https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8JBNIb1zqM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuGzPbj6zjA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T2DERNmLP0
― MaresNest, Saturday, 3 October 2015 13:04 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a6YbZGdtOU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6-26dnHARI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLmiOaX-nSU
― MaresNest, Saturday, 3 October 2015 13:06 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyJ3_PiOWG0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGddBXNR3s8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEJBItLnw5I
― MaresNest, Saturday, 3 October 2015 13:07 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgxR_7k03-w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSpW6MePb10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKgu8etXXcQ
― MaresNest, Saturday, 3 October 2015 13:08 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-vRYDC_Hd8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3TOcw7taBo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqXIeYTiJic
― MaresNest, Saturday, 3 October 2015 13:09 (eight years ago) link
I knew It's For You as a kid by Springwell, and later Head East, before I ever heard Cilla. Love that song, but this is Come And Get It for me.
― Half as cool as Man Sized Action (Dan Peterson), Saturday, 3 October 2015 13:11 (eight years ago) link
Don't know most of those, but "Badge" is a favourite, so I'll vote anyway.
― clemenza, Saturday, 3 October 2015 13:20 (eight years ago) link
as much as I love Badfinger, "sour milk sea" by Jackie Lomax is the bomb. maybe the best song George ever wrote?
― an emotionally withholding exterminator (m coleman), Saturday, 3 October 2015 13:30 (eight years ago) link
the "outfake" version of sour milk sea is nice too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0G_8BgFYeM
― rushomancy, Saturday, 3 October 2015 13:33 (eight years ago) link
Come And Get It ftw.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1xss8MlwCk
this isn't.. quite the same version that's on Anthology 3, i think it's this take or this demo but they remixed it or something.
― piscesx, Saturday, 3 October 2015 13:38 (eight years ago) link
I can see Badfinger winning outright, but some of those earlier songs are pretty cool, and just listen to Penina, man it's *terrible*. The strings are all out of time with the drums and the singing is like some horrible working mens club crooner taking the piss.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 3 October 2015 13:42 (eight years ago) link
Sour Milk Sea, hands down
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 3 October 2015 14:47 (eight years ago) link
Isn't there a Stones song too?
The Beatles released a version of "I Wanna Be Your Man" at the time, which isn't the case with all of these.
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 3 October 2015 16:40 (eight years ago) link
I like that early stuff a lot. Thinking "Love of the Loved" or "From a Window" of the ones that I know but there are a lot that I don't.
― timellison, Saturday, 3 October 2015 19:36 (eight years ago) link
Should also do a poll for worst giveaway hackwork. "Bad To Me" is so bad. To me.
― Vic Perry, Saturday, 3 October 2015 19:39 (eight years ago) link
Would vote for "Badge" but should it really count?
― Alone Again XOR (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 October 2015 20:37 (eight years ago) link
It was George/Ringo so yeah
― Mark G, Saturday, 3 October 2015 20:44 (eight years ago) link
"Ringo" Clapton, you mean.
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 3 October 2015 21:58 (eight years ago) link
Ringo came up with the "told you about the swans that they live in the park" line.
― pplains, Saturday, 3 October 2015 23:39 (eight years ago) link
Ringo responsible for every wonderful line that John, Paul, George wrote.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 3 October 2015 23:48 (eight years ago) link
https://youtu.be/o894I9sW76Y
― Alone Again XOR (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 October 2015 00:32 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o894I9sW76Y
― Alone Again XOR (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 October 2015 00:35 (eight years ago) link
Sorry the audio is bad, but perhaps the Hungarian subtitles will aid comprehension.
― Alone Again XOR (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 October 2015 01:18 (eight years ago) link
lol at proby's ridiculous, overwrought vocal on "that means a lot." just dripping. it was never a top-drawer lennon/mccartney classic but he really turns it into the most generic period dreck imaginable. like it should be in some shitty teen movie where the action gets periodically interrupted by a shitty band performing a shitty song or two while all the teens in the movie enthusiastically clap along.
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 06:22 (eight years ago) link
The last version the Beatles attempted of that one had them basically ripping the piss out of it and laffing "a lot".
So, yeah, not top drawer..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krEvlMJBVZ8
― Mark G, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 12:33 (eight years ago) link
Everyone upthread OTM re: "Sour Milk Sea." One of Ringo's finest moments, and I can think of maybe 8-10 songs on the White Album it could've/should've replaced (as-is, retaining Lomax' vocal). I forget which song Ian MacDonald said this about, but it applies here: if Paul wasn't jealous of George, he should've been.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 13:53 (eight years ago) link
Most of these songs are good to great, and the demos and outtakes versions the beatles did have become some of my favorite things to listen to over the past few years since they're relatively 'new'. I vote world without love, I've always loved that song. good version too.
― akm, Wednesday, 7 October 2015 04:17 (eight years ago) link
This has to be 'Badge' for me.
The Beatles version of 'I'll Be On My Way' is on Live At The BBC.
― Turrican, Wednesday, 7 October 2015 11:15 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, SMS is a really weird thing to sleep on, even by John and Paul's standards for George. I like "Savoy Truffle" a lot but no way is it a better song. I actually like the demo better than Lomax's though - the latter is a little slower and his throatier vocal suppresses what in hindsight seems like an almost proto-Bolan number lurking somewhere in Harrison's thin little vocal. I do like the shambley looseness of the instrumental track on its own though!
Inevitably, someone's combined the two tracks, which gets us sorta close to what a White Album "Sour Milk Sea" would have sounded like, since it's the Beatles playing on Lomax's version anyway. Obviously the vocals would have been more developed, hopefully without losing the charm of the demo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqCSfJmv3Tk
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 15:17 (eight years ago) link
Let me think of that song:
"Get out of sour milk sea..Get back to where you used to be"
Hmmm, I wonder...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 7 October 2015 15:20 (eight years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 29 October 2015 00:01 (eight years ago) link
i love how in 2015 when someone mentions a song, there's a way to instantly hear it
― aaaaablnnn (abanana), Thursday, 29 October 2015 05:05 (eight years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 30 October 2015 00:01 (eight years ago) link