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.

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