Revolution - Official ILX Beatles tracks poll results

YEah, I voted this one. Beautiful.

15. Paperback Writer Single (Points: 369, Voters: 16, Number Ones: 1)

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

haha, I've never seen that video! I love all the riffwork on this one. Didn't vote though.

My #2 (I think. Might've been #3)

Is there a name for the "Paperback Writer" sound - i.e. crazy '60s Austin Powers Scooby Doo adventure romp music, also done on 5th Dimension's 'Age of Aquarius' and pastiched by Belle & Sebastian on 'Legal Man'?

The oddest thing was, about halfway through counting it was at the number one position, but it fell away due to getting absolutely no additional votes (until the last few ballots)...

PW has an amazingly powerful sound, I can't think of anything much like it tbh other than occasionally powerpop trios hitting the spot (though not vocally).

Seven of my top ten have now placed. Still got hope for two of the others, but Mr Kite!'s chance has gone I think.

I'd had this down as an outsider for #1, disappointed it fell away so badly.

What is there, some kind of time difference over in Britain? Gratified by "Long, Long, Long"'s showing. It's a song that rarely gets mentioned in official Beatles history. Glad "Rain" is high too, but I knew that one would do well.

Thought "Long, Long, Long" might do better! Kinda hipster choice, innit?

The kids are all Hey Bulldog and The Long And Winding Road these days.

This, so far, is the only 'record' that has had a remastered vinyl release.

The "record store day" edition has a different catalogue number to the original, and is in stereo.

"Long, Long, Long"'s stock must have risen in the past decade then, maybe connected to George's death. There was a time you'd never read a word about it.

The kids are all Hey Bulldog and The Long And Winding Road these days.

Y' wha'? I thought The LAW Road was like the most hated Beatle track of 'em all or sumthin'? There's a poll about it somewhere about here...

Honeycrack's cover of Hey Bulldog is the best thing to emerge from the mid-90s Britrock scene.

Well admittedly I'm old & out of touch but I have faith in ILM contarianism.

"Long, Long, Long"'s stock must have risen in the past decade then, maybe connected to George's death.

P'raps "Revolution in the Head" might have caused people to listen to it more carefully?

I always liked Long Long Long since I first heard the White Album. It's a pool of tranquillity among a sea of egos, pastiches and Revolution 9.

14. Penny Lane Single (Points: 370, Voters: 16, Number Ones: 2)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H6PdlJshCo

Geir will cry @ this only making #14 :(

My #2.

Anyone hating on Penny Lane has gotta have a cold hard rock for a heart.

I'm not 100% sure, but I think Hello Goodbye was my number one, unacknowledged on this thread, but correctly attributed on the accidental post to the News International thread.

Can't imagine such a thing, come on ILM prove me wrong! (xp)

NB&S - Hello Goodbye is on this thread.

A double a-side, a picture sleeve, a special video, and it became the first single since "Please Please Me" (or "Love Me Do" depending on your chart source) not to make Number One!

I do apologise. Yes, I missed it when I messed up.

although I didn't vote for it after all, it's still one of my beloved McCartney tracks.

Xp - I know the song is, but it's down here as having no number one votes

Can't hope to mess with Please Release Me though. I still have hope that one day downloads will somehow right that wrong.

P'raps "Revolution in the Head" might have caused people to listen to it more carefully?

That's certainly the reason I first really paid attention to LLL. My highest-placed George song.

Love Penny Lane but it didn't seem right for this poll.

How could it not seem right for this poll?!

"Penny Lane" was my Number One.

Because its by the Moody Blues

Long Long Long is more of a Moody Blues song.

Penny Lane was my #8.

Long Long Long: Shy unassuming wallflower song, last in line, keeps its beauty, after all the look-at-me tunes on the White Album have long lost theirs.

for me, this poll was about songs that I thought were personally meaningful (either to the songwriters or to me!). I guess that's why I favoured John so heavily. Strawberry Fields Forever is the obvious counterpoint to PL and to me the lyrics of that are a genuine excavation of memory - whereas with PL, Paul recasts his own childhood memories as a magical universal nostalgia. It's perfectly done but not as affecting imo.

xposts and apologies for the muddied expression, you put me on the spot there Ismael!

Ha, sorry! That works though, usually that kind of statement turns out to mean person X thinks poll Y should be about Z instead, so I was awaiting an explanation about why it wasn't actually a Beatles track.

"Paul recasts his own childhood memories as a magical universal nostalgia"

Yes, that's the effect that PL has had on me since the age of 11. I bought the double blue album just after my parents split up (it was the first album I bought with my own money), and by conjuring up images and feelings from my childhood with almost synaesthesic accuracy, PL instantly induced a deep longing for the past. I think it was my first experience of nostalgia.

no worries - that differentiation is so ingrained in my own thinking that it's kind of interesting to have to spell it out for myself every once in a while...

xp

Yeah, I given up on my early favs like It Won't Be Long even placing at this point.

― Darin, Monday, July 18, 2011 11:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Keep hope alive, it was #16 on my ballot.

My #17

Also my #17. I love it, but it can never outrank She Loves You.

13. In My Life Rubber Soul (Points: 389, Voters: 19, Number Ones: 0)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ns6wBo0gzk

god that's dire

12. And Your Bird Can Sing Revolver (Points: 415, Voters: 17, Number Ones: 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4opGA4o8ag

Some of these songs have got really interesting vids attached on youtube.

And some have very lean pickings.

Was trying to avoid "slide shows" and "karaoke word" ones, beyond maybe one of each.

With "In my life", it was either Ozzy or Dave Matthews.

No fucking way am I clicking play on Ozzy singing In My Life. Not a chance.

And Your Bird Can Sing: Anthology 2 version > Revolver version