Got stumped on this one that I heard on a local radio station this morning. As did a lot of other people. Here it is:
Name the Beatles song that has only 11 words to it?

Go ahead and Google away,it's not easy.

mojoman wrote on Aug 26^th, 2010 at 9:33am:


Do the rules call for 11 words, or 11 different words?

mojoman wrote on Aug 26^th, 2010 at 9:33am:

Give that man a prize!! I swear they about 20 calls on KFOG on this and no one got it right. My guess was Her Majesty. But that's because I dialed first and was surprised to get through and that was the first thing that popped into my head.

mojoman wrote on Aug 26^th, 2010 at 9:33am:



The song with the least number of 'proper' words - yet also (I'm guessing) their longest 'proper' song (if you discount 'Revolution 9')

wikapedia says 14 words?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Want_You_(She%27s_So_Heavy)

The song is an unusual Beatles composition for a variety of reasons, namely its length (nearly eight minutes), small number of lyrics (only fourteen different words are sung), three-minute descent through the same repeated guitar chords (a similar arpeggiated figure appears in another Lennon contribution to the album, "Because" as well as McCartney's "Oh! Darling"), and abrupt ending. It is also one of the last songs that the Beatles mixed as a group, on 20 August 1969.

Speaking of the length of songs and the number of words in songs....

What is The Stones longest song? What is their shortest?


Anybody..?

*I am guessing "She Said Yeah" to be the shortest (2 min ...tops?). The longest being "Going Home" with 11 plus minutes. Am I correct? I didn't Google it. These are my two best guesses.

(Gazza ...some of us await you on this one...)


Ian

While I have a Beatles thread going. Rolling Stone made a list of the top 100 Beatles songs. Yeah lists are generally stupid and a Beatles best of list is espicially tough. But here is the top 10 and I have to say it's a pretty good reflection imho.

1. "A Day in the Life"

2. "I Want to Hold Your Hand"

3. "Strawberry Fields Forever"

4. "Yesterday"

5. "In My Life"

6. "Something"

7. "Hey Jude"

8. "Let It Be"

9. "Come Together"

10. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"

sweetcharmedlife wrote on Aug 27^th, 2010 at 11:01am:



i am the walrus
help
here comes the sun
nowhere man
all you need is love
ticket to ride
tommorow never knows
revolution 
its all to much
across the universe

Longest songs released by The Rolling Stones (according to CD timings) are :

Goin' Home  (11:16)
Cant You Hear Me Knockin' ('Live Licks')  (10:02)
Midnight Rambler ('Ya Yas') (9:16)  (its listed as 8:32 on the vinyl and is 9:04 on the deluxe reissue)
Miss You (12 inch mix) (8:36) (an edited version on 'Rarities' is 7:33)
Out Of Control ('No Security') (7:59)
Sing This All Together (see What Happens) (7:57)
Sympathy For The Devil ('Love You Live') (7:57)
Winning Ugly (London Mix) (7:55)
You Can't Always Get What You Want ('Love You Live') (7:44)
You Can't Always Get What You Want ('Let It Bleed' version) (7:29)

(would need to check one of the dance mixes of 'Too Much Blood' though)

Shortest songs - with music (ie, excluding band intros and intro music on live albums, etc)

The shortest two are actually 'hidden bonus tracks')
Cosmic Christmas (on 'Satanic Majesties') (0:29)
Piano instrumental (actually 'Key To The Highway' performed by Stu) on 'Dirty Work' (0:33)

Proper 'songs' under two minutes :

Everybody Needs Somebody To Live ('Got Live if You Want It' EP) (0:36) (altho its part of a medley)
She Said Yeah (1:39)
I Wanna Be Your Man (1:43)
Title 5 (1:47)
Twenty Flight Rock  (1:47)
Not Fade Away (1:48)
Come On (1:50)
Susie Q (1:50)
I Want To Be Loved (1:51)
Fortune Teller ('Got Live if You Want It') (1:57)
One More Try (1:59)

All covers, except 'One More Try' and 'Title 5', which is an instrumental.

The shortest 'track' listed is Charlie's intro of Marianne Faithfull on 'Rock 'n' Roll Circus' - 6 seconds.

Shortest Beatles songs (again, excluding intros and interviews etc) :

Her Majesty (0:26)
From Us To You (from 'Live at the BBC') (0:27)
Maggie Mae (0:40)
Dig It (0:50)
Wild Honey Pie (0:55)

Longest :
Revolution 9 (8:23)
I Want You (She's So Heavy) (7:47)
Hey Jude (7:20)
Its All Too Much (6:22)
A Day In The Life (5:36)

1. "A Day in the Life"

2. "I Want to Hold Your Hand"

3. "Strawberry Fields Forever"

4. "Yesterday"

5. "In My Life"

6. "Something"

7. "Hey Jude"

8. "Let It Be"

9. "Come Together"

10. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"

Not many " Macca " songs on that list !!!

Hmmmph well I knew "Goin Home" had to be it.

I do not count medley's or bonus stuff that is not really a song but are just peices of music added ( such as Stu's Piano playing at the end of Dirty Work. I mean actual songs from studio recordings.  I am not speaking of live material either. Hence in my opinion on "She Said Yeah" is pretty darn close.

Thanks and Props to Gazza. I seriously don't know how this guy does it? Do you have a data-base you can query based on certain criteria? Do you scrounge the internet? Do you have a program of some sort to assist you in always coming up with these "read outs"? Simply curious and thankful.


Ian

Being also a Beatlesfan I've always realised that not everything they have done was good, to put it mildly. So a top 10 with "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" and/or "All You Need Is Love" makes me VERY VERY sad! They have made so much great music. Unbelievable!!

Gazza wrote on Aug 29^th, 2010 at 9:30am:


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ahhh the ipod eh? well...whatever works. I didn't know SSY was quite THAT short either. It is more a minute and a half for cryin out loud than a two minute song. I was thinking say 1:56 or something.

Off topic, I saw on IORR how you stated to a poster in that ABB wasn't marketed/promoted much. I felt the same way for the most part. The poster stated that it was possibly promoted more than any Stones album since Tattoo You and the person gave some very credible points as to why it was.

The thing is ....why didn't we hear about it? I saw for Voodoo Lounge they would have a whole page advertisement on the album in Rolling Stone. This time out, I didn't see anything like that. It was almost a bit "boot-leggish" in how it was released and the look of the cover and things. It wasn't to "look" commercial at all.

Was this the whole concept of a bigger Bang? Little production and very stripped down in the studio. No pop influence at all this time out. I am thinking promoting/marketing the album went against the albums concept. It was supposed to be no fluff, no bull, and stripped down to hard core basics. However, the record company would probably care less on that aspect and just would push the album regardless in hopes to getting it sold one way or another. Still it doesn't seem as though much was put forth, regardless of the points brought up on IORR.

Maybe the concept was to have it as real to the core concept of the recording as possible. It still sold 3.5 million copies and marketing it wasn't going to drive those numbers up much anyway possibly. Possibly the record company had that notion and treated it "as is".

I certainly understand major labels don't really work like (well normally they don't that I have ever heard of) that BUT it is something to ponder. Maybe they figured they would only get 3 mill or so anyway so why waste money on marketing something that was supposed to be a non-commercial affair (not really many radio friendly tunes this time, stripped down, hardly any tricky production etc. etc.) for the most part. Maybe they knew the writing on the wall in this day and age and figured ...keep it true to it's form.

Hmmm?


Ian