I think we set a record in Cut 15 with participation! Thank you to all new participants or those that came back and again thanks to all who have participated from the beginning.

JUST A REMINDER: Please look at the rules to see how to format your entry. It makes it a lot easier for me to sort out in Excel. It's important that you use a : instead of a - and even more important that a point number is in front of every song.

Eliminated:

16 points: This Boy
15 points: I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party
15 points: Old Brown Shoe
15 points: It's Only Love
12 points: Don’t Pass Me By

Close: Birthday, Wait


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
129. This Boy
128. I Don't Want To Spoil the Party
127. Old Brown Shoe
126. It's Only Love
125. Don't Pass Me By


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
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
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
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
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

Agh! I was able to find some mono versions of a few albums in higher quality than I had so I replaced them in ITunes. Well, that screwed up my playlist. I didn't even think about it until now. Oh well, it's only a few albums to reinsert.

A question: Are there any US Beatles fans here who were alive during the Beatles reign? The reason I ask is because I want to know if you prefer the US or UK albums. My dad has all of the UK CD's but rearranged and changed the album title art to put them in the correct US order. I would imagine it would be hard for anyone who only heard the US albums to be able to listen to the UK ones.

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: Got To Get You Into My Life
1: From Me To You: A couple early ones this week.
1: Twist and Shout

This is the first week none of my picks got voted off, so my choices don't change:

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!

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: Long Tall Sally
1: Sun King
1: I'm Looking Through You

5: Please Please Me
5: No Reply
4: If I Fell
4: Wait
3: I'll Follow The Sun
3: I'll Be Back
2: Polythene Pam
2: Doctor Robert
1: Lady Madonna
1: Polythene Pam

You voted twice for Polythene Pam, Harpo!

5: Birthday
5: Doctor Robert
4: Come Together
4: Back In The U.S.S.R.
3: Dig a Pony
3: I Call Your Name
2: The Word
2: Don't Let Me Down
1: Good Day Sunshine
1: I'll Be Back

5: The Night Before
5: It Won't Be Long
4: I Want to Tell You
4: I’ll Be Back
3: Birthday
3: Every Little Thing
2: The Ballad of John and Yoko
New votes:
2: What You’re Doing
1: Hello Goodbye
1: And I Love Her
This week I’m going to add three McCartney tunes and, sorry Toni, all of them inside the “funny, happy and sweet” category. “What You’re Doing” is one of the less appealing Macca melodies despite the good drum & guitar arrangement, “Hello Goodbye” is the last of the “silly love songs” in the tournament and “And I Love Her” is a nice little song with a sparse but charming backing of Spanish guitars, bongos and claves but maybe the song-writing (especially the too sentimental lyrics) is a drawback here.

5: The Fool on the Hill
5: From Me to You
4: The Sun King
4: Long, Long, Long
3: I've Just Seen a Face
3: And I Love Her
2: The Night Before
2: Long Tall Sally
1: Doctor Robert
1: Wait

My least favorite tracks from REVOLVER and RUBBER SOUL make their first appearances on my list. "Doctor Robert" is Lennon-the-worldly-cynic on autopilot, glib and smug and musically uninteresting (especially in REVOLVER's context) to boot. As for "Wait", it's one of the last genuine Lennon/McCartney collaborations, and it plays like something they knocked off to fill out the album - which it probably is. White Lion's 1988 hair-metal hit "Wait" is a better song.

I would imagine it would be hard for anyone who only heard the US albums to be able to listen to the UK ones.
Humm, John, with all my respects, I find your statement quite odd! I can understand your point because the UK releases did not include the hit singles making some albums weaker that it could have been (the main example was Sgt.Pepper’s that could be a much better album if “Strawberry Field Forever” and “Penny Lane” has been included). But the UK album discography was better in my opinion because:
- The albums came from recording sessions made purposely to record an album (the US releases mixed sometimes unfortunately different sessions). The case of the Stones is quite different, having chosen for the CD releases the original US discography.
- Some albums (as the soundtracks) were quite horrible mixing the Fab Four songs with orchestral versions. I can imagine some US fans cursing for having to skip the orchestral pieces with their old stereo equipments.
- And, the most important, “the cutting up of their albums for the US releases irritated the Beatles, who felt they had "put a lot of work into the sequencing" of the British versions” (taken from Wikipedia).

If you want to re-sequence the Beatles songs I can suggest you the chronological order. Sorry for the long post, but:

UK single, first release 05/10/62
1. Love Me Do *
2. P. S. I Love You

UK single, 11/01/63
3. Please Please Me
4. Ask Me Why

UK LP "Please Please Me", 22/03/63
5. I Saw Her Standing There
6. Misery
7. Anna (Go To Him)
8. Chains
9. Boys
10. Baby It's You
11. Do You Want to Know a Secret
12. A Taste of Honey
13. There's a Place
14. Twist and Shout

UK single, 12/04/63
15. From Me to You
16. Thank You Girl

UK single, 23/08/63
17. She Loves You *
18. I'll Get You

UK LP "With the Beatles", 22/11/63
19. It Won't Be Long
20. All I've Got to Do
21. All My Loving
22. Don't Bother Me
23. Little Child
24. Till There Was You
25. Please Mister Postman
26. Roll over Beethoven
27. Hold Me Tight
28. You Really Got a Hold on Me
29. I Wanna Be Your Man
30. Devil in Her Heart
31. Not a Second Time
32. Money (That's What I Want)

UK single, 29/11/63
33. I Want to Hold Your Hand *
34. This Boy

US single, 16/03/64
35. Can't Buy Me Love
36. You Can't Do That

US LP "Second Album", 10/04/64
37. Long Tall Sally
38. I Call Your Name

EP "Long Tall Sally", 19/06/64
39. Slow Down
40. Matchbox

US LP "A Hard Day's Night (Soundtrack)" , 26/06/64
41. A Hard Day's Night
42. Tell Me Why
43. I'll Cry Instead
44. I'm Happy Just to Dance With You
45. I Should Have Known Better
46. If I Fell
47. And I Love Her

UK single, 10/07/64
48 Things We Said Today

UK LP "A Hard Day's Night", 10/07/64
49. Any Time at All
50. When I Get Home
51. I'll Be Back

US single, 23/11/64
52. I Feel Fine
53. She's a Woman

UK LP "Beatles for Sale", 04/12/64
54. No Reply
55. I'm a Loser
56. Baby's in Black
57. Rock and Roll Music
58. I'll Follow the Sun
59. Mr. Moonlight
60. Kansas City / Hey Hey Hey Hey
61. Eight Days a Week
62. Words of Love
63. Honey Don't
64. Every Little Thing
65. I Don't Want to Spoil the Party
66. What You're Doing
67. Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby

UK single, 09/04/65
68. Ticket to Ride
69. Yes It Is

US LP "Beatles VI", 14/06/65
70. You Like Me Too Much
71. Bad Boy
72. Dizzy Miss Lizzy
73. Tell Me What You See

US single, 19/07/65
74. Help!
75. I'm Down

UK LP "Help!" 06/08/65
76. The Night Before
77. You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
78. I Need You
79. Another Girl
80. You're Going to Lose That Girl
81. Act Naturally
82. It's Only Love
83. I've Just Seen a Face
84. Yesterday

UK single, 03/12/65
85. Day Tripper
86. We Can Work It Out

UK LP "Rubber Soul", 03/12/65
87. Drive My Car
88. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
89. You Won't See Me
90. Nowhere Man
91. Think for Yourself
92. The Word
93. Michelle
94 What Goes On
95. Girl
96. I'm Looking Through You
97. In My Life
98. Wait
99. If I Needed Someone
100. Run for Your Life

US single, 30/05/66
101. Paperback Writer
102. Rain

US LP "Yesterday and Today", 20/06/66
103. I'm Only Sleeping
104. Doctor Robert
105. And Your Bird Can Sing

UK single, 05/08/66
106. Yellow Submarine
107. Eleanor Rigby

UK LP "Revolver", 05/08/66
108. Taxman
109. Love You To
110. Here, There and Everywhere
111. She Said She Said
112. Good Day Sunshine
113. For No One
114. I Want to Tell You
115. Got to Get You into My Life
116. Tomorrow Never Knows

US single, 13/02/67
117. Penny Lane
118. Strawberry Fields Forever

UK LP "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", 01/06/67
119. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
120. With a Little Help from My Friends
121. Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
122. Getting Better
123. Fixing a Hole
124. She's Leaving Home
125. Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
126. Within You Without You
127. When I'm Sixty-Four
128. Lovely Rita
129. Good Morning, Good Morning
130. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
131. A Day in the Life

UK single, 07/07/67
132. All You Need Is Love
133. Baby You're a Rich Man

UK single, 24/11/67
134. Hello Goodbye
135. I Am the Walrus

US LP "Magical Mystery Tour", 27/11/67
136. Magical Mystery Tour
137. The Fool on the Hill
138. Flying
139. Blue Jay Way
140. Your Mother Should Know

UK single, 15/03/68
141. Lady Madonna
142. The Inner Light

US single, 26/08/68
143. Hey Jude
144. Revolution

UK 2LP "The Beatles a.k.a. White Album", 22/11/68
145. Back in the U.S.S.R.
146. Dear Prudence
147. Glass Onion
148. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
149. Wild Honey Pie
150. The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
151. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
152. Happiness Is a Warm Gun
153. Martha My Dear
154. I'm So Tired
155. Blackbird
156. Piggies
157. Rocky Racoon
158. Don't Pass Me By
159. Why Don't We Do It in the Road?
160. I Will
161. Julia
162. Birthday
163. Yer Blues
164. Mother Nature's Son
165. Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
166. Sexy Sadie
167. Helter Skelter
168. Long, Long, Long
169. Revolution 1
170. Honey Pie
171. Savoy Truffle
172. Cry Baby Cry
173. Revolution 9
174. Good Night

US LP "Yellow Submarine", 13/01/69
175. Only a Northern Song
176. All Together Now
177. Hey Bulldog
178. It's All Too Much

UK single, 11/04/69
179. Get Back *
180. Don't Let Me Down

UK single, 30/05/69
181. The Ballad of John and Yoko
182. Old Brown Shoe

UK LP "Abbey Road", 26/09/69
183. Come Together
184. Something
185. Maxwell's Silver Hammer
186. Oh! Darling
187. Octopus's Garden
188. I Want You (She's So Heavy)
189. Here Comes the Sun
190. Because
191. You Never Give Me Your Money
192. Sun King
193. Mean Mr. Mustard
194. Polythene Pam
195. She Came in Through the Bathroom Window
196. Golden Slumbers
197. Carry That Weight
198. The End
199. Her Majesty

UK Compilation LP "No One's Gonna Change Our World", 12/12/69
200. Across the Universe *

UK single, 06/03/70
201. Let It Be *
202. You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)

UK LP "Let it be", 08/05/70
203. Two of Us
204. Dig a Pony
205. I Me Mine
206. Dig It
207. Maggie Mae
208. I've Got a Feeling
209. The One After 909
210. The Long and Winding Road
211. For You Blue


* Alternative official versions:
1. Love Me Do (UK LP "Please Please Me", 22/03/63)
17. Sie Liebt Dich (Germany B-side single, 05/05/64)
33. Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand (Germany A-side single, 05/05/64)
179. Get Back (UK LP "Let it be", 08/05/70)
200. Across the Universe (UK LP "Let it be", 08/05/70)
201. Let It Be (UK LP "Let it be", 08/05/70)

oops, thanks for pointing out my mistake

I'll try again:

5: Please Please Me
5: No Reply
4: If I Fell
4: Wait
3: I'll Follow The Sun
3: I'll Be Back
2: Polythene Pam
2: Doctor Robert
1: Lady Madonna
1: Dear Prudence

Honorio, I'm not saying the US versions are better, I'm saying that US fans who had all of those albums in the 60's are used to those albums and it would sound strange hearing them "out of order". I have all my dad's old US albums and it sounds strange to me hearing Rubber Soul missing a couple songs including the opener Drive My Car. But, to him, it's the opposite.

The UK versions are definitely better. The only reason the US versions are different is because Capitol refused to put that many songs on one album. So, it was basically just a way to milk more money. Yes, even then the record labels were greedy!

5:Tell Me Why
4:I'll Cry Instead
4:I Call Your Name
4:I'll Be Back
3:I Want To Tell You
3:Love You To
2:Glass Onion
2:Old Brown Shoe
1:Savoy Truffle
1:What You're Doing

Most of these are again ones I can't "sing in my head" despite owning all the Beatles CDs. Exceptions are "Savoy Truffle" and "Glass Onion" which have always been candidates for outtakes if I had been in George Martin's shoes in 1968.

I think "This Boy" was one of my disappointments in this week's cuts. While definitely not "top tier" I think it's better than a lot of hangers-on on my list here.

I have a couple ideas for how I want this game to end and I'd like your input.

1. Like Survivor where we slowly start eliminating fewer songs.

or...

2. When we get to the top 10 we hold one final poll, this time voting for our favorites. But, until then keep voting off 5 a week.

#1 drags the game out a little longer but #2 changes the rules. I like either option, what do you think?

My vote goes for option #1. I think if you were to hold one final poll with the top ten, vote splitting occurs, and theoretically, the #1 song could end up with only 15% of the votes. I say save the "vote for your favourite" for the final two.

Just my two cents :)

5: LADY MADONNA
5: THINGS WE SAID TODAY
4: ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
4: I'M DOWN
3: BECAUSE
3: BALLAD OF JOHN AND YOKO
2: SUN KING
2: DON'T LET ME DOWN
1: WHAT YOU'RE DOING

*new* 1: LONG TALL SALLY: Probably should've had this on my ballot a while ago.

Re: the ending of the game, it doesn't really matter to me. But Option #2 seems more attractive though.

Yes, even then the record labels were greedy!
Of course, they’ve been always greedy, and now they got what they deserved.
My option for the end of the game would be the #1.

Alright - maybe time to get rid of some Beatles song where I prefer other people's versions:

5 - Long Tall Sally:Prefer Little Richard
5 - With A Little Help From My Friends:Prefer Joe Cocker
4 - She Came In Through The Bathroom Window:Prefer Joe Cocker
4 - I Call Your Name:Who ever did a cover of this - I definitely liked it better...
3 - I'm Down
3 - Baby's In Black
2 - You Won't See Me
2 - Birthday
1 - Because
1 - Polythene Pam

Mamas and the Papas? I liked that version too, but not more.

I hate Joe Cocker's version of With a Little Help (even though I'm a huge Wonder Years fan) but I might agree with you that he did a better version of She Came In Through the Bathroom Window... and absolutely Little Richard, it's not even close.

5: Julia

5: For No One

4: Good Morning, Good Morning

4: Got to Get You Into My Life

3: What're You Doing

3: Doctor Robert

2: With a Little Help from My Friends

2: Come Together

1: Sun King

New entry
1: Yer Blues: I went to my post on "Rank the songs from your favorite album" thread and saw this is the lowest positioned song (with the exception of Julia) that is still in the game. So, in the lack of options to vote here, I chose this one. The Beatles have made better acts in relation with blues than this one, like Oh! Darling, Happiness is a Warm Gun and the already eliminated Revolution 1. I really like that rythm change in 2:09 min, but besides that, John wasn't much inspired in this composition.

- I listened once to With the Beatles and Help! this week trying to find some songs to vote here but I didn't. Boy, these albums are much better than I thought! The only song that really made me think: "yes, this is the one I will put in my list!" was our last but one eliminated!

- hehe, sin problema, Honorio! Yo también voté en What You're Doing!

- I prefer the option #1 for the end of the game too!

5: Long, Long, Long
5: Long Tally Sally
4: Tell Me Why
4: Wait
3: Glass Onion
3: You're Going to Lose That Girl
2: Dig a Pony
2: Fixing A Hole
1: Sun King
1: Yer Blues

There's still so many average songs here - just pick a random ten. Not for 3 or 4 weeks will it be wall-to-wall good songs

5: I'll Cry Instead
5: She's A Woman
4: Martha My Dear
4: Lovely Rita
3: Fool On The Hill
3: Baby You're A Rich Man
2: I'm Down
2: We Can Work It Out
1: Getting Better
1: I'm Looking Through You

This is getting difficult.