Nice post. I have no sound at work but a few of these I kmow from memory (and repeated listenings).
Some of the best songs are made even better by a well timed background yell or a perfect segue from bridge back to chorus. This looks like a good collection of the little details that made so many Beatles songs perfect.
What rocket said. Thanks for posting this pete. I'll have fun taking a listen to the sound bites when I'm home this evening.
One of the "finds" for me was the banjo on "Something". I never heard it before.
*plays Something in my head to listen for that banjo*
My mom had that 7". When I was a wee little tot I would played that song over and over and over... (ah, the flipside was Come Together, the perfect 7" in my mind). I think it finally turned to dust sometime during the late 80's.
I remember hearing the yawn in "I'm Only Sleeping" for the first time - it was about the 40,000th time I'd heard the song. Maybe I was tired the first 39,999 times.
We all live in a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine.
We all live in a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine.
We all live in a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine.
We all live in a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine.
We all live in a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine.
We all live in a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine.
We all live in a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine.
We all live in a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine.
We all live in a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine.
We all live in a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine.
I used to sing it the whole day long, when I was a little kid.
Awesome. I was also introduced to the Beatles by some amazing teachers. I remember studying the end of "Hey Jude" in Music Theory because it was the only recorded example of a IV/IV-IV-I cadence the prof could find. Sweet.
TUM, I got taught "When I'm 64" by our English Lit teacher too, for poetry! We had to sing it as a class at the end of the lesson.
Damn, my English Lit professor only covered American Pie.
In my one-and-only University English Lit class we covered Eleanor Rigby, and I still don't understand it as much as I want to.
What does he mean by "No one was saved"???
The Beatles in their later years were a rich and heady experience, wonderfully complex and playful.
So much so that by contrast other popular groups always seem flat and overly simplistic to my ear.
Fan-fucking-tabulous links; merci beaucoup, pete!
More John. Specifically, his middle eight on "This Boy" (mp3), which elevates the song to something grand from something dull
I've spent days at a time unable to get these two lines of music out of my head. And I don't get tired of it.
*sings* "But oh, my-y-y-y-y-y..."
What does he mean by "No one was saved"???
No one was saved by Christianity, most likely.
The Father McKenzie verse has him "writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear," which could mean no one is listening, except the next line is "no one comes near," which implies that he's preaching to an empty church.
Wow! That's a cool bit of history there.
Note to self: cite this article in letter to city council about proposed renaming of Shithole Parkway
Nooo! "Shithole Parkway" by Johnny Krudd was a freakin' anthem of my generation!
My senior class, anyway.
Me and Joey, mostly.
It was Joey's tape, actually.
The song descriptions in the official Beatles Canon are incredible. Every nuance of every song broken down and analyzed in detail. Fantastic.
Excellent growabrain Beatle links
Starring the last picture of the Beatles together ever, a free book about the making of Revolver, and a Simpson's clip, plus more . . .
The Beachles mashup of Sgt. Pepper & Pet Sounds.
Also promises clip of McCartney (or Wilson) explaining why the two albums are related. (Haven't listened to it yet, myself)
You just killed the last hour of my work pete! Yummy links.
*burp*
Hey Bulldog!
Engineer Geoff Emerick said this was the last song he can remember where they were all together and playing as a unit.
excellent bass for my $$ and kickity John & Paul vocals to boot.
38 years ago, The Beatles played their last public concert together on a rooftop.
The Compleat Film of that concert.
Sweeeeeet. What a gorgeous blond casino guitar. Hi Ring! Paulie! Hey George! Ah, there's Johnny!
*snif*
My boss is in a Beatles/Stones/Sha-Na-Na? tribute band. He plays Paul & Keith and whoever. Apparently they're good. I've never been to see them because, well, no. Just no.
Thanks for the link, Petes. I've seen that before, always chokes me up with nostalgia and what-ifs, for some reason. And Koko, my condolences.
So they named their Beatles/Stones/Sha-Na-Na tribute band after an Edgar Winter song?
I guess in context it makes perfect sense.
Sure, why not.
I caught The Dirty Mac performance on PBS the other night (during their fundraising event, they were showing The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus). Having never been aware of that footage before, I was quite in awe to see Johnny on stage with Keith Richards, Mitch Mitchell and Eric Clapton.
And I must say, I've never been a huge fan of The Who, but that was one hell of a performance! Recommended...
That was a real gem, petey! I needed a Wednseday grin.
Squashed by the Beatles is a recollection of the comedy duo McCall & Brill who had the misfortune to follow the Beatles on the show that night.
Also from that bluey link above. Good readitatin'.
Bigger Than Jesus
"In 1966 the Rutles faced the biggest threat to their careers. Nasty, in a widely quoted interview, had apparently claimed that the Rutles were bigger than God, and was reported to have gone on to say that God had never had a hit record.
The story spread like wildfire in America. Many fans burnt their albums, many more burnt their fingers attempting to burn their albums. Album sales sky-rocketed. People were buying them just to burn them.
But in fact it was all a ghastly mistake. Nasty, talking to a slightly deaf journalist, had claimed only that the Rutles were bigger than Rod.
Rod Stewart would not be big for another eight years."
Lynne also said that the best thing about the song was that it brought back a lot of memories.
"The best thing about it all was to work with John again. Hearing him in the headphones, it was like he was in the next room. It's like an impossible dream"
*looks forward to hearing*
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