'Suspicious Minds' in a walk. With 'Hey Jude' I have to be in exactly the right mod to listne to it. 'Sus/Mnds' ends up carrying my along even if I started just half listening to the song.
― but cheese and chips excites me (snoball), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 21:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Would have said the same until I saw this poll, but now I gotta ponder.
― What You Know Is POLLS!: The Orson Welles Poll (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 21:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Suspicious Minds provokes mad hip action
― gospodin simmel, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 22:39 (thirteen years ago) link
SUSPICIOUS MINDS
but aretha's version of 'hey jude' (w/duane allman on gtr) is worth seeking out even if you're sick of the beatles
― communist kickball (m coleman), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 22:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Surely you mean Wilson Pickett, mark?
― What You Know Is POLLS!: The Orson Welles Poll (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 22:47 (thirteen years ago) link
oops I did again. yes - aretha did "let it be" y' know all those old beatles songs sound the same.
― communist kickball (m coleman), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 22:50 (thirteen years ago) link
And "Eleanor Rigby," where she sings from the point of view of the title character.
― What You Know Is POLLS!: The Orson Welles Poll (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 22:51 (thirteen years ago) link
I imagine that as being the same lyrics, but with "I'm" before the words "Eleanor Rigby"
― Godzilla vs. Rodan Rodannadanna (The Yellow Kid), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 23:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Yes. That's it. Seems to change the meaning quite a bit, though, makes it more of a precursor to "She Works Hard For Her Money."
― What You Know Is POLLS!: The Orson Welles Poll (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 23:11 (thirteen years ago) link
the coda to hey jude is barff
suspicious minds on the other hand is one of the greatest songs ever
― he do the waka lyfe (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 23:12 (thirteen years ago) link
i voted for suspicious minds because it's a great song but honestly i can't even remember what the coda sounds like ... is it just the chorus ad infinitum or something else?
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 23:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Pretty much. After a fake ending fadeout, although apparently the fadeout was originally the real ending, but people in Vegas were liking the coda at the live shows so they went into the studio and added it on.
Used to get bored by the "Hey Jude" coda, but now view it as an epitome of the Ringo drumming style.
― What You Know Is POLLS!: The Orson Welles Poll (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 23:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Suspicious Minds. The Fine Young Cannibals version is quite good.
― Is Aware That She Hasn't Replied Much Lately (MintIce), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 01:06 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^^
I voted for "Suspicious Minds" but I believe the moment in "Hey Jude" that Ringo hits the hi-hat right before the na-na-nas come in is better than any single moment in "Suspicious Minds"
― richard melville hell (crüt), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 02:12 (thirteen years ago) link
and actually I never got bored by the "hey jude" coda
― richard melville hell (crüt), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 02:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, actually I like "Suspicious Minds" more than "Hey Jude", but I think I like the Jude coda more than the Minds coda.
― Godzilla vs. Rodan Rodannadanna (The Yellow Kid), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 04:53 (thirteen years ago) link
"Hey Jude" is one of those Beatles songs that often gets mentioned as one of their most insufferable--"Let It Be," "The Long and Winding Road," etc.--but I don't recall ever not liking it. I mean, I've heard it enough that I don't ever put it on voluntarily, but if it comes on the radio, I don't turn it off and it sounds fine. Ditto "Let It Be." (But not "The Long and Winding Road.") I like "Supicious Minds," but I like "Hey Jude" better.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 05:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I'd probably take "Kentucky Rain" over "Hey Jude," though.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 05:07 (thirteen years ago) link
"Hey Jude" by a mile. Love the song, love the coda-- the general dislike of it on ILM is a complete mystery to me. I consider it a high-water mark in pop. I love it the same way I love Boredoms "Super Shine". Love "Suspicious Minds" too but I didn't even remember that it had a coda.
― Mark, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 05:30 (thirteen years ago) link
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― http://tinyurl.com/lil-shits (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 05:44 (thirteen years ago) link
And I left out Paul going "JUDAH JUDAH JUDE JUDE YOW! YOW!"
If that's not just random typing--if you actually counted the "la-la-la-la"s--I'm most impressed! (Aren't they "na-na-na-na"s, though?)
― clemenza, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 05:51 (thirteen years ago) link
The bass player is really kicking it on that live take on Suspicious Minds posted above.
― earlnash, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 06:10 (thirteen years ago) link
amazing poll.. suspicious minds kicks hey jude's ass
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 06:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Never been big on "Suspicious Minds" while "Hey Jude" is great for the first 3 minutes. So this is "Hey Jude". Not sure if I would have picked it ahead of "In The Ghetto" though.
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 10:51 (thirteen years ago) link
I am biased cos one time I saw a group of peeps with learning disabilities playing "Hey Jude" at a festival and that big loopy coda was one of the coolest, most beautiful things I've ever seen.
On the other hand, The Beatles can fuck off.
― Nulty By Nature (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 10:53 (thirteen years ago) link
didn't know u were old enough to have seen the beatles
― fuck you jan stepek you kurwa (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 10:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh, well, if we're talking about which song we'd rather hear a group of people with learning disabilities sing, "Hey Jude" hands down.
― http://tinyurl.com/lil-shits (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 15:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Beatles>Elvis, Suspicious Minds>Hey Jude
― Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 15:10 (thirteen years ago) link
You must be crazzee. Suspicious Minds any day.
― Funye West! (u s steel), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey Jude" is one of those Beatles songs that often gets mentioned as one of their most insufferable--"Let It Be," "The Long and Winding Road," etc.--but I don't recall ever not liking it. I mean, I've heard it enough that I don't ever put it on voluntarily, but if it comes on the radio, I don't turn it off and it sounds fine. Ditto "Let It Be." (But not "The Long and Winding Road.") I like "Supicious Minds," but I like "Hey Jude" better.― clemenza, Wednesday, February 23, 2011 12:06 AM (15 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― clemenza, Wednesday, February 23, 2011 12:06 AM (15 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I'd probably take "Kentucky Rain" over "Hey Jude," though.― clemenza, Wednesday, February 23, 2011 12:07 AM (15 hours ago) Bookmark
― clemenza, Wednesday, February 23, 2011 12:07 AM (15 hours ago) Bookmark
I am biased cos one time I saw a group of peeps with learning disabilities playing "Hey Jude" at a festival
― What You Know Is POLLS!: The Orson Welles Poll (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 20:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Monday, 28 February 2011 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
susp minds
― Iago Galdston, Monday, 28 February 2011 00:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Elvis is going to win, easily. Also this poll is a little unfair because the end of SM is about 2 mins whereas HJ has a 4 minute long coda. Much easier to get annoyed in those 2 additional minutes.
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 28 February 2011 01:00 (thirteen years ago) link
In both cases the artists keep it kinda interesting. In both cases it sucks to hear cover bands butcher it.
― billstevejim, Monday, 28 February 2011 03:45 (thirteen years ago) link
^ regarding the codas
― billstevejim, Monday, 28 February 2011 03:46 (thirteen years ago) link
they're both great. i'll go with 'suspicious minds' cause it's closer to the top of my favorite elvis songs list than 'hey jude' is to the top of my favorite beatles songs list.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 28 February 2011 06:19 (thirteen years ago) link
goddamn how is it even possible to vote hey cunting jude - this is like, one of the BEST songs ever versus one of the WORST - reminiscent of "which 'creep' is better, tlc or radiohead"
― lex pretend, Monday, 28 February 2011 10:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Radiohead, duh.
― ka£ka (NickB), Monday, 28 February 2011 10:07 (thirteen years ago) link
*joke*
― ka£ka (NickB), Monday, 28 February 2011 10:08 (thirteen years ago) link
kmt
― lex pretend, Monday, 28 February 2011 10:19 (thirteen years ago) link
the king please
― reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Monday, 28 February 2011 16:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
2:1
― Honor de Falla (Paul in Santa Cruz), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 00:22 (thirteen years ago) link
I think the results of this poll had more to do with people hating "Hey Jude" than loving "Suspicious Minds".
― Darin, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 16:53 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean if we're going to stack the decks maybe we should just start doing polls like Pet Shop Boys vs. Night Ranger
― Darin, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 17:00 (thirteen years ago) link
What are you talking about? I think lots of people genuinely love Suspicious Minds. I mean, I def do for starters.
― ENBB, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 17:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey Jude has got to be one of the most overexposed songs on the planet that everyone is sick of. This was a no contest.
― Darin, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 17:08 (thirteen years ago) link
I can vote with my heart on this one. I own a memory of my dad and I driving back in the rain after visiting my ailing grandfather in Memphis, driving across the "old" Memphis & Arkansas Bridge at night as lightening bolts made static on the AM station we were listening to. In between the blasts and watching the city lights fade behind us, Elvis like a ghost singing about how only our love survives.
"Hey Jude" vs "Burning Love" though, and I would have voted for "My Ding-a-ling".
― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 17:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I own a memory of my dad and I driving back in the rain after visiting my ailing grandfather in Memphis, driving across the "old" Memphis & Arkansas Bridge at night as lightening bolts made static on the AM station we were listening to. In between the blasts and watching the city lights fade behind us, Elvis like a ghost singing about how only our love survives.
<3
― ENBB, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah there's also a heavily overdubbed version on disk 4 of the 60s box but I think the one I posted above is better.
― Euler, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 00:03 (thirteen years ago) link
without going back to sort through all the hey jude-related threads, what exactly is the problem with the coda? (i voted susp minds as I think it's a better song) is it just its overexposure and/or perceived self-indulgence? i always thought the build-release and sentiment of this song was beautiful, and i'm a cranky curmudgeon about most things!
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 02:05 (thirteen years ago) link
I'll take "Word Up" over all this
― blank, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 02:11 (thirteen years ago) link
oddly enough i have the elvis version of 'hey jude' on a compilation called...'suspicious minds'!
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 03:32 (thirteen years ago) link
― Darin, Tuesday, March 1, 2011 11:53 AM (10 hours ago)
― ENBB, Tuesday, March 1, 2011 12:02 PM (10 hours ago)
I think both are true. "Hey Jude" would have a hard time beating anything (that's not Night Ranger) in a poll--for whatever reasons, it's become one of the default songs on which to heap scorn on the Beatles. Which is not to say that "Suspicious Minds" wouldn't beat most songs you might put it up against.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 03:40 (thirteen years ago) link
"Hey Jude" vs Iron Maiden.....
― Mark G, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 09:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Wouldn't "Hey Jude" sound really weird without the coda? The song would keep building up & building up to nothing. And then once you have it, it has to be long so that Paul can put in all of his fun interjections.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 15:33 (thirteen years ago) link
"fun interjections" - Closest the Beatles ever came to Axl doing all those Yowzas! Take that one to heart! yelps.
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
JUDY JUDY JUDY JUDY
This seems as good a place as any to let the world know that every time I think about Mr. Rogers, I hear the Mr. Rogers song and at the end when he goes "please won't you be my neighbor?" I always hear neighbor neighbor NEIGHBOR NEIGHBOR WAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHNA NA na na NANANANA
and then Hey Jude takes over.
― Ralpharina (La Lechera), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Every single time.
I won't ask how often you think about Mr. Rogers, but that's pretty damn funny.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
RIP American Studios bassist (and strings arranger) Mike Leech
― Bingo Little’s Breakout (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 20:15 (six years ago) link
dontcha know i'm
― mookieproof, Friday, 30 September 2022 23:16 (one year ago) link
Caught in a trap
― If The Damned Are United (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 30 September 2022 23:18 (one year ago) link
the false ending is so sweet
― brimstead, Friday, 30 September 2022 23:32 (one year ago) link
If only McCartney had done a fake-out fade for "Hey Jude", they could have extended it to 9 or 10 minutes!
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 1 October 2022 02:43 (one year ago) link
Looll!
― If The Damned Are United (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 1 October 2022 02:49 (one year ago) link
What the fuck?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 1 October 2022 19:58 (one year ago) link
Caught innaI can’t walk
― calstars, Saturday, 1 October 2022 20:08 (one year ago) link
I had no idea anyone hated "Hey Jude."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 1 October 2022 20:16 (one year ago) link
Are you 15
― calstars, Saturday, 1 October 2022 20:21 (one year ago) link
If I were 15, I wouldn't know what "Hey Jude" was.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 1 October 2022 20:23 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ainB6qnWBI
― If The Damned Are United (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 1 October 2022 21:43 (one year ago) link
How could you be over 15 and not be aware that some people don’t like hey JudeIf this is just challops then you win
― calstars, Saturday, 1 October 2022 23:26 (one year ago) link
“Imagine” is the only song everybody loves
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 1 October 2022 23:37 (one year ago) link
Every Beatles song has millions of people who don’t like it, but “Hey Jude” is one of the more inexplicable cases (to me). It’s my favorite Beatles song, as “Suspicious Minds” is my favorite Elvis song.,
― Josefa, Saturday, 1 October 2022 23:38 (one year ago) link
There was a discussion over on the karaoke thread about "Hey Jude" that might be relevant here.
― Misirlou Sunset (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 1 October 2022 23:46 (one year ago) link
A poll I put up a few years ago:
Take a Sad Song and Extract Every Last Ounce of Spontaneity from It: the Beatles Uber-Ballad Poll
I like "Hey Jude" fine, and don't group it in with "The Long and Winding Road"; it won this poll, but I realize lots of people hate it.
― clemenza, Sunday, 2 October 2022 01:23 (one year ago) link
Sparks, "Rockin' Girls":
You're the only girl I ever met who hates "Hey Jude"That must be the reason that I'm so in love with you
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 2 October 2022 01:57 (one year ago) link
If we're honest though, this poll was a tie. Elvis double-tracked his lead vocal, McCartney didn't. Therefore 56 votes divided by 2 vocal tracks = 28.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 2 October 2022 01:59 (one year ago) link
I know plenty of sad souls who do not like the Beatles in general. I have never known anyone who harbored a particular hate for "Hey Jude." Maybe I've just been lucky.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 3 October 2022 16:20 (one year ago) link
Also, the margin of victory for "Suspicious Minds" is inexplicable to me.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 3 October 2022 16:21 (one year ago) link
It doesn't have Elvis hyperventilating and going "Judy Judy " at the end.
― Fronted by a bearded Phil Collins (Tom D.), Monday, 3 October 2022 17:49 (one year ago) link
... Judy Judy Judy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6qPnjcZKC8
― Misirlou Sunset (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 3 October 2022 17:53 (one year ago) link
xp You say that like it's a good thing . . .
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 3 October 2022 17:55 (one year ago) link
(xp) I know it's exactly what I think of when I think of this song, also...
https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/590x/Punch-and-Judy-banned-snowflakes-990450.jpg
― Fronted by a bearded Phil Collins (Tom D.), Monday, 3 October 2022 17:56 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS6KwdevMP4
― Misirlou Sunset (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 3 October 2022 18:02 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkAvV4rWmKw
― Misirlou Sunset (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 3 October 2022 18:03 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXR0QXvYtoE
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 3 October 2022 18:05 (one year ago) link