"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."
― timellison, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 03:44 (twelve years ago) link
"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
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 03:48 (twelve years ago) link
"I Wanna Hold Yo Hand"--that was the Fat Boys, wasn't it?
― clemenza, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 03:52 (twelve years ago) link
i hope so
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 03:58 (twelve years ago) link
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).
― timellison, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 04:02 (twelve years ago) link
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
― timellison, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 04:12 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 04:15 (twelve years ago) link
Yes, about eight or nine years ago, though. I liked that book a lot.
― timellison, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 04:17 (twelve years ago) link
OK, it's time to do this!
― Mark G, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 08:22 (twelve years ago) link
10. Hey Bulldog Yellow Submarine (Points: 434, Voters: 19, Number Ones: 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thYUAqeCNy0
― Mark G, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 08:26 (twelve years ago) link
Bonus Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WBelmO65J4
― Mark G, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 08:27 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 08:29 (twelve years ago) link
Another great song I couldn't find room for on my ballot.
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 08:33 (twelve years ago) link
Glad to see that get such a high placing
― There is power in an onion (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 08:36 (twelve years ago) link
I love the guitar break, even though it's totally unremarkable in their catalogue. Other bands founded careers on less.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 08:37 (twelve years ago) link
Hey Bulldog at number 10 - only on ILX!
― Post-Manpat Music (dog latin), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 09:08 (twelve years ago) link
9. I'm only sleeping Revolver (Points: 445, Voters: 18, Number Ones: 0)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlKCxJ2o_fk
― Mark G, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 09:12 (twelve years ago) link
I'm Only Sleeping - my number 8. Lennon and Martin nailed the lyric/music on this perfectly.
― Post-Manpat Music (dog latin), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 09:19 (twelve years ago) link
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..
― Mark G, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 09:22 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Post-Manpat Music (dog latin), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 09:26 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 09:26 (twelve years ago) link
8. I Am The Walrus Magical Mystery Tour (Points: 472, Voters: 22, Number Ones: 0)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG73Pk1yUj8
― Mark G, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 09:28 (twelve years ago) link
My #16
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 09:31 (twelve years ago) link
7. For No One Revolver (Points: 495, Voters: 20, Number Ones: 0)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMXai67rESY&feature=fvsr
― Mark G, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 09:33 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Post-Manpat Music (dog latin), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 09:37 (twelve years ago) link
For No One - my #20 although I'd have rated it higher in retrospect. My favourite McCartney 'ditty'.
― Post-Manpat Music (dog latin), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 09:38 (twelve years ago) link
Hold onto yer hats...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 09:39 (twelve years ago) link
Day In The Life?
― Post-Manpat Music (dog latin), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 09:41 (twelve years ago) link
going through these Youtubes has crystalised my love for DAT RINGOBEAT
― zappi, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 09:41 (twelve years ago) link
6. Happiness is a Warm Gun The Beatles (Points: 512, Voters: 20, Number Ones: 3)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbvUOVVQe3o
― Mark G, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 09:41 (twelve years ago) link
Also my number 6. Damn, I must be very canon-y. This is such a Bohemian Rhapsody type song.
― Post-Manpat Music (dog latin), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 09:43 (twelve years ago) link
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..
― Mark G, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 09:44 (twelve years ago) link
I've never really liked "happiness is a warm gun"
― absolutely better display name (crüt), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 09:45 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Post-Manpat Music (dog latin), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 09:45 (twelve years ago) link
It was a take-off of a Bullwinkle cartoon, "Happiness is a warm gnu"
― Mark G, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 09:46 (twelve years ago) link
For No-One a real surprise. Lovely song, but ahead of And Your Bird? And thought Bulldog would be #1
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 09:47 (twelve years ago) link
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)
― koogs, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 09:49 (twelve years ago) link
5. Ticket To Ride The Beatles (Points: 537, Voters: 21, Number Ones: 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6JlruPvKfg
― Mark G, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 09:50 (twelve years ago) link
Bulldog #1 really? Yellow Submarine must be one of the worst-selling Beatles albums.
― Post-Manpat Music (dog latin), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 09:51 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 09:51 (twelve years ago) link
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...)
― Mark G, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 09:51 (twelve years ago) link
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"
― Post-Manpat Music (dog latin), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 09:52 (twelve years ago) link
oh, now this one is a bit of surprise to me, I didn't expect Ticket to score this well.
― V79, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 09:53 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 09:58 (twelve years ago) link
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)
― Mark G, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 10:01 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― kkvgz, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 10:01 (twelve years ago) link
I'm waiting on Mr Kite, You Know My Name, Tomorrow Never Knows, ADITL and You Know My Name. I have a feeling only two of these are likely to place now.
― Post-Manpat Music (dog latin), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 10:02 (twelve years ago) link
Because really needs a shout out.
― Post-Manpat Music (dog latin), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 10:03 (twelve years ago) link
wonder if there's any chance for If I Fell
― V79, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 10:03 (twelve years ago) link