when i get to the bottom i go back to the top of the WHITE ALBUM POLL

Blackbird, but Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da and While My Guitar Gently Weeps are both underrated due to their popularity.

I remember a thread here or on some other forum where the aim was to find a Beatles song that had never been covered on an official release. Someone suggested Revolution 9. But even that has been covered apparently! (Can't remember who by though.)

I Will

I had some sort of "Live at the Knitting Factory" tape where the Les Misérables Brass Band covered "Revolution #9".

I remember that website, and there is (I'm sure) a song that has no cover versions. It's not "Revolution #9" but I'll have to see what it is.

Maybe "Her Maj" or summat.

No it wasn't that. I think it was some early Harrison song.

Cover of Revolution 9:

http://www.amazon.com/Rev-9-Shazam/dp/B00004YR5B

I didn't know Revolution #9 was controversial, I just knew that the Beatles were geniuses, so I listened to the tape over and over again and that was the track I couldn't get out of my head.

That's what's great about hearing that song before the academic baggage seeps in. I first heard it when I was 3, so the idea that it might be wanky wasn't on my radar. So yeah, #9 gets my vote. Bonus points for giving Nono and Pierre Henry a run for their money.

tremenoid - to answer yuour question, as a delegate for the 'trim it down to a single album' guys, yes, Revolver just so happens to be my favorite Beatles album, with Rubber Soul a close second.

Sgt Pepper ruined music for a long, long time...

I think the Loud Family has covered "Revolution 9" as well.

I voted for R9 for the same reasons as this:

It is such a tense, creepy record, and then it just goes to a whole other level of weirdness.

That about sums it up. Even the White Album's ballads and hits are creepy, and R9 is the penultimate track. And then it's followed by "Good Night," which someone (maybe even here) suggested was a lullabye for the dying earth after R9's apocalypse.

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I'm sad that "Birthday" got zero votes.

i'm sad that ob la di ob la da got 4 votes (most annoying beatles song ever prob)

Geir Hongro RIP

Winners #1 and #4 = ILM revisionism at its most representative.

The results are a disaster. The winner in particular. Also sprach The Beatles haters.

"I Will" – 1:45 2
"Why Don't We Do It in the Road?" – 1:40 1

morons

This particular album is terribly overrated anyway btw. Surely there are some good songs, "Honey Pie" and "Martha My Dear" in particular, but the album is way too patchy overall.

This particular album is terribly overrated anyway btw.

Only you think it is.

I am very pleased with these results.

I am unsure who gabbneb thinks are morons. The people who did or didn't vote for those songs?

i think the list of things that got 10 or more votes is a pretty interesting selection, revisionist or not. those are all great songs.

Ugh, you've GOT to be kidding me. "Revolution 9???"

Does the 'I' in ILX stand for "iconoclast?"

What's next, "Cambridge 1969" better than "Taxman??"

rev. 9 is ably argued for upthread. by people who don't hate the beatles, even.

i totally forgot how much I love "I Will". People sometimes favor "Here, There, and Everywhere" among sappy McCartney songs, but I like "I Will" much better.

I can't believe Rev 9 was number one. should've been Happiness.

Also no votes for Honey Pie? That's a great song.

voting rev 9 first strikes me as...insouciant but i happen to like it myself so why not? good list, they can't all be someone's favorite.
(id've saved "don't pass me by" from the goose egg)

Why in the world is a general preference of Long Long Long an example of ILM revisionism?

Well, for many years it was just another example of Harrison boringness.

"Revolution 9" – 8:13 17
"Revolution 1" – 4:15 0

there's no way 17 people made the same error, is there? this is worse proto-indie bullshit than that 1967 poll where Piper At The Gates and VU beat every populist classic rock LP.

Long, Long, Long is a fantastic song. I think the most overlooked tracks are the better ones really. (After 25+ years of listening anyway)

"Revolution 9" – 8:13 17
"Revolution 1" – 4:15 0

it ain't my number one song on this album, but between those two choices, i'd say that's 17 smart votes.

revolution >> revolution 9 >> revolution 1

I think I will be the only one voting for "Good Night". A very touching vocal, and it sounds like a soundtrack to some classic Hollywood movie. It feels like the least Beatlesy song there is, which is not why I like it so much, but it really speaks to their versatility. Also Ringo is my fav dude.

I really love "Good Night". The version on Anthology 3 (Ringo + piano --->fade-in to the orchestra backing) I would say is actually superior, and quite moving.

I missed the vote, but would probably give it to "Happiness is a Warm Gun", followed closely by "Julia" and "Mother Nature's Son".

"Dear Prudence" is an okay song, but never been really smitten with it. I respect "Blackbird" and can see why people would vote it #1, but strangely don't like it as much as I feel I should.

Have to agree with the above about "Revolution #9" taking the gold.

Oh yeah! Revolution #9 all the way! So happy with the results of this poll....

And exactly the right #2...the weird time changes, the backing and lead vocals, are just amazing

great result!

Pitchfork indier-than-thou mentality strikes again.

Worst.poll.ever.

I do like "Rev 9" and for the reasons so lucidly laid out above. Still, as with many of the P&J polls, I suspect results-skewing gremlins at work.

What's next, "Cambridge 1969" better than "Taxman??"

Well, no. But "No Bed For Beatle John" would give it a run for its tax dollars. I derive genuine pleasure from "No Bed For Beatle John" and have listened to it many times.

I am unsure who gabbneb thinks are morons. The people who did or didn't vote for those songs?

Ditto.

I so don't get the apparent distaste for "Glass Onion" and "Savoy Truffle." Must be the lyrics about which, as with most songs, I know close to nothing.

Well, in the interest of full disclosure, I quite like "No Bed For Beatle John" a lot, too. But not more than "Taxman"

The results are a disaster. The winner in particular. Also sprach The Beatles haters.

but geir, "revolution 9" is the most harmonically complex work the beatles ever made! it's pan-tonal!

yeah, i voted for it, and it's in my beatles top 10 right alongside "she loves you", "money" (no, they didn't write "money"...not like it matters anyway), and most of side two of abbey road. you can't call us beatles haters and get away with it.

and anyway, the REAL beatles-haters actually made a movie!
(which somehow manages to be more embarrassingly dated than the 40-year-old magical mystery tour)

The only typical Beatles song among the ones you mentioned is "She Loves You". The rest are all unrepresentative.

Geir, did you vote in this poll?

rev. 9 is ably argued for upthread. by people who don't hate the beatles, even.

-- tipsy mothra, Friday, 21 September 2007 00:46 (7 hours ago) Bookmark Link

Honey Pie and that other one you said, G, are not the highpoints of the album.

"I will" is so slight, but so perfect.

Admittedly, "Rev 1" getting zero is wrong, but then...

Revolution 1 is pretty damn good. Not as good as the original version, but great all the same.

Maybe someone said this I can't be fucked reading the threwad but Glass Onion IS a fucking parody you fucking idiot

Ps fuckity fuck fuck fuck!

Yeah it's a parody, but it's also quite creepy. It works on different levels.

"it's a GOAL!"

Why in the world is a general preference of Long Long Long an example of ILM revisionism?

I was going to ask this.

Well, for many years it was just another example of Harrison boringness

Oh, was it? My attention must have been elsewhere during those years. Neither did I consider the ILX 'revisionist' agenda, whatever that is. I simply voted for it because it's absolutely fucking magical on every level, and it means a lot to me personally - the way it gently just arrives quietly; the lovely mellotron over the opening acoustic guitar; Harrison's 'how could I ever have lost you/when I loved you?' punctuated by the ascending mellotron(or organ) line and Ringo's magnificent roll down the tom-toms. More? The piano under 'so many tears I was searching/so many tears I was wasting'; the rising 'oh, oh' climax to those lines, the clashing, wailing outro.

I love how it feels like a small-hours, one-take improvisation that somehow became more than that. Magical.

Geir, did you vote in this poll?

I didn't see it on time. Probably would have voted for "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" I guess.

But I don't really like the album at lot at all. Even the good stuff is below par when compared to the work of genius they used to do from 63 to 67.