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Posted by: Jingle Jules 25th December 2023, 12:18 PM

Merry Christmas all! I was going to wait until New Year to post this but I had a bit of time today so I thought why not make it my Christmas pressie to Buzzjack.

I wasn’t sure which songs to include but in the end I’ve decided to keep it fairly simple and just include the blue and red album track lists plus their 3 Top 10 hits from the 1990s. I thought about adding their 22 most Spotify streamed others to bring it up to 100 but I think we’ve got enough.

I’m leaving out the “Movie Medley” and their covers of “Ain’t She Sweet” and “ My Bonnie” which don’t feel like they bring anything much anyway, and the other tracks from the “Magical Mystery Tour EP” which are good but don’t feel especially notable in the canon.

I’ll set a deadline of Wednesday 31 January 2024 at 23:59.

Please vote for your favourite 50 of the 78 tracks, giving +50 to your favourite, +49 to your second favourite and so on down to +1 for your 50th favourite. Please endeavour to listen to any songs you don’t know, and to that end there will be a listen-through from 16:00 on Sunday 14 January. There is around 4 hours of material but feel free to only join for part - the order will be as below.

I’m not going to make any distinction between the 2023 re-mastered versions of the songs and the originals - feel free to score up any where you think the edits have improved them or not as you see fit.

Happy Beatling!

The tracks

(1962-1966 Disc 1)
1. Love Me Do
2. Please Please Me
3. I Saw Her Standing There
4. Twist And Shout
5. From Me To You
6. She Loves You
7. I Want To Hold Your Hand
8. This Boy
9. All My Loving
10. Roll Over Beethoven
11. You Really Got A Hold On Me
12. Can’t Buy Me Love
13. You Can’t Do That
14. A Hard Day’s Night
15. And I Love Her
16. Eight Days A Week
17. I Feel Fine
18. Ticket To Ride
19. Yesterday

(1962-1966 Disc 2)
20. Help!
21. You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away
22. We Can Work It Out
23. Day Tripper
24. Drive My Car
25. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
26. Nowhere Man
27. Michelle
28. In My Life
29. If I Needed Someone
30. Girl
31. Paperback Writer
32. Eleanor Rigby
33. Yellow Submarine
34. Taxman
35. Got To Get You Into My Life
36. I’m Only Sleeping
37. Here, There And Everywhere
38. Tomorrow Never Knows

(1967-1970 Disc 1)
39. Strawberry Fields Forever
40. Penny Lane
41. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
42. With A Little Help From My Friends
43. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
44. Within You Without You
45. A Day In The Life
46. All You Need Is Love
47. I Am The Walrus
48. Hello, Goodbye
49. The Fool On The Hill
50. Magical Mystery Tour
51. Lady Madonna
52. Hey Jude
53. Revolution

(1967-1970 Disc 2)
54. Back In The U.S.S.R.
55. Dear Prudence
56. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
57. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
58. Glass Onion
59. Blackbird
60. Hey Bulldog
61. Get Back
62. Don’t Let Me Down
63. The Ballad of John and Yoko
64. Old Brown Shoe
65. Here Comes The Sun
66. Come Together
67. Something
68. Octopus’s Garden
69. Oh! Darling
70. I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
71. Let It Be
72. Across The Universe
73. I Me Mine
74. The Long And Winding Road
75. Now And Then

90s Top 10 hits:
76. Baby It’s You
77. Free As A Bird
78. Real Love

Spotify playlist

Posted by: Christmasteve201 25th December 2023, 10:21 PM

Looking forward to doing this - Now and Then not allowed!?

Posted by: Michael Bubré 25th December 2023, 10:24 PM

It is on the list

Posted by: Rockin Roba 25th December 2023, 11:52 PM

Should be good!

Posted by: Popchartfreak 26th December 2023, 10:59 AM

I think I will need to play all of these! (Except the covers, bar Twist & Shout, and Old Brown Shoe, Octopus' garden, Glass Onion, I Me Mine which have no chance of making my 50). Oddly, my fave version of While My Guitar Gently Weeps is the "Love" Album revamp of an earlier non-Clapton version.

Posted by: Christmasteve201 26th December 2023, 11:31 AM

QUOTE(Michael Bubré @ Dec 25 2023, 10:24 PM)

It is on the list

Posted by: Jade 26th December 2023, 11:36 AM

their discography is pretty embedded in my brain by this point so I'll aim to rate sooner rather than later. Intrigued to see how the forum's taste pans out!

Posted by: Popchartfreak 31st December 2023, 03:29 PM

OK I played the entire Red & Blue albums and the extras, and tried to eliminate nostalgia and rate them according to what I'm listening to - not entirely easy to do that, and mood at any given time will affect how I feel about any given record - that's always been the case - so this is just a snapshot of the remixes really. F'rinstance, some come out of it really well, and some sound worse than the original mono single release (Hi Love Me Do, this really did you no favours at all). Of course in 6 months time the order will be different, music is fluid and up and down according to your life.

In reverse order:

78. Old Brown Shoe
77. I Want You
76. Roll Over Beethoven
75. You Really Got A Hold On Me
74. Baby It's You
73. I Saw Her Standing There
72. Glass Onion
71. Drive My Car

70. Don't Let Me Down
69. Taxman
68. You Can't Do That
67. Come Together (yes, I know...meh, over-rated )
66. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
65. Octopus' Garden
64. I Me Mine
63. Love Me Do
62. Please Please Me
61. Blackbird (yes I know...etc.)

60. From Me To You
59. With A Little Help From My Friends
58. This Boy
57. In My Life
56. If I Needed Someone
55. Oh! Darling
54. Within You Without You
53. Hey Bulldog
52. Dear Prudence
51. Girl

And that's the non-pointers, but some of the above are in my current chart having never charted before, so it's not as if I don't like them! Just not quite as much...

50. Paperback Writer
49. A Day In The Life
48. And I Love Her
47. I'm Only Sleeping
46. She Loves You
45. Get Back
44. Eight Days A Week
43. All My Loving
42. Day Tripper
41. I Want To Hold Your Hand

40. Yellow Submarine
39. Here There And Everywhere
38. Real Love
37. Something
36. Can't Buy Me Love
35. Ob La Di Ob La Da
34. Lady Madonna
33. Here Comes The Sun (yes I know...etc)
32. A Hard Day's Night
31. While My Guitar Gently Weeps

30. I Feel Fine
29. Free As A Bird
28. Revolution
27. Twist & Shout
26. Michelle
25. We Can Work It Out
24. Across The Universe
23. Ticket To Ride
22. Norwegian Wood
21. Yesterday

20. Back In The USSR
19. Nowhere Man
18. Now And Then
17. Got To Get You Into My Life
16. Ballad Of John & Yoko
15. Help!
14. You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
13. Strawberry Fields Forever
12. Tomorrow Never Knows
11. Magical Mystery Tour

10. I Am The Walrus
9. Let It Be
8. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
7. All You Need Is Love
6. The Long & Winding Road
5. Penny Lane
4. Hello Goodbye
3. The Fool On The Hill
2. Hey Jude
1. Eleanor Rigby

Note Paul grabs the top 6, his tunes hit the spot better to give them the edge at the top end, but John's are mostly more interesting and raw, so he dominates from 7 to 19 for the most part. The 3 post-Beatles tracks all did better than I expected.

Missing, total faves like When I'm 64, I Need You, I Should Have Known Better, Rain, Two Of Us, No reply, She's Leaving Home, Golden Slumbers, Because, Good Night, my picks among many other songs that should have been on the Red & Blue albums instead of the filler listed here 68 to 78. Others, of course, will have different views

Posted by: Jingle Jules 4th January 2024, 10:03 PM

Apologies - due to now being busy this weekend I’ve decided to move the listening session for this one week back to Sunday 14 January at 4pm. The deadline will now be the end of the month, so Wednesday 31 January.

Posted by: Severin 4th January 2024, 11:25 PM

Following in the reverse order theme...


Worst
50. And I Love Her
49. Hello Goodbye
48. Tomorrow Never Knows
47. Blackbird
46. Get Back
45. Don't Let Me Down
44. We Can Work It Out
43. Eight Days A Week
42. Yesterday
41. Let It Be

40. Roll Over Beethoven
39. Yellow Submarine
38. All My Loving
37. In My Life
36. Drive My Car
35. Ob La Di Ob La Da
34. You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
33. From Me To You
32. With A Little Help From My Friends
31. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

30. Love Me Do
29. Come Together
28. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
27. Lady Madonna
26. Nowhere Man
25. Paperback Writer
24. Can't Buy Me Love
23. Day Tripper
22. I Am The Walrus
21. Please Please Me

20. Twist & Shout
19. Penny Lane
18. All You Need Is Love
17. Eleanor Rigby
16. Help!
15. I Feel Fine
14. I Want To Hold Your Hand
13. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
12. Here Comes The Sun
11. Revolution

10. Back In The USSR
9. Strawberry Fields Forever
8. A Hard Day's Night
7. She Loves You
6. I Saw Her Standing There
5. Hey Jude
4. Ticket To Ride
3. Ballad Of John & Yoko
2. Norwegian Wood
1. A Day In The Life
Best

Posted by: Jade 4th January 2024, 11:42 PM

+50 Here Comes The Sun
+49 Tomorrow Never Knows
+48 Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
+47 Eleanor Rigby
+46 I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
+45 Strawberry Fields Forever
+44 Something
+43 A Day In The Life
+42 Hey Jude
+41 Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

+40 Across The Universe
+39 You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away
+38 I Am The Walrus
+37 While My Guitar Gently Weeps
+36 Ticket To Ride
+35 Come Together
+34 Revolution
+33 Yesterday
+32 Day Tripper
+31 Within You Without You

+30 In My Life
+29 I’m Only Sleeping
+28 Paperback Writer
+27 Penny Lane
+26 Hello, Goodbye
+25 Help!
+24 Taxman
+23 Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
+22 Girl
+21 With A Little Help From My Friends

+20 I Me Mine
+19 Hey Bulldog
+18 Blackbird
+17 The Fool On The Hill
+16 A Hard Day’s Night
+15 I Saw Her Standing There
+14 Here, There And Everywhere
+13 I Feel Fine
+12 We Can Work It Out
+11 You Can’t Do That

+10 And I Love Her
+09 Back In The U.S.S.R.
+08 Dear Prudence
+07 Free As A Bird
+06 Love Me Do
+05 Let It Be
+04 Can’t Buy Me Love
+03 Glass Onion
+02 Magical Mystery Tour
+01 Yellow Submarine

top 5 that aren't on these compilations: Rain, Love You To, Happiness Is A Warm Gun, And Your Bird Can Sing + She's Leaving Home

Posted by: Jingle Jules 5th January 2024, 08:13 AM

Regarding the listening session, let me know if you think it would be better as 2x2 hours instead of all in 1.

Posted by: JulianT 13th January 2024, 05:40 PM

Listen-through from 16:00 tomorrow!

Posted by: JulianT 14th January 2024, 03:44 PM

Kicking off at 16:00 here (yes I know the room description's wrong )

https://sync-tube.de/room/nfksRy1I

Posted by: Chez Wombat 14th January 2024, 08:33 PM

Was impossible separating my top 2, but I think Eleanor Rigby's crushing sadness just gets me every time </3

50; Eleanor Rigby
49; Tomorrow Never Knows
48; Strawberry Fields Forever
47; Yesterday
46; Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
45; I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
44; Something
43; A Day In The Life
42; Let It Be
41; Here Comes The Sun
40; Ticket To Ride
39; While My Guitar Gently Weeps
38; Come Together
37; Across The Universe
36; Within You Without You (My favourite song I didn't already know <3)
35; We Can Work It Out
34; Day Tripper
33; Hey Jude
32; In My Life
31; I Am The Walrus
30; The Fool On The Hill
29; I Want To Hold Your Hand
28; Help!
27; Hello, Goodbye
26; I’m Only Sleeping
25; I Feel Fine
24; Hey Bulldog
23; Yellow Submarine
22; Oh! Darling
21; Blackbird
20; Octopus’s Garden
19; Dear Prudence
18; Back In The U.S.S.R.
17; Paperback Writer
16; Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
15; The Long And Winding Road
14; Penny Lane
13; All You Need Is Love
12; Revolution
11; I Saw Her Standing There
10; Taxman
09; Now And Then
08; With A Little Help From My Friends
07; A Hard Day’s Night
06; Lady Madonna
05; Magical Mystery Tour
04; Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
03; Nowhere Man
02; Here, There And Everywhere
01; And I Love Her

Think there was only 5 that I couldn't say I really liked much, quite the beast to rank x

Posted by: ...ready for it 14th January 2024, 11:51 PM

+50 Hey Bulldog
+49 Help!
+48 Eight Days A Week
+47 Let It Be
+46 In My Life
+45 A Hard Day's Night
+44 Can't Buy Me Love
+43 I Want to Hold Your Hand
+42 Ticket to Ride
+41 Day Tripper
+40 Please Please Me
+39 Yellow Submarine
+38 Twist and Shout
+37 I Feel Fine
+36 I Saw Her Standing There
+35 She Loves You
+34 Paperback Writer
+33 If I Needed Someone
+32 All My Loving
+31 From Me to You
+30 Love Me Do
+29 You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
+28 You Can't Do That
+27 Taxman
+26 Lady Madonna
+25 Get Back
+24 Hey Jude
+23 And I Love Her
+22 Yesterday
+21 We Can Work It Out
+20 Drive My Car
+19 Come Together
+18 Penny Lane
+17 Now and Then
+16 Eleanor Rigby
+15 All You Need Is Love
+14 Don't Let Me Down
+13 The Fool On the Hill
+12 Strawberry Fields Forever
+11 Nowhere Man
+10 I Am the Walrus
+09 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
+08 Magical Mystery Tour
+07 Michelle
+06 Oh! Darling
+05 Across the Universe
+04 Old Brown Shoe
+03 Something
+02 Octopus's Garden
+01 Here Comes The Sun

Posted by: jimwatts 20th January 2024, 05:00 PM

+50 Eleanor Rigby
+49 A Day In The Life
+48 Hey Jude
+47 I’m Only Sleeping
+46 All My Loving
+45 She Loves You
+44 Girl
+43 Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
+42 Strawberry Fields Forever
+41 Yesterday
+40 In My Life
+39 Let It Be
+38 Taxman
+37 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
+36 I Saw Her Standing There
+35 Octopus’s Garden
+34 Back In The U.S.S.R.
+33 Twist And Shout
+32 Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
+31 Tomorrow Never Knows
+30 Revolution
+29 From Me To You
+28 Come Together
+27 Something
+26 I Want To Hold Your Hand
+25 Nowhere Man
+24 You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away
+23 I Am The Walrus
+22 Paperback Writer
+21 Here Comes The Sun
+20 Now And Then
+19 We Can Work It Out
+18 While My Guitar Gently Weeps
+17 Drive My Car
+16 Here, There And Everywhere
+15 Yellow Submarine
+14 Penny Lane
+13 All You Need Is Love
+12 Please Please Me
+11 Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
+10 With A Little Help From My Friends
+9 Ticket To Ride
+8 Oh! Darling
+7 Lady Madonna
+6 Real Love
+5 I Feel Fine
+4 The Fool On The Hill
+3 Across The Universe
+2 I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
+1 Help!

[honorary +51 And Your Bird Can Sing]

Posted by: Danuary 21st January 2024, 12:40 PM

+50 / 45. A Day In The Life
49 / 65. Here Comes The Sun
48 / 32. Eleanor Rigby
47 / 62. Don’t Let Me Down
46 / 39. Strawberry Fields Forever
45 / 38. Tomorrow Never Knows
44 / 66. Come Together
43 / 18. Ticket To Ride
42 / 4. Twist And Shout
41 / 15. And I Love Her
40 / 25. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
39 / 56. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
38 / 67. Something
37 / 61. Get Back
36 / 20. Help!
35 / 43. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
34 / 28. In My Life
33 / 70. I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
32 / 71. Let It Be
31 / 19. Yesterday
30 / 22. We Can Work It Out
29 / 23. Day Tripper
28 / 40. Penny Lane
27 / 72. Across The Universe
26 / 75. Now And Then
25 / 59. Blackbird
24 / 51. Lady Madonna
23 / 78. Real Love
22 / 14. A Hard Day’s Night
21 / 17. I Feel Fine
20 / 53. Revolution
19 / 34. Taxman
18 / 47. I Am The Walrus
17 / 63. The Ballad of John and Yoko
16 / 48. Hello, Goodbye
15 / 52. Hey Jude
14 / 2. Please Please Me
13 / 74. The Long And Winding Road
12 / 9. All My Loving
11 / 54. Back In The U.S.S.R.
10 / 21. You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away
9 / 1. Love Me Do
8 / 31. Paperback Writer
7 / 12. Can’t Buy Me Love
6 / 77. Free As A Bird
5 / 27. Michelle
4 / 37. Here, There And Everywhere
3 / 3. I Saw Her Standing There
2 / 6. She Loves You
1 / 49. The Fool On The Hill

Posted by: Bjork 21st January 2024, 05:00 PM

50 Yesterday
49 Strawberry fields
48 Penny Lane
47 Help
46 Michelle
45 Hey Jude
44 Let it be
43 All you need is love
42 Eleanor Rigby
41 Here comes the sun
40 All my Loving
39 I Wanna Hold your hand
38 Come together
37 With a little help
36 Revolution
35 The Long and winding
34 Tomorrow never knows
33 Girl
32 Something
31 Sgt Pepper
30 Ticket to ride
29 Can’t buy me love
28 Nowhere Man
27 Dear Prudence
26 A hard day’s night
25 I saw her standing there
24 From me to you
23 Twist and shout
22 Love me do
21 In my life
20 She loves you
19 Here there
18 While my guitar
17 Across the universe
16 Back USSR
15 Hello Goodbye
14 Get back
13 Drive my car
12 We can work it out
11 Day tripper
10 The ballad of John & Yoko
9 I Feel Fine
8 Norwegian Wood
7 Blackbird
6 Please please me
5 Real Love
4 8 days a week
3 And I Love her
2 Yellow submarine
1 Free as a bird

Posted by: JulianT 24th January 2024, 08:37 PM

Thanks to the 8 participants so far! I’m hoping to get a fair few more.

Posted by: King Rollo 26th January 2024, 03:46 PM

50 pts A Day In The Life
49 The Long And Winding Road
48 The Fool On The Hill
47 Across The Universe
46 Eleanor Rigby
45 Yesterday
44 I Am The Walrus
43 Strawberry Fields Forever
42 I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
41 Here, There And Everywhere
40 Penny Lane
39 Hey Jude
38 Hello, Goodbye
37 Tomorrow Never Knows
36 Lady Madonna
35 Here Comes The Sun
34 Let It Be
33 In My Life
32 Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
31 Nowhere Man
30 Blackbird
29 I'm Only Sleeping
28 Ticket To Ride
27 Free As A Bird
26 Within You Without You
25 All My Loving
24 We Can Work It Out
23 While My Guitar Gently Weeps
22 Something
21 A Hard Day's Night
20 Day Tripper
19 All You Need Is Love
18 Real Love
17 Now And Then
16 Come Together
15 I Want To Hold Your Hand
14 She Loves You
13 Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
12 And I Love Her
11 Paperback Writer
10 Taxman
9 I Saw Her Standing There
8 Yellow Submarine
7 Magical Mystery Tour
6 Help!
5 This Boy
4 You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away
3 Please Please Me
2 Michelle
1 Hey Bulldog

Posted by: Steve201 31st January 2024, 10:57 PM

50 Yesterday
49 Let it be
48 Twist and Shout
47 Come Together
46 Eleanor Rigby
45 Here Comes the Sun
44 While My Guitar Gently Wheeps
43 Help!
42 Yellow Submarine
41 All You Need Is Love
40 Norwegian Wood

39 She Love You
38 A Hard Days Night
37 Strawberry Fields Forever
36 Hey Jude
35 Tomorrow Never Knows
34 Now and Then
33 Ticket To Ride.
32 Real Love
31 Free As A Bird
30 I Want to Hold Your Hand

29 Paper back Writer
28 Penny Lane
27 Back in the USSR
26 Dear Prudence
25 Please Please Me
24 Magical Mystery Tour
23 Taxman
22 Day Tripper
21 We Can Work It Out

20 Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
19 Hello Goodbye
18 Lady Madonna
17 The Long and Winding Road
16 The Ballad of John & Yoko
15 I am a Walrus
14 Love Me Do
13 With a little help from my friends
12 Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
11 Hello Goodbye

10 Get Back
9 Octopuses Garden
8 Please Please Me
7 I Saw Her Standing there
6 Can’t Buy me Love
5 Roll Over Beethoven
4 8 Days a Week
3 Drive My Car
2 Got to get you into my life
1 Nowhere Man

Posted by: JulianT 31st January 2024, 11:00 PM

Thanks to the 10 participants so far - I know a few others who will want to vote (and I haven’t done my own yet oops) so I will be extending this and sending some chasers!

Posted by: Brer 31st January 2024, 11:31 PM

Ooops I totally forgot about this and definitely do not have the energy to do it right now so thanks for extending again

Posted by: Roba. 1st February 2024, 01:23 AM

Same for me haha although I have heard 15 of these already. Thanks for the extension Julian. Gives a bit more time now

Posted by: Popchartfreak 5th February 2024, 10:06 AM

sat through someone's Top 217 Beatles songs rundown on Youtube last night. Ooh, no, just no. Wrong order

Posted by: ben08 5th February 2024, 03:14 PM

50 Hey Jude
49 Let it be
48 I Want to hold your hand
47 Twist and shout
46 I saw her standing there
45 Help!
44 Yesterday
43 Here comes the sun
42 Eleanor Rigby
41 All you need is love

40 All my Loving
39 Penny Lane
38 In my life
37 Please please me
36 A hard day’s night
35 Strawberry fields forever
34 From me to you
33 She loves you
32 With a little help from my friends
31 Sgt Pepper

30 Nowhere man
29 Can’t buy me love
28 Back in the USSR
27 The long and winding road
26 Now and then
25 Get back
24 Come together
23 Something
22 Love me do
21 Michelle

20 Ticket to ride
19 Here there and everywhere
18 While my guitar gently weeps
17 And I love her
16 We can work it out
15 Hello Goodbye
14 Blackbird
13 Drive my car
12 I feel fine
11 Day tripper

10 Yellow submarine
9 Eight days a week
8 Norwegian wood
7 Across the universe
6 Octopus’s Garden
5 Real love
4 This boy
3 Magical Mystery Tour
2 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
1 The ballad of John & Yoko


EDIT: changed some of my selections.

Posted by: gooddelta 6th February 2024, 04:16 PM

Been ruminating on this for a while, but come up with an order I'm largely happy with.

+50 Something
+49 Help!
+48 Let It Be
+47 Real Love
+46 Yesterday
+45 Tomorrow Never Knows
+44 Here Comes The Sun
+43 Eleanor Rigby
+42 Strawberry Fields Forever
+41 Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
+40 The Long And Winding Road
+39 Blackbird
+38 With A Little Help From My Friends
+37 A Hard Day’s Night
+36 Now And Then
+35 Yellow Submarine
+34 Penny Lane
+33 Love Me Do
+32 Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
+31 All You Need Is Love
+30 Come Together
+29 I Want To Hold Your Hand
+28 Can’t Buy Me Love
+27 She Loves You
+26 Hey Jude
+25 Ticket To Ride
+24 Twist And Shout
+23 Paperback Writer
+22 Free As A Bird
+21 I Feel Fine
+20 Get Back
+19 Hello, Goodbye
+18 A Day In The Life
+17 In My Life
+16 Octopus’s Garden
+15 Day Tripper
+14 We Can Work It Out
+13 While My Guitar Gently Weeps
+12 Magical Mystery Tour
+11 From Me To You
+10 Across The Universe
+9 I Am The Walrus
+8 Back In The U.S.S.R.
+7 Lady Madonna
+6 The Ballad of John and Yoko
+5 Please Please Me
+4 Oh! Darling
+3 Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
+2 I Saw Her Standing There
+1 Taxman

The top 15 especially <3 Every one is brilliant.

Posted by: Brer 11th February 2024, 12:46 AM

Just acknowledging that I've not forgotten about this again, I am just being last minute as per usual, will get it done tomorrow x

Posted by: JulianT 11th February 2024, 09:23 AM

Well there’s really no rush with this one - I’ll probably extend once more and give a few people a nudge

Posted by: Roba. 15th February 2024, 11:56 PM

50. Help!
49. Hey Jude
48. Here Comes The Sun
47. Let It Be
46. Eleanor Rigby
45. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
44. Twist And Shout
43. Yesterday
42. Paperback Writer
41. Something
40. Ticket To Ride
39. She Loves You
38. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
37. In My Life
36. Tomorrow Never Knows
35. Can't Buy Me Love
34. With A Little Help From My Friends
33. Come Together
32. A Day In The Life
31. Day Tripper
30. I Feel Fine
29. I Saw Her Standing There
28. A Hard Day’s Night
27. The Ballad of John and Yoko
26. Hello, Goodbye
25. All My Loving
24. Magical Mystery Tour
23. I Want To Hold Your Hand
22. All You Need Is Love
21. Love Me Do
20. Real Love
19. I’m Only Sleeping
18. Now And Then
17. We Can Work It Out
16. Please Please Me
15. Strawberry Fields Forever
14. Taxman
13. Glass Onion
12. Drive My Car
11. If I Needed Someone
10. Blackbird
09. Across The Universe
08. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
07. Lady Madonna
06. Penny Lane
05. Back In The U.S.S.R.
04. Yellow Submarine
03. Here, There And Everywhere
02. And I Love Her
01. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

(51. The Long And Winding Road)

Posted by: Dotty New Year 19th February 2024, 12:10 AM

+50 Strawberry Fields Forever
+49 Eleanor Rigby
+48 A Day In The Life
+47 Tomorrow Never Knows
+46 I Want You (She's So Heavy)
+45 Come Together
+44 While My Guitar Gently Weeps
+43 Something
+42 Hey Jude
+41 You've Got To Hide Your Love Away

+40 I Am The Walrus
+39 Revolution
+38 I'm Only Sleeping
+37 In My Life
+36 With A Little Help From My Friends
+35 Across The Universe
+34 Oh! Darling
+33 The Fool On The Hill
+32 Magical Mystery Tour
+31 Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

+30 Hello, Goodbye
+29 Day Tripper
+28 Back In The USSR
+27 Taxman
+26 Yesterday
+25 Penny Lane
+24 Paperback Writer
+23 Ticket To Ride
+22 Help
+21 We Can Work It Out

+20 Yellow Submarine
+19 Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
+18 Now And Then
+17 Michelle
+16 Eight Days A Week
+15 Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
+14 Lady Madonna
+13 Glass Onion
+12 Free As A Bird
+11 A Hard Day's Night

+10 Drive My Car
+9 Real Love
+8 The Long And Winding Road
+7 I Saw Her Standing There
+6 The Ballad Of John & Yoko
+5 She Loves You
+4 Blackbird
+3 Nowhere Man
+2 Twist And Shout
+1 All My Loving

Posted by: JulianT 19th February 2024, 12:15 AM

This will close at some point I promise - I’ve not wanted to rush people and have been pretty busy myself so haven’t wanted to rush into the results. Bray and I will make 16 voters which isn’t bad for a 60s band but I’d love to get a bit closer to 20!

Posted by: Brer 19th February 2024, 04:59 AM

Ahh I actually did forget about the new deadline this time so yay for yet another extension (I really need to not leave it to the last day oops)

Posted by: dandy* 20th February 2024, 06:40 PM

I'll try to do this as well Julian. I'm familiar with all the songs, just need to flick through them properly at some point to see which I rate the most now as it's been a while since I last listened to them and my favourites often change

Posted by: Roba. 12th March 2024, 04:40 PM

Kinda forgot this hasn't officially closed yet

Shall look forward to seeing the results eventually

Posted by: JulianT 12th March 2024, 04:48 PM

We have at least three straggler voters!

Of whom I am one.

Posted by: ben08 2nd April 2024, 12:15 PM

When will we get a result?

Posted by: Roba. 3rd April 2024, 10:35 AM

December

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 3rd April 2024, 10:57 AM

+50: Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
+49: Hey Jude
+48: Love Me Do
+47: Here Comes The Sun
+46: Paperback Writer
+45: Back In The U.S.S.R.
+44: Got To Get You Into My Life
+43: We Can Work It Out
+42: Don’t Let Me Down
+41: I Saw Her Standing There
+40: Real Love
+39: Yesterday
+38: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
+37: Blackbird
+36: Please Please Me
+35: Magical Mystery Tour
+34: Can’t Buy Me Love
+33: Now And Then
+32: Octopus’s Garden
+31: Eight Days A Week
+30: A Hard Day’s Night
+29: In My Life
+28: Drive My Car
+27: Penny Lane
+26: Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
+25: Twist And Shout
+24: She Loves You
+23: I Want To Hold Your Hand
+22: Across The Universe
+21: Ticket To Ride
+20: Lady Madonna
+19: Get Back
+18: Yellow Submarine
+17: With A Little Help From My Friends
+16: Strawberry Fields Forever
+15: All My Loving
+14: You Can’t Do That
+13: Day Tripper
+12: Free As A Bird
+11: Here There And Everywhere
+10: Roll Over Beethoven
+9: The Ballad of John and Yoko
+8: Baby It’s You
+7: Something
+6: I Am The Walrus
+5: Revolution
+4: Oh! Darling
+3: You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
+2: Tomorrow Never Knows
+1: I Feel Fine

Posted by: JulianT 3rd April 2024, 11:18 AM

Thanks Whoddy. Have just sent some final reminders so should be in a position to finally wind this up soon!

Posted by: dandy* 3rd April 2024, 08:04 PM

Thank you for being so patient waiting for me Julian!


50 A Day In The Life
49 Let It Be
48 Eleanor Rigby
47 Here Comes The Sun
46 Paperback Writer
45 Yesterday
44 And I Love Her
43 Got To Get You Into My Life
42 While My Guitar Gently Weeps
41 Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
40 We Can Work It Out
39 You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away
38 Lady Madonna
37 I Am The Walrus
36 Tomorrow Never Knows
35 Revolution
34 In My Life
33 Blackbird
32 Day Tripper
31 Here, There And Everywhere
30 I Me Mine
29 The Long And Winding Road
28 Hey Jude
27 Across The Universe
26 Get Back
25 Back In The U.S.S.R.
24 I Feel Fine
23 Come Together
22 All You Need Is Love
21 Strawberry Fields Forever
20 Something
19 The Fool On The Hill
18 Help!
17 Magical Mystery Tour
16 I Want To Hold Your Hand
15 A Hard Day’s Night
14 Dear Prudence
13 All My Loving
12 Don’t Let Me Down
11 Now And Then
10 I Saw Her Standing There
09 Within You Without You
08 Nowhere Man
07 Ticket To Ride
06 The Ballad of John and Yoko
05 Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
04 Penny Lane
03 Hello, Goodbye
02 Glass Onion
01 Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
________________________________________________________

From Me To You
I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
Octopus’s Garden
With A Little Help From My Friends
Michelle
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
Baby It’s You
Free As A Bird
Real Love
Taxman
She Loves You
Can’t Buy Me Love
Hey Bulldog
Girl
Eight Days A Week
I’m Only Sleeping
Yellow Submarine
If I Needed Someone
Drive My Car
Old Brown Shoe
Oh! Darling
You Can’t Do That
This Boy
You Really Got A Hold On Me
Roll Over Beethoven
Love Me Do
Twist And Shout
Please Please Me

Posted by: JulianT 4th April 2024, 12:44 PM

Thanks dandy*: I’m thinking to actually make this Sunday the final deadline, with results starting next week.

Posted by: JulianT 5th April 2024, 01:46 PM

50 A Day In The Life
49 In My Life
48 Across The Universe
47 Something
46 Eleanor Rigby
45 Here Comes The Sun
44 Strawberry Fields Forever
43 While My Guitar Gently Weeps
42 We Can Work It Out
41 Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
40 I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
39 Let It Be
38 Tomorrow Never Knows
37 I’m Only Sleeping
36 The Fool On The Hill
35 I Am The Walrus
34 And I Love Her
33 The Long And Winding Road
32 Within You Without You
31 Yesterday
30 Eight Days A Week
29 You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away
28 Hey Jude
27 Ticket To Ride
26 Help!
25 Blackbird
24 Nowhere Man
23 Penny Lane
22 Hello, Goodbye
21 All My Loving
20 Day Tripper
19 Paperback Writer
18 Come Together
17 Now And Then
16 Free As A Bird
15 A Hard Day’s Night
14 I Want To Hold Your Hand
13 Michelle
12 Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
11 Here, There And Everywhere
10 From Me To You
9 Octopus’s Garden
8 Get Back
7 Back In The U.S.S.R.
6 I Feel Fine
5 Taxman
4 I Saw Her Standing There
3 Girl
2 Real Love
1 Revolution

Posted by: JulianT 5th April 2024, 01:50 PM

Sorry again for checking out of this for a couple of months but I’m very much back and raring to go with the results!

I have added up the scores from the 17 voters so far.

I’ll give it until the end of the weekend. If anyone else wants to prod Bray to vote please do so as it would be a shame not to have his input.

Posted by: JulianT 7th April 2024, 06:01 AM

Last day! I guess if you haven’t voted in the last 3 months you probably won’t now but who knows?

Posted by: Brer 7th April 2024, 07:40 PM

QUOTE(JulianT @ Apr 7 2024, 07:01 AM)

Last day! I guess if you haven’t voted in the last 3 months you probably won’t now but who knows?

Posted by: Brer 7th April 2024, 07:56 PM

Apols for taking 84 years, just as well the #3s session was cancelled today so I spent that time relistening to the playlist again as it's been way too long since the SyncTube session for me to do this from memory oop x

I don't remember what I said about some of these songs during the listenthrough so who knows if my opinions have remained consistent since then

+50 Hey Jude
+49 Eleanor Rigby
+48 Come Together
+47 While My Guitar Gently Weeps
+46 I Want You (She's So Heavy)
+45 Here Comes The Sun
+44 Across The Universe
+43 Yesterday
+42 Paperback Writer
+41 Tomorrow Never Knows
+40 Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
+39 I Am The Walrus
+38 Blackbird
+37 Something
+36 A Day In The Life
+35 Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
+34 Hello, Goodbye
+33 Can't Buy Me Love
+32 Eight Days A Week
+31 A Hard Day's Night
+30 We Can Work It Out
+29 I'm Only Sleeping
+28 I Me Mine
+27 Penny Lane
+26 Oh! Darling
+25 Let It Be
+24 Within You Without You
+23 Octopus's Garden
+22 Don't Let Me Down
+21 The Long And Winding Road
+20 Real Love
+19 From Me To You
+18 And I Love Her
+17 I Feel Fine
+16 Ticket To Ride
+15 Now And Then
+14 Revolution
+13 All You Need Is Love
+12 Strawberry Fields Forever
+11 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
+10 She Loves You
+9 Help!
+8 Drive My Car
+7 Love Me Do
+6 Taxman
+5 Magical Mystery Tour
+4 I Saw Her Standing There
+3 You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
+2 Dear Prudence
+1 Hey Bulldog

Posted by: JulianT 7th April 2024, 08:02 PM

Yay really glad you found time

Posted by: JulianT 7th April 2024, 09:17 PM

Assuming no more voters that means we had 18 participants, and tomorrow we’ll find out which is the only song to have scored 0 across the board.

Posted by: JulianT 8th April 2024, 08:36 AM

78th: 0 points
You Really Got A Hold On Me



And so this really had a hold on precisely no-one. It was included on the 1963 album “With The Beatles”, and is a cover of a Smokey Robinson & The Miracles song from the year before.

Listening to the original and this side by side, John’s raspy vocals do add a bit of bite to the track but overall I think it works better as a soul song than as a rock ‘n’ roll song. That said, dead last with nul points feels a little harsh for it.

Posted by: JulianT 8th April 2024, 05:11 PM

77th: 4 points
Old Brown Shoe



Voter: …ready for it

This was written by George Harrison and he’s also the lead performer. It was released as the B side to “The Ballad Of John And Yoko” in 1969, and appears on various compilation albums but not on any of the main studio albums. George has received praise from music critics for his guitar solo on the track.

Although it didn’t make my votes and George’s other songs in the running here are much better, I do rather like the grittiness of it and I’d have quite liked it to finish a little higher.

Posted by: JulianT 8th April 2024, 05:55 PM

76th: 8 points
Baby It’s You



Voter: WhoOdyssey

01/04/1995 The Beatles Baby It's You {7}-9-27-41-57-73-71R(9)->7

A Burt Bacharach song, this was originally released by The Shirelles in 1961, and then was recorded by the Beatles and included on the “Please Please Me” album in 1963. Later it was included on the 1994 “Live At The BBC” album, and then released as a single in 1995.

I don’t hugely care for this cover, and in fact think the version by The Shirelles is more interesting.

Posted by: Brer 8th April 2024, 06:26 PM

'Baby It's You' was my guess for the song that'd be on 0, not far off!

Posted by: Roba. 8th April 2024, 06:59 PM

No losses in those three for me!

Posted by: JulianT 9th April 2024, 08:11 AM

75th: 9 points
This Boy



Voters:
King Rollo 5
ben8 4

Aww aren’t they cute in the video!

This wasn’t on any of the main UK albums but was released as the B side to “I Want To Hold Your Hand” in November 1963. Apparently John had a number of influences in writing this, including Smokey Robinson and
“To Know Him Is To Love Him” by the Teddy Bears. It’s a sweet one but probably doesn’t grab the listener like most of the other songs here.

Posted by: Popchartfreak 9th April 2024, 09:27 AM

awww at This Boy, obv just edged out of my points, but the B side was part of my chilldhood as dad bought I Want To Hold Your Hand and Can't Buy Me Love. Definitely deserved a bit higher....

The other 3 very much not faves, and the original versions of the covers are much better...

Posted by: JulianT 9th April 2024, 12:33 PM

74th: 28 points
Roll Over Beethoven



Voters:
Severin 11
WhoOdyssey 10
steve201 7

A 1956 Chuck Berry song that has been widely covered and was ranked one of the 100 greatest songs of all time by Rolling Stone magazine. This 1963 version was included on “With The Beatles”.

This seems another fairly inessential early Beatles cover to me, but the points are really ramping up from single figures now.

Posted by: Notorious D.O.T 9th April 2024, 01:52 PM

Nothing essential lost for me so far.

I do quite like their take on Roll Over Beethoven though.

Posted by: Severin 9th April 2024, 04:22 PM

They might be probably the greatest band in history but their version of Roll Over Beethoven is nothing compared to the original (even if it is damn good)

Posted by: JulianT 9th April 2024, 04:27 PM

QUOTE(Notorious D.O.T @ Apr 9 2024, 02:52 PM)

Posted by: JulianT 9th April 2024, 04:44 PM

73rd: 31 points
Glass Onion



Voters:
Roba. 13
Notorious D.O.T. 13
Jade 3
dandy* 2

A later track now here from the 1968 “White Album”. John’s playful nonsense lyrics here refer to various other Beatles songs. It was remixed for the 2006 “Love” album.

I think this suffers due to not really having a hook at all, but there’s plenty to enjoy in the performance and the instruments for fans of psychedelic rock. I particularly like the dazed sounding outro.

Posted by: Roba. 9th April 2024, 04:53 PM

'Glass Onion' was quite good for me. Had it at like 5 or 6 to start with then bumped up with another listen or so!

Posted by: Notorious D.O.T 9th April 2024, 06:53 PM

Aww that is indeed a bit of a shame to see Glass Onion out so early.

Funnily enough exactly like Roba I ended up appreciating it more while listening to compile a list for this.

Posted by: Brer 9th April 2024, 09:27 PM

'Glass Onion' is definitely the best song to be out so far (I do like all the callbacks to older songs x) but still not lost any of my votes yet.

'This Boy' was iirc my least favourite song on the whole list, not exactly bad but just very inessential, an odd choice to include on the compilation.

Posted by: Jade 9th April 2024, 09:34 PM

With The Beatles is my least favourite of their records so can't say I'm too upset about that album attracting the lone 0 pointer / further early casualties.

'Glass Onion' is the first of my votes to drop out then, albeit merely a 3 pointer. I love the bass, John's delivery, some of the callbacks to other work (especially the flute touch when referencing 'The Fool On The Hill') and the creepy outro.

Posted by: JulianT 10th April 2024, 07:44 AM

72nd: 44 points
If I Needed Someone



Voters:
…ready for it 33
Roba. 11

From “Rubber Soul” released in December 1965, this was written by George and considered to be his best song to date. You can hear the beginnings of his Indian influence in the guitar riff, which he would go on to take much further. It was written for Pattie Boyd who George married in 1966. A (not particularly good) cover by The Hollies reached #20 in early 1966.

This has lovely rich harmonies and it’s a very nice track to listen to, but I think the track’s inspiration would be used to greater effect later on.

Posted by: JulianT 10th April 2024, 12:40 PM

71st: 53 points
You Can’t Do That



Voters:
…ready for it 28
WhoOdyssey 14
Jade 11

A 1964 song included on “A Hard Day’s Night” and also the B side to “Can’t By Me Love”, this is one of several jealous themed songs that John wrote, another example being “Run For Your Life”.

I find the contrast between the jovial musical feel of the song and the menacing paranoid lyrics slightly disturbing, though that may be why some like it. The guitar riffs were written by George and the song has an interesting blues influenced style.

Posted by: Popchartfreak 10th April 2024, 02:20 PM

Still not lost any pointers though I do like If I Needed Someone. The Beatles version of Roll Over Beethoven doesn't stand up to ELO's hit version, which is my fave version even over Chuck's. And appropriately, given Jeff 90's guest Beatle, 80's George Harrison and Wilbury's etc.

Posted by: JulianT 10th April 2024, 05:10 PM

70th: 78 points
I Me Mine



Voters:
dandy* 30
Brer 28
Jade 20

This was the last song recorded before their break-up in April 1970, and included on “Let It Be”. It’s another George penned track which alternates between a waltz style verse and a hard rock style chorus. The lyrics about selfish egos might be thought to refer to the discord in the band at the time.

It’s certainly a very unusual and interesting track: I think I prefer the verse parts to the chorus parts myself. Clearly its fans really like it a lot as it received 3 large scores but nothing else.

Posted by: dandy* 10th April 2024, 08:09 PM

Whaaaattttttt?!!!! Not happy about that being so low

Posted by: Jade 10th April 2024, 08:18 PM

George Harrison supremacy.

'I Me Mine' really clicked with me after watching the Get Back documentary series a few years ago.

Also yes, I enjoy the contrasting chaos of 'You Can't Do That', cowbells and all.

Posted by: JulianT 11th April 2024, 07:56 AM

69th: 95 points
Hey Bulldog



Voters:
…ready for it 50
Chez Wombat 24
Jade 19
King Rollo 1
Brer 1

This was included on the 1969 “Yellow Submarine” film soundtrack album. Like “Lady Madonna” from around the same time, it’s one of only a few Beatles songs to be based on a piano riff. It was a relatively forgotten Beatles song for many years but has been reappraised more recently.

It feels very early to be losing somebody’s 50 pointer but there we go. It is a really strong riff and a fun song that perhaps lacks a memorable chorus.

Posted by: JulianT 11th April 2024, 12:07 PM

68th: 96 points
Dear Prudence



Voters:

Bjork 27
steve201 26
Chez Wombat 19
dandy* 14
Jade 8
Brer 2

Another “White Album” track, this was written in India and is about Prudence Farrow, the sister of actress Mia Farrow, who had become obsessed with meditation and reclusive. The lyrics ask her to get out and rediscover the beauty of nature.

6 voters for this but the last song to fall short of 3 figures. It’s a very nice bit of psychedelic rock - again I’m just not sure there’s enough bite to the actual song for it to stand out.

Posted by: Popchartfreak 11th April 2024, 12:27 PM

QUOTE(Jade @ Apr 10 2024, 09:18 PM)

Posted by: Popchartfreak 11th April 2024, 12:31 PM

Hey Bulldog is great, but just fell short of my points - though It did make my top 40 recently!

Dear Prudence is sweet, but I heard Siouxsie & The banshess' version first, bought it, topped my charts, so this was almost sounding like a demo for me when I first heard it. I idolise the Siouxsie version, but do rate the Lennon original - just not quite enough....

Posted by: Jade 11th April 2024, 12:49 PM

I came across the original 'Hey Prudence' first but also agree that the Siouxsie version betters it!

Love 'Hey Bulldog', what a riff indeed and the lyrics largely fit in the fun world of the accompanying movie. I find the "you can talk to meee" refrain memorable too.

Posted by: JulianT 11th April 2024, 02:00 PM

67th: 102 points
Girl



Voters:

jimwatts 44
Bjork 33
Jade 22
JulianT 3

A 1965 track from “Rubber Soul” with quite an unusual structure and a Mediterranean feel. I particularly enjoy the tortured sounding middle 8 section, the intake of breath after the word “girl” and the instrumental outro.

This is the first of my own votes to drop (now wishing I’d given it 11 to fit the pattern ). And a big 1st loss for Jim there. Poor Jade with 5 in a row dropping out though!

Posted by: jimwatts 11th April 2024, 09:56 PM

The first loss from my votes is perhaps not coincidentally the first from the original "Red" album - 'Old Brown Shoe' is the only loss from the original "Blue" album so far, but I always thought it bordered on the filler category. I got both albums for Christmas in 1997 - 'Girl' is a world away from some of the tracks before it with its structure, wistful guitar and lyrics about mortality.

Posted by: Chez Wombat 11th April 2024, 09:59 PM

Hey Bulldog and Dear Prudence are my favourites so far, I prefer Siouxsie's cover of the latter but this one's lovely too and the former has a great riff and I'd have had that a fair bit higher!

Posted by: Jade 11th April 2024, 10:00 PM

QUOTE(JulianT @ Apr 11 2024, 03:00 PM)

Poor Jade with 5 in a row dropping out though!

Posted by: Notorious D.O.T 11th April 2024, 10:37 PM

Girl was probably the closest to making my votes out of those that have dropped out recently.

Siouxsie's version of Dear Prudence is vastly superior to the original imo and it's not often you can say that about a Beatles cover.

Posted by: Severin 11th April 2024, 10:57 PM

Fully on board with the love of Siouxsie's take on Prudence, which is one of my favourite covers ever.

Posted by: JulianT 12th April 2024, 09:11 AM

66th: 104 points
Oh! Darling



Voters:

Notorious D.O.T. 34
Brer 26
Chez Wombat 22
jimwatts 8
…ready for it 6
gooddelta 4
WhoOdyssey 4

A song written and led vocally by Paul, included on “Abbey Road”. It was a single in some countries but not the UK or US. It has more of a bluesy New Orleans inspired feel to it than most Beatles songs.

Paul said he actually wanted the vocals on this to sound hoarse, and so he came into the studio every day for a week until his voice was tired. I think the end result works well - I like the contrast between his gruff style in the chorus and his smoother style in the verses.

Posted by: JulianT 12th April 2024, 12:09 PM

65th: 107 points
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da



Voters:

jimwatts 37
WhoOdyssey 26
popchartfreak 16
Severin 16
…ready for it 9
ben08 2
Roba. 1

Another “White Album” song, which was a chart topping single in some countries but not the UK or US. A cover by Scottish band (The) Marmalade reached #1 in the UK. The Paul penned track has a Jamaican ska flavour. John reportedly disliked it, and it has been dismissed as a rather lightweight Beatles song.

I loved this as a child and I still think it’s good fun although it didn’t make my votes.

Posted by: jimwatts 12th April 2024, 12:16 PM

Evidently some of you need to take ob-la-di-bla-da

Posted by: Bjork 12th April 2024, 01:04 PM

Dear Prudence is a big loss
Agree siouxsie did improve it but the original is still great

Posted by: JulianT 12th April 2024, 06:26 PM

64th: 125 points
Got To Get You Into My Life



Voters:

WhoOdyssey 44
dandy* 43
popchartfreak 34
steve201 4

Another Paul track here, from 1966 included on “Revolver”. It’s a homage to the Motown sound with horn accompaniment. A cover by Cliff Bennett And The Rebel Rousers reached #6 in the UK.

It’s certainly a very soulful song, and I like the contrast between the warm and lyrical verses and the agitated chorus. It had 3 very big fans here but very little else.

Posted by: Chez Wombat 12th April 2024, 06:51 PM

I quite like Oh Darling, even if not one of the best tracks on Abbey Road. Got a great doo-wop sound, Oblah-Dee Oblah-Dah isn't quite as bad as it's reputation suggests but definitely not an essential from them x

Posted by: Popchartfreak 12th April 2024, 07:32 PM

Ob la di a childhood fave and still fun. Got To Get You Into my life a resl loss though. A usa hit in 1976 while the uk opted for back in the ussr and the Motown vibes made it sound pretty cool even in the mid 70s

Posted by: Notorious D.O.T 12th April 2024, 10:55 PM

Oh! Darling is a big loss, a really stunning track.

The others less so.

Posted by: JulianT 13th April 2024, 11:54 AM

63rd: 136 points
Michelle



Voters:

Bjork 46
popchartfreak 25
ben08 21
Notorious D.O.T. 17
JulianT 13
…ready for it 7
DanG 5
King Rollo 2

Yet another Paul song here, although John helped with the middle 8. It was included on “Rubber Soul” in December 1965, and The Overlanders reached #1 in the UK with a cover in early 1966.

I was fascinated by the French lyrics as a child, and I still think it’s a lovely wistful ballad with bursts of emotion in the “I love you…” sections.

Posted by: dandy* 13th April 2024, 08:07 PM

NO WAY did Got To Get You Into My Life do so badly

Posted by: jimwatts 13th April 2024, 08:24 PM

QUOTE(dandy* @ Apr 13 2024, 09:07 PM)

NO WAY did Got To Get You Into My Life do so badly

Posted by: JulianT 13th April 2024, 08:37 PM

62nd: 141 points
Drive My Car



Voters:

WhoOdyssey 28
…ready for it 20
jimwatts 17
Severin 15
Bjork 13
ben08 13
Roba. 12
Notorious D.O.T. 10
Brer 8
steve201 5

Another predominantly Paul song from “Rubber Soul” here, included as the album’s opening track. On hearing the original lyrics Paul had written for the tune John dismissed them as “too soft” and they came up with the quirky car themed tale. The track combines a hard rock style vocal in the verses with an otherwise quite jazzy track.

This is the first song to receive votes from more than half the participants, but didn’t make anyone’s top 20.

Posted by: Bjork 14th April 2024, 06:52 AM

Michelle so low thought it was in the 10 most loved Beatles songs but alas...

Posted by: JulianT 14th April 2024, 10:24 AM

61st: 143 points
Don’t Let Me Down



Voters:

DanG 47
WhoOdyssey 42
Brer 22
…ready for it 14
dandy* 12
Severin 6

This was recorded in 1969 during the “Let It Be” sessions, but was left off the album and instead included as the B side to “Get Back”. Like the accompanying A side it features Billy Preston on keyboard. The lyrics are a direct plea from John to Yoko Ono.

The instrumental sections, which I think are the strongest feature of the track, are inspired by Fleetwood Mac’s “Albatross”. They certainly have a similar warm and luxurious feel to them.

Posted by: JulianT 14th April 2024, 10:34 AM

The state of play:

(1962-1966 Disc 1)
1. Love Me Do
2. Please Please Me
3. I Saw Her Standing There
4. Twist And Shout
5. From Me To You
6. She Loves You
7. I Want To Hold Your Hand
8. This Boy
9. All My Loving
10. Roll Over Beethoven
11. You Really Got A Hold On Me
12. Can’t Buy Me Love
13. You Can’t Do That
14. A Hard Day’s Night
15. And I Love Her
16. Eight Days A Week
17. I Feel Fine
18. Ticket To Ride
19. Yesterday

(1962-1966 Disc 2)
20. Help!
21. You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away
22. We Can Work It Out
23. Day Tripper
24. Drive My Car
25. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
26. Nowhere Man
27. Michelle
28. In My Life
29. If I Needed Someone
30. Girl
31. Paperback Writer
32. Eleanor Rigby
33. Yellow Submarine
34. Taxman
35. Got To Get You Into My Life
36. I’m Only Sleeping
37. Here, There And Everywhere
38. Tomorrow Never Knows

(1967-1970 Disc 1)
39. Strawberry Fields Forever
40. Penny Lane
41. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
42. With A Little Help From My Friends
43. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
44. Within You Without You
45. A Day In The Life
46. All You Need Is Love
47. I Am The Walrus
48. Hello, Goodbye
49. The Fool On The Hill
50. Magical Mystery Tour
51. Lady Madonna
52. Hey Jude
53. Revolution

(1967-1970 Disc 2)
54. Back In The U.S.S.R.
55. Dear Prudence
56. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
57. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
58. Glass Onion
59. Blackbird
60. Hey Bulldog
61. Get Back
62. Don’t Let Me Down
63. The Ballad of John and Yoko
64. Old Brown Shoe
65. Here Comes The Sun
66. Come Together
67. Something
68. Octopus’s Garden
69. Oh! Darling
70. I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
71. Let It Be
72. Across The Universe
73. I Me Mine
74. The Long And Winding Road
75. Now And Then

90s Top 10 hits:
76. Baby It’s You
77. Free As A Bird
78. Real Love

Blue album disc 1 intact

Posted by: danG 14th April 2024, 10:35 AM

don’t let me down being that low is ridiculous

probably would be fair bit higher if it were more well known as it has grown on me from being one of my piano teacher’s favourite songs to play at events

Posted by: JulianT 14th April 2024, 11:07 AM

And now the league table of whose taste is the most representative / generic and whose is the most out there :

Points left to give /1,275:

1 gooddelta 1,271
2 King Rollo 1,267
3 JulianT 1,259
4 Roba. 1,238
5 ben08 1,235
6 steve201 1,230
7 Severin 1,227
8 danG 1,223
9 Chez Wombat 1,210
10 Notorious D.O.T. 1,201

11 popchartfreak 1,200
12 Jade 1,192
13 Brer 1,188
14 dandy* 1,174
15 jimwatts 1,169
16 Bjork 1,156
17 …ready for it 1,114
18 WhoOdyssey 1,099

Posted by: gooddelta 14th April 2024, 11:38 AM

I’m usually right at the other end of the popular taste barometer in all of Gezza’s various rates so this is something of a surprise for me.

Posted by: JulianT 15th April 2024, 08:47 AM

60th: 153 points
Octopus’s Garden



Voters:

jimwatts 35
WhoOdyssey 32
Brer 23
Chez Wombat 20
gooddelta 16
steve201 10
JulianT 9
ben08 6
…ready for it 2

This is the only song in the rate that was written by Ringo, though there are a couple of others fronted by him. He only wrote 2 songs for The Beatles in total in fact, the other being “Don’t Pass Me By” from the “White Album”. This was included on “Abbey Road” and released as a single in a few countries.

Aww it may not be one of the greatest pieces of music we’ll be encountering here but I do think it’s such a sweet and joyous little number, delivered in Ringo’s slightly unrefined but endearing and carefree way.

Posted by: Popchartfreak 15th April 2024, 10:33 AM

Michelle a big tune in the 60's so a little surprising to see it so low, I guess the old-fashioned vibes don't appeal so much these days. Nostalgia certainly affects my judgement on it....

Posted by: jimwatts 15th April 2024, 12:31 PM

Well that takes me into the bottom 3 of the voters' chart just because they were such great innovators doesn't mean they couldn't produce some classics out of lighter subject matter too.

Posted by: Steve201 15th April 2024, 12:35 PM

'Octopuses Garden' is a classic for me - such a quirky song!

Posted by: JulianT 15th April 2024, 01:05 PM

59th: 156 points
Free As A Bird



16/12/1995 The Beatles Free As A Bird {2}-3-8-15-25-48-60-75->8

Voters:

steve201 31
King Rollo 27
popchartfreak 22
gooddelta 22
JulianT 16
Notorious D.O.T. 12
WhoOdyssey 12
Jade 7
danG 6
Bjork 1

This was originally recorded as a home demo by John in 1977, and in 1995 the other 3 got together to record a studio version and the track was co-produced by Jeff Lynne. It was done as part of the “Anthology” project, which included a documentary and a compilation album. The single reached #2 in the UK and #6 in the US.

This received points from 10 voters but mostly fairly low scores. There’s certainly a big difference in the quality of John’s vocals on the final track on this and “Now And Then”, reflecting the advances in technology over the intervening 28 years. Despite that I find it a very beautiful and wistful track.

Posted by: King Rollo 15th April 2024, 01:22 PM

QUOTE(gooddelta @ Apr 14 2024, 12:38 PM)

Posted by: Roba. 15th April 2024, 01:38 PM

'Don't Let Me Down' I believe was in my votes to begin with but must've got shoved out in the end. Would be like 51st-53rd at least for me.

'Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da' is a very silly sounding one but fun as well lol. 'Drive My Car' is fine too. Mostly associate it with Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway though lol!

Posted by: JulianT 15th April 2024, 09:05 PM

58th: 158 points
Within You Without You



Voters:

Chez Wombat 36
JulianT 32
Jade 31
King Rollo 26
Brer 24
dandy* 9

This was included on “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band”, and was the second song by George fully written in the Indian classical style after “Love You To” on “Revolver”. George recorded the song without the rest of the band using various traditional instruments including the sitar and the tabla. On the 2006 “Love” album of remixes this was mashed up quite successfully with John’s Indian inspired song “Tomorrow Never Knows”.

Despite some big supporters this only received points from 6 voters, and becomes the first song to exit from Disc 1 of the blue album.

Posted by: JulianT 15th April 2024, 09:11 PM

Tomorrow there’ll only be 2 results but they’ll both be UK #1 hits! Can you guess which ones?

Posted by: Jade 15th April 2024, 09:33 PM

'Within You Without You' is brilliant I was so pleased that it was a good discovery for others/already loved by some on SyncTube too. I'm a sucker for psychedelic George <3

I feel like 'Free As A Bird' has been on my mind more than ever recently with the 'Now And Then' release completing the intended 90s trilogy and it popping up on '90s TOTP repeats now too. The Jeff Lynne stamp is evident but I do really like it, even if the vocals aren't quite as clean as on their final release.

Posted by: Chez Wombat 15th April 2024, 10:03 PM

I'm guessing it'll be their last two number 1s coming up tomorrow, they are pretty weak links in that field, or maybe I'm forgetting something x

Within You Without You was one I didn't know previously, and was a really nice discovery with some great Eastern influences from George. Octopus's Garden is iconic as well, made even more wholesome by the fact it was written to help Ringo to escape hostilities going on in the group.

Posted by: Popchartfreak 16th April 2024, 09:35 AM

Free As A Bird I cant hear without seeing the video in my mind, which was a nostalgia fest. It was a gift nobody expected. The Love-mash-up of Within You/Tomorrow was a goodie, and to be honest the Love version of While My Guitar Gently Weeps is my favourite version. Should have been a single.

Posted by: JulianT 16th April 2024, 01:53 PM

57th: 175 points
From Me To You



Voters:

ben08 33
…ready for it 31
jimwatts 29
Bjork 24
Brer 19
Severin 18
gooddelta 11
JulianT 10

Chart run: 23-3-{1}-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-4-8-13-16-15-17-20-27-37-41-44->21

This was their first official UK #1 (although most of the charts published at the time that did not become the official one listed “Please Please Me” as a #1), but only reached #41 in the US. George Martin said that he asked them to bring them another song as good as “Please Please Me” and this is what they brought. The song didn’t appear on any of the original studio albums.

I’m surprised all the early singles have made it this far as they’re sometimes considered to be a bit cheesy and lightweight, but I think this shows that there is still quite a bit of love for them.

Posted by: dandy* 16th April 2024, 02:00 PM

Their early hits don’t really do it for me, I’m definitely a Blue > Red kinda guy.

Posted by: Severin 16th April 2024, 03:14 PM

The Blue era is easily far better than Red creatively but some of those early singles remain among the finest pure Pop songs ever written

Posted by: Popchartfreak 16th April 2024, 03:26 PM

I'm fond of From Me To You, reminds me of my childhood (of course it does! ) but I wouldnt say it was my favourite record at the time - that would have been the Fireball XL5 theme tune But prob enough to grab one week at the top of my hypothetical personal charts of 1963, but not enough to vote it into my top 50 Beatles tunes.

Posted by: JulianT 16th April 2024, 06:44 PM

56th: 181 points
The Ballad Of John And Yoko



Chart run: 4-{1}-1-1-3-3-11-15-22-27-37-38-47-50->14

Voters:

Severin 48
popchartfreak 35
Roba. 27
danG 17
steve201 16
Bjork 10
WhoOdyssey 9
gooddelta 6
Notorious D.O.T. 6
dandy* 6
ben08 1

Having had their 1st UK #1, we now have their last for 54 years. It was a non album single in 1969 and chronicles the events surrounding John and Yoko’s wedding. It was recorded by John and Paul without their other bandmates. The crucifixion reference led to it being banned by some radio stations.

The style of this is more like an old fashioned rock ‘n’ roll ballad from 10 years prior than a late 60s Beatles song, but if nothing else it’s interesting as an account of John’s troubles at the time.

Posted by: Roba. 16th April 2024, 09:24 PM

Enjoy 'The Ballad Of John and Yoko' a lot. Wouldn't have thought it was a #1 though until I looked it up!

Posted by: Steve201 16th April 2024, 10:10 PM

Love love love Free As A Bird!!

Posted by: Severin 16th April 2024, 10:40 PM

I'm always surprised Ballad of John & Yoko isn't more appreciated. Yeah, it's pretty straightforward but it hasn't been overthought and is also probably the last time Lennon & McCartney really got on well.

Posted by: JulianT 17th April 2024, 08:21 AM

55th: 183 points
Here, There And Everywhere



Voters:

King Rollo 41
dandy* 31
Bjork 19
ben08 19
jimwatts 16
Jade 14
popchartfreak 12
WhoOdyssey 11
JulianT 11
danG 4
Roba. 3
Chez Wombat 2

Paul said “God Only Knows” by The Beach Boys was an inspiration for this ballad included on “Revolver”. It’s a particularly atmospheric track with multi-tracking and layered backing vocals, and George’s strumming having been given an echo effect.

A record 12 votes for this, but it suffered from most of its scores being low. Art Garfunkel singled this out as his favourite ever pop song, describing it as “intoxicating” and music that “perfumes the atmosphere”.

Posted by: Popchartfreak 17th April 2024, 08:26 AM

Ballad Of John & Yoko is def under-rated, though I'm biased as I still recall it being fresh and new and daring and a quick unexpected release right after Get Back was huge, and just before Plastic Ono Band's peace anthem, so John & Yoko were culturally centre-stage at this point in the Summer of '69, with the Bed-In and all that. It would have seemed highly unlikely if anyone had said this would be their final number one for 54 years (we had no idea what was going on behind the scenes)....

Posted by: chartjack2 17th April 2024, 08:59 AM

And John’s last #1 in his lifetime….

Posted by: dandy* 17th April 2024, 09:16 AM

I think Here, There and Everywhere is really beautiful in its simplicity. It’s had some lovely cover versions over the years too.

Posted by: King Rollo 17th April 2024, 10:57 AM

It's a lovely song. I knew it before the listenthrough but wasn't that familiar with it.

Posted by: Bjork 17th April 2024, 11:00 AM

was gonna say I hate Free as a bird with a passion and its a weak song and then I realised I did vote for it

Posted by: JulianT 17th April 2024, 01:00 PM

54th:191 points
Eight Days A Week



Voters:

…ready for it 48
Brer 32
WhoOdyssey 31
JulianT 30
Notorious D.O.T. 16
ben08 9
Severin 8
popchartfreak 7
steve201 6
Bjork 4

Included on the 1964 album “Beatles For Sale” this wasn’t a UK single but was a US #1, a record 7th for them in the space of a year. It was the first pop recording to begin with a fade-in.

For me this is a joyous pop song, similar in mood to some of their 1963 singles but a step up in maturity.

Posted by: JulianT 17th April 2024, 04:36 PM

53rd: 196 points
Get Back



Chart run: {1}-1-1-1-1-1-2-5-6-18-21-26-27-33-36-47-45->17

Voters:

danG 37
dandy* 26
…ready for it 25
Ben08 25
gooddelta 20
WhoOdyssey 19
Bjork 14
steve201 11
JulianT 8
popchartfreak 6
Severin 5

Credited to The Beatles With Billy Preston, this is the only time they featured another artist on a single thanks to the latter’s electric piano contribution. Until “Now And Then” it was their only track to debut at the top of the UK singles chart, and it’s one of the few tracks featuring John on lead guitar. It was included as the closing track on “Let It Be”.

Stylistically the track is like an improvised blues jam, quite different to most Beatles records, and to some people’s taste more than others’.

Posted by: Steve201 17th April 2024, 10:37 PM

2 biggies there with ‘8 Days Week’ and the amazing ‘Get Back’ leaving!

Posted by: Notorious D.O.T 17th April 2024, 10:57 PM

QUOTE(Popchartfreak @ Apr 17 2024, 09:26 AM)

Posted by: Notorious D.O.T 17th April 2024, 10:58 PM

Eight Days A Week is a great one from their early stuff imo.

I've never liked Get Back though, sorry.

Posted by: JulianT 18th April 2024, 10:26 AM

52nd: 204 points
Taxman



Voters:

jimwatts 38
…ready for it 27
Notorious D.O.T. 27
Jade 24
steve201 23
danG 19
Roba. 14
Chez Wombat 10
King Rollo 10
Brer 6
JulianT 5
gooddelta 1

This was written by George and included as the first track on “Revolver”. It’s a protest regarding the taxes faced by the band at the time, as their earnings made them liable for a 95% supertax (hence the line “There’s one for you, nineteen for me”). You can here the beginnings of Indian and psychedelic flavours in the guitar parts.

Although this track was very much a joint effort by all the group, the fact that it had been led by George and was the opening track on their best received album to date certainly led to him being taken more notice of as a songwriter.

Posted by: JulianT 18th April 2024, 03:18 PM

51st: 209 points
And I Love Her



Voters:
dandy* 44
danG 41
JulianT 34
…ready for it 23
Brer 18
ben08 17
King Rollo 12
Jade 10
popchartfreak 3
Bjork 3
Roba. 2
Severin 1
Chez Wombat 1

A 1964 track from “A Hard Day’s Night”, this ballad was a #12 hit in the US but not a UK single. It’s mainly a Paul ballad though John contributed to the middle 8 and George provided the guitar riff.

It has been covered by various artists, including one by Kurt Cobain which was discovered and released in 2015.

Posted by: Popchartfreak 18th April 2024, 04:06 PM

QUOTE(Notorious D.O.T @ Apr 17 2024, 11:57 PM)

Posted by: JulianT 18th April 2024, 04:11 PM

1962-1966 Disc 1)
1. Love Me Do
2. Please Please Me
3. I Saw Her Standing There
4. Twist And Shout
5. From Me To You
6. She Loves You
7. I Want To Hold Your Hand
8. This Boy
9. All My Loving
10. Roll Over Beethoven
11. You Really Got A Hold On Me
12. Can’t Buy Me Love
13. You Can’t Do That
14. A Hard Day’s Night
15. And I Love Her
16. Eight Days A Week
17. I Feel Fine
18. Ticket To Ride
19. Yesterday

(1962-1966 Disc 2)
20. Help!
21. You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away
22. We Can Work It Out
23. Day Tripper
24. Drive My Car
25. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
26. Nowhere Man
27. Michelle
28. In My Life
29. If I Needed Someone
30. Girl
31. Paperback Writer
32. Eleanor Rigby
33. Yellow Submarine
34. Taxman
35. Got To Get You Into My Life
36. I’m Only Sleeping
37. Here, There And Everywhere
38. Tomorrow Never Knows

(1967-1970 Disc 1)
39. Strawberry Fields Forever
40. Penny Lane
41. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
42. With A Little Help From My Friends
43. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
44. Within You Without You
45. A Day In The Life
46. All You Need Is Love
47. I Am The Walrus
48. Hello, Goodbye
49. The Fool On The Hill
50. Magical Mystery Tour
51. Lady Madonna
52. Hey Jude
53. Revolution

(1967-1970 Disc 2)
54. Back In The U.S.S.R.
55. Dear Prudence
56. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
57. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
58. Glass Onion
59. Blackbird
60. Hey Bulldog
61. Get Back
62. Don’t Let Me Down
63. The Ballad of John and Yoko
64. Old Brown Shoe
65. Here Comes The Sun
66. Come Together
67. Something
68. Octopus’s Garden
69. Oh! Darling
70. I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
71. Let It Be
72. Across The Universe
73. I Me Mine
74. The Long And Winding Road
75. Now And Then

90s Top 10 hits:
76. Baby It’s You
77. Free As A Bird
78. Real Love

Posted by: JulianT 18th April 2024, 04:27 PM

Points left to give /1,275:

1 (1) gooddelta 1,195
2 (4) Roba. 1,192
3 (2) King Rollo 1,151
4 (7) Severin 1,147
5 (9) Chez Wombat 1,141
6 (10) Notorious D.O.T. 1,140
7 (6) steve201 1,133
8 (5) ben08 1,125
9 (11) popchartfreak 1,115
10 (12) Jade 1,106

11 (3) JulianT 1,104
12 (8) danG 1,099
13 (16) Bjork 1,081
14 (13) Brer 1,066
15 (14) dandy* 1,058
16 (15) jimwatts 1,051
17 (18) WhoOdyssey 985
18 (17) …ready for it 948

Posted by: Notorious D.O.T 18th April 2024, 05:23 PM

QUOTE(Popchartfreak @ Apr 18 2024, 05:06 PM)

Not that I recall at all. I mostly remember get back being a big video exclusive and everyone getting excited about the concert on the roof, and then John & Yoko's bed-in which made headlines all over the world with older people tut tutting a lot about the state of the "daft boggers" and the double promos of Ballad Of John & Yoko and Give Peace A Chance. Paul's wedding made headlines, and writing Mary Hopkin's hit, and that was that really, it was all about John, the others not so much. First I heard of "trouble at mill" was reading about the split in the Daily Mirror!

Posted by: dandy* 18th April 2024, 07:20 PM

FIFTY FIRST?!!!!!

Posted by: Jade 18th April 2024, 07:32 PM

I see I lost 'Here, There And Everywhere', 'Taxman' (was cool that Revolver inspired two #1s in 'Start!' and also 'Setting Sun') + 'And I Love Her' - I was expecting the latter to finish a little higher.

Posted by: Steve201 18th April 2024, 09:47 PM

Taxman is way to low just like Taxes on the rich now are!!

Posted by: JulianT 20th April 2024, 01:23 PM

50th: 214 points
Magical Mystery Tour



EP chart run: 20-3-{2}-2-2-4-5-12-18-25-34-39->12

Voters:
popchartfreak 40
WhoOdyssey 35
Notorious D.O.T. 32
steve201 24
Roba. 24
dandy* 17
gooddelta 12
…ready for it 8
King Rollo 7
Chez Wombat 5
Brer 5
ben08 3
Jade 2

This was released in 1967 as the lead on a 6 track EP in the UK, and an LP in the US. 2 of the other 5 tracks from the EP were included on the blue album. It’s primarily Paul written and includes ringmaster calls, a trumpet fanfare and traffic noises.

For me this isn’t a track that particularly stands up on its own, though it works brilliantly as an album introduction. Some clearly love it though, and the same can be said of another track still to come.

Posted by: JulianT 20th April 2024, 09:43 PM

49th: 223 points
Nowhere Man



Voters:
popchartfreak 32
King Rollo 31
ben08 30
Bjork 28
Severin 25
jimwatts 25
JulianT 24
…ready for it 11
dandy* 8
Chez Wombat 3
steve201 3
Notorious D.O.T. 3

A 1965 track included on “Rubber Soul”, which was a #3 hit single in the US. It’s one of the earliest Beatles songs to be entirely not about love, and is an early example of John’s philosophical writing. The song is also featured to describe a character in the “Yellow Submarine” film.

I loved this as a child and as a daydreamer I felt like I had a real connection with it. I still absolutely love it lyrically, though musically there’s nothing very out of the box about it.

Posted by: Jade 20th April 2024, 09:50 PM

The less said about the Magical Mystery Tour movie the better but I love the collection of songs that accompanies it - agreed the titular track works best in a full EP/album listen

Posted by: dandy* 20th April 2024, 10:00 PM

Magical Mystery Tour is my favourite of their more ‘novelty’ songs, I’ve always found it to be really fun and uplifting, plus it’s got a real sense of propulsion to it that I agree works really well as an album opener.

Posted by: Roba. 20th April 2024, 11:54 PM

'Magical Mystery Tour' is great. Good to see that made the top 50!

Posted by: JulianT 21st April 2024, 08:25 AM

48th: 224 points
Please Please Me



Chart run: 45-33-16-3-3-{2}-2-3-2-5-7-11-17-22-30-31-41-42->18

Voters:
…ready for it 40
Ben08 37
WhoOdyssey 36
Severin 30
steve201 25
Roba. 16
danG 14
jimwatts 12
Bjork 6
gooddelta 5
King Rollo 3

Their second hit in early 1963 after “Love Me Do” peaked at #17 first time round. At the time there was no “official chart”, and most of the charts at the time showed “Please Please Me” as a #1. However on the Record Retailer chart eventually chosen as the official chart it was a multi week #2 blocked by Frank Ifield and then Cliff Richard. It was a US #3 on re-release.

The track started out as a Roy Orbison style slower ballad, but evolved into an upbeat, straightforward pop song with an endearing harmonica introduction.

Posted by: JulianT 21st April 2024, 08:05 PM

47th: 233 points
Love Me Do



Original chart run: 49-46-41-32-37-29-23-21-26-19-22-{17}-24-17-28-37-36-44->18
1982 re-release chart run: 14-5-{4}-7-15-29-64->7

Voters:
WhoOdyssey 48
gooddelta 33
…ready for it 30
Bjork 22
Ben08 22
Severin 21
Roba. 21
steve201 14
danG 9
Brer 7
Jade 6

Their debut single in October 1962 which only reached #17 but had a very long chart run. It later reached #4 as a 20th anniversary re-release. In the US it was only released as a single in 1964 once Beatlemania had well and truly taken hold, and became their 4th #1.

And so by the first 2 hits neatly land back to back. Like “Please Please Me” this features harmonica, unusual in a pop song at the time, and was a joint composition by John and Paul.

Posted by: dandy* 21st April 2024, 08:09 PM

I've never really liked either of those early hits, glad to see they're not too high but I'd have definitely rather seen other songs make the top 50 in their place.

Posted by: gooddelta 21st April 2024, 08:20 PM

I think that's one of my favourites from the very early hits, the harmonica intro is timeless.

Posted by: Steve201 21st April 2024, 09:00 PM

Love the Magical Mystery Tour EP so many fantastic songs on it! What blocked this to no1?

Also love ‘Nowhere Man’!

Posted by: Jade 21st April 2024, 09:08 PM

QUOTE(gooddelta @ 21st April 2024, 09:20 PM)

Posted by: Popchartfreak 22nd April 2024, 10:22 AM

oops 2 big losses for me in MMT and Nowhere Man, Taxman not so fussed about - but George was moaning about too much tax (95% of income of the rich at the time was tax, so the fabs weren't anywhere near as rich as people imagined they were - partly why they opted to start Apple as a record company/label, I suspect). That backfired on them badly....!

Magical Mystery Tour was blocked from the top spot by....Hello Goodbye! I still say the top-selling actual track for a couple of weeks is therefore I Am The Walrus - as it was simultaneously at 1 and 2 as B side and EP track. Had it been "streaming" era rules, it would have been a Beatles top 3

Posted by: JulianT 22nd April 2024, 11:16 AM

46th: 237 points
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band



Voters:
WhoOdyssey 38
gooddelta 32
Bjork 31
ben08 31
Jade 23
Severin 20
Notorious D.O.T. 15
steve201 12
jimwatts 11
Brer 11
Roba. 8
Chez Wombat 4
dandy* 1

This is the title track on what remains their biggest selling album. It appears twice on the album, as the opening track segueing into “With A Little Help From My Friends”, and as the penultimate track segueing into “A Day In The Life”. Paul conceived the idea of the album being a role play in which they each assume an alter ego in the lonely hearts club band. The orchestra used on the track is the same as that used for “A Day In The Life”.

Again I didn’t vote for this myself as I don’t really see it a track that works independently. That said it’s a fun and unique piece of escapism, and a track that has been covered by Jimi Hendrix and Robbie Williams among others.

Posted by: Popchartfreak 22nd April 2024, 03:54 PM

Sgt Pepper isnt a proper song to me, it's a snippet. In the same way that the Abbey Road medley is a trio of snippets. Would have preferred a proper 3 minute song to start off the album, with a minor repeat fade at the end to bookend, if they had to do it....(and they didn't)

Posted by: JulianT 22nd April 2024, 06:07 PM

45th: 240 points (13 voters)
Real Love



Chart run: {4}-9-22-44-53-73-67->7

Voters:
gooddelta 47
WhoOdyssey 40
steve201 32
danG 23
Roba. 20
Brer 20
King Rollo 18
popchartfreak 13
Notorious D.O.T. 9
jimwatts 6
Bjork 5
ben08 5
JulianT 2

This was their last hit until a few months ago, and it’s the last non red and blue album track to appear. John recorded demos of this in 1979 and 1980. In 1994 Yoko gave Paul demos of 4 tracks: “Grow Old With Me”, “Free As A Bird”, “Real Love” and “Now And Then”. This and “Free As A Bird” were completed in 1995 and “Now And Then” in 2023: nothing seems to have come of the first track on that list.

A Tom Odell cover of this was featured in the 2014 John Lewis Christmas advert. It’s a sweet wrap yourself in a warm blanket kind of song so I can see why it was chosen for that.

Posted by: Jade 22nd April 2024, 06:21 PM

'Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band' is a commanding album opener. It's randomly a staple of my local pub's playlist so I'm pretty used to it in isolation

Posted by: Severin 22nd April 2024, 07:05 PM

I agree. Sgt Pepper's the track features an intro two verses a bridge and a refrain. And at 2 minutes long, it outlasts From Me to You and it's similar length to many of their early songs.

Posted by: Roba. 23rd April 2024, 12:05 AM

I prefer Tom Odell's cover of 'Real Love' I think but both are good versions!

Posted by: Notorious D.O.T 23rd April 2024, 12:11 AM

Agreed both versions are good in their own way.

Posted by: JulianT 23rd April 2024, 12:42 PM

44th: 240 points (14 voters)
Yellow Submarine



Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby chart run: 8-{1}-1-1-1-3-5-9-18-26-30-33-42->13

Voters:
steve201 42
…ready for it 39
gooddelta 35
Chez Wombat 23
Notorious D.O.T. 20
WhoOdyssey 18
jimwatts 15
Severin 12
popchartfreak 11
ben08 10
King Rollo 8
Roba. 4
Bjork 2
Jade 1

A “Revolver” track and part of a double A side UK #1, this was written primarily as a children’s song by Paul and included experimentation with sound effects. It inspired the 1968 animated film of the same name. It’s the second of three songs here with a Ringo lead vocal.

I think a notable feature of the 4 double A side singles released by The Beatles is that in all cases the 2 tracks are very complementary, none more so than “Yellow Submarine” / “Eleanor Rigby”. This is the first of the 8 double A side tracks to appear.

Posted by: gooddelta 23rd April 2024, 01:53 PM

Oh dear, I'm going to be tumbling down the leaderboard now.

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is iconic to me, I know it's essentially a short album opener but I love what's there and it sets the scene for what's to come.

Real Love is a beautiful song, if they'd released that for the Christmas 1995 market instead of Free As A Bird I wonder how it would have done. I love Tom Odell's cover too. I'd love to hear them remaster the vocals on these two songs with the tech they used to make Now And Then sound so good.

Yellow Submarine is wonderful, a classic that I heard such a lot as a child.

Posted by: JulianT 23rd April 2024, 04:38 PM

43rd: 244 points
Lady Madonna



Chart run: 11-{1}-1-4-6-9-26-35->8

Voters:
dandy* 38
King Rollo 36
…ready for it 26
Severin 24
danG 24
WhoOdyssey 20
steve201 18
popchartfreak 17
Notorious D.O.T. 14
jimwatts 7
gooddelta 7
Roba. 7
Chez Wombat 6

A non album single and UK #1 composed by Paul, this was a surprising change of direction after all the psychedelia of the previous couple of years. Its style is “boogie-woogie”, a type of 1920s blues rock and Paul said he was thinking of Fats Domino when he wrote it. John assisted with the lyrics about an exhausted mother.

This sat well with a rock ‘n’ roll revival in the UK in 1968. However its official chart run was quite short and it only peaked at #2 on the rival Melody Maker chart, and only at #4 in the US.

Posted by: JulianT 24th April 2024, 10:03 AM

42nd: 249 points
The Fool On The Hill



Voters:
popchartfreak 48
King Rollo 48
JulianT 36
Notorious D.O.T. 33
Chez Wombat 30
dandy* 19
Jade 17
…ready for it 13
jimwatts 4
danG 1

This is a Paul track included on the 1967 “Magical Mystery Tour” EP. The film of the same name included a video of the song with pictures of Paul on a hill in France.

It’s one of my favourite Beatles ballads: like “Nowhere Man” it can be seen as an outsider’s anthem, and I love its folky style with the flutes and the slightly dizzy swirling feel to it. It had some big supporters but the 8 zeroes really hurt it.

Posted by: dandy* 24th April 2024, 10:48 AM

Oh I was the biggest supporter of Lady Madonna I’ve always thought it had a real groove to it, and I love the bit in the middle and general piano line throughout

Posted by: Popchartfreak 24th April 2024, 11:04 AM

Yellow Submarine I think of every time I go to Puerto De Mogan on Gran Canaria - it has an actual yellow submarine for trips to look at sea life - but it's total 8-year-old John nostalgia, Liverpool era. Lady Madonna is RAF Lincolnshire countryside incessant boogie blues, and both tunes sound better in the revamped form than they previously did. Fool On The Hill is one of those lesser known Macca gems, what a ballad, beautifully sad, much-covered at the time but it needs something to give it some more love these days. A film spot would do nicely...

Posted by: JulianT 24th April 2024, 06:03 PM

41st: 258 points
I’m Only Sleeping



Voters:

jimwatts 47
Notorious D.O.T. 38
JulianT 37
Jade 29
King Rollo 29
Brer 29
Chez Wombat 26
Roba. 19
popchartfreak 4

Another “Revolver” track; this one was primarily written by John. From 1966; it’s very much an early venture into psychedelia with George’s backwards guitar parts. John is reported to have spent a long time in bed, whether just sleeping or under the influence.

Another one of their very finest ballads for me here, I love the vague drowsy feeling about it and the way it conveys the sheer joy of just having a lie in once in a while. Despite some strong support half the voters slept on this one and it falls just short of the Top 40.

Posted by: Jade 24th April 2024, 06:09 PM

'I'm Only Sleeping' is wonderful Revolver psychedelia I did sneak 'Yellow Submarine' in but I wish that had been confined to its film soundtrack and swapped out with 'Rain' on Revolver.

'The Fool On The Hill' is a standout on Magical Mystery Tour - both lyrically and with its flutes and recorder sound.

Posted by: JulianT 24th April 2024, 06:09 PM

(1962-1966 Disc 1)
1. Love Me Do
2. Please Please Me
3. I Saw Her Standing There
4. Twist And Shout
5. From Me To You
6. She Loves You
7. I Want To Hold Your Hand
8. This Boy
9. All My Loving
10. Roll Over Beethoven
11. You Really Got A Hold On Me
12. Can’t Buy Me Love
13. You Can’t Do That
14. A Hard Day’s Night
15. And I Love Her
16. Eight Days A Week
17. I Feel Fine
18. Ticket To Ride
19. Yesterday

(1962-1966 Disc 2)
20. Help!
21. You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away
22. We Can Work It Out
23. Day Tripper
24. Drive My Car
25. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
26. Nowhere Man
27. Michelle
28. In My Life
29. If I Needed Someone
30. Girl
31. Paperback Writer
32. Eleanor Rigby
33. Yellow Submarine
34. Taxman
35. Got To Get You Into My Life
36. I’m Only Sleeping
37. Here, There And Everywhere
38. Tomorrow Never Knows

(1967-1970 Disc 1)
39. Strawberry Fields Forever
40. Penny Lane
41. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
42. With A Little Help From My Friends
43. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
44. Within You Without You
45. A Day In The Life
46. All You Need Is Love
47. I Am The Walrus
48. Hello, Goodbye
49. The Fool On The Hill
50. Magical Mystery Tour
51. Lady Madonna
52. Hey Jude
53. Revolution

(1967-1970 Disc 2)
54. Back In The U.S.S.R.
55. Dear Prudence
56. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
57. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
58. Glass Onion
59. Blackbird
60. Hey Bulldog
61. Get Back
62. Don’t Let Me Down
63. The Ballad of John and Yoko
64. Old Brown Shoe
65. Here Comes The Sun
66. Come Together
67. Something
68. Octopus’s Garden
69. Oh! Darling
70. I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
71. Let It Be
72. Across The Universe
73. I Me Mine
74. The Long And Winding Road
75. Now And Then

90s Top 10 hits:
76. Baby It’s You
77. Free As A Bird
78. Real Love

Posted by: JulianT 24th April 2024, 06:18 PM

Points left to give /1,275:

1 (2) Roba. 1,073
2 (5) Chez Wombat 1,044
3= (10) Jade 1,028
3= (12) danG 1,028
5 (1) gooddelta 1,024
6 (4) Severin 1,015
7 (11) JulianT 1,005
8 (14) Brer 994
9= (8) ben08 987
9= (13) Bjork 987

11 (6) Notorious D.O.T. 976
12 (15) dandy* 975
13 (3) King Rollo 971
14 (7) steve201 963
15 (9) popchartfreak 950
16 (16) jimwatts 924
17 (18) …ready for it 781
18 (17) WhoOdyssey 750

Posted by: jimwatts 24th April 2024, 06:50 PM

Every time I think I've escaped the bottom 3 I go straight back in it top pointer for 'Taxman' and 'I'm Only Sleeping', always happy to immerse myself in the sound of the Revolver album - at least the track between them should fare much better.

Posted by: Chez Wombat 24th April 2024, 07:06 PM

A few lower level favourites going out, Yellow Submarine is a novelty classic and such a great song to enjoy for all ages (some in a slightly different way to others x)

I'm Only Sleeping and Fool on the Hill were songs I was less familiar with which is was great to hear.

Posted by: Popchartfreak 25th April 2024, 08:54 AM

I'm Only Sleeping is one I didn't get to hear till the late 90's! The Suggs hit cover was my first introduction to it, which was fun and more upbeat. As I'm not one for sleeping in I can't relate to the lazier-vibe original so much, but it is nicely psychedelic...

Posted by: Roba. 25th April 2024, 10:58 AM

Ooh top of the leaderboard *.*

'I'm Only Sleeping' is great. Shame that just missed out on the 40. Pretty sure I liked 'Fool On The Hill' too but clearly not enough to throw points to, must've been next in line!

Posted by: JulianT 25th April 2024, 11:37 AM

40th: 265 points
With A Little Help From My Friends



Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band/With A Little Help From My Friends chart run: 70-69-{63}->3

Voters:

gooddelta 38
Bjork 37
Notorious D.O.T. 36
Roba. 34
ben08 32
Jade 21
Severin 19
WhoOdyssey 17
steve201 13
jimwatts 10
Chez Wombat 8

This is the second track after the title song on “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”. I had forgotten that the pair of songs was released as a double A side single in 1978 but only reached #69. Of course “With A Little Help From My Friends” has topped the UK charts no fewer than 3 times, with covers by Joe Cocker, Wet Wet Wet and Sam & Mark, but I don’t think it’s a very hot take to say that the original is much better than any of those.

This is the highest lead vocal appearance for Ringo here - technically he isn’t a very good singer but there’s an innocence and sincerity about the way he performs that I find very charming.

Posted by: Popchartfreak 25th April 2024, 03:56 PM

for me it's Joe Cocker - that was the first version I heard, and after the exhausting performance he did on Top Of The Pops, a showstopper, Ringo's original just sounds so....twee (though classy, unlike the other 2 chart-topper covers) A bit of fun, but not even his best record - that's Photograph, Back Off Booglaoo, It Don't Come Easy.

Posted by: JulianT 25th April 2024, 04:47 PM

39th: 275 points
You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away



Voters:

Notorious D.O.T. 41
Jade 39
dandy* 39
popchartfreak 37
…ready for it 29
JulianT 29
jimwatts 24
Severin 17
DanG 10
King Rollo 4
WhoOdyssey 3
Brer 3

This ballad was included on “Help!” in 1965. A version by English folk music group The Silkie, who had been signed by The Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein, was a UK hit and reached the Top 10 in America.

John said that the track was heavily influenced by Bob Dylan, and the rhythm and instrumental setup are very like a Bob song though it uses a flute instead of his usual harmonica. I think it’s one of The Beatles’ most rawly emotional ballads.

Posted by: Roba. 25th April 2024, 05:53 PM

Joe Cockers version of 'With A Little Help..' is the best but their one is very good too!

Posted by: dandy* 25th April 2024, 06:00 PM

Not a fan of With a Little Help so I’m glad it hasn’t finished too high. You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away is far better though, such a lovely song <3

Posted by: JulianT 26th April 2024, 10:25 AM

38th: 278 points
I Feel Fine



Chart run: 6-{1}-1-1-1-1-2-7-13-19-25-38-50->13

Voters

…ready for it 37
Severin 36
Roba. 30
Chez Wombat 25
dandy* 24
popchartfreak 21
danG 21
gooddelta 21
Brer 17
Jade 13
ben08 12
Bjork 9
JulianT 6
jimwatts 5
WhoOdyssey 1
(Zeroes King Rollo; steve201; Notorious D.O.T.)

This is the first track with 15 voters, and the first of the 5 Christmas #1 tracks to appear. John wrote the riff while recording “Eight Days A Week” a couple of months earlier, and kept playing it between takes before deciding to go away and write a song for it. As they’d finished the album “Beatles For Sale” it ended up being a non album single.

The feedback note at the beginning of this was a first for a rock record and must have been seen as very experimental at the time.

Posted by: JulianT 26th April 2024, 02:05 PM

37th: 289 points
Revolution



Voters:

Severin 40
Notorious D.O.T. 39
Bjork 36
dandy* 35
Jade 34
jimwatts 30
popchartfreak 23
danG 20
Brer 14
Chez Wombat 12
WhoOdyssey 5
JulianT 1

This is a song from the “White Album”. Multiple versions were recorded, including the best known rocky version, a slower bluesy version called “Revolution 1” and the abstract blend of sounds and noises called “Revolution 9” which doesn’t really bear any relation to the song people know.

The Beatles rarely involved themselves with politics, “Taxman” being an exception. This was a response by John to some of the political left at the time putting pressure on them to be revolutionaries.

Posted by: Roba. 26th April 2024, 02:10 PM

'I Feel Fine' is grand.

Posted by: Jade 26th April 2024, 02:26 PM

'You've Got To Hide Your Love Away' is gorgeous, such a tender and moving John ballad I find the Help! project underrated in terms of Beatles album discourse - it'd probably scrape into my top 5 of theirs, plenty of great songs even if not quite as ground-breaking as later work.

'With A Little Help From My Friends' has grown on me exponentially over the years, I find it really charming these days.

'Revolution' is awesome - what an attention-grabbing, unhinged intro *.* I used to be obsessed with one of the slower versions of it as well, 'Revolution 1 Take 20', as someone used the entirety of it in the background of their Beatles collection video on YouTube - it was instantly lodged in my brain. That version was 11 minutes long and I apparently have 70 scrobbles of it on my last.fm, which I think would've all come from my iPod during sixth form days, the fixation was real

I absolutely love the riff throughout 'I Feel Fine' and that intro feedback is indeed a standout feature too <3

Posted by: Popchartfreak 27th April 2024, 09:49 AM

deep into Beatles classics now! You've Got To Hide Your Love Away was written about gay manager Brian Epstein, apparently, which adds pathos given what happened to him, and it certainly had an emotional impact on me in my teens, there weren't any other obvious songs offering support until Killing Of Georgie in 1976 (thanks Rod).

I Feel Fine I bought in 1976, amongst the Beatles chart invasion as all the singles were out with new (awful) sleeve covers - plus Yesterday for the first time. I was mad on those riffs and the intro! Revolution lived in the shadow of Hey Jude, but it got some airplay in the 60's, It was the Blue Album Xmas 1975 that got me into it big time. Rifftastic, and John as always had his finger on the pulse of what needed saying at the time.

Posted by: JulianT 28th April 2024, 10:10 AM

36th: 291 points
All My Loving



Voters:

jimwatts 46
Bjork 40
ben08 40
…ready for it 32
King Rollo 25
Roba. 25
JulianT 21
WhoOdyssey 15
Severin 13
dandy* 13
danG 12
popchartfreak 8
Notorious D.O.T. 1

This is a 1963 Paul track included on “With The Beatles”. While not a single it received considerable airplay, and was subsequently released as the title track of an EP including 2 tracks from “Please Please Me” and 2 from “With The Beatles”.

Although it’s very much a product of the more primitive early Beatles sound, I think this uncomplicated ballad has a lot of heart to it, and it’s done very well here for an early non hit.

Posted by: Roba. 28th April 2024, 10:16 AM

'All My Loving' has done well indeed.

Posted by: Popchartfreak 28th April 2024, 10:20 AM

Yes, that was unexpected! 6-year-old me thanks everyone who voted it this high, I loved it more than actual Beatles singles at the time!

Posted by: JulianT 28th April 2024, 10:51 AM

35th: 293 points
Can’t Buy Me Love



Chart run: 8-{1}-1-1-2-4-7-13-15-22-25-30-38-44-47R(2)->15

Voters:

…ready for it 44
Roba. 35
WhoOdyssey 34
Brer 33
Bjork 29
ben08 29
gooddelta 28
Severin 27
popchartfreak 15
steve201 8
danG 7
Jade 4

It’s a double of early songs today, as the lead single from “A Hard Day’s Night” lands here. This was a #1 in many countries including the UK and US, and remains their 3rd biggest pure seller in the UK with over 1.5 million copies, the 4th biggest seller of the 60s and one of the 40 biggest selling singles of all time.

“Can’t Buy Me Love” is certainly a stonker of a rock ‘n’ roll song, but there’s a clear evolution between it and “A Hard Day’s Night” and I think this marks the end of their early phase before they really began to push the envelope.

Posted by: Popchartfreak 28th April 2024, 06:29 PM

me dad bought this one so a soundtrack to my Liverpool life and beyond, and yes I agree it's the end of the innocent "I love you" songwriting phase and onwards into cynicism, sex and drugs and rock n roll and politics - along with more interesting takes on love and life and death and humour.

Posted by: jimwatts 28th April 2024, 07:59 PM

Another top pointer, the sentiment of 'All My Loving' may be primitive but the excitement lives on in the music, and those harmonies in verse 2 are indeed fab

Posted by: Severin 28th April 2024, 10:58 PM

Re- All My Loving, it was a song of their's I'd known for years and not thought much about one way or another until I watched the film Testament (1983), where it is used prominently and quite poignantly. I feel in love with it after that.

Posted by: JulianT 29th April 2024, 08:59 AM

34th: 300 points
I Want You (She’s So Heavy)



Voters:

Jade 46
Notorious D.O.T. 46
Brer 46
Chez Wombat 45
King Rollo 42
JulianT 40
danG 33
jimwatts 2

This is an “Abbey Road” track that was only finished the last time The Beatles were in the studio together in August 1969. It’s a very unusual, nearly 8 minute track with blues and hard rock sections and changing time signatures. The track has been described as a precursor to heavy metal.

No other track in the Top 50 received as few as 8 voters, and this very experimental track clearly has well and truly divided the crowd, with huge love from its big supporters but very little else.

Congratulations to gooddelta who I believe is the only participant to have voted for all of the Top 33!

Posted by: Popchartfreak 29th April 2024, 09:23 AM

"sprawling" is my take on that one, but then I'm not a huge fan of Abbey Road in comparison to earlier Fabs albums. Helter Skelter is my Beatles Heavy Metal track of choice, if that's not a blueprint I don't know what is (with credit to You Really Got Me, too), though obv that was never going to get added to the Blue album...

Posted by: JulianT 29th April 2024, 01:19 PM

33rd: 305 points
Blackbird



Voters:

gooddelta 39
Brer 38
WhoOdyssey 37
dandy* 33
King Rollo 30
danG 25
JulianT 25
Chez Wombat 21
Jade 18
ben08 14
Roba. 10
Bjork 7
Severin 4
Notorious D.O.T. 4

This was written by Paul and included on the “White Album”. It is thought to allude to the civil right movement in the US, but can also be seen to have a simpler, more literal meaning. It’s a solo performance by Paul with only an acoustic guitar and some foot tapping and bird sounds.

“Blackbird” has become a favourite among the ballads of The Beatles and is one of the most coveted songs of all time; notably this year Beyoncé included a version on “Cowboy Carter”.

Posted by: gooddelta 29th April 2024, 03:23 PM

Oh, that seems surprisingly low for Blackbird, it's interesting that it has become so popular among their canon since becoming available digitally, but I can't say it's not deserved.

I've heard many lovely covers of it and many less successful attempts.

Posted by: Popchartfreak 29th April 2024, 04:57 PM

I never knew the Civil Rights background of it (though it was the era of Civil Right songs) so that passed me by entirely and I just took it literally, a mildly pleasant song about a bird with a broken wing, and that was about that. It could have easily fitted comfortably on McCartney and sounded totally in place. Whenever I tried to rescue birds with broken wings and the like they always ended up dying to my sorrow - being 10 years old, and not having the internet to tell you what to do in those days...

Posted by: Notorious D.O.T 29th April 2024, 10:33 PM

My votes have really been taking a hit in this lately and I Want You (She's So Heavy) is another big loss.

Probably my favourite from Abbey Road, it's such an experience to listen to.

Posted by: JulianT 30th April 2024, 02:00 PM

32nd: 330 points
Now And Then



Chart run: 42-{1}-6-11-30-54-65->7

Voters:

gooddelta 36
steve201 34
popchartfreak 33
WhoOdyssey 33
danG 26
ben08 26
jimwatts 20
Roba. 18
Notorious D.O.T. 18
…ready for it 17
King Rollo 17
JulianT 17
Brer 15
dandy* 11
Chez Wombat 9
(Zeroes Severin, Jade, Bjork)

As mentioned before this was one of the four tracks whose demo was given to the surviving Beatles by Yoko in the ‘90s. John’s voice was extracted using machine-learning assisted audio restoration technology. The single was released with a new stereo mix of “Love Me Do”, meaning that it could be seen to bookend the band’s history.

It’s impressive to see how the technology and the quality of the production have moved on from the likes of “Free As A Bird” to this. It is hard to compare this with the old classics, but I think most people saw it as a fitting final single, and most participants did include it in their votes here.

Posted by: Roba. 30th April 2024, 02:57 PM

Pretty strong result for 'Now and Then'. I feel a few of those that didn't vote for it is because it's too recent maybe.

Posted by: Severin 30th April 2024, 03:36 PM

Personally, not an admirer of Now And Then to be honest. It's nice enough and was good to see them have a hit with it, but I didn't think the song was much cop. Same as I felt about Free as a Bird and Real Love. They sound to me like what they are - songs Lennon didn't think were good enough. Now and Then's the best of the three though.

Posted by: Chez Wombat 30th April 2024, 04:19 PM

Now & Then definitely sounds better than the other two lost tracks, if just because of the clear advances of technology to make it happen. It's not an all time classic, but I did throw it some points as it was a bit of a grower and it was just such a unique and wonderful chart moment.

That's a great placing for I Want You (She's So Heavy) given it's a non single, probably my favourite from Abbey Road, great precursor to heavy metal and prog rock.

Posted by: JulianT 30th April 2024, 04:32 PM

31st: 332 points (12 voters)
The Long And Winding Road



Voters:

King Rollo 49
popchartfreak 45
gooddelta 40
Bjork 35
JulianT 33
dandy* 29
ben08 27
Brer 21
steve201 17
Chez Wombat 15
danG 13
Notorious D.O.T. 8

This was originally recorded in January 1969, but in April 1970 Phil Spector added to the production with rich orchestration (to Paul’s displeasure) before the song was included on “Let It Be”. In the US it was a released as a single and became their final #1. Will Young and Gareth Gates reached #1 with a (rather over-sung) version in 2002.

This was a childhood favourite for me and I still like it a lot. I’ve always liked the big and warm production: my favourite part is the “Many times I’ve been alone…” passage.

Posted by: JulianT 30th April 2024, 04:35 PM

(1962-1966 Disc 1)
1. Love Me Do
2. Please Please Me
3. I Saw Her Standing There
4. Twist And Shout
5. From Me To You
6. She Loves You
7. I Want To Hold Your Hand
8. This Boy
9. All My Loving
10. Roll Over Beethoven
11. You Really Got A Hold On Me
12. Can’t Buy Me Love
13. You Can’t Do That
14. A Hard Day’s Night
15. And I Love Her
16. Eight Days A Week
17. I Feel Fine
18. Ticket To Ride
19. Yesterday

(1962-1966 Disc 2)
20. Help!
21. You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away
22. We Can Work It Out
23. Day Tripper
24. Drive My Car
25. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
26. Nowhere Man
27. Michelle
28. In My Life
29. If I Needed Someone
30. Girl
31. Paperback Writer
32. Eleanor Rigby
33. Yellow Submarine
34. Taxman
35. Got To Get You Into My Life
36. I’m Only Sleeping
37. Here, There And Everywhere
38. Tomorrow Never Knows

(1967-1970 Disc 1)
39. Strawberry Fields Forever
40. Penny Lane
41. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
42. With A Little Help From My Friends
43. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
44. Within You Without You
45. A Day In The Life
46. All You Need Is Love
47. I Am The Walrus
48. Hello, Goodbye
49. The Fool On The Hill
50. Magical Mystery Tour
51. Lady Madonna
52. Hey Jude
53. Revolution

(1967-1970 Disc 2)
54. Back In The U.S.S.R.
55. Dear Prudence
56. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
57. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
58. Glass Onion
59. Blackbird
60. Hey Bulldog
61. Get Back
62. Don’t Let Me Down
63. The Ballad of John and Yoko
64. Old Brown Shoe
65. Here Comes The Sun
66. Come Together
67. Something
68. Octopus’s Garden
69. Oh! Darling
70. I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
71. Let It Be
72. Across The Universe
73. I Me Mine
74. The Long And Winding Road
75. Now And Then

90s Top 10 hits:
76. Baby It’s You
77. Free As A Bird
78. Real Love
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Posted by: JulianT 30th April 2024, 04:46 PM

Points left to give /1,275:

1 (1) Roba. 921
2 (2) Chez Wombat 909
3 (14) steve201 891
4 (3) danG 861
5 (6) Severin 859
6 (3) Jade 853
7 (7) JulianT 833
8 (5) gooddelta 822
9= (8) Brer 807
9= (9) ben08 807

11 (13) King Rollo 804
12 (9) Bjork 794
13 (12) dandy* 791
14 (16) jimwatts 787
15 (11) Notorious D.O.T. 783
16 (15) popchartfreak 768
17 (17) …ready for it 622
18 (18) WhoOdyssey 605

Posted by: Roba. 30th April 2024, 05:42 PM

'The Long and Winding Road' was one I did have in then swapped out. Seems I had a few of those lol.

Posted by: Popchartfreak 1st May 2024, 10:03 AM

Adore Long & Winding Road, many Fabs fans prefer the non-strings version, but not me - when I was once pressed on the issue I said "I like strings, what can I say!?" (using strings as a reason to not like something immediately wipes out all classical and film music and show-tunes ) To me it's a summer of fond memories in Singapore as we bid farewell to The Beatles from afar, and the lyrics relate to going home. Not that I wanted to go back to the UK, but missing some things about home is a thing. As is feeling right out of touch with what's going on there.

Posted by: gooddelta 1st May 2024, 10:54 AM

I'm quite low as I voted for everything left. I guess I must have been sparing with my support for some of the big classics.

I did really enjoy Now and Then, a lovely song and amazing what technology can do. Have always liked The Long and Winding Road, another that has been covered by so many different artists, particularly in the early 00s - S Club 7, The Corrs, and Will and Gareth.

Posted by: JulianT 1st May 2024, 11:43 AM

QUOTE(gooddelta @ 1st May 2024, 11:54 AM)

Posted by: JulianT 1st May 2024, 08:22 PM

30th: 332 points (17 voters)
I Saw Her Standing There



ben08 46
Severin 45
WhoOdyssey 41
…ready for it 36
jimwatts 36
Roba. 29
Bjork 25
Jade 15
Chez Wombat 11
dandy* 10
King Rollo 9
steve201 9
Notorious D.O.T. 7
JulianT 4
Brer 4
danG 3
gooddelta 2
popchartfreak 0

This traditional rock ‘n’ roll style track is the opening track on the 1st studio album, “Please Please Me”, and kicks off with a count in. In the US it was released as the B side to “I Want To Hold Your Hand”.

This received points from all but 1 voter, winning a tie-break over “The Long And Winding Road” to reach the Top 30. It’s certainly one of the best and most charming early songs.

Posted by: JulianT 2nd May 2024, 05:48 AM

29th: 333 points
Back In The U.S.S.R.



1976 chart run: 35-29-{19}-19-21-23->6

WhoOdyssey 45
Severin 41
jimwatts 34
popchartfreak 31
ben08 28
Notorious D.O.T. 28
steve201 27
dandy* 25
Chez Wombat 18
Bjork 16
danG 11
Jade 9
gooddelta 8
JulianT 7
Roba. 5
…ready for it 0
King Rollo 0
Brer 0

This is the opening track on the “White Album”. It’s a parody of Chuck Berry’s “Back In The USA” about feeling relieved to be back in the Soviet Union. The bridge section celebrates girls from various parts of the U.S.S.R. parodying “California Girls” by the Beach Boys. It was released as a single in 1976 to promote a new compilation album and reached the Top 20.

Musically it’s a traditional rock ‘n’ roll style song. Paul deliberately made the lead vocal sound a bit like Jerry Lee Lewis, and there are Beach Boys style harmonies. A composite drum track was used as the track was recorded without Ringo who had temporarily left due to criticism of his drumming.

Posted by: JulianT 2nd May 2024, 05:50 AM

Still 12 UK #1 songs left, but we have 4 of them coming in a row next.

Posted by: Popchartfreak 2nd May 2024, 08:37 AM

Oops me not voting for I saw Her Standing There. Never heard it until after John Lennon's murder when the live version B side of an Elton John single was pushed out as an A side hit as it had Elton & John singing this on his last ever public appearance on stage - the one where he got back with Yoko. At which point I though "s'ok, but nothing special". Hearing the original, yes it's better than, but it was always a bit of fluff for me.

Back In The USSR, though, went big on in 1976 and is the main Beatles song that sounds great in a club, along with twist & Shout, as you can dance to it. Love all those Beach Boys/rock n roll references, but twisted for the Cold War days commentary. The USSR was not a fun place at all....

Posted by: JulianT 3rd May 2024, 09:19 AM

28th: 339 points
Hello, Goodbye



Chart run: 9-{1}-1-1-1-1-1-1-8-16-30-48->12

popchartfreak 47
King Rollo 38
Brer 34
Notorious D.O.T. 30
Chez Wombat 27
Jade 26
Roba. 26
JulianT 22
steve201 19
gooddelta 19
danG 16
Bjork 15
ben08 15
dandy* 3
Severin 2
…ready for it 0
jimwatts 0
WhoOdyssey 0

This was a non album single, with “I Am The Walrus” as the B side. It was the first single release following the death of Brian Epstein, and was the UK Christmas #1 in 1967. John originally pushed for “I Am The Walrus” to be the A side before accepting “Hello, Goodbye” was more commercial, so it’s interesting that the former has done better here.

“Hello, Goodbye” has received mixed reviews, both at the time and over the years. In a way what is amazing about it is that it manages to take banal lyrics and quite an ordinary musical structure and make something so compelling.

Posted by: JulianT 3rd May 2024, 04:48 PM

27th: 343 points
She Loves You



Chart run: 12-3-{1}-1-1-1-3-3-3-2-2-3-2-1-1-2-2-2-3-5-5-8-16-19-21-23-28-33-35-42-48-42R(2)-47->33

jimwatts 45
Severin 44
steve201 39
Roba. 39
…ready for it 35
ben08 34
gooddelta 27
WhoOdyssey 24
Bjork 20
King Rollo 14
Brer 10
popchartfreak 5
Notorious D.O.T. 5
danG 2
Jade 0
Chez Wombat 0
dandy* 0
JulianT 0

This remains the 9th biggest single ever in the UK for pure sales, having shifted more than 1.9 million copies. Just look at that chart run with 18 straight weeks in the Top 3 including 2 separate runs at #1. On 4 April 1964 it was one of the five Beatles songs that held the whole Top 5 in the US.

John wanted to create something as rousing as “All Shook Up” when writing it, and I think it’s fair to say he achieved that. This was the song that propelled The Beatles to full scale superstardom and even though it isn’t a favourite for most of us its cultural impact cannot be underestimated.

Posted by: Roba. 3rd May 2024, 05:02 PM

Two really big ones there and both super.

Posted by: jimwatts 3rd May 2024, 05:57 PM

Another top pointer yay, possibly the last (on my own anyway with my 50-pointer still to come). Cultural impact be damned, its relentless optimism lives on.

Whereas I don't get the appeal of 'Hello Goodbye' whatsoever, does it get bonus hipster points for appearing on the blue album or something hehe.

Posted by: JulianT 4th May 2024, 09:50 AM

26th: 350 points
All You Need Is Love



Chart run: 2-{1}-1-1-2-2-3-6-13-15-21-27-40->13

popchartfreak 44
Bjork 43
steve201 41
Ben08 41
Severin 33
gooddelta 31
Roba. 22
dandy* 22
King Rollo 19
…ready for it 15
Chez Wombat 13
jimwatts 13
Brer 13
Jade 0
danG 0
Notorious D.O.T. 0
WhoOdyssey 0
JulianT 0

This July 1967 non album single encapsulated the ideals of the summer of love, and was their contribution to “Our World”, the first ever live multinational television link. The song opens with an excerpt from the French national anthem and includes an orchestral arrangement by George Martin.

It seems fitting that this appears next to “She Loves You”, as John sings “She loves you yeah! yeah! yeah!” during the long coda, which includes references to various other songs and musical works.

Posted by: Popchartfreak 4th May 2024, 11:58 AM

2 hippie pop anthems major faves for me there. I cant separate my love for them from being 9 years old and loving those tunes. A peace anthem and a joyous romp with a tinge if sadness that doesnt let up 1967 was Peak Beatles for me. She Loves You became a caricature of itself and Beatlemania in pop culture of the time so i can never get over that but its still fun.

Posted by: chartjack2 4th May 2024, 01:09 PM

Sorry I missed this, but this would be my Top 50

1 While My Guitar Gently Weeps
2 Something
3 Across the Universe
4 Revolution
5 Come Together
6 Here, There and Everywhere
7 In My Life
8 Penny Lane
9 I Me Mine
10 I Am the Walrus
11 Here Comes the Sun
12 Tomorrow Never Knows
13 All My Loving
14 Lady Madonna
15 I’m Only Sleeping
16 We Can Work It Out
17 Strawberry Fields Forever
18 Eleanor Rigby
19 A Day in the Life
20 Don’t Let Me Down
21 Hey Jude
22 Hello, Goodbye
23 Ticket to Ride
24 I Saw Her Standing There
25 Back in the USSR
26 I Feel Fine
27 Got to Get You Into My Life
28 Blackbird
29 All You Need Is Love
30 Love Me Do
31 You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away
32 Get Back
33 She Loves You
34 Yesterday
35 Day Tripper
36 Let It Be
37 Norwegian Wood
38 Paperback Writer
39 Now and Then
40 Can’t Buy Me Love
41 The Long and Winding Road
42 Real Love
43 I Want to Hold Your Hand
44 Dear Prudence
45 Free as a Bird
46 Eight Days a Week
47 Within You, Without You
48 Please Please Me
49 This Boy
50 Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

Posted by: JulianT 4th May 2024, 11:00 PM

25th: 377 points
Day Tripper



Double A side chart run: Chart run: 2-{1}-1-1-1-1-2-4-7-13-27-46->12

…ready for it 41
Chez Wombat 34
Jade 32
dandy* 32
Roba. 31
danG 29
Notorious D.O.T. 29
Severin 28
steve201 22
King Rollo 20
JulianT 20
gooddelta 15
WhoOdyssey 13
Bjork 11
ben08 11
popchartfreak 9
jimwatts 0
Brer 0

“Day Tripper” was recorded during the “Rubber Soul” sessions, but released as a double A side non album single with “We Can Work It Out” in December 1965. The single became their 3rd consecutive UK Christmas #1. In the US “Day Tripper” reached #5 as a stand alone track.

The double A side is another example of a pair of tracks complementing each other well, as “Day Tripper” is a more rocky song with soul influences written by John while the other side, which finishes higher here, is more poppy and by Paul.

Posted by: JulianT 5th May 2024, 05:21 PM

24th: 381 points
Twist And Shout



2010 download chart run: {48}-69->2

steve201 48
ben08 47
Roba. 44
danG 42
…ready for it 38
jimwatts 33
Severin 31
WhoOdyssey 25
popchartfreak 24
gooddelta 24
Bjork 23
Notorious D.O.T. 2
Jade 0
Chez Wombat 0
King Rollo 0
dandy* 0
JulianT 0
Brer 0

Other than “Baby It’s You” this is the only cover version in the rate. It was written in 1961 and the most notable prior version is by the Isley Brothers. A later version by Brian Poole And The Tremeloes reached #4 in the UK in 1963. The Beatles version wasn’t a UK single but reached #2 in the US.

The track was recorded at the end of the “Please Please Me” sessions and is notable for John’s incredibly hoarse voice. He was ashamed of the performance at the time but his version has come to be regarded as the definitive version of one of the greatest early rock ‘n’ roll songs.

Posted by: JulianT 5th May 2024, 10:01 PM

23rd: 382 points
I Want To Hold Your Hand



Chart run: 10-{1}-1-1-1-1-2-3-6-7-15-15-17-25-24-25-32-42-40-48-50-48R(3)->22

ben08 48
…ready for it 43
Bjork 39
Severin 37
steve201 30
Chez Wombat 29
gooddelta 29
jimwatts 26
Roba. 23
WhoOdyssey 23
dandy* 16
King Rollo 15
JulianT 14
popchartfreak 10
Jade 0
danG 0
Notorious D.O.T. 0
Brer 0

This is their 2nd biggest pure seller and one of the 20 biggest ever in the UK with more than 1.8 million sales. It was their first Billboard #1 and the first of their UK Christmas #1. The song was very much a joint writing effort by John and Paul, and their first song to use multi-track recording.

Here this is the highest placed song before “A Hard Day’s Night”, meaning all the early material is now out. There are now also several other voters joining gooddelta in having voted for everything that is left.

Posted by: dandy* 5th May 2024, 10:09 PM

Twist and Shout is way too high for me. It’s really not my type of thing at all.

I Want to Hold Your Hand is definitely one of their best early singles, I felt it was quite a step up when I listened to vote.

Posted by: Chez Wombat 5th May 2024, 11:14 PM

Their early material isn't on the same level of their experimental stuff, but I Want To Hold Your Hand is probably my favourite of them, a very timeless song. The German version bangs too x

Posted by: Popchartfreak 6th May 2024, 08:48 AM

Day Tripper is great but always preferred t'other side, while I want To Hold Your Head was one dad bought so I grew up with it - in the US this was the monster biggest-selling frenzy-causing scene-changing iconic pop culture moment of 1960's US history, so it's only right it should be the highest-charting of the early stuff.

Posted by: Popchartfreak 6th May 2024, 08:51 AM

Twist & Shout, though, was huge at the time thanks to EP's getting treated like singles and along with Let's Twist Again spearheaded that dance-obsession that gripped the UK in 1962/3. John's vocals are amazing and lift the recording up from great to classic.

Posted by: JulianT 6th May 2024, 12:01 PM

22nd: 405 points
Across The Universe



JulianT 48
King Rollo 47
Brer 44
Jade 40
Chez Wombat 37
Notorious D.O.T. 35
popchartfreak 27
danG 27
dandy* 27
WhoOdyssey 22
Bjork 17
gooddelta 10
Roba. 9
ben08 7
…ready for it 5
jimwatts 3
Severin 0
steve201 0

This is included on “Let It Be”, though the first version of it appeared on a 1969 compilation album. It was considered by John to be one of his lyrically best and most poetic ballads. It was influenced by Transcendental Meditation, and the Sanskrit phrase “Jai guru deva om” loosely translates as “all hail the divine guru”. In 2008 NASA transmitted the song as an interstellar message in the direction of Polaris.

As a heavy daydreamer this has been a big favourite for me both as a child and an adult. Chartjack2’s 48 points from the last part would have carried it into the Top 20 but alas it falls just shy.

Posted by: JulianT 6th May 2024, 04:37 PM

21st: 415 points
I Am The Walrus



King Rollo 44
popchartfreak 41
Notorious D.O.T. 40
Brer 39
Jade 38
dandy* 37
JulianT 35
Chez Wombat 31
Severin 29
jimwatts 23
danG 18
Steve201 15
…ready for it 10
gooddelta 9
WhoOdyssey 6
Bjork 0
ben08 0
Roba. 0

This was written by John and included on the “Magical Mystery Tour EP” and the film of the same name. He was partly inspired by Lewis Carroll’s similarly nonsensical poem “The Walrus And The Carpenter” in writing this.

Here it’s the highest placed song from the EP which peaked at #2 in the UK, and it was held off by “Hello Goodbye” which had “I Am The Walrus” as its B side, meaning that it had the unique honour of featuring in the UK #1 and #2 simultaneously.

This would also have been in the Top 20 had chartjack2’s votes counted.

Posted by: JulianT 6th May 2024, 04:52 PM

(1962-1966 Disc 1)
1. Love Me Do
2. Please Please Me
3. I Saw Her Standing There
4. Twist And Shout
5. From Me To You
6. She Loves You
7. I Want To Hold Your Hand
8. This Boy
9. All My Loving
10. Roll Over Beethoven
11. You Really Got A Hold On Me
12. Can’t Buy Me Love
13. You Can’t Do That
14. A Hard Day’s Night
15. And I Love Her
16. Eight Days A Week
17. I Feel Fine
18. Ticket To Ride
19. Yesterday

(1962-1966 Disc 2)
20. Help!
21. You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away
22. We Can Work It Out
23. Day Tripper
24. Drive My Car
25. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
26. Nowhere Man
27. Michelle
28. In My Life
29. If I Needed Someone
30. Girl
31. Paperback Writer
32. Eleanor Rigby
33. Yellow Submarine
34. Taxman
35. Got To Get You Into My Life
36. I’m Only Sleeping
37. Here, There And Everywhere
38. Tomorrow Never Knows

(1967-1970 Disc 1)
39. Strawberry Fields Forever
40. Penny Lane
41. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
42. With A Little Help From My Friends
43. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
44. Within You Without You
45. A Day In The Life
46. All You Need Is Love
47. I Am The Walrus
48. Hello, Goodbye
49. The Fool On The Hill
50. Magical Mystery Tour
51. Lady Madonna
52. Hey Jude
53. Revolution

(1967-1970 Disc 2)
54. Back In The U.S.S.R.
55. Dear Prudence
56. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
57. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
58. Glass Onion
59. Blackbird
60. Hey Bulldog
61. Get Back
62. Don’t Let Me Down
63. The Ballad of John and Yoko
64. Old Brown Shoe
65. Here Comes The Sun
66. Come Together
67. Something
68. Octopus’s Garden
69. Oh! Darling
70. I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
71. Let It Be
72. Across The Universe
73. I Me Mine
74. The Long And Winding Road
75. Now And Then

90s Top 10 hits:
76. Baby It’s You
77. Free As A Bird
78. Real Love

Posted by: JulianT 6th May 2024, 05:07 PM

Points left to give /1,275:

1 (4) danG 713
2 (2) Chez Wombat 709
3= (1) Roba. 693
3= (6) Jade 693
5 (7) JulianT 683
6 (9) Brer 663
7 (8) gooddelta 648
8 (3) steve201 644
9 (13) dandy* 619
10 (15) Notorious D.O.T. 607

11 (11) King Rollo 598
12 (12) Bjork 585
13 (14) jimwatts 574
14 (5) Severin 569
15= (9) ben08 530
15= (16) popchartfreak 530
17 (18) WhoOdyssey 406
18 (17) …ready for it 399

And chartjack2 would have 563 at this point (ignoring the fact that the Top 20 would have been different).

Posted by: Roba. 7th May 2024, 03:36 PM

Slid off from the top now. Expected lol.

Glad a lot of my high pointers still in and making top 20 but not a surprise most of them!

Posted by: ben08 7th May 2024, 03:42 PM

Posted by: JulianT 7th May 2024, 05:50 PM

20th: 418 points
Paperback Writer



Chart run: 2-{1}-1-2-7-14-19-21-30-40-50->11

WhoOdyssey 46
dandy* 46
Roba. 42
Brer 42
…ready for it 34
steve201 29
Jade 28
Severin 26
Notorious D.O.T. 24
goodelta 23
jimwatts 22
JulianT 19
Chez Wombat 17
King Rollo 11
danG 8
popchartfreak 1
Bjork 0
ben08 0

This was largely a Paul written song and their 10th consecutive UK #1 from an official release in 1966. It was the last new song to be featured on their final tour.

The song is notable for the opening statement where the voices come in one by one in harmony, and the boosted bass guitar sound. It also sees them moving into more diverse lyrical subject matters, and Paul apparently based it on a letter he had received from a budding novelist.

Posted by: Roba. 7th May 2024, 07:16 PM

'Paperback Writer' a great start to the top 20

Posted by: JulianT 7th May 2024, 09:03 PM

19th: 422 points
Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)



Severin 49
Jade 48
dandy* 41
JulianT 41
danG 40
steve201 40
Brer 35
jimwatts 32
popchartfreak 29
Notorious D.O.T. 19
Chez Wombat 16
King Rollo 13
Bjork 8
ben08 8
gooddelta 3
…ready for it 0
Roba. 0
WhoOdyssey 0

This was mainly written by John with contributions from Paul, and appears on “Rubber Soul”. The introspective lyrics were Dylan inspired, and the sitar part played by George was the first appearance of that instrument on a Western recording and marked the beginning of the group’s and especially George’s association with Indian classical music. It topped the Australian charts when released as a single with “Nowhere Man”.

I love the gentle simplicity of this, both with the straightforward repeated tune and the delightfully mundane lyrics, and it’s surely up there with the group’s finest ballads. It has done very well here especially with its top end votes, receiving half a dozen scores of 40 or more and 2 podium scores.

Posted by: dandy* 7th May 2024, 09:07 PM

Two of my top 10 falling

Love Norwegian Wood - although I should confess that the first time I heard the song was the PM Dawn cover version on their Bliss Album :hide:

Paperback Writer gone far too early even though it did make top 20. It's just really distinctive with the guitar lines and harmonies, one of my absolute favourites of theirs.

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 7th May 2024, 09:15 PM

Huh, I quite like 'Norwegian Wood' and thought I'd given it some points! It must have slipped my mind.

Posted by: JulianT 8th May 2024, 01:01 PM

18th: 430 points
We Can Work It Out



WhoOdyssey 43
JulianT 42
dandy* 40
Chez Wombat 35
danG 30
Brer 30
popchartfreak 26
King Rollo 24
…ready for it 21
steve201 21
Notorious D.O.T. 21
jimwatts 19
Roba. 17
ben08 16
gooddelta 14
Jade 12
Bjork 12
Severin 7

Like its double A side single twin “Day Tripper” this was recorded during the “Rubber Soul” sessions but not included on the album. The double A side was the 7th biggest selling single of the 1960s in the UK and The Beatles’ 5th highest after “She Loves You”, “I Want To Hold Your Hand”, “Can’t Buy Me Love” and “I Feel Fine”. “Hey Jude” is now the only pure million seller remaining in the rate.

Paul is thought to have written the song about his relationship with Jane Asher. However John wrote the “Life is very short…” bridge section which might be seen to contrast with Paul’s optimistic message.

This is the highest of the 5 Christmas #1 tracks and the first song to have received points from all 18 voters, something which even some of the very top tracks didn’t achieve as we’ll see.

Posted by: Popchartfreak 8th May 2024, 04:35 PM

All classic tracks there, love I Am The Walrus especially, but am surprised at Paperback Writer being so popular - at the time it was far and away the least-known song of their 60's hits, I genuinely don't recall hearing it at all until the 70's when it was used as the theme tune to Read All About It book review show, whereas I knew all of the other Beatles singles bar Strawberry Fields (little airplay) and Come Together (Something got the all the fame). In 1976, though, it was the 5th best-selling Beatles single behind Yesterday (top 10), Hey Jude (12), Back In The USSR (top 20), and Get Back (top 30).

Nearly 50 years on, here at least it beats 2 of those singles - but drops behind some others. For info, Strawberry Fields was top 40 (Penny lane not listed) and a bunch of others were in the 51-75 range had they been publishing charts that long then.

Posted by: JulianT 8th May 2024, 06:16 PM

17th: 440 points
A Hard Day’s Night



Chart run: 3-{1}-1-1-2-2-5-6-10-15-19-24-28->13

…ready for it 45
Severin 43
steve201 38
gooddelta 37
ben08 36
Brer 31
WhoOdyssey 30
Roba. 28
Bjork 26
danG 22
King Rollo 21
popchartfreak 19
Jade 16
dandy* 15
JulianT 15
Notorious D.O.T. 11
Chez Wombat 7
jimwatts 0

This was a John written song as well as the title track of both their 3rd studio album and their 1st feature film. It was the first time that both a single and album by the same artist topped both the UK and US charts. Peter Sellers reached the UK Top 20 in 1965 with a comic spoken cover version.

The opening chord, played by George on a Rickenbacker 12 string guitar, is one of the most discussed song openings of all time, and the closing instrumental part is also much discussed and inspired bands such as The Byrds. For me the single represents a significant step forward from the band from catchy unchallenging pop-rock to something much more adventurous.

Posted by: jimwatts 8th May 2024, 07:37 PM

Aww, 'A Hard Day's Night' was just outside my votes - the opening chord is iconic, I just prefer the melodies to some of their unchallenging songs from the year before. I think I voted for everything else in the top 20 ('Norwegian Wood' 19th in my vote as well as the result).

Posted by: Jade 8th May 2024, 07:49 PM

Oops didn't mean to fall so behind, looks like I've lost a handful from my top 15 since I last commented:

'Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)' (+48)
'I Want You (She’s So Heavy)' (+46)
'Across The Universe' (+40)
'I Am The Walrus' (+38)

a real mix of sounds there, from the nonsensical thrills of 'I Am The Walrus' to the intense hard rock of 'I Want You (She's So Heavy)' - albeit, with a casual Latin style section thrown in. Love how much of a sonic shift 'Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)' is when you do a full discography listen - what a beauty that is.

Posted by: Severin 9th May 2024, 12:47 PM

Norwegian Wood is really very special for me as it holds some very specific memories, as well as being a gorgeous piece.

I will never understand how We Can Work it Out is so high, though. I'm clearly in the minority but I just find it so bland and ordinary.

Posted by: JulianT 9th May 2024, 06:14 PM

16th: 480 points
Penny Lane



Double A side chart run: 5-{2}-2-2-5-10-8-12-23-36-50->11

Bjork 48
popchartfreak 46
King Rollo 40
ben08 39
gooddelta 34
Severin 32
danG 28
steve201 28
Jade 27
WhoOdyssey 27
Brer 27
Notorious D.O.T. 25
JulianT 23
…ready for it 18
Chez Wombat 14
jimwatts 14
Roba. 6
dandy* 4

This had originally been planned for the “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club” album, but instead was released as part of a double A side single with “Strawberry Fields Forever” in early 1967 to satisfy the demand for a new release. It did top the Melody Maker chart but on the Record Retailer chart was blocked by Engelbert Humperdinck’s “Release Me”, leading to claims that the Beatles’ bubble had finally burst as it was their first official release since “Please Please Me” to miss #1.

It’s a Paul song about his Liverpool childhood, referring to real places and was the more commercial and favourably received of the double A side tracks at the time. This is the 2nd of 6 tracks that received points from every voter.

Posted by: My... WAP?? 9th May 2024, 07:40 PM

As if that double-A was blocked from #1 by that dreary old codshit.

The other half is naturally my favourite given my votes but Penny Lane is also excellent in its own way.

Posted by: Popchartfreak 10th May 2024, 10:04 AM

Norwegian Wood is just gorgeous and very "John", fell in love with it off the Red album in 1976 when I got it for christmas. Hard Days's Night brings back memories of Chesham-living and seeing the film at the pictures. Chesham hasn't changed at all since 1964/5 (OK a few new minor housing estates, but not much else, I still found my way round the old neighbourhood no problems at all last year), and the record still sounds great. Penny Lane, and I'm on the rural Isle Of Anglesey and adoring this Beatles record. Penny Lane was already well-known in Liverpool, where we'd just moved from and I no doubt would still have had my Scouse accent. Still one of my all-time fave Beatles records love it.

Posted by: JulianT 12th May 2024, 09:15 PM

15th: 491 points
In My Life



JulianT 49
…ready for it 46
jimwatts 40
ben08 38
Roba. 37
Notorious D.O.T. 37
danG 34
dandy* 34
King Rollo 33
Chez Wombat 32
Jade 30
WhoOdyssey 29
Bjork 21
gooddelta 17
Severin 14
popchartfreak 0
steve201 0
Brer 0

This is a “Rubber Soul” song written by both John and Paul. George Martin played the distinctive piano solo, which was sped up to sound more like a harpsichord.

Thiis was named the greatest song of all time by “Mojo” magazine, and has appeared in the Top 100 songs ever created by “Rolling Stone” magazine both times they have run the poll of experts. Of course it’s simple musically (yet beautiful), but it’s the lyrics that for me are so incredibly special and encapsulate the feelings you might have for someone special in your life, whether it’s a significant other, a parent, child or a good friend.

Posted by: Popchartfreak 13th May 2024, 09:34 AM

I loved In My Life when I was younger - I first heard it covered by Twiggy of all people on some TV show or other - and the lyrics are incredibly sad. Which is why I can't bear to listen to it now I'm older and the number of people who have died that I love gets larger and larger with each passing year. I have the same response to Imagine - played at funerals, don't want to be reminded of that. In My Life is a very mature song for someone so young though, much like Jackson Browne's song These Days, 17 when he wrote it, it works best when covered by someone much older (like Glen Campbell).

Posted by: JulianT 13th May 2024, 08:08 PM

14th: 492 points
Something



Double A side chart run: 15-6-{4}-6-8-11-18-21-21-18-40-45->12

gooddelta 50
JulianT 47
Jade 44
Chez Wombat 44
Notorious D.O.T. 43
Roba. 41
danG 38
Brer 37
Bjork 32
jimwatts 27
ben08 23
King Rollo 22
dandy* 20
popchartfreak 14
WhoOdyssey 7
…ready for it 3
Severin 0
steve201 0

Unusually for them this was included both on a double A side single, alongside “Come Together”, and on a studio album, namely “Abbey Road”. Its presence on the album weakened the single’s performance in the UK where it peaked at #4, but it was a US #1.

It was the first time a George written and led song was an A side single, and is thought to mark the point where he really emerged as a songwriter of Lennon And McCartney’s calibre. It’s an incredibly powerful ballad and the “I don’t know” climax on the bridge is my favourite part.

Here gooddelta becomes only the 2nd voter to lose their 50 pointer, after …ready for it’s, “Hey Bulldog”, went out very early.

Posted by: gooddelta 13th May 2024, 08:30 PM

Gosh, I wouldn't have expected Something to miss the top ten, an incredible piece of music. That unmistakeable guitar, the verses, the chorus - all magic.

George was definitely showing his strengths by this point, I would agree that he was matching Lennon and McCartney's contributions toe to toe by the late 60s.

Posted by: Jade 13th May 2024, 08:38 PM

'Something' is gorgeous, one of my favourite ever love songs Pattie Boyd had some incredible tunes written about her as 'Layla' is right up there for me too.

'Penny Lane' and 'In My Life' are good recent dropouts also - the latter always makes me think of the first time I saw The Bootleg Beatles live, as it was played as a tribute to George Martin who had very recently passed away at the time. It also showed up at my cousin's wedding a couple of months ago so happy memories there!

Posted by: Steve201 13th May 2024, 10:54 PM

Listening to this rate there’s so many songs I wish I’d voted for which simply shows the genius of this band. ‘In My Life’ is beautiful I mean how did a person in their twenties like Lennon write such a mature song at his age, pure genius. You do take a lot for granted with the Beatles but we should be thankful they have left so many great pieces of music for the people to listen to during the centuries!

Also interesting in the voter divide between pre 65 songs and post 65 - I for one love the pure pop of 63 as much as the experimental stuff of 67! Enjoyable in their own ways!

Posted by: Popchartfreak 14th May 2024, 09:42 AM

I kinda missed Something a bit when it came out - newly in Singapore and we'd just moved into out first house, started new school and hadn't really got our stuff from the UK that we shipped over (not much, clothes and an old record player/radio) so I just caught occasional plays of it here and there and it was very nice but not eye-catching, a bit too MOR for my then-tastes, but it grew over the years once I'd gotten over all the millions of not-Beatles covers. No cover has ever been as good. It was My Sweet Lord that made me into a George songwriter fan - though I liked all of his songs I wasnt aware they were his songs until later on.

Posted by: JulianT 14th May 2024, 09:51 PM

13th: 506 points
While My Guitar Gently Weeps



Brer 47
steve201 44
Notorious D.O.T. 44
JulianT 43
dandy* 42
Chez Wombat 39
danG 39
Roba. 38
Jade 37
Severin 23
King Rollo 23
popchartfreak 20
jimwatts 18
Bjork 18
ben08 18
gooddelta 13
…ready for it 0
WhoOdyssey 0

It’s back to back George as this song from the “White Album” lands here. The plaintive ballad was written after the group’s return from India and might be thought to lament the disharmony within the group or the state of the world generally. George’s friend Eric Clapton contributed to the recording. Originally it was going to be a simple acoustic track but in the end it was given a much heavier rock style production.

This received chartjack2’s belated 50 points, and the scores for the next few are so close that this would have come 8th with his votes counted. It’s certainly a beautiful and mesmerising track.

Posted by: Roba. 14th May 2024, 10:04 PM

'Something' was one of the many I wasn't as familiar whilst listening to the songs but a great record. 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' I bumped up a bit more on another listen. Done very well to make it 13th best here!

Posted by: My... WAP?? 14th May 2024, 10:40 PM

Love, love, love both of those.

Posted by: Severin 14th May 2024, 11:37 PM

QUOTE(Popchartfreak @ 13th May 2024, 10:34 AM)

Posted by: Severin 14th May 2024, 11:42 PM

Something is one of those songs that is obviously briiliant from whichever angle I look at it but yet it somehow leaves me completely cold.

Posted by: Popchartfreak 15th May 2024, 09:27 AM

The Clapton version never really did much for me, never a favourite, didn't really need Eric on it apart from calming band tensions. I was very much a fan of the Love Album alternate take version, though, a highlight of that project and a chart-topper for me, I think it gave the song more of a spotlight rather than God Clapton's (as he was revered at the time with Layla still on the way) guitar sound.

Posted by: jimwatts 15th May 2024, 02:07 PM

I think everything that's left made my top 30 except my +1 and +9 pointers - both #1s although I'm a little surprised they've got this far.

Posted by: JulianT 15th May 2024, 11:15 PM

12th: 508 points
Come Together



Brer 48
steve201 47
Notorious D.O.T. 45
danG 44
Chez Wombat 38
Bjork 38
Jade 35
Roba. 33
gooddelta 30
jimwatts 28
Ben08 24
dandy* 23
Severin 22
…ready for it 19
JulianT 18
King Rollo 16
popchartfreak 0
WhoOdyssey 0

This John written song that opened “Abbey Road” and was the grittier double A side single twin of “Something”. It was inspired by counterculture figures speaking to him after he and Yoko had been joining anti Vietnam war protests, whose slogan was “Come together - join the party!”

The song’s bluesy style was the subject of a lawsuit for its similarity to Chuck Berry’s “You Can’t Catch Me”, which no doubt inspired it. Ringo placed tea towels on the drums to create the distinctive damp sound.

This would also have reached the Top 10 including chartjack2’s votes.

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 15th May 2024, 11:16 PM

I've never been a fan of Come Together really, I've always found it a bit dull!

Posted by: My... WAP?? 16th May 2024, 01:24 AM

Another of my personal top 10 falling there.

Posted by: Steve201 16th May 2024, 05:56 AM

QUOTE(WhoOdyssey @ 16th May 2024, 12:16 AM)

Posted by: Popchartfreak 16th May 2024, 09:54 AM

Never got it either, rarely got radio plays and I first heard it when I bought the Blue album in 1975 and was unimpressed in comparison to other tracks. I liked it but didnt love it. It started to pick up in the 90's when Michael Jackson covered it (having bought The Beatles rights obv) and it's seems to have grown in the 21st century in stature - but still passes me by. Ballad Of John & Yoko anyday for me...

Posted by: JulianT 16th May 2024, 01:05 PM

11th: 515 points
Ticket To Ride



Chart run: 11-{1}-1-1-2-3-7-10-14-24-32-50->12

Severin 47
danG 43
…ready for it 42
Chez Wombat 40
Roba. 40
Jade 36
steve201 33
Bjork 30
popchartfreak 28
King Rollo 28
JulianT 27
gooddelta 25
Notorious D.O.T. 23
WhoOdyssey 21
Ben08 20
Brer 16
jimwatts 9
dandy* 7

This was primarily a John song, and was released as a single in April 1965 and later included on the “Help!” album. It’s another track with a distinctive riff played by George on the Rickenbacker 12 stringed guitar, and an interesting coda section.

Like “A Hard Day’s Night” from the previous year, it feels like a step forward from everything that went before, both lyrically with its more sophisticated theme and musically with more avant garde and complex instrumentation. It was also the first Beatles track to exceed 3 minutes.

Here it’s the 3rd of 6 songs to receive points from every voter.

Posted by: JulianT 16th May 2024, 01:10 PM

(1962-1966 Disc 1)
1. Love Me Do
2. Please Please Me
3. I Saw Her Standing There
4. Twist And Shout
5. From Me To You
6. She Loves You
7. I Want To Hold Your Hand
8. This Boy
9. All My Loving
10. Roll Over Beethoven
11. You Really Got A Hold On Me
12. Can’t Buy Me Love
13. You Can’t Do That
14. A Hard Day’s Night
15. And I Love Her
16. Eight Days A Week
17. I Feel Fine
18. Ticket To Ride
19. Yesterday

(1962-1966 Disc 2)
20. Help!
21. You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away
22. We Can Work It Out
23. Day Tripper
24. Drive My Car
25. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
26. Nowhere Man
27. Michelle
28. In My Life
29. If I Needed Someone
30. Girl
31. Paperback Writer
32. Eleanor Rigby
33. Yellow Submarine
34. Taxman
35. Got To Get You Into My Life
36. I’m Only Sleeping
37. Here, There And Everywhere
38. Tomorrow Never Knows

(1967-1970 Disc 1)
39. Strawberry Fields Forever
40. Penny Lane
41. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
42. With A Little Help From My Friends
43. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
44. Within You Without You
45. A Day In The Life
46. All You Need Is Love
47. I Am The Walrus
48. Hello, Goodbye
49. The Fool On The Hill
50. Magical Mystery Tour
51. Lady Madonna
52. Hey Jude
53. Revolution

(1967-1970 Disc 2)
54. Back In The U.S.S.R.
55. Dear Prudence
56. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
57. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
58. Glass Onion
59. Blackbird
60. Hey Bulldog
61. Get Back
62. Don’t Let Me Down
63. The Ballad of John and Yoko
64. Old Brown Shoe
65. Here Comes The Sun
66. Come Together
67. Something
68. Octopus’s Garden
69. Oh! Darling
70. I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
71. Let It Be
72. Across The Universe
73. I Me Mine
74. The Long And Winding Road
75. Now And Then

90s Top 10 hits:
76. Baby It’s You
77. Free As A Bird
78. Real Love

Posted by: JulianT 16th May 2024, 01:20 PM

Points left to give /1,275:

1 (2) Chez Wombat 427
2 (3) Roba. 411
3 (7) gooddelta 402
4 (1) danG 387
5 (3) Jade 380
6 (11) King Rollo 367
7 (13) jimwatts 365
8 (8) steve201 361
9 (5) JulianT 359
10 (12) Bjork 352

11 (6) Brer 350
12 = (9) dandy* 347
12 = (15) popchartfreak 347
14 (10) Notorious D.O.T. 315
15 (15) ben08 308
16 (14) Severin 306
17 (17) WhoOdyssey 203
18 (18) …ready for it 171

And chartjack2 would have 241

Posted by: Severin 16th May 2024, 01:25 PM

Add me to the list of those that don't see the fuss around Come Together. It's fine but like popchartfreak says nobody discussed it much until the 90s. Although I wouldn't credit Jackson's version so much - that was actually recorded for his Bad album but slipped out quietly in 1988 on Moonwalker.
In my circles it got noticed more after McCartney, Paul Weller and Noel Gallagher recorded it as the Smokin' Mojo Filters for the Help project.

Posted by: JulianT 16th May 2024, 01:37 PM

8 of the Top 10 received at least one 50 pointer and the other 2 multiple 49s. One track received 5 sets of 50 points…

Posted by: Roba. 16th May 2024, 02:12 PM

Aww at 'Ticket To Ride' just falling short of top 10 here but with what's made it can't also moan about that!

Posted by: Chez Wombat 16th May 2024, 04:17 PM

Unsurprising for me to say given the leaderboard, but fantastic top 10 there, even the ones that have tired from overplay are full-on classics and some proper psychedelic classics too *.*

Though Something and Come Together really should've been there too, two of their very best singles.

Posted by: dandy* 16th May 2024, 04:20 PM

I wouldn’t have guessed that Help would make the top 10, nor Tomorrow Never Knows

Posted by: JulianT 17th May 2024, 12:26 PM

10th: 521 points
A Day In The Life



Severin 50
danG 50
King Rollo 50
dandy* 50
JulianT 50
jimwatts 49
Notorious D.O.T. 48
Jade 43
Chez Wombat 43
Brer 36
Roba. 32
gooddelta 18
popchartfreak 2
…ready for it 0
Bjork 0
steve201 0
ben08 0
WhoOdyssey 0

QUOTE(JulianT @ 16th May 2024, 02:37 PM)

Posted by: Severin 17th May 2024, 01:22 PM

I'm amazed that anyone wouldn't put this in their top 10 Beatles songs. I guess that's testament to the quality of the work but for me this really is flawless

Posted by: chartjack2 17th May 2024, 01:53 PM

A Day in the Life is ruined by Paul’s middle eight, sorry.

Posted by: My... WAP?? 17th May 2024, 01:55 PM

I'm also shocked that quite a few wouldn't rank A Day In The Life even among the top 50 Beatles records.

It's right up there for me, hence getting my bronze position. Pioneering, experimental, psychedelic brilliance.

Posted by: jimwatts 17th May 2024, 02:30 PM

'A Day In The Life' below 'Help!'? Oh boy...
At least it's top 10, but there was a while when it was my favourite song of all time.

Posted by: Severin 17th May 2024, 04:06 PM

I think when you place A Day in the Life within its historical context, it just goes to show what a completely groundbreaking and astonishing piece of work it is. It really is a masterpiece of writing, arrangement and production. Nobody had ever recorded anything quite like it before and it sits comfortably among the most influential songs of all time. With due respect to other acts like The Velvets, Pink Floyd, Beach Boys, Byrds, Hendrix etc, the entire late sixties music scene underwent a seismic shift in their wake, with A Day in the Life regularly cited as a point of inspiration.

Even to this day it still gets rated as one of the greatest songs of all time, and the juxtaposition from John's surrealistic parts to Paul's more traditional section only serves to make the song even more strange, dream like and otherworldy. The transition to and from that is exceptional too.

For many of my younger years I would casually dismiss The Beatles and much of the era as the music of my parents. Combined with my earliest exposure to music being Punk and Disco (and I didn't like Disco), The Beatles seemed like a relic for a different generation to cling to, even though their songs were always on the radio they seemed irrelevant when compared to all the Punk/New Wave and later Post Punk and New Romantic stuff that seemed so fresh and exciting.

But if you go back and look at their work with the benefit of histrical context and free from any prejudiced thoughts... boy were they a phenominal band when they went for it.

Posted by: Severin 17th May 2024, 04:08 PM

Out of curiosity, what would chartjack2's point have done for its placing?

Posted by: Roba. 17th May 2024, 05:13 PM

'A Day In The Life' a great start to the top 10. I gave 'Help!' my maximum points so no shade

Posted by: chartjack2 17th May 2024, 05:14 PM

QUOTE(Severin @ 17th May 2024, 05:08 PM)

Posted by: JulianT 17th May 2024, 05:16 PM

QUOTE(Severin @ 17th May 2024, 05:08 PM)

Posted by: Steve201 17th May 2024, 08:05 PM

QUOTE(Severin @ 17th May 2024, 05:06 PM)

Posted by: Popchartfreak 18th May 2024, 08:48 AM

Ticket To Ride so close, a major influence on the sound of poprock at the time, and a key moment in Help! the movie, basically the first travelogue-frollicking-video. Loved it. Still sounds fresh.

I agree with the comments on A Day In The Life (and apply them to Sgt Pepper the album in general), ground-breaking, but I prefer other Lennon psychedelia tracks and I also was never that keen on the Paul bits. In the end I voted for favourites rather than on musical merit, have to go with my heart not my head, but oh my word that ending!

Posted by: Bjork 18th May 2024, 09:12 AM

Paul ruined it with his part, is there a Paul-free version of the song?

Posted by: dandy* 18th May 2024, 10:42 AM

I like Paul’s part of the song. I think it wouldn’t be as good without it as the contrast between those parts keeps the momentum going and keeps it interesting. I always saw it as a deliberate contrast between what’s happening out in the world and the more mundane day to day life of Paul’s part, it works really well imo

Posted by: JulianT 18th May 2024, 10:48 AM

Yeah echoing dandy*, for me there’s no song that more perfectly captures waking up from a dream and being confronted by the mundanity of life.

Posted by: JulianT 19th May 2024, 10:01 PM

9th: 522 points
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds



WhoOdyssey 50
Chez Wombat 46
Roba. 45
popchartfreak 43
jimwatts 43
Jade 41
gooddelta 41
Brer 40
Severin 38
DanG 35
King Rollo 32
Notorious D.O.T. 31
steve201 20
JulianT 12
dandy* 5
…ready for it 0
Bjork 0
ben08 0

And so beating “A Day In The Life” by all of 1 point, with eight 40 plus scores and a maximum from WhoOdyssey, it’s this other psychedelic adventure, also from “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”. An Elton John cover was a US #1 in 1974.

While many have thought it to be no coincidence that the title’s principal words abbreviate to “LSD”, the inspiration apparently was far more innocent, when John’s son Julian said his school drawing was of Lucy in the sky with diamonds. The track uses a Lowrey organ and an Indian tambura drone, distorted in the studio to create the sense of the imagination going somewhere unusual.

Posted by: Chez Wombat 19th May 2024, 10:33 PM

Lucy in the Sky... one of my absolute favourites, such a joyful psychedelic trip A Day in the Life is also brilliant and obviously one of the most groundbreaking pieces of popular music there's ever been. I agree that the contrast between vocals is what makes it so good.

Help! above both of these is a bit questionable, it feels a bit of an odd one out in this top 10.

Posted by: Severin 20th May 2024, 01:38 AM

I agree that Help! being yet to appear seems odd but to me it sits right at the crossroads between them being a pop group who mainly wrote boy meets girl love song and them embracing more thoughtful subject matter. For a band like that to release a track that is essentially about depression and desperation, yet nailed to a great pop sensibility, was quite a leap back then.

I suspect it's done so well here because it has broad appeal, being appreciated by those who like the earlier sound and those who admire the later works too.

I really like it, even if I don't place it amongst their best but it is a milestone in their career and in John's writing, in the same way that Paperback Writer was for Paul.

Posted by: Popchartfreak 20th May 2024, 09:43 AM

Love Lucy In The Sky, it was one I heard now and again before Elton took it chart-bound in 1974 with help from John - they were palling around a lot in '74 and of course John's last public appearance on stage was at Elton's gig after he bet John Whatever Gets You Through The Night (with Elton on it) would top the US charts, his first-time and the last solo Beatle to do it.

The original version is still the greatest though, the imagery and sounds are wonderful and the chorus is top notch, and it was very 1967.

Posted by: JulianT 20th May 2024, 06:07 PM

8th: 525 points
Help!



Chart run: 5-{1}-1-1-2-2-5-8-13-18-23-23-29-40->14

Roba. 50
…ready for it 49
gooddelta 49
Bjork 47
ben08 45
steve201 43
popchartfreak 36
danG 36
Severin 35
Chez Wombat 28
JulianT 26
Jade 25
Notorious D.O.T. 22
dandy* 18
Brer 9
King Rollo 6
jimwatts 1
WhoOdyssey 0

This was the title track for the 5th studio album in 1965 and the accompanying film, and both a UK and US #1. Bananarama reached #3 in the UK with a cover for Comic Relief in 1989.

John has said that he wrote it about his anxiety at The Beatles’ quick rise to fame, and it perhaps marked the beginning of him expressing more complex emotions in his songwriting. It’s the only pre 1966 single to make the Top 10 in these results, assisted by half a dozen top 10 rankings and a maximum from Roba., though a ballad from the same year is still to come.

Those who find this position too high for it will be pleased to know that with chartjack2’s snub it tumbles to 14th in the version 2 results. 8th to 16th were very tight but the top 7 are well clear (and their positions are almost the same in the two versions of the results).

Posted by: dandy* 20th May 2024, 06:36 PM

Help is perfectly fine but it suffers when compared to Lananeeneenoonoo

Posted by: Jade 20th May 2024, 06:41 PM

Delighted that 'Tomorrow Never Knows' is still to come! I know Beatles classics extend past their singles, it's a ground-breaking piece of music, plus a lot of taste in this part of the forum is pretty left-field - but even so, I'm very surprised. Intrigued to see exactly where it will finish.

My first listen of The White Album melted my brain a bit with so many mixed feelings but 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' quickly stood out as a favourite, was great to see George continuing to provide quality moments. 'Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds' was instantly shiny to me with its all-out psychedelia, from the marmalade skies to John's vocal processing - absolutely the kind of madness I can get on board with. On the other hand, I needed time to appreciate the genius of 'A Day In The Life', but eventually got there and now I adore it more than ever. It was really interesting to hear all the different takes of it on the Sgt. Pepper's re-release, including the final note. That creative process unfolding really helped me to appreciate just how right the final product feels.

'Help!' is a great pop song, not too surprised that it's done so well as it was a rare good result for the group when I sent them to an AF Idol spin-off on here

Posted by: Roba. 20th May 2024, 06:49 PM

'Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds' was another stellar discovery for me as unbelievably wasn't aware of it before!

'Help!' is just joyful and fun and superb for me. Felt it deserved my top points.

Posted by: Chez Wombat 20th May 2024, 08:21 PM

Help! is a great song of course and was on the fringes of them taking a more experimental approach to songwriting much like Ticket to Ride, just don't think it's quite as groundbreaking as the rest here.

Posted by: gooddelta 20th May 2024, 08:49 PM

I love Help!

For me it's one of those songs that is so good because it feels quite poppy, effortless, upbeat and catchy, but has a lot more depth when you peel back the layers.

Posted by: chartjack2 20th May 2024, 09:27 PM

Not ashamed at all that I gave Help! nothing - it’s a very slight song from their worst album.

My favourite memory of it is probably its use in the Only Fools and Horses’ Jolly Boys Outing episode

Posted by: Steve201 20th May 2024, 10:06 PM

Love ‘Help!’ Like many of their early pop moments it’s so brilantly produced and delivered and I think people take the early stuff for granted at how good it really was. It helped them go on and be able to deliver the later genius stuff post 1965!

Posted by: Bjork 21st May 2024, 07:43 AM

Finally a good song in the top 10 aka Help

really dislike Lucy ouch

Posted by: Popchartfreak 21st May 2024, 08:04 AM

Help! was The Beatles growing up and showing they werent just going to write love songs. I can't separate the widescreen travelogue exotic colour movie from my love of it, both when it came out and on John's death in 1980 when it was repeated on TV. John wore his heart on his sleeve, always.

In 1976 when the Beatles singles charted again, Help! was up there with the big ones - and along with Yesterday the only early one to chart (if we take 1965 as the cut-off for early). Love the Nana's version, not so keen on Tina Turner's - but it works in any take.

Posted by: Severin 21st May 2024, 10:35 AM

QUOTE(Popchartfreak @ 21st May 2024, 09:04 AM)

Posted by: JulianT 21st May 2024, 06:58 PM

7th: 567 points
Tomorrow Never Knows



Jade 49
Chez Wombat 49
Notorious D.O.T. 47
danG 45
gooddelta 45
Brer 41
popchartfreak 39
JulianT 38
King Rollo 37
Roba. 36
dandy* 36
steve201 35
Bjork 34
jimwatts 31
Severin 3
WhoOdyssey 2
…ready for it 0
ben08 0

This was the closing track on “Revolver” in 1966 . As well as using Indian instruments and an irregular drum beat, it has backwards guitar playing and uses sampling techniques based on pre-recorded segments. The idea that you would make a track only for a recording and not for performance was quite new at the time.

The initial critical reception was mixed - one NME journalist expressed confusion that we are being asked to relax and float downstream in the midst of seagulls and noises that sound like they’re from outer space. However it is now seen as a pioneering track not only of the psychedelic rock genre but of electronic music.

Didn’t this do well here? It’s the only track not on the original red and blue albums to even make the Top 20.

Posted by: JulianT 21st May 2024, 07:00 PM

6 mega classics left, all with over 600 points, but which has fallen just short of the Top 5?

Posted by: Chez Wombat 21st May 2024, 07:54 PM

One of their best and most innovative tracks, it's stunning to me how it comes from 1965 (not the least with the number 1 it inspired over thirty years later!), it sounds so far beyond anything a modern mainstream dance producer can do today.

Posted by: Steve201 21st May 2024, 08:24 PM

Agreed the first drum & base track?

Posted by: Roba. 21st May 2024, 10:21 PM

Another fantastic discovery 'Tomorrow Never Knows' was. Also really impressive result for it.

Posted by: My... WAP?? 22nd May 2024, 12:53 AM

Everything I said about A Day In The Life I echo for Tomorrow Never Knows, incredible piece of music.

Posted by: Popchartfreak 22nd May 2024, 08:43 AM

QUOTE(Severin @ 21st May 2024, 11:35 AM)

Posted by: Popchartfreak 22nd May 2024, 08:53 AM

Tomorrow Never Knows a major fave though a fellow Fabs fan not so keen because of the two-chord structure - but I really think that helps make it haunting and hypnotic. I first heard this on a radio series called The Rock N Roll Years which mixed news events of the year in question (one episode per year) with key tracks of that year. It started with the early 50's and just kept going episode by episode. 1966 was all about the build-up in the Viet-Nam War, still fresh in our minds really when this was broadcast in the late 70's/early 80's, and the episode ended with Tomorrow Never Knows - it really did seem to be a dividing line into a modern era of music and was hugely powerful in that context. I'd never heard it before that (it wasnt on the Red album)....

Posted by: JulianT 22nd May 2024, 11:14 PM

6th: 601 points
Let It Be



Chart run: {2}-3-4-7-11-16-26-34-34-43R(24)->10

steve201 49
ben08 49
dandy* 49
gooddelta 48
…ready for it 47
Roba. 47
Bjork 44
popchartfreak 42
Chez Wokbat 42
jimwatts 39
JulianT 39
King Rollo 34
danG 32
Brer 25
Severin 10
Jade 5
Notorious D.O.T. 0
WhoOdyssey 0

This was the last single while the band were together and the title track of the last studio album. It debuted at #2 in the UK but was held off by the rather eclectic “Wand’rin’ Star” by Lee Marvin, but did top the Billboard chart after achieving the highest ever debut there at #6.

It features backing vocals from Linda McCartney, the only time she contributed to a Beatles song, a guitar solo from George, and a backing orchestra which features quietly in the single mix. Clearly it isn’t the most inventive Beatles track musically but I still find the lyrics and the simplicity of it moving.

Posted by: Roba. 22nd May 2024, 11:52 PM

'Let It Be' an utterly great track. That intro and first verse get me in the feels.

Posted by: Bjork 23rd May 2024, 06:10 AM

love Let it Be, surprised it's out, thought it might be a contender for #1

Posted by: Severin 23rd May 2024, 09:24 AM

I wonder if it would have done better if we were rating the Naked version.

Both McCartney and Starr have stated it is the superior version, and whilst I've never adored the song I would probably have given more marks for it.

Posted by: Popchartfreak 23rd May 2024, 10:08 AM

The strings version was the version I first heard in Singapore and it was the cultural (UK) goodbye to the Fabs, love it, still takes me back to tropical happy memories, and has always moved me. It's basically a gospel song, witness the many covers in that groove. I've never much rated most other version though, oddly, especially the many charity re-births over the years and dodgily-sung elder McCartney live versions to end his gigs in recent times. Theyve tarnished it a bit, but I still want the original, and that means the single version.

Saw Paul do it in the 80's though, when he was still fab vocally and Linda was still there. And it still wasn't the showstopper track of the night......TBC

Posted by: Steve201 23rd May 2024, 10:32 AM

Let it be is just fantastic just a culturally important song. I actually used to think it was a cover of a classic ancient song it’s so legendary!

Can I ask a lot of posters have said how some Beatles songs they didn’t hear as they weren’t on the Red/Blue albums or released as singles. Other than Sgt Peppers did the other Beatles long players not get many sales when initially released?

Posted by: JulianT 23rd May 2024, 05:33 PM

5th: 637 points
Strawberry Fields Forever



Notorious D.O.T. 50
Bjork 49
Chez Wombat 48
danG 46
Jade 45
JulianT 44
King Rollo 43
Severin 42
jimwatts 42
gooddelta 42
popchartfreak 38
steve201 37
ben08 35
dandy* 21
WhoOdyssey 16
Roba. 15
…ready for it 12
Brer 12

Another John song that was a pioneer of the psychedelic rock genre here. Its promotional video was also a key early example of that medium. Like its double A twin “Penny Lane” written by Paul, it’s based on real childhood memories. Strawberry Field was a Salvation Army house and garden in Liverpool: the site is still there and was opened to the public in 2019.

Like “Tomorrow Never Knows” the track uses Indian instruments and experimental techniques such as backwards recording. It’s also the most celebrated use of a Mellotron keyboard. John considered it his best work with The Beatles. Apparently Brian Wilson, who had been struggling to complete the Beach Boys’ “Smile” album, said on hearing the track that they’d got there first with what he wanted to do.

This received Dot’s 50 points and was in the Top 10 of more than half the voters, with nobody giving it less than 12.

Posted by: Severin 23rd May 2024, 09:52 PM

5th seems very low for Strawberry Fields

Posted by: Steve201 23rd May 2024, 09:57 PM

Fantastic record! Another culturally engrained record!

Posted by: Chez Wombat 23rd May 2024, 10:10 PM

A non-psychedelic top 4 then x (Well, I guess you could count one). Love Strawberry Fields Forever, incredible production and works brilliantly as the moodier, darker cousin to its double A-side in reflection on John's hometown.

I really hope my 50 can win here, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's out next. Certainly can't begrudge the other three despite being a bit more overexposed.

Posted by: Bjork 24th May 2024, 06:27 AM

ohhh only 5 for Strawberry Fields is too low!!!

Posted by: Popchartfreak 24th May 2024, 04:01 PM

QUOTE(Steve201 @ 23rd May 2024, 11:32 AM)

Posted by: Popchartfreak 24th May 2024, 04:06 PM

It's a classic, by 1976 it was "officially" the A side for charting purposes on the re-pushed singles collection, and getting airplay on Radio 1, but it was still Penny Lane for me. I don't recall ever hearing the track in the 60's (and I'm pretty sure I would have remembered like I remember Magical Mystery Tour, Revolution and others) but it grew on me with the years, Classic.

Posted by: Steve201 24th May 2024, 05:51 PM

QUOTE(Popchartfreak @ 24th May 2024, 05:01 PM)

Posted by: Jade 24th May 2024, 06:17 PM

I was well and truly obsessed with 'Tomorrow Never Knows' when I first came across it, I think some of the lyrics even made it to Facebook as a profile picture caption it immediately blew my mind - so creative and ahead of its time, can't imagine what a first listen in the 60s must have felt like. 7th is a really strong result for it!

Happy to see a psychedelic start to the top 5 with 'Strawberry Fields Forever'. Love how John took the innocence of childhood memories and turned them into something that sounds very dark and haunting, yet still totally accessible. So original and brilliant. Although the "cranberry sauce" outro did freak me out a bit when I was younger

Posted by: JulianT 25th May 2024, 08:18 PM

4th: 659 points
Here Comes The Sun



Chart run for 2010 download: 64-{58}R(73)->2

Jade 50
danG 49
Roba. 48
WhoOdyssey 47
dandy* 47
steve201 45
JulianT 45
Brer 45
gooddelta 44
ben08 43
Chez Wombat 41
Bjork 41
Severin 39
King Rollo 35
jimwatts 21
popchartfreak 18
…ready for it 1
Notorious D.O.T. 0

This is George’s best performing song here and his most famous, written in 1969 and appearing on “Abbey Road”. It reflects joy and relief on the arrival of spring, which at the time might have brought him some respite from the troubles in the band. The track is unusual for having several time signature changes, and was an early user of a Moog synthesiser.

In 2010 it was the 3rd highest chart entry when the group’s catalogue became available to download, behind “Hey Jude” and “Let It Be”. It is the group’s most streamed track on Spotify, currently with nearly 1.3 billion plays.

This received Top 10 scores from a whopping 12 voters and a maximum from Jade. chartjack2’s votes would have pushed it into bronze position.

Posted by: jimwatts 25th May 2024, 08:53 PM

Happy for George that one of his songs has built up such a momentous legacy, which it didn't seem to have when I first heard it on the blue album in 1997. My +50 and +48 are still to come!

Posted by: dandy* 25th May 2024, 09:12 PM

Awwww was hoping that would make the top 3 out of what was left. Lovely song and rightly one of their most popular these days <3

Hoping that the next one out is the one that didn’t make my top 10

Posted by: Steve201 25th May 2024, 11:59 PM

Such a joyous song and hugely uplifting, don’t understand how anyone wouldn’t point this!

Posted by: Bjork 26th May 2024, 06:47 AM

was gonna say I don't super love but I see I gave it 41 points

Posted by: Severin 26th May 2024, 08:57 AM

Here Comes the Sun seems to be one of those tracks that nearly everybody likes.
It captures a mood perfectly and whilst there are a number of sunshine hits, every year when the first sunny days arrive it's always this sing that enters my head

Posted by: Popchartfreak 26th May 2024, 09:25 AM

This one got radio spins while I lived in Singapore and it was always a very "nice" track, and one I liked a lot when I got the Blue album in 1975 - and preferred to the 1976 Steve Harley hit cover (but I rated that one too). But I'm still amazed to see how global it went in the 21st century! I guess "nice" uplifting positive songs really do have legs in the long run!

Posted by: JulianT 26th May 2024, 09:59 PM

3rd: 675 points
Yesterday



1976 chart run: 41-17-10-{8}-9-13-18->7

Bjork 50
steve201 50
Chez Wombat 47
gooddelta 46
King Rollo 45
dandy* 45
ben08 44
Roba. 43
Brer 43
jimwatts 41
WhoOdyssey 39
Jade 33
danG 31
JulianT 31
popchartfreak 30
Notorious D.O.T. 26
…ready for it 22
Severin 9

This was included on the “Help!” album in 1965, but in the US it was released as a single and reached #1. In the UK there was later a “Yesterday” EP released in the UK with 3 other tracks which topped the EP chart. A later single release in 1976 reached #8.

Paul is the only band member on this track. He has said that the tune to “Yesterday” came to him in a dream, and he rushed to the piano upon waking to avoid forgetting it. Initially the words were “Scrambled eggs: oh my baby how I love your legs” until more suitable words were written. It is one of the most covered songs of all time, with over 2,200 known versions.

Here it gained points from all voters, including 10 top 10s and 2 maximums.

Posted by: Roba. 26th May 2024, 10:13 PM

Battle of the names for top 2 then. Both 'Here Comes The Sun' and 'Yesterday' are fantastic!

Posted by: Severin 26th May 2024, 10:42 PM

Never got the love for Yesterday. I find it rather soppy and dull. Good but dull.

Judging by the votes I'm clearly alone in this

Posted by: JulianT 26th May 2024, 10:51 PM

One cute little stat:

The first vote way back on 31 December from popchartfreak gave 50 to “Eleanor Rigby” and 49 to “Hey Jude”.

The last vote before the deadline in April from Brer gave 50 to “Hey Jude” and 49 to “Eleanor Rigby”.

Posted by: jimwatts 26th May 2024, 11:12 PM

'Yesterday' is one I don't think I'd have called being top 3 when this started, but aside from the whole legend of it coming to him in a dream, "scrambled eggs..." and becoming the most covered song, the strings only accompaniment and the simple clarity of the music and lyrics elevates it.

Posted by: Steve201 26th May 2024, 11:22 PM

‘Yesterday’ is one of the greatest songs ever written for me.

Posted by: Bjork 27th May 2024, 08:33 AM

oh what a disappointment, really thought Yesterday would be #1, much much better than the 2 left imo

Posted by: Popchartfreak 27th May 2024, 08:36 AM

it's a simple tune, and it was a hit at the time for Matt Monroe I think - which i never remember as being a hit. The Beatles were Yesterday, but more memorable was Marianne faithful's cover on a Beatles TV Special, which I vaguely remember watching at the time, and very much remember on it's 80's repeat. Great show, The Music Of Lennon & McCartney came out just before Christmas '65.

Amongst the gems:

Peter & Gordon, A World Without Love
Lulu, I Saw Him Standing There
Peter Sellers as Lawrence Olivier's Richard III: A Hard Day's Night
The Beatles, Day Tripper
Paul McCartney/Marianne Faithful, Yesterday
Billy J. Kramer, Bad To Me
Cilla Black, It's For You (a highlight of the show, outside Beatles performances)
Henry Mancini, If I Fell
Esther Phillips, And I Love Him
The Beatles, we Can Work It Out

Posted by: ben08 27th May 2024, 02:19 PM

As Sgt. Pepper once said,
"It's getting very near the end..."
Only 2 more to go!

Posted by: JulianT 27th May 2024, 10:06 PM

2nd: 699 points
Hey Jude



Chart run: 21-{1}-1-2-2-4-3-2-7-10-11-24-25-30-45-50->16

ben08 50
Brer 50
popchartfreak 49
Roba. 49
WhoOdyssey 49
jimwatts 48
Severin 46
Bjork 45
Jade 42
Notorious D.O.T. 42
King Rollo 39
steve201 36
Chez Wombat 33
dandy* 28
JulianT 28
gooddelta 26
…ready for it 24
danG 15

This was written by Paul and evolved from “Hey Jules”, written to comfort Julian Lennon after his dad had left his wife Cynthia for Yoko Ono. It was recorded during the “White Album” sessions and was the first time they used eight track recording equipment. At over 7 minutes in length thanks to the 4 minute coda (about which much has been written by critics in an effort to make sense of it) it was the longest UK #1 single up to that point.

It was #1 in the US for 9 weeks, a joint record at the time, and in the UK is their only post 1964 pure million seller. Here it received 2 50s, 10 top 10 placings and a lowest score of 15, the highest lowest score achieved in the rate.

Posted by: JulianT 27th May 2024, 10:10 PM

1st: 752 points
Eleanor Rigby



popchartfreak 50
Chez Wombat 50
jimwatts 50
Notorious D.O.T. 49
Brer 49
danG 48
dandy* 48
Jade 47
King Rollo 46
steve201 46
Roba. 46
JulianT 46
gooddelta 43
Bjork 42
ben08 42
Severin 34
…ready for it 16
WhoOdyssey 0

We finish with one of only a few Beatles songs whose primary authorship between John and Paul is disputed, though various witness sources seem to support Paul’s claim. It was included on “Revolver” and of course released as a double A side single with “Yellow Submarine” reaching #1 in the UK.

Musically it perhaps seems less experimental now than it was at the time, when George Martin’s string quartet arrangement was very much breaking with convention. The lyrical theme of loneliness was also very unconventional. “Eleanor Rigby” may be the Beatles song whose lyrics have been most discussed by sociologists and philosophers over the years.

This gained 3 sets of maximum points, fewer and “A Day In The Life”, and unlike 2nd and 3rd did not receive a full house of voters. Nonetheless it wins convincingly thanks to consistently very high scores - 12 top 5s and 15 top 10s.

Posted by: Bjork 28th May 2024, 06:49 AM

This is just low top 10 for me but alas

Posted by: Steve201 28th May 2024, 07:26 AM

‘Hey Jude’ had a chart run more akin to their earlier releases!

Posted by: Popchartfreak 28th May 2024, 08:43 AM

Thanks for running this Julian, great stuff and a perfect top 2 from my point of view

Hey Jude was the one that kicked-off my chart-obsession when it topped the chart and I discovered the Alan Freeman chart show rundown, I remember it on Top Of The Pops and it was only second in my affections at the time to Mary Hopkin's Those Were The Days (also Paul behind that one). It was an epic length for a pop single, unheard of at the time, that rousing singalong is timeless, and I recall singing along in the dining room of 3 Sheepwalk, RAF Swinderby, Lincolnshire every Sunday till it dropped out the top 20.

It was a hit again in 1976, the top original single of their catalogue, and again in 1988, and out again in 1998 as formats changed. I saw Paul do it at Wembley Arena, it was inspirational, and a woman in the back row in the block in front of us (we were on the flat, all stood up) passed out, which caused me concern and interrupted my feelings of elation. Oops.

But Eleanor Rigby is the most-emotionally-affecting song of their catalogue, loneliness is a devastating condition for some older people (not me!) and the imagery is very stark and moving. The strings were genius. Yellow Submarine's video for it is amazing too. Still makes me weep if I sing along to it. What a song!

Posted by: gooddelta 28th May 2024, 09:28 AM

I'm glad Eleanor Rigby won as it's among my top ten at least, a wonderful song. Hey Jude is a classic of course, but I wouldn't call it a personal favourite.

Good results overall, the download/streaming success era of Here Comes The Sun reflected here too, but it's a lovely song.

Thanks for running this Julian! Quite a rate, and really enjoyed your commentary.

Posted by: Chez Wombat 28th May 2024, 10:03 AM

Ooh wonderful, my favourite won I thought that one snub might have cost it, one of the most beautiful and heartbreaking songs ever written and wonderfully composed, it really gets to me even today.

I do enjoy Hey Jude as well, it's a timeless song and very feel-good, it's just become a bit cliched over the years and I do prefer their more introspective work.

Yesterday and Here Comes The Sun are both absolutely wonderful in their simplicity and encapsulating of two polar opposite moods, they work so well and not surprised their appeal has endured.

This was a great idea and I enjoyed following the results, thanks Julian!

Posted by: jimwatts 28th May 2024, 12:03 PM

My favourite won too one of those songs that puts you right in the centre of its subject and never fails to capture my attention when it's playing. It's from my favourite Beatles album too, and while I thought a few of its other tracks were a tad low in this rate, I'm very pleased this one is so well regarded.

Thanks Julian for running this and the insightful commentaries, really enjoyed following this!

Posted by: King Rollo 28th May 2024, 01:22 PM

Eleanor Rigby is a great winner, I put it fifth in my own vote. Thanks Julian for running this poll.

Posted by: Steve201 28th May 2024, 01:50 PM

‘Eleanor Rigby’ wasn’t too far of the maximum in my poll too so good number one. Always think the discography is so good that if I rated them again I could come up with different results as the songs are so good.

Thanks for the insightful commentary and running this Julian, great time and effort considering it started on Xmas week!

Posted by: Roba. 28th May 2024, 02:14 PM

'Hey Jude' does goes on and on but it's still such a class record for me and a very deserving 2nd here. 'Eleanor Rigby' a brilliant winner too. Thanks for running Julian. Been fun taking part and making many Beatles discoveries. (One of your 5 or 6 projects completed now too hehe).

Posted by: ben08 28th May 2024, 03:06 PM

Thanks Julian. Great commentary.

I had Eleanor Rigby at no. 42 - my name seems to be missing from your list.
42 Eleanor Rigby

Posted by: dandy* 28th May 2024, 03:10 PM

Very happy with that winner

I do like Hey Jude but I do also think it's too long and, perhaps through overplay, I've become a bit less fond of it over the past 20 years or so.


Thank you for running this Julian (and particularly for waiting so long for some of our votes haha), it's been very enjoyable to follow

Posted by: JulianT 29th May 2024, 08:49 AM

Full results as revealed in the thread:

1 Eleanor Rigby 752
2 Hey Jude 699
3 Yesterday 675
4 Here Comes The Sun 659
5 Strawberry Fields Forever 637
6 Let It Be 601
7 Tomorrow Never Knows 567
8 Help! 525
9 Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds 522
10 A Day In The Life 521

11 Ticket To Ride 515
12 Come Together 508
13 While My Guitar Gently Weeps 506
14 Something 492
15 In My Life 491
16 Penny Lane 480
17 A Hard Day’s Night 440
18 We Can Work It Out 430
19 Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) 422
20 Paperback Writer 418

21 I Am The Walrus 415
22 Across The Universe 405
23 I Want To Hold Your Hand 382
24 Twist And Shout 381
25 Day Tripper 377
26 All You Need Is Love 350
27 She Loves You 343
28 Hello, Goodbye 339
29 Back In The U.S.S.R. 333
30 I Saw Her Standing There 332 (17 voters)

31 The Long And Winding Road 332 (12 voters)
32 Now And Then 330
33 Blackbird 305
34 I Want You (She’s So Heavy) 300
35 Can’t Buy Me Love 293
36 All My Loving 291
37 Revolution 289
38 I Feel Fine 278
39 You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away 275
40 With A Little Help From My Friends 265

41 I’m Only Sleeping 258
42 The Fool On The Hill 249
43 Lady Madonna 244
44 Yellow Submarine 240 (14 voters)
45 Real Love 240 (13 voters)
46 Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 237
47 Love Me Do 233
48 Please Please Me 224
49 Nowhere Man 223
50 Magical Mystery Tour 214

51 And I Love Her 209
52 Taxman 204
53 Get Back 196
54 Eight Days A Week 191
55 Here, There And Everywhere 183
56 The Ballad Of John And Yoko 181
57 From Me To You 175
58 Within You Without You 158
59 Free As A Bird 156
60 Octopus’s Garden 153

61 Don’t Let Me Down 143
62 Drive My Car 141
63 Michelle 136
64 Got To Get You Into My Life 125
65 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 107
66 Oh! Darling 104
67 Girl 102
68 Dear Prudence 96
69 Hey Bulldog 95
70 I Me Mine 78

71 You Can’t Do That 53
72 If I Needed Someone 44
73 Glass Onion 31
74 Roll Over Beethoven 28
75 This Boy 9
76 Baby It’s You 8
77 Old Brown Shoe 4
78 You Really Got A Hold On Me 0

Posted by: JulianT 29th May 2024, 09:34 AM

Here is Version 2 with chartjack2’s votes and the original positions in brackets. Happy to call these the final results as they’re slightly more to my taste overall . Particularly happy to have “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” in the Top 10, “Across The Universe” in the Top 20 and “I’m Only Sleeping” in the Top 40.

1 (1) Eleanor Rigby 785
2 (2) Hey Jude 729
3 (4) Here Comes The Sun 699
4 (3) Yesterday 692
5 (5) Strawberry Fields Forever 671
6 (6) Let It Be 616
7 (7) Tomorrow Never Knows 606
8 (13) While My Guitar Gently Weeps 556
9 (12) Come Together 554
10 (10) A Day In The Life 553

11 (11) Ticket To Ride 543
12 (14) Something 541
13 (15) In My Life 535
14 (8) Help! 525
15 (16) Penny Lane 523 (19 voters)
16 (9) Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds 523 (16 voters)
17 (18) We Can Work It Out 465
18 (21) I Am The Walrus 456
19 (22) Across The Universe 453
20 (17) A Hard Day’s Night 440

21 (19) Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) 436
22 (20) Paperback Writer 431
23 (25) Day Tripper 393
24 (23) I Want To Hold Your Hand 390
25 (24) Twist And Shout 381
26 (26) All You Need Is Love 372
27 (28) Hello, Goodbye 368
28 (27) She Loves You 361
29 (30) I Saw Her Standing There 359 (18 voters)
30 (29) Back In The U.S.S.R. 359 (16 voters)

31 (32) Now And Then 342 (16 voters)
32 (31) The Long And Winding Road 342 (13 voters)
33 (37) Revolution 336
34 (36) All My Loving 329
35 (33) Blackbird 328
36 (35) Can’t Buy Me Love 304
37 (38) I Feel Fine 303
38 (34) I Want You (She’s So Heavy) 300
39 (39) You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away 295
40 (41) I’m Only Sleeping 294

41 (43) Lady Madonna 281
42 (40) With A Little Help From My Friends 265
43 (47) Love Me Do 254
44 (45) Real Love 249 (14 voters)
45 (42) The Fool On The Hill 249 (10 voters)
46 (44) Yellow Submarine 240
47 (46) Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 237
48 (55) Here, There And Everywhere 228
49 (48) Please Please Me 227
50 (49) Nowhere Man 223

51 (53) Get Back 215
52 (50) Magical Mystery Tour 214
53 (51) And I Love Her 209
54 (52) Taxman 204
55 (54) Eight Days A Week 196
56 (56) The Ballad Of John And Yoko 181
57 (57) From Me To You 175
58 (61) Don’t Let Me Down 174
59 (59) Free As A Bird 162 (11 voters)
60 (58) Within You Without You 162 (7 voters)

61 (60) Octopus’s Garden 153
62 (64) Got To Get You Into My Life 149
63 (62) Drive My Car 141
64 (63) Michelle 136
65 (70) I Me Mine 120
66 (65) Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 107
67 (66) Oh! Darling 104
68 (68) Dear Prudence 103
69 (67) Girl 102
70 (69) Hey Bulldog 95

71 (71) You Can’t Do That 53
72 (72) If I Needed Someone 44
73 (73) Glass Onion 31
74 (74) Roll Over Beethoven 28
75 (75) This Boy 11
76 (76) Baby It’s You 8
77 (77) Old Brown Shoe 4
78 (78) You Really Got A Hold On Me 0

Posted by: Severin 29th May 2024, 11:04 AM

Thanks for doing this Julian. Really enjoyed the countdown and a worthy winner regardless of my preferences.

Anyone for the Rolling Stones next?

Posted by: JulianT 29th May 2024, 11:19 AM

QUOTE(Severin @ 29th May 2024, 12:04 PM)

Posted by: Steve201 29th May 2024, 12:12 PM

Not sure I would know enough of the Stones stuff to be able to effectively participate but would be next on my list of artists albums I am going to listen to once o finish off the Let it be album of the e Beatles!

Posted by: chartjack2 29th May 2024, 07:34 PM

I’d be very happy to run a Stones rate if that’s OK. They’ve had 58 hits (include parts double and triple A sides), so I guess we go from there? Everyone ranks their top 25 from this little lot?

Almost Hear You Sigh
Angie
Angry
Anybody Seen My Baby
Biggest Mistake
Bitch
Brown Sugar
Come On
Dandelion
Don’t Stop

Doom and Gloom
Emotional Rescue
Fool to Cry
Get Off of My Cloud
Going to a Go Go
Harlem Shuffle
Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby
Highwire
Honky Tonk Women
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction

I Go Wild
It’s All Over Now
It’s Only Rock and Roll
I Wanna Be Your Man
Jumpin’ Jack Flash
The Last Time
Let It Rock
Let’s Spend the Night Together
Like a Rolling Stone
Little Red Rooster

Living in a Ghost Town
Love Is Strong
Miss You
Mixed Emotions
Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown
Not Fade Away
Out of Control
Out of Tears
Out of Time
Paint It Black

Rain Fall Down
Respectable
Ruby Tuesday
Rock and a Hard Place
Rough Justice
Saint of Me
She’s So Cold
She Was Hot
Start Me Up
Street Fighting Man

Streets of Love
Sympathy for the Devil
Time Is On My Side
Tumbling Dice
Undercover of the Night
Waiting On a Friend
We Love You
You Got Me Rocking

Posted by: Last Dreamer 29th May 2024, 07:51 PM

ABBA or Blondie for the next big rate !!!

Posted by: Jade 29th May 2024, 08:08 PM

I'm largely a psychedelic Beatles fan but have such a soft spot for 'Here Comes The Sun', it soothes me like no other song can. So, however basic a choice of +50 on paper due to its enormous popularity nowadays, it wouldn't have felt right to give top marks to anything else as that personal connection feels incredibly special to me. 'Yesterday' has really blossomed for me over time as well, lovely songwriting there from Paul (...as stunning as those original lyrics are ) and the strings in the production really hook me in too.

Speaking of standout strings...'Eleanor Rigby' is an amazing winner one of two Revolver tracks in my top 5 - my favourite album of theirs, just like Jim. Love the immediacy of the intro and the whole product is totally heart-breaking. 'Hey Jude' is a worthy runner-up as well. It does feel like one of their most overplayed but I've somehow never got bored of it.

Thanks very much for running this, Julian *.* has been fun to appreciate my favourite band with many others who also feel passionate about them on the forum x

Posted by: chartjack2 29th May 2024, 08:15 PM

Great idea! ABBA have 31 hit songs to choose from…

Angel Eyes
Chiquitita
Dancing Queen
The Day Before You Came
Does Your Mother Know
Don’t Shut Me Down
Gimme Gimme Gimme
Fernando
Head Over Heels
I Do I Do I Do I Do I Do

I Have a Dream
I Still Have Faith in You
Just a Notion
Knowing Me, Knowing You
Lay All Your Love On Me
Little Things
Mamma Mia
Money, Money, Money
Name of the Game
One of Us

Ring Ring
SOS
Summer Night City
Super Trouper
Take a Chance On Me
Thank You for the Music
Under Attack
Voulez-Vous
Waterloo
When You Danced with Me

The Winner Takes It All

…and Blondie have 17.

Atomic
Call Me
Denis
Dreaming
Good Boys
Hanging on the Telephone
Heart of Glass
I’m Always Touched by Your Presence, Dear
Island of Lost Souls
Maria

Nothing Is Real But the Girl
Picture This
Rapture
Sunday Girl
The Tide Is High
Union City Blue
War Child

Do you want me to set up a poll between the Stones, ABBA and Blondie to see who goes next?

Posted by: danG 29th May 2024, 08:22 PM

very pleased to see Eleanor Rigby #1 here and Here Comes The Sun at #3. not so fond of Hey Jude but there we go. thanks for running this so well.

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the Rolling Stones rates ought to have their most popular album tracks too (Beast of Burden, Gimme Shelter, Wild Horses, You Can't Always Get What You Want, She's a Rainbow to name some that are more popular than at least half of that list)

Posted by: Last Dreamer 29th May 2024, 08:40 PM

I wish to have something like Ultimate chart, which UKMix forum had in the past for the acts with a big discographies.

They compiled 12 Ultimate charts for Beatles, ABBA, Michael Jackson, Mariah, Janet, Madonna, Kylie, Queen, Bowie, Whitney, Prince, Kate Bush
Elvis was missed, because his discography is huge, Blondie and some British groups from 90s didn't get enough supporting in polls.

Posted by: Steve201 29th May 2024, 08:58 PM

QUOTE(chartjack2 @ 29th May 2024, 09:15 PM)

Posted by: Severin 29th May 2024, 10:59 PM

QUOTE(danG @ 29th May 2024, 09:22 PM)

Posted by: JulianT 30th May 2024, 08:06 AM

A poll could be worth doing. There was a 2021 ABBA rate so maybe too soon to do another. I’d be really interested in the Stones myself but I’m guessing Blondie would get more participants, as most Buzzjackers are millennials who tend to be not that interested in stuff from before they were born.

As for selection criteria, it’s good to make it objective but at the same time you want to make sure the artist’s work is very well represented. One possibility which I considered for The Beatles is singles plus the X most streamed non singles on Spotify.

Posted by: Last Dreamer 30th May 2024, 08:23 AM

QUOTE(JulianT @ 30th May 2024, 11:06 AM)

Posted by: dandy* 30th May 2024, 08:54 AM

What about Fleetwood Mac?


Btw I’d probably vote for the Stones out of those already mentioned. ABBA would be fine but I do think we’ve already done things that are ABBA based.

I’d participate in a Blondie one also though

Posted by: Last Dreamer 30th May 2024, 09:10 AM

I will join to Fleetwood Mac rate/ranking, if will like the rules/songs selection.

Posted by: Severin 30th May 2024, 09:54 AM

Obviously, I am up for the Rolling Stones one and I would do a Blondie one. Not sure how Fleetwood Mac would pan out, beyond the obvious (Self titled, Rumours, Mirage, Tusk, Tango), I'm not sure how many people are familiar with the older Peter Green period but I'd be up for it.

Can't say I'd be that excited about doing an Abba one, as brilliant as they were, certain acts (like Abba, Queen, Elton John, George Michael, Jacko) have these kind of lists all the time and everybody already knows all the songs pretty much. Things like The Nations Favourite Abba Song have been TV shows before, whereas other brilliant acts like the Rolling Stones, Prince, even U2 never seem to get quite the same amount of attention, yet have brilliant catalogues of songs and deserve to be recognised more.

Posted by: chartjack2 30th May 2024, 12:46 PM

Fleetwood Mac hit songs (26)

Albatross
As Long as You Follow
Big Love
Black Magic Woman
Don’t Stop
Dragonfly
Dreams
Everywhere
The Green Manalishi
Go Your Own Way

Gypsy
Family Man
In the Back of My Mind
Isn’t It Midnight
Little Lies
Man of the World
Need Your Love So Bad
Oh Diana
Oh Well
Rhiannon

Sara
Save Me
Say You Love Me
Seven Wonders
Tusk
You Make Loving Fun

Prince hit songs (59)

7
1999
Alphabet Street
Another Lover Hole in Your Head
The Arms of Orion
Batdance
Beautiful
Betcha by Golly Wow
Black Sweat
Cinnamon Girl

Clockin’ the J*zz
Cream
Controversy
Diamonds and Pearls
Dinner with Delores
Flutestramentral
Fury
Gangster Glam
Get Off
Girls and Boys

Glam Slam
Gold
The Greatest Romance Ever Sold
The Holy River
I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man
If I Was Your Girlfriend
I Hate You
I Wanna Be Your Lover
I Wish You Heaven
I Would Die for You

Kiss
Let It Go
Let’s Go Crazy
Little Red Corvette
Money Don’t Matter Tonight
The Morning Papers
The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
Mountains
Mustang
My Name Is Prince

New Power Generation
Paisley Park
Party Man
Pop Life
Purple Medley
Purple Rain
Raspberry Beret
Sexy MF
Sexy Straxaphone and Guitae
Sign of the Times

Staxowax
Somebody’s Somebody
Strollin’
Take Me with You
Thieves in the Temple
Thunder
Violet the Organ Grinder
When Doves Cry
You Got the Look

Posted by: chartjack2 30th May 2024, 12:49 PM

How about we limit it to hit songs (top 75) but each voter gets to nominate one wild card song before the start of the rate that wasn’t a hit?

I’ll set up a poll at the weekend but at the moment it’s looking the options are


ABBA
Blondie
Fleetwood Mac
Prince
The Rolling Stones
U2

And can I throw in the Pet Shop Boys as a suggestion?

Posted by: Last Dreamer 30th May 2024, 12:58 PM

You can add Stevie Nicks and Debbie Harry singles from UK Top 75 in rate.

Posted by: chartjack2 30th May 2024, 01:05 PM

Absolutely - Edge of Seventeen needs some love!

Posted by: chartjack2 30th May 2024, 01:06 PM

Although I just found out that peaked at #86! Outrageous! That would be my wildcard I think

Posted by: RabbitFurCoat 30th May 2024, 01:11 PM

I sort of followed this. I'm glad Eleanor Rigby won and A Day In The Life came top 10, they'd be in my top 3. I did attempt to start voting, I just don't care for anywhere near enough of their songs to have ranked 50 of them.

Posted by: chartjack2 31st May 2024, 04:21 PM

Pet Shop Boys hit songs (49)

Absolutely Fabulous
All Over the World
Always On My Mind
Before
Being Boring
Can You Forgive Her
Did You See Me Coming
DJ Culture
Domino Dancing
Flamboyant

Go West
Hallo Spaceboy
Heart
Home and Dry
How Can You Expect to Be Taken Seriously
I Don’t Know What You Want
I Get Along
I’m with Stupid
It Doesn’t Often Snow at Christmas
It’s Alright

It’s a Sin
I Wouldn’t Normally Do This Kind of Thing
Left to My Own Devices
Liberation
Love Comes Quickly
Love Etc
Minimal
Miracles
My Girl
New York City Boy

Numb
Opportunities
Paninaro
A Red Letter Day
Rent
She’s Madonna
Single Bilingual
Somewhere
Together
That’s the Way Life Is

Thursday
Viva La Vida
Was It Worth It
West End Girls
What Have I Done to Deserve This
Where the Streets Have No Name
Winner
Yesterday, When I Was Mad
You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You’re Drunk

Posted by: chartjack2 31st May 2024, 06:56 PM

U2 hit songs (46)

All Because of You
All I Want Is You
Angel of Harlem
A Celebration
City of Blinding Lights
Beautiful Day
Desire
Discotheque
Electrical Storm
Elevation

Even Better Than the Real Thing
Fire
The Fly
Get On Your Boots
Gloria
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
If God Will Send His Angels
I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight
In God’s Country
Invisible

I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
Last Night On Earth
Magnificent
Miss Sarajevo
Mysterious Ways
New Year’s Day
One
One (Mary J Blige recording)
Please
Pride

The Saints Are Coming
Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own
Staring at the Sun
Stay
Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get Out Of
Sweetest Thing
Two Hearts Beat as One
The Unforgettable Fire
Vertigo
Walk On

When Love Comes to Town
Where the Streets Have No Name
Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
Window in the Skies
With or Without You
XXX

Posted by: Steve201 31st May 2024, 08:04 PM

I actually think a U2 one would be good!

Posted by: dandy* 31st May 2024, 08:30 PM

Yes I'd be happy with a U2 one actually. If it had been a rate there's certainly ample opportunity to use the full spectrum of scores

Posted by: Chez Wombat 31st May 2024, 08:38 PM

I'd be very interested in a U2 one, there's perhaps a few eras I need to familiarise myself with but they are generally one of my favourite bands. Although any of the names suggested I would be interested as well. I think for ABBA, it should be only those not on Gold, we've had so many rates for them before and everyone knows what will do well.

Posted by: chartjack2 31st May 2024, 10:26 PM

OK unless there’s any objections, I’ll set up a new U2 rate thread on Monday. In the meantime, maybe have a think of what your wildcard nomination might be?

Posted by: Roba. 1st June 2024, 01:23 AM

Yeah I'd be up for a U2 one tbh. Did run some of it in a rate in the 00's last year but tbh it wasn't the same without their 80's and 90's hits lol.

Also would have been down for Blondie or Pet Shop Boys.

Posted by: JulianT 1st June 2024, 10:49 AM

U2 is my least favourite of all the possibilities mentioned hehe but I’ll enjoy it whatever.

Posted by: chartjack2 4th June 2024, 07:03 PM

Sorry, been really busy with work, I’ll post the thread tomorrow