Revolution - Official ILX Beatles tracks poll results

Although other sources apparently say that the "Bird" guitar work was George and Paul or John and Paul, so who knows? It may have just been George overdubbed for all I know!

it doesn't sound (to me) like a part John would come up with

i was the only vote for drive my car??

does that bottom 10 list mean that someone else voted for Real Love besides me...?

Me and a bunch of socks had it at #1

hahaha

Songs with one vote take places up to number 140.

Songs with two votes take places from 156 upwards.

RL placed 138.

Your conclusion...

I was told there would be no math

No math, just logic.

"I was told there would be no math": I have six or seven kids say that to me on the first day of school every year.

Is it six or seven? Show your work.

lol

just quotin Chevy Chase here

so, who's the other one who voted for "Boys"?

OK, can somebody help an ignoramus out and tell me where the actual poll was, and how we were supposed to vote, etc.?

idgi

Official ILX Artist Tracks Poll : The Beatles (Next up: Prince)

The thing I've learned from this poll that I've never known about ilx before is that Mark G is distinguishable from other Marks and Matts on this board in that he is a certifiable loon.

Are the top 10 going to be revealed today or tomorrow?

Prince poll's already going, let's get this over with

Unless Mark G. was testifying in the hacking scandal, let's go already!! (BTW nice job shaving cream pie thrower, hope you're f--in' happy you gave the right wing the perfect distraction, moron)

It's half past twelve in the UK, he's probably asleep or something...

OOPS! Nightie night Mark G. ;)

Love these Youtubes! Was always fascinated by how the body language of that "We Can Work It Out" clip is "We Can't Work It Out." Never saw the "She Loves You" clip with replacement Ringo, so weak!

Finding that the other stuff that moves me most besides what I've raved about is

52. Revolution
29. Blackbird
26. Hey Jude
25. Here Comes the Sun
17. She Loves You
13. In My Life

which are all, in a way, different expressions of the same optimism.

Yes!! So why is this the best early Beatles hit? It's the ever so slight melancholy tug during the "yeah yeah yeah" bit. I only really noticed it recently, despite having grown up with the song. The Beatles half-joke about this being a lyrical breakthrough as it introduces a third person to the schematic, but really I think the lyrics are very well thought out.

― Post-Manpat Music (dog latin), Tuesday, July 19, 2011 5:23 AM (17 hours ago) Bookmark

this is otm

"She Loves You" is also, even more than "I Want to Hold Your Hand," the one that particularly speaks to the Dylan quote that "their chords were outrageous."

"you know you should be glad" has that little bluesy minor-key thing in the vocal harmonies .. "i wanna hold yo hand" is pretty much straight up and down with no bluesy elements

"I Wanna Hold Yo Hand"--that was the Fat Boys, wasn't it?

i hope so

maybe thats #1

The "you know you should be glad" line is a really sophisticated bit. John Lennon is singing a note (A) that is not part of that chord (C minor).

Tim Riley calls it a half-diminished chord because of the A, but I'd bet the guitarists were playing C minor:

http://books.google.com/books?id=lHvx9QnnorYC&pg=PA67&lpg=PA67&dq=%22half+diminished%22+%22she+loves+you%22&source=bl&ots=BL-RB0grvB&sig=9clYh8HlGHUd86zU70-_A6QhV_E&hl=en&ei=KFUmTvDKO-jWiAKB2bzlCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22half%20diminished%22%20%22she%20loves%20you%22&f=false

Have you ever read the Wilfrid Mellers book? Having next to no formal knowledge of music, it would boggle my mind when I'd leaf through the copy in my school library many years ago.

Yes, about eight or nine years ago, though. I liked that book a lot.

OK, it's time to do this!

10. Hey Bulldog Yellow Submarine (Points: 434, Voters: 19, Number Ones: 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thYUAqeCNy0

Bonus Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WBelmO65J4

Reason being:

The section from the Yellow Submarine film was edited out for the US version, and the pics from the 'live in the studio' were used to form the visuals for a different single ("Lady Madonna", I think)

So, couldn't choose to exclude one.

Another great song I couldn't find room for on my ballot.

Glad to see that get such a high placing

I love the guitar break, even though it's totally unremarkable in their catalogue. Other bands founded careers on less.

Hey Bulldog at number 10 - only on ILX!

9. I'm only sleeping Revolver (Points: 445, Voters: 18, Number Ones: 0)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlKCxJ2o_fk

I'm Only Sleeping - my number 8. Lennon and Martin nailed the lyric/music on this perfectly.

Slim pickings, videowise: Runners-up were a kid who had filmed and/or photoed himself acting out the song (didn't check the soundtrack), and a couple where the song was played backwards so as to hear the guitar solo forwards..

It's not so much what will place in the top ten, but what's going to get missed out. I think I could name at least 20 serious contenders for the top slots.

My #5. That's my entire top ten, barring Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite! which I don't think we'll be seeing. Only two of my second ten have placed though.

8. I Am The Walrus Magical Mystery Tour (Points: 472, Voters: 22, Number Ones: 0)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG73Pk1yUj8

My #16

7. For No One Revolver (Points: 495, Voters: 20, Number Ones: 0)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMXai67rESY&feature=fvsr

Walrus was my number 10. I think it would have been my number 1 a few years ago, but I'm over familiar with it now. I love the Beatles at their most weird and this is weird in the spadefuls. These days I'm quite conscious of how overbearingly psych it is though.

For No One - my #20 although I'd have rated it higher in retrospect. My favourite McCartney 'ditty'.