I'm actually kinda scared I got my FAVOURITE song. Like, so much to live up to. Almost wish I'd got a 2nd or 3rd choice so it wouldn't matter so much to me if I mucked it up.
But not enough to change now, mind.
― Dixie Narco Martenot (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Friday, 1 June 2012 18:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
Lee, just saw yours and your first choice is okay.
I just set this email address up and already, gmail is sending hotmail addresses to my spam folder. I'll try to keep an eye out for that, but beware.
AOL users, you too, just in case.
― pplains, Friday, 1 June 2012 18:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
aol users deserve it imo
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 1 June 2012 18:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
I just sent one in. I apologize for only picking one song, but that's cuz if I don't get it I'll have to reconsult on other options with my partner in crime.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 1 June 2012 18:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
- One instrumental claimed.
Hmm Flying, What others are there?
― MaresNest, Friday, 1 June 2012 18:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
Side 2 of Yellow Submarine soundtrack?
― Lee971 (Lee626), Friday, 1 June 2012 18:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
cry for a shadow ? is that what that early track is called?
― tylerw, Friday, 1 June 2012 18:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
Got my first choice, which means I have like six months to figure out how to actually play and record this thing.
― joygoat, Friday, 1 June 2012 19:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
Got my first choice, which didn't surprise me. Equally pleased and worried.
― Rob M Revisited, Friday, 1 June 2012 20:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
12-Bar Original
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 1 June 2012 20:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
Cool, got my choice too. Now the how part...
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 1 June 2012 20:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
22 songs in 8 hours. ilx.beatles.comp @ gmail.com. have a great weekend!
― pplains, Friday, 1 June 2012 22:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
CONFIDENTIAL TO Soccer mom, hopeless and lost, in utter despair: That song has already been taken. Also, I don't have your email.
You can submit songs via ILX webmail through my pplains name, but I likely won't see it for awhile and I can't respond to robot @ ilxor.
― pplains, Saturday, 2 June 2012 04:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
Got my #2 choice, lots and lots of chords, luckily I cheated and found them on the interwebs rather than sitting down and working it all out myself, fuck that.
― A++++++ would deal with again (Matt #2), Saturday, 2 June 2012 11:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
pp, I figured out after the fact to send it to the correct email, so you have already responded and approved mine. We're good.
― Soccer mom, hopeless and lost, in utter despair (Dan Peterson), Saturday, 2 June 2012 12:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
good resource: http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/awp-beatles_canon.shtml
― Snowqueen's Icedragon (crüt), Saturday, 2 June 2012 14:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
haw, dan p. didn't even make the connection.
― pplains, Saturday, 2 June 2012 15:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
wait what connection
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Saturday, 2 June 2012 15:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
I believe that was directed at the other dan p
― Snowqueen's Icedragon (crüt), Saturday, 2 June 2012 17:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
DJP and Dan Peterson should start a funk based Beatles cover band called The Dan P Connection.
― Radical Jedward (snoball), Saturday, 2 June 2012 17:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
I had to tell Soccer mom, hopeless and lost, in utter despair "Sorry dude, Dan Peterson requested your weird song first."
― pplains, Saturday, 2 June 2012 19:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm unutterably stupid. How does one figure what songs have been claimed and what haven't? Or is it simply submit and pray?
― Matt M., Saturday, 2 June 2012 20:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
Submit three choices and I'd bet you'd do fine.
― pplains, Saturday, 2 June 2012 20:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
Roger.
― Matt M., Saturday, 2 June 2012 21:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
Two more songs, and we'll have as many tracks as the White Album.
Also, from the first four albums (UK), we have only ONE song claimed.
― pplains, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 13:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
ilx.beatles.comp @ gmail. com
I've already bitten off more than I can chew.
― Matt M., Wednesday, 6 June 2012 14:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
I've been a little intimidated myself, even though I haven't even officially picked a song. Crüt's link up there, about which chords with which songs and the arrangements and the oh my makes me feel like I'm going to try to re-write Shakespere.
Just gotta remember that no one's going to top the most successful band in history with a four-track in their bedroom. I sure as hell hope that no one notices that I can't play a minor chord on my bass. None of that was our intention going into this anyway, I don't think.
― pplains, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 14:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah this is basically going to be me setting aside an hour or two and seeing what happens. and whatever happens, you all will have to listen to!
― tylerw, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 14:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
Good Lord, I just forced myself to listen to that Phish White Album show for the first time and I think ILX is going to be just fine with this.
ilx.beatles.comp @ gmail.com
― pplains, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 20:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm keeping an eye out for any two or more songs that sync together. For example, if someone claims "Mean Mr. Mustard" and someone else gets "Polythene Pam", I'll let those two ILXors know about the other.
27 songs and holding for now.
― pplains, Monday, 25 June 2012 16:13 (11 months ago) Permalink
Just got the first submission.
After hearing it, I am so much more psyched for this comp.
― pplains, Monday, 25 June 2012 20:18 (11 months ago) Permalink
l been busy on my track, need to redo the lead guitar break to my satisfaction, then it's all about the mix..
― Mark G, Monday, 25 June 2012 23:23 (11 months ago) Permalink
iirc I am in on this thing and have confirmed studio time!("studio" being my friend MP's basement...)
― crab lifting a goat (weatheringdaleson), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 00:00 (11 months ago) Permalink
Everyone's got plenty of time. One ILXor just beat the crowd early.
― pplains, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 00:21 (11 months ago) Permalink
― Mark G, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 14:30 (11 months ago) Permalink
This is kinda weird.
Maybe you can make it weirder.
ilx.beatles.comp @ gmail . com.
― pplains, Monday, 9 July 2012 14:58 (11 months ago) Permalink
There's five for a kick-off!
― Mark G, Monday, 9 July 2012 15:03 (11 months ago) Permalink
whereas...
― Mark G, Monday, 9 July 2012 15:05 (11 months ago) Permalink
They didn't even try to pass that other guy off as Eric Clapton or Klaus Voorman.
― pplains, Monday, 9 July 2012 15:08 (11 months ago) Permalink
The second submission was sent last week. I can't wait to line these up and hear them all together.
Here's a list of albums that haven't been represented yet by ILXors:
PLEASE PLEASE MEWITH THE BEATLESA HARD DAY'S NIGHTPAST MASTERS I
Still plenty of choices from the other albums too. Let me know which one you want to do. ilx.beatles.comp @ gmail.com
― pplains, Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:37 (11 months ago) Permalink
submission sent!
― epistantophus, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 13:50 (10 months ago) Permalink
Tickled pink about the tracks I've heard so far.
Remember, you've got another four months to claim a song (12/1) and five months (1/1) to get the song sent to me. The comp will be released to the world in Feb. 2013.
I still haven't picked mine out yet. I'll think of one, spend a month working it out in my head, get bored, move on to another one.
― pplains, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 14:29 (10 months ago) Permalink
I'm a little late, but I just noticed a new submission from earlier this month.
Not a song claim, but the entire song itself!
Fortunately, no one had staked it yet and anyway, it's been the highlight of my morning.
I would still advise you to claim a song first to make sure we don't have any repeats. Still lots of time.
― pplains, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 15:22 (9 months ago) Permalink
just had a little jam session with a drummer friend in the basement where we tried out an arrangement of my beatles tune. needs some work, but it'll be good!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 15:30 (9 months ago) Permalink
and when i say "good" feel free to read that as "Better Than The Beatles"
― tylerw, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 15:35 (9 months ago) Permalink
Tomorrow is the 72nd birthday for John Lennon. Next up on the birthday calendar will be George's 70th in February.
And that's also the day that the ILX Beatles Comp will be released to the world.
So far, we've got 29 songs claimed. We've even got four tracks finished and already sent in.
Here are the deadlines coming up: Dec. 1 will be the last day to claim a song. We're doing this privately, so email your claim to ilx.beatles.comp @ gmail.com. I'll only be able to honor the claims that come in through that email address.
Give me three requests. You'll get your top request as long as no one else has claimed it first. I'll confirm your request, usually within a day or so, if not the hour.
After Dec. 1, no more claims will be accepted. The next deadline will be Jan 1 to get your recorded track sent in.
And then on Feb. 25, we'll have our big release party online.
So again, tell me what song you want to do at ilx.beatles.comp @ gmail.com. The more the merrier, a splendid time guaranteed for all.
― pplains, Monday, 8 October 2012 11:48 (8 months ago) Permalink
mine just needs Bass and a guitar solo
― Mark G, Monday, 8 October 2012 13:27 (8 months ago) Permalink
Any chance of a sneak peek at the track listing?
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 8 October 2012 13:44 (8 months ago) Permalink
my new band just tried out our contribution yesterday...it sounded prettay prettay good. it also may have been ten minutes long.
― tylerw, Monday, 8 October 2012 15:19 (8 months ago) Permalink