I've Got a Poll In Me Pocket - the Yellow Submarine Poll!

Several of my least favorite Beatles songs ("All You Need is Love," "Only a Northern Song).

Vote: "Hey Bulldog" (woof, woof).

Baby You're A Rich Fag Jew.

"Hey Bulldog" by miles and miles and miles.

Eleanor Rigby by kilometers. wish i had this on something other than vhs :(

Has to be "Hey Bulldog" though there was something a little musically prescient about "It's All Too Much."

Voted for "Only a Northern Song." But this movie on mushrooms at the Castro Theater in SF = greatest experience ever.

"All You Need Is Love". Was even on the original version of the soundtrack, which means it makes sense voting for.

"Hey Bulldog" in a walk, but "It's All Too Much" is really fabulous too. One sort of wishes the Beatles had come from a different era of bands, where they could have done a whole EP/album of songs like that and it would have been understood as a genre excursion and not some sort of giant deal. You always feel like there's so much at stake with the precious Beatle LPs, and I guess Yellow Submarine is really the only one that escapes that, by being such an oddity and all. It could have really gotten away with being a 7" of "Hey Bulldog" backed with "It's All Too Much" in the end. Related to all this babble: my belief that the Beatles could have survived if they'd found a contract-filling way to put out solo albums under their own aegis ("The Beatles Present...John Lennon") a la KISS...blah blah blah....

See also: The four original Beatles songs on the Yellow Submarine soundtrack: Are they classics or are they duds?

Man, Baby You're A Rich Man and Hey Bulldog are neck and neck here....

I thought I was going to vote "Northern Song" or "It's All Too Much", but I went with "All Together Now". I value it's simplicity. It gets stuck in my head occasionally, but in a good way.

But this movie on mushrooms at the Castro Theater in SF = greatest experience ever.

Back in the acid-eating days, this is the only movie I really grokked on out of any that my friends assured me would be good to watch while tripping.

Me: Hey! I got a ten-strip/gel-tabs/some liquid!
Friends: Have you ever seen "The Wall"/"2001"/"A Clockwork Orange"?

Fuckers.

gotta go with "northern song" -- it was george's "i am the walrus." "bulldog" is nipping at its heels, though. and fuck those goddamn martin pieces. all they showed was that he was at sea (um...no pun intended) without the beatles.

"All Too Much" and "Northern Song" split my Harrison vote, so I went for "Hey Bulldog".

fuck those goddamn martin pieces

I really like "Pepperland".

"Hey Bulldog", not counting the songs not on the original soundtrack, and really, not much room here for alternatives. "Only a Northern Song" is truly terrible methinks, down there with "Your Mother Should Know" at the bottom of the Beatles' heap.

I love "Your Mother Should Know".

Well, your mileage may vary, as they say.

Can we vote for the awful blue gradient?

No, you blueness!

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i think "your mother should know" is one of the best things they ever did, and i'm not just being contrary!

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Haven't seen the film in a long time.. Is "Baby You're A Rich Man" actually in there? I know the song was recorded specially for the movie, but was left off the soundtrack.

Lots of people apparently chose to pick songs that were actually only in the soundtrack and nowhere else.

"Hey Bulldog" obviously isn't a better song than all those classics way down the list, but at least it is nowhere else than on "Yellow Submarine".

The best song only available on that soundtrack is "It's Only a Northern Song" though.

Excellent homemade video for "It's All Too Much" from ILM's Myonga Von Bontee.

Definitely my favourite song on this album--"Baby, You're a Rich Man"'s close--also one of my two or three favourite by George.