Revolution - Official ILX Beatles tracks poll results

Or even two! (xpost)*2

Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill FTW!

Mark, you really blasted us into the weekend in an excellent way...I like this method of heavy barrage and then the weekend to mull it over and anticipate. Have a great weekend!

Woulda voted Don't Pass Me By if I'd had a couple more options. It's a good song.

In fact, I'd say "Don't Pass Me By" is the "pure essence" of White Album.

I just played the "No Reply" clip--charmingly inept. As someone who's collected something like 4,000 Beatles covers, I think you could do the whole countdown with such versions and you'd be saying something valid about the way the Beatles effect people.

Indeed.

The series "The Exotic Beatles" is four CD volumes of 'odd' cover versions and suchlike.

I've got the first three, so you just gave me something to look for.

Yes.

It has more Klaus Beyer.

you'd be saying something valid about the way the Beatles effect people.

AFFECT, schoolteacher!

(sorry)

No Reply would have been my number one, and it's from Beatles For Sale not Revolver.

also, clemenza otm about Eight Days A Week and Ticket To Ride

I dunno, lots of ladies got preg listening to "revolution number nine"

OK, more than one then.

xpost yeah, another one I forgot to change the album name.

AFFECT, schoolteacher!

Damn--I'm keeping myself in at recess and recopying the entire nomination list 10 times.

Revolution single and Something are waaaaayy too low and both were pretty high on my list. voted for I'm Looking Through You too cuz the organ stabs are hilarious. Agree with whoever said it upthread that the Revolution single is the most rocking thing they ever did, just totally blazes, and the live clip is fantastic.

I'm a Loser also on my list. Lennon's self-loathing is great sometimes.

"If I Needed Someone" was the only song from my top 20 so far. Can't wait for Monday!

oh! somehow i missed "If I Needed Someone". that makes three from my list.

xpost!!!

2 of mine have placed so far, I'm A Loser (my #1) and If I Needed Someone (my #7). Calling IINS forgettable is crazy! The 2nd best song on Rubber Soul by my reckoning.

3/20 (ywsm, ist, ygthyla)

wtfdatlm?!

There's a Place and No Reply are my only two that have placed so far. But I like, if not love, just about every song that has placed so far...

Though I'm sick of Let It Be and to a lesser extent Revolution...

I thought I was sick of Revolution til it got played on the radio on the way home from work earlier, turns out I'm not sick of it at all.

I've only just noticed this poll exists! Must remember to check ILM more rigorously.

#41?? Fuck that. No Reply is in the 10 best songs ever by anyone.

true

"Eight Days a Week" swings so hard and fun, and it's one of the few times where their weirdest harmonies are also their most sing-along--the second "Eight days a week" in the chorus kills. Greil Marcus was totally right about George's playing on the opening too. And I love the slang--distant cousin to Heavy D's "Nuttin' But Love." Like I don't just love you with other feelings mixed in, I've got nothing but love for you. Maybe nothing but love at all. We danced to it like maniacs at my wedding.

My number one, obviously.

We're coming from the same place. I had Marcus in the back of my mind when I expressed puzzlement earlier about the mild reception "Eight Days a Week" seems to get in ILM polls.

as earlier stated, we are in agreement

It's all about context though. Stick Eight Days A Week in a Kinks or a Who poll and it's my #1, easy.

Context is a killer. I can't remember if I voted for Revolution or Helter Skelter, but I've got a feeling they were both squeezed out when I made my final cull - I like both of them, and they work well together, but sound don't sound so great when you're listening to a lot of Beatles stuff from other eras.

I'd forgotten about There's A Place, but it is a proper little miracle. It's not like you have to really read between the lines to see it as a pretty cosmic song about retreating into the timeless oneness inside your head to escape the hard realities of it all. That, pretty unambiguously, is what he's singing about. You could put the lyrics up against Lennon '66 words, including Tomorrow Never Knows, and it still wouldn't look old-hat. And this is all a long time before they heard any Dylan. And the middle-eight is killer. Should have voted for it really.

Since I've learned over the years that "middle eight" in British parlance is roughly equivalent to what Americans call the bridge, I've always wondered: does the "middle eight" have to be eight bars? And this might be a dumb question, but does the terminology have any effect on songwriting practices in the UK (i.e., more conventional songsmiths actually try to make each bridge eight bars)?

In the Beatles' case, I can't think of a bridge that's not eight bars.

"No Reply" was my #1.

Didn't Redd Kross cover "There's a Place"? I can't find it on the internet. Lots of pop-punk covers of that song though. My #2. One thing I love is how you can hear it a dozen times and still not be able to quite remember it or sing it in your mind, it's so harmonically unusual. Marcus right on about this too, for that matter.

"There's A Place" was my get-it-in-the-poll vote. Glad to see it there, but I probably coulda dropped it for "Eight Days a Week," a song I love to pieces but declined to name. In the end I just figured that, objectively, it wasn't really among the Beatles' best work. But I didn't even try to be objective elsewhere, so...decisions, decisions. I'm glad I don't agonize over my choices for these polls except a little bit after the fact - if I did there'd be no climbing out of the rabbit hole.

5/20 so far for me. Does "Not Guilty" have a shot? Should it? I'm questioning putting it on my ballot

In the Beatles' case, I can't think of a bridge that's not eight bars.

― Pete Scholtes, Friday, July 15, 2011 5:35 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

The guitar solo section of Day Tripper - which I think of as a bridge because it transposes the riff up from E to B, the only time in the song that occurs - is 12 bars.

xtothenp: hm, never thought of "In My Room" in the context of "There's A Place" before. mere coincidence?

which one came first, Paul?

Wikipedia has release dates for Please Please Me as 22nd March 1963 (UK) and Surfer Girl (and as b-side of "Be True To Your School" single) as Oct 28th 1963. I'm thinking coincidence, parallel mindset. another nice link between the bands, specifically Lennon/B Wilson.

thanks very much, it is telling

sort of thinking i should have had You've Got to Hide... on my list. even the video posted up thread is great.

1/20 so far (Helter Skelter was my #20), I think most of mine will be higher in the list.

Been listening to early Beatles all day today. Conclusion: it's alright, but a bit shit but kinda great in parts but mostly meh.

i am one of probably many people who grew up listening almost exclusively to 1966-70 so the early stuff is really floating my boat

early beatles is my fav beatles