HERE IS BEATLES BAND

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I've noticed that the canon polls keep creeping back to their spiritual home of Fridays - it must be fate! Anyway today in a fit of indulgence we are doing the BEATLES, to celebrate the fact that something written by me about them is going to be in a proper book available in real actual shops later this year. You get TEN picks from the frankly motley range of Official Beatle Hits available.




[Poll #723001]

I am actually quite intrigued as to how this one will turn out!

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

haha the poll looks awesome w.just my vote!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

WINE WINE WINE.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Where oh where are the votes for the BEATLES MOVIE MEDLEY?

[juror8.livejournal.com]

No "Hey Bulldog", no credibility.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

what IS "ain't she sweet'? i have never heard of it!!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

#29 in 1964. For a cash-in single to only get to #29 at the screaming height of Beatlemania it must have been a real dog!

[zenith.livejournal.com]

What's on the Magical Mystery Tour EP?

CRIKEY MOJO CONTROV ALERT

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Legendary "best single evar" Strawb Fields in Poptimist snub probe!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing "Magical Mystery Tour" is.

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

I think this could be one of the most interesting canons, purely because everyone has different favourites.... my top picks were Back In The USSR and Day Tripper/Ticket To Ride, but clearly just looking at how even the scores are (at this early stage), this is going to be a close one.

I doubt if the last three will get many votes, mind.

Technically, should the canon not have included other Beatles-linked songs (like the Joy Division/New Order canon)? I think this poll would have been far more entertaining if it had included singles like Jet, Band On The Run, My Sweet Lord, Champagne Supernova etc.

Re: CRIKEY MOJO CONTROV ALERT

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I hope Candy Flip are proud of themselves.

[zenith.livejournal.com]

You scamp. Apparently it had lots of other things on it too (http://www.jpgr.co.uk/smmt1.html) but I will assume that we would be voting for the title song...

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

it's not mentioned in lewissohn! (i seem to have mislaid macdonald)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Maybe Everyhit made it up!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

mmt; your mother should know; fool on the hill; i am the walrus; flying; blue jay way

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

isn't it a cover? = rockism in full effect even in 1964!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

It's probably the last really good record they did.

Fun Beatleband Game

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

What is yore favourite Yellow Submarine pun?

Ie we all sang WE ALL LIVE IN A TUB OF MARGARINE!

Our version >>> their version.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

aha it feat. PTEE BEST on drums

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I've never fully understood the appeal of 'Ticket to Ride'. (I don't dislike it mind)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

abbey road is flawless! [/hongro BUT IT'S STILL TRUE]

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

eg octopus garden >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> blue jay way

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Abbey Road is ALL FLAW!* That awful long bluesy one! The Smokin Mojo Filters! ect ect

*actually no, some of it is grebt, I like the one where Paul Mac WHINGES about the Beatles legal issues. In fact all of Side 2 is pretty hott.

[cis.livejournal.com]

No 'got to get you into my life'? Was that not a single? It is my favourite beatles song and one of the few later-ish ones that I really really love rather than just liking a lot.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

someone bootleg ticket to ride and blue monday NOW PLZ