"A Butt in the Life" by the Buttles
I read the news today oh buttAbout a lucky man who made the buttAnd though the butt was rather sadWell I just had to laughI saw the photographHe blew his butt out in a carHe didn't notice that the lights had buttsA crowd of butts stood and staredThey'd seen his butt beforeNo butt was really sureIf he was from the House of Butts.
I saw a butt toda oh boyThe English Army had just won the buttA crowd of butts turned awabut I just had to lookHaving read the buttI'd butt to turn you on
Woke butt, fell out of butt,Dragged a butt across my buttFound my way downstairs and drank a buttAnd looking up I noticed I was buttFound my butt and grabbed my buttMade the butt in seconds flatFound my way upstairs and had a butt,and somebody spoke and I went into a butt
I read the news today oh buttFour thousand butts in Blackbutt, LancashireAnd though the butts were rather smallThey had to count them allNow they know how many butts it takes to fill the Albert Hall
― LL Coolna (absolutely clean glasses), Thursday, 2 June 2011 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Beatles1.gif
neat
― iatee, Thursday, 5 January 2012 00:14 (twelve years ago) link
Not sure how they're making those determinations, though. Ringo came up with a line or two for "Eleanor Rigby," and suggested "look at all the lonely people" as the chorus.
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 5 January 2012 00:24 (twelve years ago) link
who is the "outside contributor" for "Julia", Yoko...?
― The Silent Extreme (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 5 January 2012 00:32 (twelve years ago) link
Also, were George Martin's arrangements not "contributions"?
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 5 January 2012 00:35 (twelve years ago) link
Nice. If accurate, more collaboration that I thought--at some point, I think I internalized the idea that, with prominent exceptions like "A Day in the Life," Lennon/McCartney almost always meant Lennon or McCartney.
― clemenza, Thursday, 5 January 2012 00:37 (twelve years ago) link
Lol at "Flying" and "Dig It." Never realized before that John had written almost all of A Hard Day's Night
― WATERMELON MAYNE aka the seed driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 January 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
yeah that was my main take from it. I guess that explain's the albums v. consistent style.
― iatee, Thursday, 5 January 2012 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
Show how much George would have been pretty frickin major had he been in any other band. (Ignoring all the usual alternate-universe shit about how in another band he might not have been inspired to write, and maybe had he been in another band he would caused a butterfly to flapped his wings and make Borneo disappear, or Bono disappear, or something.)
― Ye Mad Puffin, Friday, 6 January 2012 02:04 (twelve years ago) link
Um, "shows," and "flap," sorry, but you get the idea.
― Ye Mad Puffin, Friday, 6 January 2012 02:05 (twelve years ago) link
I doubt George would have been anything than a decent guitarist in any other band whose two leaders inspired his best playing and writing.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 January 2012 02:06 (twelve years ago) link
um yeah, that's the usual alternate-universe shit
― we bought a zoo in a hopeless place (some dude), Friday, 6 January 2012 02:19 (twelve years ago) link
Go through the looking-glass.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 January 2012 02:26 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THbvc3lx2pk
― WATERMELON MAYNE aka the seed driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 January 2012 02:31 (twelve years ago) link
love george but he didn't really have enuff swag to be a guitar hero in a non-beatles band IMO
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 6 January 2012 02:34 (twelve years ago) link
Think I meant to post this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_am82sYFXU&feature=related
― WATERMELON MAYNE aka the seed driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 January 2012 02:35 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry to be all markers/frogman henry reposting the same non-sequitur embed buthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdAX7E34zkg&feature=related
― WATERMELON MAYNE aka the seed driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 January 2012 02:41 (twelve years ago) link
Without Ravi Shankar's influence, George would not have been as good a sitar player.
― timellison, Friday, 6 January 2012 02:48 (twelve years ago) link
man, you need to re-listen the early stuff to realize how massive of a player george was in terms of his contributions to the band sound. he was uniquely creative right from the beginning, in fact i would say his licks were pretty much unparalleled at the time (say, 62-64). the guy virtually invented a whole guitar vocabulary all by himself and i'm only taking into account the pre-psych beatles shit.
― cock chirea, Friday, 6 January 2012 03:00 (twelve years ago) link
My youtube meandering ultimately led me to some Beatle bloopers:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nPtbbO0c98&feature=relatedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2R4_jL1-Ts&feature=endscreen&NR=1
― WATERMELON MAYNE aka the seed driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 January 2012 03:03 (twelve years ago) link
Never mind the haters
― WATERMELON MAYNE aka the seed driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 6 January 2012 03:23 (twelve years ago) link
aargh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TeqyovfJzE&feature=related
George without the Beatles just doesn't compute for me (meaning George without the Beatles having ever existed), any more than it does for John or Paul.
― clemenza, Friday, 6 January 2012 03:28 (twelve years ago) link
totally agree and never suggested otherwise
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 January 2012 03:28 (twelve years ago) link
what is pete best doing in these alternate universes?
― buzza, Friday, 6 January 2012 06:32 (twelve years ago) link
drumming for gay dad obv.
― Mark G, Friday, 6 January 2012 07:21 (twelve years ago) link
Beatles museum to close
― Kevin John Bozelka, Thursday, 7 June 2012 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
Beatles invent punk rock and other related things: http://nobilliards.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/the-beatles-beatles-at-hollywood-bowl.html
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Sunday, 29 July 2012 14:25 (eleven years ago) link
Psychedelicized Radio is playing the complete Rooftop Concert tonight. It's in progress now, but they're going to rerun it later -- 7 p.m. Pacific time.
psychedelicized.com
― WilliamC, Sunday, 25 November 2012 00:39 (eleven years ago) link
"Thanks Mo"
― piscesx, Sunday, 25 November 2012 05:44 (eleven years ago) link
In case anyone missed it and would like another chance...from the site admin:
"Dear All,I was out all day yesterday and unable to address an issue with the server. It appears that the Beatles special went out but 5 hours later than each planned slot, so mega apologies, I have fixed the issue, restarted the server and ran the concert this morning to test the timings were working.I'll run the concerts again this evening at the same times 7pm UK, 7pm NY, 7pm LA. I will be around to make sure that it goes out. If people can't tune in to any of those times, I can probably sort out a link...Apologies again, stupid server!"
― WilliamC, Sunday, 25 November 2012 14:12 (eleven years ago) link
funny I'd never noticed the harmonies on the "aaah" after the "wake up" part.always thought it was John who sang the "aaah" but apparently it was Paul ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D74rcZuOnWQ&feature=related
― AlXTC from Paris, Sunday, 25 November 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
xp So Paul didn't write the bridge on "A Hard Days Night." I assumed that was a very collaborative song but I guess not.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 25 November 2012 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
Lennon always said the only reason he didn't sing the whole damn thing is because there was no way he was going to hit those high notes like Paul could.
― pplains, Sunday, 25 November 2012 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
pragmatic
― Mark G, Sunday, 25 November 2012 20:03 (eleven years ago) link
Paul has always claimed the bridge on 'A Hard Day's Night' was his, and I believe him!
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Sunday, 25 November 2012 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
I always thought it was a rule : the one who sang the song or the part was the author of said song/part (except for some ringo stuff, of course).of course, it's much too simple to be totally true but I think it works mostly !Is there a song by John mainly sung by Paul or vice-versa ?
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 26 November 2012 14:31 (eleven years ago) link
i think that's the rule of thumb. seems like there should be an exception but i've never heard of one.
― Z S, Monday, 26 November 2012 14:34 (eleven years ago) link
i was thinking about this the other day but didn't know which beatles thread to revive, so it may as well be this one. what's with Get Back being so popular on U.S. radio? apparently it was the 5th most played beatles song on the radio last year, and it's been like that for a long time. yet it's probably one of their very worst singles (imo), and definitely not too many people's favorite (imo). is there some sort of deal with radio where certain songs are less expensive to play than others, and maybe Get Back is one of the cheap beatles options or something?
― Z S, Monday, 26 November 2012 14:35 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, I have always hated get back and still do.
about songwriting : I think there's a controversy regarding "in my life", Paul claiming it's mainly his although John sings it.and John said that he wanted to sing "Oh darling" but that didn't happen so apparently it wasn't impossible to consider the other's song...
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 26 November 2012 14:43 (eleven years ago) link
It choogles, it's not weird or avant-garde or too English, and US oldies radio has moved on from the 64-66 hits. "Revolution" fits that bill too, something that resembles American rock and roll and still allows the station to say "your home for the Beatles' hits!!!"xpost
― WilliamC, Monday, 26 November 2012 14:46 (eleven years ago) link
it's just the nature of radio now -- there aren't many oldies stations left that play the hits from the first few years, and classic rock stations have increasingly been phasing out the mid/late '60s as they get more centered on the '70s and early '80s (and even up to the late '80s). so the moptop era is totally off limits to those stations, just a handful of songs from The White Album onward -- the biggest in the last couple years being "Come Together," "Revolution," "Get Back" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps." compare that to the Who and the Stones, who each have twice as many (mostly '70s) tracks in classic rock rotation.
xpost
― The Doc Morbama (some dude), Monday, 26 November 2012 14:46 (eleven years ago) link
re : get backbut I could understand that it works more in the US since it has a bluesy-roots-deep-south vibe, talks about the US...
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 26 November 2012 14:47 (eleven years ago) link
i think the earliest Beatles i ever hear on classic rock radio now is "Lucy" and "A Day In The Life"
― The Doc Morbama (some dude), Monday, 26 November 2012 14:47 (eleven years ago) link
i'm not a paul hater by any means, but i hate the sound of every goddamn syllable he sings on Get Back.
― Z S, Monday, 26 November 2012 14:50 (eleven years ago) link
haha same here
― The Doc Morbama (some dude), Monday, 26 November 2012 14:54 (eleven years ago) link
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, November 26, 2012 2:43 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yep, it's true. Paul makes quite a big claim to 'In My Life' in his book 'Many Years From Now', although I think it's more to do with the music, or more specifically, coming up with the original musical idea rather than the lyrical content. The lyrical content of that song to me sounds like it was all John, and if Paul were to make any claims to the lyrics of that track, I wouldn't believe him at all.
Also, it's not that John wanted to sing lead on 'Oh! Darling', it just seems like he felt he would have done a better job. Even as a big fan of McCartney's solo material, I agree with him.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Monday, 26 November 2012 15:02 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, his voice, tone and pronunciation are very wrong there.
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 26 November 2012 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
Haha, then have you heard the alternate lyrics? Trust me, that song could have been much worse.
― pplains, Monday, 26 November 2012 15:04 (eleven years ago) link
agreed.regarding "in my life", I don't know, it seems to me that in general each one came with the main idea for each song (lyrics/music) and the other helped on bits of lyrics and arrangements. I don't remember any song for which one would claim the music and the other the lyrics, like for other songwriting duos.
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 26 November 2012 15:09 (eleven years ago) link
TSF, I didn't see the WOA show on the tour but I did win a copy of the triple album along with the accompanying songbook from the Long Island Press because I correctly answered a Beatles trivia question posed by Lou O'Neill Jr. based on knowledge gleaned from the copy of ALL TOGETHER NOW in the Womrath bookstore near the Bloomingdales in the Fresh Meadows Shopping Center (I wonder if I ever unknowingly crossed paths with Will Hermes in those parts). My dad drove me to the LIP office in Jamaica so I could pick it up. Lou was not at his desk when I arrived but eventually he strolled in looking very rock and roll journo, like Joey Ramone in Almost Famous drag, and told me he was going to (the) Eagles show that night and asked me "do you have tickets?" or maybe even "do you have tix?"
― Andrew Goldsoundz (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 13:42 (one week ago) link
Here's some less scary footage from a couple weeks before Candlestick, playing the Olympia in Detroit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBIfn0LjCFg
...and here they are at the same venue in '64:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXkmpSmpeKU
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:02 (one week ago) link
Left there's this guy named Charles Manson you may want to look into...
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:39 (one week ago) link
yeah I saw charlie says
― Left, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:48 (one week ago) link
but like what if the beatles did that and wrote the songs for it on purpose
it would have been so much bloodier
― Left, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:52 (one week ago) link
or if they had been literally engulfed and eaten by a swarming mass of fans. one or the other
― Left, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:54 (one week ago) link
the beatles in the philippines sounds like a nightmare, i haven't read this but here's a longread:
https://www.esquiremag.ph/long-reads/notes-and-essays/remember-the-beatles-nightmare-in-manila-a1542-20170524-lfrm10
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 16:48 (one week ago) link
I approve of all this speculation
― brimstead, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 16:52 (one week ago) link
Why was Manson hanging out with the Beach Boys but getting all his secret messages from the Beatles? Couldn't Wild Honey or Friends have inspired murders too?
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 16:59 (one week ago) link
in the candlestick park footage, are the only on-stage monitors the two little gray boxes in the front corners, and maybe a larger speaker to ringo's left pointing at him? that seems like a nightmare in terms of being able to hear on stage even before all the screaming. the monitors are so far away from john/paul
― na (NA), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 17:16 (one week ago) link
(xp) Smiley Smile probably could.
― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 17:23 (one week ago) link
i mean if "transcendental meditation" wasn't enough to inspire a man to kill i don't know what song could
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 17:32 (one week ago) link
and i _like_ transcendental meditation
ringo should have filmed douglas adams' spec script for "goodnight vienna", that's my opinion
i totally forgot about that, I see the script finally got published a few years back. b-ark is in it apparently (which got recycled twice!)
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 17:44 (one week ago) link
I did win a copy of the triple album along with the accompanying songbook from the Long Island Press
nice! long island press was a queens thing? i don't recall seeing it around me. in nassau county it was "good times."
― Thus Sang Freud, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 18:41 (one week ago) link
Apparently so! Never thought about that before, made assumptions since it had "Long Island" in the title. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Island_Daily_Press
― Andrew Goldsoundz (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 22:46 (one week ago) link
I believe at one point Lou O'Neill Jr. migrated to the NY Post along with his soulmate Headphone Dan Aquilante
― Andrew Goldsoundz (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 April 2024 22:48 (one week ago) link
Surely you read Wayne Robins in Newsday back in the day?
― Andrew Goldsoundz (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 18 April 2024 00:28 (six days ago) link
Heh, further discussion of Lou O’Neill Jr. here, including me telling a version of the same story I just recounted upthread: The end of Circus Magazine
― Andrew Goldsoundz (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 18 April 2024 00:30 (six days ago) link
And some further hilarious Beatles-related Lou O’Neill Jr. anecdotes on another borad: https://iorr.org/talk/read.php?1,1495183
― Andrew Goldsoundz (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 18 April 2024 00:33 (six days ago) link