Songs The Beatles Gave Away...

Everyone upthread OTM re: "Sour Milk Sea." One of Ringo's finest moments, and I can think of maybe 8-10 songs on the White Album it could've/should've replaced (as-is, retaining Lomax' vocal). I forget which song Ian MacDonald said this about, but it applies here: if Paul wasn't jealous of George, he should've been.

Most of these songs are good to great, and the demos and outtakes versions the beatles did have become some of my favorite things to listen to over the past few years since they're relatively 'new'. I vote world without love, I've always loved that song. good version too.

This has to be 'Badge' for me.

The Beatles version of 'I'll Be On My Way' is on Live At The BBC.

Yeah, SMS is a really weird thing to sleep on, even by John and Paul's standards for George. I like "Savoy Truffle" a lot but no way is it a better song. I actually like the demo better than Lomax's though - the latter is a little slower and his throatier vocal suppresses what in hindsight seems like an almost proto-Bolan number lurking somewhere in Harrison's thin little vocal. I do like the shambley looseness of the instrumental track on its own though!

Inevitably, someone's combined the two tracks, which gets us sorta close to what a White Album "Sour Milk Sea" would have sounded like, since it's the Beatles playing on Lomax's version anyway. Obviously the vocals would have been more developed, hopefully without losing the charm of the demo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqCSfJmv3Tk

Let me think of that song:

"Get out of sour milk sea..
Get back to where you used to be"

Hmmm, I wonder...

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i love how in 2015 when someone mentions a song, there's a way to instantly hear it

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