Beatles

JOHN LENNON CONFERENCE

1 A Day in the Life
16 When I'm 64

8 Eight Days A Week
9 Day Tripper

5 Norwegian Wood
12 Ballad of J & Y

4 Hard Days Night
13 If I Fell

6 I Am The Walrus
11 Don't Let Me Down

3 Come Together
14 I Feel Fine

7 Please Please Me
10 Across the Universe

2 Strawberry Fields Forever
15 Ob La Di Ob La Da




RINGO STARR CONFERENCE

1 Hey Jude
16 For No One

8 With a Little Help
9 Twist and Shout

5 Abbey Road Medley
12 Yellow Submarine

4 Here Comes the Sun
13 Rain

6 Help
11 We Can Work it Out

3 Revolution
14 The Long and Winding Road

7 Tomorrow Never Knows
10 I Should Have Known Better

2  I Want to Hold Your Hand
15 Dear Prudence




PAUL MCCARTNEY CONFERENCE

1 Let it Be
16 Love Me Do

8 All My Loving
9 Back in the USSR

5 She Loves You
12 Sgt Pepper

4 Penny Lane
13 Helter Skelter

6 Get Back
11 Michelle

3 I Saw Her Standing There
14 And I Love Her

7 Paperback Writer
10 Fool on the Hill

2 In My Life
15  From Me to You




GEORGE HARRISON CONFERENCE

1 Yesterday
16 Hello Goodbye

8 Blackbird
9 Magical Mystery Tour

5 Ticket to Ride
12 Drive my Car

4 Elanor Rigby
13 Lady Madonna

6 Lucy in the Sky
11 Here There and Everywhere

3 While My Guitar Gentlly Weeps
14 Taxman

7 All You Need is Love
10 Can't Buy Me Love

2 Something
15 Nowhere Man




1 vs 16 Sgt Pepper Battle
Winner 1

8 vs 9 She's a Big Teaser She sure is
Winner 9

5 vs 12 I never knew he burned down her house
Winner 5

4 vs 13 Great Movie. One of my favorite parts is when they sing if I fell
Winner 13

6 vs 11 The Theme Song for my sports teams, who inevitably do just that
Winner 11

3 vs 14 Very tough one. A Toss up. Abbey Rd breaks the tie
Winner 3

7 vs 10 Depends on which version of ATU. let's not complicate this
Winner  7

2 vs 15 This one not difficult at all
Winner 2



1 vs 9 KRock used to do desert island discs. This one always made the list
Winner 1

5 vs 13. I was alone this bird had flown. (She left without making breakfast) So I lit a fire (I burned down her house)
Winner 5

11 vs 3 An Abbey Road battle. Nice
Winner 3

2 vs 7 Again to me not ever close
Winner 2



1 vs 5  A Day in the Life is just brilliant
Winner 1

2 vs 3 So is Strawberry Fields
Winner 2


1 vs 2 Two Absolute Classics from 1967 but...

CONFERENCE WINNER Strawberry Fields Forever

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1 vs 16- I loved during Beatles Anthology, they played clips of their concerts backwards to For No One.  but...

Winner 1

8 vs 9 I loved Twist and Shout during Ferris Bueller's Day Off but....
Winner 8

5 vs 12 Sorry, I love Abbey Road
Winner 5

4 vs 13 Rain should be higher than a 13 seed. I guess thems the breaks
Winner 4

6 vs 11 John's pessimism vs Paul's optimism. It's 2020 so,
Winner 6

3 vs 14 I had a coworker at the Post who said TL&WR was the worst song in the history of music. I think that's a bit harsh
Winner 3

7 vs 10- Easiest one in the bracket for me
Winner 7

2 vs 15- I Wanna Hold your Hand is historically significant. But I really like Dear Prudence. Lets call this one an upset
Winner 15


1 vs 8  9 weeks at number 1
Winner 1

4 vs 5 They played Here Comes the Sun whenever someone was discharged after COVID
Winner 4

3 vs 6 Great Movie
Winner 6

7 vs 15 The Cinderella Story ends here
Winner 7


1 vs 4- Here Comes the Sun should have been a single. Best song on the album IMHO
Winner 4

6 vs 7  Revolver is an awesome album
Winner 7

4 vs 7- And I say it's all right

CONFERENCE WINNER: Here Comes the Sun


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1 vs 16- Not sure Let it Be should be a number 1 seed. Not sure Love Me Do should be a 16. Still
Winner 1

8 vs 9 I used to sing Back in the USSR on Karioke night. But..
Winner 8

5 vs 12 I'm going to make up for I Want To Hold Your Hand here
Winner 5

4 vs 13 Helter Skelter was about a kids slide, not about murdering rich people.  Look up what Fish and Finger Pie means in England.
Winner 4

6 vs 11 I like Michelle, but Get Back reminds me of the roof concert
Winner 6

3 vs 14 Despite the borderline legalities....
Winner 3

7 vs 10- My father once told me Fool on the Hill was his favorite song in Vietnam.
Winner 10

2 vs 15- Another blowout
Winner 2

1 vs 8 I'm praying to Mother Mary a lot lately
Winner 1

4 vs 5 Cleaning your fire engine is also slang for something nasty
Winner 4

3 vs 6 She's only 17 so you better Get Back
Winner 6

2 vs 10- He said his base was on a hill and he felt like a fool having to guard it
Winner 2

1 vs 4  It's a good song, but it's not to Be
Winner 4

2 vs 6- The older I get, the more I appreciate In My Life
Winner 2

2 vs 4- Penny Lane is one of my all times faves. But In My Life is a true classic

CONFERENCE WINNER  In My Life

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1 vs 16 I know it's considered like the greatest song of all time, but I respectfully disagree
Winner 16

8 vs 9  Very tough one here.
Winner 9

5 vs 12- The skiing scene in Help
Winner 5

4 vs 13- The battle of the Spinsters. Another toughie
Winner 13

6 vs 11 This is a tough bracket man. Upsets happen
Winner 11

3 vs 14- In honor of my late friend Kevin Ludwig
Winner 3

7 vs 10  The person who seeded this bracket has a wicked sense of humour
Winner 7

2 vs 15 Can I possibly have a 16 and a 15 advance? I like Nowhere Man, but I can't do it.
Winner 2


9 vs 16 Lennon hated Hello/Goodbye and wasn't a fan of MMT.
Winner 16

5 vs 13 I read once that a Ticket to Ride in Amsterdam is the license that the hookers get from the government to do their work. For that alone
Winner 5

3 vs 11 I kicked around HT&E as a possible wedding song. Long before I met my wife.
Winner 3

According to Sinatra it's the best Lennon/McCartney song. (Sorry George)
Winner 2

5 vs 16- Goodbye, Hello
Winner 5

2 vs 3 Two great Harrisongs. Buck breaks the tie here.
Winner 3

3 vs 5. This was the one bracket I had no idea how it would play out. tough choice but

CONFERENCE WINNER Ticket to Ride

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                                                            FINAL FOUR

Strawberry Fields Forever vs Here Comes the Sun

The first time I heard Strawberry Fields Forever, I thought it was the coolest song I had ever heard. (I was about 10 years old at the time) I still feel that way all these years later.
But Here Comes the Sun, is just one of those songs that make you feel better, no matter what life throws at you.




In My Life vs Ticket to Ride

The very first song they played on the Beatles Anthology was In My Life. The accomanyng video lined up with the lyrics almost perfectly. As I get older, and I think of all the pictures and scenes that make up my memories, it blows my mind that John Lennon was about 25 years old when he wrote it.


                                                   CHAMPIONSHIP

                                       Here Comes the Sun vs In My Life

Both songs are relevant today. But only one holds the optimism that I think we all need to get us through this quarantine.

                                                CHAMPION

                                            Here Comes the Sun

Pearlman

Ranking Jeff Pearlman's Books



1) The Bad Guys Won- (2004) Obviously the book nearest and dearest to my heart, about the team nearest and dearest to my heart. Zach Haberman said "The 26th man on that roster was a vial of cocaine."


2) Football for a Buck (2018) -  My expectations for this book were high, and it didn't disappoint. I knew there would be stories of sex and drugs and there was plenty of both.


3) Boys will be Boys (2008) - I never rooted for those Cowboys teams from 1992-1998, but what a bunch of psychos they were. Between Charles Haley and Michael Irvin it was a looney bin.

4) Showtime (2014) - To me the most interesting part of the book is the beginning, how they almost hired Jerry Tarkanian to having Jack McKinney invent the run and gun offense.  fun fun book.


5) The Rocket that Fell to Earth (2009)  Pearlman says this is least favorite of all his books. But in some ways it was his best work. He pointed out the good bad and ugly of Clemens.

6) Love Me Hate Me (2006) -  Jim Woods once said to me "Barry Bonds-There's a miserable fuck huh? I mean I don't know how Albert Belle was raised, but he was Bobby Bonds son. He grew up with a major league lifestyle." This book tells why that wasn't really accurate.

7) Gunslinger- (2016) The book itself was excellent, though I was so down on Brett Favre that I probably didn't appreciate it.

8) Sweetness (2011)- As I said, this is the only Pearlman book I don't own  (actually that's a lie- I don't own Love Me Hate Me either)  If I read it again, maybe it would pass Gunslinger, but as compelling as it was, it wasn't as "I can't put this book down"  as some of his others.