Revolution - Official ILX Beatles tracks poll results

Yeah oops George is there.

I like the DP comparison w SFF there! Very true!

I guess when I play the Beatles, more even than with other "song" bands (as opposed to, I guess, "sound" bands) the thing I listen for over everything else is melody. After all, Lennon & McCartney are, along with Stevie Wonder and Brian Wilson, the greatest melodists of the rock era. After that is probably production/arrangement and then, way down the line, lyrics. So while a great melody can lift pedestrian lyrics, the reverse is a lot less true for me with the Beatles. That's why I can't understand why something like "Dear Prudence" made top 10 - and why "If I Fell" didn't make top 60. Hell, "Michelle" wasn't even top 100 - to my ears, the most gorgeous set of chord changes McCartney ever wrote. Are the Fronsh lyrical asides really that gross? I think they're kind of funny myself.

are you geir

Dear Prudence is awesome because the groove rocks, the lead guitar bit at the end rocks, the finger-picking is dreamy and droney, and the whole thing is alot more futuristic than people realize.

Also, spooky backing vocals.

the white album is creepy/spooky in general.

not surprising it caused all those murders

You're kidding, right? Or do i have to go into that again?

was kidding

I missed this poll! Here's what I what have voted:

#1 Tomorrow Never Knows (Anthology 2 version)
#2 A Day In The Life
#3 Rain
#4 It's All Too Much
#5 Within You/Without You (Anthology 2 version)
#6 Dear Prudence
#7 Here, There and Everywhere
#8 In My Life
#9 Golden Slumbers
#10 Blackbird
#11 Norwegian Wood
#12 Flying
#13 We Can Work It Out
#14 I'm Only Sleeping
#15 And Your Bird Can Sing
#16 Here Come's The Sun
#17 Good Morning (Anthology 2 version)
#18 Getting Better
#19 Across The Universe (Anthology 2 version)
#20 Misery

I have to admit that I'd never heard a Beatles record all the way through until embarrassingly recently when I got FLACs of the mid/late period remasters.

Long, Long, Long is really amazing... had never heard that song until today. Great thread for that alone!

is Long Long Long the highest placing George song...?

[i]are you geir

― No Broehner (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, July 20, 2011 1:35 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark[/b]

That hurt, dude.

aggh html fuckups

not given this any thought but i think my list would be a lot like steve shasta's there.

My ballot, 1-20:

There's A Place
For No One
Not A Second Time
You Never Give Me Your Money
Long, Long, Long
I'll Be Back
Ticket To Ride
She's Leaving Home
A Day In The Life
Every Little Thing
Eleanor Rigby
She Said She Said
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
Fixing A Hole
Paperback Writer
Cry Baby Cry
Wait
Strawberry Fields Forever
Blue Jay Way
Martha My Dear

Really should have had 'No Reply' in there somewhere.

only one George song in the top 20, none in the top 10... screwed again

I love early and mid-period Beatles. I think late Beatles is vastly overrated - check out my comments upthread. I assume Geir feels exactly the opposite. Also, Geir loves prog. Yuck.

In the context of the Beatles' oeuvre, I put a premium on melody because that's one of the things they're goddamn good at. I guess "Dear Prudence" has a good groove, but it isn't Stones-level or anything. Supposedly, Paul played drums on that one, which makes sense - "groove" is not one of Ringo's strong points.

George Harrison does not belong in the top 10 of anything

I love early and mid-period Beatles. I think late Beatles is vastly overrated - check out my comments upthread. I assume Geir feels exactly the opposite.

Breakin' it gently to you...

For me, George's percentage of great songs is very high. Which is of course a condition of the songwriting arrangement they had--to break through and get something on an album, it pretty much had to be great.

Haha, sockpuppetry abounds.

^^^

looking at the range of, er, ideas and attitudes expressed in George's songs is pretty funny. "I'm too rich to pay taxes!", "I have achieved enlightenment," "the rich are scum!", "oooh dessert!"

"all we are is dust in the wind"

so otfm I just played "guess this dead celeb" with that quote on twitter

so otfm I just played "guess this dead celeb" with that quote ("I'm too rich to pay taxes!", "I have achieved enlightenment," "the rich are scum!", "oooh dessert!") on twitter

I am filled with regret, as if I had remembered to vote "If I Fell" would have made the top 60. Oh well.

looking at the range of, er, ideas and attitudes expressed in George's songs is pretty funny. "I'm too rich to pay taxes!", "I have achieved enlightenment," "the rich are scum!", "oooh dessert!"

Oh, leave George alone, don't bother him.

94 Yes It Is (12 for anthology version) (Points: 89, Votes: 5, NumberOnes: 0)

I'm gonna guess that not enough people have heard "Yes It Is."

Actually, Take One of "Yes it is" is great, but the anthology went with take 2.

All of those songs with 3-part harmony are the best.. Yes It Is, This Boy, Because..

yknow, these dudes had a lot of good songs

the biggest surprise for me here is 'because' missing out.

pretty happy to see 'i'm only sleeping' in the top 10. i might have placed that near the top had i voted.

I was pleasantly shocked to see "I'm Only Sleeping" on so many ballots. Never knew so many other people loved that song.

yeah i've always had a soft spot for the song, but always considered it a kind of tucked away gem.

also need to mention that this song has reawakened my love for 'for no one'. what a beautifully constructed little number.

my ballot:

Dear Prudence
She Loves You
Revolution
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Yesterday
Glass Onion
I've Got A Feeling
Help!
A Day In The Life
Good Morning Good Morning
She Said She Said
Twist And Shout
I Am The Walrus
Blackbird
Let It Be
Paperback Writer
Can't Buy Me Love
We Can Work It Out
You Never Give Me Your Money
All My Loving

I know it's completely obvious, but with the community of ILM and its multi-national roots, I'd love to hear an ILX comp of Beatle covers.

It'd be better than anything Wet Wet Wet ever did.

Anything would,...

thanks for the reminder..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ9h8bbDxUg

better yet
~WORST~ performance on this 2005 Grammys All-Star Rendition of The Beatles' "Across The Universe"

I mentioned this above, but if there was covers poll this would be my #1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2fnVfUYYvE

"an ILX comp of Beatle covers." opening track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhGPXeoH53g

Do Earth Wind and Fire post here? I think it was just Wind...

ahh, ilx. please never stop being cryptic and inscrutable!

....umm, a reference to the lyrics from the second verse of "because"?

...wait. are you saying one of the members of that band hangs out here?

i remember when one of the dudes from cameo dropped in to contribute to okplayer's artist-of-the-month:cameo thing, that was dope!

I know it's completely obvious, but with the community of ILM and its multi-national roots, I'd love to hear an ILX comp of Beatle covers.

It'd be better than anything Wet Wet Wet ever did.

―  (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 21 July 2011 05:45 (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

If this ever happens, I bagsy "Hey Bulldog", like, immediately.

how could any version of Hey Bulldog be better than my teenage band's baggy-style cover?

that sounds awesome.

Maybe we should only do "Hey Bulldog" as an ILX cover compilation!

I would be so down with 20 covers of Hey Bulldog.

But that wasn't what I was thinking at first.