A ton of songs leaving this week due to a 5 way tie for 5th! The first album is eliminated with Hey Bulldog leaving and therefore Yellow Submarine seeing the door as well.

Eliminated:

Michelle: 15 points
What Goes On: 10 points
Hey Bulldog: 9 points
Piggies: 9 points
All You Need is Love: 8 points
Another Girl: 8 points
Any Time At All: 8 points
The Long and Winding Road: 8 points
Within You, Without You: 8 points

Close: Birthday, I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party, Old Brown Shoe

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
143. Do You Want To Know a Secret?
142. All I've Got To Do
141. Why Don't We Do It In the Road?
140. Drive My Car
139. I've Got a Feeling
138. Michelle
137. What Goes On
136. Hey Bulldog
135. Piggies
134. All You Need Is Love
133. Another Girl
132. Any Time at All
131. The Long and Winding Road
130. Within You, Without You


Discography

Please Please Me

1. I Saw Her Standing There
7. Please Please Me
14. Twist And Shout

With the Beatles

1. It Won't Be Long
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
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
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

2. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
3. You Won't See Me
4. Nowhere Man
5. Think For Yourself
6. Word, The
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!
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

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
14. Don't Pass Me By
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 (ELIMINATED)


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
12. Get Back

A Sides and B Sides:

From Me To You
She Loves 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

"Any Time at All" does NOT belong in this company, and should have stuck around a lot longer. I think it's one of John's best songs, certainly near the top among the early ones.

I have to agree, Harold!

5: Long Tall Sally
5: She Loves You
4: Eight Days A Week
4: Glass Onion
3: Long, Long, Long
3: Yer Blues
2: Savoy Truffle
2: Don't Pass Me By
1: Old Brown Shoe- Again a couple from my old list finding their way back. Everything in it's right place. Hey, maybe the Beatles invented that song too! Just kidding.
1: Got To Get You Into My Life

I wasn't going to say anything but it would be cool for some of those people who said they would participate later to jump in. We're getting near the halfway point and good songs are going to start disappearing if we don't get more participants because all it takes right now is for a couple people to dislike a song.

I wasn't too disappointed with any of the songs that left this week. I agree that Any Time At All didn't deserve to go yet but I don't have it really high either. Same goes for Another Girl and Hey Bulldog.

5 - Baby's In Black
5 - No Reply
4 - Wait
4 - You Won't See Me
3 - Good Morning Good Morning
3 - Baby You're A Rich Man
2 - Don't Pass Me By
2 - Mother Nature's Son
1 - Because
1 - Polythene Pam

I would participate, but I have to say that I'm way too unfamiliar with the early Beatles work to make an accurate assessment. What I've heard from that period doesn't really make me want to listen to it either...

There isn't much early stuff left (and most of it are the hits) so feel free to participate and vote for what you know. I don't have a problem with that and I think we're getting to a point where almost everybody who posts can participate.

I'm still checking these topics every week, but even though most names are now sounding familiar I really wouldn't be able to tell which is which. I never could keep Beatles songs apart for the most part, and I'm not gonna listen to all their albums to be able to participate a few weeks earlier.. sorry.

5: Every Little Thing
5: Baby You're A Rich Man
4: Tell Me Why
4: Twist And Shout
3: It Won't Be Long
3: The Night Before
2: Dig A Pony
2: Old Brown Shoe
1: Good Morning Good Morning
1: Birthday

Whoa... rough week. "Piggies" is one of Harrison's best -- a clever jab disguised as a silly baroque piece. But the one I'm really peeved at is "The Long and Winding Road", which some of you may be surprised to know is my favorite Beatles song. Sure, my love of it is partly owed to nostalgia -- it was the last song on my 20 Greatest Hits cassette, and I've loved it since I was six or seven years old -- but it's still a great song, with or without Spector's arrangements. I personally prefer the album version to the Naked version; the "lead me to your door" part at 3:20 might just be my favorite moment in the Beatles catalog, when the descending string part enters just before Macca sings "door". Did the Beatles commit anything more heartwrenching to tape than that moment? I don't think so. Jesus... you guys are heartless bastards.

So, it's with a heavy heart that give my picks for Cut #15:

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

*new* 1: WHAT YOU'RE DOING: Yeah, whatever. I don't feel like commenting.

And to those who aren't contributing here, you should do yourself a service and take time to listen to the Beatles' amazing catalog. You might be surprised at what you discover.

The Beatles are my favorite band, even all this time, so of course I know all of their songs. However, I can't on Earth see how "Beatles For Sale" can outlast "All You Need Is Love".

Yeah Anthony - it is a bit hard to believe that 'Long And Winding Road' would get voted off so early. It's top 50 for sure...

Yeah Midaso, top 50 at least. And boy, it's going to be difficult trying to muster any enthusiasm for this game now that my #1 song is gone.

To those who voted for it -- what's the rationale?

5: Please Please Me
5: No Reply
4: If I Fell
4: Wait
3: It's Only Love
3: I'll Follow The Sun
2: I'll Be Back
2: Old Brown Shoe
1: Polythene Pam
1: Doctor Robert

Anthony, I had that same cassette growing up and the only songs I didn't like as much on it were All You Need Is Love and Long and Winding Road. When I was young I didn't know that All You Need Is Love came after She Loves You so I always thought it was cool that they were foretelling She Loves You at the end of All You Need is Love!

You know I have high regard for the entire Beatles catalog so I still like the song but I have two reasons I voted for it. I'm not a huge fan of McCartney's slow stuff and I'm more of a middle period guy. Long and Winding Road has too much of that early 70's singer/songwriter vibe going on. I'd never flip past it, but there are about 165 Beatles songs I'd rather listen to and that's not putting it down.

Hey, you're voting for my #4 in Things We Said Today!

5: This Boy
5: Old Brown Shoe
4: The Fool on the Hill
4: From Me to You
3: The Sun King
3: It's Only Love
2: Long, Long, Long
2: I've Just Seen a Face
1: And I Love Her
1: The Night Before

I didn't actually used to hate "This Boy", but now that it's been at the top of my stack this long without being eliminated it's really starting to cheese me off...

For the record, I think that every track from BEATLES FOR SALE that's still here absolutely deserves to be; it's an underrated record full of restrained, expertly crafted songs. A HARD DAY'S NIGHT tends to get ranked much higher, probably by virtue of the fact that it's all Lennon/McCartney songs, but I like FOR SALE a little better.

Fair enough, John. (and sorry about the TWST vote).

A lot of good Beatles songs gone this week (“Hey Bulldog”, “Piggies”, “All You Need Is Love” and, yes Anthony and Midaso, especially the touching “Long and Winding Road”), but we are getting closer to the Top 100 and The Beatles got a lot more than 100 good songs…
Old votes:
5: The Night Before
5: It Won't Be Long
4: Don’t Pass Me By
4: I Want to Tell You
3: I’ll Be Back
3: Birthday
2: I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party
New votes:
2: This Boy: The Beatles were as good with three-part harmonies as The Byrds or C.S.N & Y (although not as good as Wilson brothers), but I can’t find a reason of this song for staying so long while the similar (but better IMHO) “Yes It Is” exited so long before. But, talking about three-part harmonies, I’ll wait a lot for voting out the superb “Because”.
1: Every Little Thing: quite charming kettledrum arrangement Orbison-style (or should I say Spector-style?) but they’ve got better ones.
1: The Ballad of John and Yoko: John Lennon beginning to “look to his navel” (literal translation of a Spanish set phrase that means being egocentric and self-centred), attitude that will dominate a big part of his posterior solo work.

5: Birthday
5: Doctor Robert
4: Come Together
4: Back In The U.S.S.R.
3: Dig a Pony
3: Old Brown Shoe
2: I Call Your Name
2: I Don't Want To Spoil The Party
1: The Word
1: Don't Let Me Down

I think a lot of the appeal of Hard Day's Night lies in the images from the movie that come to your mind. I love This Boy because it makes me think of the great Ringo scene.

Wait a minute.... "There's a Place" got voted off? Where the hell was I when that happened? That one's probably in my top 10 '62-'64 songs!

5: Julia - I still don't understand what makes this song be considered so good. There's a little bit of a touching, pungent feeling in the vocals and the guitar lines. But, as I've said, it's just a little, nothing sufficient to turn it a good song. I have the impression that there's a lack of something, maybe in the arrangements, maybe in the interpretation. And although it doesn't bother me while I'm listening to it, every time it begins in the album, I am lazy about listening to it. And every time it finishes, I just think: "good, it's already over".

5: Sun King: It has a good climate, and helps constructing Abbey Road's tension and melancholy feelings. But thankgod it's a really short track!

4: For No One: Other one that I couldn't believe while discovering it was considered a classic. The melodies are not so great. The clarinet solo is interesting, but a song can't become a good one only because of something like it. After quite a considerable number of listenings to Revolver, I'm tending to be liking more this track nowadays, but I don't want to abstain myself of participating here only to spare this and other songs anymore.

4: Good Morning, Good Morning: It's a song without substance. Too much noises and guitars try to drive it, but there's really nothing to be said.

3: Got to Get You Into My Life

3: I Don't Want to Spoil the Party

2: Come Together

2: What're You Doing

1: Doctor Robert

1: With a Little Help from My Friends

I'm impressed about the fact of some songs that are generally considered among the Fab's greatest having already been eliminated, like Drive My Car, Michelle, All You Need is Love and, most of all, The Long and Winding Road! The majority of them were victim of a feeling people use to have against funny, happy or sweet songs. There's a collective idea that sadness and other negative feelings are better to be shown on arts than the "positive ones". The only fact of a song being melancholic, for exemple, seems to make much people automatically think it is deep!

The majority of them were victim of a feeling people use to have against funny, happy or sweet songs. There's a collective idea that sadness and other negative feelings are better to be shown on arts than the "positive ones".

Amen, Toni. This is for me one of the best qualities of The Beatles, they retained their positive feeling even when they increased the complexity. Moreover the restricted feelings in music seems to me always fake, I mean, no one is completely sad or completely happy, completely aggressive or completely passive, completely sexual or completely spiritual. Everyone had diversity in itself and the moods may vary in a matter of minutes. But in music this complexity of the human being rarely shows off.

Wow, those are two great comments and totally portray why the Beatles were so amazing. Nice job guys.

5 PTS
EIGHT DAYS A WEEK
THIS BOY

4 PTS
ALL MY LOVING
GOLDEN SLUMBERS

3 PTS
SHE’S A WOMAN
YOU CAN’T DO THAT

2 PTS
I’LL FOLLOW THE SUN
IT’S ONLY LOVE

1 PT
I’LL CRY INSTEAD
SHE’S LEAVING HOME

(It looks to me like some of the non-album tracks are getting a pass—it’s strange that “This Boy” and “She’s a Woman” are still hanging around.)

****

Toni, I agree with your assessment of “funny, happy or sweet songs” being given short shrift…even though “The Long and Winding Road” was at the top of my list. I think it’s crazy that “Drive My Car” and “Any Time at All” are gone, but then I’m sure everyone’s lost some favorites by now.

5: I Don't Want To Spoil The Party
5: End, The
4: She's A Woman
4: Don't Pass Me By
3: It's Only Love
3: I'll Cry Instead
2: I've Just Seen A Face
2: Lovely Rita
1: Baby You're A Rich Man
1: The Fool On The Hill

Guys... "Fool on the Hill"??? lol Jesus, it's like there was a vote-for-the-McCartney-ballads memo that secretly went around. What's next, "Let it Be"?

hopefully, yes

I do like Fool On the Hill a lot.

5: Long, Long, Long: It just sort of drifts along without much in the way of a chorus, melody, or interesting orchestration...

5: Long Tall Sally: At this point in the game, a cover better be absolute top-notch iconic quality...and this 'aint it.

4: This Boy
4: It's Only Love
3: Tell Me Why
3: Wait
2: Old Brown Shoe
2: Glass Onion
1: You're Gonna Lose That Girl
1: Dig a Pony

5: You Can't Do That
5: I Call Your Name
4: I'm Down
4: I'll Cry Instead
3: I Saw Her Standing There
3: Can't Buy Me Love
2: Back in the USSR
2: Birthday
1: I'll Be Back
1: Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!

New this week: "Birthday" (I find this song is too well-known for a Beatles song, and I think it's only because it gets played at birthdays...hey, I'll be honest, I usually sing this song at anyone's birthday, but in my opinion, it doesn't stand out as one of their greatest songs), "I'll Be Back" (I've been tearing apart a lot of the songs I think are overrated for awhile, it's time I got back to the older songs that I think are good, but not great), and "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" (one of my two or three least favourite songs from Sgt. Pepper...never understood the real draw to this song other than that it's neat that it was based on an old poster)

As for my thoughts on the results of the last "tribal council":

Michelle – completely understandable…one of their most overrated songs. Very hard to believe this was their only song that won "Song of the Year" at the Grammys. What a strange award show.

What Goes On – Good riddance.

Hey Bulldog – I am sad to see this go, as it is one of my faves. Why do people dislike it so much? Is it the barking at the end? Because aside from that, you have to admit, it’s a pretty catchy rocker. At least in my opinion.

Piggies – Oh poor "Piggies." I think I'm the only person who loves this song. Sad to see this one go.

All You Need Is Love – Definitely too soon for this song to get the boot. I think it should have been in the top 50. Didn't even make the top 100! Tsk tsk tsk.

Another Girl – It wasn't on my vote-off list, or even my soon-to-vote-off list, but I'm not that disappointed to see it go.

Any Time at All – Half of those points were from me. And I can see a lot of people are upset by that voteoff. Oh well, to each his own.

The Long and Winding Road – Even though I have never considered this to be one of my favourite Beatles songs, and think it's a tad overrated, I think it deserved a spot in the top 100. Maybe a bit too early for its exit, but I'm not overly disappointed.

Within You Without You – One of the others that I voted for that got kicked off.

All You Need Is Love marked the beginning of the downturn for the Beatles. From the highpoint of Sgt Pepper's release at the start of June 1967, the rest of that year for them is like this:
All You Need Is Love; Patti Harrison meets Eric Clapton; The Beatles study meditation with the Maharishi; Brian Epstein dies; The Beatles make their Magical Mystery Tour film; George & Ringo start their first solo projects (Wonderwall and Candy); Apple Boutique opens; the Magical Mystery Tour film is broadcast and gets terrible reviews. Not exactly the best six months of their career, eh?

I own the entire Beatles catalogue but once again most of the ones making my list are those tunes I can't pull up in mental recall despite that. Notes with a few of these...

5 pts. Tell Me Why
5 pts. I'll Cry Instead
4 pts. I Call Your Name
4 pts. I'll Be Back
3 pts. I Don't Want To Spoil The Party
OK but pretty average, nothing I'd miss if it were gone.
3 pts. Glass Onion- Throwaway track
2 pts. Savoy Truffle- Ditto, one of those I'd axe from WHITE ALBUM if I'd been George Martin
2 pts. I Want To Tell You- A bit listless
1 pt. Love You To
1 pt. Old Brown Shoe- Guess I'm not a big "George" fan but this is one of my least favorite tracks on PAST MASTERS 2. (other than ones already eliminated..)

ACK! Just realized voting's over..will carry some over to Cut 16..