US #1s of 1965

kind of difficult imo

jeeeeeez.

i guess i can boil it down to "my girl" vs. "help me rhonda" vs. "satisfaction" vs. "help."

uh ... vs. "turn! turn! turn!" vs. "stop in the name of love" vs ....

forget it.

I think I'm voting for the four tops, but yeah this is a pretty crazy list

Holy crap, most impossible.

Will probably vote for "Ticket to Ride," but four or five songs get cheated.

DC5!

probably turn! turn! turn! but about ten other incredible songs here

"Mr. Tambourine Man" but yikes; next "I Hear A Symphony". lol @ 2 Herman's Hermits though.

Probably should do with "Satisfaction," but I'm voting for "Hang On Sloopy" instead because somebody should. Lots and lots of things tied for third place.

voted "my girl" cuz it's maybe my favorite smokey song, and the temptations sing it so pretty.

damn! that was a good year for number one singles. i even sorta like some of the cheesier ones like downtown/i got you. gonna have to got for my fave fab four song out of the lot, just on principle.... no, wait! stop in the name of love! get off of my cloud! hang on sloopy! turn turn turn! my girl! man, a very high quality-to-dross ratio here. maybe we should all abstain

lots of brilliant pop songs on the ballot, but if satisfaction loses this then ILM is beyond hope imho.

Wow--there couldn't possibly be another year with as high a percentage of good-to-great #1s. The only two songs that even approach mediocrity for me are "I'm Telling You Now" and "Henry VIII." My real vote would go to "Eight Days a Week," but I'll vote instead for one of two sentimental picks that likely won't get another vote: "Downtown" or "Mrs. Brown."

Didn't want to think about too much. Went with "Get Off My Cloud." It should get some love but it seems the Stones vote will go to Satisfaction.

Nice to see a few of my personal underdogs get a sympathy vote, thereby relieving me of that duty. Going with "Get off My Cloud", one of my favourite Stones joints and the prototype for a thousand garage bands.

WOW. We should be able to Pick Only 10 with this list. Voted Help.

i can't help myself, today at least

Said that living with me was bringing her dooooooooooooooooooooooooooown, yeah!

kind of a weak entry from the beach boys for this year doncha think?

but if satisfaction loses this then ILM is beyond hope imho

Color me beyond hope as there's 8 or 9 other songs which I'd vote for ahead of satisfaction, including the other Stones entry. As for what I'll pick, pretty much impossible. When people say the 60s were the golden age of pop I usually just roll my eyes, but this is pretty strong evidence that they're right.

So many fantastic songs. Voted "Yesterday" because, you know, there is a reason why it has been covered thousands of times.

I voted for "This Diamond Ring". Everything else gets played on oldies radio too much and causes me pain.

"Turn! Turn! Turn!" narrowly over "Satisfaction" narrowly over "Downtown" narrowly over "Lovin' Feeling" etc.

"Downtown" makes me happiest of all these tunes, so that. "Get Off of My Cloud" would probably get my vote if i was in a feistier mood (and if it wasn't so damn hot right now), tho.

def "satisfaction"

would've voted for "my girl" otherwise

I have no problem not voting for 'Satisfaction' as I prefer Otis's version but, wow, what a hard choice. I'll vote for 'Downtown' merely on the basis of its being the tune most likely to bubble up to the top of the froth of my unconscious mind.

Help!

"You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling"

kind of a weak entry from the beach boys for this year doncha think?

No way! Love that song.

Decided "My Girl" on basis of never having had a spontaneous office-wide singalong to any of the others, also none of the rest seemed quite as perfect.

It's a lot easier to pick the worst songs on this list.

I love the Four Tops SO FUCKING MUCH but I've never cared for that song ;_;

I mean I don't dislike it but it is miles away from their best.

May I say how pleasurable 'Hang on Sloopy' is? The singer sounds like an affable and sentimental schlub who's muttering to himself, drunk, alone, in the corner of her graduation party, interspersed with some 'A-SLOOPY SLOOPY SLOOPY YEAH.' It just sounds to happy and lazy and sloppy to get up and turn the channel.

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

What is this, Rolling Stone magazine?

I like the 1s and 2s best! and the no votes all deserved no votes.

"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" is less good than Marvin Gaye, Martha and the Vandellas, Sam & the Sham, and the Kinks, not to mention another Stones #1 that year.

"Get Off of My Cloud"?

I like it, but it's no "Satisfaction"

so many iconic songs from 1965

I like "Cloud"s slurring incoherence, Watts' drums, those malcontent guitars.

“Satisfaction” is one of those songs that blew my mind so hard as a kid that I can only wax rhapsodic about it

Man, if I could go back in time and see the '65 Stones in concert.

"Downtown" with the same number of votes as "Ticket to Ride". Was this some sort of George Costanza bump?