5: You Never Give Me Your Money
5: Tomorrow Never Knows
4: Dear Prudence
4: In My Life
3: A Day In The Life
3: For No One
2: Martha My Dear
2: Things We Said Today
1: I've Just Seen a Face
1: Mother Nature's Son
Alright, this is off the top of my head since I lost my playlist a few rounds ago when I had some tagging problems.
5: Rain
5: We Can Work It Out
4: You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
4: Ticket To Ride
3: And Your Bird Can Sing
3: I've Got a Feeling
2: Lovely Rita
2: Things We Said Today
1: Happiness is a Warm Gun
1: I'm Looking Through You
Close: Sexy Sadie, The Night Before, A Day in the Life, Help, Fixing a Hole, I've Just Seen a Face
5: Here Comes The Sun
5: For No One
4: Let It Be
4: Yesterday
3: In My Life
3: Blackbird
2: Strawberry Fields Forever
2: Dear Prudence
1: Rain
1: Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
My top two might do well in this format too. Looking at the albums, it seems that "Rubber Soul" and "The White Album" are weaker than they appear.
5 - Tomorrow Never Knows
5 - I Am The Walrus
4 - Strawberry Fields Forever
4 - A Day In The Life
3 - While My Guitar Gentle Weeps
3 - Something
2 - Eleanor Rigby
2 - Dear Prudence
1 - Happiness is a Warm Gun
1 - She's Leaving Home
5: A DAY IN THE LIFE: February 10, 1967, Abbey Road, Studio One. Imagine being in that room on that day. Not to see any musical history unfold, no, but to see 40 musicians wearing gorilla paws, funny hats and clown noses. (Fwiw, my most-played song in a library of 9000 . That says something.)
5: I AM THE WALRUS: It seems opinions are divided when it comes to this one, maybe more than any other Beatles song. I don't know, but to me Walrus is proof positive of Lennon's genius.
4: THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD: "...lead me to yooouuur doooooor...." Gets me every time.
4: BEING FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. KITE!: When describing the atmosphere he wanted to create for this song, John told George Martin that he wanted to "smell the sawdust on the floor". Martin came back with random bits of tape, reassembled. John loved the result.
3: WE CAN WORK IT OUT: Recorded a week into the Rubber Soul sessions and sounds twice as good as anything from that album.
3: GOT TO GET YOU INTO MY LIFE: Paul doing Motown (and succeeding, like almost everything else that he did).
2: PENNY LANE: Began as an idea around November 1965 and completed one year and two months later.
2: RAIN: Musically, so simple it hurts. Production-wise, intricate as hell.
1: TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS: April 6, 1966. Pop music was never the same.
1: HELLO GOODBYE: I doubt anyone else will be voting for this piece of fluff. It's my guilty pick.
5:Yesterday
5:Strawberry Fields Forever
4:Eleanor Rigby
4:Rain
3:Here Comes The Sun
3:A Day In The Life
2:Revolution
2:Penny Lane
1:While My Guitar Gently Weeps
1:Long And Winding Road
5 A Day in the Life
5 Let It Be
4 Strawberry Fields Forever
4 Penny Lane
3 Happiness Is A Warm Gun
3 She Came in Through the Bathroom Window
2 Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite!
2 Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
1 You Know My Name (Look up the Number)
1 Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My
5. Tomorrow Never Knows
5. Blue Jay Way
4. I Am The Walrus
4. A Day In The Life
3. She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
3. Helter Skelter
2. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
2. Rain
1. You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)
1. Lovely Rita
5 Strawberry Fields Forever
5 While My Guitar Gently Weeps
4 Ticket To Ride
4 In My Life
3 Something
3 Tomorrow Never Knows
2 Penny Lane
2 I Am The Walrus
1 We Can Work It Out
1 She Loves You
5: Savoy Truffle
5: Strawberry Fields Forever
4: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
4: Dear Prudence
3: Ticket to Ride
3: And Your Bird Can Sing
2: Piggies
2: Think for Yourself
1: The Word
1: Here Comes the Sun
Honorable mentions: Across the Universe, Let It Be, Revolution/Revolution 1, Day Tripper, Penny Lane, Here, There and Everywhere.
I think I won’t stay true to my original Top Ten I send back in 2006, these fantastic game has convinced me to introduce a Harrison tune:
5: Strawberry Fields Forever
5: Nowhere Man
4: A Day in the Life
4: Helter Skelter
3: Eleanor Rigby
3: Tomorrow Never Knows
2: Blackbird
2: While My Guitar Gently Weeps
1: I Am the Walrus
1: She’s Leaving Home
Anthony, I love your comments on this thread. I missed you during the last half of the game. I suppose that it’s all about negativity again, am I right?
5: She's leaving home
5: Something
4: And I love her
4: Here, there and everywhere
3: If I fell
3: Here comes the sun
2: Nowhere man
2: While my guitar gently weeps
1: Eleanor Rigby
1: Across the universe
Thanks, Honorio. Your comments throughout the game were great.
No, it wasn't the negativity (John's partially right here); it was more or less a combination of getting more enjoyment out of commenting on the lesser-known songs, plus (unfortunately) not really having much time to devote with work getting extremely busy over the summer.
(Yesterday was actually my last day with the company. I start a new job on Wednesday.)
5: A Day in the Life
5: Strawberry Fields Forever
4: I Am the Walrus
4: Paperback Writer
3: Revolution
3: Something
2: I Want to Hold Your Hand
2: Here Comes the Sun
1: Polythene Pam/She Came in Through the Bathroom Window
1: Back in the USSR
John, thanks again for a great trip.
And Anthony, congrats on the new gig! I can relate, actually--I haven't had as much presence on the forum this summer as I would have liked, either. Somehow it's a little harder to spend the day writing about music and then come home and devote online time to...writing about music.
I'll try to do better. It'll probably do me good to think about the Who and the Stones in the evening when I've gotten good and sick of Cav/Pag and Rigoletto during the day.
5: Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End
5: Let It Be
4: Hey Jude
4: Here Comes the Sun
3: While My Guitar Gently Weeps
3: Across the Universe
2: Strawberry Fields Forever
2: Something
1: Don't Let Me Down
1: Lovely Rita
Honorable Mentions: Dear Prudence; Blackbird; I Will; Hey Bulldog; Baby You're a Rich Man; Here, There and Everywhere; I Am the Walrus; Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey; I Feel Fine; and Real Love.
I'm anticipating though that beginning Wednesday, my presence here will likely drop off more than it did over the summer. I'll still do my best to contribute to HoA, but I may miss a week here and there. Sorry in advance.
5: A Day in the Life
5: She Loves You
4: Eleanor Rigby
4: Something
3: Come Together
3: Helter Skelter
2: A Hard Day's Night
2: Because
1: Dear Prudence
1: Girl
5: She Said She Said
5: In My Life
4: A Day in the Life
4: Strawberry Fields Forever
3: Happiness is a Warm Gun
3: For No One
2: And Your Bird Can Sing
2: Revolution
1: Here, There and Everywhere
1: No Reply
ask me again next week and this'd be different, but not much.
5: It's All Too Much
5: The Inner Light
4: A Day In The Life
4: I Am The Walrus
3: While My Guitar Gently Weeps
3: Rain
2: Don't Pass Me By
2: Helter Skelter
1: Hey Bulldog
1: I Want You (She's So Heavy)
bubbling under:
I Saw Her Standing There, Revolution 9, You Know My Name
Anthony, sorry for the delay on the replay. Good luck with your new job, it seems that a lot of people of the forum are changing of work now (good luck to Nicolas and schleuse too!). And yes, John and Anthony, fortunately it’s been a game without the bitterness that usually showed up when someone talked about The Beatles in this forum. I was talking about the implicit negativity of having to choose not the songs you like but the songs you don’t like. Anyway, Anthony, I understand your point of view about the interest of the lesser-known songs.
Thanks again, John, it’s been a great game.