Revolution - Official ILX Beatles tracks poll results

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

My number 1.

Good, albeit predictable, top 3.

Only astonished that Nowhere Man didn't place. #4 on my (unsubmitted) ballot and the only one in my entire 20 not to appear. Total classic.

that's a quite anticlimactic ending IMO. but, well, congrats and all.

My number 17. Here's my ballot, songs that didn't make it in bold. Out of all of them I'm most surpsied that Girl didn't make the top 60.

1. I'm A Loser
2. We Can Work It Out
3. Paperback Writer
4. Dear Prudence
5. For No One
6. Girl
7. If I Needed Someone
8. Penny Lane
9. In My Life
10. And Your Bird Can Sing
11. Michelle
12. Things We Said Today
13. Here, There And Everywhere
14. Blackbird
15. I Am The Walrus
16. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
17. A Day In The Life
18. Here Comes The Sun
19. Because
20. And I Love Her

Nice work, Mark G.

There are dozens of omissions - some very surprising considering some of the obscurities in the lower rungs of the top 60.

Very enjoyable poll - thanks Mark!

My choices that didn't place, that I thought might:
Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except For Me And My Monkey
It Won't Be Long
Taxman
Flying

I also had I've Got A Feeling and Yes It Is.

agree that the last few were somewhat anticlimactic, that's inevitable tho given how these things work.

1 A Day In The Life
2 Penny Lane
3 You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)
4 I Want You (She's So Heavy)
5 Tomorrow Never Knows
6 Happiness Is A Warm Gun
7 Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite!
8 I'm Only Sleeping
9 The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill
10 I Am The Walrus
11 Don't Let Me Down
12 Because
13 Your Mother Should Know
14 Blackbird
15 Piggies
16 You Never Give Me Your Money
17 In My Life
18 Rocky Raccoon
19 Eleanor Rigby
20 For No One

As I implied upthread, "A Day In the Life" and "Paperback Writer" were neck-and-neck until halfway through, at which point PW stopped getting any votes at all for the longest time.

However, "Strawberry Fields Forever" was definitely catching up, and may well have overtaken with a few more ballots. But, only the people who did not vote would know.

Anyway, thanks to you all for voting, and/or watching, hope you found the Youtubes intersting (ha, leaving that genuine typo in), and...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaXnqw-Zv0Y

.. like a superman.

Thanks Mark!

Most glaring canonical no-show: Yesterday.
Also unexpectedly omitted: If I Fell, Day Tripper.
Would have been nice to see: It's All Too Much.

Songs from my 20 that placed: 19.
Song I voted for that didn't place: The Fool On The Hill.
Highest placed song that I didn't vote for: A Day In The Life.
Highest placed song that I couldn't hum to you now: Hey Bulldog.

I'm really surprised If I Fell didn't make it to the top 60. My totally personal ballot was, as follows:

1. I Will
2. We Can Work It Out
3. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
4. If I Fell
5. She Loves You
6. Martha My Dear
7. I'm So Tired
8. Blackbird
9. Helter Skelter
10. In My Life
11. You Won't See Me
12. Sexy Sadie
13. And Your Bird Can Sing [here I mean the Anthology 2 version]
14. You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
15. I'll Be Back
16. I'm Happy Just To Dance With You
17. I'm Looking Through You
18. Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
19. The Ballad Of John And Yoko
20. Boys

Thanks Mark a lot for this poll! It was super fun.