This week I'm going to count down the eliminated. Does everybody prefer for me to every time?

Luckily, Chelsea's votes spared us from six 6 pointers and a close call list of 5 point votes.

Eliminated

When I'm 64: 10 points
For You Blue: 9 points
Blue Jay Way: 9 points
The Inner Light: 8 points
Money (That's What I Want): 8 points

Close:

Only A Northern Song, Thank You Girl, Please Mr. Postman, Slow Down, Ob La Di Ob La Da, Yes It Is

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.

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!

216. Revolution #9
215. Love Me Do
214. Dig It!
213. Dizzy Miss Lizzie
212. Maggie Mae
211. Devil in Her Heart
210. A Taste of Honey
209. Matchbox
208. You Know My Name (Look up the Number)
207. Bad Boy
206. PS I Love You
205. When I Get Home
204. Wild Honey Pie
203. Boys
202. Flying
201. Mr. Moonlight
200. Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey
199. Anna (Go To Him)
198. Run For Your Life
197. Her Majesty
196. Act Naturally
195. Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby
194. Chains
193. Honey Don't
192. Not a Second Time
191. You Really Got a Hold On Me
190. Maxwell's Silver Hammer
189. Baby It's You
188. Till There Was You
187. Rock and Roll Music
186. Roll Over Beethoven
185. Misery
184. It's All Too Much
183. Words of Love
182. When I'm 64
181. For You Blue
180. Blue Jay Way
179. The Inner Light
178. Money (That's What I Want)


Discography

Please Please Me

1. I Saw Her Standing There
6. Ask Me Why
7. Please Please Me
11. Do You Want To Know A Secret
13. There's A Place
14. Twist And Shout

With the Beatles

1. It Won't Be Long
2. All I've Got To Do
3. All My Loving
4. Don't Bother Me
5. Little Child
7. Please Mister Postman
9. Hold Me Tight
11. I Wanna Be Your Man

A Hard Day's Night

1. Hard Day's Night, A
2. I Should Have Known Better
3. If I Fell
4. I'm Happy Just To Dance With You
5. And I Love Her
6. Tell Me Why
7. Can't Buy Me Love
8. Any Time At All
9. I'll Cry Instead
10. Things We Said Today
12. You Can't Do That
13. I'll Be Back

Beatles For Sale

1. No Reply
2. I'm A Loser
3. Baby's In Black
5. I'll Follow The Sun
8. Eight Days A Week
11. Every Little Thing
12. I Don't Want To Spoil The Party
13. What You're Doing

Help!

1. Help
2. Night Before, The
3. You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
4. I Need You
5. Another Girl
6. You're Going To Lose That Girl
7. Ticket To Ride
9. It's Only Love
10. You Like Me Too Much
11. Tell Me What You See
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
6. Word, The
7. Michelle
8. What Goes On
9. Girl
10. I'm Looking Through You
11. In My Life
12. Wait
13. If I Needed Someone

Revolver

1. Taxman
2. Eleanor Rigby
3. I'm Only Sleeping
4. Love You To
5. Here, There And Everywhere
6. Yellow Submarine
7. She Said She Said
8. Good Day Sunshine
9. And Your Bird Can Sing
10. For No One
11. Doctor Robert
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!
8. Within You Without You
10. Lovely Rita
11. Good Morning Good Morning
12. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
13. A Day In The Life

Magical Mystery Tour

1. Magical Mystery Tour
2. Fool On The Hill, The
5. Your Mother Should Know
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
3. Glass Onion
4. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
6. Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill, The
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 Raccoon
14. Don't Pass Me By
15. Why Don't We Do It In The Road
16. I Will
17. Julia

1. Birthday
2. Yer Blues
3. Mother Nature's Son
4. Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
5. Sexy Sadie
6. Helter Skelter
7. Long, Long, Long
8. Revolution 1
9. Honey Pie
10. Savoy Truffle
11. Cry Baby Cry
13. Good Night

Yellow Submarine

1. Only a Northern Song
2. All Together Now
3. Hey Bulldog

Abbey Road

1. Come Together
2. Something
4. Oh! Darling
5. Octopus's Garden
6. I Want You (She's So Heavy)
7. Here Comes The Sun
8. Because
9. You Never Give Me Your Money
10. Sun King
11. Mean Mr. Mustard
12. Polythene Pam
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
2. Dig A Pony
3. Across The Universe
4. I Me Mine
6. Let It Be
8. I've Got A Feeling
9. One After 909
10. Long And Winding Road
12. Get Back

A Sides and B Sides:

From Me To You
Thank You Girl
She Loves You
I'll Get You
I Want To Hold Your Hand
This Boy
Long Tall Sally
I Call Your Name
Slow Down
I Feel Fine
She's A Woman
Yes It Is
I'm Down
Day Tripper
We Can Work It Out
Paperback Writer
Rain
Lady Madonna
Hey Jude
Revolution
Don't Let Me Down
Ballad Of John And Yoko, The
Old Brown Shoe

5 points- Back in the USSR
5 points- Don't Pass Me By
4 points- Yellow Submarine
4 points- Sgt. Peppers (Reprise)
3 points- One After 909
3 points- Thank You Girl
2 points- I Me Mine
2 points- Revolution 1: There's no way I'd ever listen to this before the faster single version. It probably wouldn't be here yet if it weren't for the single, but because of it, it's kind of inessential.
1 point- Please, Mr. Postman: I'll bite on this one since it's close. It's not terrible but it's not that great either.
1 point- Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me and My Monkey: There are certain parts of this song I really like such as "take it easy" and the guitar work but the verses really blow.

I Wanna Be Your Man (5)
You Can't Do That (5)
I Call Your Name (4)
Slow Down (4)
Yes It Is (3)
I'm Happy Just to Dance with You (3)
Please Mister Postman (2)
One After 909 (2)
There's a Place (1)
Thank You Girl (1)

Are You sure about the eliminination, John?

"I'm happy just to dance with you" got 11 points (5 points from me, 4 from chelsea and 2 from Daniel) and would have "topped" the ranking.

And "You like me too much" got 9 points (5 from honorio and 4 from Harold) and by that would have been eliminated either.

But I certainly don't mind at all, because this way "Money" has been voted off...

5 points - I'm happy just to dance with you
5 points - I've got a feeling
4 points - I need you
4 points - There's a place
3 points - Every little thing
3 points - Only a northern song
2 points - Please Mister Postman
2 points - Baby you're a rich man
1 point - What goes on
1 point - Good day sunshine

No changes from last week:
5 points: “Your Mother Should Know”
5 points: “You Like Me Too Much”
4 points: “Thank You Girl”
4 points: “The Night Before”
3 points: “What Goes On”
3 points: “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da”
2 points: “Please Mr. Postman”
2 points: “The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill”
1 point: “I’ll Get You”
1 point: “All Together Now”

But, boys, aren’t you judging too severely George Harrison? “For You Blue”, “Blue Jay way” or especially “It’s All Too Much” are, if not great, very good songs (in my humble opinion).

"Do You Want To Know A Secret" 5pts
"I'm Happy Just to Dance With You"
"Hold Me Tight"
"Slow Down"
"Rocky Raccoon"
"Your Mother Should Know"
"What Goes On" Even if it has great country styled vocal harmonies and Ringo drumming is great.
"You Like Me Too Much"
"Good Night"
"Honey Pie"

Some songs that are out already that I don't agree with. Considering the amount of people who like The Velvet Underground and garage rock here it's pretty suprising.

"Money That's What I Want- Their best cover is about as garage rock as "Louie Louie". After this song was released this song became a garage rock staple. Just compare this version to the Stones version. Lennon vocal and Ringo drumming for 1963 standard is hard rock.
"It's All Too Much"- Considering the amount of Velvet fans here I am suprised it's out. Extensive feedback droning with a modal-like tune, pop-rock backbeat, and extended improvisatory intro/outro yields an Indian/Western fusion.
"Blue Jay Way"- another drone fest song just using bass and not electric guitar on this song. The song uses the never used Lydian Mode in a rock context.

tf: I'm think it was right but Chelsea's vote came after I tabulated the first vote but I decided to count it since there were about 7 or 8 6 point songs and I didn't want to turn away anybody's vote since I'm not getting many. So things might have been screwed up but I thought I had it worked out right... If that was the case it'll probably resolve itself on Monday.

5 pt: Only a Northern Song
5 pts: You Like Me Too Much
Considering how many subpar tracks George wrote (sorry, but it's true), it's amazing that ALL THINGS MUST PASS turned out to be 2/3 of a masterpiece. He definitely improved with time as a writer.
4 pts: Little Child
4 pts: Good Night
3 pts: Please Mister Postman
3 pts: Slow Down
2 pts: Thank You Girl
2 pts: I Me Mine
1 pt: Hold Me Tight
1 pt: I Wanna Be Your Man

5 PTS. ROCKY RACCOON
5 PTS. LADY MADONNA
4 PTS. MICHELLE
4 PTS. THINGS WE SAID TODAY
3 PTS. OB-LA-DI, OB-LA-DA
3 PTS. ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
2 PTS. YELLOW SUBMARINE
2 PTS. DON'T BOTHER ME
1 PT. LITTLE CHILD
1 PT. I'M DOWN

Can anyone explain why "Rocky Raccoon" is still hanging around?

5 pts Please Mister Postman
5 pts Only A Northern Song
4 pts Good Night
4 pts I Don't Want to Spoil The Party
3 pts Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill, The
3 pts Ask me Why
2 pts Do You Want To Know A Secret
2 pts All Together Now
1 pt Hey Bulldog
1 pt There's A Place

Anthony: I don't know, I always kinda liked "Rocky Raccoon". Sure it's silly, and unfortunately too much of Macca's solo work takes it cues from "RR" rather than, say, "Helter Skelter", but in the context of the White Album it goes down painlessly enough.

Side note: "Ray", one of the best songs on Aimee Mann's criminally unranked I'M WITH STUPID, has an instrumental arrangement that in its particulars (acoustic guitar, tack piano, harmonium) is SO identical to "Rocky Raccoon" that it's clearly intentional, given producer Jon Brion's well-known Beatles fixation (he even credits himself as Jon "Ringo" Brion for the song's drum track in the liner notes).

"Anthony: I don't know, I always kinda liked "Rocky Raccoon". Sure it's silly, and unfortunately too much of Macca's solo work takes it cues from "RR" rather than, say, "Helter Skelter", but in the context of the White Album it goes down painlessly enough."

Me too although I like that Paul's solo work followed the Rocky blueprint rather than Helter Skelter. The last thing we needed in the 70's was another arena rock band. His albums definitely need to grow on you but once you get past that they aren't Beatles albums they end up being pretty great.

Next cut up in 15 minutes or so.