Revolution - Official ILX Beatles tracks poll results

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.

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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'.

Hold onto yer hats...

Day In The Life?

going through these Youtubes has crystalised my love for DAT RINGOBEAT

6. Happiness is a Warm Gun The Beatles (Points: 512, Voters: 20, Number Ones: 3)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbvUOVVQe3o

Also my number 6. Damn, I must be very canon-y. This is such a Bohemian Rhapsody type song.

I thought this one would hae the slimmest pickins of the video kind, but someone decided to present it via the medium of interpretive dance..

I've never really liked "happiness is a warm gun"

I have a very strong memory associated with Happiness Is A Warm Gun. My parents had decided to go on holiday to Norfolk and left me at home so I could study for my GCSEs. Like any right-thinking schoolboy, I naturally rang everyone I knew for a party.. Within a couple of hours my garden looked like Glastonbury festival and there were people skinning up in our attic when my parents rang. My dad drove all the way home and we drove to Norfolk the next day. The only conversation we had, other than him berating me, was about this song.

It was a take-off of a Bullwinkle cartoon, "Happiness is a warm gnu"

For No-One a real surprise. Lovely song, but ahead of And Your Bird? And thought Bulldog would be #1

not much interpretation going on there - i was hoping for pan's people style acting-out.

(and having known the breeders version first, the beatles version was such a disappointment)

5. Ticket To Ride The Beatles (Points: 537, Voters: 21, Number Ones: 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6JlruPvKfg

Bulldog #1 really? Yellow Submarine must be one of the worst-selling Beatles albums.

Surprised to see For No One - that's what I love most, when something with no hype or discussion bullets in on merit alone.

Happiness Is A Warm Gun - was never really sold on it, other than as an impressive exercise, 'til I heard an early take which really emphasised the band barrelling in after the first 'oh yeah'. Great playing.

This one had probably the richest pickings of all the videos, various performances, live and in-tv-studio.

But, it could only be this one really.

(and yes, i forgot to alter "The Beatles" to "Help" there...)

Never really got into Ticket To Ride. Although my sister and I invented our own version of it when we were about 6 and 8 called "She's Got A Ticket To Ram-ay-ay-ah"

oh, now this one is a bit of surprise to me, I didn't expect Ticket to score this well.

That's all of my Top Ten home and dry. I can guess three of the top four, and I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the fourth.

I think TTR was the perfect Beatles moment:

Recogniseable Classic beatles, over the naive charm days, lightly psychedelic, and something that you'd have to remove all the rhythmical variations to make it a 'pleasant MOR track' (and ooh they did, didn't they?)

(although, tbf2 the Carpenters, they replaced them with loads of their own)

I'm fairly certain that Ticket to Ride's the last I'll see of my ballot, although I can half-imagine some total lack of vote-splitting that lands Because or Blue Jay Way up there.