Please note: If you want to vote for “Across the Universe”, “Get Back” or “Let It Be”, you must do so in this poll. Those songs will not be options in the “Past Masters 2” poll.
That said, there can be only one–which would you choose?
I’d love to vote for one of the more obscure tracks, but I’ve got to choose between two obvious ones–the hit singles. “Get Back” would be my choice if not for the fact that the version on this album peters out prematurely instead of continuing with Ringo’s monster drum fill into the coda. Scientists know this disease as Getbackus interruptus. So “Let It Be” it is.
The problem with this one is that the best versions of the songs on Let it Be aren’t on Let it Be. The single version of Get Back is much better than the version here. I have a bootleg version of the complete Dig It which is lots of fun, but I can’t vote for the tiny version on the album. This version of “The Long and Winding Road” is my least favorite Beatles song, in some part because I was working in a lab the summer of 1973 and had to listen to a radio tuned to an AM station that played it every five minutes. The version on Naked, which I also have had for decades on a bootleg, is not good but is at least tolerable.
If I were on Phil Spector’s jury I would have voted for death - not for the murder, which was bad enough, but for this travesty.
I went with Get Back, but it was harder than I thought it would be. I love Dig a Pony (I think I am the only one) and Across the Universe, and Two of us, and Let it Be.
For an album that so many people dislike it has a lot of great songs.
I know I’m going to be the only person who votes for “One After 909.” What can I say? It’s a catchy little number with a good beat. Sometimes the oldest song is the best one.
I’m pretty sure the single version of “Revolution” will be included on the Past Masters poll, since it’s different enough from the album version. But I don’t mean to speak for the OP.
ETA: Also, he made no such caveat in the White Album poll, which is more reason to assume.
Yeah, Revolution and Revolution 1 are different songs with the same lyrics. They even have different names. That’s not the same as what we have going on here.