Five songs this week leave the island and we really wanted them gone. All the leaving songs received at least 11 points. I also want to give a thanks to all of those who have actively been participating every week (and those who have joined recently). I've been thinking so much about the lack of voters that I forgot to thank the ones who are keeping the wheels spinning. Thanks!

Eliminated:

Please, Mr. Postman: 15 points
I'm Happy Just To Dance With You: 13 points
Only a Northern Song: 13 points
You Like Me Too Much: 12 points
Slow Down: 11 points

On the verge: Thank You Girl, Your Mother Should Know, Do You Want To Know a Secret, Rocky Raccoon, Good Night


RULES: Vote for 10 Beatles songs assigning 5 points to two, 4 points to two, 3 points to two, 2 points to two and 1 point to two. Please put the point value next to each song.

Comments are very welcome but not required. I'd like it if you give an overall comment but you don't have to.

5 songs will be eliminated every Monday and Thursday and a new vote will begin each day. The deadline for submitting a list is 2PM on each elimination day. In the event of a tie all songs receiving the elimination vote will be eliminated.

THE MASTER LIST!

216. Revolution #9
215. Love Me Do
214. Dig It!
213. Dizzy Miss Lizzie
212. Maggie Mae
211. Devil in Her Heart
210. A Taste of Honey
209. Matchbox
208. You Know My Name (Look up the Number)
207. Bad Boy
206. PS I Love You
205. When I Get Home
204. Wild Honey Pie
203. Boys
202. Flying
201. Mr. Moonlight
200. Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey
199. Anna (Go To Him)
198. Run For Your Life
197. Her Majesty
196. Act Naturally
195. Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby
194. Chains
193. Honey Don't
192. Not a Second Time
191. You Really Got a Hold On Me
190. Maxwell's Silver Hammer
189. Baby It's You
188. Till There Was You
187. Rock and Roll Music
186. Roll Over Beethoven
185. Misery
184. It's All Too Much
183. Words of Love
182. When I'm 64
181. For You Blue
180. Blue Jay Way
179. The Inner Light
178. Money (That's What I Want)
177. Please, Mr. Postman
176. I'm Happy Just To Dance With You
175. Only a Northern Song
174. You Like Me Too Much
173. Slow Down


Discography

Please Please Me

1. I Saw Her Standing There
6. Ask Me Why
7. Please Please Me
11. Do You Want To Know A Secret
13. There's A Place
14. Twist And Shout

With the Beatles

1. It Won't Be Long
2. All I've Got To Do
3. All My Loving
4. Don't Bother Me
5. Little Child
9. Hold Me Tight
11. I Wanna Be Your Man

A Hard Day's Night

1. Hard Day's Night, A
2. I Should Have Known Better
3. If I Fell
5. And I Love Her
6. Tell Me Why
7. Can't Buy Me Love
8. Any Time At All
9. I'll Cry Instead
10. Things We Said Today
12. You Can't Do That
13. I'll Be Back

Beatles For Sale

1. No Reply
2. I'm A Loser
3. Baby's In Black
5. I'll Follow The Sun
8. Eight Days A Week
11. Every Little Thing
12. I Don't Want To Spoil The Party
13. What You're Doing

Help!

1. Help
2. Night Before, The
3. You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
4. I Need You
5. Another Girl
6. You're Going To Lose That Girl
7. Ticket To Ride
9. It's Only Love
11. Tell Me What You See
12. I've Just Seen A Face
13. Yesterday

Rubber Soul

1. Drive My Car
2. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
3. You Won't See Me
4. Nowhere Man
5. Think For Yourself
6. Word, The
7. Michelle
8. What Goes On
9. Girl
10. I'm Looking Through You
11. In My Life
12. Wait
13. If I Needed Someone

Revolver

1. Taxman
2. Eleanor Rigby
3. I'm Only Sleeping
4. Love You To
5. Here, There And Everywhere
6. Yellow Submarine
7. She Said She Said
8. Good Day Sunshine
9. And Your Bird Can Sing
10. For No One
11. Doctor Robert
12. I Want To Tell You
13. Got To Get You Into My Life
14. Tomorrow Never Knows

Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band

1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
2. With A Little Help From My Friends
3. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
4. Getting Better
5. Fixing A Hole
6. She's Leaving Home
7. Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!
8. Within You Without You
10. Lovely Rita
11. Good Morning Good Morning
12. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
13. A Day In The Life

Magical Mystery Tour

1. Magical Mystery Tour
2. Fool On The Hill, The
5. Your Mother Should Know
6. I Am The Walrus
7. Hello Goodbye
8. Strawberry Fields Forever
9. Penny Lane
10. Baby You're A Rich Man
11. All You Need Is Love

The Beatles (White Album)

1. Back In The U.S.S.R.
2. Dear Prudence
3. Glass Onion
4. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
6. Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill, The
7. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
8. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
9. Martha My Dear
10. I'm So Tired
11. Blackbird
12. Piggies
13. Rocky Raccoon
14. Don't Pass Me By
15. Why Don't We Do It In The Road
16. I Will
17. Julia

1. Birthday
2. Yer Blues
3. Mother Nature's Son
4. Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
5. Sexy Sadie
6. Helter Skelter
7. Long, Long, Long
8. Revolution 1
9. Honey Pie
10. Savoy Truffle
11. Cry Baby Cry
13. Good Night

Yellow Submarine

2. All Together Now
3. Hey Bulldog

Abbey Road

1. Come Together
2. Something
4. Oh! Darling
5. Octopus's Garden
6. I Want You (She's So Heavy)
7. Here Comes The Sun
8. Because
9. You Never Give Me Your Money
10. Sun King
11. Mean Mr. Mustard
12. Polythene Pam
13. She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
14. Golden Slumbers
15. Carry That Weight
16. End, The

Let It Be

1. Two Of Us
2. Dig A Pony
3. Across The Universe
4. I Me Mine
6. Let It Be
8. I've Got A Feeling
9. One After 909
10. Long And Winding Road
12. Get Back

A Sides and B Sides:

From Me To You
Thank You Girl
She Loves You
I'll Get You
I Want To Hold Your Hand
This Boy
Long Tall Sally
I Call Your Name
I Feel Fine
She's A Woman
Yes It Is
I'm Down
Day Tripper
We Can Work It Out
Paperback Writer
Rain
Lady Madonna
Hey Jude
Revolution
Don't Let Me Down
Ballad Of John And Yoko, The
Old Brown Shoe

5 PTS. ROCKY RACCOON
5 PTS. LADY MADONNA
4 PTS. MICHELLE
4 PTS. THINGS WE SAID TODAY
3 PTS. OB-LA-DI, OB-LA-DA
3 PTS. ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
2 PTS. YELLOW SUBMARINE
2 PTS. DON'T BOTHER ME
1 PT. LITTLE CHILD
1 PT. I'M DOWN

As for "Rocky Raccoon", I just don't understand why it hasn't been voted off yet. A quick glance at the voted-off list and the trends are obvious -- up to this point, the types of songs getting the proverbial boot have been: 1) the covers 2) the useless filler, and 3) the "silly" songs -- surely "RR" can be placed in the latter category, can't it?

At any rate, the studs and duds of the Beatles catalog are quite apparent from looking at that list.

5 points- Back in the USSR
5 points- Don't Pass Me By
4 points- Yellow Submarine
4 points- Sgt. Peppers (Reprise)
3 points- One After 909
3 points- Thank You Girl
2 points- I Me Mine
2 points- Revolution 1
1 point- Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me and My Monkey
1 point- All Together Now

I posted this at the end of Cut 8:

"I like that Paul's solo work followed the Rocky blueprint rather than Helter Skelter. The last thing we needed in the 70's was another arena rock band. His albums definitely need to grow on you but once you get past that they aren't Beatles albums they end up being pretty great."

I don't really find Rocky Raccoon silly. It's not a serious song by any means but it's not campy like Honey Pie, When I'm 64, Yellow Submarine, Maxwell's Silver Hammer and a handful of others. It's a different kind of "fun" song and I like it. Bungalow Bill too. That's a little more campy but I think they had a good formula for that style of music on the White Album. More Shel Silverstein, less Monty Python.

I Wanna Be Your Man (5)
You Can’t Do That (5)
I Call Your Name (4)
Yes It Is (4)
One After 909 (3)
There’s a Place (3)
Thank You Girl (2)
All I’ve Got to Do (2)
Any Time at All (1)
Ask Me Why (1)

5pt: One After 909
5pt: Revolution 1 - just realized how cheesy this is
4pt: Honey Pie
4pt: Rocky Raccoon
3pt: The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill
3pt: Good Night
2pt: Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
2pt: Within You,Without You
1pt: You Won't See Me
1pt: Baby's In Black

5 points - I've got a feeling
5 points - I need you
4 points - There's a place
4 points - Every little thing
3 points - Baby you're a rich man
3 points - Little child
2 points - Tell me why
2 points - All together now
1 point - Good morning good morning
1 point - Good night

5 pts: Little Child
A fun little rave-up, but nothing more.
5 pts: Good Night
The Pumpkins lovingly ripped it off for the closing song on MELLON COLLIE ... but theirs is actually good.
4 pts: Thank You Girl
4 pts: I Me Mine
3 pts: Hold Me Tight
3 pts: I Wanna Be Your Man
2 pts: Ask Me Why
2 pts: All Together Now
1 pt: I'll Get You
1 pt: Sgt. Pepper's ... [Reprise]

That's one of the few Pumpkins songs I like. Billy should have let Iha and D'arcy sing more.

5 points: “Your Mother Should Know”
5 points: “Thank You Girl”
4 points: “The Night Before”
4 points: “What Goes On”
3 points: “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da”
3 points: “The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill”
2 points: “I’ll Get You”
2 points: “All Together Now”
New votes:
1 point: “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)”, this one falls into the Anthony category 2) “useless filler”.
1 point: “Tell Me What You See”: in fact it’s quite charming, especially the easy-listening flavour of the keyboard part, but Macca wrote much better songs.

Respect to Anthony categories I won't vote for more songs into category 1) “covers” because the two remaining covers are simply great (“Long Tall Sally” and “Twist and Shout”). And about “Rocky Raccoon” for sure belongs to category 3) “silly ones” but I’ll wait to vote for it if only for the great honky-tonk piano part played by George Martin.

I’m back (and regretting having missed a couple of cuts).

5 PTS
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (what on earth is this still doing here?)
Good Night

4 PTS
Rocky Raccoon
Octopus’ Garden (why does Ringo get all the psychedelic sea chanteys?)

3 PTS
Thank You Girl*
Sgt. Pepper reprise (I don’t think it’s pointless filler—it does contribute to the structure of the album—but, considered as an individual song, we don’t really need two versions of it)

2 PTS
Little Child*
The Long and Winding Road (sorry…I’ve always thought it was a little too wet to be a classic)

1 PT
I Wanna Be Your Man*
Don’t Bother Me*

* - Of their 1963/64 stuff, I’ve run out of songs that are actively bad; all of these are just...cheesy.

5 Do You Want To Know A Secret
5 Good Night
4 Little Child
4 I Don't Want To Spoil The Party
3 Ask Me Why
3 All Together Now
2 Hey Bulldog
2 Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill, The
1 She's A Woman
1 Why Don't We Do It In The Road

Old Brown Shoe 5 pts
All I've Got To Do 5 pts
I'll Cry Instead 4 pts
Ask Me Why 4 pts
I’ll Be Back 3 pts
Hold Me Tight 3 pts
Love You To 2 pts
I’ll Get You 2 pts
Within You Within You 1 pt
Glass Onion 1 pt

My status chosen based on the "If I can't sing it in my head, it's not REALLY a favorite of mine" standard. I've missed a vote or two and can't believe that "When I'm 64" or "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" are out already.