Revolution - Official ILX Beatles tracks poll results

great job mark, thank you

A Day In The Life
You're Gonna Lose That Girl
Every Little Thing
I've Just Seen a Face
Happiness is a Warm Gun
Things We Said Today
Here, There And Everywhere
For No One
What You're Doing
Back in the U.S.S.R.
You Never Give Me Your Money
Golden Slumbers
I Dig A Pony
Come Together
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Here Comes The Sun
Cry Baby Cry
I'm a Loser
Girl
No Reply

What a wonderful time! Not many of mine placed, unfortunately.. I must be listening to a different Beatles than y'all. Mostly, I'm just burnt out on the 'classics'..

1 You're Going To Lose That Girl
2 Rocky Raccoon
3 Honey Pie
4 Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da
5 Baby, You're A Rich Man
6 Do You Want To Know A Secret
7 And Your Bird Can Sing (#12)
8 Don't Pass Me By
9 She Came In Through the Bathroom Window
10 Girl
11 Happiness Is A Warm Gun (#6)
12 Martha My Dear
13 Please Please Me
14 Tell Me Why
15 Maxwell's Silver Hammer
16 Oh! Darling
17 One after 909
18 Devil In Her Heart
19 Two Of Us
20 Her Majesty

Turns out my unsubmitted top 20 is ridiculously canon-friendly, top three especially - I'm the anti-Finefinemusic

1. Tomorrow Never Knows
2. A Day in the Life
3. Strawberry Fields Forever
4. Nowhere Man
5. Hey Bulldog
6. Here Comes the Sun
7. Eleanor Rigby
8. I Am the Walrus
9. Helter Skelter
10. Blackbird
11. For No One
12. In My Life
13. Here, There and Everywhere
14. A Hard Day’s Night
15. Rain
16. You Won’t See Me
17. You Never Give Me Your Money
18. I Want to Hold Your Hand
19. Penny Lane
20. I’m So Tired

Fun poll, thanks Mark! Here's my ballot.

1. Paperback Writer (15)
2. Rain (18)
3. Helter Skelter (44)
4. Revolution 9
5. Strawberry Fields Forever (2)
6. Something (51)
7. Ticket To Ride (5)
8. I Feel Fine
9. Day Tripper
10. Tomorrow Never Knows (3)
11. Here, There And Everywhere (28)
12. I Am The Walrus (8)
13. Please Please Me
14. A Hard Day's Night (40)
15. Eight Days A Week (60)
16. A Day In The Life (1)
17. You Won't See Me (57)
18. I Want To Hold Your Hand (53)
19. The Ballad Of John And Yoko
20. Yesterday

ha, and if you *had* put that ballot in, "Nowhere man" would have had enough points to chart! (xpost)

DL's is spookily close to the final list.

awesome, someone else voted for "Every Little Thing"

I was glad to see "Ticket to Ride" show well, but disappointed that "I Feel Fine" wasn't there with it. I see them as companion pieces that reveal Ringo's greatness -- dragging the beat and tempo in one, and propelling the band and pulling the other guys along in the other.

DL: I challenge you to a FITE! :) Just kidding!

Rain
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
The Ballad of John and Yoko
Get Back
Tomorrow Never Knows
Revolution
Hey Jude
Yesterday
You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
Across the Universe
Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
I'm Looking Through You
Paperback Writer
Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
Here Comes the Sun
I Want to Hold Your Hand
Birthday
We Can Work It Out
Here, There and Everywhere
I Am the Walrus

I knew Monkey and Birthday were long shots, but I was definitely counting on the other ones bolded here to make the top 60. Oh well.

Damn, finefinemusic! And I thought my ballot was full out outsider picks. Big up for the Her Majesty vote. Also, because you voted for Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da and Rocky Raccoon, you win the "purest soul" award for this poll wrap-up.

My ballot:

1 Help! (24)
2 And Your Bird Can Sing (12)
3 Come Together (50)
4 Strawberry Fields Forever (2)
5 I Want To Hold Your Hand (53)
6 Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
7 Across The Universe (35)
8 Hey Bulldog (10)
9 Julia (27)
10 Long, Long, Long (19)
11 I've Got A Feeling
12 Tomorrow Never Knows (3)
13 I Will (54)
14 I'm Only Sleeping (9)
15 I'm So Tired (55)
16 Ticket To Ride (5)
17 It Won't Be Long
18 Taxman
19 Flying
20 Yes It Is (anthology version)

The joke was, I put Her Majesty at the end, just like the song is, geddit? Unfortunately it didn't get many points from me as a result! Purest soul? I like that. Summer makes me happy, makes me inclined to listen to jingly jangly pop music. I knew Ob-la-di wouldn't get far but I do truly like it - was shocked that Rocky Raccoon didn't!

gis for Purest Soul/how I look today
http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs36/f/2008/274/2/6/The_Purest_Soul_by_shadow_wolf.jpg

That's about right!

i voted for rocky racoon

*high five*

I didn't vote but now want to put together what my ballot would have been...

Great poll. Many thanks to the organizers. There will always be a place for you in the Savoy Truffle of my heart.

Here's my ballot. I think y'all need to go back and listen to I'll Cry Instead some more.

1. A Day In The Life
2. Help!
3. I’ll Cry Instead
4. No Reply
5. You Never Give Me Your Money
6. I’ve Just Seen A Face
7. She Loves You
8. Let It Be
9. I’m Looking Through You
10. Hey Jude
11. Ticket To Ride
12. In My Life
13. Sexy Sadie
14. We Can Work It Out
15. Rain
16. I’m Only Sleeping
17. She Said She Said
18. Got To Get You Into My Life
19. Blackbird
20. I Feel Fine

Thanks, Mark!

My votes:

1. Ticket to Ride
2. I'm Only Sleeping
3. You Never Give Me Your Money
4. Things We Said Today
5. In My Life
6. Happiness is a Warm Gun
7. Hey Bulldog
8. Got to Get You Into My Life
9. I Am The Walrus
10. A Day in the Life
11. Here, There and Everywhere
12. If I Needed Someone
13. Strawberry Fields Forever
14. Because
15. It Won't Be Long
16. Rain
17. Tomorrow Never Knows
18. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
19. Across the Universe (original single)
20. We Can Work It Out

i am *shocked* about where Hey Bulldog placed! it was, i think, my #19 but didn't expect... wow.

another day and it could've been a completely different twenty:

1. Eleanor Rigby
2. Being For The Benefit of Mr Kite!
3. Come Together
4. I've Just Seen A Face
5. I'm Only Sleeping
6. She Loves You
7. Paperback Writer
8. You Never Give Me Your Money
9. We Can Work It Out
10. Blackbird

11. I'm A Loser
12. Tomorrow Never Knows
13. Your Mother Should Know
14. Strawberry Fields Forever
15. Good Morning Good Morning
16. A Day In The Life
17. It Won't Be Long
18. No Reply
19. Penny Lane
20. Yellow Submarine

1. Eleanor Rigby (21) (i was expecting top 5 with this one!)
2. We Can Work It Out (11)
3. Magical Mystery Tour
4. And Your Bird Can Sing (12)
5. Get back (thought this one would make top 20)
6. If I Needed Someone (43)
7. Tomorrow Never Knows (3) (did better than i expected)
8. What You're Doing
9. The Night Before
10. Helter Skelter (44) (surprisingly low)
11. Eight Days A Week (60)
12. The Word
13. Polythene Pam
14. Dear Prudence (4)
15. Norwegian Wood (20)
16. Revolution (52)
17. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
18. Paperback Writer (15)
19. Hey Bulldog (10) (shocked how well this did)
20. Don't Pass Me By

xpost, hey - the other Eleanor Rigby #1!

and thanks so much, Mark!

I was surprised by "Hey Bulldog" too, but from a different vantage point--it's the only Top 10 finisher I unequivocally dislike, which gets back to my general dislike of the Beatles at their heaviest.

"Please Please Me" not placing top 60 is some bullshit

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

This is the embryonic version of Hey Bulldog that I mentioned on the voting thread - it's rough as all hell but I still get the shivers from it. I wish they'd gone for a desperate vibe like this on the finished one.

#1. I Want To Tell You
02. Julia
03. She's Leaving Home
04. Fixing A Hole
05. Long Long Long
06. Getting Better
07. Baby You're A Rich Man
08. Love You To
09. Mother Nature's Son
10. Got To Get You Into My Life
11. There's A Place
12. I'm Only Sleeping
13. In My Life
14. Ticket To Ride
15. Golden Slumbers
16. I Am The Walrus
17. Sun King
18. If I Needed Someone
19. Yes It Is
20. It's Only Love (bit of a wasted vote this last one since I wanted something underplayed - but burnt out on it quickly and there's prob 100 Beatles songs I like better now!)

I'm pretty happy with that. I didn't vote for A Day In The Life in the end because I'm bored of it, but I'm not going to quibble with its placing. Strawberry Fields Forever was always my favourite when I went through my Beatles phase (in the mid-90s), but I didn't vote on what I thought the 'best' tunes were, just which ones I most enjoyed listening to a week or two ago when I did my ballot, so it dropped to about 5th place. I'm really happy to see For No One up there - nobody mentioned it and I thought I was the only person who loved it.

oh great I missed the countdown. it's 8:30 in the morning here!

it came fast and hard.

i honestly just never got Strawberry Fields. don't hate it or anything, but it never stood out as anything special to me aside from the fact it was widely loved.

er... *is* widely loved apparently!

Thanks, Mark!

1. All My Loving
2. Please Please Me
3. Hello Goodbye
4. I Feel Fine
5. Getting Better
6. Penny Lane
7. Ask Me Why
8. Martha My Dear
9. You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
10. Honey Pie
11. I Want to Hold Your Hand
12. P.S. I Love You
13. No Reply
14. The Honeymoon Song
15. Baby's in Black
16. Lovely Rita
17. I'll Be Back
18. Long Long Long
19. Mr. Moonlight
20. I Need You

In retrospect, I think I would have put "You're Going to Lose That Girl" at 15 and bumped the rest down. Forgot about that one.

My ballot (I can't be bothered to check which ones made it into the countdown):

1 Hello Goodbye
2 Hey Bulldog
3 l'll Follow the Sun
4 For No One
5 Got To Get You Into My Life
6 Love Me Do
7 Strawberry Fields Forever
8 Across The Universe
9 Cry Baby Cry
10 All My Loving
11 You never give me Your money
12 Do You Want To Know A Secret
13 I Am The Walrus
14 Tomorrow Never Knows
15 Penny Lane
16 Think For Yourself
17 Your Mother Should Know
18 Help!
19 I'm Only Sleeping
20 The Word

In another week I could easily swap at least ten of these for ten different tunes and even now I can't remember why I voted for 'Do You Want To Know A Secret?'.

"Please Please Me" not placing top 60 is some bullshit

considering it's their original UK breakthrough!

Sad to say it looks like I was the only one to vote for 'Goodnight'.

1. A Hard Day's Night
2. Tomorrow Never Knows
3. Goodnight
4. And Your Bird Can Sing
5. She's Leaving Home
6. Can't Buy Me Love
7. I'll Follow The Sun
8. You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
9. Tell Me Why
10. Blackbird
11. Things We Said Today
12. Help
13. Revolution 9
14. In My Life
15. I Am The Walrus
16. Here Comes The Sun
17. Lady Madonna
18. I Want To Hold Your Hand
19. I Will
20. Penny Lane

1 Strawberry Fields Forever
2 Helter Skelter
3 Revolution 9
4 Sexy Sadie
5 Sun King
6 I Want You (She's So Heavy)
7 Help!
8 All You Need is Love
9 The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
10 Rocky Raccoon
11 Cry Baby Cry
12 I am the Walrus
13 We Can Work It Out
14 Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
15 Happiness Is A Warm Gun
16 Hello Goodbye
17 Twist and Shout
18 The Inner Light
19 She Loves You
20 Her Majesty

This is one poll where I think some kind of age breakdown of the voting might be interesting--one list of results for people over 40, one for people under. (Or maybe a little lower--I expect that weren't many over-40 voters like me.) I don't know; my guess is the two lists would look very different, but maybe not.

Please get on this right away, Mark.

ha ha!

Actually, would not be too difficult if everyone posted their age to me.

1: A Day in the Life
2: A Hard Day's Night
3: In My Life
4: She Loves You
5: Michelle
6: Let It Be
7: The Long and Winding Road
8: With a Little Help From My Friends
9: Hey Jude
10: Got to Get You Into My Life
11: I'm Only Sleeping
12: You Can't Do That
13: I Should Have Known Better
14: Penny Lane
15: Come Together
16: If I Fell
17: Across the Universe
18: I'll Cry Instead
19: Please Please Me
20: There's a Place

i was wondering what the breaking down between UK/Europe and US/Canada would look like.

xposts (i'm early 30's)

28/USA

right: Older UK posters voted for "Long and winding"

Younger US voted for "and your bird"

Midage UK voted "Hey Bulldog"

41/USA

lol lol

I'm not doing it really, btws.

Just kidding about actually undertaking an age breakdown! And yes, come to think of it, I think the continental breakdown would likely be more revealing.

i think my number one didn't place very high:

1. She came in through the bathroom window
2. I'm Only Sleeping
3. Norwegian Wood
4. For no one
5. I saw her standing there
6. Strawberry Fields Forever
7. You've got to hide your love away
8. Eleanor Rigby
9. Twist and Shout
10. Back in the USSR
11. Across the Universe
12. You won't see me
13. I'm so tired
14. Because
15. You never give me your money
16. Mean Mr. Mustard
17. Blackbird
18. Hey Jude
19. Rocky Raccoon
20. Her Majesty

14/20