Do You Like "Hey Jude"?

no, no no NO NO NO NO

"fuck 'Hey Jude' forever" feels a bit harsh, but I definitely dislike it and always have.

i have a different answer

(unless its Wilson Pickett's version)

i have a different answer

these answers were arrived at by a very scientific process. they are the only possible answers to the question

see, i quite like this song, but i don't necessarily need to hear the Beatles do it very often if at all

Liked it when I was a kid; never ever need to hear it again. Ever. In my life. Na na naa na na naaa.

only knowingly heard it within the last couple years and thought, 'hey whaddyaknow, this is a pretty decent tune'

Somewhere between the bottom two. I don't hate it but i don't like it and I've always felt that way.

Grew to hate it during the Oasis years, now like it again cos its kind of undeniable. The shoulder lyric is great aswell.

This on the other hand I love with all my heart:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNDs571E9k4

When I was a senior in HS, one of the few black students at my all-white school, there was an assembly I couldn't manage to get out of, and at the end of the assembly they played "Hey Jude", which at that point I'd never heard in my life. Everyone else sang along to this song I'd never heard before, and then it got to the coda and it just kept going on and on forever and ever with 2000 white kids surrounding me, enthusiastically chanting this neverending unfamiliar refrain. It was surreal. I have never felt more alienated in my life than that moment and I've absolutely detested "Hey Jude" ever since.

― The Reverend, Sunday, January 4, 2009 6:53 PM Bookmark

I would rather hear oh bla di o bla da

that is an amazing story xp

i like the "jude jude a-jude-a-jude-a-juda-juda wow" part

similarly my favorite part of i am the walrus is "juba. juba juba. juba." etc

Rev that post is just the best thing

totally is

Somewhere between 1 and 2. I've known it all my life, and I appreciated it more as I've got older. Given the right mood and amount of alcohol it can move me to tears. But not very often. When I hear it, I enjoy it. It's not been over-played and beaten to death for me. I may be in a minority there.

I would rather hear oh bla di o bla da

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, January 28, 2014 11:11 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Word.

wilson pickett most definitely, in this case, takes a beatles song and makes it better. and elvis presley does a better "jude, jude, j-jude, jude, j-juddeh juddeh" than paul does. the original is still a good song, though probably not one of the first 30 or 40 beatles songs i would think to play. i do not see this exact option reflected in the choices above and therefore ethics requires me to abstain from voting.

dramatization of rev's story the only remaining excuse to put hey jude in a movie

only made that post so i could make this one but now i can't find the appropriate thread

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I would rather hear Paul McCartney's death rattle than this.

Definitely not this realization of it:

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

^^^^^

Stephen Harper serenading Benjamin Netanyahu. (Or is that what inspired this question?)

it's not the best Beatles song but it's nice enough.

Always dug the original studio recording -- Ringo kills, as he always did -- and of course Wilson Pickett's, but McCartney's live versions just make me want to punch him in the face repeatedly.

still think the most moving version was at Yalta when Churchill quietly suggested Stalin and FDR join him

Lol fuck y'all for desperate creatures without souls

no, used to like it but that'll be about enough now, thanks

^

I think 'Hey Jude' is a wonderful song, and I love the production on it (love the sound of the ride cymbal when the drums kick in), but where I once found its pretty melody moving, and McCartney's overexcited ad libs during the outro charming, I now find myself groaning whenever I hear the opening bars of it. I've heard it way too many times, and the song has went from beautiful and powerful to my ears to... completely annoying, really.

no, used to like it but that'll be about enough now, thanks

genuine contender for worst song ever imo, fuck "hey jude" forever

Having said that, if I must listen to it, I'd sooner have the Beatles original than... any live performance of it that Paul McCartney has done since the Flowers In The Dirt tour, where during the outro he'll be like "all the people on this side of the audience please! na... na na nanana na! now all the ladies! na na nanana na!"

watching the elderly fella perform it on children in need, britain's got talent and olympics has put me off it for life pretty much. i'm gonna be kind and vote for "no, used to like it but that'll be about enough now, thanks" though.

genuine contender for worst song ever
fuck "hey jude" forever

Missing lyric to hey Jude?

The David Frost appearance is my favorite late live performance even if it's one of those backing track-with-live-vocal things....from the horrific tearoom music intro to John singing to Paul at 3:52 to the crush of people at the end, it just gives me chills...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvHsTQUA2SE

it's rare that lex and I are in such total accord, high five

Not as good as "sweet jane" in this regard but i like the triumphant "na-na"-ing at the end

I had totally forgotten about this until just now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orukqxeWmM0

ok changing my vote

other than it being played out, i cannot figure out what there is to hate about this (i mean, sure paul overdoes it, but if you could sing like that wouldn't you?). As a "child of divorce" who took great solace from it back in the day, I don't think I can get down on such a beautiful sentiment expressed so beautifully

really do not like this

if hell exists, the coda to this song is assuredly the perpetually looped soundtrack

there seem to be several hours worth of hey jude flashmob videos on youtube xp

yeah what the fuck whoever hates this song is a hideous monster

there seem to be several hours worth of hey jude flashmob videos on youtube xp

― soref, Tuesday, January 28, 2014 7:51 PM (28 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

visions of the hell of which i spoke

this whole thread is one gigantic troll jack off session

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpFrOufcQa4

open question, which is worse in your opinion, t-mobile employing hey jude singing flash mobs to flog their phone contracts, or people actually going out and doing this apparently for no other reason than for the fun of it? Does how you feel about hey jude determine your answer?

xp thread? just the thread? cmon.

Liked it well enough 30 years ago, definitely had my fill.

I like hey jude, but even watching the flashmob videos makes me cringe with embarrassment, almost the same kind of feeling as this:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/oh-no-performers-coming-into-audience,2685/

I have always liked this song but would not have sung along to it in a high school assembly, sheesh

I will say the main vocal mic or the compression on it is fucking gorgeous, one of the most perfect recordings ever. still doesn't salvage this monstrosity of a tune however don't get me wrong

and I love the production on it (love the sound of the ride cymbal when the drums kick in),

yeah exactly, as i was listening to it on a bus with no childhood or emotional connection to it i was mostly admiring all the production ideas.

I can't fathom going to a high school assembly where they played the Beatles, frankly. but my high school was a horrible white rightwing nightmare so it can fuck off and die forever imho.

ok, this thread needs a full-throated defense of "hey jude," so here goes: the first three minutes of this song is perfect. this is the one late-period beatles anthem that genuinely works. especially moving and tragic if you keep in mind that paul's singing to the child that john just abandoned and will alternately ignore and be nasty to for the remainder of his days, but maybe also singing to john himself, his old buddy who is about to abandon basically his entire world -- paul included -- in pursuit of a love that the entire world will scoff at him for. and paul's response can be read as both (to julian) "sorry dude, i know it sucks, life is a drag" and (to john) "go for it, man." it manages to be uplifting and devastating at the same time. i usually tune out the 'na na na na' part after a minute or so, and could do without paul's kinda embarrassing scatting over the top of it, but even that whole part feels organic, something the song naturally builds to, not some "let's get the audience to join in" bullshit. so, yes, it's great.

JD killin it

Doin GODS work

when george and john sing "remember to let her into your heart," it's goddamn sorcery magik

I resent that the song somehow makes me think about what the lyrics mean when they are clearly so sloppy.

It's always worth listening out for the "Wrong chord. Fuckin' hell!" bit that was left in the mix.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dcfpH8oJoM

I like singing this when it's turned into a football chant but the Beatles version is bottom 5 of all time.

Never liked it that much..

Haven't heard

Well, when Paul first sang 'Hey Jude' to me... or played me the little tape he'd made of it... I took it very personally. 'Ah, it's me,' I said, 'It's me.' He says, 'No, it's me.' I said, 'Check. We're going through the same bit.' So we all are. Whoever is going through a bit with us is going through it, that's the groove. „
—John Lennon, 1968

“ That's his best song. It started off as a song about my son Julian because Paul was going to see him. Then he turned it into "Hey Jude." I always thought it was about me and Yoko, but he said it was about him and his. „
—John Lennon, 1972

“ I remember I played it to John and Yoko, and I was saying, 'These words won't be on the finished version.' Some of the words were: 'The movement you need is on your shoulder,' and John was saying, 'It's great!' I'm saying, 'It's crazy, it doesn't make any sense at all.' He's saying, 'Sure it does, it's great.' „
—Paul McCartney, 1974

“ He said it was written about Julian. He knew I was splitting with Cyn and leaving Julian then. He was driving to see Julian to say hello. He had been like an uncle. And he came up with 'Hey Jude.' But I always heard it as a song to me. Now I'm sounding like one of those fans reading things into it... Think about it: Yoko had just come into the picture. He is saying. 'Hey, Jude' — 'Hey, John.' Subconsciously, he was saying, 'Go ahead, leave me.' On a conscious level, he didn't want me to go ahead. The angel in him was saying, 'Bless you.' The devil in him didn't like it at all, because he didn't want to lose his partner. „
—John Lennon, 1980

You're making me wish I'd picked the 4th option instead of the 3rd.

I should have polled the four explanations I just posted.

No logic to it, but some of the Beatles most overplayed songs I've been long sick of, some I'll still let play if they come on the car radio. "Hey Jude" is in the latter group--which doesn't mean I'd ever have any cause to play it at home.

My mother said when she was pregnant with me, hearing Hey Jude come on the radio would send her puking out of the room. Decades later and she claimed the song still made her sick to her stomach. I like it actually, find it a bit of a soothing surprise when I hear it. I have somehow escaped hearing it to the point of exhaustion like I have heard (and can't stand) other Beatles songs.

Listening to the song now to see why I like it so much...all I can say is it's just so connected to pleasant childhood memories and feelings, born in 71. I also like hearing other renditions of it. However, I have rarely decided to play it just because I had to hear it. August just heard it for the first time, in fact...now it's all ahhhhhh, lalalala ahhh around here.

My initial exposure to this song came from this version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eebE6dNehMc

i used to like it as a kid, but i knew nothing back than.
hate it.

though i gave to say it's not as bad as obladi oblada

i have repeated the same anecdote about this song on ilx at least 3x
i'm not proud of it

iirc lex once called it "hey cunting jude" and I can't shake that

went with the milder "yes" even if it's not exactly how i'd phrase it

i feel so blessed that i've only heard four beatles songs in my life. this was one of them (the others were yellow submarine, let it be and i think eleanor rigby) and yeah dreadful. seeing paul mccartney play it at the olympics one of the worst tv moments i've ever had to sit through with my family.

i like the beatles' "hey jude" but i can't say i've ever cared for a version of "hey jude" by paul mccartney

i think you need to meet professor weingarten

i feel so blessed that i've only heard four beatles songs in my life. this was one of them (the others were yellow submarine, let it be and i think eleanor rigby)

haha what a goopy beatles set

i like this song

you guys who say this is one of the worst songs you've ever heard must have led a charmed listening life.

i dunno to go your whole life only hearing those four beatles songs, sounds like they were born under a bad sign

i mean you're an ilxor posting on a hey jude thread and you've never heard a note of rubber soul, not a charmed life that

coincidentally, i heard this song on the radio on my way home from work today
the JUDY JUDY JUDY part was on right as i was passing a gigantic high school on one side and a popeye's on the other

if my high school had had a popeye's i would have sung along w anything at assemblies

do you like hey-jude?

depends on my mood. i'm not a beatles fan, really, so i can easily tune-out, turn-off this song. but when our daughter was put into I.C.U. for 10 days just after she was born, i used to sing this to her until she slept. not sure why this song kept coming to mind, but it did.

xp

well my parents never liked them and no one at my high school talked or played them as far as i can remember - they were firmly uncool old ppl music. and i don't listen to the kind of radio stations that might play them. so i'm not sure where else i'd hear them. when i did hear those four songs in passing i really disliked their voices so i've had no desire to check out any of their albums.

i mean that's all fine and good for the average 19 year old, it's just a funny perspective for an ilxor on a "hey jude" thread to be "aint i a lucky duck" over.

i like the little hi-hat crash right before the na-nas

lex has heard 'hey jude'?

when i did hear those four songs in passing i really disliked their voices so i've had no desire to check out any of their albums.

so does that mean you've never heard john lennon's voice? weird. that's like only having heard four clash songs and they're all mick jones songs. nothing against mick jones. just an unusual way to have encountered the band.

i was at "strawberry fields" in the shadow of the dakota in central park my first time in nyc and there was a guy playing beatles songs on an acoustic guitar and every one of them was a paul song

shoulda thrown him a dollar and asked for "spies like us"

One of my most vivid memories of Lennon's death was the news footage of mourners outside the Dakota...singing "Hey Jude."

I'm sad too, but it's not a John song, dipshits.

depends on my mood. i'm not a beatles fan, really, so i can easily tune-out, turn-off this song. but when our daughter was put into I.C.U. for 10 days just after she was born, i used to sing this to her until she slept. not sure why this song kept coming to mind, but it did.

ha actually parenthood has been the thing that got me thinking about Beatles songs more than anything - there are a couple in Rise Up Singing so I've ended up playing "With A Little Help From My Friends" - I think I've told this story on Prof. Whiney's Beatles thread - and really feeling the depths of it, finding simple truths in it that never spoke to me before. loving its chordal simplicity, any first-year guitar student could play it but it does so much with so little. unlike Hey Jude, an unwarranted attack on goodness and beauty which this world, however wicked, ought to have been spared

Even as a three-year old I had a problem with rhyming "better" with "better". Not Paul's worst song but definitely in that neighbourhood. Fuck forever!

unlike Hey Jude, an unwarranted attack on goodness and beauty which this world, however wicked, ought to have been spared

― joe perry has been dead for years (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, January 28, 2014

c'mon. don't make it bad. take a bad song, and make it better.

so does that mean you've never heard john lennon's voice? weird. that's like only having heard four clash songs and they're all mick jones songs. nothing against mick jones. just an unusual way to have encountered the band.

i've heard "imagine"! not that that made a great case for him. i figure mccartney sung the more ubiquitous songs so it's not really strange but i'm not aware of how the lennon/mccartney songs split

i agree that "with a little help" is a deceptively simple song. ian macdonald wrote something interesting along these lines -- that a lot of the beatles' late-period lyrics are basically just self-indulgent nonsense, filled with private jokes and lazy rhymes, but that there was a brief period when they could tell the difference between nonsensical lines that somehow seemed very right, almost subliminally profound ("the movement you need is on your shoulder," "i can't tell you but i know it's mine") and lines that were just plain lazy (too many to name, mostly john's doing tbh).

I will say the main vocal mic or the compression on it is fucking gorgeous

It is nice to imagine that the screaming at the end is the result of somebody entering the studio and setting Paul on fire

i think "a little help" is beautiful too, big fan of are you sad because you're on your own / no

i figure mccartney sung the more ubiquitous songs so it's not really strange but i'm not aware of how the lennon/mccartney songs split

they probably split close to 50/50, but mccartney probably has an unequal share of the ones that still get airplay. he was better at both anthem and treacle. lennon has an unequal share of the ones that get the critical acclaim, deservedly so. he was better at words and emo, and for my money had the more interesting voice. but really, the thing about their voices is that they sounded great together, as good as the everlys and people like that.

and, yeah, "imagine" is not where i'd start with him. though i'm glad the song exists.

yeah it really gets to me. "do you believe in a love at first sight?/yes, I'm certain that it happens all the time" - this is just gorgeous writing, such clarity - to sing this song to a very small child is to be reminded of just what wonders life holds - like friendship, or even like feeling contented in the dark alone with one's thoughts or visions. of course as goon tie points out if it gets too dark you can always torch Paul though it's a noisy solution

(xp to difficult listening hour)

Better watch out for those man-eating jack rabbits
And that killer cacti
Hey Juuuuuuuuuude

i figure mccartney sung the more ubiquitous songs so it's not really strange but i'm not aware of how the lennon/mccartney songs split

mccartney wrote the poppier stuff, like sheila take a bow and vicar in a tutu. lennon wrote the more experimental, emo stuff, like last night i dreamt that somebody loved me, heaven knows i'm miserable now, and bigmouth strikes again.

My mom was a Paul fan and sang Ob-La-Di and Eleanor Rigby to me when I was small. Perhaps this is why I am incapable of love

yr mom otm

paul rules fuiud

lotta paul-loving moms ime

I couldn't tell them apart when they were at their best. That's what I love about "Two of Us," one of the best songs about male friendship.

"two of us" is indeed fantastic, and that's a good point. one of the cool things about the first couple albums is that there's no strong sense of which ones are paul songs and which ones are john songs. it was two of 'em, functioning as one. "two of us" is one of the few late-period songs that fits that mold.

e.g. i accept "i want to hold your hand" as a bit more of a john song at this point, but growing i had absolutely no idea. it was just a beatles song, sung by people in the beatles. whereas a song like "hey jude" or "strawberry fields" or almost anything post '65 or so, you would be hyper-aware whose song it was.

I probably prefer Let It Be to Hey Jude for McCartney's big piano power ballads. That said, Wilson Pickett's version of Hey Jude is great and Duane Allman cuts a great solo on that take.

(xp) and to his day, i have no idea who wrote "two of us."

paul

fact checking cuz otm also i have not read much of anything abt beatles songwriting or recording but i suspect it's not a coincidence that the move to much more hermetic john-or-paul songs roughly coincides with them no longer touring

don't tell George!

paul

ha. i just pulled out my copy of the playboy interview book, and it seems john would disagree with you. i guess i hadn't remembered what he said about "two of us" because his answer was one word. "mine."

oh i'm just going by wiki, which at least has this citation

ALL MY LOVING: Paul. This was one of his first biggies.

john otm

the Playbook interviews from '80, in which he reviews every song he's ever written and mentions credits, is essenetial. He's pretty generous to Paul (he loves "All My Loving," "For No One," "The Fool on the Hill") and George ("Within You Without You" is "one of his best songs -- one of my favorites of his too....there is his innate talent; he brought that sound together").

hmm. mark lewisohn, in "the complete beatles recordings," gives "two of us" to john. so, paul, if you're reading this thread can you please chime in and clear this up? thanks.

and yes the playboy interview is great. but while perhaps generous of george when discussing the music, my recollection is that he's incredibly dismissive of george elsewhere in the interview.

has anyone done a similar thing to that playboy (playbook lol) interview w/ paul? i really kinda love those 'ok let's go thru all this and you tell me what comes to mind' interviews w/ giants, esp when the subject just totally deglamorizes the works in question. that big thing jann wenner did w/ mick jagger in the mid90s comes to mind.

george had recently had that book or whatever came out where he kinda (and sort of out of nowhere) dismissed lennon's influence on him and importance to his life.

obligatory recommendation of peter doggett's you never give me your money, which covers the beatles post-breakup, specifically focusing on the business end.

PLAYBOY: So far you've talked a lot about John and Yoko and Paul and Ringo -- but you haven't said much about George. Why?

LENNON; I'll tell you why it is. George put out a book privately and I was hurt by it, so this message will go out to him. By glaring omission in this book my influence on his life is absolutely zilch and nil. Not mentioned. IN his book, which is purportedly this clarity of vision of each song he wrote and its influences, he remembers every two-bit sax player or guitarist he met in subsequent years. I'm not in the book.

hmm. mark lewisohn, in "the complete beatles recordings," gives "two of us" to john.

i meant to say paul. lewisohn gives it to paul. so please clear this up soonest, mr. mccartney,

LENNON: Not mentioned once! I remember the day he called to ask for help on "Taxman," one of his first songs. I threw in a few one-liners to help the song along, because that's what he asked for. He came to me because he couldn't go to Paul because Paul wouldn't have helped him at that point. I didn't want to do it. I thought, Oh no, don't tell me I have o work on George's stuff. It's enough doing my own and Paul's. But because I loved him and I didn't want to hurt him when he called that afternoon and said, "Will you you help me with this song?" I just sort of bit m lip and said OK. It had been John and Paul so long, he'd been left out because he hadn't been a songwriter up until then....So I am slightly resentful of George's book.

lol I love how John admits Paul was already an asshole to George in '66.

seems like a good time to enjoy this again

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

Lol u nerds. Two of us is all paul and its about linda, not john. Sheesh.

it's about martha

Lol u nerds. Two of us is all paul and its about linda, not john. Sheesh.

― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier),

who cares what they say it's about? It's about Don 'n' Glenn to me.

Well yeah

there you go

lol I love how John admits Paul was already an asshole to George in '66.

In Doggett's book (seconding balls' recommendation) Paul asks George in the late 80s if he wants to write something together. George basically says, "In the 60s when I asked on multiple occasions if you wanted to collaborate you blew me off. So go fuck yourself."

It's even better:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCTYXXg9ZZI

why was everyone so mean to george?

John tells the story of Lil George tagging along with Cyn and John when they wanted to be alone at the movies

in '88 and '89 George was selling a lot more records than Paul, which must've infuriated Paul.

Just as it likely did in '70-'73.

yeah, could have been jealousy, since george wrote the best single song to ever come from a beatle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl2IJql7-CU

well, best other than octopus' garden.

technically ronald mack wrote it for the chiffons obv

details details

i don't get hating on the beatles

sometimes i wish i didn't know anything about how the beatles' songs were written and what they intended them to be about -- i'm thinking specifically of paul's insistence that "norwegian wood" ends with the narrator burning the girl's house down.

paul does a lot of score-settling and no-i-really-wrote-that in the massive barry miles "many years from now" book, which unfortunately is one of the least readable beatles books around imo. worth skimming for the paul quotes at least.

the Jann Wenner-Jagger interview is good too btw! When I read it in '95 I was like "lol Mick Jagger wrote all of 'Miss You' and 'Brown Sugar'"

i remember a keith richards interview from a few years back where the interviewer asked him "what about 'under my thumb,' wasn't that kind of misogynistic?" and he went "ha ha, mick wrote that one! not my fault!"

Ha, yeah, and I think that's the interview where Jann asks if Jagger thinks the Mick Taylor years were the Stones' peak. Jagger basically says, "Oh sure, but I can't say that. Even though I just did."

xp

has anyone done a similar thing to that playboy (playbook lol) interview w/ paul?

Yes, the aforementioned Barry Miles book.

At this point in my life, my feeling is that whatever poetic license I need to grant to a "Mrs. Robinson" or an "American Pie" or a "Hey Jude," I'm willing to go that mile. I don't see why I should trouble myself about them anymore.

Maaaan, I've said this before but if Paul outlives Ringo I'mma be pissed as fuck.

ringo should kill paul

there can only be one

xp otm

OMG... ilxors don't like Hey Jude! Shocking POSITIVELY SHOCKING!

I do like Hey Jude, and always have. I don't 'love' it, but it didn't take lots of exposure or anything; it's a good tune, and the big la-la-la ending is the best la-la-la ending of all la-la-la endings, because it's a bit raw and it's got some life.

I came to The Beatles via their albums and didn't get Past Masters until much later, so this was actually one of their songs that I didn't really come across that often in the past.

the big la-la-la ending is the best la-la-la ending of all la-la-la endings - yeah, i'm gonna go w/ t rex instead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--EcVz-KaVU

Bugsy Malone tbrr

Heck, we could start a whole separate thread on those kinds of ending. Artful Dodger with the helpfully-titled "A Girl (La La La)" and a video ending that cops the Beatles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eERZYhox110

Bugsy Malone tbrr

yup

I wonder if I'd like this song if I'd heard it as an infant. Maybe. It's shit though.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

i love "Let It Be" and a lot of other sappy Paul songs but have never been into this one. a while back an instrumental band i know closed a show with an unexpected "Hey Jude" cover and let the audience do the na na na singalong and it was kinda cool but generally i have no use for the song. don't hate it per se but i voted "fuck Hey Jude forever" because i can't even say i used to like it or anything.

the black-metal version is pretty sweet.

We never did a Beatles epics poll. 5-minute cut-off, etc. IWY(SSH) would deservedly destroy everything else by like 90 votes to 3 though, which probably answers my own query as to why it hasn't happened

oh wait though A Day In The Life creeps over 5 with that ending doesn't it

in which case twould be an exciting poll-off. Walrus also brilliant and maybe over 5

We never did a Beatles epics poll. 5-minute cut-off, etc. IWY(SSH) would deservedly destroy everything else

I Want Yogurt (Small Serving Holder)?

I Wish You'd (Simply Shoot Him)

love this song. that melody is engraved on those bone-simple chords like a name on a headstone. the deliberate pace, the stately procession of the chords, the guitar strummed so hard the strings resonate out of tune, everything about this song screams "we mean it, maaaaan." but without forcing it down your throat. well, radio programmers forced it down our throats, which is sort of too bad. its like the whole extended coda is necessary as a release of tension, like they were saying hey we were only kidding about meaning it, we're those same nutty guys you remember. plus having the same nananana melody playing against the two successive chords like they do is an instant you-CAN-try-this-at-home beatles harmony.

i remember when this song was new, being in the back seat of the family car with my dad driving. as the verses played my dad said, "this is the beatles? since when did they start writing nice music?" i said, "just you wait..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyTEaF54kC4

I never realized until recently, reading the posthumous Ellen Willis anthology a while back, that Elvis Presley and all these other acts were shoehorning "Hey Jude" covers into their concerts in the late '60s:

The only mistake he made was to sing the coda from "Hey Jude;" once a gimmick has been picked up by Eydie Gorme on a cerebral-palsy telethon, it loses something

in another concert review of the Everly Brothers in the same book:

Later, they did five minutes of the coda from "Hey Jude."

(i) have never been into this one.

― some dude, Wednesday, January 29, 2014

some dude v. hey jude.

We never did a Beatles epics poll. 5-minute cut-off, etc. IWY(SSH) would deservedly destroy everything else

Votes would be split three ways between I Want You, A Day In the Life and Revolution 9 I think.

8:22 Revolution 9
7:47 I Want You (She's So Heavy)
7:05 Hey Jude
6:26 It's All Too Much
6:12 What's the New Mary Jane
5:34 A Day in the Life
5:05 Within You Without You

Include songs 4:30 and above and it becomes harder:

4:45 While My Guitar Gently Weeps
4:37 I Am the Walrus
4:30 Helter Skelter

(In researching this post I encountered for the first time the song Christmas Time is Here Again, which when recorded was 6:17 but was cut down to three minutes for release. Regardless of length, it would win no poll.)

"A day in the Life" would certainly destroy all the rest (unless people who prefer it decided to vote for another song for various reasons).
makes me think that a top 5 of my favorite beatles songs might include only john songs (a day, strawberry, walrus, across the universe and... rain, or tomorrow never knows... actually paul's penny lane would be in the 5, after all).

and as for "hey jude" I really like it and will always listen to it with pleasure but have never cared much for the "lalala" part. it must have seemed like a good idea at the time, I guess !
also, the instrumental muzak version in "the royal tenenbaums" is cheezy but nice !

IWYSSH >>>>>>>>>>> ADITL (also other Beatles songs, life, common sense)

IWYSSH those days would come back once more/Why did those days ever have to go....

IWYSSH I was a little bit taller

the problem with IWYSSH is that the chorus is not so good compared to the verses. a bit like LITSWD.

I've never thought of IWYSSH as having a chorus or verses, but the two parts are totally necessary to each others' existence. "She's So Heavy" would be too lumbering without "I Want You" and "I Want You" would have no release without "She's So Heavy"

"Hey Jude" is something I've never, like, WILLINGLY put on; but when I hear it I ain't mad

well, I love the groove of the "I want you" part (especially Macca's bass) but not too much the "stoner rock" "she's so heavy".

roughly on IWYSSH : bass parts >>> guitar parts

xp Man, that's insanity. And Paul goes totally nuts on "She's So Heavy", his weirdest bass playing

definitive version of iwyssh -

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

No racist creepiness in that production, nosiree.

lol I referenced that scene on the "Shitty Basslines" thread, when Scik Mouthy said he'd never heard of the movie. Make sure to watch at 6:15 for some weird Barry Gibb/female actress double breadstick fellation.

xp Oh god, I just had the tab open in the background. Do I even wanna know?

That version was kind of alternatingly gruesome and awesome? The part where it went fully jazz-funk toward the end!

Just your basic Women of Color = sinful temptation equation, no biggie. (Vomit.)

ugh

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

That's funny--"Hey Jude" elicits every kind of response except "I think this song's slowly starting to grow on me."

Okay, I've just suddenly been reminded of how fucking awesome 'It's All Too Much' is.

You have to track down the 7 min version..

seems like a lot of votes!

Canon iirc