Revolution - Official ILX Beatles tracks poll results

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.

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.

Because really needs a shout out.

wonder if there's any chance for If I Fell

You know my name, you know my name, what's up with you?

HA!

(xpost: being You listed that song twice there)

oh yeah!

really repping for that one as you can tell.

4. Dear Prudence The Beatles (Points: 543, Voters: 22, Number Ones: 3)

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

Ummm... that's not You Know My Name (Look Up The Number).

yeah. soz.

(105. YKMN(LUTN) b-side pts:72, v:3)

i demand a recount.

I'd have liked it if hayley Legg had done a video for "You know my name"...

(Another recount??? Noooo.....)

Dear Prudence was my #8, For No One #13, and Hey Bulldog #3!

3. Tomorrow Never Knows Revolver (Points: 590, Voters: 24, Number Ones: 2)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmSlwT1xzus

pretty sure the top 3 will be the same as my top 3 (in some order)

and there's my #1

I do love the Anthology version.

YES, Dear Prudence!

Got to be A Day in the Life at 2, and Strawberry Fields at 1?

Well that had to show up somewhere right? (was my no.12)

Predicting an uber-canonical number one, as I can't imagine that this particular song could be left out. As for no.2, there are a couple of more left-field choices off my ballot that could have enough ILM support to make it...

xpost yep that's my pick for no.1. I'm not so sure about ADITL though.

Was going to preamble, but I might well just postamble instead...

2. Strawberry Fields Forever Single (Points: 703, Voters: 26, Number Ones: 3)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7uBrx5aJ20

The first track on the first side of the first album I ever bought. A very good place to start.

no. 1 taxman obv.

The Beatles' cartoon series was a fairly crummy thing really: Various voice-artists straight from Top Cat do 'british' accents with lousy stories and a loveable but goofy-braned Ringo. They used to 'repeat' them on Night Network (I do quotes because I'm sure they were never shown in the London TV region until then. I did see a snippet of one when we lived in TyneTees region, I saw John saying to George "It's Ringo's Fault" until my mum made me turn over the 'cartoon' as all cartoons were banned except for Disney. Even the one showing of "The Point" i only got 4 mins of,boo...

Anyways, as I say, all were poor stuff until this one, which seemed to be the last one made. The "sing-along kids' song was "Rain" which worked really well with the visuals they chose for once, and this 'episode' wasn't too bad, although the last line is a total gveaway as to where they copped an idea from..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yottPv4rfAU&feature=related

Can't see that video in work unfortunately.

Flying for no.1?!

So. Which lucky song has made the grade?

I think we know...

I'd better do it now, before someone posts that Village People song...

1. A Day In The Life Sgt Pepper (Points: 717, Voters: 25, Number Ones: 6)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xljFT44Y1Y&feature=related