Best Beatles Song Survivor - 'The Beatles AKA The White Album' Draw - Round 1

[AnnRKeyintheUSA]

You vote off the one you don't like since this is like Survior, cool. I voted off Wild Honey Pie.

 

[Tiger Edge]

Revolution 9 is the shit!

It's exactly the kind of stuff I can just listen and mellow out to. Especially when the fire starts to crackle and John makes those noises <- Literally!

Mother Nature's Son
I like Wild Honey Pie though. I like almost everything on this album and if Abbey Road weren't blow-my-mind-awesome, it would be my #1. It was my favorite Beatles album for a long, long time.

 

[corianderstem]

I'm surprised at how many people like Revolution 1... I think it's pretty bland myself. Is there a faster version or a remake I am thinking of? My Dad reckons its there best song...when I heard I was all like, "Meh."

Yes, there is a sped-up version of Revolution 1, which is the one you hear on the radio. It wasn't officially on an album, it was the B-side to Hey Jude, I think.

This version is notable for having an extra, important word in it.

"When you talk about destruction, don't you know that you can count me out ....... in!"

The faster, B-side version does not have "in." "In" changes the whole sentiment of the song, and it's a little eerie. In a good way.

 

[LemonMelon]

Revolution 1 > Revolution

It has the squealing guitars, but it's not as obnoxious.

 

[FitzChivalry]

"Rocky Raccoon"

I've always LOVED this song for some reason. Lyrically it's got that great storytelling narrative, sort of like Pearl Jam's "Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town".

I know it's not going to win, but I would still like to see it make it at least half way through.


Go Rocky, GO!!!!

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

Jesus! That is allot of choices...

I'm going to start with Revolution #9 since that's just nonsense...

I would really like to see Blackbird win. I think it's one of McCartney's greatest songs of all time, in fact he also has another one of my all time faves on this album as well: Mother Natures Son...

The only other track I am comfortable with winning is While My Guitar Gently Weeps because it's one of George's best...

 

[XHendrix24]

"Wild Honey Pie" is hilarious, so it stays.

Revolution 9 is tedious and kind of grating. Therefore, it goes first.

 

[Zoots]

Revolution 9 is the shit!

It's exactly the kind of stuff I can just listen and mellow out to. Especially when the fire starts to crackle and John makes those noises <- Literally!

I love Revolution 9! So many interesting things going on throughout the song, it's like a movie on CD.

As usual, the most interesting song is getting eliminated first! Most people here seem to have no sense of adventure.

 

[U2Man]

As usual, the most interesting song is getting eliminated first! Most people here seem to have no sense of adventure.

 

[Lancemc]

Honey Pie is garbage. Away it should go.

 

[corianderstem]

I like adventure. But I like it to be something other than a too-long pile of various noises.

Experimental does not automatically mean good.

 

[LMP]

Can we just vote on Blackbird, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Revolution 1 and 9, Helter Skelter, Long Long Long, Back in the USSR, Dear Prudence, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Julia, and I'm So Tired so this won't take 3 weeks to finish?

 

[XHendrix24]

I like adventure. But I like it to be something other than a too-long pile of various noises.

Experimental does not automatically mean good.

Bingo.

A bunch of random sounds put together doesn't = adventurous/interesting. It's lazy and tedious for the listener.

Now "Happiness is a Warm Gun" - THAT'S a fucking interesting song. It's amazing how well the drastic changes in structure work so wonderfully together.

 

[Zoots]

Experimental does not automatically mean good.

Agreed. I didn't intend to mean that experimental automatically equals good. But most of the time, the more experimental songs don't seem to win here. Tomorrow Never Knows, Walrus, I'm Only Sleeping all lost.

 

[corianderstem]

Gotcha, thanks for clarifying. I was feeling a little defensive.

You have to admit though, Tomorrow Never Knows probably would have won had it not been meddled with. That would have been a point in favor of experimentation.

 

[XHendrix24]

"A Day in the Life" won, though.

x infinity

 

[Utoo]

how to choose?

 

[LMP]

Bingo.

A bunch of random sounds put together doesn't = adventurous/interesting. It's lazy and tedious for the listener.

Now "Happiness is a Warm Gun" - THAT'S a fucking interesting song. It's amazing how well the drastic changes in structure work so wonderfully together.

Radiohead liked it so much they made their own song like this called Paranoid Android.

And liked Sexy Sadie so much they redid it and called it Karma Police.

I jus' sayin'...

 

[intedomine]

A bunch of random sounds put together doesn't = adventurous/interesting. It's lazy and tedious for the listener.

Not necessarilly. What if the sounds are fun to listen to?

Who cares if there is no structure, as long as the sounds are good.

Which, for me, makes Rev 9 much more interesting to to listen to than unremarkable songs like Yer Blues and Rev 1.

Rev 9 certainly isn't tedious. It's pretentious and self-indulgent, but not tedious.

 

[LemonMelon]

how to choose?

Indeed. There's so much junk to choose from.

 

[intedomine]

Alright, who the hell voted for Piggies?

That song is factually brilliant and very clever.

 

[LemonMelon]

Alright, who the hell voted for Piggies?

That song is factually brilliant and very clever.

I agree. So is Honey Pie...it's creative and a successful genre experiment.

 

[intedomine]

In fact, I reckon The White Album, despite being much maligned, is successful in most of the genre experiments attempted.

The album was never meant to be about cohesion. It was all about slapping 30 tracks together on a compilation.

Good Night is one of my top best tracks from the album and works beautfiully as a closing track and with Ringo's vocal, and who'd have thought The Beatles could ever have sounded like that!

 

[gareth brown]

the fact that only EIGHT out of [at the time of writing] twenty four votes are for the piece of garbage that is Revolution 9 is appalling, disgusting and mind-boggling in equal measure. Shame on you remaining 16.

 

[LemonMelon]

the fact that only EIGHT out of [at the time of writing] twenty four votes are for the piece of garbage that is Revolution 9 is appalling, disgusting and mind-boggling in equal measure. Shame on you remaining 16.

Rev 9 > Don't Pass Me By

Or rather

garbage > Don't Pass Me By

 

[gareth brown]

I am SO glad I accidentally closed a window in which I was in the middle of agreeing with you in the Radiohead thread.

Seriously...The Beatles have done FAR worse than Don't Pass Me By...like "Garbage"

 

[LemonMelon]

I am SO glad I accidentally closed a window in which I was in the middle of agreeing with you in the Radiohead thread.

Seriously...The Beatles have done FAR worse than Don't Pass Me By...like "Garbage"

Everyone wants a piece of me tonight

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

Everyone wants a piece of me tonight

It's like that scene from Airplane! when all the guys are lined up to slap that hysterical woman...

 

[LMP]

It's like that scene from Airplane! when all the guys are lined up to slap that hysterical woman...

you and your Airplane! references.

"Would you like some cream?"
"No, I like my coffee black, like my men."

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

you and your Airplane! references.

"Would you like some cream?"
"No, I like my coffee black, like my men."

"...And that's when my drinking problem started..."