Yellow Submarine, the song is saying it's last farewells but the album just hung on this week, one vote away from saying bon voyage. I'm a fan of Hey Bulldog so I'd like to stay on board for a little longer at least but if you guys want to cut the rope, we'll cut the rope! On the other side of the island where the big 'uns hang out Revolver lost it's first song in Yellow Submarine... it was also the Piggy anyways.

Thanks to Daniel for pointing out that there are 211 songs instead of 216.

Lost their grip:

Ask Me Why: 18 points
I'll Get You: 15 points
Yellow Submarine: 11 points
Hold Me Tight: 11 points
Octopus's Garden: 8 points
I Me Mine: 8 points

Still holding tight: Hey Bulldog, What Goes On, I've Got A Feeling, Any Time at All, Your Mother Should Know, Tell Me What You See

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!

211. Revolution #9
210. Love Me Do
209. Dig It!
208. Dizzy Miss Lizzie
207. Maggie Mae
206. Devil in Her Heart
205. A Taste of Honey
204. Matchbox
203. You Know My Name (Look up the Number)
202. Bad Boy
201. PS I Love You
200. When I Get Home
199. Wild Honey Pie
198. Boys
197. Flying
196. Mr. Moonlight
195. Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey
194. Anna (Go To Him)
193. Run For Your Life
192. Her Majesty
191. Act Naturally
190. Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby
189. Chains
188. Honey Don't
187. Not a Second Time
186. You Really Got a Hold On Me
185. Maxwell's Silver Hammer
184. Baby It's You
183. Till There Was You
182. Rock and Roll Music
181. Roll Over Beethoven
180. Misery
179. It's All Too Much
178. Words of Love
177. When I'm 64
176. For You Blue
175. Blue Jay Way
174. The Inner Light
173. Money (That's What I Want)
172. Please, Mr. Postman
171. I'm Happy Just To Dance With You
170. Only a Northern Song
169. You Like Me Too Much
168. Slow Down
167. Good Night
166. Thank You Girl
165. Little Child
164. Rocky Raccoon
163. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
162. Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
161. One After 909
160. All Together Now
159. I Wanna Be Your Man
158. Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
157. Yes It Is
156. There's a Place
155. Ask Me Why
154. I'll Get You
153. Yellow Submarine
152. Hold Me Tight
151. I Me Mine
150. Octopus's Garden


Discography

Please Please Me

1. I Saw Her Standing There
7. Please Please Me
11. Do You Want To Know A Secret
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

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
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
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
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
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

Yellow Submarine

3. Hey Bulldog

Abbey Road

1. Come Together
2. Something
4. Oh! Darling
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
6. Let It Be
8. I've Got A Feeling
10. Long And Winding Road
12. Get Back

A Sides and B Sides:

From Me To You
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
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

Sad to see "Octopus's Garden" go. I actually like that song (maybe it's some unconscious affection caused by the "Sesame Street"-version of Kermit).
By the way:
"I Need You" had collected 8 points as well (5 points from me & 3 points from Harold Wexler).

Ah crap. I must have missed it when I was sneering at your other 5 points given out to a song in my top 10 .

HEY EVERYBODY! DON'T VOTE FOR I NEED YOU! I'll remove it next week. Sorry, guys I'll try to stop making mistakes one of these days.

All right then...

5 points - I've got a feeling (my deepest apologies, John!)
5 points - Every little thing
4 points - Baby you're a rich man
4 points - Tell me why
3 points - Hey bulldog (Sorry again!)
3 points - Twist and shout (somebody has got to do the start; it's a good tune, but I tend to skip it every time)
2 points - Don't bother me
2 points - Another girl
1 point - Good morning good morning
1 point - Yer blues

I was wrong, I've Got a Feeling is #13 but close enough. Good to see five of my songs leave this week! Thanks for the help on Ask Me Why !

5 points: Honey Pie
5 points: All You Need Is Love
4 points: Long Tall Sally
4 points: Revolution 1
3 points: She Loves You
3 points: Eight Days A Week: Not much of a chorus and the verses kind of drag on.
2 points: The Long and Winding Road: This just drones on and on. It has a nice melody but it's tiring.
2 points: Glass Onion: A lot of the White Album songs sound good when listening to the album as a whole but when you listen to the songs on their own...not so hot.
1 point: Long, Long, Long: These next two are back on the list in their correct place
1 point: Yer Blues

5 points: I'll Follow The Sun
5 points: I Don't Want To Spoil The Party
4 points: Eight Days A Week
4 points: What You're Doing
3 points: I'm A Loser
3 points: Baby's In Black
2 points: Every Little Thing
2 points: A Hard Day's Night
1 point: You Can't Do That
1 point: I'll Cry Instead

Surely a good George Harrison composition like Octopus's Garden is much better than all of this nonsense.

5 points: “Your Mother Should Know”
5 points: “The Night Before”
4 points: “What Goes On”
4 points: “Tell Me What You See”
3 points: “It Won't Be Long”
3 points: “Any Time at All”
2 points: “Don’t Pass Me By”
2 point: “I Want to Tell You”
1 point: “I’ll Be Back”
New vote:
1 point: “Birthday”: when I was a child some of my neighbours formed a rock ‘n’ roll band and basically played again and again “Birthday” (or should I say destroyed it again and again). I didn’t know then that it was a Beatles song but the first time I’ve heard the “White Album” I though: “Oh no!”.

You Can’t Do That (5)
I Call Your Name (5)
All I've Got to Do (4)
Any Time at All (4)
I'm Down (3)
What Goes On (3)
I'll Cry Instead (2)
Within You Without You (2)
Don't Bother Me (1)
New:
I Saw Her Standing There (1) - This is probably the first song that I've voted for that I imagine will end up in the Top 50. I know this is one of their most acclaimed songs, but every time I listen to it, I skip it. Sure I know it holds an important position in the history of the Beatles, and I think this song was snubbed from being included on the Red album, but I do think it's a tad overrated. Or perhaps I've just heard it a few hundred times too many. Three stars out of five. Or so I've told my iPod (and it might have been two starts out of five had it not been sung by Rain Man)

5 pts: Tell Me What You See
HELP! has more mediocre songs than either of the first two albums, which have been depleted here. Let's start redressing that imbalance.
5 pts: This Boy
Such nice young fellows...zzz...
4 pts: Within You Without You
4 pts: Your Mother Should Know
3 pts: Another Girl
3 pts: Honey Pie
2 pts: Do You Want to Know a Secret
2 pts: Why Don't We Do It in the Road
1 pt: Old Brown Shoe
1 pt: The Fool on the Hill

5 PTS
THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD
DON’T BOTHER ME

4 PTS
REVOLUTION 1
DO YOU WANT TO KNOW A SECRET

3 PTS
ALL I’VE GOT TO DO
EIGHT DAYS A WEEK

Let’s see…some new ones:

2 PTS
WHAT GOES ON
HEY BULLDOG (What the hell…let’s kill Pepperland and be done with it.)

1 PT
THIS BOY (well put, Harold W.)
ALL MY LOVING

5 PTS. LADY MADONNA
5 PTS. MICHELLE
4 PTS. THINGS WE SAID TODAY
4 PTS. ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
3 PTS. DON'T BOTHER ME
3 PTS. I'M DOWN
2 PTS. BECAUSE
2 PTS. I DON'T WANT TO SPOIL THE PARTY

*new*

1 PT. BALLAD OF JOHN AND YOKO: Along with "Lady Madonna", it's the only other hit that I'm not particularly fond of. But it's still a Beatles song, which means it's head-and-shoulders above almost everything out there.

1 PT. SUN KING: Not sure what I'm more surprised about.... that it's still hanging around, or that I haven't thought to vote for it until now. It's a bit useless, much like "Because".


Just curious -- among the voters, who here has seen the Anthology?

Anthology? Yeah they've got it at the library - think I may have got it out one time and been underwhelmed by it...
5 - Honey Pie:Has been particularly annoying recently
5 - Revolution 1:Sounds pretty cheesy compared to the single version
4 - Birthday
4 - Why Don't We Do It In The Road
3 - Don't Pass Me By
3 - Piggies:Damn,how could I forget
Enough of the White Album tracks
2 - Magical Mystery Tour
2 - Good Morning Good Morning
1 - Drive My Car
1 - Baby's In Black

I bought the Anthology set in a sale last year, but I've only watched it once, plus a few parts again once or twice.

5 pts: Please Please Me
5 pts: Drive My Car
4 pts: No Reply
4 pts: If I Fell
3 pts: Wait
3 pts: It's Only Love
2 pts: I'll Follow The Sun
2 pts: I'll Be Back
1 pt: All I've Got To Do
1 pt: Old Brown Shoe

5 I've Got A Feeling
5 Your Mother Should Know
4 Hey Bulldog
4 Why Don't We Do It In The Road
3 The End
3 Lovely Rita
2 Tell Me What You See
2 I Call Your Name
1 She's A Woman
1 Do You Want To Know A Secret

I don't see the computer much on weekends especially these past two weeks because my wife has been in law school finals. But, I wanted to say that I watched the Anthologies on ABC when they were aired and then bought the DVD's although I haven't seen them in years because my sister borrowed them and I keep forgetting to ask for them back. But, I thought they were very well done. However, the Anthology book is awesome and everybody should pick that up. It's a great coffee table book.


5: All You Need Is Love
5: Long Tall Sally
4: She Loves You
4: Eight Days A Week
3: Long and Winding Road
3: Glass Onion
2: Long, Long, Long
2: Yer Blues
1: Savoy Truffle: I'm not a big fan of these Tom Jonesesque Beatles songs. I don't hate them but they just sound so cheesy next to the rest of the Beatles catalog and sound even worse next to the 66-70 stuff.
1: Don't Pass Me By: Another one that has found it's way back to my list, in the correct spot.

Oops.