I have had it up to here waiting for the Beatles catalogue to be remastered

Since they're apparently doing these as "anniversary" editions, I assume Abbey Road is next, but it's complicated, since they demoed a lot of Abbey Road stuff during the Get Back project. So maybe they'll combine them into one huge set. It could be a decidedly mixed bag, though, with the extended Yoko/feedback freakout after George left (that's good!), outtakes of "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" (that's bad!), the complete rooftop concert (that's good!), and endless interminable half-assed slogs through material no one's interested in playing (that's bad!).

Went down a wormhole last night with "Can You Take Me Back" in my head. OF COURSE, there have only been about 929,238,429 blogs written about it.

One of them was Dead 2 Rights, which brought up this number which has a similar little melody:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nes83_DkrCI

Donovan took the bones of that one and came up with this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BiuwZ67Sq0

Which the Animals covered:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olVuV3E-APA

I mean, pretty standard stuff. But you could see where one influences the other, which influences another, etc.

I was hoping to find a rockin' cover of the Beatles cut, but all I could find were tributes like from this guy.

https://i.imgur.com/wPqAQNT.png

I wanna hear the take of McCartney singing I Want You.

You've heard his take of "I'm So Tired" ?

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

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.

yes 👏 👏

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?

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

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

i enjoyed listening to the full Can You Take Me Back waiting for Paul to sing the one that ends up on the record

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).

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 !

for the record bardo pond's excellent "cry baby cry" goes into "can i take you back" territory

― dub pilates (rushomancy), Wednesday, November 14, 2018 7:54 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OK, we're getting closer. Thanks!

Why Don't We Do It In the Road and Birthday are such bar band trash it's kind of hilarious

"WDWDIITR" is in my top10 Beatles songs that make me want to smash the Hifi (the others being mostly Paul's too...).

Lol last two posts

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.

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.

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?

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, 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

"Birthday" = Beatle Bubblegum

Birthday is great wtf

I have nothing against Macca’s « fun » songs (I like « obladi », « maxwell »...).
I hate his late period « bluesy » songs !

lot of trash on this record

i love the trash

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-

oh are we having the "the White Album: Scary or Not" argument again like we did last year around this time

lol i remember that going really well

Turrican got banned iirc

The take of "Yer Blues" on the Stones' Rock and Roll Circus is fantastic. The take on the White Album is, well, rather pale.

if anyone cares to relive that particular debacle: Tusk Vs The White Album

tusk vs the white album lmao it's like saying italian food vs mexican food

that's true because the White Album is Mexican Food and is indisputably better

Ahah yeah I remember that scary debate !

Birthday is the only song I skip. Such a piece of shit.

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.

beatles at their worst when they're fun/goofy

They're called the Beatles; fun/goofy is baked in.

Who could forget their dour, glum, downbeat performances on Ed Sullivan, which bummed out a nation.

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

"birthday" is such a good riff, i'll never get the hate

"Why don't we do it in the road" is cool, it's like the Sgt Peppers title track morphed into minimal blues

Yeah, the arrangement makes it. If they'd done a full-band arrangement for that, it wouldn't work at all.

it's not great, it's not awful, it's not long

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.

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”.

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.

people hate BUngalow Bill? I love that song!

nobody agrees about this album. there are no songs that everyone hates, just as there are no songs everyone loves.