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Desert Island With The Dark Horse: The Beatle Years

Do You Want To Know A Secret 4 votes

Chains 0 votes

Devil In Her Heart 1 votes

Roll Over Beethoven 4 votes

Don't Bother Me 3 votes

I'm Happy Just To Dance With You 3 votes

Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby 0 votes

I Need You 6 votes

You Like Me Too Much 0 votes

If I Needed Someone 7 votes

Think For Yourself 3 votes

Love You To 5 votes

Taxman 8 votes

I Want To Tell You 5 votes

Only A Northern Song 7 votes

Within You Without You 4 votes

It's All Too Much 5 votes

Blue Jay Way 1 votes

The Inner Light 2 votes

While My Guitar Gently Weeps 14 votes

Piggies 2 votes

Savoy Truffle 1 votes

Long, Long, Long 4 votes

For You Blue 8 votes

Something 11 votes

Old Brown Shoe 4 votes

Here Comes The Sun 15 votes

I Me Mine 10 votes

SteveJRogers
Nov 07 2010 10:24 AM

Alright, the above is all 28 Beatle songs that George Harrison sang lead vocal on, time to make a 10 song, Best Of Beatle Years tape/CD/mp3 Playlist. Where are you going?

All the well known ones like Something, Taxman, While My Guitar, Beethoven, etc? Mix it up a little with some lesser known Harrison album cuts? Only go with ones George penned himself and leaving out his covers?

Ashie62
Nov 07 2010 11:26 AM
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If I needed someone to love, you're the one that I'd be thinking of...

cooby
Nov 07 2010 01:56 PM
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Hard one for me. George was a favorite of my mom's and so I paid attention :)

I ended up picking Devil In her Heart.

BTW, though George's post Beatle career was equally gorgeous, check out "Fab" when you get a minute. It's catchy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQXx-PKTOw0

sorry to change the course of the conversation

Edgy DC
Nov 07 2010 02:09 PM
Re: Desert Island With The Dark Horse: The Beatle Years

You guys are being invited to pick 10 songs, not one. Else this poll is torture.

[list:1k2x3i5n][*:1k2x3i5n]"Roll Over Beethoven"[/*:m:1k2x3i5n]
[*:1k2x3i5n]"Don't Bother Me"[/*:m:1k2x3i5n]
[*:1k2x3i5n]"I Need You"[/*:m:1k2x3i5n]
[*:1k2x3i5n]"If I Needed Someone"[/*:m:1k2x3i5n]
[*:1k2x3i5n]"I Want To Tell You"[/*:m:1k2x3i5n]
[*:1k2x3i5n]"It's All Too Much"[/*:m:1k2x3i5n]
[*:1k2x3i5n]"While My Guitar Gently Weeps"[/*:m:1k2x3i5n]
[*:1k2x3i5n]"For You Blue"[/*:m:1k2x3i5n]
[*:1k2x3i5n]"Here Comes The Sun"[/*:m:1k2x3i5n]
[*:1k2x3i5n]"I Me Mine"[/*:m:1k2x3i5n][/list:u:1k2x3i5n]

cooby
Nov 07 2010 02:15 PM
Re: Desert Island With The Dark Horse: The Beatle Years

Oh! The poll threw me off

Ashie62
Nov 07 2010 02:27 PM
Re: Desert Island With The Dark Horse: The Beatle Years

When I saw Dark Horse in the thread title I thought it would be a George solo thread.

Edgy DC
Nov 07 2010 02:41 PM
Re: Desert Island With The Dark Horse: The Beatle Years

Yeah, nice bait-'n'-switch, Steve.

I'm crazy for George, and it was illustrative to me to realize how much I conflate so many of these songs with others and sub-categorize his Beatles catalog.

Romantic Songs from the Lennon-McCartney Reject Pile
"Do You Want To Know A Secret?"
"I'm Happy Just To Dance With You"

Early Covers
"Chains"
"Devil In Her Heart"
"Roll Over Beethoven"
"Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby"

First Original Romantic Songs
"Don't Bother Me"
"I Need You"
"You Like Me Too Much"
"If I Needed Someone"

Snarky Songs
"Think For Yourself"
"Taxman"
"Only A Northern Song"
"Piggies"
"I Me Mine"

Indian Phantasmagoria
"Love You To"
"Within You Without You"
"It's All Too Much"
"The Inner Light"

Songs of Yearning in a Fallen World
"I Want To Tell You"
"While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
"Long, Long, Long"

Sliding Blues Shuffles
"For You Blue"
"Old Brown Shoe"

Legendary Breakup Era Ballads That Have Been Covered a Million Times
"Here Comes The Sun"
"Something"

Not Quite Filler, But...
"Blue Jay Way"
"Savoy Truffle"

Rockin' Doc
Nov 07 2010 03:54 PM
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I had to amend my vote. I missed that we could vote for more than one song until Edgy posted that we could choose up to 10. Apparently, my reading skills are lacking as SJR clearly said the same thing in the initial post.

Vic Sage
Nov 07 2010 04:56 PM
Re: Desert Island With The Dark Horse: The Beatle Years

While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Here Comes The Sun
If I Needed Someone
I Want To Tell You
I Me Mine
For You Blue
I need You
Only A Northern Song
Do You Want To Know A Secret
I'm Happy Just To Dance With You

metsguyinmichigan
Nov 07 2010 05:06 PM
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"Here Comes The Sun" still sounds fresh after all these years. A magnificent song. Brings a smile to my face every time.

SteveJRogers
Nov 07 2010 05:33 PM
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metsguyinmichigan wrote:
"Here Comes The Sun" still sounds fresh after all these years. A magnificent song. Brings a smile to my face every time.

If I ever get around to relaunching my Mets & baseball podcast, that is going to be the opener to the Spring Training preview episode.

SteveJRogers
Nov 07 2010 05:40 PM
Re: Desert Island With The Dark Horse: The Beatle Years

Edgy DC wrote:
You guys are being invited to pick 10 songs, not one. Else this poll is torture.

Heh, just be glad I'm not allowed to hit you with all 72 McCartney led songs, or the 97 songs Lennon is credited as the lead vocalist.

And FWIW, doing a 10 songs for Ringo's lead vocal would be more of, which Ringo led song do you like the least as there are only 11 of those.

Ashie62
Nov 07 2010 06:15 PM
Re: Desert Island With The Dark Horse: The Beatle Years

SteveJRogers wrote:
Edgy DC wrote:
You guys are being invited to pick 10 songs, not one. Else this poll is torture.

Heh, just be glad I'm not allowed to hit you with all 72 McCartney led songs, or the 97 songs Lennon is credited as the lead vocalist.

And FWIW, doing a 10 songs for Ringo's lead vocal would be more of, which Ringo led song do you like the least as there are only 11 of those.

Dont pass me by

Fman99
Nov 07 2010 06:28 PM
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Went with all later-era stuff.

Love You To
I Want To Tell You
Only A Northern Song
Within You Without You
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Long, Long, Long
For You Blue
Something
Here Comes The Sun
I Me Mine

batmagadanleadoff
Nov 07 2010 06:47 PM
Re: Desert Island With The Dark Horse: The Beatle Years

Heaviest Rotation
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Within You Without You

Worthy of a Place on my Desert Island
Taxman
Here Comes the Sun
Something

Rounding out the top 10
Long, Long, Long
Savoy Truffle
Roll Over Beethoven
It's All Too Much
For You Blue

John Cougar Lunchbucket
Nov 07 2010 07:26 PM
Re: Desert Island With The Dark Horse: The Beatle Years

I'm the only voter for "Think For Yourself." How about that?

Edgy DC
Nov 07 2010 07:52 PM
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I was close on it. It kind of sounds like "The Word" and "Wait," so I sometimes forget it's George.

Vic Sage
Nov 07 2010 09:09 PM
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i changed my vote to join you. dropped DO YOU WANNA KNOW A SECRET which hasn't held up as well.

Edgy DC
Nov 07 2010 09:40 PM
Re: Desert Island With The Dark Horse: The Beatle Years

Still unclaimed on the wiaver wire:

"Chains"
"Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby"
"You Like Me Too Much"
"Piggies"

I'd have guessed "Only a Northern Song," deliberately written to underwhelm. Who voted that? Five of us? Really?

batmagadanleadoff
Nov 07 2010 09:57 PM
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Piggies and Think for Yourself just missed my top 10 cut. Both are interchangeable with any of my last five, though.

bmfc1
Nov 08 2010 07:12 AM
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I find it interesting that when The Beatles were recording Abbey Road, and John's mind was on Yoko and Paul's mind was on his solo album, George created two masterpieces: "Something" and "Here Comes the Sun."

As for "Weeps", every version I own is magnificent. The Anthology version and the version from Love (Anthology + a new string section as written by George Martin) are almost as good as the original. The new version by Santana (not Johan) with Indiria.Arie is also worthwhile.

Edgy DC
Nov 08 2010 07:26 AM
Re: Desert Island With The Dark Horse: The Beatle Years

Also wunnerful:

[list:18pj41am][*:18pj41am]Concert for George version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifp_SVrlurY
[/*:m:18pj41am]
[*:18pj41am]Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concert version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifp_SVrlurY[/*:m:18pj41am][/list:u:18pj41am]

The cool thing is that Dhani looks intimitaded and just trying to keep up in the first. In the second one, he looks locked in, mature, and confident.