Announcing the Best Beatles Song Tournament!
Out of boredom and the resurfacing of an old hyperfixation, I am introducing the Best Beatles Song Tournament!
This will be a single elimination 1v1 tournament bracket. A few notes, caveats and rules:
These are ONLY songs written (or co-written) by members of the band. This means none of their cover songs are included. This decision was made for the sake of my sanity, and also to fairly get an even numbered bracket. If there's interest or enough protest, I may run another bracket for or including the cover songs.
The German versions of "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "She Loves You" are also not included, because they're translations and I felt like that was a little unfair.
These are only the songs included in the "main catalogue," meaning songs released while the Beatles were an active band. This means that bonus tracks, lost tracks, unreleased songs, or songs released after the band broke up are not included. This was to make sure the bracket could be finished in a reasonable amount of time. If there's interest, I will run a different bracket for these songs.
This bracket was randomly seeded because I couldn't come up with a fair way to seed it properly. I looked through a few ranking lists, but they all varied too greatly to figure out good seeding and I personally thought all of them were wrong. If people are mad enough about this, I will run the tournament again someday using the results of this one as the basis for seeding.
Propaganda is encouraged for this tournament, but please be polite and don't attack other voters. Please limit your propaganda to discussing the merits/shortcomings of the songs as-is; while many of them allude to or are about things happening in the band members' lives, I don't want this to become a drama blog about what kinds of people the band were.
Anyone being nasty about anyone involved in the Beatles' story in the notes (including band and non-band members) will be blocked on sight. This includes placing blame for the band's breakup on any one person.
The tournament will begin this weekend once I've had time to queue all the polls.
Also if you see me reblog something non-Beatles related, no you didn't.