolver (Points: 199, Voters: 9, Number Ones: 0)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEIVI-E0oDM

41. No Reply Revolver (Points: 207, Voters: 10, Number Ones: 1)

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

shocked Helter Skelter is so low!