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Wow, what a cool idea. Yeah, I want to do this. Gonna start thinking about my top three picks! Bravo pplains.

WCC, hopefully the June 1 starting gun at a particular time helps in getting you the song you want. I really don't imagine getting 90 submissions all at once there.

But to be fair to anyone else who would have wanted to do those two songs as well, I think this is fair. At least it's daylight in most of ILX-land.

And I know we've got the Animal Collective comp running now too. Anyone is welcome to forget about this project until that's over. Remember, you've got six months to even claim a song and almost eight months to record it.

Just adding this again since I really should have made it bold in the OP:

• As I said, we’ll start taking dibs on songs beginning on June 1. Let’s do it at 1400 GMT that day. That’s 7 a.m. San Francisco time, 10 a.m. at the Ed Sullivan Theater, 3 p.m. in Liverpool and midnight, June 2, in Sydney. Any claims on songs before then will not be accepted.

In a week, this will be a moot point anyway.

glad i have a few months to decide whether there's a beatles original worth doing more than "A Taste Of Honey"

I was thinking this morning how perverse this is gonna get if someone does "Please Mr. Postman".

Looking forward to hearing this! My housemate is a happy hardcore producer, maybe I can persuade him to contribute (does sampling count?)

Hey yeah, I didn't realise how long the submission period was when I was worried about not being able to finish the other compilation. That's plenty long enough to finish the other one before starting this.

ARGH WHY YOU GOTS TO THROW TIME ZONES INTO IT THO I can never get my head around time zones. We're in British Summer Time now, right? Argh. Pressure.

I think I've found two alternate songs but I just have no way of judging how popular things are among the ILX compilation crowd. Not that I would plan on doing either of these songs, but we seem like the kind of people where several people would fight over Rain but no one would be interested in doing Strawberry Fields.

British summer time - 3 pm, 1 June.

I even put the one in front of "June" for ya.

Thanks! Appreciated that :D

I'm in on this. Already looking forward to the LOVE-style megamix.

so hows this gonna work? you keep receiving submissions until the entire catalog is full or until 1/1/13, which ever comes first?

Or is it like, one submission per ILX username?

I'm prolly not gonna do this, but I was just wondering.

Yeah, for now, we're just going to take one submissions per ILX user. No socks.

Beginning June 1, I'll take submissions at ilx.beatles.compatgmaildotcom. (Trying to avoid setting off the email filter here.)

From then until Dec. 1, you can stake your claim on what title you're recording. You have until 1/1/13 to submit the finished track.

I don't know off the top of my head how many Beatles songs we're talking about here. At least 120. If we get anything close to that before 12/1, I'll certainly alert everyone on this thread. I will also likely shit my pants.

So if we clear your submission a week from tomorrow, you record it and get it ready over the weekend, and then send it to me on Monday, June 4, you're good.

If we clear your submission on 11/30 and you have it back to me by 12/31, then again, we're good.

You don't have to claim your song on June 1 and you don't have to wait until 1/1 to send it in. The only incentive to get in your stakes early is to take advantage of the "first-come, first-serve" procedure here.

I'm going to add a track to this, but I'm going to wait until the last minute, so I don't claim a song over anyone else.

I would love to hear multiple versions of the same song, myself.

no medleys or intra-beatles mashups allowed then? like elanor rigby lyrics over daytripper riff?

If multiples exist, they must be performed in different keys. You know, to keep it interesting for the listener. Get those capos warmed up.

I agree that multiple versions would sound cool, but I'm more interested in covering a lot of ground, seeing what songs get taken first, and how it's going to sound when it's put all together. You really want to hear six versions of "Helter Skelter" in that Love mix?

But that said, if someone wants to go all Beatallica and throw in a few riffs from other songs into their mix, that's cool. Lord knows the Beatles themselves pulled that trick a couple of times. Just as long as it's under the umbrella of one song title.

So yeah. No one gets to claim Stars on 45.

i'll do this, have no idea what song

Ooh, i wanna do "Wild Honey Pie"!

Oh, crap, sorry guys. Just jumped to the bottom w/o reading.

I have a Beatles cover I made 20 years ago, one of the few surviving tapes I have from that long ago, that I just listened to for the first time in eons. I recalled it being a rather dull, straightforward cover. I forgot it featured a cheap vintage keyboard simulating a guitar and a Roland 808 in lieu of Ringo. Would you all rather have this or a newly made recording?

I could get into this. See if I can recruit my gf for vox....

As long as no one claims the song first and you're the one who made the recording, the cover can be 100 years old for all that it matters.

Yeah dude go for the vintage recording!

I'm in I'm in I'm in, I need to record this summer

I'm in on this sucker as well.

I'm asking for claims and submissions (I feel like an insurance adjustor writing that) to be sent to ilx.beatles.comp @ gmail . com, but I'm not going to be a stickler if someone sends me a webmail through my user name here. Just be aware that I don't check that address so often anymore and submissions made to the beatles.comp address will be taken first.

After Friday, it won't be a big deal. I foresee a quick deluge of claims followed by a summer of relaxin'.

inspired by this idea so I have already started recording the track (you can't fight inspiration, can you ?)... hope I'll get it first !
anyway, good idea and fun project !

I will say this: I've gotten a few submissions from people who have later admitted they jumped the gun, and I haven't seen one repeat.

And the ones I am seeing, let's just say that this likely won't follow No. 1 to the letter.

So do we not have to wait til Friday to request a song?

You do.

The ones who have contacted me prematurely to select a song won't be assigned one officially until I go through the first ones who come in on Friday at the ilx.beatles.comp email address. Those first ones on Friday will be given first choice.

On Monday, 6/4, at no official time, I'll write back to any of the early claimants and if no one has claimed their song over the weekend, I'll confirm their choice. Or they can resend me their request on Friday to get in line to be a little more sure.

oh I totally intend to resubmit; I just assumed early submissions wouldn't be counted

I think everyone gets the gist. It sounds more complicated than it is and will be moot in less than a week.

I know this is different than the way these things are handled, where you make a claim on the thread, but I think the element of surprise of seeing MOMUS - HONEY DON'T for the first time will be worth it.

Me doing "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)," including all the funny voices.

I think I'm going to have a go at this!!

You're all going to be 'blown away' by my all-flatulence version of 'Tomorrow Never Knows'!
(j/k - not really)

Yeah, I see why Mad Men spent the $250K.

half tempted by this, awesome idea

I know that it's June 1 ~~somewhere~~, but just a reminder that claims for your covers will be accepted here, beginning 23 hours and 48 minutes from whatever the time-stamp is underneath this post.

And that link doesn't work, mother fuc

ilx.beatles.comp @ gmail . com

just sent an email, although I'm guessing someone already claimed it!

Won't accept it for another 23 hours or so!

Yeah, nearly did as well, forgot the date..

d'oh!

after actually reading the thread rather than skimming, now i feel like an idiot. but let my misery serve as a warning for the rest of you: don't be like me!

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Someone should do Maxwell's Silver Ban Hammer.

They're doing "Please Mr Postflag" instead.

this could become an unintended distributed-denial-of-service attack on the ILX server at 1400 GMT

Shoutin' out thanks to BROWNIE for the recognizable-as-a-Beatles-tune portion of my track.

OUR BROWNIE? had no idea!

"I'd like to thank my producer..."

It's funny how nobody, other than the peerless Paul MarioCartney, took on a really big track. Three from the Blue Album, nothing from the Red Album. Only one single.

I know this is ILM, but if you released the originals it'd make for a pretty obscure Beatles comp for a lot of people.

Pretty much the same thing for the songs that were claimed, but due to a variety of legitimate reasons, weren't submitted:

She's A Woman
Yes It Is
Honey Pie
And Your Bird Can Sing
Eleanor Rigby
Cry For A Shadow
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)
Only A Northern Song
Martha My Dear
Birthday
You Like Me Too Much
Oh Darling
You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
It's All Too Much

Ilooking forward to volume II

I don't even KNOW "cry for a shadow" !

that's like that super early instrumental, right?

i thought about and your bird can sing, but decided it would be too hard. probably would've come out sounding exactly like my tomorrow never knows.

"and your bird" with a chamber orchestra playing it brandenburger concerto style could be neat !

geir would hate this lol

a chamber orchestra feat. a funky rythm section.

that's like that super early instrumental, right?

Yep, I think it's part of the Tony Sheridan sessions. It's the only song credited to Lennon/Harrison.

I feel really bad about not submitting my youve got to hide your love away because it would've come out sounding like work that motherfucker

Ilooking forward to volume II

― Ismael Klata, Friday, 1 March 2013 17:15 (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes.

Unfortunately, Kevin Shields is mixing them../..

a 8min cover of "wild honey pie" by kevin shields produced by daft punk is my new dream !

paul mariocartney is still making me lol. amazing.

haha, me too. It cries out for a game to be made for it.

I was a stickler for the whole calling your song and then submitting it, just because I knew any other way, I would get way too disorganized and probably leave off somebody (like I did in my Husker Du poll.)

But that said, when this showed up in my inbox unannounced, I really had no choice but to accept it on the spot, now did I?

http://i.imgur.com/v1R8m35.jpg

Our Alice loved that one.

yeah, mariocartney is the best thing on this.
love when the track accelerates !

Whoever's responsible for the Paul Mariocartney track: thank you.

hon men's: "you won't see me", "Tomorrow Never Knows" and "Baby you're a rich man"

Good Night is my favourite though. For all that it stays close to the original, it's prettier. I love the primitive-sounding orchestration, it sets it off so well.

wow, somehow i totally totally missed this entire project. listening now, first couple tracks are off to a great start, y'all.