Revolution - Official ILX Beatles tracks poll results

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!

Didn't vote for "Got to Get You Into My Life," but I still remember how exciting it was when it was released as a single in '75 or '76, a kind of Beatlemania revisited hooked into the Red, Blue[/i], and Rock 'n' Roll anthologies.

Helter Skelter and Revolution. People not liking heavy Beatles, I guess. xp

40. A Hard Day's Night Hard day's night (Points: 210, Voters: 10, Number Ones: 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Hr671HfXSo

I'm sort of trying to have some fairly esoteric videos amongst the 'not often seen' performances, etc.

But that last one could only be:

Anyways, that's it for today, so be back Monday for more totals, but by all means carry on with the chat.....

"Helter Skelter": I kept saying, "Send Charlie a ballot, send Charlie a ballot."

Shitter Skelter more like.

it's sad to see Helter this low.

A Hard Day's Night is way way way too low. It's a perfect song. Didn't make my number one, but it's up there. Along with "Please Please Me" and "She Loves You" it is the apotheosis of early Beatles.

I just realized I didn't vote for Helter Skelter. Maybe I should've spent more than five minutes on my ballot, but I thought "stream of consciousness" voting was more likely to produce honest results.

doing this poll makes me realise there's lots and lots of Beatles songs I'm just a bit "meh" about but won't skip when I hear the albums. They're very much an album band in that respect, for me.

The fast pace really works here. When these songs come at you one after another, you're reminded--and I do understand how, 40 years along, some people would be happy to never hear another word about the Beatles; I understand that--how dizzyingly great they really were.

4/20 for me so far, seems about right. Suspect 20-10 will be the most interesting section of this, can't imagine there'll be too many surprises in the top ten.