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 The Beatles rate 2024, Number 15 |
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 Wednesday, 07:37 PM
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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).
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Wednesday, 07:49 PM
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 I wanna keep all of your charm in a canister
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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.
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Thursday, 12:47 PM
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Mansonette
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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. |
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Thursday, 06:14 PM
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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. |
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Thursday, 07:40 PM
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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. |
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Friday, 10:04 AM
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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.
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Sunday, 09:15 PM
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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. |
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Yesterday, 09:34 AM
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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).
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16 hours ago
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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. |
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15 hours ago
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Hello?
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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. This post has been edited by gooddelta: 15 hours ago |
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15 hours ago
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I wanna keep all of your charm in a canister
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'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! |
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13 hours ago
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Shakin Stevens
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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! |
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2 hours ago
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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.
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