Best Beatles Song Survivor - 'Let It Be' Draw - Round 1

[namkcuR]

Something was eliminated last round. This means that Here Comes The Sun 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, A Day In The Life, Strawberry Fields Forever, and Blackbird.

Voting Results:
15 - Here Comes The Sun
14 - Something
Total Votes = 29

Already Elimined From The Competition:

137.Something
136.You Never Give Me Your Money
135.The End
134.Carry That Weight
133.Golden Slumbers
132.I Want You(She's So Heavy)
131.She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
130.Because
129.Come Together
128.Oh! Darling
127.Octopus's Garden
126.Sun King
125.Maxwell's Silver Hammer/Mean Mr. Mustard
124.Polythene Pam
123.Her Majesty
122.While My Guitar Gently Weeps
121.Dear Prudence
120.Helter Skelter
119.Happiness Is A Warm Gun
118.Back In The U.S.S.R.
117.Julia
116.Mother Nature's Son
115.Cry Baby Cry
114.Sexy Sadie
113.I'm So Tired
112.I Will
111.Long, Long, Long
110.Yer Blues
109.Revolution 1
108.Birthday/Savoy Truffle
107.Martha My Dear
106.Glass Onion
105.Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da/Rocky Raccoon
104.Piggies
103.Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
102.Good Night
101.Why Don't We Do It In The Road?
100.Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill
99.Don't Pass Me By/Honey Pie
98.Wild Honey Pie
97.Revolution 9
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!

 

[namkcuR]

Ok guys, I need to make a very important clarification at the outset of this draw, and you need to understand this because it could conceivably effect your voting: Across The Universe, Let It Be, and Get Back WILL NOT APPEAR IN THE PAST MASTERS VOL. 2 DRAW. SO DO NOT VOTE OFF ANY OF THESE SONGS THINKING, 'IF IT WERE THE PAST MASTERS VERSION, I'D WANT IT TO WIN, BUT SINCE IT'S THE LET IT BE VERSION, I'M VOTING IT OFF'. JUST PRETEND THE VERSIONS OF EACH OF THESE SONGS ON LET IT BE ARE YOUR FAVORITE VERSIONS OF EACH. This has to be done this way because I can't let there be any chance of a song competing against itself in the final draw. Thank you.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

Damn, that last Draw was quick!

Hoooray for Here Comes The Sun!!

There is alot of filler on this album IMO, I guess I'll start with One After 909...

EDIT: namkcuR, I believe it's actually "Dig a Pony"

 

[namkcuR]

Damn, that last Draw was quick!

Hoooray for Here Comes The Sun!!

There is alot of filler on this album IMO, I guess I'll start with One After 909...

EDIT: namkcuR, I believe it's actually "Dig a Pony"

Yeah, I noticed right after I posted. It'll be correct starting next round.

I think there's less filler than good on Let It Be. Across The Universe, The Long And Winding Road, Get Back, and the title track are all bonafide classics. Two Of Us, I've Got A Feeling, and I Me Mine are great as well, just a notch below. The rest(Dig A Pony, Dig It, Maggie Mae, One After 909, and For You Blue) are filler. That puts it at 7-4, imo.

 

[phanan]

There is alot of filler on this album IMO, I guess I'll start with One After 909...

Why would you vote off One After 909 before such insignificant snippets like Dig It and Maggie Mae? Just curious.

Not that it will matter in the end.

Maggie Mae for me.

 

[corianderstem]

Dig it! Dig it!

(Annoying! Annoying!)

 

[SeattleVertigo]

Dig It. Maggie Mae next.

 

[BonosLil'Pal94]

I don't know a lot of the songs on this album so i'm gonna wait until the later rounds to vote

 

[UberBeaver]

The Long and Winding Road cause it's pretentious drivel.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

Why would you vote off One After 909 before such insignificant snippets like Dig It and Maggie Mae? Just curious.

Not that it will matter in the end.

Maggie Mae for me.

meh... Me no like, I dunno there's just something about that song that irks me more than Maggie Mae or Dig It...

The Long and Winding Road cause it's pretentious drivel.

that's awesome...

 

[namkcuR]

The Long And Winding Road is utterly gorgeous. For shame.

 

[corianderstem]

I think it's a beautiful song ruined by too many bells and whistles. I like the "Naked" version far, far better.

The glissando-ing strings! The background choir! KILL ME NOW.

But if you can ignore all of that, it's beautiful.

 

[Zoots]

BBC... BB King.. and Doris Day.. Mike Bugsby.. dig it, dig it, dig it

 

[SeattleVertigo]

I think it's a beautiful song ruined by too many bells and whistles. I like the "Naked" version far, far better.

Definitely.

I think Paul hated what Phil Spector did with the original version as well, adding all those strings...........

Yup, according to Wikipedia:

"While the released version of the song was very successful, the post-production modifications to the song by producer Phil Spector angered McCartney to the point that when he made his case in court for breaking up The Beatles as a legal entity, he cited the treatment of "The Long and Winding Road" as one of six reasons for doing so."

 

[angelordevil]

The Long And Winding Road is utterly gorgeous. For shame.

It is, but it's also long and winding. I think it's Paul's overly maudlin delivery that bothers me.

 

[SeattleVertigo]

But wow, I hope the song doesn't get voted out this early. It's tied for the lead.

Can anything really challenge Let It Be for the album win, though?

edit: Well, maybe Across The Universe. I'll haveta think about it.

 

[intedomine]

Wish Something won the last round

LET IT BE could get interesting.

My vote goes to One after 909...a bit crappy.

Hoping Dig A Pony does well...

 

[LemonMelon]

Why would you vote off One After 909 before such insignificant snippets like Dig It and Maggie Mae?

 

[Zoots]

But Dig It and Maggie Mae are fun! esp. Dig It, I think it's hilarious. One After 909 on the other hand just blows! Boring!

 

[LemonMelon]

Dig It just sucks...I personally find Maggie Mae to be very humorous.

This album is so very underrated, mostly because of the production and the simple fact that it followed Abbey Road. There's really nothing wrong with what's here...I've Got A Feeling, Two Of Us, and Across The Universe are perfect.

 

[cobl04]

How could yo all give HCTS the win. For shame.

Anyway Let it Be has to win, in my opinion it is a more forgone conclusion to me than SFF or ADITL.

 

[intedomine]

You'd think Let It Be will win reasonably convincingly, but some of these songs are understated beauties. Two Of Us is a roughie.

 

[namkcuR]

I think it's a beautiful song ruined by too many bells and whistles. I like the "Naked" version far, far better.

The glissando-ing strings! The background choir! KILL ME NOW.

But if you can ignore all of that, it's beautiful.

Ok guys, I need to make a very important clarification at the outset of this draw, and you need to understand this because it could conceivably effect your voting: Across The Universe, Let It Be, and Get Back WILL NOT APPEAR IN THE PAST MASTERS VOL. 2 DRAW. SO DO NOT VOTE OFF ANY OF THESE SONGS THINKING, 'IF IT WERE THE PAST MASTERS VERSION, I'D WANT IT TO WIN, BUT SINCE IT'S THE LET IT BE VERSION, I'M VOTING IT OFF'. JUST PRETEND THE VERSIONS OF EACH OF THESE SONGS ON LET IT BE ARE YOUR FAVORITE VERSIONS OF EACH. This has to be done this way because I can't let there be any chance of a song competing against itself in the final draw. Thank you.

This also applies to 'if it were the ...naked version I'd want it to win, but since it's the let it be version, I'm votiing it off', since there won't be any ...naked draw.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

see! it would appear that I'm not the only one around here who diskiles One After 909!

And Dig It is cool... It's got the old ladies at the end, kind of reminds me of Monty Python or something...

 

[Zoots]

Anyway Let it Be has to win, in my opinion it is a more forgone conclusion to me than SFF or ADITL.

I hope Let It Be (title track) doesn't win. It's nice but also one of the more boring Beatles songs.