It’s a toughy this week, but I thought we could share some of our favourite second-best Beatles songs and see which ones are the most popular and make the Top Ten.
The voting is closed now, thanks for taking part. The results are below.
So, if they’re in the list below they’re banned because, as you know, they are the classics and that would be too easy.
| Banned Songs | Banned Songs |
| A Day in the Life | Strawberry Fields Forever |
| Hey Jude | Let It Be |
| While My Guitar Gently Weeps | Something |
| Come Together | In My Life |
| Here Comes the Sun | Blackbird |
| Eleanor Rigby | Yesterday |
| Back in the USSR | Help! |
| Revolution | A Hard Day’s Night |
| All You Need Is Love | And I Love Her |
| I Want to Hold Your Hand | She Loves You |
And these are the Second-Best Beatles songs as voted by you.
Top Ten Second-Best Beatles Songs
| Song | Votes |
| 1. Norwegian Wood. | 15 |
| 2. She’s Leaving Home | 10 |
| 3. Penny Lane | 9 |
| 4. Girl | 8 |
| 4. I am the Walrus | 8 |
| 6. Ticket to Ride | 7 |
| 7. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds | 6 |
| 7. Paperback Writer | 6 |
| 9. Ob-La-Di-Ob-La-Da | 5 |
| 9. Twist and Shout | 5 |
Other Songs Voted For:
| Song | Votes |
| With a Little Help from My Friends | 4 |
| We Can Work It Out | 4 |
| Nowhere Man | 4 |
| Rain | 4 |
| Martha My Dear | 3 |
| Across The Universe | 3 |
| Get Back | 3 |
| Golden Slumbers | 3 |
| One After 909 | 3 |
| I Feel Fine | 3 |
| Eight Days a Week | 3 |
| Yellow Submarine | 3 |
| Love Me Do | 3 |
| The Ballad of John and Yoko | 3 |
| Tomorrow Never Knows | 2 |
| Lady Madonna | 2 |
| The Long and Winding Road | 2 |
| I Saw Her Standing There | 2 |
| If I Fell | 2 |
| Julia | 2 |
| Day Tripper | 2 |
| And Your Bird Can Sing Because Don’t Let Me Down Fool on the Hill Got To Get You Into My Life Helter Skelter I’m only sleeping I`ll Follow The Sun Instant Karma It’s Only Love Things we Said Today When I’m 64 You can’t do that Hello Goodbye Octopus’s garden Dig a pony Two of us This Boy | All of these got 1 |
If you want to leave a comment below about any Beatles song, then please do.
Thank you for taking part in the survey.
Take care and all the best,
Ian
Top Ten Second Best Beatles Songs
“The long and winding road” is the second second choice
Loving the quiz and keep up the good work x
Took a hell of a lot of thinking about, because as usual, in your typical snidey style, you’ve banned any that immediately spring to mind! 😀 actually had a few in mind to submit which weren’t on the list, but they’re mostly covers, so reckoned you mightn’t count them
It took me a while to narrow it down to two. Of the banned songs, there are a few I could wait a while before hearing again!
I was the one person who voted for Hello Goodbye, it’s so nice to be unique (and right!)
I missed this quiz. Love Norwegian Wood and Nowhere Man is way above Ob la di or Ticket to Ride. Shame.
!!Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” I mean seriously people?!!??!!??!##@
When you look at all the songs voted for what a catalogue of music they produced. Interesting to see people’s choices too.
My favourite is “in my life” means so much to me and brings back memories of living in the city of Liverpool
I got a couple onto the one vote list. Does that make me strange? 🤣
Like Richard, I too like “In My Life” although unlike Richard I enjoy listening to it for different reasons, it always takes me back 20 years, and a glorious night in Turkey (Istanbul to be precise). If you’re unsure of what I’m on about, if you’ve never seen the video, go to youtube and search Sky Sports in my life, and you’ll see what I mean