Best Beatles Song Survivor - The Final Draw - Intro/Round 1

[namkcuR]

In the 'Final Round Re-Do', Tomorrow Never Knows won the re-vote. Therefore, due to this majority decision, Eleanor Rigby has been stripped of its spot in the Final Draw, and Tomorrow Never Knows has officially gained said spot in the Final Draw. With that, the Final Draw is set in stone, and we are ready to begin. 3...2...1...(see next post)

Voting Results:
16 - Tomorrow Never Knows
12 - Eleanor Rigby
Total Votes = 28

Already Elimined From The Competition:

170.Elimination #76(see list below) becomes 'Eleanor Rigby'
169.We Can Work It Out/Revolution
168.Day Tripper
167.Paperback Writer
166.Rain/Lady Madonna
165.The Ballad Of John And Yoko
164.Don't Let Me Down
163.The Inner Light/Old Brown Shoe
162.You Know My Name(Look Up The Number)
161.She Loves You
160.I Want To Hold Your Hand
159.From Me To You
158.She's A Woman
157.I Call Your Name
156.I'm Down
155.Slow Down
154.Matchbox
153.I'll Get You
152.This Boy/Bad Boy
151.Sie Liebt Dich (She Loves You in German)/Yes It Is
150.Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand (I Want To Hold Your Hand in German)
149.Thank You Girl/Long Tall Sally
148.Across The Universe
147.Get Back
146.Two Of Us
145.I've Got A Feeling
144.I Me Mine
143.The Long And Winding Road
142.Dig A Pony
141.For You Blue
140.Dig It
139.Maggie Mae
138.One After 909
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]

[size=+2]Fourteen draws. Fourteen months. One-Hundred-Seventy eliminations. A Re-Do. Controversy. Arguement. Debate. Alliances formed. Alliances broken. Friendships destroyed. Loves lost. And all of this, JUST to get here...[/size]

[size=+2]Without further ado, here is YOUR Final Draw!!!!!

1.Twist And Shout

2.All My Loving

3.A Hard Day's Night

4.Eight Days A Week

5.Yesterday

6.In My Life

7.Tomorrow Never Knows

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[namkcuR]

[size=+2]8.A Day In The Life

9.Strawberry Fields Forever

10.Blackbird

11.Here Comes The Sun

12.Let It Be

13.I Feel Fine

14.Hey Jude

Let the voting commence!
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[SeattleVertigo]

Tomorrow Never Knows. It's the illegitimate bastard child of the finals.

Plus, it's my least favorite of the songs here. <wink>

 

[SeattleVertigo]

I think I'd rank these about like this, if we're talking personal favorites:

A Day In The Life
Strawberry Fields Forever
Here Comes The Sun
Blackbird
Let It Be
Yesterday
In My Life
Hey Jude
I Feel Fine
A Hard Day's Night
Eight Days A Week
Twist and Shout
All My Loving
Tomorrow Never Knows

 

[LMP]

I think I'd rank these about like this, if we're talking personal favorites:

Strawberry Fields Forever
Here Comes the Sun
Hey Jude
Let It Be
Tomorrow Never Knows
A Day in the Life
In My Life
Yesterday
Twist and Shout
A Hard Day's Night
Blackbird
All My Loving
I Feel Fine
Eight Days A Week

That's how I'm voting, with Eight Days a Week being first.

 

[corianderstem]

Very nice.

Wow, this is really hard. I know I fought for TNK in the rematch, but I'm struggling as to what should go before it in this round.

I need to mull this over. Important decisions here.

 

[SeattleVertigo]

I think I'd rank these about like this, if we're talking personal favorites:

A Day In The Life
Strawberry Fields Forever
Here Comes The Sun
Blackbird
Let It Be
Yesterday
In My Life
Hey Jude
I Feel Fine
A Hard Day's Night
Eight Days A Week
Twist and Shout
All My Loving
Tomorrow Never Knows

For the record, even though I'm giving Tomorrow Never Knows a little shit, they're all awesome songs and this would make a great mix.

 

[lazarus]

Strawberry Fields is far and away the best work here, even if Lennon never thought he got it right. Autobiographical yet creative lyrics, the music somehow fun and menacing at the same time, the genius of splicing together the fast & slow parts, etc.

The greatest thing that ever came out the mind of a genius...and the philistines here wil probably wind up giving the #1 slot to Here Comes the Sun.

 

[SeattleVertigo]

Strawberry Fields is amazing, and sometimes I call it the best song ever written (depending on my mood).

But you don't think A Day In The Life has this game clinched?

Here Comes The Sun is great, but I can't see it coming in better than third.

 

[cdisantis83]

But you don't think A Day In The Life has this game clinched?

Yes.
For now, I vote for Twist & Shout. Everything before Rubber Soul pales in comparison to what followed.

 

[Lila64]

I don't know if I can vote in succeeding rounds. It's like picking your favorite child or something

(luckily I only have one )

 

[cdisantis83]

I didn't read properly. I thought that it said "don't you think that A Day in the Life has this clinched?," to which I answered in the affirmative. I believe that A Day in the Life ought to win.

 

[corianderstem]

The greatest thing that ever came out the mind of a genius...and the philistines here wil probably wind up giving the #1 slot to Here Comes the Sun.

Like that would be such a horrible thing.

I'm casting my first vote for I Feel Fine.

 

[Lila64]

Like that would be such a horrible thing.

I'm casting my first vote for I Feel Fine.

ditto

 

[Zoots]

Twist And Shout. Fun but too repetitive.

 

[namkcuR]

Strawberry Fields is far and away the best work here, even if Lennon never thought he got it right. Autobiographical yet creative lyrics, the music somehow fun and menacing at the same time, the genius of splicing together the fast & slow parts, etc.

The greatest thing that ever came out the mind of a genius...and the philistines here wil probably wind up giving the #1 slot to Here Comes the Sun.

I think the Love acoustic version of Strawberry Fields Forever is better than the MMT version

 

[intedomine]

voted for Twist and Shout. I'm still bitter Please Please Me or There's a Place didn't win that first round.....

 

[lazarus]

Twist and Shout, while not an original composition and a good candidate for an early exit, is at least proto-punk rock.

All My Lovin' is just lame. It needs to go.

 

[Zoots]

All My Loving may have lame lyrics. But that melody is such fun!

 

[BonosLil'Pal94]

It was between I Feel Fine, Let It Be, Eight Days A Week, or Twist and Shout....I went with I Feel Fine

All My Lovin'

 

[bonocomet]

tnk

 

[cobl04]

Yes.
For now, I vote for Twist & Shout. Everything before Rubber Soul pales in comparison to what followed.

spot on brutha

This is why I'm voting for All My Loving. Can't stand it, I hate their early stuff. It epitomises why I will never buy a Beatles album pre-Help. It's all too poppy and "I love you" for me.

 

[cobl04]

I thought there was going to be this massive uproar that TNK has three votes already. The redo wasn't even worth it it seems.

 

[namkcuR]

spot on brutha

This is why I'm voting for All My Loving. Can't stand it, I hate their early stuff. It epitomises why I will never buy a Beatles album pre-Help. It's all too poppy and "I love you" for me.

You really should get the 'A Hard Day's Night' LP. It's a great record....not earth-shattering like the later stuff, but still great.

 

[1stepcloser]

Strawberry Fields. Obscenely overrated. Although the Love version is quite nice.

 

[Screwtape2]

Here Comes The Sun. It is one of the worst songs they ever wrote.

 

[corianderstem]

Screwtape, you are off my list.

 

[Mofo]

so how long will each round take?? Namkcur please leave it at least a couple of days to get more people to vote

 

[SeattleVertigo]

I think 1stepcloser and screwtape are each going to be trying to vote their songs off for 12 or 13 rounds! <laughing>

Good luck with that, guys!