Poll: Best song of the beatles on "Let it be" (or indeed, the "Get Back" album as it would have been, or "Let it be naked" or such)

"I Me Mine", particularly the waltz version.

"Don't Let Me Down" because not even horror of horrors Kelly Stereophonics can ruin it.

I voted for "I Got a Feeling", strangely enough.

"Across The Universe" is a great song, on an otherwise patchy album (which would have been way better with "All Things Must Pass" on it though)

I voted for "I Got A Feeling," which is the best and most moving end-days Lennon-McCartney collaboration.

get back, the best rock song the beatles ever wrote

MAYBE

Hmmm...I'd go with Back in the USSR on that one lfam, but Get Back is definitely the best rock song on the album.

For the purposes of this poll though, I went with "I've Got a Feeling" which duked it out for a minute or two with "Dig a Pony."

The Beatles didn't write any good rock songs after "And Your Bird Can Sing" and "Taxman".

"Let It Be"

I think I have finally exceeded my quotient of drunken pullings out of "Don't Let Me Down", so I voted for "I've Got A Feeling". Surprised that I'm not alone, really.

there is no such thing as too many drunk pullings out of don't let me down.

hmm, back in the ussr is also amazing, who can choose?

Yeah, I know it's tough. But then you have to ask yourself, "which of these songs has a freakin' jet plane on it?"

bo: select!

The Beatles didn't write any good rock songs after "And Your Bird Can Sing" and "Taxman".

'Birthday' is a fantastic rocker and 'Back in the USSR' is no slouch too.

Relax! It's Geir.

Yeah, I know but you can't let it slide.

Sure you can! Deep breaths...

I love "Dig A Pony". John's vocal is too wordy on the verses and sounds out of it / out of tune / out of ideas, but the chorus slows things way down, Paul joins in on harmonies and sounds like he's having a great time. It's got this warped doo-wop thing going on, with the lead guitar kinda shooting all over the place, but then there's this fuzzed out warble in the background (George?) that's filling in what the bass might have; here the bass is mostly just following the drums, probably the least interesting feature of the song.

'Birthday' is a fantastic rocker and 'Back in the USSR' is no slouch too.

Both are way too 50s-like harmonically.

Yeah, I know but you can't let it slide.

But you CAN let it be.

it's like the terrible showing of "hey jude" in the singles poll - zero votes. understandable - i didn't vote for it either - but "let it be" and "the long and winding road" are the only whoppers on this album.

regardless of people's queasiness about their nature. there's still something there that merits acknowledging that they're the only whoppers on the album.

http://www.acidlogic.com/graphics/whoppers.jpg

i trust you know what i'm saying.

i mean, it's far and away the most mediocre beatles album apart from those songs and without them it would be seen as even more mediocre regardless of whether people feel they like those two songs or not!

i think it's a matter of the content not really being there in the lyrics, but the INTENDED content is easily perceived and very palpable in those two songs.

don't let me down destroys

tim that's piffle. 'Two Of Us' is my favorite not counting the unadorned anthology 'Long and Winding'. i'm a true bro so it's more poignant when I read it as a backdrop to the Paul and John disintegration(no yoko)

man I hadn't really thought about this album much lately but looking at the tracklisting I'm struck by how weak it is overall. Toss-up between Across the Universe and All Things Must Pass.

All I know is that it was a bad idea to go on a GIS for "whoppers" while I was at work.

the 15 minute long version of dig it. the 8 minute version is great too. phil spector should go to jail for cutting it to less than a minute long.

"between song banter" should be a poll option

I voted 'Universe', I would have voted 'Commonwealth Song', and once again mention the film clip outtake from the LIB sessions where Ringo / Paul / John / Yoko play a proto version of Yoko's 'Why?' for about three minutes

on a slight side-topic, if anyone has an mp3 of the 8-10 minute version of 'Revolution No. 1' with the Yoko coda, please drop me a line

Where is Laibach band?

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There should be a Laibach poll equivalent to this thread.

I'd definitely say "Across The Universe" is up there with "Let It Be" and "The Long And Winding Road". It was hardly a new song in 1970 though.