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Krista4's Beatles 1-25 List Thread! Count down will start Mon Feb 14 noon ET. Will take new lists til then... (1 Viewer)

On this date in 1964, capitalizing on the Beatles' increasing popularity, the single "My Bonnie" by Tony Sheridan and the Beatles was released in the US and reached #26 on the US charts.

The song had been recorded in Hamburg and originally released in Germany in October 1961 under the band name, "Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers."  It reached #5 in Germany despite being truly awful, but hey, they love David Hasselhoff, too.  It came to the attention of Brian Epstein when a fan asked for it in his NEMS record store, and led to his going to see them in concert at the Cavern Club for the first time.  The song was released under the new moniker of "Tony Sheridan and the Beatles" in the UK in 1962 and then in the US during Beatlemania.  If you happen to have a copy of this lying around, you're rich as it's said to be worth a bundle.

It's not entirely clear who did what on here, but it's Tony Sheridan on lead vocals and the guitar solo.  You can hear George needling around on the guitar prior to the solo, and Paul on the high harmonies and bass.  Unclear who's doing that dreadful low harmony part.  John's probably on his Rickenbacker.  Pete Best is doing whatever Pete did best.

 
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Using Krista's list in the OP (because I read things)

Here's my list:
 

Singles 9

AHDNight 3

White Album 3

Help 2

LetItBe 2

Yellow Submarine 1

Revolver 1

Please Please Me 1

Abbey Road 1

Rubber Soul 1

Magical Mystery Tour 1

 
If there's another contest to guess Krista's rankings, I'm determined to actually pay attention to the albums they're on this time so I can make a guess that has a prayer.  

 
ANNOUNCEMENT:

Because we don't want to see @AAABatteries manicured and fascinated by the Sunday deadline, Krista and I had a meeting today and have decided to extend the deadline for lists to Sunday, February 13th, 11:59PM. This is a hard deadline.  The countdown will start Monday, February 14, 10am MT.

Actually the reason is two fold:
1) Krista wants to add some material to her write ups from last time and she needs more time to do this.

2) We have added a special FFA member who will be adding write ups on about 100 of the songs (we are at 155 now). That person also needs more time and the three of us all agree the extra two weeks is going to be needed.

So keep the lists coming in!

Every list is still changing the rankings significantly.  There have been some wild races the entire way here.
 

 
Getzlaf15 said:
ANNOUNCEMENT:

Because we don't want to see @AAABatteries manicured and fascinated by the Sunday deadline, Krista and I had a meeting today and have decided to extend the deadline for lists to Sunday, February 13th, 11:59PM. This is a hard deadline.  The countdown will start Monday, February 14, 10am MT.

Actually the reason is two fold:
1) Krista wants to add some material to her write ups from last time and she needs more time to do this.

2) We have added a special FFA member who will be adding write ups on about 100 of the songs (we are at 155 now). That personF also needs more time and the three of us all agree the extra two weeks is going to be needed.

So keep the lists coming in!

Every list is still changing the rankings significantly.  There have been some wild races the entire way here.
 
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You know we're just asking for Binky to submit 17 new lists now, right?

All of the above is true, and we also did not want to interfere with the meat of the LZ countdown.  

Now that I realize we're starting the countdown on Valentine's Day, I'm gonna change my #1 to "Michelle."

 
krista4 said:
You know we're just asking for Binky to submit 17 new lists now, right?

I used his one change mulligan on my list last night.

All of the above is true, and we also did not want to interfere with the meat of the LZ countdown.  

At their pace now, no way to avoid this.

Now that I realize we're starting the countdown on Valentine's Day, I'm gonna change my #1 to "Michelle."

Go all the way and just change your name to Michelle.
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Ilov80s said:
Next thread should be 25 worst Beatles songs. Maybe the only band where that would actually be an interesting conversation.
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I had actually been thinking a "ten worst" could be fun.  Could be 25 or whatever.  Or we could have had everyone submit that list simultaneously and subtracted points for it.  :lol:   

 
krista4 said:
On this date in 1964, capitalizing on the Beatles' increasing popularity, the single "My Bonnie" by Tony Sheridan and the Beatles was released in the US and reached #26 on the US charts.
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and on January 27, 1966, the #1 song was "We Can Work it Out," although some places say it was "The Sounds of Silence." I'm going with the WCWIO sites. I bring this up, because that was the #1 song the day I showed my ### (I was breech) to the world! 

 
I submitted my list.  I still feel awful and unsure about some of the songs that didn’t make the cut.  There are so many songs that belong in the top 25!  

Cant wait for the countdown to begin but why are we adding people to do write ups when we don’t read them?   

 
Ilov80s said:
Ten makes more sense. I love the idea. 
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It is perfect. One of the only bands deep and famous enough where a lot of people know their "bad songs" and the songs are different enough where some might hate songs others like. Plus they get so much universal praise that nobody will feel bad making some jokes at their expense. 

 
krista4 said:
I had actually been thinking a "ten worst" could be fun.  Could be 25 or whatever.  Or we could have had everyone submit that list simultaneously and subtracted points for it.  :lol:   
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The Beatles are my favorite band and they have easily 150 songs that I’ll listen to daily even - but I could pretty easily find 25 that I would be ok if they didn’t exist and that’s without including Michelle.  I’d still be down for making the list though.

 
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krista4 said:
I started to reply with some general responses (you got x right or whatever), and then I thought maybe I shouldn't.  Should we do another "guess krista's" for this thread?  I'd be happy to do a charitable donation for the winner.  I'm not sure if people want to go to the effort of guessing my 25 when it's hard enough putting together one's own, though.

We could do a "guess my new four in the 25" "guess my four out of the 25" "guess my new three in the top 10" etc. to make it easier.

Just spitballing.
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If you want to do 2 contests, I like:  "Guess the new 4 in the top 25" and "List the new Top 10 in order". It was fun going back with the clues, narrowing down the albums, picking which songs you got rid of and trying to sleuth out what might have been picked this time, based on your write-ups. 

And, if @Getzlaf15 wants to play, he has to blindfold himself while somebody reads him your new picks.

Also, Mystery Contributor? Is it Paul? I think it's probably Paul.

 
Submitted 

Revolver - 4

Rubber Soul - 4

Beatles For Sale - 3

A Hard Day's Night - 2 

The White Album - 2 

Help! - 2 

With The Beatles - 2 

Singles - 2 

Sgt. Pepper - 1

Let It Be - 1

Please Please Me - 1

Abbey Road - 1 

Awesome time doing this! I have a newfound love of Revolver and an appreciation for their later stuff that I think shows in the list. Only 11 out of 25 made it from last time, largely due to the previous lists and then thinking and listening. Peace!

 
Thanks to this exercise, I exercised my conspicuous consumption bone and I just ordered Revolver and went out and purchased Rubber Soul (in stereo, unfortunately. The mono versions are priced exorbitantly on Discogs) at the local store. New eras, new records! I want to own the physical copies of these before they go all Neil and get yanked from Spotify. 

Heh. Good stuff. Thanks, k4 and Getzlaf for deciding to do this again! Thanks also to thread contributors and others that make this enjoyable to read. 

 
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Mark Lewisohn’s book Tune In: The Beatles: All These Years arrived today. It’s an exhaustive look at their formative years, through the end of 1962.

Reading through the first couple chapters tonight the earworm playing in my head is “In Spite of All the Danger”.

 
krista4 said:
Right?!?!

I just finished my second full-ish re-ranking.  My top 25 are quite different from...a week ago.  FFS.

This time I put 66 songs in there.  Last time it was 54.  Common thread:  both times "Blackbird" was the lowest ranked of those I entered.  :shrug:  
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I feel if we did 10 worst that, for me, 7 would come from the White Album.  :shrug:

 
simey said:
and on January 27, 1966, the #1 song was "We Can Work it Out," although some places say it was "The Sounds of Silence." I'm going with the WCWIO sites. I bring this up, because that was the #1 song the day I showed my ### (I was breech) to the world! 
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:heart:   :heart:   :heart:   Happy birthday!!!

 
ProstheticRGK said:
If you want to do 2 contests, I like:  "Guess the new 4 in the top 25" and "List the new Top 10 in order". It was fun going back with the clues, narrowing down the albums, picking which songs you got rid of and trying to sleuth out what might have been picked this time, based on your write-ups. 

And, if @Getzlaf15 wants to play, he has to blindfold himself while somebody reads him your new picks.

Also, Mystery Contributor? Is it Paul? I think it's probably Paul.
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I actually considered posting that the Mystery Contributor was not Paul!  :lmao:

 
rockaction said:
Thanks to this exercise, I exercised my conspicuous consumption bone and I just ordered Revolver and went out and purchased Rubber Soul (in stereo, unfortunately. The mono versions are priced exorbitantly on Discogs) at the local store. New eras, new records! I want to own the physical copies of these before they go all Neil and get yanked from Spotify. 

Heh. Good stuff. Thanks, k4 and Getzlaf for deciding to do this again! Thanks also to thread contributors and others that make this enjoyable to read. 
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I love that you're opening to more of the mid-Beatles stuff at least.  Of course, it's because the 1965-66 years are by far my favorites, but I feel like despite surface differences we generally have a lot in musically common.  I'm going to be excited to see your new list.

 
krista4 said:
I love that you're opening to more of the mid-Beatles stuff at least.  Of course, it's because the 1965-66 years are by far my favorites, but I feel like despite surface differences we generally have a lot in musically common.  I'm going to be excited to see your new list.
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j/k.  It's a beautiful list. Maybe the most beautiful list ever.

 
ProstheticRGK said:
If you want to do 2 contests, I like:  "Guess the new 4 in the top 25" and "List the new Top 10 in order". It was fun going back with the clues, narrowing down the albums, picking which songs you got rid of and trying to sleuth out what might have been picked this time, based on your write-ups. 

And, if @Getzlaf15 wants to play, he has to blindfold himself while somebody reads him your new picks.

Also, Mystery Contributor? Is it Paul? I think it's probably Paul.
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Also, I'd love to do two contests but maybe only one that is "me-focused" and one that is "group-focused."   So one of the two you mentioned and then one maybe one that is guessing the group top 10 in order?  or the group top 25?

I also like the idea of some contest that trolls the bottom of the list.

 
falguy said:
I feel if we did 10 worst that, for me, 7 would come from the White Album.  :shrug:
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Without looking at it, I think a lot of mine in the original list were from there.  Some of the best and much of the worst for me.

 
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krista4 said:
I love that you're opening to more of the mid-Beatles stuff at least.  Of course, it's because the 1965-66 years are by far my favorites, but I feel like despite surface differences we generally have a lot in musically common.  I'm going to be excited to see your new list.
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Yeah, Revolver was really sort an eye-opener when I sat and really listened to it for a few days. I can hear lots of innovative stuff in there, and the pre-psychedelia guitar within a pop construct -- guitar that has psychedelic influences (just before the world fully breaks into psychedelia) while keeping an actual pop beat -- is in my sweet spot for listening, so I dug it upon more listening than I'd given it in the past. I'd always dug "Eleanor Rigby" (it made my list last time) but I could have taken or left the album years ago. Now, the rock songs are a fantastic listen.

I think the board consensus last time you did this and @Guido Merkinsgot me to listen to it again, somehow. The Get Back movie, all twenty minutes or so that I saw of it and the attendant reviews and comments, helped convince me that these weren't just completely wasted hippies noodling around, but serious songwriters that were just cutting edge, so I needed to give the pre-heroin and pre-psychedelic stuff a fairer listen. 

There is some late stuff represented, including two from the White Album, two of which could easily have been my number ones overall. When they were on, they were on, and those two from the White Album were gracing the tops of my list at one point. I didn't edit too hard because I wanted to get it in before I lost any impulse or momentum, so the rank order of the list isn't perfect, but is more for ease and Getzlaf's handling of the deluge coming in. I decided not to keep rank ordering incessantly and I just decided to turn it in and be done and neat about it. 

Thanks for responding to the comment. We generally do have a lot in common musically, so yeah, it's more me coming around than anything. It's easy and predictably punk rock to thumb one's nose at the hippie Beatles; it takes a little more honesty and wherewithal to take a different and less easy stance by saying that, honestly and not for ease's sake -- there are some really fine and innovative pop songs post-'65. 

 
falguy said:
I feel if we did 10 worst that, for me, 7 would come from the White Album.  :shrug:
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The White Album has some lemons on it for me. I think there was a thread one time on what songs would you put on the White Album if it was only one album instead of a double one. 

 
rockaction said:
I didn't edit too hard because I wanted to get it in before I lost any impulse or momentum, so the rank order of the list isn't perfect, but is more for ease and Getzlaf's handling of the deluge coming in. I decided not to keep rank ordering incessantly and I just decided to turn it in and be done and neat about it. 

Thanks for responding to the comment. We generally do have a lot in common musically, so yeah, it's more me coming around than anything. It's easy and predictably punk rock to thumb one's nose at the hippie Beatles; it takes a little more honesty and wherewithal to take a different and less easy stance by saying that, honestly and not for ease's sake -- there are some really fine and innovative pop songs post-'65. 
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I love the "didn't edit too hard."

I think we actually find a lot of common ground in punk rock, and oddly enough OH and I were discussing the Beatles cover of "Boys" today and thinking that it was pretty damn punk rock itself.  Listen to those drums and set aside what you know of the song or the Beatles at that point and think about it?  In any case, the Beatles influenced so much of the music that you and I agree on and continue to love.  Actually more than "influenced" but "led to."  

I don't think of a distinction that includes "hippie Beatles" though I know you've often compared "hippie Beatles" to "hippie Beach Boys" and found the latter more appealing.  I suppose when characterized that way, it makes sense.  But mid-Beatles and even later Beatles really have nothing to do with "hippie" in that way.  

I'd be excited yet again to hear your favorites in 2025, too.

 
Anyone get an email offer from Spotify due to playing so many Beatles songs? :) "

"A special offer for top fans of The Beatles"

Thanks for being a fan

To celebrate the release of The Beatles’ Let It Be Special Editions, Spotify has partnered with Crosley to offer you a limited-edition Beatles Anthology Record Player exclusively available to The Beatles' top listeners on Spotify.

Only 1,500 units are available for this offer - until February 11th or while supplies last - so act quickly!

Get this limited edition The Beatles x Crosley - Let It Be Turntable, made exclusively for top fans on Spotify!

$200 

No idea if this link will work for everyone

 
falguy said:
Anyone get an email offer from Spotify due to playing so many Beatles songs? :) "

"A special offer for top fans of The Beatles"

Thanks for being a fan

To celebrate the release of The Beatles’ Let It Be Special Editions, Spotify has partnered with Crosley to offer you a limited-edition Beatles Anthology Record Player exclusively available to The Beatles' top listeners on Spotify.

Only 1,500 units are available for this offer - until February 11th or while supplies last - so act quickly!

Get this limited edition The Beatles x Crosley - Let It Be Turntable, made exclusively for top fans on Spotify!

$200 

No idea if this link will work for everyone
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I didn’t receive this one, but I did get stuff like this back when I was doing so much listening for my post-Beatles thread.   :)  

 
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krista4 said:
I didn’t receive this one, but I did get stuff f like this back when I was doing so much listening for my post-Beatles thread.   :)  
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:bye:

 

Thanks for being a fan

To celebrate the release of The Beatles’ Let It Be Special Editions, Spotify has partnered with Crosley to offer you a limited-edition Beatles Anthology Record Player exclusively available to The Beatles' top listeners on Spotify.

Only 1,500 units are available for this offer - until February 11th or while supplies last - so act quickly!

 
krista4 said:
I didn’t receive this one, but I did get stuff f like this back when I was doing so much listening for my post-Beatles thread.   :)  
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If I bought it that would be about $900 Canadian and I'd have to go buy 13 Beatles albums. 

 
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