Revolution - Official ILX Beatles tracks poll results

mine:
1. I Saw Her Standing There
2. Here Comes the Sun
3. I Should Have Known Better
4. Penny Lane
5. Tomorrow Never Knows
6. Love Me Do
7. She Loves You
8. Day Tripper
9. Dear Prudence
1o. All My Loving
11. I Want to Hold Your Hand
12. You Won't See Me
13. Come Together
14. If I Needed Someone
15. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
16. With A Little Help from My Friends
17. Nowhere Man
18. Hey Jude
19. Hello, Goodbye
20. Yellow Submarine

So many songs pop up that give you a warm glow in a poll like this because their catalogue is stuffed with them. John and Paul singing together on There's a Place. I remember trying to replicate that song aged 15 with my band's equipment and multi-tracking experiments with a pair of tape recorders.

Hi,

Last night I was playing some of these youtubes, as back when I compiled these I basically played a small section to check if they were awesome (or awful) enough.

I think this guy should be re-seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxm3x6wiiD4

You know that pic of Robert Johnson with the cig and the guitar, those spindly fingers? This is like watching that photo. (Also check out the Hey Jude vid upthread)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaRz-3DYV7c&feature=youtu.be

nice. don't think i'd seen all of that.

nice

lennon's sideburns are kind of nuts there.

He had just come from playing keyboards at a Doors show.

That incidentally is the *only* Beatles song where's there's a video of the final track (as heard on the album) being recorded in the studio

Nothing from "Let It Be"?

Only "One after 909" as recorded at the rooftop.

The rest were re-recorded in a studio. The film shows rehearsals, ostensibly.

A Day in the Life video was shot while they did the orchestra overdub, fwiw.

Something I hadn't heard before...

The DVD "Unsurpassed Videos" set you can find ... Volume 2 of the "Studio Years" has a whole section of instrumental mixes of side 2 of "Abbey Road", which are quite amazing.

In isolation, "You never give me your money" onwards sounds a lot like "Dark Side of the Moon".

I also came across the "Cathode Ray" DVD series, basically all the TV appearances between 1962 and 1967 or thereabouts, that they made that haven't been officially issued.

Their version of the end-play of "Midsummer nights dream" that I only had fanmag pics of, then found a VHS at a record fair for 'howmuch?' money, and plenty more.

The sort of stuff I would have ended up paying a fortune for but now, thanks to the internet, I can get plus the quality is as good as possible...

In isolation, "You never give me your money" onwards sounds a lot like "Dark Side of the Moon".

I can see that. "Sun King" and "Because," especially. And maybe the latter part of "Polythene Pam."

On my way into work in the car this morning, the "Helter Skelter" mono remaster came up, and I had it turned up pretty loud and was blown away by how much more powerful and aggressive it sounded than the stereo version. That song must have absolutely blown people away in 1968.

This is a good read on a quiet day..

Results are really quite unpredictable until the top 3.

Never mentioned this here on this thread, but this actually wound up happening:

Download & Listen to COMP TOGETHER - ILX Covers The Beatles (Available Now!)

yes.

107 Every Little Thing (Points: 70, Votes: 3, NumberOnes: 0)

This is low! I might have voted for it in retrospect.

I rank their run of 15 top tens b/w 1964-1965.

Would move several of your "solid"s up to "good to great" but can't truly disagree with much else.

all of those songs are amazing. you’re crazy

also, unrelated, what was the name of the (taiwanese i think ?) director whose screenshot you had on your blog for the longest time before you changed it ?