It was out and then pulled back in and how quickly we spit it back out. Guess we're not seafood fans... But, your vote was not in vain as it jumped almost 50 spots in the rankings.

Seven songs leave us this week including two members of the Abbey Road Medley. We'll be into the top 100 with the next cut!

14: Good Morning, Good Morning
13: Mean Mr. Mustard
12: Polythene Pam
11: And I Love Her
11: Love You To
11: Octopus' Garden
11: No Reply

Close: For No One, Rocky Racoon, From Me To You, I've Just Seen a Face, Things We Said Today, Because, I Should Have Known Better, Everything's Got Something To Hide


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. Words of Love
178. When I'm 64
177. For You Blue
176. Blue Jay Way
175. The Inner Light
174. Money (That's What I Want)
173. Please, Mr. Postman
172. I'm Happy Just To Dance With You
171. Only a Northern Song
170. You Like Me Too Much
169. Slow Down
168. Good Night
167. Thank You Girl
166. Little Child
165. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
164. Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
163. One After 909
162. All Together Now
161. I Wanna Be Your Man
160. Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
159. Yes It Is
158. There's a Place
157. Ask Me Why
156. I'll Get You
155. Yellow Submarine
154. Hold Me Tight
153. I Me Mine
152. I Need You
151. Your Mother Should Know
150. Revolution 1
149. Honey Pie
148. Don't Bother Me
147. Tell Me What You See
146. Do You Want To Know a Secret?
145. All I've Got To Do
144. Why Don't We Do It In the Road?
143. I've Got a Feeling
142. Michelle
141. What Goes On
140. Another Girl
139. Any Time at All
138. Within You, Without You
137. This Boy
136. I Don't Want To Spoil the Party
135. Old Brown Shoe
134. It's Only Love
133. Don't Pass Me By
132. Long Tall Sally
131. I Call Your Name
130. I'll Cry Instead
129. I'm Down
128. Tell Me Why
127. The Night Before
126. Every Little Thing
125. Long, Long, Long
124. What You're Doing
123. I'll Be Back
122. Sun King
121. Wait
120. She's a Woman
119. You Can't Do That
118. Doctor Robert
117. Yer Blues
116. It Won't Be Long
115. Birthday
114. The Word
113. Baby's in Black
112. Glass Onion
111. The Ballad of John and Yoko
110. Dig a Pony
109. Good Morning, Good Morning
108. Mean Mr. Mustard
107. Polythene Pam
106. And I Love Her
105. Love You To
104. Octopus's Garden
103. No Reply


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

Beatles For Sale

2. I'm A Loser
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

1. Drive My Car
2. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
3. You Won't See Me
4. Nowhere Man
5. Think For Yourself
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
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
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
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
13. Rocky Racoon
16. I Will
17. Julia

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

4. Hey Bulldog
5. It's All Too Much


Abbey Road

1. Come Together
2. Something
4. Oh! Darling
6. I Want You (She's So Heavy)
7. Here Comes The Sun
9. You Never Give Me Your Money
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
3. Across The Universe
6. Let It Be
10. Long and Winding Road
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

5: Oh! Darling
5: I've Just Seen a Face
4: Baby You're a Rich Man
4: You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
3: Mother Nature's Son
3: For No One
2: From Me to You
2: Getting Better
1: Hey Bulldog
1: Hello Goodbye

Wow, that's a lot of McCartney songs! Also, bubbling under: "The Long and Winding Road" - sorry Anthony, but I find it boring. However, none of the songs left, not even the ones on my list, are bad.

5: LADY MADONNA
5: ROCKY RACCOON
4: THINGS WE SAID TODAY
4: ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
3: BECAUSE
3: DON'T LET ME DOWN
2: IN MY LIFE
2: EVERYBODY'S GOT SOMETHING TO HIDE EXCEPT ME AND MY MONKEY

I'm dropping "I've Just Seen a Face" (for now), and with the departure of "Good Morning" I'm left with two open slots...

1: GIRL: How ever many notches "Nowhere Man" brings up Rubber Soul, "Girl" brings it down that many.

1: THINK FOR YOURSELF: The verses feature an oddly dissonant chord structure and the lyrics are top-shelf (for Rubber Soul-era at least) -- both good things. But I'm adding this one to my ballot because of the chorus, which falls a bit flat by not taking advantage with a melodic punch in the face -- something John or Paul could've written in their sleep (had either of them actually been willing to help George).

As for "Winding Road", the sentiment is understandable Henrik -- it's not the most exciting song (sluggish tempo, nostalgic lyrics, innocuous instrumentation), but it's still powerful as hell, given the context. Naturally, I'm hoping that it won't get voted out any time soon, and to that end I'm desperately trying to make a case for it, but I'm beginning to see that it's a task as impossible as convincing those who labelled No Country For Old Men "a boring movie" that it wasn't.

And as for the McCartney comment, I got curious and performed a quick breakdown of my personal top 10 Beatles tunes (by writer). Looks like this:

McCartney: 4
Lennon: 4
McCartney (with Lennon): 1
Lennon (with McCartney): 1

What does everyone else's look like?

McCartney: 8
McCartney & Lennon: 1
Lennon: 1

The top 6 consists entirely of songs by McCartney. Interesting exercise; I've always liked Paul much more but I didn't expect it to be such a landslide.

McCartney 3
Lennon 5
Both 2

Interesting because I'm more of a fan of McCartney post Beatles than Lennon. But, I suppose it isn't a blowout.

5: All You Need is Love
5: She Loves You
4: Long and Winding Road
4: Eight Days A Week
3: Savoy Truffle
3: Got To Get You Into My Life
2: Twist and Shout
2: From Me To You
1: Back in the USSR
1: I Want To Hold Your Hand

5: I'm A Loser
5: I'll Follow The Sun
4: Eight Days A Week
4: Hard Day's Night, A
3: If I Fell
3: Can't Buy Me Love
2: Things We Said Today
2: Please Please Me
1: Rocky Racoon
1: Hey Jude

For me, 1964 is the low point of their output. "Please Please Me" is such a naughty song masquerading as innocent pop. And "Rocky Racoon" and "Hey Jude" are cute, but too silly.

Lennon: 4
McCartney: 3
Harrison: 2
Starr: 1

5: I Should Have Known Better
5: All My Loving
4: Things We Said Today
4: You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
3: I Want You (She's So Heavy)
3: If I Needed Someone
2: I Want To Tell You
2: Savoy Truffle
1: Drive My Car
1: I Feel Fine

Some of these really feel kind of arbitrary. It's still pretty difficult for me to vote.

As for top 10 Beatles songs:

Lennon: 3
McCartney: 5
Harrison: 2

Pretty similar to what I thought, actually.

You really think that Please, Please Me is about sex? I don't think so. One guy writing it in a book doesn't make it true, and I'm sure it's one of those "song meanings" that Paul laughed about when he read it.

Songs like 'Please Please Me' aren't supposed to be analyzed - none of their early songs,actually most of their songs - they're not known for their deep lyrics or anything - pretty emotionless

5: The Fool on the Hill
5: From Me to You
4: I've Just Seen a Face
4: You're Going to Lose That Girl
3: The Long and Winding Road
3: It's All Too Much
2: I Want to Tell You
2: Magical Mystery Tour
1: I'll Follow the Sun
1: Piggies

Very sorry to see "No Reply" miss the top 100 - to my mind, it's a perfectly constructed song, a daringly low-key album opener, and a personal favorite.

Without giving away too much...

1. McCartney (1970)
2. Lennon (1967)
3. Lennon with McCartney (1967)
4. Lennon (1967)
5. Lennon (1966)
6. McCartney (1966)
7. Lennon (1966)
8. McCartney, with Lennon (1965)
9. McCartney (1967)
10. McCartney (1968)

Lately I've been trying to figure out whose songbook I'd pick - John's or Paul's, if it came down to that. Such a tough choice, since they both wrote their share of doozies -- rockers and ballads (and the pigeon-holing that they've both been victims of is quite ridiculous).

If I do a top 20, it's 12-8 for John.

Top 50... (and I'm counting middle-eight contributions (ie. "with") in favor of the originator):

John: 25
Paul: 19
George: 3
John/Paul: 3

John 7
John & Paul 1
Paul 1
George 1

5: Please Please Me
5: If I Fell
4: I'll Follow The Sun
4: Lady Madonna
3: Dear Prudence
3: Things We Said Today
2: You're Going To Lose That Girl
2: Girl
1: Drive My Car
1: Getting Better

I was wondering when someone was going to put George on their list. I figured there would be more big fans of Something or While My Guitar Gently Weeps especially after all the love for Long and Winding Road.

1. Piggies
2. Savoy Truffle
3. Blue Jay Way
4. Taxman
5. I Need You
6. Within You Without You
7. Here Comes the Sun
8. Love You To
9. Long, Long, Long
10. Something

I Me Mine
Only a Northern Song
If I Needed Someone
Old Brown Shoe
The Inner Light
Think for Yourself
You Like Me Too Much
Flying*
I Want to Tell You
Don't Bother Me
It's All Too Much
For You Blue
While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Not a lot of love for "Blue Jay Way" around these parts, but it's one of my faves.

5: Julia
5: For No One
4: Got to Get You Into My Life
4: I Should Have Known Better
3: Rocky Raccoon
3: With a Little Help from My Friends
2: I'll Follow the Sun
2: Because
1: Come Together
1: If I Fell

New entries:

- Rocky Raccoon: My #28 best White Album track. When I listen to it in the disc, it sounds quite good, or at least doesn't bother me, but, when heard as an independent song, it's always annoying. It's a poor song, that only has the function of turning vaster and longer the album's folky/country part.

- I'll Follow the Sun: I should be voting for this one since a long time, but, due to my affection for Beatles for Sale, somehow I forgot it. It surely is not a bad song, but there's also nothing special about it, contrarily to much of the other tracks of the amazing album's first-8-songs-sequence.



I had already looked at the distribution of my top 10 songs per composer some time ago, what had make me realize I like John and George much more than Paul.

John: 5
George: 4
Paul: 1

Hey, Anthony, your 2 favorites from George are also my 2 favorites of him and my #7 and #1 Beatles tracks, respectively! On the other hand, I was so pleasantly surprised that my #8 Think for Yourself hadn't already received any vote, and it has gained its first little point! I think I'll start to think of voting on Long and Winding Road after that! , just kidding...

Just coming from a trip to Belgium (I recommend to all of you to go and see the wonderful Brugge) just in time to see Spain winning Sweden in Euro UEFA Cup 2008 (so sorry, Henrik, but the Spanish team deserved it more) and The Beatles inventing all kinds of music five minutes before than anyone (is there a word in English to express extremely boring?).

My list:
5: I Want to Tell You
5: Hello Goodbye
4: I Want To Hold Your Hand
4: If I Fell
3: Getting Better
3: I Should Have Know Better
2: Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
New votes:
2. Magical Mystery Tour: bright attempt to make music for commercial advertising and a good sample of Macca craft for song-writing. But maybe this time more craft than inspiration.
1. Ticket to Ride: I know, it’s one of the classic singles, but it’s not one of my favourites (except that great McCartney guitar solo at the end). But, wait a minute, The Beatles invented something with this one?
1. Rocky Racoon: we’ve talked too much about this one, didn’t we?

And in my Top 10:
Lennon 5
McCartney 5
(damn, I should have put some Harrison one, but I was trying to be democratic, just putting my favourite ones)

Just before I jump into my vote for this week, I'd like to express my confusion regarding the elimination of "And I Love Her"...really?! Even though "Good Morning Good Morning" is one of my fave Beatles songs, I can see why people wouldn't like it, and I'm not surprised it got the boot. But why "And I Love Her"? Unbiased, I think it is easily one of their best songs from their early career (which most of this forum would agree isn't as good as their later work). Oh well. At least it made it pretty far for a song from A Hard Day's Night. I just think it's a pity it couldn't make it to the Top 100. Anyways...

I have made an iTunes playlist now that we are getting close to the Top 100 (on that note, is it possible that there has been a miscount, and there are actually 101 songs left, not 102?)

Anyways, here is my updated list:

5: Drive My Car
5: Rocky Raccoon
4: Back in the USSR
4: I Want You (She's So Heavy)
3: I Saw Her Standing There
3: I'm A Loser
2: I'm So Tired
2: I Want To Hold Your Hand
1: Can't Buy Me Love
1: Please Please Me

As promised, I am voting for "Drive My Car" after a week of grace, as well as another wild card that I have never voted for in the past: "Rocky Raccoon." What really kills the song is the first verse when Paul tries to jam 3 songs worth of syllables into 4 lines of hick yammer. The fact that every character in this song has just enough aliases to keep the tune rhyming with itself is a bit embarrassing, and the third strike goes to the fact that "Rocky Raccoon" is one of the most well-known songs from the White Album. According to Mediabase, it has been played on the radio more than "Dear Prudence," "Blackbird," "Helter Skelter," and "Happiness Is a Warm Gun," just to name a few.

After listening to the remaining songs, I realized that "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" isn't as powerful as I had remembered (perhaps it was the use of its song during the scene with John Lennon's death in the TV special of "The Beatles Revolution" that had caused me to think it was).

"I'm A Loser" also gets some new votes from me, and perhaps I had overlooked it because it is one of my favourites from Beatles for Sale. I think "No Reply" is better, but I'm glad that my top two favourites from that album are still intact.

"I'm So Tired," which I have been close to voting for in the past, finally makes my top (or, bottom) 10.

"Please Please Me" also gets a point, one of the handful of songs from the "1962-1966" compilation that I got sick of after many listens.

Also, for my Top 10:

1. Paul McCartney ('69)
2. Paul McCartney ('70)
3. Paul McCartney ('68)
4. George Harrison ('69)
5. George Harrison ('68)
6. George Harrison ('69)
7. Paul McCartney ('67)
8. John Lennon ('67)
9. John Lennon ('68)
10. John Lennon ('70)

I realized why I thought there was a miscount. "Because" is no longer listed under Abbey Road, even though I think it is still in the game. Is it?

Yeah it's still in - it was on the 'close call' list.
Speaking of which:

5: Rocky Raccoon
5: Piggies
4: Because
4: From Me To You
3: She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
3: Hey Bulldog
2: Mother Nature's Son
2: Martha My Dear
1: Magical Mystery Tour
1: Drive My Car

5: You're Going to Lose that Girl
5: Everybody's Got Something to Hide...
4: Because
4: Good Day Sunshine
3: Hey Bulldog
3: It's All Too Much
2: Julia
2: Girl
1: From Me To You
1: She's Leaving Home - One of the reasons Pepper doesn't hold up as well as Revolver is because the latter doesn't have middling album cuts like this in the middle of it.

Close: For No One, I've Just Seen a Face, Things We Said Today

I find this absolutely SHOCKING. Those 3 are in my all-time Beatles Top 10. McCartney prejudice maybe?

Anyway, I suppose this means I better start voting again.

5. You're Going To Lose That Girl
5. I'll Follow The Sun
4. Things We Said Today
4. Cry Baby Cry
3. Fixing A Hole
3. Come Together
2. Baby You're A Rich Man
2. Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
1. Two Of Us
1. From Me To You

I think I did that right. :S The ones below 'discography' are the ones we're voting off, yes?

"For No One" is also in my top 10 as well.

sonofsamiam, I agree and forgot to make a note of that in my post. One of those is in my top 5 and I think all of them are in my top 25.

"For no one" is imo one of Paul's very best

Here I go defending Paul, and then try to vote off some of his songs. Guess I much prefer reserved/ballady Paul (and even whimsical/silly Paul) to fakey/rocky Paul.

5: Piggies
5: Drive My Car
4: All You Need Is Love
4: Come Together
3: Back In The U.S.S.R.
3: Good Day Sunshine
2: I Want To Tell You
2: Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!
1: Fool On The Hill, The
1: Think For Yourself

Anybody who still wants to vote has a little time while I finish watching this amazing US Open!

Shit! What a tournament! (I just ducked out of the office to catch the final few holes).

Amazing.

The internet feed crapped out on the sudden death hole. I watched the whole thing and didn't get to see the final few shots. I'm just a little angry.

I'm voting after the soccer match
In Europe it's the Euro (european nations' Cup)
Tomorrow france is playing against italy to stay in the tournament(France sucks this year like every other championship)


I Will 5
I Should Have Known Better 5
Baby You’re A Rich Man 4
Day Tripper 4
Getting Better 3
Everybody’s Got Sthg To Hide... 3
Rain 2
Lovely Rita 2
Please Please Me 1
If I Fell 1

I'm thinking France has a good chance. They were very unlucky against us (and we were equally lucky), while Italy was just plain bad.