2022 FBG, 172 to 1 Beatles Countdown 1-25 lists... And 173 to 1 Countdown from 1-64 lists! (1 Viewer)

[Zegras11]

Wow.  This has to be a victim of only voting for top 25.  Seems this should be higher.

We got 71 lists.  Doubt we get more than 20 if it was higher than 25 songs.

I agree that this and a few other songs would be higher if we had 50 songs for the lists.

 

[Zegras11]

We got 71 lists.  Doubt we get more than 20 if it was higher than 25 songs.

I agree that this and a few other songs would be higher if we had 50 songs for the lists.

Well, it would be a lot higher than 20 if Binky had like 50 relatives send in lists.

 

[Zegras11]

Dizzy Miss Lizzy
2022 Ranking: 157T
2022 Lists: 1
2022 Points: 8
Ranked Highest by: @Anarchy99(18)
2019 Ranking/Lists/Pts: NR

Getz: 6th song to not get a vote in 2019. The much ballyhooed non-chalk list of Billy Preston finally enters the game on the 15th song listed.  Still early and he's likely in the mix for the non-chalkiest list at the end. YT link above is live from Shea Stadium.

Krista4
My 2019 ranking:  180

2019 write-up:

Dizzy Miss Lizzy (Help!, 1965)

Our first selection off the Help! album.  Its placement as the last song, after "Yesterday," is odd on the album but in keeping with the then-current thought that you had to end on an upbeat note.  It's a fine cover of another Larry Williams song.   I don't have much to say.  The song lacks some oomph.  I’m trying to type this up and realizing that I should have ranked this lower.  Oh well.

Mr. krista:  "Probably thought...we solved that.  Ringo and Paul find the pocket perfectly.  Maybe they don’t have to live up to Little Richard, etc.  But they played that on this record because they love it, and they figure they don’t have to do it anymore, but they just love it."  [Editor's note:  I think this was in reference to putting a cover on a later record than where most of them were.]

2022 Supplement:  This is an instance where I ranked something more highly based on its relative worth to the original, as this should be well below “Long Tall Sally” on any reasonable non-comparative scale.  It’s a great cover by the Beatles, though, far outshining the original at the time and in the memory of those who are familiar with the song now.  This song was a staple of Beatles shows, and a particularly enjoyable version from the Hollywood Bowl shows of 1964-65  was remastered for the movie, Eight Days A Week:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZkoXOHLxbo

The Beatles were all fans of Larry Williams, but John was particularly fond of him and was responsible for the three (3!) Williams covers on the Beatles’ albums, along with “Bad Boy” and “Slow Down.”   Although he wrote and recorded some of the most iconic late 50s songs, including not only those above but million-sellers “Bony Moronie” and “Short Fat Fannie,” Williams struggled with a life of drugs and violence, including time in and of jail for weapons and drug charges.  Williams famously pulled a gun on his close friend Little Richard in 1977 after having been a mentor and inspiration for Little Richard in his early years.  This song happened to be recorded on Williams’ 30th birthday in 1965.  Sadly there weren’t many more beyond that as he died of a gunshot wound in an apparent suicide at the age of 44.  Given his past, rumors swirled that he had actually been murdered, but no one was ever charged and the case was closed.

Fun fact:  Lizzie Bravo, one of the fans brought in by Paul to sing backing vocals on “Across the Universe,” changed her nickname to Lizzie when she heard the Beatles sing this song.

Guido Merkins

Dizzy Miss Lizzy follows in the grand tradition of Twist and Shout and Money as Lennon screamers that ended Beatles albums, in this case, the Help album.  It also holds the distinction of being the last cover to appear on a Beatles album until Maggie Mae on Let It Be.  In this same session, they also recorded Bad Boy, another Larry Williams song.

In typical fashion, John lets it rip.  Ringo with the open high hat and cool drum fills.  George with the insistent guitar riff. 

It’s a great performance, but it’s not as energetic as the early album closers.  This is really the last time the Beatles, the beat group, would appear on an album.  Next up is Rubber Soul and they would go in a completely different direction.

 

[Zegras11]

Wow.  This has to be a victim of only voting for top 25.  Seems this should be higher.

On the other hand, we had 35 lists in 2019. The 71 lists in 2022, yielded 39 more songs receiving a vote.

 

[Zegras11]

Chalk Rankings Top 10. #157T = 15 pts each. Sponsored by Taco Bell's Chilito

1 --Krista (Sharon)---24.5

2 --Encyclopedia Brown---20

3 --Krista (mom)---15

4 --anarchy99---15

5 --Krista (Mom/Hub)---14.5

6 --Lardonastick---13

7 --Mac32---11.5

8 --DaVinci---10

9 --Krista (TJ/Holly)---10

10 --Krista (TJ/Slug)---8

11 --Just Win Baby---8

 

[Zegras11]

I'll start ending each day with this list...

 

# of Songs to Have Appeared on The Countdown to Date

1 --Krista (Sharon)---2

2 --Encyclopedia Brown---2

3 --Krista (Mom/Hub)---2

4 --Lardonastick---1

5 --Mac32---1

6 --DaVinci---1

7 --Krista (TJ/Holly)---1

8 --Krista (TJ/Slug)---1

9 --Just Win Baby---1

10 --Krista (Rob)---1

11 --OTB_Lifer---1

12 --Krista (Worth)---1

13 --jwb---1

14 --wikkidpissah---1

15 --Man Of Constant Sorrow---1

16 --anarchy99---1

17 --Krista (mom)---1

 

[MAC_32]

I (obviously) rank this one much higher, too.  Maybe it's considered too silly or something, but I think it's very clever both lyrically and musically.  And the bass line is killer.

I struggled with all things Pepper's. My favorite album of theirs, but more for the sum than the parts. Rita was one of a handful from it to get whacked in the final 2 rounds of cuts. 

 

[krista4]

I struggled with all things Pepper's. My favorite album of theirs, but more for the sum than the parts. Rita was one of a handful from it to get whacked in the final 2 rounds of cuts. 

There was a discussion I skimmed in the LZ thread about listening to albums vs. songs.  I think this is a good example of why you'd listen to a full album.  For me, it's just as you said - loved more for its sum than its parts.

 

[MAC_32]

There was a discussion I skimmed in the LZ thread about listening to albums vs. songs.  I think this is a good example of why you'd listen to a full album.  For me, it's just as you said - loved more for its sum than its parts.

I was thinking about my love of physical graffiti during the last spin through the beatles catalog. I only put 3 in from pg into the top 25, but would have had 9 if expanded to 40. I only ended up with 2 from pepper's, but expand that to 50(?) and I might have 8.

 

[ProstheticRGK]

Bookmark this link!

I found The Beatles' Anthology for free on the internet archive. I am up to July '66, and the disastrous Phillipines trip where they stepped on Imelda Marcos' shoes. I have 2 things to say:

1. My list is all wrong, and I want a Mulligan with all my songs now coming from pre-1966

2. I love the Chalk list sponsors. Earl Anthony's Bowling Alley Burgers made me giggle like a small girl.

 

[Zegras11]

Bookmark this link!

I found The Beatles' Anthology for free on the internet archive. I am up to July '66, and the disastrous Phillipines trip where they stepped on Imelda Marcos' shoes. I have 2 things to say:

1. My list is all wrong, and I want a Mulligan with all my songs now coming from pre-1966

2. I love the Chalk list sponsors. Earl Anthony's Bowling Alley Burgers made me giggle like a small girl.

Into episode two now...  can watch the early Beatles forever.  Love that part of their history.

 

[rockaction]

Into episode two now...  can watch the early Beatles forever.  Love that part of their history.

I checked out three and five briefly. Watched about ten minutes of each. Interesting stuff. Lots of body crushes and claustrophobic situations. I would have been burned out if I were a Beatle. They eventually did, but I think I would have had it after about three shows of that sort of intensity. 

They were a traveling band. 

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Oh wow, wouldn't have thought of that.  I remember there's a professor at Princeton or someplace who every year makes a list of things his students, assuming they were born in xxxx year, wouldn't have experienced.  Stuff like phone booths or the like (I'm pulling that one out of my ### and it might not have ever been on the list), that make you feel very, very old.

It started at Beloit College and is now at Marist College. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindset_List

 

[Pip's Invitation]

So he likes things repeated over and over again? Must have Hey Jude high on his list. 

If any Na gets wasted

God gets quite irate

 

[Dr. Octopus]

I had 3....really really solid album. For anybody else, it's their unquestioned masterpiece.  For the Beatles, it's just like their 5th or 6th best album....

Anybody else?

That would make A Hard Day's Night the 5th or 6th best album of all time, with other Beatles albums being 1-5. I love the Beatles, and I realize there's some hyperbole for effect on your part, but I can't agree with that. 

 

[Guido Merkins]

Anybody else?

That would make A Hard Day's Night the 5th or 6th best album of all time, with other Beatles albums being 1-5. I love the Beatles, and I realize there's some hyperbole for effect on your part, but I can't agree with that. 

Maybe I worded it wrong.

For most (not all) other artists, A Hard Day's Night would be their crowning achievement.  For the Beatles, it was just a preview of Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt Pepper and Abbey Road which were even greater....

 

[Shaft41]

A few comments as I catch up on the last page or so:  

1.  "Lovely Rita" was one of my final cuts, and is in my top 33 or so.  Over the years, it has risen in the ranks of my favorite Pepper songs.  I wish it would have been higher, but that's big talk from someone who did absolutely nothing to allow that to happen.  

2.  I love the guitar riff in "Dizzy Miss Lizzy", but for those who think the "Nas" in "Hey Jude" are repetitive, Lizzy would like a word with you.  

3.  Is the Taco Bell Chilito the same thing as the Chili Cheese Burrito?  Because, if so, I love that ####.  I had about 23,329 of them in college.  

4.  "Love You To" is my favorite George Indian jam, but overall, those are not favorites of mine, so that's kind of like being Ringo's favorite person who doesn't really like peace and love.  

5.  My neighbor is a huge Beatles fan and has the Anthology on DVD, and I have been wanting to perhaps borrow it and watch it again for the first time in 25 years, but now there's a link to watch it on my 7 inch Chromebook screen rather than my TV.  Decisions, decisions.  

6.  Re: A Hard Days Night, I would not have imagined it was in my top 3 or so albums, but my picks in this ranking show that it is.  My tastes seem to be currently skewing earlier and earlier in Beatles lore.  

7.  I love this thread.  I love the write-ups, or at least the ones I read.  I love all the work Getz put into the numbers.  I love that Krista was willing to augment already stellar write-ups.  I love Guido's knowledge.  I love the 627 covers provided for each song.  I love that my days are filled with Beatles again.  

 

[krista4]

Oh wow, wouldn't have thought of that.  I remember there's a professor at Princeton or someplace who every year makes a list of things his students, assuming they were born in xxxx year, wouldn't have experienced.  Stuff like phone booths or the like (I'm pulling that one out of my ### and it might not have ever been on the list), that make you feel very, very old.

It started at Beloit College and is now at Marist College. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindset_List

Thanks!  Looks like I gave him a substantial upgrade on his resume.  And that I was right that it became controversial...

 

[Zegras11]

Thanks to the Anthology post, I woke up and fell back into bed.. 

Thanks Shaft for the kind words.  Now I have to drag a comb across my bald head.  

 

[shuke]

3.  Is the Taco Bell Chilito the same thing as the Chili Cheese Burrito?  Because, if so, I love that ####.  I had about 23,329 of them in college.  

Yes.  Some good info over in the food draft thread.

 

[heckmanm]

that's kind of like being Ringo's favorite person who doesn't really like peace and love.  

 

[Zegras11]

So I stayed up to 2:30am watching Ep 1 and 2 of the Anthology and woke up with a Taste Of Honey buzzing through my head.  And I'm ok with that.

 

[BobbyLayne]

Re: A Hard Days Night, I would not have imagined it was in my top 3 or so albums, but my picks in this ranking show that it is.  My tastes seem to be currently skewing earlier and earlier in Beatles lore.  

The website Beloit Mindlessness, run by Dan West of the Rochester Community and Technical College, calls the Mindset List “a poorly written compendium of trivia, stereotypes and lazy generalizations, insulting to both students and their professors, and based on nothing more than the uninformed speculation of its authors. It inspires lazy, inaccurate journalism and is an embarrassment to academia.” Beloit Mindlessness publishes posts critiquing specific items on the Mindset Lists.

Mindset List sounds like the basis for some of Timmay’s FFA anthology work. This song is in my Top 10 bc my RS Rock History book said it should be.

 

[zamboni]

So I stayed up to 2:30am watching Ep 1 and 2 of the Anthology and woke up with a Taste Of Honey buzzing through my head.  And I'm ok with that.

Killer bass opening

 

[ProstheticRGK]

So I stayed up to 2:30am watching Ep 1 and 2 of the Anthology and woke up with a Taste Of Honey buzzing through my head.  And I'm ok with that.

The album cover, man. Just look at that album cover!!!

 

[Zegras11]

Don’t Bother Me
2022 Ranking: 157T
2022 Lists: 1
2022 Points: 8
Ranked Highest by: @Binky The Doormat (18)
2019 Ranking/Lists/Pts: 121/1/9

Getz comments: Another great song not getting enough votes. 

Krista4
My 2019 ranking:  170

2019 write-up:

Don't Bother Me (With the Beatles, 1963)

Apparently I enjoy the first George-penned song on a Beatles album much more than (1) George did or (2) the rest of the Beatles did, as I've read that none of them were pleased with it looking back.   But I like the spookiness, the darker mood than most anything else they were doing at the time.  Check out some of these lyrics in comparison to the rest of what was on these early records:

Since she's been gone 

I want no one 

To talk to me 

It's not the same 

But I'm to blame 

It's plain to see 

So go away and leave me alone 

Don't bother me 

I can't believe 

That she would leave 

Me on my own 

It's just not right 

Where every night 

I'm all alone 

I've got no time for you right now 

Don't bother me

Ringo's percussion and Paul's excellent bass combine to set either a Latin or Western tone (I vacillate on which one I'm hearing) that I find pleasing.  I love the breaks just at the end of the verses, too.

Mr. krista:  "I like the Western kind of galloping.  I like this song a lot.  Might be the first time I’ve heard it.  I’m really into this.  Would make a great soundtrack song, like something where you’d say 'What the #### is that?'  'That’s the Beatles, dummy.'"

Suggested cover:  I've listened to more terrible covers of this song than any other so far.  All I can offer, again, is The Smithereens, though their version might be slightly too on the nose.

2022 Supplement:  George’s first composition on a Beatles album!  I re-read my write-up (or, like the rest of you, read it for the first time), and it seemed like I enjoyed everything about this song.  Still do.  Yet it’s at #170?  Simply a testament to the strength of the catalog, again.  Still, I should have had it higher than many of the covers and *cough* Rocky Raccoon.  George’s double-tracked vocal is a bit…simple…as was common for him then, and he could have used some help, this being one of the only early songs without contribution of another vocal.  But his guitar work is surprisingly strong, and the lyrics are more complex and interesting than many of John’s or Paul’s at the time, which were laser-focused on bringing in the audience rather than telling them not to bother. 

As I mentioned in 2019, George wasn’t high on this song, who was extremely ill with the flu and taking morphine when we wrote it:  “"I was taking that stuff and in bed, all feeling weak and tired but trying to reserve my energy so I could get out of bed each night to do the concert. … So it was the first thing I thought of, really as a lyric. And I never really thought it was a great song. I was quite happy that I had written it, because that was the thing. I just thought, 'I'm going to see if I can write a song because they're writing them.'”  Maybe his denigrating it had an effect on my viewpoint, but I now consider it one of the highlights of this album.

Guido Merkins

George Harrison didn’t write a lot of songs in the beginning.  Other than a co writer credit on In Spite of All the Danger and Cry For a Shadow, he hadn’t written anything.  One day, sick in bed with nothing to do, he decided to try and write a song to see if he could.  The resulting song is Don’t Bother Me on the With the Beatles album.

The first thing that is striking about the song is, honestly, the subject matter.  A Beatle saying “don’t bother me” was definitely not in any other songs in 1963.  “So go away leave me alone don’t bother me” is a clear message.  George said maybe it came out that way because he was sick or maybe he was tired of being harassed in public, but this song would come to sort of define George’s personality a bit.  He was, probably, the Beatle who was least thrilled with being harassed in public.

As far as the song itself it has kind of a Latin flavored beat.  I like John’s guitar during the chorus and bridge.  It has some kind of tremolo effect which makes it sound dark and mysterious, which fits with the brooding nature of the song. 

George really had nothing good to say about this song.  I like it quite a bit more than he does.  I think it’s a good song for a first try.  I’m betting it was better than either John or Paul’s first song.  In any event, the song at least was encouraging enough for George to keep trying and thank God for that.  You don’t get to Something without first going through Don’t Bother Me.

In the film A Hard Day’s Night, Don’t Bother Me is one of the songs played while the Beatles are in the club dancing and chatting up the ladies.  I think it’s well placed and it’s one of my favorite scenes in the film.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Thanks!  Looks like I gave him a substantial upgrade on his resume.  And that I was right that it became controversial...

I only bothered to check because you attributed it to my alma mater and I knew that was wrong. 

 

[Zegras11]

The album cover, man. Just look at that album cover!!!

Insane.   Maybe the most played song by my parents growing up on our hi fi stereo system that was like nine feet long in the living room.  Haven't heard this in 50+ years.

 

[ProstheticRGK]

Insane.   Maybe the most played song by my parents growing up on our hi fi stereo system that was like nine feet long in the living room.  Haven't heard this in 50+ years.

My dad was a huge Herb Alpert fan, as well. Every summer, from when I was about 11 until I was 15, he would make me help him paint at least one room upstairs. He had an old boom box with cassette tapes, but only had 2 artists in rotation: Herb Alpert and Neil DIamond. I can still feel the sweltering summer humidity, thick with paint fumes any time I hear either of them. As much as I hated the actual living of those experiences, I love those memories now.

 

[Zegras11]

Chalk Rankings Top 10. #157T = 15 pts each. Sponsored by Binky's Mom's Day Time Bowling League's, greasy, hot, crispy crinkle fries

1 --Krista (Sharon)---24.5

2 --Encyclopedia Brown---20

3 --Krista (mom)---15

4 --anarchy99---15

5 --BinkyTheDoormat---15

6 --Krista (Mom/Hub)---14.5

7 --Lardonastick---13

8 --Mac32---11.5

9 --DaVinci---10

10 --Krista (TJ/Holly)---10

 

[MAC_32]

That would actually be a really fun diversion.

I've always been of the opinion, however, that a single disc White Album would have just been an inferior Revolver.  A double album makes it unique and the Beatles also set the standard for what a double album would be in rock.  Sprawling and messy.

Plus, I think it would be really hard to narrow it down to 14 songs....

I was preoccupied and missed this the other day, so I'm running it back now:

Dear Prudence

Glass Onion

Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Martha, My Dear

I'm So Tired

Blackbird

Rocky Raccoon

Don't Pass Me By

Yer Blues

Everything's Got Something To Hide Except Me & My Monkey

Helter Skelter

Revolution 1

Cry Baby Cry

 

[Binky The Doormat]

The album cover, man. Just look at that album cover!!!

Insane.   Maybe the most played song by my parents growing up on our hi fi stereo system that was like nine feet long in the living room.  Haven't heard this in 50+ years.

that album was issued to every set of white middle-income parents on their 3rd anniversary (if they could show proof they didn't already have it)

 

[Binky The Doormat]

whoa ...recent comments from Paul about what really broke up the Beatles (late last year)

I hadn't heard this clip before ...

 

[BobbyLayne]

Binky, your link is a bunch of bowling pictures.  

Which is fine 

This guy is like the 1969 version of American curler Matt Hamilton

Mr the Rock of Curling  

 

[simey]

Don’t Bother Me

I like this song. It sounds like early Beatles, but more edgy than a lot of their songs from that period.

 

[simey]

Which is fine 

This guy is like the 1969 version of American curler Matt Hamilton  Nice form!

Mr the Rock of Curling    Mr. Hamilton looks like a real and colorful fella. The Rock looks like a cartoon character with those big muscles.

 

[jamny]

My dad was a huge Herb Alpert fan, as well. Every summer, from when I was about 11 until I was 15, he would make me help him paint at least one room upstairs. He had an old boom box with cassette tapes, but only had 2 artists in rotation: Herb Alpert and Neil DIamond. I can still feel the sweltering summer humidity, thick with paint fumes any time I hear either of them. As much as I hated the actual living of those experiences, I love those memories now.

My father was a house painter and will never forget the feeling of holding back throwing up every time getting into our car on those hot and humid summer days in NYC, reeking of paint fumes. I practically gag just thinking about it. 

 

[Zegras11]

Baby, You’re a Rich Man
2022 Ranking: 156
2022 Lists: 1
2022 Points: 9
Ranked Highest by: @Anarchy99 (17)
2019 Ranking/Lists/Pts: NR

Getz comments:  Our 7th song without a vote in 2019. Anarchy takes the lead in the Chalk with his second song listed.

Krista4
My 2019 ranking:  106

2019 write-up, written in two parts:

Baby You're a Rich Man (single, 1967)

This is another Beatles song I love, but apparently a little less than 100 or so others.

I should take a nap.

Mr. krista:  "I like it. It’s vaguely Harrison-influenced. I like his falsetto.  Seems way ahead of its time.  You could see Happy Mondays or some of those factory bands playing a song like that."

Suggested cover:  I dunno, sleepy.

OK, to improve upon this one:

Another of the songs to combine a John fragment with a Paul fragment, this one just ####### grabs me right out of the gate with that sped-up clavioline part over the driving bass and percussion.  Yes, I had to look up what that was, as I had written it down as "that funky snake-charmer-sounding hoozit."  I ####### love it.  #1 Fan of Clavioline.  Unfortunately that part of the song is by far my favorite part of it, with only the John vocal as the other standout, and the song loses me nearly completely on the "baby you're a rich man" part that revolves around just one note.  I can understand why Uruk is bored by it.  But damn, that opening.  I'd like a 20-minute song of just all that noise.

It's thought that Mick Jagger might be on backing vocals on this one, btw.

Still couldn't find a good cover of this, though.  Thought for sure there'd be a version out there with a guy playing a shehnai to mimic the clavioline part, but I was wrong.

2022 Supplement:  It’s weird how I associate songs with particular people now, and I associate this one with the idea that @Uruk-Hai doesn’t like it.  Well hell with that guy – I do!  Some people have alleged that this song was targeted to Brian Epstein (and even say that John rehearsed it using a couple of slurs directed toward him), but I tend not to believe it.  Those guys adored Epstein.  John said about this song that, “the point was, stop moaning, you’re a rich man and we’re all rich men, heh heh, baby!”  I’ll stop moaning and also stop typing because I don’t have much more to say. 

Guido Merkins

Several times in the Beatles career, John had a fragment, Paul had a fragment, so they put the two fragments together and made a song.  We Can Work It Out, A Day in the Life, and Baby You’re a Rich Man.

Released as the B side of All You Need Is Love, John had a song floating around called “One of the Beautiful People” and Paul had a bit floating around that went “baby you’re a rich man” that acted as the chorus.  The song used a clavioline, which was kind of the precursor to a synthesizer.  Ringo holds the song together in typical fashion, and has great fills.  I love the dreamy vocal on the verses. Paul’s bass is impeccable.  

The song is very psychedelic and fits perfectly on the Magical Mystery Tour compilation, one of the few times Capital Records got it right.  

And aside to this song is that, supposedly John was singing “Baby you’re a rich Jew” in the studio as a comment towards Brian Epstein.  Kind of like at the end of I Am the Walrus where if you want to hear “smoke pot smoke pot, everybody smoke pot” that’s exactly what you’ll hear, if you listen to the end of Baby You’re a Rich Man, you’ll hear what you want to hear.  It sounds like something John would do, but at this point, not sure what he’s saying at the end.

 

[Zegras11]

Chalk Rankings Top 10. #156 = 17 pts. Sponsored by Binky's Mom's Day Time Bowling League's, greasy, hot, crispy crinkle fries

1 --anarchy99---32

2 --Krista (Sharon)---24.5

3 --Encyclopedia Brown---20

4 --Krista (mom)---15

5 --BinkyTheDoormat---15

6 --Krista (Mom/Hub)---14.5

7 --Lardonastick---13

8 --Mac32---11.5

9 --DaVinci---10

10 --Krista (TJ/Holly)---10

 

[krista4]

whoa ...recent comments from Paul about what really broke up the Beatles (late last year)

I hadn't heard this clip before ...

He seems to be jumping all around here.  In the prior thread for this exercise, I posted about Allen Klein and how he was more responsible for the break-up than Yoko.  But I don't think that Klein suggested that line for "How Do You Sleep," and even if he had, the song came out in 1971.  I think it's well known that John said he was quitting and that Paul went ahead and announced they were breaking up without consulting the others, though.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

If I had to make a single LP of the White Album, today it would be:

Side 1: (22:45)
Back in the USSR (Paul)
Dear Prudence (John)
While My Guitar Gently Weeps (George)
Blackbird (Paul)
Everybody Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey (John)
Don't Pass Me By (Ringo)
Julia (John)

Side 2: (23:25)
Birthday (Paul)
Yer Blues (John)
Martha My Dear (Paul)
Sexy Sadie (John)
Helter Skelter (Paul)
Savoy Truffle (George)
Revolution 1 (John)

 

[krista4]

He seems to be jumping all around here.  In the prior thread for this exercise, I posted about Allen Klein and how he was more responsible for the break-up than Yoko.  But I don't think that Klein suggested that line for "How Do You Sleep," and even if he had, the song came out in 1971.  I think it's well known that John said he was quitting and that Paul went ahead and announced they were breaking up without consulting the others, though.

Paul also neglects to mention that he had started this "song war" with John by putting out "Too Many People" first.

 

[simey]

If I had to make a single LP of the White Album, today it would be:

Side 1: (22:45)
Back in the USSR (Paul)
Dear Prudence (John)
While My Guitar Gently Weeps (George)
Blackbird (Paul)
Everybody Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey (John)
Don't Pass Me By (Ringo)
Julia (John)

Side 2: (23:25)
Birthday (Paul)
Yer Blues (John)
Martha My Dear (Paul)
Sexy Sadie (John)
Helter Skelter (Paul)
Savoy Truffle (George)
Revolution 1 (John)

  This is missing some of my favorites.

 

[Shaft41]

Paul also neglects to mention that he had started this "song war" with John by putting out "Too Many People" first.

You could have included two of your passions together and drafted Paul's "Too Many People" piece of cake in the Food Draft.  

 

[BobbyLayne]

I like this song. It sounds like early Beatles, but more edgy than a lot of their songs from that period.

It’s more sullen and moody than almost anything else on the first 4 albums.

Harrison was at Bournemouth on holiday but sick in bed for the day. He had co-written “In Spite of All the Danger” with Paul for the Quarrymen fives year previous. This was his first serious attempt a composition. I’d previously heard he used a one track recorder of himself. Not sure if it’s been released on a bootleg before.

Found this today:

https://youtu.be/Z7Qw23LjslA

George in his hotel room writing “Don’t Other Me” How cool is that?



Labeled a demo but matches what I have previously read - you can hear him whistling the melody before he has words for that section.

 

[Anarchy99]

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No shortage of options here. U-ROY gets the reggae juices flowing. Miles Mosley is a tricked out instrumental. Kendra McKinley blends new and unusual with traditional. Los Drugos is definitely a modern take.

The Analogues, Cheap Track, Big Daddy, Fuzzcas, The Nields, Moon Loungers, Art of Time Ensemble, Dave Cloud & The Gospel of Power, Henry The Horse, U-ROY, Rajaton, Spirit Of Lucy, Will Taylor & Strings Attached, Art of Time, Django Bates, Andy Timmons, Miles Mosley, Kendra McKinley, David Lanz, Los Drugos, Brian Browne Trio

 

[ProstheticRGK]

Baby, You're A Rich Man is locked in a 40-way tie for #26 on my list. I love this song. Definitely my favorite from Magical Mystery Tour, the rhythyms just bump, with the dreamy vocals and clavioline over top- chef's kiss.

@krista4Thanks for looking up the clavioline, but I kinda prefer funky snake-charmer hoozits.

 

[BobbyLayne]

He seems to be jumping all around here.  In the prior thread for this exercise, I posted about Allen Klein and how he was more responsible for the break-up than Yoko.  But I don't think that Klein suggested that line for "How Do You Sleep," and even if he had, the song came out in 1971.  I think it's well known that John said he was quitting and that Paul went ahead and announced they were breaking up without consulting the others, though.

One of my favorite exercises when listening / reading / watching Paul reminiscing is guessing how much is truth. His ever evolving takes have many iterations.

Peoppe say history is written by the winners. It helps your version immensely if outlive everyone else.

 

[krista4]

You could have included two of your passions together and drafted Paul's "Too Many People" piece of cake in the Food Draft.  

  I do love that song.  And cake.

Baby, You're A Rich Man is locked in a 40-way tie for #26 on my list. I love this song. Definitely my favorite from Magical Mystery Tour, the rhythyms just bump, with the dreamy vocals and clavioline over top- chef's kiss.

@krista4Thanks for looking up the clavioline, but I kinda prefer funky snake-charmer hoozits.

You're not wrong there.  Also easier to remember, for some reason.

 

[krista4]

You're not wrong there.  Also easier to remember, for some reason.

Also, thanks to @ProstheticRGK for reading my write-up!