And we've reached the top 20! Remember that we eliminate 3 next cut but are still voting for five. It would be good of me to remember that as well!

Eliminated-
25 Nowhere Man
20 You Never Give Me Your Money
20 Helter Skelter
16 Revolution
16 And Your Bird Can Sing

Close: Penny Lane, Tomorrow Never Knows


RULES: Vote for 5 Beatles songs using this format:

5: Song
4: Song
3: Song
2: Song
1: Song

Comments are very welcome but not required. I'd like it if you give an overall comment but you don't have to.

Songs will be eliminated every Monday and Thursday and a new vote will begin each day. In the event of a tie all songs receiving the elimination vote will be eliminated.

40 or less left: Eliminate 4 rather than 5.
20 or less: Eliminate 3
10 or less: Eliminate 2 for two cuts
Final cut: Eliminate whatever is left (There will be 6 songs or less left) and declare a winner!

The tiebreaker rule will still apply for every round.

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
49. I Want You (She's So Heavy)
48. You Won’t See Me
47. She’s Leaving Home
46. I Saw Her Standing There
45. For No One
44. Get back
43. Taxman
42. Don’t Let Me Down
41. I Will
40. I Am The Walrus
39. I Feel Fine
38. You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
37. Ticket To Ride
36. Golden Slumbers
35. She Loves You
34. A Hard Day's Night
33. Day Tripper
32. Paperback Writer
31. Across the Universe
30. Dear Prudence
29. She said she said
28. I'm Only Sleeping
27. Come Together
26. We Can Work It Out
25. Rain
24. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
23. Nowhere Man
22. You Never Give Me Your Money
21. Helter Skelter
20. Revolution
19. And Your Bird Can Sing




Discography

Please Please Me- ELIMINATED

With the Beatles- ELIMINATED

A Hard Day's Night- ELIMINATED

Beatles For Sale- ELIMINATED

Help!

1. Help
13. Yesterday

Rubber Soul

2. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
11. In My Life

Revolver

2. Eleanor Rigby
5. Here, There And Everywhere
14. Tomorrow Never Knows

Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band

13. A Day In The Life

Magical Mystery Tour

8. Strawberry Fields Forever
9. Penny Lane

The Beatles (White Album)

7. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
8. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
11. Blackbird

Yellow Submarine- ELIMINATED

Abbey Road

2. Something
7. Here Comes The Sun
16. End, The

Let It Be

6. Let It Be

A Sides and B Sides:

Hey Jude

Finally a song in my list gets eliminated (and another appears in the close ones)! On the other hand, now I've lost my #6 And Your Bird Can Sing and my #13 Revolution. Anyway, it was one of my best surprises until now to see And Your Bird... in the top 20. It has always sounded to me like one of those gems that only I seem to really like. But, as Honorio has said, maybe it's an only AM favorite. What means our taste is better than the critics'!


Later I post my list, have to listen again to Blackbird, Happiness Is a Warm Gun and Help to decide the substitute for You Never Give Your Money...

5: Something
4: Eleanor Rigby
3: Hey Jude
2: Let It Be
1: The End

A couple new ones this week and I got a new iPod touch and haven't put my Beatles playlist on it yet so I don't have it in front of me. But, I don't think I need the list anymore with only 20 left and I think I remember how I ranked them.

Man, my #1 (You Never Give Me Your Money) is gone.

5 Lucy In The sky
4 A Day In The Life
3 Let It Be
2 We Can Work it Out
1 Something

Sgt Peppers is my least favorite of the great Beatles albums

LSD is gone Nicolas. You're gonna have to trip with something else!

Oh, same goes for We Can Work It Out.

5 Blackbird
4 Tomorrow Never Knows
3 In My Life
2 Revolvution
1 The End (been fun for a week, though)

Wow, 3 on my list eliminated.

5: Help
4: Here, There and Everywhere
3: Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
2: The End
1: Here Comes The Sun

Sorry

5 A Day in the Life
4 Let It Be
3 Something
2 Hey jude
1 While my Guitar

It starts to hurt very much

5: Penny Lane
4: Help!
3: Something
2: Eleanor Rigby
1: Here Comes The Sun

Hey, I'll be going away for a week starting tomorrow. Is there any way I could email my remaining songs in ranked order so that you could include my votes until I get back? If not, that's fine :)

Anyways, here are my votes for this week

5: Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
4: Tomorrow Never Knows
3: Yesterday
2: Happiness Is a Warm Gun
1: A Day in the Life

5: The End
4: Here Comes the Sun
3: Help!: Greil Marcus about “Help!” (quote taken from AMG): “The Beatles’ optimism prevailed even when they tried to sound desperate, which sometimes made them sound sappy”. It seems that Lennon once stated that he would have preferred a slow version (me too) but the band chose to speed it up to make it more marketable. Probably this is NOT a previous demo but a solo demo from the middle 70s. Anyway Marcus was WRONG.
2: Let It Be
1: Yesterday
I really can’t think of any negative point about these two McCartney gems. “Let It Be” is an awesome example of white gospel, including a beautiful church organ part by Billy Preston and “Yesterday” is an exquisite ballad with the best use of a string quartet one can think of. These songs are probably here for something that is not Beatles fault, the tremendous overexposure and the million of mushy covers that almost completely ruined them (except maybe the ones from Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles). But the Beatles originals were impeccable.

5: Strawberry Fields Forever
4: Blackbird
3: In My Life
2: The End
1: Yesterday

5: Blackbird
4: Let It Be
3: Yesterday
2: The End
1: Here, There and Everywhere

5: Happiness Is A Warm Gun
4: A Day In The Life
3: Here, There And Everywhere
2: Something
1: Tomorrow Never Knows

This is actually getting easier for me to vote on songs now. Near the top, there are bigger differences in the quality of the songs.

Honestly, i can't believe that TNK is in the "danger zone" .

Well:

5: Yesterday
4: Hey Jude
3: Penny Lane
2: Here, There and Everywhere
1: Here Comes the Sun

5: Penny Lane
4: While My Guitar Gently Weeps
3: In My Life
2: Happiness Is a Warm Gun
1: Let It Be

Well, all the 3 star songs are gone for me and now I'm into the 4 star songs so I don't have to feel TOO sad when they go, but after this I hit the 5 stars and that's when it gets rough.

5: Penny Lane
4: Help!
3: A Day in the Life
2: The End
1: Tomorrow Never Knows

"I like black music too"

Sorry, I want to revise the list because I just listened to The End. That's a 5 Star song, but then again, so is the song replacing it. I guess The End is just more fun.

5: Penny Lane
4: Help!
3: A Day in the Life
2: Tomorrow Never Knows
1: Strawberry Fields Forever

"I like black music too"

5: While My Guitar Gently Weeps
4: Blackbird
3: Here, There and Everywhere
2: The End
1: Norwegian Wood

Slush, “The End” is certainly a fun listen (which is why I haven’t voted for it until now). However, I can’t shake the impression that it’s not…you know, an actual song, instead being the closest the Beatles ever got to a free-form jam—which is something I normally loathe, outside of jazz at least. If you’re the Beatles, you can get away with it, though.

5:The End
4:Help!
3:Norweigan Wood
2:Tomorrow Never Knows
1:Blackbird

5: Yesterday
4: Help!
3: Strawberry fields forever
2: Tomorrow never knows
1: Penny lane

5: Tomorrow Never Knows
4: A Day in the Life
3: Eleanor Rigby
2: Yesterday
New Vote:
1: Happiness Is a Warm Gun: The collage structure is very interesting when you are discovering the song, but isn't enough to make it for always a favorite. All the elements here are smartly placed and interpreted, but all the thing doesn't enthusiasm me as much as some years ago, though.

5: Tomorrow Never Knows
4: Something
3: In My Life
2: Strawberry Fields Forever
1: Happiness Is A Warm Gun (NEW): A suite-style song is limited in how good it can be - it's a song with absolutely no weak points to it, but never really delivers a knockout punch (and at this point in the game, that is what's required)

5. Blackbird
4. Here, There And Everywhere
3. The End
2. Yesterday
1. Hey Jude

I'm probably not going to be posting the results until later tonight. I'm in the middle of trying to get iTunes to cooperate with me. I used a program to add lyrics to all my mp3 tags and iTunes didn't like what happened and now won't add about 3000 songs. It seems like it's a header problem but I've used repair tools and they aren't working.

It's simple. Stop using iTunes.

Yeah, that would be nice but I have an iPod Touch and you have to use the software. I don't listen to music on my computer anyway I only use ITunes for syncing.

Results coming in a few.

By the way, sorry Daniel for not responding to your post. I'll include whatever stays in. If you happen to be on the net just post them in the next cut and I'll keep track.