Welcome to those who voted for the first time last week! I know there was some talk about Birthday being voted off...it's safe for a few more days at least. It returns to the close list after having a break last week. Finally, there's only one more song left for With The Beatles. If it gets voted off it would be the first complete album to be eliminated.

Eliminated:

19 points: She's a Woman
19 points: You Can't Do That
17 points: Doctor Robert
15 points: Yer Blues
14 points: It Won't Be Long

Close: Birthday, Glass Onion, Dig a Pony, Good Morning Good Morning

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
124. Long Tall Sally
123. I Call Your Name
122. I'll Cry Instead
121. I'm Down
120. Tell Me Why
119. The Night Before
118. Every Little Thing
117. Long, Long, Long
116. What You're Doing
115. I'll Be Back
114. Sun King
113. Wait
112. She's a Woman
111. You Can't Do That
110. Doctor Robert
109. Yer Blues
108. It Won't Be Long



Discography

Please Please Me

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

With the Beatles

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
7. Can't Buy Me Love
10. Things We Said Today

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

Help!

1. Help
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
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
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
3. Mother Nature's Son
4. Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
5. Sexy Sadie
6. Helter Skelter
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
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
I Feel Fine
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

It's great to be part of this game too!

5: Dig a Pony
5: Mean Mr. Mustard
4: Polythene Pam
4: The Ballad of John and Yoko
3: The Word
3: Baby's in Black
2: I've Just Seen a Face

New
2: Oh! Darling
1: Baby You're a Rich Man
1: You've Got to Hide Your Love Away

5: She Loves You
5: Eight Days A Week
4: Glass Onion
4: Savoy Truffle
3: Got To Get You Into My Life
3: Twist and Shout
2: From Me To You
2: Back in the USSR
1: I Want To Hold Your Hand
1: Everybody's Got Something To Hide- It took awhile for this one to get back on my list. The guitar part is great but the song is lacking.

You guys sure don't like Paul as a rocker. She's a Woman is the latest casualty.

5: Please Please Me
5: No Reply
4: If I Fell
4: I'll Follow The Sun
3: Polythene Pam
3: Lady Madonna
2: Dear Prudence
2: Things We Said Today
1: You're Going To Lose That Girl
1: Girl

Hey Honorio -- I think I just found the answer to that eternal "name your dream job" question... turns out, Lewisohn had it. What a gig, hey? (thanks for the Dowling suggestion, btw).

5: LADY MADONNA
5: THINGS WE SAID TODAY
4: ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
4: BECAUSE
3: BALLAD OF JOHN AND YOKO
3: DON'T LET ME DOWN
2: GOOD MORNING GOOD MORNING
2: I'VE JUST SEEN A FACE
1: IN MY LIFE
1: THE WORD

Monday arrives and my Rubber Soul smear campaign screeches to a halt (I'm joking of course -- I have other casualties in line). Sorry to see "Yer Blues" get the axe; it's better than about a quarter of the remaining songs from W.A. And over the weekend I finished watching the Anthology, and if I didn't before, now I REALLY have to get my hands on a copy of the MMT film, if only for that mindblowing performance video of "Walrus". eBay, here I come...

Have you ever seen it before? It's keeps getting more and more strange as the movie goes along. It's really weird and not really in a good way.

No, I haven't John, but I really want to. You know, I love that entire period, when they'd make weird videos like that and make people wear silly noses and tie balloons to their instruments. '67 Beatles rule (actually, include Nov. and Dec. '66 in there too).

Oh, it's a lot weirder than balloons and noses. The movie ends at a burlesque with a guy singing a song called Death Cab For Cutie (Where the band got it's name from). This might not be safe for work although it is censored. The music videos are fine although Blue Jay Way is a little strange. But, it's what goes on between the music that's odd and not in a good way.

Thanks for posting that, J. As bizarre as it is, I still have to get my hands on the film.

Geez - if people think 'Yer Blues' is crap,what does that make some of the other songs on the White Album?

5 - Birthday:Tired of them using it every morning on the radio for an intro to birthdays of the day
5 - Baby's In Black
4 - You Won't See Me
4 - The Word
3 - Good Morning Good Morning
3 - Good Day Sunshine
2 - Because
2 - Polythene Pam
1 - She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
1 - Dig A Pony

What's so great about Yer Blues? Dylan had already beat that horse into the ground and he did it a thousand times better and in his own way. Yer Blues might as well be a cover and I thought we already got rid of those.

5: The Fool on the Hill
5: From Me to You
4: I've Just Seen a Face
4: And I Love Her
3: Love You To
3: Baby's in Black
2: Mean Mr. Mustard
2: You're Going to Lose That Girl
1: I Want to Tell You
1: Birthday

"I Want to Tell You" has a flagrantly dissonant piano chording a full year before John Cale did the same thing on "I'm Waiting for the Man". Not sure it's intentional in George's case, though. It just sounds off.

5: I Want to Tell You
5: Birthday
4: The Ballad of John and Yoko
4: Hello Goodbye
3: And I Love Her
3: The Word
2: Good Morning Good Morning
2: I Want To Hold Your Hand
New votes:
1: If I Fell: maybe too sentimental
1: Dig a Pony: maybe too self-indulgent

Anthony, I knew that you liked that “dream job” too.
You’ll like MMT video too, it’s completely odd but the clips are really good, especially “Walrus”. I remember in 1990 seeing it in a bus going to Barcelona to see The Stones.

I like "Yer Blues" for its dirty groove -- not saying it's the best thing on WA, but it's certainly better than "Onion", and "Everybody's Got...", and probably "Prudence" too. Maybe throw "Martha" in there as well.

Back to MMT... I like the "Your Mother Should Know" sequence (the synchronized staircase dance). And "Walrus" of course is amazing. Get a load of Mac's cool Rickenbacker bass! It's just too bad Lennon had to go and get rid of his ridiculously awesome handlebar 'stache.

5: Back in the USSR
5: Birthday
4: Love You To
4: I Saw Her Standing There
3: Can't Buy Me Love
3: Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
2: I Want to Hold Your Hand
2: Glass Onion
1: Savoy Truffle
1: Baby's in Black

New for me this week are: "Glass Onion" (which I see as more cheap songwriting as opposed to "clever" songwriting), however, you cannot deny that it does have a nice rocking beat; "Savoy Truffle" which I love the instrumentation for, however, I feel the melody and lyrics aren't very strong; "Baby's in Black" is one of my favourite songs from Beatles for Sale, and I'm glad to see that it has lasted this long, but I gave it another listen, and I feel that the song could be improved upon.

We are also at the point in the game where we are getting close to the Top 100. My new votes go to songs that I would not miss if left off of the Top 100.

Hey John,

I have a suggestion.

What would "Survivor" be without its twists?

What do you think of the idea of possibly having a "Wild Card" vote one week, where instead of voting out our least favourite songs, we vote for eliminated songs that we want back in the game? Perhaps 5 or 1 songs could be voted back that may be very well-liked by many fans, yet were hated by just enough people at the time to get it voted out. If this were done, I think it would make the most sense to do this later on in the game (top 10 or top 20-ish...or hold a vote once the top 20 has been decided, which would extend to a "top 25").

Just throwing that out there. Let me know if you like this idea. By the way, I think you're doing an awesome job at hosting this Survivor, and I'm having a lot of fun!

Personally,I think 'The Long And Winding Road' and 'All You Need Is Love' are the only ones good enough to come back...

I think that it's not such a bad idea considering we are getting more participants. But, it does take away from everyone who voted from the beginning.

It's up to you guys. I'd probably make it around Cut 25 rather at the end since I don't think any of the songs voted off deserve to be in consideration for the top 20. Not because I don't like them, but they shouldn't get a free pass. Anyway, I'm on the edge on this one and would like some feedback.

I like the idea.

As someone who's been voting from the beginning, I find that the game has sort of been cheapened by the one-off ballots that come in from time to time. Case in point -- a few weeks ago there was this surge of voters, and now it's dropped off again. Now, I can't remember if any of those votes had an effect on my favorite songs (I'm thinking specifically about "Long and Winding Road" here, and it's nice to see Midaso on the same page as me; it's my favorite Beatles song), and yes, it seems a bit juvenile to disallow contributions, but I still think a game like this could've benefited from establishing a "voters allowed" list at the beginning, and seeing it through until the end.

So yes, I think we should introduce a wildcard component at some point, if only to aid in reversing the influential and unfortunate "one-offing" that has occurred at points during this game.

I'd be for it a wildcard as well. As for at what number, I'd prefer to let it happen earlier (say at the 40 or 50 mark), because once you get down to the final 20 or so, I can't imagine any of the songs brought back sticking around for more than one turn - and part of the fun of this would be to see if say a "Long and Winding Road" could survive for a couple of weeks after being brought back.

A wild card round seems like a good idea, for reasons already mentioned. But I think we should do it now when we're halfway down the list, and to get a "complete top 100". Perhaps there could also be another wild card round before we get to the top 50, but I'm not sure this game would benefit from wild cards later in the game.

Anyway, John, I'm happy with whatever you decide.

If we do it at the halfway point that means it's happening next cut. I don't think we have all of the participants yet although it might be a good way to bring some people in.

This week I'll put some A Hard Day's Night songs I should have been voting for much time ago but didn't have courage (mainly for not being familiar enough with them, and, so, seeing that later I could repent for that vote). Also, a new listening to Good Morning Good Morning changed my vision about the song. There's a great instrumentation, nice rhythm variation during the song time and also amazing exquisite sounds, being all this aspects very appropriate for creating that Peppery climate to the song. Finally I understood why it hasn't been voted off yet. So, it subtly got out of my list after having been receiving 4 pts for some weeks.


5: Julia
5: For No One
4: Got to Get You Into My Life
4: Because
3: I Should Have Known Better: Hate that kind of arrangements based on this cheesy harmonica.
3: With a Little Help from My Friends
2: And I Love Her: Besides I having something against this kind of slow songs, there's the fact that, when I was around 6 years old, a Brazilian duo of a poppy genre called "Sertanejo" made a horrible cover of this song, which was the main theme of a soap opera and became a great hit here. So, every time I listen to this track, I can't help remembering that "Eu Te Amo" song.
2: Come Together
1: Polythene Pam
1: If I Fell: Nothing against it, but its not better than my next option for the list "Good Morning Good Morning".


I agree with the wild card round. We might make it next week! Maybe there's not so many participants for it, but I think making this so early can lead to some (enjoyable for many of us) surprises.

If any non-participants (so far) are reading this, would a wild card round interest you to join the game?

It just doesn't make sense to me to do it next week because we've only added a few more voters and the songs will quickly get the boot again. But, if it adds more participants I'm all for it.

5: Glass Onion
5: You're Going to Lose that Girl
4: Dig a Pony
4: Everybody's Got Something to Hide...
3: Doctor Robert
3: Good Day Sunshine
2: The Word
2: Mean Mr. Mustard
1: Love You To
1: Good Morning Good Morning