The Beatles Survivor #8 Winners: I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND & I FEEL FINE

[pixletwin]

The odds and ends collection. That label can be misleading since both volumes have some very VERY important tracks.

We will only include tracks from the collection which were recorded between 1962 - 1966. We will not include the German versions of "She Loves You" or "I Want To Hold Your Hand".
additionally we will include the 1965/66 tracks which can be found on Vol. 2. We will split the remaining tracks down the middle and create two tribes. The "Mersey" tribe and the "London" tribe. Each round we will vote off a track from each tribe.  I also shuffled "I Call Your Name" into the London tribe because it fit that aesthetic more.

Past Masters was originally issued as two separate CDs Past Masters, Volume One and Past Masters, Volume Two, on 7 March 1988. The two volumes were included in The Beatles Box Set. A double LP set, titled Past Masters, Volumes One & Two (also titled simply Past Masters), was subsequently released in the US on 24 October 1988 and in the UK on 10 November 1988.

The double set was re-released on CD, titled simply Past Masters, on 9 September 2009, as part of the remastering of the original Beatles catalogue, and was included in The Beatles stereo box set. This release includes stereo mixes of both "From Me to You" and "Thank You Girl", whereas the original 1988 issue contained the two tracks in mono. The The Beatles in Mono box set, released at the same time, includes the album Mono Masters, which contains a similar track list of dedicated mono mixes.

Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/album/3GmCXW10kLxmZrEY0JpRlw

10 votes spread across 2 Mersey songs and 3 London songs.
This Boy would be happy, but alas, life isn't fair  (7 votes ) and it looks like we could not acutally Work It Out. (5 votes )

Final round. CHOOSE ONE TRACK from both Mersey and London that you believe deserves to be the SURVIVOR!!!!

Tally on May 27

THE MERSEY TRIBE

From Me To You
She Loves You
I Want To Hold Your Hand

THE LONDON TRIBE

I Feel Fine
Paperback Writer
Rain

Round#1 Bad Boy (London) May 10      
Round#1 Matchbox (Mersey) May 10
Round#2 Love Me Do (Mersey) May 12
Round#2 She's A Woman (London) May 12
Round#3 Slow Down (Mersey) May 16
Round#3 I'm Down (London) May 16
Round#4 I Call Your Name (London) May 18
Round#4 Thank You Girl (Mersey) May 18
Round#5 Yes It Is (London) May 21
Round#5 I'll Get You (Mersey) May 21
Round#6 Day Tripper (London) May 23
Round#6 Long Tall Sally (Mersey) May 23
Round#7 This Boy (Mersey) May 25
Round#7 We Can Work It Out (London) May 25

Mersey: From Me To You is iconic, but not a survivor track.
I Wanna Hold Your Hand is synonymous with "British Invasion" but....

I love the chords and the energy of She Loves You. So that gets my vote for SURVIVOR.

London: I didn't want Paperback Writer in the top 3, so obviously I'm not voting for that... I feel fine is great too. But it's not top material IMO.

I love RAIN. I love the lyrics. I love the production. I love the backwards vocals. It's everything that is great about Revolver condensed into one track.

Vote Vote Vote


PAST WINNERS

The Beatles Survivor #1 Winner: TWIST AND SHOUT
The Beatles Survivor #2 Winner: ALL MY LOVING
The Beatles Survivor #3 Winner: IF I FELL
The Beatles Survivor #4 Winner: NO REPLY
The Beatles Survivor #5 Winner: HELP!
The Beatles Survivor #6 Winner: IN MY LIFE
The Beatles Survivor #7 Winner: ELEANOR RIGBY

[RangeRoverA1]

"I Wanna Hold Your Hand"
"I Feel Fine"

[KDS]

I Want to Hold Your Hand

Rain

[Gertie J.]

i want to hold your hand
i feel fine

[bluesno1fann]

She Loves You

I Feel Fine

[Adult Child]

Tomorrow I might change my mind about this, but today for the London songs I'm going with

[pixletwin]

Final round. CHOOSE ONE TRACK from both Mersey and London that you believe deserves to be the SURVIVOR!!!!

Then we pick between the 2?

Fun idea. But I think after this I am ready to move on to Sgt. Pepper.

[B.E.]

She Loves You
Rain

[Wrightfan]

I Want To Hold Your Hand and I Feel Fine.

[Wata]

I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Paperback Writer

[NOLA BB Fan]

She Loves You
Rain

[1-1-wonderful]

I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Rain

[Robbie Mac]

From Me To You
I Feel Fine

Sad to see Yes It Is go. That was one of my favorite John songs.

[pixletwin]

Final vote tally coming up in a few hours.

Get your votes in!

vote VOTE V O T E ! ! ! !
 

[Scaroline No]

I sat this one out until now... is it cheating if I vote on the last round? LOL

Mersey: I Want to Hold Your Hand

London: I Feel Fine

[pixletwin]

I sat this one out until now... is it cheating if I vote on the last round? LOL

Mersey: I Want to Hold Your Hand

London: I Feel Fine

Not cheating at all. Everyone is free to jump in and out as they please. 

[pixletwin]

The odds and ends collection. That label can be misleading since both volumes have some very VERY important tracks.

We will only include tracks from the collection which were recorded between 1962 - 1966. We will not include the German versions of "She Loves You" or "I Want To Hold Your Hand".
additionally we will include the 1965/66 tracks which can be found on Vol. 2. We will split the remaining tracks down the middle and create two tribes. The "Mersey" tribe and the "London" tribe. Each round we will vote off a track from each tribe.  I also shuffled "I Call Your Name" into the London tribe because it fit that aesthetic more.

Past Masters was originally issued as two separate CDs Past Masters, Volume One and Past Masters, Volume Two, on 7 March 1988. The two volumes were included in The Beatles Box Set. A double LP set, titled Past Masters, Volumes One & Two (also titled simply Past Masters), was subsequently released in the US on 24 October 1988 and in the UK on 10 November 1988.

The double set was re-released on CD, titled simply Past Masters, on 9 September 2009, as part of the remastering of the original Beatles catalogue, and was included in The Beatles stereo box set. This release includes stereo mixes of both "From Me to You" and "Thank You Girl", whereas the original 1988 issue contained the two tracks in mono. The The Beatles in Mono box set, released at the same time, includes the album Mono Masters, which contains a similar track list of dedicated mono mixes.

Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/album/3GmCXW10kLxmZrEY0JpRlw

13 votes spread across 3 Mersey songs and 3 London songs.
Not enough Me to get You through. (1 vote ) and only 5 of us Love You. (5 votes )

There was only 1 Paperback Writer. (1 vote ) and only 5 of us are happy when the Rain comes. (5 votes )

The song which rocked the Mersey side the hardest between 1962 and 1964 was...


I  W A N T  T O  H O L D  Y O U R  H A N D
and between 1964 and 1966 the song which had London swinging the hardest was...


I  F E E L  F I N E


THE MERSEY TRIBE

I Want To Hold Your Hand

THE LONDON TRIBE

I Feel Fine

Round#1 Bad Boy (London) May 10      
Round#1 Matchbox (Mersey) May 10
Round#2 Love Me Do (Mersey) May 12
Round#2 She's A Woman (London) May 12
Round#3 Slow Down (Mersey) May 16
Round#3 I'm Down (London) May 16
Round#4 I Call Your Name (London) May 18
Round#4 Thank You Girl (Mersey) May 18
Round#5 Yes It Is (London) May 21
Round#5 I'll Get You (Mersey) May 21
Round#6 Day Tripper (London) May 23
Round#6 Long Tall Sally (Mersey) May 23
Round#7 This Boy (Mersey) May 25
Round#7 We Can Work It Out (London) May 25
Round#8 From Me To You (Mersey) May 27
Round#8 Paperback Writer (London) May 27
Round#9 She Loves You (Mersey) May 27
Round#9 Rain (London) May 27


It is quite fitting that the next thread of Beatle Survivor is going to be centered on an album which is currently celebrating it's 50th Anniversary.

Stay tuned tomorrow....

PAST WINNERS

The Beatles Survivor #1 Winner: TWIST AND SHOUT
The Beatles Survivor #2 Winner: ALL MY LOVING
The Beatles Survivor #3 Winner: IF I FELL
The Beatles Survivor #4 Winner: NO REPLY
The Beatles Survivor #5 Winner: HELP!
The Beatles Survivor #6 Winner: IN MY LIFE
The Beatles Survivor #7 Winner: ELEANOR RIGBY

[RangeRoverA1]

To begin, I'm very happy that "Paperback Writer" got to the FINALS! Yahoo!

Then, really glad to see "Rain" didn't win.  Ditto "She Loves You".

Now, with that speech, we can move to Sgt. Pepper.
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A bit funny match game Poster=song title

Love Me Do (single version feat. Andy White on drums) = ?
From Me To You = pixletwin starts, we follow
Thank You Girl = Emily likes to thank people when they say sth. good
She Loves You = SCaroline Z is friendly, she'll like you (plural)
I'll Get You = ?
I Want To Hold Your Hand = KDS doesn't like to argue so "holds hands" with us
This Boy = Watamushi is everybody's this boy, gets along with
Long Tall Sally = ?
Slow Down = ?
Matchbox = [that which smokes]

I Call Your Name = ?
I Feel Fine = ?
She's A Woman = NOLA BB Fan
Bad Boy = Beach Boys Collection chose wrong 2nd song
Yes It Is = SMiLE-addict usually agrees with previous post(s)
I'm Down = ?
Day Tripper = Rocky Raccon plays freely - sometimes plays few rounds in row, then doesn't & back again
We Can Work It Out = feelsflow sometimes tells what should be done to save song etc.
Paperback Writer = B.E. writes detailed posts
Rain = Rei? purely by sound