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Ultimate Battle of The Beatles

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    #692
    speckle
    Registered Users Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭speckle


    group c
    I'm so tired
    dont let me down
    hey jude

    group d
    love you too
    blackbird
    strawberry fields..


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    #693
    Eggonyerface
    Registered Users Posts: 669 ✭✭✭Eggonyerface


    Group C

    While My Guitar Gently Weeps
    Don’t Let Me Down
    Hey Jude

    Group D
    We Can Work It Out
    Blackbird
    Strawberry Fields Forever


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    #694
    Rigor Mortis
    Registered Users Posts: 2,914 ✭✭✭Rigor Mortis


    Group C
    While My Guitar Gently Weeps
    Don’t Let Me Down
    Martha My Dear

    Group D
    We Can Work It Out
    Blackbird
    Strawberry Fields Forever


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    #695
    Collie D
    Registered Users Posts: 11,370 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    Group C

    While My Guitar Gently Weeps vs Im so Tired
    Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da vs Don’t Let Me Down
    Hey Jude     vs Martha My Dear


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    #696
    Nerdlingr
    Registered Users Posts: 4,385 ✭✭✭Nerdlingr


    Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »
    Sitting here seeing people vote for the mediocre I Want To Hold Your Hand over the infinitely superior Blackbird...

    giphy.gif

    I want to hold your hand is mediocre?
    Null and voids anything you say afterwards.


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    #697
    Reberetta
    Registered Users Posts: 2,293 ✭✭✭Reberetta


    Group C

    While My Guitar Gently Weeps vs Im so Tired

    Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da vs Don’t Let Me Down

    Hey Jude vs Martha My Dear


    Group D

    Love You To vs We Can Work It Out

    Blackbird vs I Want to Hold Your Hand

    Drive My Car vs Strawberry Fields Forever


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    #698
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Have spent the morning painting and listening to the Beatles and have been inspired to vote.


    Group C

    While My Guitar Gently Weeps
    Don’t Let Me Down
    Hey Jude

    Group D

    We Can Work It Out
    I Want to Hold Your Hand
    Strawberry Fields Forever


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    #699
    Also Starring LeVar Burton
    Registered Users Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    Nerdlingr wrote: »
    I want to hold your hand is mediocre?
    Null and voids anything you say afterwards.

    In comparison to plenty of far superior Beatles songs, yes it's mediocre, and I stand by that.

    In all of music, sure, mediocre is an unfair descriptor, but we're in a tournament now so the gloves are off, and its time to get used to low blow statements during outbursts of frustration when people are voting the wrong way...

    If we've learned anything from music tournaments around here is that Democracy doesn't work as the majority of the plebs voting tend to get it wrong more often than not. ;)

    The deeper into the tournament we get and the more controversial the head-to-heads become people will start flipping tables and smashing the place up... :pac:


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    #700
    jimmymack
    Registered Users Posts: 113 ✭✭jimmymack


    Group C

    While My Guitar Gently Weeps
    Don’t Let Me Down
    Martha My Dear


    Group D

    We Can Work It Out
    Blackbird
    Drive My Car


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    #701
    Arghus
    Registered Users Posts: 14,527 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Ah, the rancour begins... Great to see.

    I'd have to agree with LeVar there have been examples of plebish voting getting it wrong. Like the mediocre Honey Pie initially dumping out the infinitely superior Tomorrow Never Knows. Madness.


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    #702
    abff
    Registered Users Posts: 5,767 ✭✭✭abff


    Group C

    While My Guitar Gently Weeps

    Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

    Hey Jude


    Group D

    We Can Work It Out

    Blackbird

    Strawberry Fields Forever


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    #703
    Nerdlingr
    Registered Users Posts: 4,385 ✭✭✭Nerdlingr


    Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »
    In comparison to plenty of far superior Beatles songs, yes it's mediocre, and I stand by that.

    In all of music, sure, mediocre is an unfair descriptor, but we're in a tournament now so the gloves are off, and its time to get used to low blow statements during outbursts of frustration when people are voting the wrong way...

    If we've learned anything from music tournaments around here is that Democracy doesn't work as the majority of the plebs voting tend to get it wrong more often than not. ;)

    The deeper into the tournament we get and the more controversial the head-to-heads become people will start flipping tables and smashing the place up... :pac:

    People aren't voting the wrong way though.
    They're voting which song they prefer in a head to head.
    No one can help it if a dull song like blackbird with its tweety birds is overlooked by a moptop stone cold classic like I want to hold your hand!
    :P


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    #704
    Also Starring LeVar Burton
    Registered Users Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    Nerdlingr wrote: »
    People aren't voting the wrong way though.
    They're voting which song they prefer in a head to head.
    No one can help it if a dull song like blackbird with its tweety birds is overlooked by a moptop stone cold classic like I want to hold your hand!
    :P

    giphy.gif


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    #705
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users Posts: 10,776 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Nerdlingr wrote: »
    No one can help it if a dull song like blackbird with its tweety birds is overlooked by a moptop stone cold classic like I want to hold your hand!
    :P

    I’d agree with you, N, but then we’d both be wrong.

    ‘Blackbird’ is worthy of Keats, himself.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



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    #706
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Imagine if this wasn't a democracy and El Gato just opened a thread to say "such-n-such is the best Beatles song", dictorial-like and that was it, end of competition :P Democracy may be imperfect, but it's fun watching the despair :D


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    #707
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users Posts: 10,776 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    quickbeam wrote: »
    Imagine if this wasn't a democracy and El Gato just opened a thread to say "such-n-such is the best Beatles song", dictorial-like and that was it, end of competition :P Democracy may be imperfect, but it's fun watching the despair :D

    I did try for an early coup against the process but it cost me ‘Dig a Pony’, one of my top 3 Beatles’ tracks.

    They may force this freedom upon us but they cannot take away our, inalienable, right to bitch and moan!

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



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    #708
    Collie D
    Registered Users Posts: 11,370 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    Group D

    Love You To vs We Can Work It Out
    Blackbird     vs I Want to Hold Your Hand
    Drive My Car vs Strawberry Fields Forever


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    #709
    Collie D
    Registered Users Posts: 11,370 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    Arghus wrote: »
    Ah, the rancour begins... Great to see.

    I'd have to agree with LeVar there have been examples of plebish voting getting it wrong. Like the mediocre Honey Pie initially dumping out the infinitely superior Tomorrow Never Knows. Madness.

    I have already decided to vote against Honey Pie regardless of the opposition as vengeance.

    Democracy does not need to be mature.


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    #710
    Arghus
    Registered Users Posts: 14,527 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Group C -

    While My Guitar Gently Weeps

    Don't Let Me Down: Can't stand the other tune.

    Hey Jude - Love Martha My Dear, but it's no Hey Jude.

    Group D -

    We Can Work it Out

    I Wanna Hold Your Hand: Right... obviously Blackbird is a great tune and I wouldn't blame anyone for voting for it, but to claim that IWHYH is mediocre is, quite simply, daft: that jangly and instantly recognisable intro, that sense of propulsive momentum into the first verse, the stridency and certainty in their vocals selling it and making you pay attention, the crazy memorable hooks everywhere, the harmonies in the chorus are absolutely ridiculous particularly the second chorus where they sustain and sustain them past the point of distortion and into brilliance, the crisp and varied drumming throughout the entire song, the bridge that switches the momentum effortlessly... etc and etc and etc again. Stop it, what a song. Mediocre? You're having a laugh! It's genius in a bottle.

    Strawberry Fields Forever.


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    #711
    El Gato De Negocios
    Registered Users Posts: 7,000 ✭✭✭El Gato De Negocios


    No groups tonight, Im having a few beers and watching random Beatles stuff on Youtube, have this on in the background.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu27IQPsqdU


    Happy Saturday Beatlemaniacs!


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    #712
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users Posts: 10,776 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


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    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



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    #713
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users Posts: 86,723 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Group C

    I'm So Tired
    Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
    Hey Jude
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    #714
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users Posts: 86,723 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Group D

    We Can Work It Out
    I Want to Hold Your Hand
    Strawberry Fields Forever
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    #715
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users Posts: 86,723 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Group A

    I Don't Want to Spoil the Party
    Glass Onion
    All Together Now
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    #716
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users Posts: 86,723 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Group B

    Money (That's What I Want)
    Nowhere Man
    I Feel Fine
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    #717
    Ficheall
    Registered Users Posts: 9,034 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    Blackbird is right up there with Wonderwall in terms of "Ooh, a guitar! Look what I can do!"

    Hey Jude being the unrequested but inevitable encore.


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    #718
    El Gato De Negocios
    Registered Users Posts: 7,000 ✭✭✭El Gato De Negocios


    Progressing to the next round.

    Group C

    While My Guitar Gently Weeps
    Don’t Let Me Down
    Hey Jude

    Group D

    We Can Work It Out
    Blackbird
    Strawberry Fields Forever


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    #719
    El Gato De Negocios
    Registered Users Posts: 7,000 ✭✭✭El Gato De Negocios


    Group E

    You Cant Do That

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PK21u7YzmI


    vs

    Yesterday

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrgmdOz227I


    The End

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12R4FzIhdoQ


    vs

    Day Tripper

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IbPn5j2YKk



    Tomorrow Never Knows

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHNbHn3i9S4


    vs

    A Hard Days Night

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMSiHdrHl0g


    Group E

    You Can't Do That vs Yesterday
    The End vs Day Tripper
    Tomorrow Never Knows vs A Hard Day's Night


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    #720
    Declan A Walsh
    Registered Users Posts: 6,095 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    Group E

    You Can't Do That vs Yesterday

    The End vs Day Tripper

    Tomorrow Never Knows vs A Hard Day's Night
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    #721
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    You Can't Do That vs Yesterday
    The End vs Day Tripper
    Tomorrow Never Knows vs A Hard Day's Night


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