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In this thread I rank my favorite Beatles songs: 204-1. (3 Viewers)

A Day In The Life:

Woke up, fell outta bed, dragged a comb across my ahead. 

Found my way downstairs and had a cup. And looking up  I noticed I was late.

Found my coat and grabbed my hat.

Made the bus in seconds flat.

I find it completely impossible not to tap my feet and nod my head during this part. No, I just can't help it.   :)

 
krista4 said:
Mr. krista's original comments on "She Said She Said" from last summer's listening sessions expanded upon Ringo's drumwork:  "This is a ####### jam.  Super-awesome guitar.  Someone decided they were going to start recording Ringo’s drums well. The kick drum in particular sounds awesome, like what it should sound like.  I know I’ve heard these beats in other songs, like a Beastie Boys song. Because they got clean sound, and Ringo is a ####### metronome, that people could use that sound out of the context of that song and manipulate it, because it’s so clean, and on time and steady, so you can rap over it.  You can mix it to sound great.  And I can’t imagine that song without those fills."
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that ####### mr. krista's got a ####### filthy mouth on him.

 
Mr. Mojo said:
A Day In The Life:

Woke up, fell outta bed, dragged a comb across my ahead. 

Found my way downstairs and had a cup. And looking up  I noticed I was late.

Found my coat and grabbed my hat.

Made the bus in seconds flat.

I find it completely impossible not to tap my feet and nod my head during this part. No, I just can't help it.   :)
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The part about going upstairs for a smoke has to do with British law requiring bus riders to climb up on the roof to have a cigarette.  

 
krista4 said:
Otis has still got it.  I think this thread is active, but then he starts one like that and reels in a dozen pages in a few days.  Masterful.
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the old Otis would have thrown in a healthy amount of 3rd person.  Not sure if it would have made it better ...or just more Otisfied.  

 
Sorry for the delay on the all-important yet random (Getz, random as to line-drawing) #26.  I didn't want to cause a nationwide panic by telling you, but we lost internet for a couple of hours this evening, and as you could imagine these masterpiece write-ups can't be composed on 4G.

 
krista4 said:
Sorry for the delay on the all-important yet random (Getz, random as to line-drawing) #26.  I didn't want to cause a nationwide panic by telling you, but we lost internet for a couple of hours this evening, and as you could imagine these masterpiece write-ups can't be composed on 4G.
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Be honest. 

You were really waiting for me to catch up...right?

Well; I'm caught up!

UNLEASH THE KRAKEN...eh// Top 25 (26) !!!!

 
Top 5 still alive.

6 - Don't Let Me Down

8 - The Ballad Of John And Yoko

9 - I Am The Walrus

14 - Paperback Writer

17 - The Long And Winding Road

19 - Happiness Is A Warm Gun

21 - I Want You (She's So Heavy)

22 - The Fool On The Hill

24 - Eleanor Rigby

25 - Oh Darling

 
shuke said:
Top 5 still alive.

6 - Don't Let Me Down

8 - The Ballad Of John And Yoko

9 - I Am The Walrus

14 - Paperback Writer

17 - The Long And Winding Road

19 - Happiness Is A Warm Gun

21 - I Want You (She's So Heavy)

22 - The Fool On The Hill

24 - Eleanor Rigby

25 - Oh Darling
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I'm kinda dying to know.

 
krista4 said:
Yeah, ####### A.  Those high harmonies are mint.
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Can I just say that this morning i looked at post #1, saw the songs remaining and thought, hmmm,  I can't sing anything left. Then, later today, i had a glass of wine and sang harmony with myself for the first time ever. Wine: it makes everything possible!

 
Nipsey said:
Can I just say that this morning i looked at post #1, saw the songs remaining and thought, hmmm,  I can't sing anything left. Then, later today, i had a glass of wine and sang harmony with myself for the first time ever. Wine: it makes everything possible!
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Do Lovely Rita.

 
This is gonna kill some lists, as well as the consensus.

Guest write-up by Oliver Humanzee

26.  Something (Abbey Road, 1969)

Beatles version:  Spotify  YouTube

  • I have a hard time believing that the pie-faced painted stick named Pattie Boyd managed to inspire not just this fantastic song by one of the greatest bands of all time, but also many terrible songs by wealthy racist and hall of fame parent Eric Clapton.
     
  • Boyd apparently dumped George when he decided that he needed concubines to fulfill his spiritual growth, which was coincidentally when Eric Clapton was making advances.  And despite marrying and divorcing two bajillionaires, her divorce from Clapton left her nearly broke.  She devoted many words of her memoir (entitled, barftastically, Wonderful Tonight) to her adventures in learning how to use public transportation.  Thus proving herself to be as intelligent as she is beautiful.
     
  • While George was fleshing out the lyrics, John would frequently sing either "a cauliflower" or "a pomegranate" instead of "no other lover" and honestly I prefer those to the lyrics that made it on the record.  
     
  • The guitar solo is measured and, as Krista would say, languorous, without being plodding or self-conscious.  It neatly propels the song into one of the greatest middle eights in the Beatles' catalogue. 
     
  • And rather than being vague or incomplete, describing his lover's attractive qualities as "something" embraces and wonderfully expresses the ineffable, pre-conscious mystery of human attraction.  Or something.  
     
  • Krista has more to say about this song than I do, and agreeing to write about it was "something" of a mistake.  It has taken me like 8 hours and the best I could do is crap all over Eric Clapton after reading many excerpts of Boyd's memoirs.  You gotta be fuggin' nuts to do 200 of these.  I'm going to go to bed.
Mrs. Humanzee:  "Frank Sinatra said this was the best love song ever written.  I don't much favor the introductory verse of it, but my three favorite Beatles songs are, in no particular order: (1) the bridge in 'Something,' (2) the drum fills in 'Strawberry Fields Forever,' and (3) the last 23 seconds of 'Polythene Pam' leading into the first 47 seconds of 'She Came In Through The Bathroom Window.'  So I guess I'm saying I both agree and disagree with The Chairman of the Board.  So moved."  

Suggested cover:  George's favorite cover of the song was from James Brown.

 
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24. I Am The Walrus
23. Drive My Car
20. Blackbird
19. Day Tripper
17. I Saw Her Standing There
15. Money (That's What I Want)
10. Let It Be
9. Something
8. Tomorrow Never Knows
7. Eleanor Rigby
5. Don't Let Me Down
4. All You Need Is Love
3. Penny Lane

 
What I learned from OH's review of "Something."

OH hates Patti Boyd and thinks she's ugly inside and out.  

there were no Ringo drum fills so we didn't hear much about the song.  

 
Binky The Doormat said:
What I learned from OH's review of "Something."

OH hates Patti Boyd and thinks she's ugly inside and out.  

there were no Ringo drum fills so we didn't hear much about the song.  
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Yeah, but "pie-faced painted stick" was a good line.

And notes for my write-up indicated I was also going to suggest I favored "like a pomegranate" as a lyric.

 
krista4 said:
Yeah, but "pie-faced painted stick" was a good line.

And notes for my write-up indicated I was also going to suggest I favored "like a pomegranate" as a lyric.
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I loved all of it - though I have to disagree on her level of physical attractiveness, I can't comment on her insides - haven't read her book.  

 
Top 25, with top 10 annotations:

With the Beatles:
All My Loving

A Hard Day’s Night:
And I Love Her

Help! (one in top 10):

Help!
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
Ticket To Ride
I've Just Seen A Face
Yesterday

Rubber Soul (two in top 10):
Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
Nowhere Man
In My Life

Revolver:
And Your Bird Can Sing*
For No One*

Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band:
A Day In The Life*

The Beatles (aka White Album) (one in top 10):
Dear Prudence
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
I'm So Tired
Helter Skelter

Abbey Road (one in top 10):
Here Comes The Sun
You Never Give Me Your Money/Sun King/Mean Mr Mustard/Polythene Pam/She Came In Through The Bathroom Window/Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End medley

Let It Be:
Across The Universe*

Singles, etc. (one in top 10):
She Loves You
I Want To Hold Your Hand
Rain
Hey Jude
Strawberry Fields Forever

*Clinched top 10

 
Update on #1 guesses, which covered 14 of my top 25:

  1. simey – Abbey Road medley
  2. Mister CIA – She Said She Said
  3. timschochet – Paperback Writer
  4. pecorino – Hey Jude
  5. Binky the Doormat – In My Life
  6. wikkidpissah – Taxman
  7. Dr. Octopus – Got To Get You Into My Life
  8. Nigel Tufnel – You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away
  9. Uruk-Hai – Ticket to Ride
  10. Dinsy Ejotuz – Let It Be
  11. Tom Hagen – Eleanor Rigby
  12. Spock – Rain
  13. Leroy Hoard – A Day in the Life
  14. rockaction  - I Want to Hold Your Hand
  15. Ted Lange as Your Bartender – In My Life
  16. shuke – Abbey Road medley
  17. Alex P Keaton – Something
  18. Getzlaf15 – With A Little Help From My Friends
  19. zamboni – While My Guitar Gently Weeps
  20. neal cassady – While My Guitar Gently Weeps
  21. Shaft41 – Hey Bulldog
  22. Ilov80s – Norwegian Wood
  23. Officer Pete Malloy – I Want to Hold Your Hand
  24. Godsbrother – Dear Prudence
  25. ManofSteelhead – Eleanor Rigby
  26. mike9289 – I’m Looking Through You
  27. heckmanm: Eleanor Rigby
  28. Atomic Punk – A Day in the Life
  29. [Mrs. Punk – In My Life]
  30. bananafish – Abbey Road medley
  31. bonzai – Abbey Road medley
  32. fatguy – Here Comes the Sun
  33. ScottNorwood- Yesterday
  34. Sebowski – I’m So Tired
 
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krista4 said:
Update on #1 guesses, which covered 14 of my top 25:

  1. simey – Abbey Road medley
  2. Mister CIA – She Said She Said
  3. timschochet – Paperback Writer
  4. pecorino – Hey Jude
  5. Binky the Doormat – In My Life
  6. wikkidpissah – Taxman
  7. Dr. Octopus – Got To Get You Into My Life
  8. Nigel Tufnel – You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away
  9. Uruk-Hai – Ticket to Ride
  10. Dinsy Ejotuz – Let It Be
  11. Tom Hagen – Eleanor Rigby
  12. Spock – Rain
  13. Leroy Hoard – A Day in the Life
  14. rockaction  - I Want to Hold Your Hand
  15. Ted Lange as Your Bartender – In My Life
  16. shuke – Abbey Road medley
  17. Alex P Keaton – Something
  18. Getzlaf15 – With A Little Help From My Friends
  19. zamboni – While My Guitar Gently Weeps
  20. neal cassady – While My Guitar Gently Weeps
  21. Shaft41 – Hey Bulldog
  22. Ilov80s – Norwegian Wood
  23. Officer Pete Malloy – I Want to Hold Your Hand
  24. Godsbrother – Dear Prudence
  25. ManofSteelhead – Eleanor Rigby
  26. mike9289 – I’m Looking Through You
  27. heckmanm: Eleanor Rigby
  28. Atomic Punk – A Day in the Life
  29. [Mrs. Punk – In My Life]
  30. bananafish – Abbey Road medley
  31. bonzai – Abbey Road medley
  32. fatguy – Here Comes the Sun
  33. ScottNorwood- Yesterday
  34. Sebowski – I’m So Tired
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Colonel Walter E. Kurtz

 
krista4 said:
This is gonna kill some lists, as well as the consensus.

Guest write-up by Oliver Humanzee

26.  Something (Abbey Road, 1969)

Beatles version:  Spotify  YouTube

  • I have a hard time believing that the pie-faced painted stick named Pattie Boyd managed to inspire not just this fantastic song by one of the greatest bands of all time, but also many terrible songs by wealthy racist and hall of fame parent Eric Clapton.
     
  • Boyd apparently dumped George when he decided that he needed concubines to fulfill his spiritual growth, which was coincidentally when Eric Clapton was making advances.  And despite marrying and divorcing two bajillionaires, her divorce from Clapton left her nearly broke.  She devoted many words of her memoir (entitled, barftastically, Wonderful Tonight) to her adventures in learning how to use public transportation.  Thus proving herself to be as intelligent as she is beautiful.
     
  • While George was fleshing out the lyrics, John would frequently sing either "a cauliflower" or "a pomegranate" instead of "no other lover" and honestly I prefer those to the lyrics that made it on the record.  
     
  • The guitar solo is measured and, as Krista would say, languorous, without being plodding or self-conscious.  It neatly propels the song into one of the greatest middle eights in the Beatles' catalogue. 
     
  • And rather than being vague or incomplete, describing his lover's attractive qualities as "something" embraces and wonderfully expresses the ineffable, pre-conscious mystery of human attraction.  Or something.  
     
  • Krista has more to say about this song than I do, and agreeing to write about it was "something" of a mistake.  It has taken me like 8 hours and the best I could do is crap all over Eric Clapton after reading many excerpts of Boyd's memoirs.  You gotta be fuggin' nuts to do 200 of these.  I'm going to go to bed.
Mrs. Humanzee:  "Frank Sinatra said this was the best love song ever written.  I don't much favor the introductory verse of it, but my three favorite Beatles songs are, in no particular order: (1) the bridge in 'Something,' (2) the drum fills in 'Strawberry Fields Forever,' and (3) the first 23 seconds of 'Polythene Pam' leading into the first 47 seconds of 'She Came In Through The Bathroom Window.'  So I guess I'm saying I both agree and disagree with The Chairman of the Board.  So moved."  

Suggested cover:  George's favorite cover of the song was from James Brown.
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At one time, I was a big Clapton fan, but not so much anymore. I'm still a big Cream fan, though that has more to do with the combined whole, rather than EC. 

Anyways, I do like this song, but it's not on my final cut of 25 or 26. 

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Now, regarding your top 25. Nice work. I think I have 7 of them in my 25. That is greater than a 25% over lap. Not bad at all. 👍

Also, 9 others on the list made my top 83, where 26-83 were all nearly equal. I'll go more into this when we get around to the highest-ranker-write-ups and Flying. 

On the whole, I'm very satisfied with the list and looking forward to the write-ups. 🙂

 
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