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It’s officially becoming difficult:
5 points- Rain- 1st backwards guitar or not, it really isn’t all that great a song.
5 points- I Want You (She’s So Heavy)- Sounds good as part of the medley, OK on its own. As Penguin says, it overstays its welcome.
4 points- If I Needed Someone- A charming ditty, but in the end ONLY a ditty.
4 points- All My Loving- See above. I’m surprised this one’s hung in there so long.
3 points- Happiness is a Warm Gun- The variety within it improves it but I still feel this is one of the weaker cuts on the WHITE ALBUM.
3 points- Carry That Weight- Stronger than “I Want You” but again it’s better in the medley than all by itself.
2 points- I Will- Nice understated Paul ballad but it’s not as good as what’s left.
2 points- For No One- Painful to have to vote for this but it’s a bit on the precious side.
1 point- Don’t Let Me Down- One of the better “non-hit” cuts from LET IT BE but the album as a whole is a weaker effort from the Fabs.
1 point- This was the hardest one to choose (from among "You Won't See Me","Nowhere Man" and "The End") but I ended up going with "The End" (no pun intended). Same reason as for "I Want You" and "Carry That Weight"..sounds better in its surroudings than it does "naked".
I'm really not looking forward to making NEXT week's decisions! 
My list is looking like a tracklist for a McCartney tribute show! So it confirms what I'd said in that discussion raised by Anthony about how many songs by each beatle there were in our top 10: John and George are by far my favorites in the band.
5: For No One
5: All My Loving
4: In My Life
4: I Feel Fine
3: Golden Slumbers
3: Yesterday
2: I Will
New Votes:
2: Eleanor Rigby: Surely a good song, but the melody of the verses doesn't catch me. Anyway, I hadn't still voted for it cause sounds perfect after Taxman, and makes I'm Only Sleeping sound delicious.
1: You Never Give Me Your Money: For some time it had been my favorite Abbey Road track, but, every time I listen to it nowadays, the infectious feeling that it used to create is little by little replaced by indifference. This song is a whole medley itself, and, surely, if its parts had been given different names each one instead of being united as parts of a unique song, almost all of them would already be out of this game currently. Anyway, until today it's a song I really like, but think this can slowly change.
1: Tomorrow Never Knows: Can't imagine Revolver without this. I'm sure all the impression of density, diversity and every other aspect that shocked me in my first contacts with the album is due in major part to this song. But, despite of its role in the album, in the Beatles career, and in all pop music (well, that's too much to simply ignore,
), what can we see? I mean, imagine there had already been composed other songs with the same style and the same innovations before. Would everybody love this as we always see? Making the same reflection about Strawberry Fields or even A Day in the Life, I conclude they still would be considered Beatles' greatests, cause there's more substance in them than only innovation and mood creation. But, about the track in discussion, it probably would only be a very nice song.