Ladies and gentleman, we've reached the top 50! Sgt. Pepper's: The Song sneaks into the the last spot of the top 50, but the Sgt. Peppers: The Album keeps dwindling. Speaking of dwindling, With the Beatles leaves us this week now that All My Loving is gone.

Remember, this week we take our nominations down from 10 to 5. I'll post my ballot right after I post this so that there isn't confusion.

30: If I Needed Someone
23: All My Loving
21: Lady Madonna
19: Carry That Weight
18: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

Close: You Won’t See Me, She’s Leaving Home, I Want You (She's So Heavy)




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
70. Savoy Truffle
69. Sexy Sadie
68. Twist and Shout
67. Lovely Rita
66. Back In The U.S.S.R.
65. She Came in Through the Bathroom Window
64. Oh! Darling
63. With A Little Help From My Friends
62. Fool On The Hill
61. Hello Goodbye
60. Martha My Dear
59. Can't Buy Me Love
58. Mother Nature's Son
57. Cry Baby Cry
56. Got To Get You Into My Life
55. Fixing a Hole
54. If I Needed Someone
53. All My Loving
52. Lady Madonna
51. Carry That Weight
50. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band





Discography

Please Please Me

1. I Saw Her Standing There

With the Beatles- ELIMINATED

A Hard Day's Night

1. Hard Day's Night, A

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


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
14. Tomorrow Never Knows

Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band

3. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
6. She's Leaving Home
13. A Day In The Life

Magical Mystery Tour

6. I Am The Walrus
8. Strawberry Fields Forever
9. Penny Lane

The Beatles (White Album)

2. Dear Prudence
7. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
8. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
11. Blackbird
16. I Will

6. Helter Skelter

Yellow Submarine- ELIMINATED

Abbey Road

1. Come Together
2. Something
6. I Want You (She's So Heavy)
7. Here Comes The Sun
9. You Never Give Me Your Money
14. Golden Slumbers
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
Hey Jude
Revolution
Don't Let Me Down

5: She Loves You
4: I Saw Her Standing There
3: Taxman
2: Golden Slumbers
1: Come Together

5: I Am the Walrus
4: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
3: All My Loving
2: I'm Only Sleeping
1: Paperback Writer

I guess I'll probably be sticking with this list for a few weeks.

My bad, I didn't notice "All My Loving" left

5: I Am the Walrus
4: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
3: I'm Only Sleeping
2: Paperback Writer
1: Penny Lane

5: Dear Prudence
4: Day Tripper
3: She Loves You
2: For No One
1: I'm Only Sleeping

Bubbling under:
She Said She Said, Come Together

5: You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
4: For No One
3: You Won't See Me
2: Rain
1: Golden Slumbers

John, I may not be able to post my votes in the next two survivor cuts as I'll be out of town, but I'd like to participate anyway. If any of the songs above are being eliminated, I would like to fill my list with the songs below.

Here's my pipeline, from worst to best:
Filler #1: Penny Lane
#2: She's Leaving Home
#3: We Can Work It Out
#4: I Will
#5: While My Guitar Gently Weeps
#6: Across the Universe
#7: Paperback Writer
#8: In My Life

I hope this is OK. I want to do everything I can to keep "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" in the game.

5: Get back
4: Yesterday
3: Taxman
2: She said she said
1: Revolution

5: Come Together
5: Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
4: Don't Let Me Down
4: Day Tripper
3: Get Back
3: Revolution
2: Taxman
2: Hard Day's Night, A
1: You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
1: Penny Lane

I can do that for you Henrik.

Thanks John!

Voting twice in one day! And I don’t even live in Chicago! (sorry, Harold)

5: You Won’t See Me
4: She’s Leaving Home
3: Don’t Let Me Down
2: Across the Universe
1: While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Sonofsam, I'm just going to take your first five songs unless you tell me different.

5: I Am The Walrus
4: I Want You (She's So Heavy)
3: Ticket To Ride
2: I Saw Her Standing There
1: Day Tripper

Bubble list:
Taxman, I Feel Fine, Paperback Writer, Get Back

How did "Get Back" get released as a single? It's not that good (although "Let It Be" wasn't too great).

The most unexpected elimination for me in all this game has happened this cut. That's for my #3 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the only Paul's song in my top 10. It was looking like it would end as the 2nd best Sgt. Pepper's track. But, after all, luckily it at least entered the top 50, in the exactly last spot!

5: For No One
4: Eleanor Rigby
2: In My Life
3: I Feel Fine
1: Golden Slumbers

Hey, making the same exercise I did 2 cuts ago, here we have, if I'm not wrong, the only 6 songs that have survived without having received a unique vote in all of the tournament: Help, A Day in the Life, Strawberry Fields Forever, Helter Skelter (wow!), Here Comes the Sun and Let It Be.

OK after some deliberation:

5. I Want You (She's So Heavy)- This is the weakest tune of those still remaining in my opinion. A funky guitar lick isn't enough to save it.
4. End, The- Doesn't stand so well on its own outside the medley.
3. Happiness Is A Warm Gun- Well-executed pastiche I guess but it never really "says" anything to me.
2. You Won't See Me- I debated the last two for awhile and originally had this at 1 point but I had to acknowledge it was only my preference for poppiness shoving it farther up. Musically, "Rain" is more interesting and the hook is almost as good.
1. Rain- I still think this is overrated and gets a pass for having the backwards guitar.

I don't care about the backwards guitar, Rain is one of the greatest psych songs ever. It's hands down, not even close the Beatles best song.

So, now you all know my #1.

Can I join the party ?

The problem I have with The Beatles is that I found half of the songs great and the other half silly. The same happens with the ones left, so my first votes gonna be easy choices.

5 pts – I will : this songs really doesn’t go anywhere
4 pts - Don't Let Me Down: find it sort of boring.
3 pts – Get Back: I would classify it as "monotonous"
2 pts - I Saw Her Standing There: Most of the “early” Beatles songs sounds all the same to me
1 pt – Yesterday: Overrated


It’s kind of shocking that “I am the Walrus” has already two first choices at this stage . In my view, it has to be one of the most innovative songs John’s ever created (though I have to admit I have a soft spot for trippy songs ).

Sonofsam, I'm just going to take your first five songs unless you tell me different.

Yeah, that works - order is correct. Sorry to be a pain in the ass.

No problem sonofsam.

Here's a question for everyone. Some people thought Free as a Bird and Real Love should have been included. If they were, would you have voted them off already? I'd still have Free as a Bird going strong but Real Love would have been on my list around cut 15 or so.

5: She's Leaving Home
4: She Said She Said
3: Don't Let Me Down
2: I'm Only Sleeping
1: I Want You (She's So Heavy)

5: She's Leaving Home
4: You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
3: I Feel Fine
2: I Want You (She's So Heavy)
1: Across the Universe

John, "Free as a bird" and "Real love" are OK but I don't think they would hit the top 50.

Hey guys, why all this hate about "She's leaving home" ?
It's my favourite Beatles song !

Dumbangel, "She's Leaving Home" has made it all the way to the top 50 out of over 200 Beatles songs! How is that evidence of "hate"? If we really hated it we would have voted it out long before now.

She's Leaving Home is a perfectly decent song, but to my mind, at this point in the game it sticks out like a sore thumb. So many of the songs left are stone-cold classics, and She's Leaving Home is an album track that doesn't have much in the way of a hook - of course, reasonable people can disagree and all that jazz.

Yep, what they said - She's Leaving Home is great for top 50, but not much higher.

Free as A Bird I liked a lot. It's in my top 20. Less bothered about Real Love though, it would have been on my list for the last couple of weeks.

OK, the word "hate" is not appropriate.
But even it's far to be everyone's favourite, I would hope that it would hit the top 30, because among the 50 songs there are still some songs that are not that amazing. Take "Get back" for exemple, it's really a poor song compared to the greatness of most of the Beatles catalog !
I know that many people in this forum are more into Lennon than McCartney and more into rockers than ballads (the early eliminations of "And I love her" and "If I fell"), so it's evident that "She's leaving home" is gonna leave the game soon...
Just remember one thing :
When Brian Wilson was torturing his mind trying to finish his unfinished "Smile" album (until 2004), one day Paul McCartney came in the studio and play to Brian at the piano a song that have made Brian understand that he would loose the competition.
And that song was "She's leaving home".

She's Leaving Home is a great song. I just wish they would have left out the falsetto vocals in the chorus because I find them incredibly grating. Especially when they get to "home". That note is like nails on a chalkboard but it's forgivable with how great the song is. If it wasn't for that falsetto part I might have it in my top 5 as well. Brian Wilson should have been kind enough to tell Paul that he couldn't reach the notes that the Beach Boys could.

5:I Want You(She's So Heavy)
4:You Won't See Me
3:I Will
2:Get Back
1:Dear Prudence

Still a while till it's all stone-cold classics...

5: Ticket to Ride
4: A Hard Day's Night
3: You Won't See Me
2: And Your Bird Can Sing
1: Paperback Writer

And, yes, I love “She’s Leaving Home” too (it’s my #10). The perfect harp + string quartet backing, the interaction between John and Paul voices and specially the moving story of many young people that left heir parents home during the 60s told with careful attention to the details and with genuine understanding to both parts. 10/10 in my opinion.

5: I Saw Her Standing There
4: I Want You (She's So Heavy)
3: Taxman
2: Rain
1: She Loves You

oh, and in regards to the reunion songs, I would have "Real Love" somewhere in my top 20, and I would have "Free as a Bird" on the edge of the top 50 (at least this top 50...a chunk of my personal faves have already been voted off)