There are six songs going this week but one was supposed to go last week. To prevent stupid mistakes like that (not saying it won't happen again!) could you all follow this format so I can plug it into Excel and sort? I've been doing this by hand because it's faster than reformatting everyones nominations, but once we get more people involved that's going to become tedious.

So, please follow this format from now on along with any comments you want to add...Thanks! -

5: Song
5: Song
4: Song
4: Song
3: Song
3: Song
2: Song
2: Song
1: Song
1: Song

Eliminated:

I Need You: Holdover from last week
Your Mother Should Know: 14 points
Honey Pie: 13 points
Revolution 1: 13 points
Don't Bother Me: 11 points
Tell Me What You See: 11 points

Close: I've Got a Feeling, Eight Days a Week, Why Don't We Do It In the Road

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. Please follow this format to make it easy for me to plug into Excel.

5: Song
5: Song
4: Song
4: Song etc...

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
149. I Need You
148. Your Mother Should Know
147. Revolution 1
146. Honey Pie
145. Don't Bother Me
144. Tell Me What You See


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

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
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
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
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

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.

I suppose I should finally join in on this game...

5 pts: Birthday
5 pts: Drive My Car

The above are Paul at his self-indulgently "rocky" worst. And I'm a big Paul apologist.

4 pts: Piggies - How is this still around?
4 pts: Doctor Robert - Weak, and not as subversive as John thought it was.

3 pts: Michelle - Barfage.
3 pts: Why Don't We Do It In The Road - Very, very forced.

2 pts: Come Together - Controversial choice alert! This song has never moved me much, and the Chuck Berry rip is pretty shameful.
2 pts: All You Need Is Love - Has not dated well. At all.

1 pt: Back In The U.S.S.R. - I once thought this was clever. Now I race for the skip button.
1 pt: I Need You - Blah.

I'm not a big fan of Come Together either. I've never liked it, in fact it's the biggest reason why it took me years to realize Abbey Road was a great album.

I forgot to add that Tell Me What You See was #48 on my list so that takes the place of Rocky Raccoon as highest to go (Your Mother Should Know was higher too). I've got a feeling my #13 will be gone soon .

sonofsamiam, "I Need You" has already been eliminated.

John, I just realized that the reason sonof... listed "I Need You" is that you still have it listed under HELP! as an eligible song on the master list (as well as the list of eliminated songs).

I didn't cross it off my personal list either which makes me realize that I Need You is the highest song to be eliminated off my list at #40. Maybe it's my subconscious that won't let me take it off.

5: You Can't Do That
5: I Call Your Name
4: All I've Got to Do
4: Any Time at All
3: I'm Down
3: What Goes On
2: I'll Cry Instead
2: Within You Without You
1: I Saw Her Standing There
1: Drive My Car

My new vote this week goes to "Drive My Car". Beep beep'm beep beep yeah.

Oh, no! So now some of my favorites are beginning to appear on the votes. I was already finding it very strange that songs like my number #1 Savoy Truffle or my number #7 Piggies hadn't been voted still. Actually, I'm still very pleased by the fact that Piggies hasn't been eliminated until this time of the "competition"!
John, I have already lost one of my favorites either... It was last week when I, Me, Mine left the island (wow, I'm realizing that I like all this Harrisson songs people complain about). I think it's at least one of my top 30 Beatles songs.
Every monday or thursday, when I read the results, I think for myself: "next cut I will start to participate again". But the fact is that I have been listening to much more things from other artists and, so, still haven't had time to familiarize to many early Beatles' songs which, I 'm sure, are the only ones I think that deserve my votes. I passed some time voting for their late stuff which I like a little less, and the early ones which I used to vote for were all eliminated massively in these 2 or 3 last cuts (when I was beggining to think that I was the only one who hadn't liked them, they all apeared in the eliminated list in a row)! So, all this means I will retard a little to join the game again!

sonofsamiam, "I Need You" has already been eliminated.

OK, swap with "Dig a Pony" please.

5: Why Don't We Do It In The Road
5: I've Got A Feeling
4: Lovely Rita
4: Baby You're A Rich Man
3: End, The
3: Hey Bulldog
2: She's A Woman
2: Do You Want To Know A Secret
1: Michelle
1: It Won't Be Long

The first two are incomplete songs really. Others in the list feel more like novelty tunes than the great works of THE BEATLES. The remainder are just not my favourites.

4: Lovely Rita
4: Baby You're A Rich Man
3: End, The

Ouch! Love those tracks.

5: LADY MADONNA
5: MICHELLE
4: THINGS WE SAID TODAY
4: ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
3: I'M DOWN
3: BECAUSE
2: I DON'T WANT TO SPOIL THE PARTY
2: BALLAD OF JOHN AND YOKO
1: SUN KING

*new*

1: DON'T LET ME DOWN
A bit on the weak side, lyrically, and the chorus isn't all that engaging. The fact that Matchbox 20 chose to cover it is a bit of an indication that it's not the most musically complicated song in the Fab Four catalog, and not surprisingly, Rob Thomas and co's version isn't that different from the original. Definitely not John's shining moment, if you ask me.

I think if we'd all put our lists out we'd have the worst correlation Neil! Only one or two are near the top but only Do You Want To Know a Secret is close. Why don't you like Lovely Rita?

Oh, and I wanted to add that I've been watching the Anthology throughout this game (highly recommended to anyone here who hasn't yet seen it), and it has made each vote a bit of a painful sting. Nonetheless, onward we go, eliminating songs by the greatest band in pop music history. (sorry, I'm being a bit of a brat today).

I could have been fine without knowing that Don't Let Me Down was covered by Matchbox 20.

5: The Night Before
5: What Goes On
4: It Won't Be Long
4: Any Time at All
3: Don’t Pass Me By
3: I Want to Tell You
2: I’ll Be Back
2: Birthday
New votes:
1: Another Girl: agree with Harold, let’s get rid of some filler in “Help” an album that showed the Fab Four exhausted and insecure about new directions (that they will find in “Rubber Soul”). But let me say that I won’t join the Midaso campaign about getting rid of the “White Album” songs (only joking, Midaso). In fact I love some of the songs of that album that are collecting votes right now.
1: I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party: same about “For Sale”.

About “Anthology” I own the 6 CDs and I’ve recorded in VHS the 9 hours TV show, but I haven’t read the “little” book and I haven’t see the 12 hours DVD version. Anyway maybe I don’t need it, I’ve got already enough bibliography about Beatles, including first official biography (by Hunter Davies), an extensive day by day “Beatles Diary” (by Jordi Sierra y Fabra, inpired – copied – in Schultheiss “A Day in the Life”), a complete guide of songs (by WJ Dowlding, I recommend it strongly!) and the complete lyrics with the Spanish translation. Enough, isn’t it?

5 points: I've got a feeling
5 points: Every little thing
4 points: Baby you're a rich man
4 points: Tell me why
3 points: Hey bulldog
3 points: Twist and shout
2 points: Another girl
2 points: All I've got to do
1 point: Sun king
1 point: Long tall Sally

5: This Boy
5: Within You Without You
4: Another Girl
4: Do You Want to Know a Secret
3: Why Don't We Do It in the Road
3: Old Brown Shoe
2: The Fool on the Hill
2: The Long and Winding Road
1: From Me to You
1: The Sun King

John - you still have "I'll Get You" listed as an eligible song in the miscellaneous song list at the end!

"The Sun King" brings up an interesting situation, one that I'm sure John and others have thought about: how to deal with the pieces of the ABBEY ROAD suite. We're so used to hearing and thinking about them as parts of a whole that it's difficult to analyze them as individual, discrete compositions for something like this. Some (notably "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window") are relatively fully formed songs, while others ("Mean Mr. Mustard", "Carry That Weight") are fragments or transitional segments. It'll be intriguing to see how long all of them stay in the game, and in what order they start disappearing. (And I'd like to put in a good word for the ringing acoustic riff in "Polythene Pam" and the glorious three-way guitar solos, beautiful harmonies and orchestral flourishes of "The End" as reasons why they should be among the last to go.)

I know what I'm doing with the suite but it is hard to judge it broken up. But, each song is good in it's own right as short as they may be. I'll say that Mean Mr. Mustard is my highest out of them all.

I hope to have all the kinks worked out tomorrow. I wish we could edit our posts!

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

5 PTS
THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD
DO YOU WANT TO KNOW A SECRET

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

3 PTS
WHAT GOES ON
HEY BULLDOG

2 PTS
THIS BOY
I’VE GOT A FEELING

1 PT
ALL MY LOVING
GOLDEN SLUMBERS

I’ve hit a point where there are a lot of pretty good songs and it’s hard to draw a distinction.

What I really need to do is listen to all of the remaining catalog and assemble a master list, because we’ve hit the great middle ground of songs that are not terrible and not great. I have no idea when I’ll be able to do that, though…