oh, someone transcribed paul's adlibbing during the outro:
“Jude Judy Judy Judy Judy Judy… ow, wahow!""Ow ho, my my my""Jude Jude Jude Jude Joooo……""Na na na na na, yeh yeh yeh""Yeah you know you can make it, yeah Jude, you not gotta break it""Don’t make it bad Jude""Take a sad song and make it better""Oh Jude, Jude, hey Jude, woooooow""Oh, Jooooooode""Yeah""hey, hey, hey-yay""Hey, hey, hey""Now Jude Jude Jude Jude Jude Jude, yeah yeah yeah yeah""Woh yeah yeah""ah nanananananana cause I wanna""Nanananana…. nanalalal ow ow ow""oh God""The pain won’t come back Jude""Yeah, eh hehe heh""Make it through""Yeyeye Yeah… yeah y-yeah… yeah hahahaha…""Godeveningladiesandgentlemen mymymymy mahhhhh""ooooo""woooooh""Well then a na-nanan”
― Karl Malone, Monday, 8 June 2015 21:41 (nine years ago) link
I'm voting for the version of "Yesterday" that my college a capella group did that had an interpolation of Schuetz-style choral arrangements on the reprise of the first verse.
― DJP, Monday, 8 June 2015 21:43 (nine years ago) link
can we poll those options
xpost
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 June 2015 21:45 (nine years ago) link
Yeah
― Οὖτις, Monday, 8 June 2015 21:46 (nine years ago) link
imagining this as a Beavis and Butthead exchange:
"The pain won’t come back Jude""Yeah, eh hehe heh"
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 June 2015 21:49 (nine years ago) link
I like this story:
http://www.stereogum.com/4447/love_is_hey_jude_on_repeat/news/
predictably/gratifyingly someone has uploaded a 10 hour edit of the Hey Jude outro to youtube
― THREE WOMEN IN THE LIFE OF TUFFY CRAG (soref), Monday, 8 June 2015 21:54 (nine years ago) link
though listening to it, it seems like they have just looped the first couple of minutes of na na na nas and don't even get to the 'ju-deh ju-deh ju-dehwow oh-wow!' part? maybe they kick in around the six hour mark or something
― THREE WOMEN IN THE LIFE OF TUFFY CRAG (soref), Monday, 8 June 2015 21:58 (nine years ago) link
why the need to make a sad song better in the first place? what if it was a good sad song? what if jude, by mucking with it, makes it worse?
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 8 June 2015 22:05 (nine years ago) link
julian doesn't have to worry about having good songs
― Karl Malone, Monday, 8 June 2015 22:08 (nine years ago) link
Saw a possible vanity license plate today on a car that had a help! window sticker and some kind of beatles license plate holder. It doesn't make any sense, but doesn't fit any of my state's standard alphanumeric configurations either. Any chance it's beatles-related?
027M527
― how's life, Monday, 8 June 2015 23:27 (nine years ago) link
OATMEAL?
― jmm, Monday, 8 June 2015 23:28 (nine years ago) link
oh fuck, maybe that's it.
― how's life, Monday, 8 June 2015 23:30 (nine years ago) link
nvm, that's probably not it. They'd have used a 3 for the E.
― jmm, Monday, 8 June 2015 23:31 (nine years ago) link
"Julia"
― billstevejim, Monday, 8 June 2015 23:33 (nine years ago) link
Tempted to vote for Hey Jude just for
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNDs571E9k4
― JoeStork, Monday, 8 June 2015 23:38 (nine years ago) link
argh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNDs571E9k4
― JoeStork, Monday, 8 June 2015 23:39 (nine years ago) link
One thing "Hey Jude" has going for it is the audible "Aw fuckin' 'ell" at 2:59.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 14:47 (nine years ago) link
I'm voting for "Something".
― mike t-diva,
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 14:54 (nine years ago) link
As it stands, Yesterday. I quite dislike Jude, LAWR and LIB, Michelle is pretty but minor compared to Yesterday I think.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 14:55 (nine years ago) link
Although JoeStork makes a very fine point.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 14:56 (nine years ago) link
"Michelle" does have a cool early 60s Euro vibe to it. I imagine there were lots of suave French-language covers.
anyone know of any good ones?
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 17:56 (nine years ago) link
"Hey Jude""Let It Be""Yesterday""The Long and Winding Road""Michelle"
― timellison, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 20:16 (nine years ago) link
"The Long and Winding Road" would have worked better in a more diversified, eclectic album context, the same way that "Good Night" works on the White Album.
― timellison, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 20:18 (nine years ago) link
Tim's order is very close to my own--switch the bottom two. I still like "Hey Jude" fine; don't know why. "Let It Be," I don't mind. Like someone said earlier, I wish I could hear "Yesterday" for the first time again--I think there's genius in it, but I wore it out at a young age. (There's a George Martin interview clip somewhere where he talks about "Yesterday" and how it was done in the studio...it's fantastic--you can tell it's just about the proudest moment of his life.) I recognize "Michelle" for the good song it is, very unusual, but even going back to when I was a teenager, I was always indifferent to it. "The Long and Winding Road" is the only one of the five I flat-out dislike. Maybe a different arrangement would work for me--I find the orchestral original hopelessly saccharine.
Back in 1971, the big hit-radio station here did a Top 300 countdown. I was 10, and it was a very big deal. Three of these songs--"Let It Be" (#1, I'm pretty sure), "The Long and Winding Road," and "Hey Jude" were in the Top 10.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 20:57 (nine years ago) link
These must rank amongst the five worst songs in the Beatles catalogue. Something pisses over all of these sappy ballads.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 21:45 (nine years ago) link
i've always had a soft spot for "Let It Be" and "Yesterday" has never been dimmed by overplay for me, so one of those. might have to flip a coin.
"Michelle" is probably the most famous Beatles song that i can never hum, no matter how times i hear it. just now i put it on and went 'oh, that one,' but i'm sure i'll forget how it goes tomorrow.
― fetty wap, kombucha, where to trap queen (some dude), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 22:34 (nine years ago) link
but michelle is so easy to hum, the melody is in the name, just sing the name and the tune unfolds straight from there.
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 05:30 (nine years ago) link
rong and whining choads itt
― Killarney Hilton (darraghmac), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 06:42 (nine years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 14 June 2015 00:01 (nine years ago) link
Michelle....you smell.
― dlp9001, Sunday, 14 June 2015 17:05 (nine years ago) link
someday monkey play piano song
― Darin, Sunday, 14 June 2015 17:24 (nine years ago) link
lol, had forgotten that one.
― Never Mind The Blecchs, Here's The James Redd Orche (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 June 2015 17:38 (nine years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 15 June 2015 00:01 (nine years ago) link
lurkers, defend yourselves or face mass reprisal
― Heroic melancholy continues to have a forceful grip on (bernard snowy), Monday, 15 June 2015 00:03 (nine years ago) link
― Darin, Sunday, June 14, 2015 1:24 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
someday monkey won't play piano song
― Lee626, Monday, 15 June 2015 00:36 (nine years ago) link
I just want to know how "Hey Jude" fit on one side of a 45 when usually 4 minute songs got a verse chopped so it would fit
― Lee626, Monday, 15 June 2015 00:38 (nine years ago) link
Wtf
― Οὖτις, Monday, 15 June 2015 00:50 (nine years ago) link
don't look at me i voted "Michelle."
― Bee OK, Monday, 15 June 2015 00:54 (nine years ago) link
i'm shocked that rong and whining choad got 7 votes
― legendary wireless executive (Karl Malone), Monday, 15 June 2015 01:16 (nine years ago) link
it will never disappear
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 15 June 2015 19:29 (nine years ago) link
I just don't get it, do people just really hate the coda of Hey Jude for going on so long?
― Οὖτις, Monday, 15 June 2015 19:31 (nine years ago) link
i love hey jude but i've always found paul's ranting over the coda a little hard to take, it's like he can't quite give in to the good communal feeling and just sing along with everybody else, he has to keep on being the center of attention
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 15 June 2015 19:37 (nine years ago) link
I don't have a problem understanding people having issues with parts or aspects of Hey Jude but literally everything about TLAWR from the opening vocal line to the final note is just awful garbage
― Οὖτις, Monday, 15 June 2015 19:40 (nine years ago) link
I salute the 7 people who voted for 'The Long and Winding Road', as I salute Phil Spector for adding the orchestra because my god it sounds like arse without it.
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Tuesday, 16 June 2015 23:24 (nine years ago) link
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.),
yet he blasted George for wanting to answer his lines with guitar wankery
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 16 June 2015 23:28 (nine years ago) link
I am sad there is not an isolated bass youtube of Lennon's LAWR bass part, just so I could torture all you Hey Jude voters w it
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 16 June 2015 23:33 (nine years ago) link
Um, Shakey, I think those were votes FOR "Hey Jude" and not against
― Now Sleeps The Redd Petal, Now The Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 June 2015 00:45 (nine years ago) link
Yes...I was getting progressively more confused in this thread as to what Shakey was trying to say.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 17 June 2015 00:55 (nine years ago) link
Haha oops i thought we were voting for worst
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 17 June 2015 01:13 (nine years ago) link
In Edinburgh once I saw a two man, well man and woman, one-man band do a truly awesome version of "Hey Jude." Their names were Pete and Andrea.
― Now Sleeps The Redd Petal, Now The Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 June 2015 01:30 (nine years ago) link