The Beatles

Yeah, I've heard a bunch of that as well. George was OBSESSED with "I Shall Be Released."

I think I've heard some of that; they rehearse "She Came In Through The Bathroom Window" and Lennon provides running commentary ("Protected by a silver spoon" "a bloody spoon, bloody spoon, bloody spoon"). It's interesting, but doesn't seem like it would stand up to multiple listens.

Actually, it might be from Let It Be...I think they rehearsed a bunch of Abbey Road during those sessions.

yeah, that boot is awful -- it's one of those releases that kind of defines how obsessive Beatles fans will latch onto anything unreleased. Having Stevie Wonder on it is almost like a joke by god

lennon seems like a bro, offering toots

the nilsson documentary on netflix is great but a real bummer :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE49bsxGTFM#t=45

Turntables and the Beatles who loved them: http://www.capitol6000.com/recordplayers.html

Tom Ewing via Ned Raggett:

Somewhere there's an alternative universe where the boomers spent as much emotional and financial effort on protecting the 60s' political gains as they did in this one on making sure people still knew who The Beatles were.

why should we accept at face value this idea that the persistence of the Beatles canon is a Baby Boomer conspiracy? why shouldn't we blame Generations X & Y for the undoing of these political gains?

I actually think that the cash spent on reversing the (possibly overstated actual) political gains far, far outgrosses Beatles-related spending.

why shouldn't we blame Generations X & Y

because nearly all the Democrats who made this possible are boomers, led by the Clintons.

blame boomers for the politics but each new generation p much discovers/advocates the beatles for themselves, I know that's a cliche but I've seen it happen 100x

So progressives failed because they spent all their time proselytizing the Beatles? Lol.

Saw McCartney play last weekend. 23 Beatles songs.

"When I'm 94" cheap shot here

beatles have a lot of catchy tunes and ppl tend to like em when they hear em

you act like baby boomers strap us down in some kinda open eyelid clockwork orange beatles machine

timellison you only saw mccartney last weekend because you were strapped down clockwork orange style, right?

Sort of convenient that no other decades made promises for the future.

what 1960s political gains? i thought nixon was elected in 68.

Once the major civil rights legislation was done, more of the political gains were made in the first half of the '70s, until Reagan, Clinton and the whole sad bunch cut all the non-rich loose.

i was just being cynical

tom ewing's quote up there is too dumb to actually contemplate seriously

see also: most things written by music critics

critics bloggers

each new generation p much discovers/advocates the beatles for themselves

And reactionary politics

I've just been trapped in a room (not literally) at work having to listen to some early Beatles (might have been the first album - how the fuck would I know?) Jesus, but how I hate all that yakky-dakky Merseybeat stuff.

Yakky-dakky?

Girl, shake that yakky dakky (that yakky dakky)
Twist and shout

It's a phrase of my own invention for relentlessly chirpy Scouse shite.

The world is treating me bad yakky dakky

Actually pronounced yachy dachy

You know, if you break my heart I'll go
And yakky-dakk again

Yakky Dakky
What have you done?
You've made a fool of everyone

Yakky Dak, don't talk back!

"You know my naaammme.... Yakky Dakky,"

"You say you wanna Yakky Dakky,
Weeeelll, you know..."

Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm Yakky Dakky?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROI-FH6tnfY

Assume I made a Photoshop here of the Manson murder scene with "Yakky Daky" scrawled on the wall in blood, then chortle to yourself, please.

You'll have to have'em all pulled out after the Yakky Dakky.

I don't care too yakky dakky
Cos yakky won't yakky dak

And the yakker never wears a dak
In the pouring rain... Very strange

Let's just do this all day.

Why don't we yakky in the dak?

No one will be watching us.

Dak dak, Yakswell's silver hammer came down on her head...

Picture yourself in a yak by the dakky

Yakkiness is a warm yes it is Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak

"YAKKY DAKKY" written in blood on the LaBiancas' refrigerator

aw, someone else already made that joke :(

John and Yako

Now I come to think of it, Iechyd Da is probably the source of the phrase, there is a notable Welsh influence in Liverpool after all.

I don't think merseybeat has aged too well. I'm sure it was terrific at the time and everything but yeah, yakky dakky chippiness I always find a turn off.