c)Predict the order of which of these will appear first, second, third and fourth on the count down....
a) Bobby Layne has his first song posted
b) Krista4 has her first song posted
c) Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da is posted.
d) Eight Days A Week is posted.
One after 909 was in my original submission, but got the boot after a Friday night shuffle the day before the deadline led to 3 edits. It was the last cut.The songs from this list that would have a decent-to-good shot of making my top 100 are Doctor Robert, I Wanna Be Your Man, It's Only Love, One After 909, Only a Northern Song, Sexy Sadie, Slow Down and There's a Place.
Doctor Robert and Sexy Sadie are the biggest no-vote shockers for me.
Along with Revolution 9, my bottom 5 probably includes A Taste of Honey, Piggies, Wild Honey Pie and Honey Pie.
Dig It, Her Majesty and Maggie Mae would probably be pretty low (Binky: high) because they barely qualify as songs.
I can’t freakin’ believe Ob-La-Dud is in the top 60.Predict the order of which of these will appear first, second, third and fourth on the count down....
a) Bobby Layne has his first song posted
b) Krista4 has her first song posted
c) Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da is posted.
d) Eight Days A Week is posted.
A, B, and C simultaneouslyPredict the order of which of these will appear first, second, third and fourth on the count down....
a) Bobby Layne has his first song posted
b) Krista4 has her first song posted
c) Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da is posted.
d) Eight Days A Week is posted.
Serious answer: C, A, B, DPredict the order of which of these will appear first, second, third and fourth on the count down....
a) Bobby Layne has his first song posted
b) Krista4 has her first song posted
c) Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da is posted.
d) Eight Days A Week is posted.
They cast a wide net.I can’t freakin’ believe Ob-La-Dud is in the top 60.
You can place some of the blame on Life Goes OnI can’t freakin’ believe Ob-La-Dud is in the top 60.
Big fan of this song. The strings are wonderful. I actually like Paul's voice and how it kind of rolls up an down as he meanders through the verses. MY third favourite (sic) off this album and likely top 40 for me.Getzlaf15 said:She’s Leaving Home
2022 Ranking: 63
2022 Lists: 12
2022 Points: 109
Ranked Highest by: @Uruk-Hai (8) @Oliver Humanzee(dad)(12) @ManOfSteelhead (15) @Binky The Doormat (15) @Shaft41 (15) @pecorino (17) @Encyclopedia Brown (19) @John Maddens Lunchbox (22) @Dr. Octopus (23)
2019 Ranking/Lists/Pts: 103/2/15
The more I listen to this song the more I love it.The Ballad of John and Yoko
2022 Ranking: 61
2022 Lists: 8
2022 Points: 120
Ranked Highest by: @Gr00vus (1) @DaVinci (4) @Man of Constant Sorrow (9) @shuke (9) @Dwayne Hoover (13) @Murph (14) @wikkidpissah (17) Krista(TJ/Holly) (24)
2019 Ranking/Lists/Pts: 42/6/95
It’s not super important but I *think* there should be 34 zero vote songs?Act Naturally
Ask Me Why
Baby It's You
Chains
Devil In Her Heart
Dig It
Doctor Robert
Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby
Good Night
Her Majesty
Hold Me Tight
Honey Don't
Honey Pie
I Wanna Be Your Man
I'll Get You
It's Only Love
Little Child
Maggie Mae
Matchbox
Misery
One After 909
Only A Northern Song
Piggies
Please Mister Postman
Sexy Sadie
Slow Down
The Inner Light
There's A Place
When I Get Home
Wild Honey Pie
Words Of Love
Yes It Is
I remember playing this song a lot when I got the blue album. Even though it wasn't in my Top 25 favorites, I still love it.
c, b, a, dPredict the order of which of these will appear first, second, third and fourth on the count down....
a) Bobby Layne has his first song posted
b) Krista4 has her first song posted
c) Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da is posted.
d) Eight Days A Week is posted.
b,a,c,dPredict the order of which of these will appear first, second, third and fourth on the count down....
a) Bobby Layne has his first song posted
b) Krista4 has her first song posted
c) Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da is posted.
d) Eight Days A Week is posted.
A Tase of HoneyIt’s not super important but I *think* there should be 34 zero vote songs?Act Naturally
Ask Me Why
Baby It's You
Chains
Devil In Her Heart
Dig It
Doctor Robert
Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby
Good Night
Her Majesty
Hold Me Tight
Honey Don't
Honey Pie
I Wanna Be Your Man
I'll Get You
It's Only Love
Little Child
Maggie Mae
Matchbox
Misery
One After 909
Only A Northern Song
Piggies
Please Mister Postman
Sexy Sadie
Slow Down
The Inner Light
There's A Place
When I Get Home
Wild Honey Pie
Words Of Love
Yes It Is
204 + Free As A Bird + Real Love is 206 and 172 got votes.
Anyway, NBD. Appreciate all you do, big task running this thread. Been fun to follow along.
Thanks, but please do me a favor and quote the entire post.It’s not super important but I *think* there should be 34 zero vote songs?
204 + Free As A Bird + Real Love is 206 and 172 got votes.
Anyway, NBD. Appreciate all you do, big task running this thread. Been fun to follow along.
Just realized another big reason why I like this song. The 6/8(or 3/4?) beat. I used to do a wee bit of ballroom dancing and loved the waltz. It just clicked in my head that this would be great to dance to.Big fan of this song. The strings are wonderful. I actually like Paul's voice and how it kind of rolls up an down as he meanders through the verses. MY third favourite (sic) off this album and likely top 40 for me.
Ok, I did this really quick and I could be missing one song. that I'm not going to try an d figure out...
Here's the songs that didn't get a vote:
A Taste Of Honey
Act Naturally
Ask Me Why
Baby It's You
Chains
Devil In Her Heart
Dig It
Doctor Robert
Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby
Good Night
Her Majesty
Hold Me Tight
Honey Don't
Honey Pie
I Wanna Be Your Man
I'll Get You
It's Only Love
Little Child
Maggie Mae
Matchbox
Misery
One After 909
Only A Northern Song
Piggies
Please Mister Postman
Sexy Sadie
Slow Down
The Inner Light
There's A Place
When I Get Home
Wild Honey Pie
Words Of Love
Yes It Is
Serious answer: C, A, B, DPredict the order of which of these will appear first, second, third and fourth on the count down....
a) Bobby Layne has his first song posted
b) Krista4 has her first song posted
c) Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da is posted.
d) Eight Days A Week is posted.
I imagine a lot of folks don't like this due to its length. I love it because at this stage, the Beatles had done just about everything else but have an extended jam session to demonstrate their immense talent. And this was their stage to do just that.
cI just posted song #60. The first of these four appears later today at #58. Get your guesses in!
Predict the order of which of these will appear first, second, third and fourth on the count down....
a) Bobby Layne has his first song posted
b) Krista4 has her first song posted
c) Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da is posted.
d) Eight Days A Week is posted.
I wonder if he's setting us up for a shocking reveal that Ob-La-Dot is ranked higher (Binky: lower) than Eight Days a Week.This was my initial thought, too.
c-a-b-dI just posted song #60. The first of these four appears later today at #58. Get your guesses in!
Predict the order of which of these will appear first, second, third and fourth on the count down....
a) Bobby Layne has his first song posted
b) Krista4 has her first song posted
c) Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da is posted.
d) Eight Days A Week is posted.
Based on the chalk leaders right now, it would not be shocking.I wonder if he's setting us up for a shocking reveal that Ob-La-Dot is ranked higher (Binky: lower) than Eight Days a Week.
I had this at 25 - but probably should have been higher.I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
2022 Ranking: 60
2022 Lists: 13
2022 Points: 122
Ranked Highest by: @Murph (6) @jamny (6) @Pip's Invitation (7) @zamboni (7) @shuke (15)
2019 Ranking/Lists/Pts: 72/4/34
Getz comments: Getting to the point where it's going to be hard to @ everyone in every song that voted. Very solid increase from 2019 on the amount of voters and points. Hope this makes my 64 list.
Krista4
My 2019 ranking: 75
2019 write-up:
I Want You (She's So Heavy) (Abbey Road, 1969)
This is the prime example in Beatledom of a song I admire more than love. If I were to do a list of "best" songs, this would probably be in the top five. I think everything about it is brilliant, especially the bass lines. I also think that, among all the Beatles catalogue, this song is the one that could most likely fit right into music today. Not saying it's a single that [insert name of popular singer right now since I am old and have no clue] would release it, but it could slide right into alternative rock. It's just that, if I'm going to listen to Beatles music, there are 54-94 songs I'll probably put on first.
I don't feel like I'm going to do this song justice in my write-up, so I'm hoping that someone who has it in their top 10 can step in and talk about it instead. This is my friend Jane's favorite Beatles song; maybe I should ask her.
Mr. krista: "It’s a really good song that reminds me of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins's 'I Put a Spell on You.' [Sings.] Paul McCartney’s bass line is the rock star in there. The song is such a dirge. [Sings bass line and plays air bass.] I like the Moog freak-out at the end. I had a Moog app for a while and thought I could make noise music. I couldn’t."
Suggested covers: This makes sense: Flaming Lips This makes less sense: Sarah Vaughan Thanks, munga!: Umphrey's McGee
2022 Supplement: Hey! Here’s one where I really fell down on the job in 2019, so I have a chance for redemption.
This song, like many from this time, was a love song for Yoko. John wanted to see how far he could go in expressing himself with an economy of words: “In 'She's So Heavy,' I just sang, 'I want you, I want you so bad, she's so heavy, I want you,' like that.” He described his ultimate goal as writing a “perfect” song using only one word; Yoko had made this drawing in 1964 that contained only one word: https://www.moma.org/collection/works/127491 .
The sound of this song is among the heaviest the Beatles ever recorded, with layers and layers of overdubs and use of a variety of new playthings, including the Moog synthesizer, to give the massive sound that the band wanted. John’s desperate, increasingly distressed vocal flows perfectly from whisper to scream, with the tempo changes to match, and the punctuation of his lines with the guitar imitation of the vocal is brilliant. Other standouts to me are Paul’s wandering bassline and Ringo’s unusually heavy and deranged drumming. The ending might be a “love or hate,” but I love it. At that point John has worked the band (and the listeners) into such a frenzy that the abrupt silence seems perfect. Geoff Emerick has said that he thought it was going to fade out, but “suddenly John told me, 'Cut the tape.’ I was apprehensive at first: We'd never done anything like that. 'Cut the tape?' But he was insistent, and he wound up being right.”
We got a bit of rehearsal of this song in the Get Back documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHjxNCYgahA and a longer audio-only version of an early, funkier jam session of the song can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00yc9deNrL0
Guido Merkins
By 1969 John was totally in love with Yoko. Like it or not, most of the material he was cranking out, had to do with his relationship with Yoko. One of those is I Want You (She’s So Heavy) which closes out side one of the Abbey Road album.
The song is unusual for several reasons. It’s length, almost 8 minutes. The minimalist lyrics. The time signature changes. The laid back sections of I Want You contrasted with the shouting of the She’s So Heavy sections. That one section of I want you that almost goes into a Latin rhythm. And while most people try to avoid white noise on a record, John asked for it and got it, louder and louder at the end until you can’t stand it anymore, then it just cuts off abruptly. When I first got the cassette I thought it was defective.
I Want You(She’s So Heavy) is another of those songs you can play with joy to people who call the Beatles “not rock” or “bubblegum.” It’s an extremely heavy record that predates even Black Sabbath by a few months. Also notable is Ringo’s drumming and Paul’s bass runs which is in between verses.
@AAABatteries among others absorb music differently (NTTAWWT), but while length doesn't make a great song the best songs have it. This is absolutely one of them.I imagine a lot of folks don't like this due to its length. I love it because at this stage, the Beatles had done just about everything else but have an extended jam session to demonstrate their immense talent. And this was their stage to do just that.
Gotta be C first. Ain’t no way the consensus has Paul’s jaunty gibberish any higher.I just posted song #60. The first of these four appears later today at #58. Get your guesses in!
Predict the order of which of these will appear first, second, third and fourth on the count down....
a) Bobby Layne has his first song posted
b) Krista4 has her first song posted
c) Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da is posted.
d) Eight Days A Week is posted.
Gotta be C first. Ain’t no way the consensus has Paul’s jaunty gibberish any higher.
That said…our favorite couple to hang with have cats named Desmond and Molly. I knew immediately they’d be kindred spirits (they’re friends of my fiancé.)
Eight Days a Week will precede K4 and I having the same first song. #cutthebicycleinhalf
C-D-A/B
ranked higher (Binky: lower)
but at the lower (Binky, higher)
Everyone knows after Georgia won the College Football Championship everyone ranked them 324th in the Nation.
The best use of this was in the solo Beatles countdown when Krista introduced a Paul song as “Hi, Hi, Hi (Binky: Lo, Lo, Lo)”.
shocking, shafting, what's the difference?Based on the chalk leaders right now, it would not be shocking.
I can see k4's friends ranking Ob-la, as well Shaftkid, and sing-a-long lovers like JML, fatguy, etc. It's a happy sounding tune.shocking, shafting, what's the difference?Based on the chalk leaders right now, it would not be shocking.
#19I can see k4's friends ranking Ob-la, as well Shaftkid, and sing-a-long lovers like JML, fatguy, etc. It's a happy sounding tune.
Not even close on this one.I can see k4's friends ranking Ob-la, as well Shaftkid, and sing-a-long lovers like JML, fatguy, etc. It's a happy sounding tune.
I'm telling you: these kids have been raised right.I can see k4's friends ranking Ob-la, as well Shaft&kids, and sing-a-long lovers like JML, fatguy, etc. It's a happy sounding tune.
Sounds like a Who song countdown is emerging next.I'm telling you: these kids have been raised right.
This song has steadily risen up the ranks for me over the years, but not quite to lofty top 25 levels. Not having ever owned the Abbey Road album, I was not familiar with it upon getting Beatles: Rock Band in 2009. The first time I sat down to try this one, I distinctly remember thinking: "When is this ever going to end?" The first time my wife heard it, she responded the way she often does when listening to a new Beatles song for the first time: "Man, how high (Binky: low) were they when they wrote that one?" I normally hate dirgey songs, but this one is pretty cool.I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
2022 Ranking: 60
2022 Lists: 13
2022 Points: 122
Ranked Highest by: @Murph (6) @jamny (6) @Pip's Invitation (7) @zamboni (7) @shuke (15)
2019 Ranking/Lists/Pts: 72/4/34
Getz comments: Getting to the point where it's going to be hard to @ everyone in every song that voted. Very solid increase from 2019 on the amount of voters and points. Hope this makes my 64 list.
Krista4
My 2019 ranking: 75
2019 write-up:
I Want You (She's So Heavy) (Abbey Road, 1969)
This is the prime example in Beatledom of a song I admire more than love. If I were to do a list of "best" songs, this would probably be in the top five. I think everything about it is brilliant, especially the bass lines. I also think that, among all the Beatles catalogue, this song is the one that could most likely fit right into music today. Not saying it's a single that [insert name of popular singer right now since I am old and have no clue] would release it, but it could slide right into alternative rock. It's just that, if I'm going to listen to Beatles music, there are 54-94 songs I'll probably put on first.
I don't feel like I'm going to do this song justice in my write-up, so I'm hoping that someone who has it in their top 10 can step in and talk about it instead. This is my friend Jane's favorite Beatles song; maybe I should ask her.
Mr. krista: "It’s a really good song that reminds me of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins's 'I Put a Spell on You.' [Sings.] Paul McCartney’s bass line is the rock star in there. The song is such a dirge. [Sings bass line and plays air bass.] I like the Moog freak-out at the end. I had a Moog app for a while and thought I could make noise music. I couldn’t."
Suggested covers: This makes sense: Flaming Lips This makes less sense: Sarah Vaughan Thanks, munga!: Umphrey's McGee
2022 Supplement: Hey! Here’s one where I really fell down on the job in 2019, so I have a chance for redemption.
This song, like many from this time, was a love song for Yoko. John wanted to see how far he could go in expressing himself with an economy of words: “In 'She's So Heavy,' I just sang, 'I want you, I want you so bad, she's so heavy, I want you,' like that.” He described his ultimate goal as writing a “perfect” song using only one word; Yoko had made this drawing in 1964 that contained only one word: https://www.moma.org/collection/works/127491 .
The sound of this song is among the heaviest the Beatles ever recorded, with layers and layers of overdubs and use of a variety of new playthings, including the Moog synthesizer, to give the massive sound that the band wanted. John’s desperate, increasingly distressed vocal flows perfectly from whisper to scream, with the tempo changes to match, and the punctuation of his lines with the guitar imitation of the vocal is brilliant. Other standouts to me are Paul’s wandering bassline and Ringo’s unusually heavy and deranged drumming. The ending might be a “love or hate,” but I love it. At that point John has worked the band (and the listeners) into such a frenzy that the abrupt silence seems perfect. Geoff Emerick has said that he thought it was going to fade out, but “suddenly John told me, 'Cut the tape.’ I was apprehensive at first: We'd never done anything like that. 'Cut the tape?' But he was insistent, and he wound up being right.”
We got a bit of rehearsal of this song in the Get Back documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHjxNCYgahA and a longer audio-only version of an early, funkier jam session of the song can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00yc9deNrL0
Guido Merkins
By 1969 John was totally in love with Yoko. Like it or not, most of the material he was cranking out, had to do with his relationship with Yoko. One of those is I Want You (She’s So Heavy) which closes out side one of the Abbey Road album.
The song is unusual for several reasons. It’s length, almost 8 minutes. The minimalist lyrics. The time signature changes. The laid back sections of I Want You contrasted with the shouting of the She’s So Heavy sections. That one section of I want you that almost goes into a Latin rhythm. And while most people try to avoid white noise on a record, John asked for it and got it, louder and louder at the end until you can’t stand it anymore, then it just cuts off abruptly. When I first got the cassette I thought it was defective.
I Want You(She’s So Heavy) is another of those songs you can play with joy to people who call the Beatles “not rock” or “bubblegum.” It’s an extremely heavy record that predates even Black Sabbath by a few months. Also notable is Ringo’s drumming and Paul’s bass runs which is in between verses.
The first time my wife heard it, she responded the way she often does when listening to a new Beatles song for the first time: "Man, how high (Binky: low) were they when they wrote that one?"
Thought you could sneak that in that long paragraph, huh.This song has steadily risen up the ranks for me over the years, but not quite to lofty top 25 levels. Not having ever owned the Abbey Road album, I was not familiar with it upon getting Beatles: Rock Band in 2009. The first time I sat down to try this one, I distinctly remember thinking: "When is this ever going to end?" The first time my wife heard it, she responded the way she often does when listening to a new Beatles song for the first time: "Man, how high (Binky: low) were they when they wrote that one?" I normally hate dirgey songs, but this one is pretty cool.