I wanna hear the take of McCartney singing I Want You.
― pplains, Wednesday, 14 November 2018 14:48 (five years ago) link
You've heard his take of "I'm So Tired" ?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 14 November 2018 14:52 (five years ago) link
I freakin love this from the 1+ DVD/Blu Ray a few years back. Seems they won the legal battle last year against Sid Bernstein and co, so they can now actually put the whole Shea film out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kle2xHhRHg4
― piscesx, Wednesday, 14 November 2018 23:31 (five years ago) link
Oh yeah, it totally sounds incredible here. Because of that, I assumed it was remixed, even if I couldn't pick out anything new/different about it. So I guess they did a helluva job with the remastering, because the only non-remixed track sits perfectly among the other remixed tracks.
According to me, it's always been the best-sounding track on here.
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Thursday, 15 November 2018 00:09 (five years ago) link
yes đź‘Ź đź‘Ź
― flappy bird, Thursday, 15 November 2018 01:08 (five years ago) link
We just A/B'ed "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" again and, I have to say, I'm a little puzzled by it. The bass sounds nice, yes, but I didn't hear much improvement in the vocals - in fact, McCartney seems deeper in the mix. I don't hear the organ as well. Bit of a trade-off, I have to say, and I'm not sure why we're trading things for other things. And why is there more hard panning in the new version?
― timellison, Thursday, 15 November 2018 01:29 (five years ago) link
The only change I’d make to the original tracklisting would be to add the Jackie Lomax version. Dunno where I’d put it, though...maybe between “Birthday” and “Yer Blues.”― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat)
i love the outfake version of the jackie lomax version with george's vox flown in from the esher demo, it's my go-to
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Thursday, 15 November 2018 01:53 (five years ago) link
I was hoping to find a rockin' cover of the Beatles cut, but all I could find were tributes like from this guy.
― pplains
for the record bardo pond's excellent "cry baby cry" goes into "can i take you back" territory
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Thursday, 15 November 2018 01:54 (five years ago) link
i enjoyed listening to the full Can You Take Me Back waiting for Paul to sing the one that ends up on the record
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Thursday, 15 November 2018 11:07 (five years ago) link
they really did pick the best part of that song, the end result is creepy and unsettling. I've said elsewhere that this whole album has a really dark shadow on it. It used to freak me out as a kid (it was the first full album I ever owned, I think, when I was 7...bought the tapes at a garage sale).
― akm, Thursday, 15 November 2018 14:04 (five years ago) link
this whole album has a really dark shadow on it.
I see what you mean but when you consider the songs, one by one, there are not that many that have a dark aspect. And they're mainly John's (and also George's). But not really from Paul, with the notable exception of "Helter Skelter", of course !Actually if you make a White John album and a White Paul album, you get radically different moods !
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 15 November 2018 14:17 (five years ago) link
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Wednesday, November 14, 2018 7:54 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
OK, we're getting closer. Thanks!
― pplains, Thursday, 15 November 2018 14:36 (five years ago) link
Why Don't We Do It In the Road and Birthday are such bar band trash it's kind of hilarious
― The Poppy Bush AutoZone (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 15 November 2018 15:22 (five years ago) link
"WDWDIITR" is in my top10 Beatles songs that make me want to smash the Hifi (the others being mostly Paul's too...).
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 15 November 2018 15:31 (five years ago) link
Lol last two posts
― Buckaroo Can't Fail (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 15 November 2018 16:01 (five years ago) link
i wouldn't go to bat for either of them separately, but i've always loved the hilarious juxtaposition of why don't we do it in the road and i will.
― tylerw, Thursday, 15 November 2018 16:06 (five years ago) link
Some (mostly Macca's) Beatles tunes, eg Birthday, Obladi, are first-rate children's songs. It's strange to hate them for not being Yer Blues.
― dinnerboat, Thursday, 15 November 2018 16:26 (five years ago) link
with the notable exception of "Helter Skelter"manson aside, this is a children's song too! it's about how awesome amusement park rides are, right?
― tylerw, Thursday, 15 November 2018 16:32 (five years ago) link
― dinnerboat, Thursday, November 15, 2018 10:26 AM (twenty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I don't really like Yer Blues that much either honestly, the Beatles are a great band but I think they suck when they try to do any blues type shit, it's like no one in the world would give a shit about those songs if they weren't the Beatles
Birthday is just...nothing....I like Ob La Di it's a fun song
― The Poppy Bush AutoZone (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 15 November 2018 16:52 (five years ago) link
"Birthday" = Beatle Bubblegum
― The Greta Van Gerwig (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 15 November 2018 17:00 (five years ago) link
Birthday is great wtf
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 15 November 2018 17:04 (five years ago) link
I have nothing against Macca’s « fun » songs (I like « obladi », « maxwell »...).I hate his late period « bluesy » songs !
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 15 November 2018 17:19 (five years ago) link
lot of trash on this record
― single bed mentality (||||||||), Thursday, 15 November 2018 17:20 (five years ago) link
i love the trash
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 15 November 2018 17:22 (five years ago) link
I see what you mean but when you consider the songs, one by one, there are not that many that have a dark aspect.
yeah, but when you arrange them in a sequence, as if say, on an album-
― flappy bird, Thursday, 15 November 2018 17:22 (five years ago) link
oh are we having the "the White Album: Scary or Not" argument again like we did last year around this time
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 15 November 2018 17:44 (five years ago) link
lol i remember that going really well
― tylerw, Thursday, 15 November 2018 17:45 (five years ago) link
Turrican got banned iirc
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 15 November 2018 17:53 (five years ago) link
The take of "Yer Blues" on the Stones' Rock and Roll Circus is fantastic. The take on the White Album is, well, rather pale.
― L'assie (Euler), Thursday, 15 November 2018 17:54 (five years ago) link
if anyone cares to relive that particular debacle: Tusk Vs The White Album
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 15 November 2018 17:55 (five years ago) link
tusk vs the white album lmao it's like saying italian food vs mexican food
― single bed mentality (||||||||), Thursday, 15 November 2018 17:56 (five years ago) link
that's true because the White Album is Mexican Food and is indisputably better
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 15 November 2018 18:00 (five years ago) link
Ahah yeah I remember that scary debate !
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 15 November 2018 18:05 (five years ago) link
Birthday is the only song I skip. Such a piece of shit.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 15 November 2018 18:09 (five years ago) link
Don't get the hate for "Birthday" or "Why Don't We Do It In The Road" at all. They're fun, goofy, "Birthday" is one of their more cracking band performances, and they aren't exactly a slog to get through.
But then, I also can't fathom why people apparently despise "The Baby Song" on Husker Du's Flip Your Wig.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 15 November 2018 20:11 (five years ago) link
beatles at their worst when they're fun/goofy
― single bed mentality (||||||||), Thursday, 15 November 2018 20:13 (five years ago) link
They're called the Beatles; fun/goofy is baked in.
― dinnerboat, Thursday, 15 November 2018 20:16 (five years ago) link
Who could forget their dour, glum, downbeat performances on Ed Sullivan, which bummed out a nation.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 15 November 2018 20:21 (five years ago) link
the early beatles stuff is great! they wrote great songs and were a great band
birthday and WDWDITTR are just shitty, dumb songs that no one would ever care about in a million years if they weren't by the beatles
― The Poppy Bush AutoZone (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 15 November 2018 20:23 (five years ago) link
"birthday" is such a good riff, i'll never get the hate
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Thursday, 15 November 2018 20:24 (five years ago) link
"Why don't we do it in the road" is cool, it's like the Sgt Peppers title track morphed into minimal blues
― brimstead, Thursday, 15 November 2018 20:25 (five years ago) link
Yeah, the arrangement makes it. If they'd done a full-band arrangement for that, it wouldn't work at all.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 15 November 2018 20:25 (five years ago) link
it's not great, it's not awful, it's not long
― brimstead, Thursday, 15 November 2018 20:26 (five years ago) link
I don't hate any songs on this album, but I usually skip Obla Di these days.
"I see what you mean but when you consider the songs, one by one, there are not that many that have a dark aspect. And they're mainly John's (and also George's)."
I think even Paul's songs have that tinge to them. It's just in the way the whole thing was recorded. LIke, Mother Nature's Son could be a happy song, but it doesn't sound happy. It sounds creepy. It makes me want to start a race war and kill a pregnant actress.
― akm, Thursday, 15 November 2018 20:27 (five years ago) link
I’m listening to this album and right now and fuck me I absolutely love every single goddamn song on here. Even the ones everyone hates like “Bungalow Bill” and “Honey Pie”.
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 15 November 2018 20:44 (five years ago) link
I can't imagine skipping any songs. "Honey Pie" is a necessary stepping stone to "Revolution 9" -- one doesn't work nearly as well on the album without the other.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 15 November 2018 20:51 (five years ago) link
people hate BUngalow Bill? I love that song!
― akm, Thursday, 15 November 2018 20:55 (five years ago) link
nobody agrees about this album. there are no songs that everyone hates, just as there are no songs everyone loves.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 15 November 2018 20:56 (five years ago) link
everyone loves Dear Prudence.
― akm, Thursday, 15 November 2018 20:58 (five years ago) link
don't they?