Revolution - Official ILX Beatles tracks poll results

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPpT3jeQtJI

COMPULSORY PREFACE
(This Means You)
Beatle surveys have previously been undertaken with the object of exalting them. The object of this ballot is to console the ILXor. No other Beatles poll does this.

Ranking the songs has not been done with regard to what you thought was important or significant. It was done on the basis of what songs you can still enjoy. All other Beatles history fatigues itself and all around.

This is the only Memorable Beatles History of Merrie England, because all the Songs that you can remember is in this survey, which is the result of weeks of research in oh I dunno where, etc.

I'd like to take this opportunity of acknowledging an inestimable debt to the mass of educated men and women ILXors whose historical intuitions and opinions this work enshrines. Damn Right it does.

Beatles History is now at an end (see p. 123); this History is therefore final. Hopefully.

Wrong board, mate

Right, as I said previously, I was looking to start the countdown proper on Monday.

As the fifties results are still rolling, and how fine they are, I'd like to wait until that one is done before beginning this one.

However, I thought I'd add a couple of tantalising tidbits of info that you may find interesting until the main feature begins.

So, on with the show, good health to yough...

xpost oh buggr...

got it

Wrong board, mate
(I'd just like to point out it's been moved now - I'm not insane)

Something tells me my #1 "Rare Jam Session" didn't make the cut.

To begin with, these are the noteable songs (i.e. not cover versions) that received absolutely no votes at all!

No Votes At All

When I'm 64
I'm Down
It's only love
Yer Blues
From me to you / Thank You Girl
Doctor Robert
Little Child
I wanna be your man
Good Day Sunshine
Run for your life
What Goes On
Wild Honey Pie

Kinda surprising about "Yer Blues"!

almost voted "Good Day Sunshine"! one of my last cuts

Little Child
I wanna be your man

So then I was prolly the only vote for "All I've Got To Do."

"Yer" was certainly a surprise, it used to be the 6th form common room's Beatles choice.

"Good Day Sunshine" I think lost out to people voting "got to get you into my life" instead.

I had "It's only love" at pos 22 on mine.

And, clearly, judging by the first song on the list, I didn't get a Geir ballot.

xpost that'd be telling...

When I'm 64 - awww! I didn't vote for it obviously, but it's a cuet little song. Always assumed there were fans of Dr Robert, and Good Day Sunshine. Run For Your Life is controversial and creepy, but not a bad song. And it's a shame that anything off Rubber Soul didn't get a vote.

I'm sort of mortified that "I'm Down" didn't get one, not even from me.

I nearly voted for Good Day Sunshine and When I'm 64.

Considered "I'm Down" but it wouldn't have made a difference as it turns out.

can't we just start the countdown?

Conversely:

All songs from these albums got vote(s)

Abbey Road

Hard Days Night

Yellow Submarine (side 1)

Magical Mystery Tour

xpost I hear you, but I need to get ready and sort out youtubes and fancy stuff..

i'm into the idea of respecting other polls by waiting until they conclude, it also amps up the excitement!

that's weird, i didn't vote for anything from yellow sub--maybe mine didn't get counted :(

oh my bad, sorry, i see what you are saying (just woke up, no coffee)

This means that someone voted for Your Mother Should Know.

That was probably close for me, but I did not.

I nearly voted for Run For Your Life because I fucking love it, I don't care about the lyrics.

...as one of the 20 best songs by the Beatles musical group.

This means that someone voted for Your Mother Should Know

OH YEAH

Let's all get up and vote for a song...

also Maxwell's Silver Hammer and You Know My Name

I love You Know My Name, although it didn't make my list.

Leaving Yer Blues off my list was VERY tough.

"I'm Down" would be the biggest surprise for me from your no-vote list. I think it's right there with "She's a Woman" and "Helter Skelter" as the hardest rock the Beatles ever did.

I voted for Your Mother Should Know and You Know My Name. The latter very high up.

So fuck you.

(jks, lol!)

('o')

hang on Mark, I voted for "It's Only Love" at #20 on my list - did you not get it? (sent July 7th to beatlespoll at hotmail dot co dot uk). do I need to resend?

will check.

So Paul did vote in this after all--excellent!

John, George, Ringo,

(always wanted to do that)

was totally thinking of throwing "I'm Down" points

Aw, I love Doctor Robert, it's just not quite as good as the other songs that sound like it on Revolver.

Right, I've reviewed a few songs' totals on my spreadsheet calc, and I'm finding a whole bunch of wrong ones.

I've not missed anybody's totals, I'm pretty sure, but I shall mail you to confirm I have yours.

Hopefully, this won't delay proceedings.

I'll honestly sleep easier tonight knowing that you've got my ballot.

I'll email confirmations tomorrow.

(lol)

You're the best, Mark G. Thanks for doing this

Right, have assimilated the votes properlt now, and used a SQL database to calculate it.

Boy, did I miss a fair bit out!.

Anyway, as a present:

A taster, the song that came in last place.

195: Misery (points: 12, votes: 1)

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

195: Misery (points: 12, votes: 1) (LP: Please Please Me)

I shall try to indicate the primary source.

looking at the range of, er, ideas and attitudes expressed in George's songs is pretty funny. "I'm too rich to pay taxes!", "I have achieved enlightenment," "the rich are scum!", "oooh dessert!"

Oh, leave George alone, don't bother him.

94 Yes It Is (12 for anthology version) (Points: 89, Votes: 5, NumberOnes: 0)

I'm gonna guess that not enough people have heard "Yes It Is."

Actually, Take One of "Yes it is" is great, but the anthology went with take 2.

All of those songs with 3-part harmony are the best.. Yes It Is, This Boy, Because..

yknow, these dudes had a lot of good songs

the biggest surprise for me here is 'because' missing out.

pretty happy to see 'i'm only sleeping' in the top 10. i might have placed that near the top had i voted.

I was pleasantly shocked to see "I'm Only Sleeping" on so many ballots. Never knew so many other people loved that song.

yeah i've always had a soft spot for the song, but always considered it a kind of tucked away gem.

also need to mention that this song has reawakened my love for 'for no one'. what a beautifully constructed little number.

my ballot:

Dear Prudence
She Loves You
Revolution
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Yesterday
Glass Onion
I've Got A Feeling
Help!
A Day In The Life
Good Morning Good Morning
She Said She Said
Twist And Shout
I Am The Walrus
Blackbird
Let It Be
Paperback Writer
Can't Buy Me Love
We Can Work It Out
You Never Give Me Your Money
All My Loving

I know it's completely obvious, but with the community of ILM and its multi-national roots, I'd love to hear an ILX comp of Beatle covers.

It'd be better than anything Wet Wet Wet ever did.

Anything would,...

thanks for the reminder..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ9h8bbDxUg

better yet
~WORST~ performance on this 2005 Grammys All-Star Rendition of The Beatles' "Across The Universe"

I mentioned this above, but if there was covers poll this would be my #1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2fnVfUYYvE

"an ILX comp of Beatle covers." opening track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhGPXeoH53g

Do Earth Wind and Fire post here? I think it was just Wind...

ahh, ilx. please never stop being cryptic and inscrutable!

....umm, a reference to the lyrics from the second verse of "because"?

...wait. are you saying one of the members of that band hangs out here?

i remember when one of the dudes from cameo dropped in to contribute to okplayer's artist-of-the-month:cameo thing, that was dope!

I know it's completely obvious, but with the community of ILM and its multi-national roots, I'd love to hear an ILX comp of Beatle covers.

It'd be better than anything Wet Wet Wet ever did.

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If this ever happens, I bagsy "Hey Bulldog", like, immediately.

how could any version of Hey Bulldog be better than my teenage band's baggy-style cover?

that sounds awesome.

Maybe we should only do "Hey Bulldog" as an ILX cover compilation!

I would be so down with 20 covers of Hey Bulldog.

But that wasn't what I was thinking at first.

I know, but it's gotta be different, yeah?

My ballot:
1. Strawberry Fields Forever
2. Here There and Everywhere
3. Ticket to Ride
4. Day Tripper
5. If I Needed Someone
6. Julia
7. Revolution (take 20)
8. Something
9. Twist & Shout
10. Not Guilty
11. I'm Only Sleeping
12. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
13. No Reply
14. She Loves You
15. Within You Without You
16. You Never Give Me Your Money
17. A Hard Day's Night
18. We Can Work It Out
19. There's A Place
20. The Night Before

mine:
1. I Saw Her Standing There
2. Here Comes the Sun
3. I Should Have Known Better
4. Penny Lane
5. Tomorrow Never Knows
6. Love Me Do
7. She Loves You
8. Day Tripper
9. Dear Prudence
1o. All My Loving
11. I Want to Hold Your Hand
12. You Won't See Me
13. Come Together
14. If I Needed Someone
15. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
16. With A Little Help from My Friends
17. Nowhere Man
18. Hey Jude
19. Hello, Goodbye
20. Yellow Submarine

So many songs pop up that give you a warm glow in a poll like this because their catalogue is stuffed with them. John and Paul singing together on There's a Place. I remember trying to replicate that song aged 15 with my band's equipment and multi-tracking experiments with a pair of tape recorders.

Hi,

Last night I was playing some of these youtubes, as back when I compiled these I basically played a small section to check if they were awesome (or awful) enough.

I think this guy should be re-seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxm3x6wiiD4

You know that pic of Robert Johnson with the cig and the guitar, those spindly fingers? This is like watching that photo. (Also check out the Hey Jude vid upthread)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaRz-3DYV7c&feature=youtu.be

nice. don't think i'd seen all of that.

nice

lennon's sideburns are kind of nuts there.

He had just come from playing keyboards at a Doors show.

That incidentally is the *only* Beatles song where's there's a video of the final track (as heard on the album) being recorded in the studio

Nothing from "Let It Be"?

Only "One after 909" as recorded at the rooftop.

The rest were re-recorded in a studio. The film shows rehearsals, ostensibly.

A Day in the Life video was shot while they did the orchestra overdub, fwiw.

Something I hadn't heard before...

The DVD "Unsurpassed Videos" set you can find ... Volume 2 of the "Studio Years" has a whole section of instrumental mixes of side 2 of "Abbey Road", which are quite amazing.

In isolation, "You never give me your money" onwards sounds a lot like "Dark Side of the Moon".

I also came across the "Cathode Ray" DVD series, basically all the TV appearances between 1962 and 1967 or thereabouts, that they made that haven't been officially issued.

Their version of the end-play of "Midsummer nights dream" that I only had fanmag pics of, then found a VHS at a record fair for 'howmuch?' money, and plenty more.

The sort of stuff I would have ended up paying a fortune for but now, thanks to the internet, I can get plus the quality is as good as possible...

In isolation, "You never give me your money" onwards sounds a lot like "Dark Side of the Moon".

I can see that. "Sun King" and "Because," especially. And maybe the latter part of "Polythene Pam."

On my way into work in the car this morning, the "Helter Skelter" mono remaster came up, and I had it turned up pretty loud and was blown away by how much more powerful and aggressive it sounded than the stereo version. That song must have absolutely blown people away in 1968.

This is a good read on a quiet day..

Results are really quite unpredictable until the top 3.

Never mentioned this here on this thread, but this actually wound up happening:

Download & Listen to COMP TOGETHER - ILX Covers The Beatles (Available Now!)

yes.

107 Every Little Thing (Points: 70, Votes: 3, NumberOnes: 0)

This is low! I might have voted for it in retrospect.

I rank their run of 15 top tens b/w 1964-1965.

Would move several of your "solid"s up to "good to great" but can't truly disagree with much else.

all of those songs are amazing. you’re crazy

also, unrelated, what was the name of the (taiwanese i think ?) director whose screenshot you had on your blog for the longest time before you changed it ?