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2022 FBG, 172 to 1 Beatles Countdown 1-25 lists... And 173 to 1 Countdown from 1-64 lists! (2 Viewers)
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heckmanm
Footballguy
otb_lifer
Footballguy
Yeah, like 25 of them
To be clear I don't feel bad about my list. These are great songs as confirmed by the fact that others voted for them as well.
there are no right or wrong or degree of difficulty lists here ... while my top 25 is bereft of some very heavy hitters, i can understand them being on a list over dreck like "Octopus's Garden" or my favorite whipping post "Good Day Sunshine" (<---- yeah, i'll never pass the chance).
"Revolution #9"? no.
really doesn't merit inclusion, as it's not so much a song as it is an aural sculpture - i don't begrudge one digging it for what it is ('cuz i do appreciate it), but i do have a hard time buying it in a top 25 list.
opines earlier that "favorite" isn't necessarily tantamount to "best", and i can get behind that ... but after roughly 45 years since i first heard, and remember, my Beatles song, i will say - after countless thousands of listens to the whole catalog, that my choices reflect what i consider to be both "best" and "favorite".
keep digging and listening and unearthing and listening and discovering and listening - in 3 years time your top 25 may be pound for pound the exact same as this one, or you may replace the whole bloody lot - and that's the real magic of this band - it's the journey, not the destination (list).
otb_lifer
Footballguy
ProstheticRGK
Footballguy
Watching that clip from A Hard Day's Night reminded me how good their movies were. I did a re-watch recently of this and Help! and they were just really fun, good movies. I don't know if it was the times, but their comedy reminds me of the really dry, bizarre Monty Python-esque comedy that I love so much.
And one of the reasons I love George so much is that he was responsible for Life of Brian. Seriously, if you haven't seen the movies in a while, give them a watch. The lads are completely charming.
And one of the reasons I love George so much is that he was responsible for Life of Brian. Seriously, if you haven't seen the movies in a while, give them a watch. The lads are completely charming.
krista4
Footballguy
I've never seen Help!
A Hard Day's Night is great, for the reasons you said. I really like Yellow Submarine, too, though they're not in it except at the very end. It has always amused me that they weren't even allowed to voice their own characters.ProstheticRGK
Footballguy
I remember I had to dig to find Help! but it is a great watch. You can definitely see the origins of Austin Powers, and there are some zany, off-the-wall, incongruous cuts and scene changes, but they had a lot of fun.I've never seen Help!
Reading about some of the choices they made cracked me up, too. Let's shoot in the Bahamas, we've never been there. Never been skiing? That's a scene in the movie now.
btw, on a personal note, I am listening to Girl as I type this, and reading your write-up (I swear, I only read that one) has ruined that song for me. I can't get past that annoying sucking sound. It never bothered me before,
krista4
Footballguy
Oops, forgot yesterday.
On yesterday's date in 1963, the hard-working lads detoured to perform six songs live on the BBC Saturday Club before returning to the Chris Mondez/Tommy Roe tour 160 miles away in Sheffield. Love this blistering version of The Hippy Hippy Shake.
Happy 78th birthday, Pattie Boyd! On today's date in 1944, Patricia Anne Boyd was born in Taunton. She still calls George her true love. And she's still pie-faced.
On yesterday's date in 1963, the hard-working lads detoured to perform six songs live on the BBC Saturday Club before returning to the Chris Mondez/Tommy Roe tour 160 miles away in Sheffield. Love this blistering version of The Hippy Hippy Shake.
Happy 78th birthday, Pattie Boyd! On today's date in 1944, Patricia Anne Boyd was born in Taunton. She still calls George her true love. And she's still pie-faced.
otb_lifer
Footballguy
the original "Casino Royale" (1967) with David Niven, screenplay by a who's who of comic genius (Woody Allen & Peter Sellers, most prominent) definitely culled some of it's zaniness and WTF? moments from "Help!"
btw ... to this day, Niven is the only Bond i know, as i've never bothered to to bothered with any other Bond flix.
as far as "HDN", i'm not the hugest Ringo fan, but the passage in the flick where he bolts (harbinger?) and strolls mischievously through town and the Thames, set to the instrumental strains of "This Boy", is the greatest moment from their film catalog - the most underrated slice of Beatlemania! on record - gotta hand it to him, he chewed it the hell up, and i honestly don't think the sweetness of his pathos could've played with any of the other three.
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Zegras11
Footballguy
Get Back
2022 Ranking: 26
2022 Lists: 23
2022 Points: 265
Ranked Highest by: @falguy (3) @ConstruxBoy (4) @prosopis (4) @Getzlaf15 (5) @heckmanm (6) @jwb (7) @Wrighteous Ray (8) @Pip's Invitation (9) @rockaction (13) @jamny (13) @Westerberg (15)
2019 Ranking/Lists/Pts: 53/8/63
Getz: Misses Top 25 by 5 points
No bandwagon here as I had this at #16 in 2019. #5 this time. I found 7 of the 8 voters from 2019, and only @worrierking also had it back then. The other five didn't vote this time. So 15 more voters, 202 more points and moves up 27 slots. I wonder why? Rank it 63rd? I wanna hit her with that frying pan I tell you! 
Krista4
My 2019 ranking: 63
2019 write-up:
Get Back (Let It Be, 1969)
John called this "a better version of 'Lady Madonna'," and I agree. Adding Billy Preston elevates any song about 16 levels, and this is no exception - his electric piano shines throughout the song and gives it an excellent groove, and Preston was actually featured on the label of this single ("The Beatles with Billy Preston"), being the only non-Beatle ever so credited. This also features a great guitar solo by...John! I've a special fondness in my heart for this song being the opener and closer of the London rooftop show, and the guys seemed to have a fabulous time with it. Well, maybe not George, who never looked like he was enjoying that performance.
This is a fun groove but doesn't get me rocking the way it does for some people; I almost feel like I don't quite understand the song. This might be a function of its history, as it was meant to be a satirical look at the UK's racial unrest at the time. But eventually some of the lyrics were dropped as being too open to possible misinterpretation, such as an entire section on Pakistani people that included the line, "Don't dig no Pakistani taking all the people's jobs." Paul was likely right to drop all that, as evidenced by the fact that when those versions were discovered, the group was accused of racism when, of course, they were instead trying to make an anti-racist statement. But in losing the political statements, the song might have lost some of the edge or grittiness that I wish I heard in it. The grittiness is there in each of the covers I've linked below. Still an awesome song that's painful to rank in the 60s.
Mr. krista: "It’s the Billy Preston and Ringo show. And Paul McCartney – the bass is really good. I like Ringo’s galloping bumpadudump. My least favorite part is Paul’s vocals, and the lyrics are dumb."
Suggested cover: Actually I like each of these better than the Beatles version. Al Green Billy Preston, naturally Holy hell you can try to tell me there's a sexier woman than Tina Turner in her prime but I won't believe you
2022 Supplement: Well, I’m not sure there’s much new to say now that the documentary has dropped. Even though this is still not one of my top favorites from Let It Be, seeing Paul pull the song out of thin air might have been, aside from the rooftop performance itself, the most amazing scene in the doc. Watching them in a later rehearsal was great fun, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVi8V5_jHRo
Paul has indicated that the song “Get Back” contains a wistful aspect. He knew that the band was breaking up, and he was hopeful that they could “get back” to their roots, how they were in Liverpool, before they did so. The idea of “getting back” was also imbued in the song’s style of flat-out rock and roll. Paul desperately wanted them to become “a damn good little band” again, to be the group that simply knew how to fall in with each other and play together. While John was escaping to a new place in his new relationship with Yoko, Paul in his own words thought they “should escape to an old place.” He knew it was impractical, and he says the others laughed at the notion, but Paul’s dream was to get back to where they once belonged. Eventually, Paul says he came to a place where he didn’t just accept John’s decision to leave the band, but to where he actually admired John for it, for his ability to “get back” to a new place instead of an old one.
Guido Merkins
I loved the Get Back movie by Peter Jackson. It really put a more balanced spin on January 1969. One of my favorite parts is one morning when they are still at Twickenham and John is late (again) Paul just starts strumming his bass and gets a rhythm going. It seems to be very random. George and Ringo look kind of bored, but Paul starts humming the unmistakable melody of Get Back, within like 2 minutes. Suddenly Ringo and George are paying attention and soon after, Paul has “get back, get back, get back to where you once belonged.” I’m sure everyone can make up a #1 song and a rock classic in just a few minutes, right? Right?
Get Back is a great, rocking track that features Paul on bass, Ringo on drums, Billy Preston on organ, John on lead guitar and George on rhythm guitar. John was on lead because George quit the group temporarily and John worked out the solo. The guitar solo and the organ solo are outstanding on the song. Ringo, as usual, hit’s the perfect shuffle rhythm on the song, on fact he starts clapping said rhythm within the first 2 minutes of Paul making up the riff. It’s an amazing moment. Maybe the most amazing moment in the whole 8 hours.
John called the song “a better version of Lady Madonna” which, I love Lady Madonna, so I guess that’s really good. The song is also notable in that there is the infamous “No Pakistanis” verse that was originally in the song that was taken out. This has been colored by some people as proof that the Beatles were racist, but it was actually an anti racist verse because he was speaking against a prevailing anti immigrant feeling in Britain at the time.
Also there is some confusion about the version of Get Back on the Let It Be album. Phil Spector edited it to make it sound like it was played live on the roof, but the truth is, it was just the single version with the ending edited out and John edited in saying “I’d like to say thank you on behalf of the group and myself I hope we passed the audition.” There were 3 versions of the song done on the roof and, for whatever reason, they were not included on the Let It Be album.
2022 Ranking: 26
2022 Lists: 23
2022 Points: 265
Ranked Highest by: @falguy (3) @ConstruxBoy (4) @prosopis (4) @Getzlaf15 (5) @heckmanm (6) @jwb (7) @Wrighteous Ray (8) @Pip's Invitation (9) @rockaction (13) @jamny (13) @Westerberg (15)
2019 Ranking/Lists/Pts: 53/8/63
Getz: Misses Top 25 by 5 points
No bandwagon here as I had this at #16 in 2019. #5 this time. I found 7 of the 8 voters from 2019, and only @worrierking also had it back then. The other five didn't vote this time. So 15 more voters, 202 more points and moves up 27 slots. I wonder why? Rank it 63rd? I wanna hit her with that frying pan I tell you! Krista4
My 2019 ranking: 63
2019 write-up:
Get Back (Let It Be, 1969)
John called this "a better version of 'Lady Madonna'," and I agree. Adding Billy Preston elevates any song about 16 levels, and this is no exception - his electric piano shines throughout the song and gives it an excellent groove, and Preston was actually featured on the label of this single ("The Beatles with Billy Preston"), being the only non-Beatle ever so credited. This also features a great guitar solo by...John! I've a special fondness in my heart for this song being the opener and closer of the London rooftop show, and the guys seemed to have a fabulous time with it. Well, maybe not George, who never looked like he was enjoying that performance.
This is a fun groove but doesn't get me rocking the way it does for some people; I almost feel like I don't quite understand the song. This might be a function of its history, as it was meant to be a satirical look at the UK's racial unrest at the time. But eventually some of the lyrics were dropped as being too open to possible misinterpretation, such as an entire section on Pakistani people that included the line, "Don't dig no Pakistani taking all the people's jobs." Paul was likely right to drop all that, as evidenced by the fact that when those versions were discovered, the group was accused of racism when, of course, they were instead trying to make an anti-racist statement. But in losing the political statements, the song might have lost some of the edge or grittiness that I wish I heard in it. The grittiness is there in each of the covers I've linked below. Still an awesome song that's painful to rank in the 60s.
Mr. krista: "It’s the Billy Preston and Ringo show. And Paul McCartney – the bass is really good. I like Ringo’s galloping bumpadudump. My least favorite part is Paul’s vocals, and the lyrics are dumb."
Suggested cover: Actually I like each of these better than the Beatles version. Al Green Billy Preston, naturally Holy hell you can try to tell me there's a sexier woman than Tina Turner in her prime but I won't believe you
2022 Supplement: Well, I’m not sure there’s much new to say now that the documentary has dropped. Even though this is still not one of my top favorites from Let It Be, seeing Paul pull the song out of thin air might have been, aside from the rooftop performance itself, the most amazing scene in the doc. Watching them in a later rehearsal was great fun, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVi8V5_jHRo
Paul has indicated that the song “Get Back” contains a wistful aspect. He knew that the band was breaking up, and he was hopeful that they could “get back” to their roots, how they were in Liverpool, before they did so. The idea of “getting back” was also imbued in the song’s style of flat-out rock and roll. Paul desperately wanted them to become “a damn good little band” again, to be the group that simply knew how to fall in with each other and play together. While John was escaping to a new place in his new relationship with Yoko, Paul in his own words thought they “should escape to an old place.” He knew it was impractical, and he says the others laughed at the notion, but Paul’s dream was to get back to where they once belonged. Eventually, Paul says he came to a place where he didn’t just accept John’s decision to leave the band, but to where he actually admired John for it, for his ability to “get back” to a new place instead of an old one.
Guido Merkins
I loved the Get Back movie by Peter Jackson. It really put a more balanced spin on January 1969. One of my favorite parts is one morning when they are still at Twickenham and John is late (again) Paul just starts strumming his bass and gets a rhythm going. It seems to be very random. George and Ringo look kind of bored, but Paul starts humming the unmistakable melody of Get Back, within like 2 minutes. Suddenly Ringo and George are paying attention and soon after, Paul has “get back, get back, get back to where you once belonged.” I’m sure everyone can make up a #1 song and a rock classic in just a few minutes, right? Right?
Get Back is a great, rocking track that features Paul on bass, Ringo on drums, Billy Preston on organ, John on lead guitar and George on rhythm guitar. John was on lead because George quit the group temporarily and John worked out the solo. The guitar solo and the organ solo are outstanding on the song. Ringo, as usual, hit’s the perfect shuffle rhythm on the song, on fact he starts clapping said rhythm within the first 2 minutes of Paul making up the riff. It’s an amazing moment. Maybe the most amazing moment in the whole 8 hours.
John called the song “a better version of Lady Madonna” which, I love Lady Madonna, so I guess that’s really good. The song is also notable in that there is the infamous “No Pakistanis” verse that was originally in the song that was taken out. This has been colored by some people as proof that the Beatles were racist, but it was actually an anti racist verse because he was speaking against a prevailing anti immigrant feeling in Britain at the time.
Also there is some confusion about the version of Get Back on the Let It Be album. Phil Spector edited it to make it sound like it was played live on the roof, but the truth is, it was just the single version with the ending edited out and John edited in saying “I’d like to say thank you on behalf of the group and myself I hope we passed the audition.” There were 3 versions of the song done on the roof and, for whatever reason, they were not included on the Let It Be album.
fatguyinalittlecoat
Footballguy
simey
Footballguy
Every party has a pooper, that's why we invited you. Party pooper, Party pooper.
Song totals by album after 75 of the top 100
12 Singles
11 White Album
8 A Hard Day's Night
7 Revolver
7 Rubber Soul
6 Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
5 Let It Be
4 Beatles for Sale
4 Please Please Me
3 Abbey Road
3 Magical Mystery Tour
2 Help!
2 With The Beatles
1 Yellow Submarine
12 Singles
11 White Album
8 A Hard Day's Night
7 Revolver
7 Rubber Soul
6 Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
5 Let It Be
4 Beatles for Sale
4 Please Please Me
3 Abbey Road
3 Magical Mystery Tour
2 Help!
2 With The Beatles
1 Yellow Submarine
Given that this is my #3 (Binky: 169) it should be no surprise that I love pretty much everything about this song. Ringos's drums , guitar and keyboard solos, Pauls' vocal. Just a great tune start to finish. I don't think this would ever leave my top 5
otb_lifer
Footballguy
Shaft41
Footballguy
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ConstruxBoy
Kate's Daddy
I've always liked the Beatles to a degree. Revolver was my first CD (along with LZ IV). But I really started listening to them more 3-4 years ago when I was in a "trivia contest" with friends and the question was to name a song in which the first lyrics were the title of the song. No one could think of a song like that in time other than me. Hey Jude.
Since then I tend to notice when I listen to songs if that interesting bit of "trivia" happens and I've noticed that the Beatles seem to have a decent number of these songs. Reading through this thread, maybe they're mostly Paul songs that do this.
Since then I tend to notice when I listen to songs if that interesting bit of "trivia" happens and I've noticed that the Beatles seem to have a decent number of these songs. Reading through this thread, maybe they're mostly Paul songs that do this.
ConstruxBoy
Kate's Daddy
otb_lifer
Footballguy
see, also:
You're Gonna Lose That Girl, Yesterday, Help!, Because, There's A Place, Blackbird, Dear Prudence, Good Morning/Good Morning, Penny Lane, I've Got A Feeling, Two of Us, The Long & Winding Road, I Don't Want to Spoil the Party ... anything else?
Bueller?
Yes, There have been 3 but the other 2 were outside the top 100. That list above was only for the top 100. I'll post a summary of the overall for the entire ranking nextYellow Submarine has at least 2, they're both in my top 10
(Bulldog, Too Much)
otb_lifer
Footballguy
Overall song totals by album with 25 left to go
24 / 34 Singles
23 / 30 White Album
12 / 14 Rubber Soul
12 / 13 Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
11 / 13 A Hard Day's Night
11 / 14 Beatles for Sale
10 / 14 Revolver
9 / 14 With The Beatles
8 / 14 Please Please Me
7 / 14 Help!
6 / 6 Magical Mystery Tour
6 / 12 Let It Be
5 / 10 Abbey Road
3 / 4 Yellow Submarine
147 / 206
24 / 34 Singles
23 / 30 White Album
12 / 14 Rubber Soul
12 / 13 Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
11 / 13 A Hard Day's Night
11 / 14 Beatles for Sale
10 / 14 Revolver
9 / 14 With The Beatles
8 / 14 Please Please Me
7 / 14 Help!
6 / 6 Magical Mystery Tour
6 / 12 Let It Be
5 / 10 Abbey Road
3 / 4 Yellow Submarine
147 / 206
ConstruxBoy
Kate's Daddy
ConstruxBoy
Kate's Daddy
Also, Don't Let Me Down
ConstruxBoy
Kate's Daddy
There's a ton though, right? Try doing that for other bands. It's tough.
otb_lifer
Footballguy
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
otb_lifer
Footballguy
Lady Madonna would like a word, also ...
and im'ma allow "Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite"
krista4
Footballguy
howzabout this ...
i'm thinking of a song of theirs where the title is NOT said in the lyrics -
ps - it's not "Flying"
Love You To
The Inner Light
Tomorrow Never Knows
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
The Ballad of John and Yoko?howzabout this ...
i'm thinking of a song of theirs where the title is NOT said in the lyrics -
ps - it's not "Flying"
otb_lifer
Footballguy
weeeellllll ... he does say them outta order in the same phrase, so ...
ok, guess i gotta
YUUUUUUUUUGE pull here, totally missed it ...
ditto to the above.
BUT -
the one i was speaking of is still dangling.
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
otb_lifer
Footballguy
otb_lifer
Footballguy
Let me know when you kiddies are done playing in the sandbox.
dafuq else we gonna do?
Zegras11
Footballguy
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
s/b Matchbox thoLet me know when you kiddies are done playing in the sandbox.
maybe Matchboxes
literal thinkers know what I mean
otb_lifer
Footballguy
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
everybody is a George stan until they realize he worked on this then they're all "who even knows where those tape loops came from?"
otb_lifer
Footballguy
long standing rumor that they backmasked his vox thru a helium filter for "and then you become naked"
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
I knew it!long standing rumor that they backmasked his vox thru a helium filter for "and then you become naked"
man he really did hate Yoko...all bc she got out of her hospital bed and stole a biscuit while he was in the control room.
she's worse than Hitler.
8 of 25 gone.
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3 Get Back (26)
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8 Can't Buy Me Love (49)
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14 When I'm Sixty-Four (73)
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16 Paperback Writer (47)
17 I Saw Her Standing There (43)
18 Got To Get You Into My Life (27)
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21 Tell Me What You See (111)
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24 I've Got A Feeling (46)
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8 Can't Buy Me Love (49)
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14 When I'm Sixty-Four (73)
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16 Paperback Writer (47)
17 I Saw Her Standing There (43)
18 Got To Get You Into My Life (27)
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21 Tell Me What You See (111)
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24 I've Got A Feeling (46)
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