Revolution - Official ILX Beatles tracks poll results

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...

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

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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

oh go on, live a little

more And Your Byrd Can Sing

'and your bird can sing' would've been my no. 1.

Oh sorry, forgot to add:

(1 vote, 19 points were for the Anthology 2 version)

well I like the bass a lot better in the A2

Revolver version was my #4.

Can't remember my ballot, but And Your Bird Can Sing was either #1 or 2

11. We Can Work It Out Single (Points: 432, Voters: 11, Number Ones: 0)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN-Ee7uXKYo

Was hoping Rain would be higher (my #1). When I was a kid, long before I knew anything about rock music, I used to listen to the Paperback Writer/Rain 45 at my grandparents' house and it was captivating (my grandmother had bought it at a garage sale in the 70s anticipating it being valuable one day). Was tempted to actually make Paperback Writer my #2 after Rain, but knew it would do just fine without much help from me.

Right, that leaves the Top Ten, pop pickers.

I was going to start a 'pick the remaining ten' thread, but I sacked that idea as it would be Spoiler city arizona. Let's keep the chat to what's gone before, ay?

:) I'm glad it placed so high! This song single-handedly ended the stupid period in my life of dismissing The Beatles as "that stupid pop group". It only took the the chorus of "Life is very short and there's no time / for fussing and fighting my friend" and that jarring transition to 3/4, to change my life. A truly enlightening experience. One of the most genius moments in pop music.

I thought that might be #1. Beautiful song, ruined only slightly for me when I saw a guy, who turned out to be a complete prick, using it as a text to show he could turn anything into a piece of public speaking.

Go on, do the top ten, you know you want to!

The first time I've heard that chorus I literally felt like somebody punched me in the stomach. Stunning. Should have made the top five IMO. (it was my #2)

Really love 'And Your Bird Can Sing', John Peel's favourite Beatles track too.

Paperback Writer / Rain were my #1/2. It didn't even occur to me that they were the A/B of the same single.

WOO for Peel Fave "And Your Bird Can Sing". In fact, I first heard it on his show.

Sometimes I think We Can Work It Out might just be my favourite ever song.

14 of my 20 have placed, and I have strong grounds for optimism as regards 5 of the remaining 6.

5 of my 20 have placed. I expect to see maybe 2 or 3 more of mine.

9/20 so far for me... maybe I'm deluded but I wouldn't be hugely surprised if the top ten were all on my ballot. Are we allowed to talk about what we don't think will make it?

If you like. I can't confirm any though.

right so, I *don't* think Yes It Is will make it. I voted for the Anthology version which starts with a very demo-sounding take and opens out like a flower half-way through.

I'm starting to have doubts about "Get Back" making it, which seems totally o_O to me.