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

[namkcuR]

I Am The Walrus was eliminated last round. This means that Strawberry Fields Forever has advanced to the final draw, joining Twist And Shout, All My Loving, A Hard Day's Night, Eight Days A Week, Yesterday, In My Life, Eleanor Rigby, and A Day In The Life.

And with that, we begin the lengthy White Album draw, for which I have decided on the 'one thirty song round' option. Take a deep breath and dive in. There is a LOT of BRILLIANT work on this double record.

Voting Results:
16 - Strawberry Fields Forever
8 - I Am The Walrus
Total votes = 24

Already Eliminated From The Competition:

96.I Am The Walrus
95.Penny Lane
94.All You Need Is Love
93.Magical Mystery Tour
92.Hello Goodbye
91.Baby You're A Rich Man
90.Fool On The Hill/Your Mother Should Know
89.Blue Jay Way
88.Flying
87.Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
86.With A Little Help From My Friends
85.Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
84.Getting Better
83.Lovely Rita
82.Fixing A Hole
81.She's Leaving Home/Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!
80.Within You Without You
79.When I'm Sixty-Four
78.Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band(Reprise)
77.Good Morning Good Morning
76.Tomorrow Never Knows
75.I'm Only Sleeping
74.For No One
73.Here, There, And Everywhere
72.And Your Bird Can Sing
71.Taxman
70.Good Day Sunshine
69.Yellow Submarine
68.She Said, She Said
67.Got To Get You Into My Life
66.Love You To/I Want To Tell You
65.Doctor Robert
64.Norwegian Wood(This Bird Has Flown)
63.Nowhere Man
62.Drive My Car
61.I'm Looking Through You
60.If I Needed Someone
59.You Won't See Me
58.Think For Yourself
57.Run For Your Life
56.Wait
55.Michelle
54.The Word
53.What Goes On
52.Girl
51.Help!
50.Ticket To Ride
49.You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
48.I've Just Seen A Face
47.You're Going To Lose That Girl
46.I Need You
45.The Night Before
44.It's Only Love
43.Tell Me What You See
42.Another Girl/You Like Me Too Much
41.Act Naturally/Dizzy Miss Lizzie
40.No Reply/I'm A Loser/Rock And Roll Music
39.Baby's In Black/I'll Follow The Sun/Kansas City/Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey
38.Every Little Thing
37.Words Of Love/What You're Doing
36.Honey Don't
35.Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby
34.I Don't Want To Spoil The Party
33.Mr. Moonlight
32.Can't Buy Me Love
31.And I Love Her
30.If I Fell
29.I'll Be Back
28.I Should Have Known Better/Things We Said Today
27.Tell Me Why
26.I'm Happy Just To Dance With You
25.You Can't Do That
24.I'll Cry Instead
23.Any Time At All
22.When I Get Home
21.It Won't Be Long
20.I Wanna Be Your Man
19.Roll Over Beethoven
18.Please Mr. Postman
17.Till There Was You/You Really Got A Hold On Me
16.Don't Bother Me/Hold Me Tight/Money (That's What I Want)
15.Not A Second Time
14.Devil In Her Heart
13.All I've Got To Do/Little Child
12.I Saw Her Standing There
11.Please Please Me
10.Love Me Do
9.P.S. I Love You
8.Do You Want To Know A Secret
7.Ask Me Why
6.Misery
5.Baby It's You/There's A Place
4.Anna (Go To Him)
3.Chains
2.Boys
1.A Taste Of Honey

Rules: Vote for your LEAST favorite song. This poll will be open for 24 hours, at which point the song with the most votes will be eliminated from the competition and the next round will be started. This process will continue until only one song remains in the 'Please Please Me' draw, and we move on to the next LP. And so on and so forth.

In the event of a tie, the tied songs will be eliminated together, UNLESS it is a tie between the final two songs in any draw, in which case the voting time will be extended.

Once again, if any of you don't have access to this LP and would like to hear the songs you don't know, tell me in this thread and I will link you up via PM to a zip file containing the whole album.

Let's up the voting for people - the more participation, the better!

 

[cdisantis83]

This is slightly intimidating. I have to go with Revolution 9, however, as it is the type of avant-garde that never really lives up to its pretensions.

 

[Lancemc]

This is going to be hard.

I'm personally pulled for Long, Long, Long to win this one, but I don't see that ever happening.

 

[LMP]

This is going to be hard.

I'm personally pulled for Long, Long, Long to win this one, but I don't see that ever happening.

That's a great song, but Blackbird, While My Guitar Gently Weeps and Happiness is a Warm Gun are better by a slight margin. At least for me.

 

[namkcuR]

This is going to be hard.

I'm personally pulled for Long, Long, Long to win this one, but I don't see that ever happening.

With such giants as While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Blackbird, Happiness Is A Warm Gun, Helter Skelter, Julia, and Revolution 1 in its way, it will be a VERY steep mountain to climb for Long, Long, Long.

 

[cdisantis83]

I'm not sure what I am pulling for in this round- probably Revolution 1. However, if the Love version of While My Guitar Gently Weeps were included, it would be my favorite to win.

 

[LemonMelon]

WMGGW is really overrated.

Revolution 1
Blackbird
Dear Prudence
Helter Skelter...etc...

Are all better and deserve it more.


My vote this round goes to Don't Pass Me By, the height of White Album crappiness. (And that's saying something)

 

[SeattleVertigo]

Best on the album probably comes down to While My Guitar... or Blackbird for me. Underrated songs are Cry Baby Cry, Sexy Sadie and I'm So Tired.

I'm voting for Revolution 9 in this round.

 

[corianderstem]

Revolution 9, easily.

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight! Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight!

(that part seriously creeps me out)

 

[LemonMelon]

No votes for Wild Honey Pie yet...but there are votes for Savoy Truffle and Honey Pie?

 

[corianderstem]

Is Wild Honey Pie the old-timey one? Yeah, that one pretty much sucks. I mean, completely sucks.

There's way too much half-witted filler on The White Album.

 

[LemonMelon]

Is Wild Honey Pie the old-timey one? Yeah, that one pretty much sucks. I mean, completely sucks.

There's way too much half-witted filler on The White Album.

Honey Pie is the old-timey (and NOT sucky one), WHP is the one where they scream HOOOOOOOOONEY PIE for 30 seconds.

 

[intedomine]

Don't vote for Rev 9. At least it's interesting, unlike fucking Yer Blues...

 

[corianderstem]

Oh yeah. They both suck.

Sorry, LemonMelon. It just makes me picture McCartney donning some old-timey suit and top hat and soft-shoeing around the studio or something, and I just want to smack him.

Just a little.



As for Yer Blues, I'd rather listen to some basic bluesy riffing and singing than a bunch of freaking noise.

Dear John: Save it for your albums with Yoko. Kthxbye.

 

[LemonMelon]

I'm listening to Rev 9 right now...it's hilarious. Definitely more entertaining (to me) than Don't Pass Me By.

 

[intedomine]

Oh yeah. They both suck.

Sorry, LemonMelon. It just makes me picture McCartney donning some old-timey suit and top hat and soft-shoeing around the studio or something, and I just want to smack him.

Just a little.



As for Yer Blues, I'd rather listen to some basic bluesy riffing and singing than a bunch of freaking noise.

Dear John: Save it for your albums with Yoko. Kthxbye.

Rev 9 is surely worth keeping for the Can You Take Me Back thing or whatever....that's a charming little tune sung by Paul...

And there is music beneath the surface....

 

[corianderstem]

Is that "can you take me back" bit attached to Rev 9? I do like that little bit.

But not enough to revoke my vote.

 

[LemonMelon]

Rev 9 is surely worth keeping for the Can You Take Me Back thing or whatever....that's a charming little tune sung by Paul...

And there is music beneath the surface....

Technically, that song is a part of Cry Baby Cry.

But it does have parts of Revolution 1 in it, so I'm happy about that.

 

[LemonMelon]

OK, I've decided that I really like all of the following:


Back In The USSR
Dear Prudence
While My Guitar...
Martha My Dear
I'm So Tired
Blackbird
Julia
Birthday
Mother Nature's Son
EGSTHEFMAMM
Sexy Sadie
Helter Skelter
Long, Long, Long
Revolution 1
Cry Baby Cry

Every other song on the album can fall in a ditch for all I care.

 

[BonosLil'Pal94]

I literally don't know half the songs on this album, so I just voted randomly for Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me and My Monkey because it sounds funny

 

[LemonMelon]

I literally don't know half the songs on this album, so I just voted randomly for Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me and My Monkey because it sounds funny

Doesn't your mother have it?

 

[Westport]

All the Beatles dissing in this thread.

 

[Westport]

I believe that the Zoo TV Tour intro was inspired by Revolution 9.

 

[U2Man]

Oh yeah. They both suck.

Sorry, LemonMelon. It just makes me picture McCartney donning some old-timey suit and top hat and soft-shoeing around the studio or something, and I just want to smack him.

Just a little.

honey pie does not suck.

 

[cobl04]

Finally!

Okay, Wild Honey Pie HAS to go. It is terrible, sickening, horrible, ear-poisoning garbage. If we were describing songs in terms of tempature, Wild Honey Pie would get Absolute Zero, which is 0C Kelvin, or -273C. At that temperature, even Hydrogen and Helium are solids. That is how bad Wild Honey Pie is. Utter crap.

Some other things I'd like to get off my chest:
- There is a fair bit of filler on this album. That's the danger with making an album with 30 songs. Happened to the RHCP.
- Here's hoping for Monkey to win! It's a MAD song.
- Revolution 9 may be crap and pointless, but I would still rather listen to its 8 minutes than Wild Honey Pie's 50 seconds.

Originally posted by Westport

I believe that the Zoo TV Tour intro was inspired by Revolution 9.

Makes sense. Hasn't Bono always said they were most inspired by the White Album?

 

[cobl04]

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."

Top 3 on iTunes:
1. Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey - The Beatles - 12 Plays
2. Eclipse - Pink Floyd - 11 Plays
3. Anybody Seen My Baby? - The Rolling Stones - 11 Plays

 

[gump]

I can't believe While My Guitar Gently Weeps has one vote. Come on, you may not like it, but there's a lot of crap in the album that deserves to be voted out first!

 

[phanan]

Revolution 9

 

[LemonMelon]

There's no Beates-dissing in this thread; White Album is just pretty average overall. At its best, it's up there with their best and most experimental, at its worst....

It's no sacred cow. It's a good (not great) Beatles album, which is a sad thing.

 

[UberBeaver]

I literally don't know half the songs on this album, so I just voted randomly for Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me and My Monkey because it sounds funny

HEY! That's my favorite song.