Come Together

The OG is undeniable.

Beatles: excellent
Spiritualized: quite good
Blur: good
MC5: bad

I like the one from the Beloved.

Far too many times to note I'll be listening to the classic rock station and think they are playing the Beatles version until I discover it's the Aerosmith version.

yeah there are loads of other versions of the beatles' song which are not included here, most of them are bad.

I think Abbie Hoffman had written a song called "Come Together" and asked John Lennon to do it, but he didn't and nicked the title instead.

So I read, anyway

The MC5, easy choice

Almost went Spiritualized, but I heard the primal scream one on topofthepops yesterday, so.

Obviously the Beatles one is best, but hey let's not.

I voted for it because it's one of the few Beatles songs I genuinely love and I need to make up for my overall bias against them every once in a while.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ-_gkY2804

I believe the MC5 song is the only one of these to feature the chant, "Nipples stiffen! Nipples stiffen!"

The Annie and Spiritualized ones are are very good

Hate the Beatles one - shitty annoying lyrics like a lot of their stuff

yeah I deny the Beatles one, part of my oft-repeated 'Abbey Road needs to lose the first 5 tracks then it's perfect' opinion

voted Spiritualized

Always found the Beatles song a bit of a slog. The Blur song is... not good, but that's the song that started playing in my head when I saw the thread title, so voted that.

Quite into the 7" single version of Primal Scream's song, with the full lead vocal

imago at 6:17 15 Feb 21
yeah I deny the Beatles one, part of my oft-repeated 'Abbey Road needs to lose the first 5 tracks then it's perfect' opinion
voted Spiritualized

yeah I deny the Beatles one, part of my oft-repeated 'Abbey Road needs to lose the first 5 tracks then it's perfect' opinion

voted Spiritualized

― imago, Monday, February 15, 2021 12:17 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Hear, hear! Abbey Road starting with 'I Want You (She's So Heavy)' would improve the album 1000%. 'Octopus's Garden' is pish imo.

Voted Spiritualized, though I've a soft spot for both Annie's and MC5's 'Come Together'.

Wow, the love for Abbey Road is sort of mysterious to me but the first two songs + "Here Comes the Sun" are the ones I'd keep.

People frontin like it's not clearly The Beatles.

The only band drearier than Primal Scream is Spiritualized (OK maybe The Verve, but they don't have a song called Come Together).

I haven't actually listened to most of these so haven't voted but I do like the Beatles song a lot. I think I knew it first from the Aerosmith version.

Side 1 of Abbey Road is patchy but those two Harrison songs are undeniable, even if Here Comes The Sun is a bit overplayed.

Weatherall's 10 minute album mix is the best version of Primal Scream's Come Together as it features none of Gillespie's vocals

Always liked this "Come Together", one of those great looped-sample French house bangers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx-rGywXOSE

I remember I've heard the Primal Scream song too, it's OK (worse than Blur and better than MC5).

Yeah the Blur song really is pretty good imo, but I had to vote Spiritualized as that song is a force of nature

I like the Spirtualised song as it's like a much better-realised version of what The Verve (and sometimes Oasis) were trying to do

worth pointing out that the MC5 song was released 7 months before the beatles song

spiritualized "come together" rocks in all the worst ways: dinky over-treated sounding guitars, plodding beat, ott backing vocals

MC5 "come together" rocks in the best ways: unhinged vocals, loud guitars that sound cool, lyrics about nipples & orgasms

easy vote for Primal Scream

tho the single mix is a disgrace

Primal Scream’s “Come Together” (the Jesse Jackson version) and it’s not close.

"Come2gether", by Crystal Method from the compilation album Mortal Kombat: More Kombat

lol what the fuck is this?

Crystal Method are breaks/DnB producers I think?

list is from here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_Together_(disambiguation)

or let's try again https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_Together_(disambiguation)

nope, end brackets do not have a workaround. :(

It’s nice to see the Abbey Road slander in this thread. I love the Beatles dearly but that album is overrated. I’d rather listen to Let It Be (the album) nine times out of ten

I like the one from the Beloved.

You're thinking of "Sweet Harmony"?

I always thought that The Beatles' one is nowhere near their top tier of songs. Same for SPZ. Primal Scream's (the ten minute version) is a stone cold classic and these days it's the only one of their songs that I can really get into.

I really love Pepper/MMT/White and love a lot of everything from before that, but never got that into what came after.

Abbey Road was where slickness really took over. I love "Something", but they'd never had such an anonymous, decorative string arrangement before, for instance.

Abbey Road was the first Beatles album I listened to all the way through, on my parents record player aged probably 12, and it's been my favourite ever since.

I think that's probably it, Halfway there.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

primal scream

Beatles but Primal Scream on that tour was so over the top mind blowing i had to vote for it here. love Annie and Spiritualized too, can't remember the Blur one at the moment.

surely the absolute most overplayed beatles track?

Voted for Crystal Method because believe it or not it was the first version of the song I think I listened to by choice on my own.

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

this Top 3 is my Top 3 order, so perfect.

Spiritualized should be no. 2 but I agree otherwise.