Official ILX Artist Tracks Poll : The Beatles (Next up: Prince)

Blake: Are they all here?
Williamson: All but one.
Blake: Well, I'm going anyway.

http://img.poemhunter.com/lyrics/singers/07/2907_b_2340.jpg

Following the success of the Blur, Pavement, MC Tunes and Manics

and Petshop Boys

So again identical set-up to the last two and I'm also copying the header rules verbatim (cheers):

Right, here we break in for an importatn message:

Some helpful words, hopefully. It's a large and wide ranging set of tracks, most of them well known to your granny from back in her bongo playing days. Some (if not all) of you will be tired to the point of overfamiliarity with a large number of their 'nailed into fundamental history' tracks, so this is about nominating your favourite songs at this moment in time. You want to be obscure? Go do it. You want to praise the canon? Be my guest.

There are very few remixes in here. (don't larf, read on...) The only ones I can think of regard two songs: Love Me Do (exists in two different recordings), and Revolution (three, sort of..). With LMD, safe to say, it's a vote for either version. Revolution exists in "single b-side" (noisy), Album track "Revolution 1" and 'collage' Revolution 9. For this one, even though 9 has been proved to be the 'second part' of a long recording of 1, we shall deal with it as a separate track.

In summary: Votes are for the 'song', and specific versions will be given an addendum where necessary, sort of like this:
60. I MUST BE IN LOVE (1965) [115 points, 6 votes, 1 Number1, Specific versions:2="Archaeology"

.. but it is not necessary to do this for voting.

Right, trackography:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Beatles_songs has the 'recognised' ones
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_The_Beatles_songs#To_Be_Added has 'christmas flexi' songs, and other tracks of 'dubious/debateable' provenance.

But, main rule: It has to have been recorded and released by The Beatles.
e.g.
"Carnival of Light" not eligible
"From a Window" not eligible, but "Bad to me" is
"Step inside love" is, as it is on "Anthology"
OK, nearing overkill now. You get the idea, I'm sure.

Choose your top twenty tracks and they'll score as follows:
1:40, 2:36, 3:33, 4:30, 5:28, 6:26, 7:25, 8:24, 9:23, 10:22, 11:21, 12:20, 13:19, 14:18, 15:17, 16:16, 17:15, 18:14, 19:13, 20:12.

Please send your ballot to: beatlespoll (at) hotmail.co.uk by midnight gmt July 11th (that's a week from Sunday).

In the meantime, use this thread for bigging up tracks you want people to vote for and asking any questions..

And remember: All you need is Aaaaaaarrgggghhhhh!!!

Who? I'm not sure this band is big enough to justify this type poll.

That's what Spotify is there for.
Admittedly, there's no Beatles on it, but hey.

Done instantly and no regrets. I'm as out-of-love with them as I ever get, but I'll stand by it.

Done.

Thank youse.

Am keeping on top of this, and have done mine too.

There are very few remixes in here. ..... The only ones I can think of regard two songs: Love Me Do (exists in two different recordings), and Revolution (three, sort of..).

Ah, you are right.

Handy non-table alphabetical list of songs:
http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/songs.htm

Actually, if you factor in the "Anthology" there are a great many 'different' versions.

And ooh, ooh, I have got an actual remix!

"Yellow Submarine", on the CD single of "Real Love", is an actual remix, adding in an excised intro and making the sound effects noisier.

voted

yeah me too - as idiosyncratic as it comes. Lots of goofy White Album cuts etc.

What I did find is that actually picking 20 Beatles tracks that I love above the others was kind of tough. I do really like the Beatles, but I've been listening to them for 20 years and so their catalogue now shifts between "like", "don't mind" and "not so keen" rather than "LOVE", "LIKE", "HATE".

don't forget that Her Majesty IS a pretty nice girl, guys.

I don't know if it's sarcasm but Her Majesty was actually in the first draft of my ballot. I did vote for 'Flying' made it all the way to my #2 actually.

Hey Her Majesty was on mine too, it could've been the early leader if things had been only slightly different.

Fuck... Why did I miss Flying?

cos it's rubbish

Yeah, well "Plenty of jam jars" was on mine, but it didn't make the cut.

no, I totally voted for Her Majesty! I put it on at 20 though because I am cheeky (poll-closer) and because there are a lot of songs that are just as awesome, but for longer.

Hell, my ballot is surely going to include a whole lot of Macca. I'll be happy if don't end up as the only one who placed I Will (THE perfect pop song about love, IMO) as his #1!

This is going to be difficult. I've got an initial list of 88 to start whittling down.

Damn, I've just thought of something from Love that I shoulda given a vote

Just voted, getting it down to 20 was hard, ordering that 20 was impossible.

Just voted before I change my mind.

V79 otm about "I Will"

What's the deal with Abbey Road side 2? Can I count Golden Slumbers and Carry That Weight as one song?

I hate 'I Will'. McCartney at his worst (and I like a lot of his Beatles numbers).

Ballot sent. Not as hard as I'd imagined it would be. The 20 picks came rather easily.

lol @ there being fewer spaces to vote for Beatles songs than there were for Pavement songs

The Manics poll cut it to 20 instead of 22 and I guess Billy Dods and Mark G ran with it.

What was the reasoning behind 22 spaces anyway? Seemed like such an arbitrary number.

I think it was an arbitrary number.

so I can vote for the Christmas tracks, yeah? Really love that 1968 one.

sure.

I sort of kidded about "Plenty of Jam Jars" upthread, but when I heard "Please don't bring your banjo back" the first time, I was sure I'd heard it before as a genuine 'old' song. (I got it for 50p at a jumble sale)

More recently, it did strike me as John (as the Count) telling Paul to "play a little melody from the Good old days" without any warning whatsoever, and Paul having to come up with something completely off the cuff. "Oh my goodness! Yes. umm..." and he stalls a bit for time, then comes up with the goods...

Should have vote for it really.

threw together my ballot very instinctively without regard to how it represented their catalog and then looked at how it shook down:

4 from singles/Past Masters
4 from White Album
2 each from Sgt Pepper's, Let It Be and Help
1 each from Revolver, Please Please Me, A Hard Day's Night, Abbey Road, With The Beatles and Magical Mystery Tour
0 from Rubber Soul, Beatles For Sale, etc.

also very evenly divided between Lennon and McCartney (though I've always considered myself partial to Paul's songs) with 1 Harrison tune.

1 from With the Beatles
1 from Hard Day's Night
1 from Beatles for Sale
1 from Help!
4 from Rubber Soul
4 from Revolver
1 from Sgt. Pepper
2 from Magical Mystery Tour
1 from The White Album
0 from Let it Be
2 from Abbey Road
2 from Past Masters

voted! it was surprisingly easy to narrow it down to 20, and within those, pretty easy to do a top 5. the rest was just shuffling around and would probably change day to day

5 abbey road
4 white album
3 revolver
2 please please me
2 past masters
2 rubber soul
1 let it be
1 help

please please me 1
a hard day's night 1
help! 2
rubber soul 3
revolver 3
white album 4
past masters 3
let it be 1
abbey road 2

D'oh - I totally forgot to vote for She Said She Said and Baby, You're a Rich Man. Somebody vote for those!

Past Masters: 3
Rubber Soul: 3
Magical Mystery Tour: 2
Please Please Me: 1
Help!: 2
White Album: 2
Hard Day's Night: 2
Abbey Road: 1
Revolver: 3
Sgt Peppers: 1

feeling atm that part one of those mmt could've been a partic let it be track but i didn't want to dwell too long...

my #2 track vote charted almost entirely on the fact that i've lullaby-sung it to my daughter about three thousand times in the last month -- probably would've only scraped the top twenty a year ago.

What was the reasoning behind 22 spaces anyway? Seemed like such an arbitrary number.

As the inventor of the 22 spaces, I can confirm it was an arbitrary number (though, to be fair, twenty is just as arbitrary - there's no particular reason why the number of your favourite tunes should be divisible by the total of your fingers and thumbs). I just started making up a scoring system working down from 40 with decreasing gaps and decided I'd keep going till I got down to ten points, which happened to be after 22 tracks.

for some reason I'd assumed it was based on old world cup squads

D'oh - I totally forgot to vote for She Said She Said and Baby, You're a Rich Man. Somebody vote for those!

― Darin

I did.

Pretty much spread over the latter part of their career. Never a huge early Beatles fan, but I nearly voted for I've Just Seen A Face and She Loves You

Rubber Soul 1
Revolver 4
Sgt Peps 2
Magical 3
White 5
Abbey 3
Let It Be 1
Past Masters 1

Which pretty much represents how much I like each album anyway.

20's the perfect number for me. Neil Young might be the only guy where I'd feel a little hemmed in by 20. Even with the Beatles, once I got past 15, there was a slight change in how much the songs meant to me.

Help! -- 5
White Album -- 4
Rubber Soul -- 2
b-sides -- 2
Beatles '65 -- 1
Beatles for Sale -- 1
Let It Be -- 1
Magical Mystery Tour -- 1
Revolver -- 1
Yellow Submarine -- 1
Christmas EPs -- 1

As the inventor of the 22 spaces, I can confirm it was an arbitrary number (though, to be fair, twenty is just as arbitrary - there's no particular reason why the number of your favourite tunes should be divisible by the total of your fingers and thumbs). I just started making up a scoring system working down from 40 with decreasing gaps and decided I'd keep going till I got down to ten points, which happened to be after 22 tracks.

― There is power in an onion (Nasty, Brutish & Short),

Cool -- I def wasn't criticizing the method, just curious about the thinking behind it. I might bring it back for the Zep poll.

Right, have caught up with the 'ballots' I have received so far.

That's 20.

Ooh, I am tempted to say how things are going. But I shall resist.

Sent mine off. Hard to pick just 20, even harder to order them, such as it is, although the top 2 were fairly easy. I ended up with:

1 - With The Beatles
2 - A Hard Day's Night
2 - Beatles For Sale
2 - Help!
1 - Rubber Soul
2 - Revolver
2 - Sgt. Pepper
2 - The Beatles
1 - Yellow Submarine
1 - Let It Be
4 - non-album tracks

12 Johns, 7 Pauls and 1 George.

PS If I am the only vote for "Hey Bulldog" some SBs are getting handed out.

shhh!

I'd've given it a vote if the verses were better.

20 ballots is fantastic!

I used to have an early version without any of the big man/wigwam crap, and a slow verse instead, something like: sitting here/drinking coffee/in my room/and I'm feeling blue/and there's nothing you can say/you can talk to me - but I lost it and have never heard it since. They hadn't worked out harmonies yet and it was frankly a bit of a mess, but spine-tingling nonetheless. I'd've voted for that.

I had 8-1/2 for John, 5-1/2 for Paul, 4 for George, 1 for Ringo, and 1 I-don't-know. (Wikipedia credits one of mine as a 60/40 for Paul.) I think, anyway--I only double-checked a couple.

xpost never heard that one!

7 - Past Masters/non-album tracks
3 - The Beatles
2 - Help!
2 - Rubber Soul
2 - Revolver
2 - Let It Be
1 - Magical Mystery Tour
1 - Abbey Road

"non-album" tracks using the UK versions, that is (some of them actually ended up on the US versions of the early albums). Anyway, you can tell I've had both volumes of Past Masters the longest, right? It was my Beatles intro, given to me for my 13th birthday by an aunt.

Oh wait, those came out in 1988, so I guess it was my 15th birthday. ANYway...

just voted!
almost alarming how much my ballot is dominated by Lennon.
Album split:
1 each from Abbey Road, With The Beatles, Yellow Submarine, Anthology & Past Masters (vol 1).
2 from Help!, Let It Be, MMT.
4 from Revolver and 5 from the white album.

tried to go for personally meaningful selections rather than canon, having said that this band havea lot of canonical songs...

yeah it's really hard, if not impossible, to be non-canonical with your ballot, but it'll be really interesting to see how these results diverge from the canon

man what beatles songs aren't in the canon

like I guess the beatles canon is the canon-canon so non canon beatles songs are just level 1 canon

I don't know. If you held a gun to a stranger's head on the streets and asked them to hum a few bars of No Reply or I'm Only Sleeping you'd probably get a blank stare. And then go to jail I suppose.

lol. one of those is on my ballot funny enough

Very interesting, working through my shortlist of 51 to whittle it down to 20. I've surprised myself with what's made it and what hasn't.

They're both on mine iirc xp

by my calculation:

John: 11
Paul: 8
George: 1

This is completely bizarre to me as I always always considered myself a much bigger fan of McCartney. Maybe I misattributed soem songs to one or the other. Plus I just robbed George WTF?

1962 - 0
1963 - 0
1964 - 0
1965 - 5
1966 - 5
1967 - 5
1968 - 2
1969 - 2
1970 - 1

I could imagine people being able to recite No Reply.

Voting for the Abbey Road Medley as one song would make this a lot easier, but I suppose that's cheating.

xpost - mostly cos of Stars On 45.

yeah it would be cheating, but it also robs McCartney of a lot of songs IMO.

I've got a few friends who are big enough Beatles fans to make a top 20, but don't read ILM. If I got them to make a top 20 and emailed it in, could it be counted? Totally understand if not, just thought the more polls the better.

mmm, dunno. What's the thinking here?

I mean, it's kinda meant as "our" poll/ballot....

Yeah I understand that, now that I've thought about it the reasons for not doing it probably outweigh the reasons for doing it.

if they were lurkers, we wouldn't penalize them or prohibit them from participating; I don't see why it would be that big of a deal tbh

Right, this is the thing:

It's not a "beatles fan" ballot, it's an ILXor one.

As mentioned above, The Beatles songs are all, pretty much, canonical. This poll is for people who may not neccessarily be Beatles fans, but know enough to be able to select their favourites. The result will have a flavor. An ILX flavor.

So, thanks but no.

Having said that, I'm not going to disqualify any ballots I get.

OK?

Can get a 20. Can't get it into any meaningful order. But I must do so, because I want this to get at least one vote.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s-l632F-tE

John - 10
Paul - 6
George - 3
John & Paul - 1

Yeah that's fine, actually one friend has posted here in the past so I'll just get him to make an appearance and say hi before submitting his ballot.

I can see every 'official' song getting a vote, bar maybe a few early album cuts.

Lennon's gonna walk this, from the looks of things, but I'd love to see a Beatles Solo poll.

Please Please Me - 3
With the Beatles - 1
A Hard Day's Night - 1
Beatles for Sale - 3
Help! - 2
Sgt. Pepper - 2
Magical Mystery Tour - 1
White Album - 3
Live at the BBC - 1
Past Masters - 3

I think that was a kind offer btw xp, but not needed for this poll - but there are less-popular polls where it'd be very useful.

7 Paul, 10 John, 3 Paul-and-John

i wish there was an additional tally at the end of john vs paul vs george votes

Dividing up early songs as John or Paul would only be based on who sang them, though.

true

My breakdown

John: 8
Paul: 8
George: 2
John & Paul: 2

Rubber Soul: 4
Revolver: 3
white Album: 3
A Hard Days Night: 2
Abbey Road: 2
Magical Mystery Tour: 2
Past Masters: 2
Beatles For Sale: 1
Sgt Pepper: 1

I voted.

Lennon/McCartney: 6
McCartney: 6
Lennon: 5
Harrison: 3

1962-1964: 6
1965-1967: 9
1968-1970: 5

if anyone is looking for more George Harrison trax to vote for, might I suggest IF I NEEDED SOMEONE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCNqHIKJ4wk

ithappens, I got your back on that one.

That was in my top ten.

Hell yes.

Just choosing from albums is great but jeez, bootlegs and Anthology mixes too? It seems like nearly an impossible task...

I'm showing lots of love for George this time around.

5 past masters (b sides, non album tracks)
4 revolver
3 white album
2 rubber soul
2 magical mystery
1 beatles for sale
1 help!
1 abbey road
1 sgt peppers

my poll's in

canon be damned I just voted for my favorite songs these days (which is a very different list from what young teenage me would have voted for, for ex.)

I voted for Real Love too

Last year I realized how much I LOVE LOVE LOVE "Blue Jay Way". It was very hard not to put "Only a Northern Song" on the list, but yeah it's not really a very good song but I love it anyways.

"Flying" is way up near the top, of course.

i'd like to remind people of the recently unearthed Revolution (Take 20)...the best of all Revolution worlds

I'm glad I decided to listen to the anthologies again before I sent my ballot in. The version of "Not Guilty" on Anthology 3 is amazing! Can't believe it didn't make the White Album.

Mark G - have you thought about how you're going to present the results? With youtubes? Or fancy graphics like the Pavement poll?

xpost: YES.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1w38B2TadY

hoping that someone will vote for Anna along with me, to bump it up into the listed results. even though it's a cover. the singing on the chorus is so, so beautiful.

I voted for one (1) cover, but that ain't it.

PS If I am the only vote for "Hey Bulldog" some SBs are getting handed out.

I'll be surprised if it doesn't make my final cut

^^^in my top 5, song slays

thought for sure someone would give me shit for voting for Real Love, don't let me down ILM

also my daughter loves that song ("the Beatles are funny!") etc.

now owning anthology 3, i'm grateful for the poster of Not Guilty, what an incredible song.

xp Ha, my daughter too. That and Nowhere Man are her jams.

xps well I was gonna say shakey, but I guess we each have our own beatles

Real Love though man, are you crazy?!

It Won't Be Long has to be high in the rankings for me

I'm about halfway through working my way through my shortlist of 88 and am surprise to find I like Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey quite a lot more than I'd thought

Hi, I'm lurker non grata that voted, chose 5 from A Hard Day's Night.

how many challops votes will there be for the Long and Winding Road i wonder

It Won't Be Long has to be high in the rankings for me

If I put together a list 'Tomorrow Never Knows' would be in front by a million miles.

Some days I prefer the Tomorrow Never Knows/Within You Without You medley from Love, I should've voted for that.

I just realized I got to 20 without anything from Abbey Road. Wish I could've fit "You Never Give Me Your Money" or "Oh! Darling" in there.

I definitely skipped some albums. nothing from MMT, Sgt Pepper's or Let it Be

I'd make the case for a few alternate takes and remixes:

__"I'm Looking Through You" from Anthology 2 made me love the song--I like how without the bridge it could be about friendship or something other than love, sorta punk, but then I'm someone who thinks the turnaround cheapens "Yesterday."
__Both "Across the Universe" and "Two of Us" from Let It Be... Naked are 2003 "remixes" that strip away all the orchestral stuff that kept me from getting into Let It Be.

? what "orchestral stuff" is there on the original version of Two of Us

Don't remember, scratch that.

Ha, okay I obviously gotta listen to Let It Be more...

"Anna" was close for me, but I did vote for two other covers ("Mr. Moonlight" and "The Honeymoon Song").

Anyone else voting for "Ask Me Why?"

No, but I did vote for "Tell Me Why!" My cover was "Slow Down."

Encouraging votes against the canon (whatever that's supposed to mean since pretty much every album is canonical) will likely make no difference.. The top 10 should still include the usual suspects.

Please prove me wrong.

thought for sure someone would give me shit for voting for Real Love, don't let me down ILM

Aw, I voted for it too. I couldn't help myself. I love it.

But, hey, I also voted for Hey Bulldog! Seems like a lot of people did.

I'm looking forward to seeing how many ballots are cast from artist to artist. I think Pet Shop Boys had 36 or so?

32

Blur 26, Pavement 57

Blur fans twice as rabid though!

Ha.

I think I've had approx 25 so far.

Regarding the presentation(s), I guess Youtubes might be untenable as they'd have to be cover versions (I think - I'm assuming the originals are excised as a matter of course)..

A few pics, some space for discussion(s), you know..

(Might not use Happy Mondays pics that time, ...)

'real love' is awesome, though i slightly prefer the original lennon demo.

I hope those lone votes for Sgt. Pepper include 'Lovely Rita' as it is the best thing in that meager excuse for an album.

regarding covers, I'll probably vote for this little gem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MqY3CmCxpk
(but I'll try to remember about "Anna")

Hi,

31 ballots in, racking up the totals as I go, it's like the Eurovision song contest.

(will say why, next week)

I guess Youtubes might be untenable as they'd have to be cover versions (I think - I'm assuming the originals are excised as a matter of course)

Probably most of them, but I know I've used YouTubes of "Rain" (great), "Norwegian Wood" (ditto), and "I've Just Seen a Face" in class. Grooveshark, on the other hand, not a single original.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3cUejOltsA

Encouraging votes against the canon (whatever that's supposed to mean since pretty much every album is canonical) will likely make no difference.. The top 10 should still include the usual suspects.

― billstevejim, Tuesday, July 5, 2011 11:05 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

what i meant about diverging from the canon was more that our top 10 will probably look a bit different from the top 10 of the Beatles list Rolling Stone published a couple years ago, i.e. i'm betting we won't rate "Hey Jude" as highly

btw this is that Rolling Stone list, which may be fun to refer to to compare our ballots or our list: http://www.rockband.com/forums/showthread.php?t=199187&page=1

mmm.

Just done a compare.

Interesting.

ha they have "Abbey Road Medley" as one entry

Wow, only one of my top 20 appears in the top 20 of that list. Eight don't appear at all, and only three others appear at #40 or above. The rest are below #50.

For covers, "Money" towers over the rest. Easily in my top 5.

Is Twist and Shout a cover?

yes (and on my ballot)

gonna be on mine, for sure

Yeah, covers by the Beatles are eligible.

Abbey Road- 5
White Album - 5
Beatles '65 - 1
Revolver - 2
Let It be - 3
Sgt Pepper's - 2
Meet The Beatles - 1
Past Masters - 1

My breakdown... because A Hard Day's Night sucks! (jk)

Mono Masters: 3
Abbey Road: 3
Please Please Me: 2
Beatles for Sale: 2
Rubber Soul: 2
Magical Mystery Tour: 2
With the Beatles: 1
Help!: 1
Revolver: 1
Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band: 1
White Album: 1
Let It Be: 1
A Hard Day's Night: 0

9 John
7 Paul
2 George
2 Ringo

A Hard Day's Night sucks!

U CRAZY

"Things We Said Today" and "I'll Be Back" on the Anthology tv series are what made me think "gee, maybe it would be worthwhile to actually go and get a Beatles album"

this is hard!

A Hard Day's Night sucks!

how could you...

Good morn.

Keepin' up with them ballots, a little bit of a slowdown this time but I have no doubt there will be a bunch over the weekend..

Abbey Road - 4
Yellow Submarine - 4
Sgt. Peppers - 3
Help! - 3
White Album - 2
Revolver - 1
Let It Be - 1
Magical Mystery Tour - 1
Yesterday and Today - 1

If I had to pick five Beatles songs that are the most mummified at this point--overplayed, over-covered, most liable to turn up as muzak while at the mall, etc.--they'd be "Hey Jude," "Let It Be," "Yesterday," "The Long and Winding Road," and "Michelle." (With "Something" maybe the sixth.) Not sure if any of them will make the final list--maybe "Yesterday." None made my own list, but I like some a lot more than others. My first concrete radio memory is a Top 300 that Toronto's CHUM counted down in 1970; I was 9. I remember that "Let It Be" was #1, and "Hey Jude" was also high in the Top 10. Those two still have some hard-to-explain effect on me, and maybe it traces back to that countdown. "Yesterday" I loved when I first started to really listen to the Beatles more towards the middle of the decade; that's long gone, but I can still objectively recognize it as a brilliant song. With "The Long and Winding Road" and "Michelle," I don't know that I remember ever liking them that much.

Hey Jude will make it. Let It Be might. Agree about Michelle - supposedly it is/was the most-played US radio song ever, which is amazing to me; it's well-formed enough, but meaningless and kind of lame.

have never really met anyone who outright LOVES that song, pretty much every Beatles nut I know hates it

i don't much care for any of those songs except 'hey jude,' which still works for me every time -- even if you're bored by the coda, hard to argue with those perfect first three minutes.

"Hey Jude" is fun to hear in public spots only so you can point out John's "Fucking 'ell!"

wait waht

I've never noticed that!

I just found the countdown online: http://craig.sowny.ca/www/www3.sympatico.ca/craig.smith/alltime2.htm. I had "Let It Be" and "Hey Jude" backwards, though I did get the numbers right. (Off-topic, I know, but my favourite of-the-moment pick: Bobby Sherman's "Little Woman" at #19.)

If I had to pick five Beatles songs that are the most mummified at this point--overplayed, over-covered, most liable to turn up as muzak while at the mall, etc.--they'd be "Hey Jude," "Let It Be," "Yesterday," "The Long and Winding Road," and "Michelle." (With "Something" maybe the sixth.) Not sure if any of them will make the final list--maybe "Yesterday."

See, I think this must vary greatly from one country to another. I was about 20 or 21 before I even heard 'Something' and 'The Long and Winding Road' - I really don't think they are/were a big deal in Britain. Even 'Hey Jude' (which I would concede is far more well-known) I didn't really know.

jk = just kidding, guys!--A Hard Day's Night has great songs, just none in my Top 20.

For me, "Yesterday" is chilling until the turnaround, or whatever you call it, when he sings the "why she had to go" part, which is either one too many rhymes or just too pat--maybe she left because she doesn't love you, not because you "said something wrong." I don't get "Hey Jude" hate at all: It's like one of the greatest advice songs ever.

I honestly have no idea what will be in the top ten. I mean I can think of plenty of songs that definitely won't be there (unless there's an unfathomably large contingent of lurkers who love Octopus's Garden), but there are so many contenders and no particular received wisdom on what the biggest/best tunes are.

Maxwell's Silver Hammer destined for #1

'The Long and Winding Road' is a deep cut! It almost made my list.

guys what is the deal with this fuckin 'ell thing in Hey Jude

Also, Octopus' Garden was very high on my ballot.

hey Mark G, how many songs are going to be in the big countdown?

60

Pretty sure Michelle was on my list. My dog is named Maxwell Edison but can't recall if that song made the list. Definitely not my bird's namesake, Eleanor Rigby. Too stale for me now.

Shakey - here's the fucking hell bit. Personally, I don't hear it, but who knows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4qm4PBZ-QQ

eh that's not very convincing

^ I can hear it.

My ballot, when it's eventually finished, is going to be a bit weird. A lot of the songs I assumed I would vote for I've decided I'm bored with now that I listen back to them.

Have to agree about geographical variability. "Michelle" and "TL&WR" wouldn't even be close to the top few dozen most over-familiar songs in these parts. They still sound pretty fresh tbh. "I Wanna Hold Your Hold" on the other hand...

She Loves You still sounds fresh to me. IWTHYH doesn't, I agree Nag!

the early hits never lose their sparkle. it's the later singles that are too easily translated into slush

I first heard these songs all chronologically jumbled--some radio station played them all alphabetically by title for a weekend and I taped most of it and played those tapes a thousand times (probably not an exaggeration) so even after reading bios and watching docs, it's hard for me to give 1968 stuff a leg up over 1964 stuff or whatever. It's all just the Beatles, man.

In my world (suburban UK) the most well-known Beatles songs are When I'm 64, Yesterday, Yellow Submarine, Obla-Di-Obla-Dah, Octopus's Garden and Penny Lane. Mostly because we probably had to sing them at school.

If I had to name the five most cloying songs in my world (also suburban uk, with emphasis on whatever bits of telly and/or normal people manage to seep through the ILM bias), I'd go with: Can't Buy Me Love, In My Life, With A Little Help From My Friends (totally unfairly imo), Hello Goodbye and Here Comes The Sun

Like all those, except WALHFMF which I always think of as a bit of a drag at times. Hello Goodbye is a little bit annoying. I don't think I'd call any of those cloying though.

I really like Hello Goodbye apart from the ending.

yeah, that ruins it.

There's something horribly glib and irritating about WALHFMF, ugh, tho it has good aspects, there are MUCH more cloying songs in the Beatles' repertoire than the ones listed above!

I think my issues with WALHFMF must actually stem from hammed-up cover versions by the likes of Joe Cocker and whatnot. Wasn't there a TV show in the '80s that used a version of the song as outro credits? It all seems a bit earnest and adult for the psychedelic Beatles.

As mentioned on another Beatles thread from a while back, the best line is "What do you see when you turn out the light/I can't tell you but I know it's mine".

The original is a plodder and Ringo's vocals are dull and it's an early instance of Paul's boring regular guy persona

I think I hate WALHFMF, but I don't - I just hated Wet Wet Wet doing it in the late 80s. Cloying for me: Here, There & Everywhere; I Will; Fool On The Hill

It was the theme to the Wonder Years, Dog Latin.

Aw, man, not "I Will"! That song's legitimately sweet.

I like Cocker's Woodstock version of WALHFMF, better than the original most days, and think Here/There/Everywhere is one of the best things Paul ever wrote (no hongro).

Gotta agree on Here There and Everywhere, despite the saccharine lyrics, the music is probably Paul's greatest pure tune-age

Any more ballots for me on this friday?

It would be nice to hear from Paul and Ringo. Are any of you Paul or Ringo?

I'm Yoko

(feel free to join in, Spartacists)

I touched him once. On the shoulder, so stop that!

Have you had a ballot from Gier?

voted; hardest song to cut was "Boys". Nothing from Revolver or Help seemed worth voting for, though if we'd had a few more spots I'd have tossed "For No One" a low vote.

Past Masters 5
Please Please Me 2
Beatles For Sale 2
Rubber Soul 2
White Album 2
Abbey Road 2
With The Beatles 1
A Hard Day's Night 1
Pepper 1
MMT 1

I haven't had a ballot from Geir, I don't think he does these ballotpolls.

i'm going to have to do mine tomorrow or Sunday...do we have til the end of the weekend?

yep.

ok thanks

Here, There & Everywhere; I Will; Fool On The Hill

These are classic melodi-Paul tracks. They don't sit well with everyone, but I think I love all three.

I haven't had a ballot from Geir, I don't think he does these ballotpolls.

That's a blessing. While his ballot would be welcome, his presence in most of the rollout countdowns wouldn't be amirite.

Oh, I'm sure he'll be totally on it.

I am a total curmudgeon and have so many imaginary (or real?) enemies on here but I LOVE Geir's presence, even if I NEVER agree with him. I find him really entertaining

Maybe he doesn't want any non-mod to know his email address. You'd take a ballot sent by ILXmail, right Mark?

Yeah, no problem.

Geir? You there?

Geir and Ned are both opposed to polls on ideological grounds, no? In Geir's case I imagine because the revelation happens in a regular, ever-repeating pattern.

Geir is certainly NOT opposed to polls, he might be opposed to this current monstrosity

What makes this a monstrosity?

This 1000 year project to poll very track from every artist ever

eh, it passes the time before Armageddon

I'm not doing it either, I just like talking about bands occasionally

Isn't Geir the guy doing the year by year poll? That one's a real hoot, although I get weary from everyone's alternates lists....

Maybe he's not inclinced to vote in polls that he's not the creator of.
Maybe he does radio-button polls but not emailed ballot polls.
Maybe he's Geir.

The year by year one is just yer average run-of-the-mill poll without the need for all the bureaucracy that surrounds Let's Poll the Known Universe ones

I get weary from everyone's alternates lists

Yikes--I'm one of Iago's imaginary enemies!

I like these ballot polls because I think they require a bit more thought.

Thought is OK, work is not

I think you started those! (xp)

Guilty as charged...It's just hard for me to vote in those without accounting for huge omissions. I assume people who're interested in my (and Moka's) lists will read them, and those who aren't will find them easy to skip over.

Just kiddin' Clemenza--I am actually talking about little blowups and spats that fester forever with me (one of the many negative qualities of my Irish lineage!)

Oh, I daresay the amount of work involved in creating a ballot (and assimilating everyone elses) will mean these will probably run out of steam before we get to the 808 state one..

Same problem--unfortunately, they afflict me in real life far more than on this board...Back to the Beatles! (xpost)

so i had no idea Words of Love was a Buddy Holly song! (don't hate me)

And the Beatles version might be the most faithful of all their covers!

I've not heard the original of "Act Naturally"

Even the more cloying Paul tracks on the White Album benefit from the other Beatles' presence. Doesn't seem to matter whether they're actually on the songs or not. Oddly, on most of John's songs the reverse seems to be true - by 1968 his attentions were elsewhere and either the heroin had sapped his energy or the tension in the studio was getting to him.

Still, I didn't include a single song on this supposed masterpiece in my top 20. There are at least a dozen terrific songs, to be sure, but the aura of the record is toxic - and not in a compelling way a la There's a Riot Goin' On or, say, In Utero. Instead, the Beatles sound like rich rock stars for the first time in their career - cut off both materially and spiritually from their public, convinced for once that their shit doesn't stink. Solipsism may have suited John's early solo work, but it's not a good look for the Beatles.

Sorry for the White Album tangent, but I'm still trying to make sense of both why it leaves me cold and why other people love it so much. Aside from "Revolution" and the air of dread that hangs over the proceedings, what the fuck did this album have to do with the rest of the world in 1968? Is it just an exceptionally well-timed totem, something for regular people to project their feelings onto because it's the goddamn Beatles and everybody loves them? Not that the Beatles have to signify explicitly for their public and their social/historical context, but I feel like on this record, more than any other, the Beatles are signifying for themselves and their narrowing world alone. Don't know if that makes sense, just a fancy way of saying "White Album = Classic? I don't get it." Probably fodder for a new (or another existing) thread.

My list broke down as follows:

Please Please Me 2
A Hard Day's Night 5
Rubber Soul 2
Revolver 2
Sgt. Pepper 2
Magical Mystery Tour 1
Abbey Road 1
Let It Be 3
Nonalbum singles 2

The numbers don't necessarily reflect the order of my favorite Beatles albums, which is neat; Rubber Soul is still probably my favorite LP, although A Hard Day's Night is a close second. I really loathe the extent to which late-period Beatles is overrated (which is as good an indicator of mass rockism as any), particularly in relation to the early stuff. Happily, this impulse seems to have tapered somewhat over the past ten years. That said, mid-period Beatles is still probably my favorite era, extending for me all the way from A Hard Day's Night to Magical Mystery Tour. Revolver is great, but Rubber Soul is the songwriting triumph. And though some consider "Michelle" arch, precious or both, the melody is so gorgeous that I put it in my top 5 without a second thought.

the obvious answer for why people love the White Album is for its variety - it's freewheeling breadth and ambition. also contains their hardest rocking moments since the early years.

I sort of get the "variety" angle, but I don't think there's much life to the genre experiments on the White Album. Professional and dull, like most of the art rock that followed in its wake. (See the stylistic detours on Sgt. Pepper's for comparison.) The children's songs are ick. "Yer Blues" and "Why Don't We Do It In the Road?" have no reason to exist. "Good Night" works because it's shameless and heartfelt all at once. And "Helter Skelter" is pretty impressive. It's still about a four-star/8 out of 10 record for me. But it's about the tenth best Beatles album.

thewufs otm re. Michelle, it made my top 20 easily, might even be in my top 10, can't remember right now.

Yer Blues and Why Don't We Do It in the Road reason to exist is to signify the Beatles being "grown ups" - they have sex, they feel profound self-loathing and depression, they are dirty, messy, raw, tangled-up human beings. sometimes people like these things to be reflected in their popular art, it can facilitate a profound emotional connection with the material ("they are just like ME" etc)

Michelle is fucking awful

I dunno how anyone could classify Revolution No. 9 as "professional" ("dull" = eh, okay ymmv) - there was no one of their statue releasing this kind of thing on a pop record. sure compositionally and structurally it's all Stockhausen but he wasn't exactly top 40 now was he

Ok, there are a few exceptions to the professionalism thing. I still think there are an awful lot of throwaways on the White Album that only get attention because-it's-the-Beatles. Whatever John was trying to do on "Yer Blues" he does better on "Plastic Ono Band" anyway.

sure but POB was 2 (3?) years later and is a masterpiece. also had Spector.

lots of good discussion about the White Album here including many who correctly note that the album is one of those things that functions as more than the sum of its parts

Yeah, I know. I sort of shifted to "in hindsight..." here.

See for me the White Album is considerably less than the sum of its parts. That's why I just can't get a handle on a lot of the love for it. To put it more simply: the "it's like four simultaneous solo albums" line strikes me as pretty much dead-on. It's not Beatle-y enough. There are the tangible reasons I listed above, but there's also something harder to define at work for me when I hear the record: it's got no spark.

Thewufs, sounds like you aren't persuadable which is totally fine, but if you are interested there is a book about the Beatles called "Magic Circles" that is mostly about the White Album and the Beatles in 1968...an excellent read

I dunno how anyone could classify Revolution No. 9 as "professional" ("dull" = eh, okay ymmv) - there was no one of their statue releasing this kind of thing on a pop record. sure compositionally and structurally it's all Stockhausen but he wasn't exactly top 40 now was he

― a man is only a guy (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, July 8, 2011 1:17 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Shakey, is Rev. 9 really Stockhausen, or are you just using him to stand in for "avant-garde music" in general...if so, I didn't know he did sound collages, which I would love to hear. I don't really know what composers did these tape piece-type things, it seems to have more in common with collage film a la Bruce Conner, which he certainly knew through Yoko Ono

or maybe Fluxus, of which Yoko was an original member

I am referring specifically to Stockhausen's "Hymnen" which is streamed at the link below and is a pretty clear precedent for "Revolution No. 9". Lennon (and McCartney!) specifically namedropped Stockhausen regarding this period.

http://www.stockhausenmusic.com/

(Stockhausen's also on the Sgt Pepper cover iirc)

(note the Croupier: Region 1 "neuf, the nine" in Hymnen)

it's got no spark.

it was 1968, everybody was tired

Joining this conversation late, I gotta say I'm wih thewufs r The White Album, my favorite Beatles record as a kid but now makes me very impatient.

*re

OK thanks, I look forward to listening. I was aware of their namechecking Stockhausen. As far as the Pepper cover goes, at least some of the people they chose were selected by Paul's art dealer friend who did the set dressing with Peter Blake(?). Obviously Stockhausen was a Beatle pick. Thanks for the link...

what the fuck did this album have to do with the rest of the world in 1968?

Drugs, for one!

It sort of seems to me that the tumultuous, chaotic, fracturing White Album was the perfect match for a year where MLK and RFK were shot and all kind of psychedelic shit hit the fan.

As for the Beatles being naval-gazing, John's been so ever since "I'm a Loser" and probably before. Keep in mind almost all the Beatles did enough solo recordings this year (Harrison's "Wonderwall" sountrack, Lennon/Ono's experimental first minimalist/fluxus LPs) that with the Beatles album and singles and the Yellow Submarine soundtrack included, 1968 saw John, Paul, George, and Ringo churning out over 6 LPs worth of new or recently recorded material.

what the fuck did this album have to do with the rest of the world in 1968?

what did John Wesley Harding?

OK Shakey, I just listened to a couple of minutes, can definitely hear the link, but the borrowed bits of speaking and radio still seem subsumed under all the blips and frequency stuff that reminds me of Gesang der Junglinge (admittedly the only real Stockhausen I know!). Still feeling like Stockhausen doing collage per se, which Rev 9 is overwhelmingly, to my ears. But yes, Hymen is obviously a/the chief structural precedent.

what the fuck did this album have to do with the rest of the world in 1968?

We should probably be on a different thread for this, but can't we say that ALLEGORY is a nice way of saying how it relates to the outside world?

Still feeling like Stockhausen WASN'T doing collage (looks like I'm making word soup myself--sorry)

what the fuck did this album have to do with the rest of the world in 1968?

can you take me back where I came from ?

Hymnen was composed using the following equipment:

For the production of the electronic sounds, I used equipment available at the Studio for Electronic Music of the WDR:

Generators: sine-wave, rectangular, saw-tooth, noise generators;

filters: octave, third, radio drama (W49) filters;

tape recorders: numerous mono, 2-track and two 4-track tape recorders, among them a 2-track and a 4-track tape recorder having continuously variable tape speeds through motors controlled by special generators, a Springer tape recorder with rotating 6-fold play-back head (I used this machine constantly for gradual speeding up and slowing down without pitch change);

a rotation table, which I had had built and used 1958–60 for the realisation of KONTAKTE (see description and photographs in the booklet of CD 3). All spatial chords and spatial melodies of HYMNEN up to circa 4 rotations per second were made using this manually turned rotation table [...]."

most of the material involved is recordings of national anthems, in addition to the spoken bits and the various electronic noises

it's also what, an hour long?

As for the Beatles being naval-gazing, John's been so ever since "I'm a Loser" and probably before
http://www.britishbattles.com/waterloo/images/trafalgar/admiral-lord-nelson.jpg
"I see no ships"

sorry, I'm boring even myself, last post--i did understand that Hymen is made by tape manipulation, my mistake. The tape bits in Rev 9 are much more individually legible as coming from a wider variety of sources is all I meant...hence my droning on about "collage" FIN!

well Hymnen is definitely a more focused and considered work. Stockhausen had a specific theme he wanted to explore, and he sticks to it. the source material of Revolution No. 9 is all over the place, I would imagine because a) John was really high and b) they were newbies at this sort of thing and were more enamored of the process rather than the end result (end result is still awesome imho)

Right on all counts, but I think the fact that it's called Revolution tips off the listener to the end of the world vibe (not to get all Charlie on this!). They were playing with fire on this and Piggies, that's for sure, given they knew exactly how nuts some of their fans were

Piggies is such a funny song, a millionaire complaining about other millionaires

Typical George whine too.

the "Don't Bother Me" guy.

How can you hate on harpsichord pop?

Oh, it is definitely the album that is detached from the world outside. They'd not been touring for a while, so had a chance to catch up with themselves...

I know, no one ever said to him, "Really, George?" However, I can't not help but think sometimes while hearing it of the LoBianco murders though (DIE PIGGIES on the wall in blood, fork sticking out of the dead guy's stomach)

I find Piggies suitably amusing, it's like a musical theater sketch with the sound effects and silly voices and everything. practically Monty Python.

Wow, impressive responses here. I wasn't expecting to be persuaded to love the record - just wanted to get halfway inside the heads of people who love the White Album to figure out why it works for them. Taste is a motherfucker to try and parse. But that's what we're here for.

OTM. And of course produced in the same studios where they made the Goon Show!

Oh, it is definitely the album that is detached from the world outside

Can't imagine any post-AHDN-era Beatles had anything close to resembling normal contact with the world outside. At least during The White Album they didn't spend the entire year shuffling from one hotel room to the next, unable to go anywhere for fear of being crushed by hundreds of screaming hysterical fans.

Odd that their most schizophrenic record was written in India on a TM meditation retreat. Sort of explains "Inland Empire" a bit.

Oh yeah, and one of my favorite John songs is "I'm Only Sleeping," which is totally "navel-gazing" solipsistic.

The thing about the White Album is that that detachment rings so loud. Which is probably one of the things that makes it compelling for a lot of people.

I don't even love the White Album that much tbh (it is, however, my wife's favorite Beatle record). for me it's between Rubber Soul and Abbey Road.

AHDN, onwards, was when they had plenty of views of the outside world, albeit skewed. And, their downtime was all about reaclimatising and either gadding about town a'la Paul, or blobbing out on the sofa with the wife and kid a'la John.

By the time of "White", they existed within their own minds again.

It was mine for most of my life, burned it out. Now it's Revolver

From the new issue of The Onion...not funny, but timely!

LONDON—Just days after the discovery of several previously unreleased Beatles recordings in the attic of Abbey Road Studios, fans and critics across the globe have renounced their enthusiasm for the rock and roll band that was once revered by millions. "This unfortunate find has forced music historians to completely reassess the talents of John, Paul, George, and Ringo," said Beatles scholar Mark Lewisohn, who has dated the tapes to early 1968. "These songs are awful. That one sax solo alone has utterly negated the genius of Magical Mystery Tour and Rubber Soul combined. Certainly this missing link goes a long way toward explaining their solo careers." In reaction to the discovery, Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys has shown dramatic signs of improved mental health.

Ha...

I was reading the "irregular head" Syd biog, and there is occasional mention of a song called "Living alone" as if we all know it already...

No, it's an unreleased Syd song. So, why no clamour for its release?

The only lyric I found for it is "living alone, I get stoned"

Yep, it sounds awful, lazy and pointless. That's why, then.

i like the white album for tons of reasons but i can definitely see why someone wouldn't -- it's definitely the least 'beatley' of all their albums, goes on forever, includes a couple of sing-a-long numbers that can get old fast ('bungalow bill,' 'ob la di,' insert your pick here).

for me it's the sense of creepy solipsism and half-cracked whimsy that hangs over it, like a sinister victorian children's book, that makes it so compelling to listen to. i remember reading that they originally wanted to call it 'a doll's house,' which would have been exactly right. it's their most brilliantly sequenced album; every song is exactly where it needs to be to have the maximum effect. the back-and-forth between screaming loud proto-metal and extremely EXTREMELY quiet ballads on side three in particularly i've always found really unnerving. so many of the songs sound like they're on the verge of just collapsing into random noise -- 'helter skelter,' 'revolution 9' of course, but even more innocuous numbers like 'don't pass me by' or 'ob la di.' plus there are so many songs that just don't sound like any other beatles songs -- 'cry baby cry' and 'happiness is a warm gun' seem darker and creepier to me than any lou reed i've heard.

Improv drone noise ending to "Long Long Long" currently my favorite all-time Beatles musical moment. And wouldn't you know it, I forgot to put it on the ballot! That always happens with that song...

Back whenever, I had the dream of putting the Beatles "tribute" band together that would have reflected "the 1968 show".

Eventually, I realised that the people that would go and see a Beatles trib band would want only the nice hits and a bit of costumes. Not the real band experience.

Compare: What Abba tribute act would start with "I'm a marionette" then do a Rachmaninov number and a daft dance medley? Well, that would be the real Abba, on the "Abba" movie.

Here's my breakdown:

1 With the Beatles
2 Please Please Me
1 Hard Day's Night
1 Beatles for Sale
2 Help!
1 Rubber Soul
2 Revolver
1 Sgt Pepper
1 MMT
2 White Album
2 Abbey Road
2 Single only
2 Unreleased

And by songwriter

6 Lennon
4 Harrison
3 McCartney
3 Lennon (w/McCartney)
2 Lennon/McCartney
1 McCartney (w/Lennon)
1 Cover

Goddamn I love the White Album. My first CD.

Judge John Hodgman podcast recently about a dick who hated the White Album.

I got caught up in The White Album as a teenager through...yes, Charles Manson and the made-for-TV movie Helter Skelter. (Which I rewatched for the first time in 35 years recently, and it was pretty bad.) The connection faded, the songs stayed.

Just to clarify, when I say "connection," I mean morbid fascination.

Hard Day's Night 4
Beatles for Sale 1
Help! 2
Rubber Soul 1
Revolver 2
Sgt Pepper 1
White Album 4
Abbey Road 1
Single only 4

I think Manson should write a 33 1/3 book on the White Album. Well, not really, though someone could probably compile one from random quotes. Which brings me to another Manson (Marilyn) and his 1999 PR nightmare with the Columbine shootings. How come no rightie/fundie nutbags blamed the Beatles' music for Tate-LaBianca? Or did they?

The Manson thing was all a cover-up perpetrated by a bunch of family members that had gotten into some bad drug deals and were inventing this acid-fried conspiracy in hopes that police would buy it. They had killed (or so they thought, he actually survived) a member of the Black Panthers during a botched deal, and decided that making it look like a HELTER SKELTER race war was the best way to get the heat off them. No doubt everyone was fried on drugs and paranoia so they probably believed it to some degree, but it seems that the mythos was more like a poorly conceived cover-up.

What Manson thing?

Charlie.

oh, that Manson thing

Where does it say the White Album's influence on Manson was a cover-up? cite source plz

Probably a bad source but I recently read "Manson in His Own Words: The Shocking Confessions of 'The Most Dangerous Man Alive'", where he details pretty much what went down.

I mean 'cover-up' as in, after they killed some people, they decided to use it to make it look like someone else did the murders. I previously thought they had gotten the ideas to kill first from the Beatles album, which doesn't seem to be the case, according to Manson's account.

Have now voted. My list doesn't look anything like I thought it would - lost of Beatles songs which I have liked and which I think are 'better' didn't make the cut in the end, and several which are very uncool and unlikely to get anyone else voting for them made it, just because I liked the sound of them over the last few days (perhaps because I haven't overplayed them before).

I haven't seen it but there's supposed to be a really funny movie streaming on Netflix about the conspiracy to cover up Paul's death.

"Paul McCartney Really is Dead: The Last Testament of George Harrison"

finally submitted mine after way too much thought.
my album breakdown (total points for each album are in brackets):

Revolver, 3, (95)
various singles, 3, (66)
Rubber Soul, 3, (63)
The White Album, 3, (52)
Beatles For Sale, 2, (45)
Magical Mystery Tour, 1, (33)
Let It Be, 1, (28)
Help!, 1, (23)
Abbey Road, 1, (19)
St Pepper's, 1, (15)
Yellow Submarine, 1, (13)

"Words of Love" would have easily been my #2 until i found out it was a cover!

Hi folks, not long to go before ballots close.

How many have you got?

And did you get mine?

Got: around 32

Yours, I dunno I'm away from the files and mail.

If I find it's not there, I will contact you.

submited my ballot a while ago. few interesting picks here, mostly the Anthology 2 version of "And Your Bird Can Sing":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjvcLO3QRko
(featuring way superior bassline) and "Boys" as the lone Ringo sung cover. Also, I hope nobody forgot about "We Can Work It Out" (my #2)?

hah! my #2 also!

Right, ballot is officially closed!

Will begin the results when either the PSB results thread is done, or in about a weeks time, whichever is the latter...

PSB is finished off now isn't it?

Ah so I see. I'd better got on with it, hadn't I?

Oops. Too busy following the PSBs results to remember to vote for the Beatles. Poll overload.

Yeah maybe we should give a slightly longer break between them - as in wait for the polling and the results are done for one before starting another (rather than starting the polling for one as the results come in for the other). Otherwise people will get sick of em.

RIght, have assimilated all the votes, so...

51 ballots received, that's pretty good...

can't wait!

^^^

really looking forward to this... had some excellent drunken conversations on this topic over the weekend

hah! my #2 also!

me three. it's a lock!

Hurry up with the reveal while there's still some mystery left!

hah! my #2 also!
me three. it's a lock!

i'm curious what our 3 #1s were now!

my #1 is a George song

Bah, missed the deadline :(

*throws brick*

Zip ~~~~~ POW!

And so this guy was riding in an airplane, and he lights up a cigarette...

kind of disappointed there were 19 more voters for this than the psb one. what happened to ilm?

Pavement had more voters than The Beatles, which seems totally strange.

Didn't vote for Beatles as all energies were focused on the 50s. Looking forward to these results however, will lurk gleefully.

Results time?

50s finishes tomorrow, The Beatles can wait a day

I was jamming the shit out of the White Album yesterday and it made me wish I could include 3 or 4 more cuts off that album.

this is going to be great. i wish i got a confirmation of receipt from the poll taker, i'm worried my vote won't be counted!

my #1 is a George song

just wanted to tell you so is mine!

Found it. Yes. (xpost)

praise from Caesar xp

Yeah I was panicking about Mark G not getting my vote too, I seem to remember gmail acting a bit weird at the time.

just wanted to tell you so is mine!

the hivemind at work

Thanks Mark.
I agree, Nate, Gmail s--ks