I don't really have much to say! Seven eliminated, a ton of close ones and Rubber Soul taking a big hit this cut.

Eliminated:

18 Two Of Us
17 Piggies
16 Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
13 Good Day Sunshine
13 I'm Looking Through You
13 Think for Yourself
13 I'm So Tired

Close: Martha My Dear, Back In The U.S.S.R., For No One, Savoy Truffle, She Came in Through the Bathroom Window, Oh! Darling


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
102. Rocky Raccoon
101. Things We Said Today
100. I'll Follow The Sun
99. I Should Have Known Better
98. You're Going to Lose That Girl
97. Because
96. Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
95. Drive My Car
94. From Me to You
93. Girl
92. Baby You're a Rich Man
91. I Want To Hold Your Hand
90. If I Fell
89. Magical Mystery Tour
88. I Want To Tell You
87. I'm a Loser
86. I've Just Seen A Face
85. Getting Better
84. Please Please Me
83. The Long And Winding Road
82. Eight Days a Week
81. Hey Bulldog
80. It’s All Too Much
79. Julia
78. All You Need is Love
77. Two Of Us
76. Piggies
75. Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
74. Good Day Sunshine
73. I'm Looking Through You
72. Think for Yourself
71. I'm So Tired

Discography

Please Please Me

1. I Saw Her Standing There
14. Twist And Shout

With the Beatles

3. All My Loving

A Hard Day's Night

1. Hard Day's Night, A
7. Can't Buy Me Love

Beatles For Sale- ELIMINATED

Help!

1. Help
3. You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
7. Ticket To Ride
13. Yesterday

Rubber Soul

2. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
3. You Won't See Me
4. Nowhere Man
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
9. And Your Bird Can Sing
10. For No One
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
5. Fixing A Hole
6. She's Leaving Home
10. Lovely Rita
13. A Day In The Life

Magical Mystery Tour

2. Fool On The Hill, The
6. I Am The Walrus
7. Hello Goodbye
8. Strawberry Fields Forever
9. Penny Lane

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
11. Blackbird
16. I Will

3. Mother Nature's Son
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
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

3. Across The Universe
6. Let It Be
12. Get Back

A Sides and B Sides:

She Loves You
I Feel Fine
Day Tripper
We Can Work It Out
Paperback Writer
Rain
Lady Madonna
Hey Jude
Revolution
Don't Let Me Down

I need time to regroup after that onslaught. I'm shell shocked.

Mostly to be expected I guess - wouldn't call any of them great songs...

I would! Two of Us, Being for..., I'm Looking Through You, Think For Yourself and I'm So Tired were all in my top 40. I'm Looking Through You was #9.

Same as last week I guess.

5: She Loves You
5: Savoy Truffle
4: Got To Get You Into My Life
4: Twist and Shout
3: Back in the USSR
3: I Saw Her Standing There
2: If I Needed Someone
2: Carry That Weight
1: With A Little Help From My Friends
1: Taxman

5: Back In The U.S.S.R.
5: I Want You (She's So Heavy)
4: I Saw Her Standing There
4: Can't Buy Me Love
3: Taxman
3: She Loves You
2: Oh! Darling
2: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1: All My Loving
1: Twist And Shout

5: Hello Goodbye
5: Ticket to Ride
4: Savoy Truffle
4: Twist and Shout
3: Lovely Rita
New votes:
3: She Came in Through the Bathroom Window: it’s the first time that I change one of my previous votes, but thinking again this song maybe deserves a lower position than “Carry That Weight” (and I love both!).
2: Fixing a Hole: although it paints a vivid scene of the then current times (“I’m painting my room in a colourful way / and when my mind is wandering / there I will go”) and the arrangements are great (particularly the harpsichord and the Harrison guitar work) the references to drug seems to me a little forced.
2: If I Needed Someone: nice Harrison tune with superb jangle guitars and three-part harmonies. It gets the vote here for being too imitative of the trademark McGuinn style. Although with legions of bands imitating the Beatles at the time (The Byrds for instance), there was no reason at all to being ashamed for copying someone now and then.
1: Back in the U.S.S.R.: this was not imitative, this was a “tribute” to Beach Boys with ironic wordplay about the iron curtain. Surely nice and refreshing, but maybe not “important”.
1: A Hard Day's Night: yes, I know, one of the classic singles of the band, with innovations as the initial chord and an irresistible beat driven by the cowbell. Maybe it gets my vote because of the delivering under the schedule pressure (in fact it was composed, rehearsed, arranged, recorded and mixed the same day in order to get into the soundtrack) that makes it (just a little) inconsistent.

5: The Fool on the Hill
5: Fixing a Hole
4: Can't Buy Me Love
4: Sexy Sadie
3: Lovely Rita
3: Mother Nature's Son
2: Carry That Weight
2: Hello Goodbye
1: Martha My Dear
1: She's Leaving Home

5: Lady Madonna
5: Dear Prudence
4: Martha My Dear
4: Lovely Rita
3: Day Tripper
3: She Loves You
2: For No One
2: All My Loving
1: I'm Only Sleeping
1: If I Needed Someone

I Will 5
Day Tripper 5
Rain 4
Lovely Rita 4
Fixing A Hole 3

(from here, only left are songs I really like and it's hard to eliminate)
Savoy Truffle 3
A Hard Day’s Night 2
She Loves You 2
Lucy in The Sky with diamonds 1
Hello Goodbye 1

5: Oh! Darling
5: You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
4: For No One
4: Mother Nature's Son
3: Hello Goodbye
3: You Won't See Me
2: Rain - One of the first uses of backward vocals in the end! Wow...
2: She Came in Through the Bathroom Window
1: Penny Lane
1: Lady Madonna

Henrik, did you ever explain why you don't like You've Got To Hide Your Love or at least why you're voting for it now?

You're right John, I never gave any comments to my initial vote. The reason is that I don't like Lennon's vocal on this song. In particular, that "hey" followed by the raspy "you've got to..." annoys me a lot.

Sorry John, I know you're a big fan of Help! and I haven't been kind to some of the songs.

No problem, I just was wondering. I think that's one Beatles song almost everyone can agree on even if it's not that acclaimed. So, I was just kind of surprised.

5: Savoy Truffle
5: Sexy Sadie
4: I Am The Walrus
4: I Want You (She's So Heavy)
3: Ticket To Ride
3: I Saw Her Standing There
2: If I Needed Someone
2: She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
1: Day Tripper
1: Taxman

Pretty much everything left is good. I don't enjoy "I Am the Walrus"; I don't understand the love for that song other than the fact that it's experimental. Not my thing.

5 - Cry baby cry
5 - She came in through the bathroom window
4 - Savoy truffle
4 - Get back
3 - Sexy sadie
3 - Oh! darling
2 - Sgt Pepper's lonely hearts club band
2 - Twist and shout
1 - She said she said
1 - Lovely Rita

Penguin, thanks for joining the Walrus Hunter's club. We will be embarking on a journey to the frozen north to kill many walrai in late August, specifically the elusive Lennon Walrus (even though I've heard a legendary hunter by the name of Mark David Chapman may have bagged this one already)

5: I Am the Walrus
5: Twist and Shout
4: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
4: Sexy Sadie
3: Oh! Darling
3: Savoy Truffle
2: She Came in Through the Bathroom Window (didn't Joe Cocker cover this as well?)
2: The Fool on the Hill
1: All My Loving

She Came in Through the Bathroom Window marks about the point when I start liking the songs, but I fail to find them immensely memorable.

I feel pretty terrible now for laughing at that Lennon joke. Oh well, let's just slay the walrus!

Yeah, Joe Cocker covered that one as well but he did a much better job. Joe Cocker is a mystery to me. He has two of my least favorite songs ever into this world in You Are So Beautiful and With a Little Help From My Friends, but most of the time I don't mind him. I think I don't mind him as long as he's not trying to croon.

Joe Cocker's version of With A Little Help From My Friends is one of the greatest covers ever - I want it played at my funeral.

5: She's Leaving Home
5: She Said She Said
4: Cry Baby Cry
4: Don't Let Me Down
3: Martha My Dear
3: Savoy Truffle
2: Fixing A Hole: Sounds too forced, too dated.
2: I'm Only Sleeping: Innovative at the time, but it jaunts along without getting out of second gear.
1: I Want You (She's So Heavy): I love the sound of it, but really, it goes on for far too long.
1: Lovely Rita: That introduction is absolutely lovely...but then it devolves into standard Paul shlock

5: Back In The U.S.S.R.
5: Come Together
4: Savoy Truffle
4: Fool On The Hill, The
3: Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
3: Don't Let Me Down
2: Sexy Sadie
2: If I Needed Someone
1: Hello Goodbye
1: Day Tripper

From today on, all of the new songs in my list are among the ones I really like.
Get Back falls temporarily off my list after a listening to it's Past Masters version. So I have two new songs here today.

5: For No One
5: Got to Get You Into My Life
4: With a Little Help from My Friends
4: Mother Nature's Son
3: Martha My Dear
3: Come Together
2: Cry Baby Cry
2: All My Loving
New entries:
1: In My Life: I feel a bit bad for voting in this kind of absolute classics, but we've achieved a level in which it's almost unavoidable to vote sometimes in songs from this group. This is the only remaining Rubber Soul track that I like a little less and am not used to listen to so frequently. I assume what is the probable reason: don't know why, but I'm not such a fan of slow songs. Yes, there are many of them that I love (and some of these are From today on, all of the new songs in my list are among the ones I really like.
Get Back falls temporarily off my list after a listening to it's Past Masters version. So I have two new songs here today.

5: For No One
5: Got to Get You Into My Life
4: With a Little Help from My Friends
4: Mother Nature's Son
3: Martha My Dear
3: Come Together
2: Cry Baby Cry
2: All My Loving
New entries:
1: In My Life: I feel a bit bad for voting in this kind of absolute classics, but we've achieved a level in which it's almost unavoidable to vote sometimes in songs from this group. This is the only remaining Rubber Soul track that I like a little less and am not used to listen to so frequently. I assume what is the probable reason: don't know why, but I'm not such a fan of slow songs. Yes, there are many of them that I love (and some of these are in this game's top 70 group), but when I have to choose between two songs that I personally like the same way, I will always prefer the more upbeat one. Of course it's not an absolute rule that I always follow; music is an all subjective thing, but I've concluded that this is the only reason for me to vote in this song, even though I always consider it one of the Fab's most perfect pieces when I listen to it. This fact will also explain some of my votes in the next rounds...
1: I Will: Nice melody and refined vocals, but not so strong as the other remaining tracks.

God, what have I done above?
I've accidentally copied part of my text and repeated it, turning it all confusing even to me!

Continuing the Joe Cocker discussion from above - didn't his version of "...Bathroom Window" actually come out (on his self-titled second album) -before- ABBEY ROAD? It's a great cover, managing to take a brief song that's part of a medley and prove that it can stand alone (don't know if you could do that with "Mean Mr. Mustard" or "Polythene Pam", though).

I never knew that it came out before Abbey Road!

Well, now that I've looked it up - which I probably should have done first - I think that JOE COCKER! actually came out after ABBEY ROAD after all. Incidentally, the album contains a cover of "Something", as well.