Of the final two, I think one is the song I expected to win and the other is a complete curveball but a very welcome one. Great work guys.

3 hours ago, gasman449 said:

Before getting into the top 2 and revealing the winner here's my thoughts on 5-3

One Way Or Another- I thank One Direction for introducing me to the concept of cover songs after a young me was mortified at what they had done to this classic! Not quite my favourite song by the band (that would be "Dreaming") but a very close second!

Ooh Dreaming has some of the best drumming in a pop song ever! RIP Clem Burke😢

2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Heads Will Roll (1014 points)

Writers: Karen Orzolek, Nick Zinner, Brian Chase

Producers: Nick Launey, David Andrew Sitek (remix produced by A-Trak)

UK chart peak: 89 (2 weeks in the top 100)

Achieved platinum status on 30/07/2021

Top scorers: detonate 48, gasman449 47, danG 46

Lowest scorers: Mangø 1, chartjack2 7, Cymro87 15

Despite having 5 top 40 hits, "Heads Will Roll" is the biggest seller in the UK for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. It features on their 2009 album It's Blitz. While the original version is very popular, the most popular version of the song is the dance remix by A-Trak. The song's music video was directed by Richard Ayoade.

1. The Beatles- Here Comes The Sun (1049 points)

Writer: George Harrison

Producer: George Martin

UK chart peak: 58 (4 weeks in the top 100)

Achieved platinum status on 21/06/2019, 2x platinum 13/08/2021, 3x platinum 25/08/2023, 4x platinum 25/07/2025

Top scorers: Jade 50, gasman449 49, dandy* 48

Lowest scorers: detonate 3, Nick F1 3, CianS 9

The most streamed Beatles song on Spotify and their most successful song in the digital age, "Here Comes The Sun" from Abbey Road was never released as a single. It was written by George Harrison in Eric Clapton's house while he was avoiding a business meeting at Apple Corps. John Lennon does not contribute to the song. A cover by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel reached number 10 in 1976. The original charted at number 64 in 2010 when the band's catalogue was released on iTunes, peaking at 58 in 2012 after a cover by Gary Barlow was used in an M&S advert. It has been voted as BuzzJack's ultimate platinum non-top 40 single!

Phenomenal top 2 the real crime is neither of them charting

Ultimately my predicted winner won, but well deserved.

Have to say this rate has been really good fun start to finish, from listening to new stuff, the voting, the countdowns but especially the commentary, opinions and musical recommendations from you all, many thanks guys!

Most of all a massive thanks to gasman for all your hard work (and coping with the Oasis proverbial ‘spanner in the works’ midway through). I particularly enjoyed your fantastic personal commentaries on each individual song in the final. Bet you need a rest now, well deserved !😆

Oh wow I get the honour of poster whose +50 has won 😮 ❤️

For years I went back and forth between 'Here Comes the Sun' and 'Tomorrow Never Knows' being my favourite Beatles track, the former a soothing, optimistic comfort song and the latter a masterclass in experimentation, but over time I ended up settling on 'Here Comes the Sun'. This is quite a 'basic' pick on paper as their biggest song nowadays, especially when I'm familiar with the whole breadth of their catalogue, but what can I say - it hits a special spot.

I'm delighted that a George Harrison composition has become such a juggernaut when the plaudits have typically gone to Lennon/McCartney (also deserved). I did think it stood a good chance of winning but it's wonderful to see nevertheless.

'Heads Will Roll' is a very surprising runner-up though! Why not, also a great song.

Thanks gasman for all your hard work putting this together, brilliant effort

Full recap:

1. The Beatles- Here Comes The Sun

2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Heads Will Roll

3. Simon & Garfunkel- The Sound Of Silence

4. Oasis- Champagne Supernova

5. Blondie- One Way Or Another

6. The Waitresses- Christmas Wrapping

7. Stevie Nicks- Edge Of Seventeen

8. The Beach Boys- Wouldn't It Be Nice

9. Fleetwood Mac- The Chain

10. Dolly Parton- 9 To 5

11. Arctic Monkeys- Mardy Bum

12. Tame Impala- Let It Happen

13. Talking Heads- Psycho Killer 

14. David Bowie- Changes 

15. The Beatles- In My Life

16. Lou Reed- Perfect Day

17. Alphaville- Forever Young

18. Bryan Adams- Summer Of '69

19. Pink Floyd- Comfortably Numb 

20. Lykke Li- I Follow Rivers

21. Vampire Weekend- A-Punk

22. Blossoms- Charlemagne

23. The Who- Baba O'Riley 

24. Two Door Cinema Club- What You Know 

25. Arctic Monkeys- I Wanna Be Yours

26. Empire Of The Sun- Walking On A Dream

27. The Rolling Stones- Gimme Shelter

28. Pixies- Where Is My Mind

29. Queen- We Will Rock You   

30. Elton John- Tiny Dancer 

31. Tina Turner- Proud Mary

32. Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell- Ain't No Mountain High Enough

33.The Beatles- Blackbird

34. Van Morrison- Brown Eyed Girl

35. Oasis- She's Electric

36. Oasis- Morning Glory  

37. Duke Dumont- Ocean Drive 

38. Woodkid- Run Boy Run

39. Gorillaz- On Melancholy Hill

40. Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here

41. Kiss- I Was Made For Lovin' You

42. Adele- Rumour Has It 

43. Daryl Hall & John Oates- You Make My Dreams

44. The 1975- Somebody Else

45. Lily Allen- F**k You

46. Frank Ocean- Lost

47. John Denver- Take Me Home, Country Roads

48. Kendrick Lamar- Swimming Pools (Drank) 

49. Imagine Dragons- Believer

50. Rihanna- Love On The Brain

And that's the rate! Thanks so much to anyone who took part in any round or commented, this is the first event I've hosted on BuzzJack and it's been mostly enjoyable! Also special thanks to @Julian_ for some guidance and helping get this rate off the ground. As for the top 2 I'm very happy with the winner, "Here Comes The Sun" is a classic and one of the happiest songs I've ever heard, optimism in song form (even if I hate hot weather😁). Didn't think "Heads Will Roll" would make top 10 let alone top 2 so very pleasantly surprised with that outcome! Yeahs are very underrated. Well done on a really good top 50 everyone!

Would never have expected Heads Will Roll top 2!

31 minutes ago, gasman449 said:

Also special thanks to @Julian_ for some guidance and helping get this rate off the ground.

Ah that’s very kind of you but I didn’t really do anything. Thanks very much for such a great effort hosting your first venture on here!

And lovely that “Here Comes The Sun” won this after missing out in the Beatles rate. The “Heads Will Roll” result came out of nowhere but is lovely to see. Great work all!

I was struggling to remember what the 2nd song was, I was sure it had already been given all the modern songs seemed to not do as well here, but that's a great surprise result. It's a fantastic song, I prefer it in A-Trak remix form but both are great,

The winner is slightly less unexpected but no qualms with it at all, it's a beautiful, simple song that connects with just about everyone. It's context of creation is lovely too as one of the songs that was more hopeful in the drama-filled Abbey Road recording sessions.

Below them, Champagane Supernova and The Sound of Silence were my favourite 2 left,. I would say the former is much less of a blatant rip-off of the Beatles than some of their songs, it works really work well as an homage to psychedelia, the mid-90s soundscape and the lyrics ('slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannonball') are as Oasis as you can get x Shame it hasn't yet managed to get top 40 on the back of the tour, but guess that works better for this rate and it need not be said at this rate, but Sound of Silence is one of the most profound and beautiful songs ever written, I do have a soft spot for the Disturbed cover as well x

I can't really fault any of that top 10 even though none were quite at the top of my votes, all very clear classics that have aged really well. Thank you for the excellent effort you put into hosting this, gasman, it's been great to follow.

Here Comes The Sun is a great winner, I gave it 44 points. Heads Will Roll was one of the songs I had to listen to as I didn't know it. I gave it 17 points which I see is just above one of the three lowest scores it received (15).

Thanks Gasman for all the hard work you put into running this poll.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs #2, wtf?! I think that was one of the few (or maybe only?) songs I hadn't heard before this rate. I'm not sure it has any business above many of the classics that have appeared below it, but I guess the people of Buzzjack have spoken!

Very worthy #1 though, if a little predictable. It's always been up there as one of my favourite Beatles songs.

Thanks for this rate @gasman449, I've really enjoyed following it

Here's the results from the semis BTW:

Semis 1

1. Wouldn't It Be Nice 345

2. Here Comes The Sun 344

3. One Way Or Another 333 (26 votes)

4. The Chain 333 (19 votes)

5. Champagne Supernova 316

6. The Sound Of Silence 302

7. Mardy Bum 279

8. 9 To 5 277

9. I Follow Rivers 272

10. Summer Of '69 270

11. Let It Happen 269

12. What You Know 259

13. Changes 257

14. Walking On A Dream 253

15. Gimme Shelter 243

16. Comfortably Numb 242

17. Where Is My Mind 234

18. Rumour Has It 229

19. Proud Mary 225

20. Lost 213

21. F**k You 204 (16 votes)

22. Swimming Pools 204 (15 votes)

23. Somebody Else 190

24. Tiny Dancer 182

25. Love On The Brain 172

Semis 2

1. Edge Of Seventeen 293

2. Forever Young 280

3. Christmas Wrapping 278

4. In My Life 271

5. Heads Will Roll 263

6. Charlemagne 250

7. Run Boy Run 246

8. Psycho Killer 239

9. She's Electric 237

10. Perfect Day 233

11. Ocean Drive 232

12. Ain't No Mountain High Enough 226 (20 voters)

13. I Wanna Be Yours 226 (15 voters)

14. A-Punk 219

15. We Will Rock You 215

16. Blackbird 207

17. Brown Eyed Girl 205

18. Believer 199

19. I Was Made For Lovin' You 189

20. Take Me Home, Country Roads 187

21. On Melancholy Hill 183

22. Baba O'Riley 181

23. Wish You Were Here 180

24. Morning Glory 174

25. You Make My Dreams 169

"Acquiesce" scored 139 points before it became ineligible, safe to say it would've made the finals!

A worthy winner for sure. Surprised by #2 which is a great song but I feel benefits from being liked enough by most people to earn high average marks maybe? Even more surprised at the remix being more popular. Can honestly say I didn't know that existed and have never heard it before. (Gave it a quick listen and hated it so no loss there for me).

Most of the top half was all quality stuff I liked even if the order would be re-arranged somewhat. Would have commented more but had a very busy last week and weekend.

Great work on this rate. Really enjoyed it.