Beatles Survivor Poll - Please Please Me Side B / Round 5

[WestwayKid]

"P.S. I Love You" is no more.

[Flex]

Perhaps a touch of giant slaying, but I'm voting Love Me Do here. T&S is a racaus bit of funnin' and There's a Place is, as I think Inder made the case for, a wonderful distillation of the strengths of Early Beatles in a delicate, subtle song. Love Me Do is a good time but the others better display what made early Beatles so electric.

[WestwayKid]

I'm going with "Love Me Do" in this round. While more famous than "There's a Place", I actually feel it's an inferior song. Lennon and McCartney developed so quickly as songwriters that a track like "Love Me Do", which had been composed years earlier already sounded primitive by the time they recorded the Please Please Me LP.

The lyrics alone are a huge improvement. "There's a Place" isn't lyrical genius, but I feel it shows a leap in complexity. The musical composition is better, the harmonies are better. They sound more self assured. "Love Me Do" is the work of a couple of kids (albeit very talented kids) bashing something together and "There's a Place" is the sound of rapidly maturing songwriters.

[Mimi]

There's only one song on this poll I dislike.

[Dr. Medulla]

"Love Me Do," as well. It's the thinnest of any Beatles single, and doesn't especially sound that Beatlesque. "There's a Place" does sound like The Beatles, and I could conceivably support it over T&S if it makes it to tomorrow.

[Kory]

Love Me Do is too quaint, while There's a Place has great harmonies and much more unexpected melodies/resolutions. I'll vote for it against Twist and Shout too.

[Heston]

I'd have LMD and There's a Place about even. Only one winner here, cover or not.

[BitterTom]

Love Me Do. It's pretty good but by now I'm sick of the sound of that bloody harmonica. Nails on a fucking chalkboard.

[Heston]

Love Me Do. It's pretty good but by now I'm sick of the sound of that bloody harmonica. Nails on a fucking chalkboard.

I love that wheezy note Lennon hits in the second half of the song. Sounds like a bit of a mistake but it's my favourite part of the track.

[Inder]

This reminds me, have you all seen/heard the worst thing ever?

[Dr. Medulla]

This reminds me, have you all seen/heard the worst thing ever?

Good lord but McCartney's pendulum swings wide.

[Flex]

This reminds me, have you all seen/heard the worst thing ever?

Holy shit, that was completely fucking unbearable. Well done.

[gkbill]

This reminds me, have you all seen/heard the worst thing ever?

Hello,

This is the aural equivalent of "Hey, c'mere ... you gotta smell this!".