And from a year earlier, McCartney having a little fun with Lennon’s intense “I’m So Tired” during the infamous “Get Back” sessions.
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What are you listening to? Part III
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And from a year earlier, McCartney having a little fun with Lennon’s intense “I’m So Tired” during the infamous “Get Back” sessions.
As someone who spent several long flights over the past few days listing exclusively to The Beatles, I can only applaud your taste.
For now, I am listening to the soundtrack to Grand Hotel Budapest.
I’ve noticed your particular fondness for Rubber Soul. Fine album and, for me, the album that more fully introduces the band as I appreciate them. Most of my “pop” sensibilities spread from their template. Their music is so deeply engrained at this point that I rarely listen to them aside from some “evergreen” songs that strike such resonant chords that I don’t worry about burning them out.
Recently, as buzz about a “The White Album”’s 50th anniversary remix starting crossing my path I finally committed heresy and assembled my own customized version. I won’t discuss what I removed, but it was fun integrating unsung songs like Hey Bulldog and The Inner Light as well as outtakes like Not Guilty. Throwing in the single “Hey Jude/Revolution” was tricky. I’m overall happy with the result till need to iron out the uneven pacing.
Next up in my audio queue, the album containing this:
Edit to add: love Grand Budapest. Finally bought the movie a few weeks ago. Will take closer note of Desplait’s score next time.
The funny thing is that until around three years ago, I had paid little attention to Rubber Soul; then, I bought the CD and realised what an underrated gem it was (the classic "seminal" album which presaged a change in direction); I had always liked Revolver (and still do) but simply think Rubber Soul brilliant but under-rated.
That doesn't detract from my love for the White Album (and the tracks I now love, are not necessarily those I loved in my teens; a few years ago, my brother, with the comment, "I know you better than you think" - predicted with extraordinary accuracy - which tracks I would preserve from a recording of the White Album; suffice to say, some of these "Rocky Raccoon", or "Honey Pie" are not what I would have chosen in my teens), or Abbey Road or Sgt Pepper's which are all still ageless and excellent.
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I rather like music of Alexander Desalt: Grand Hotel Budapest is a brilliant movie with an incredible (and apt) soundtrack.
The soundtrack of Fantastic Mr Fox (also by Alexander Desplat) is likewise excellent.
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Rubber Soul may be under-known to the broader public (aside from arguably its most justifiably well-known song, In My Life” but it often seems to top “under appreciated” Beatles lists. It’s also worth noting that it is the album that inspired Brian Wilson/The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds which inspired not just aspects of Pepper but Revolver’s “Here, There, and Everywhere”. That alone makes it an incredibly important album.
The one slight bump in that lineage, however, is that it’s uncertain whether Wilson listened to the US album (different song listing) that was available to him locally or if he’d scored a copy from Derek Taylor, who was close to both bands. While the US listings (and reverb drenched remixes) were pretty awful (in many eyes/ears), this album is sometimes lauded as the exception because it’s much more acoustic bent has a more cohesive feel — much like Pet Sounds pursued. It’s just different. On the plus-side it loses Run For Your Life (a song I loathe) but it also loses Nowhere Man.
I’ve read the US listing more than listened to it. After my White Album experiment, I took to repeating the exercise with Rubber Soul by incorporating its single, We Can Work It Out/Day Tripper. I prefer what I came up with. Then did the same with the Revolver and Sgt. Pepper-era singles (plus Only a Northern Song). In those cases, I still prefer the original albums but enjoyed the challenge and how it re-engaged me with the over-familiar. Get Back/Let It Be is a daunting task... especially once you start listening to the bootlegged Nagras, the Anthology 3 contents, and toying with the Let It Be... Naked remix.
As to the White Album, I began by listening to the songs I routinely skip. Most I still nixed. Rocky is near the top of the list (it’s a fun pastiche, like You Know My Name). Also let go of Wild Honey Pie with nary a thought. Honey Pie comes and goes. I like it but it doesn’t fit where I took the mish-mash. My take loses a lot of the fun and, in Yer Blues and the beloved (by everyone but me) Happiness Is a Warm Gun. Most importantly, it’s dusted off my taste for the album. I just hope any anniversary release includes the wonderful Esher demos and maybe cleans up (with Care) some of the messy mixing... and adding the ear candy of a 5.1 mix.
"The Watermill" a haunting, beautiful, bitter-sweet piece of music by Ronald Binge.
When I was a child, this was the theme music to a version of The Wind in the Willows that I saw on TV.
When I was a child, this was the theme music to a version of The Wind in the Willows that I saw on TV.
Great song, both the original and the acoustic versions! Going to see Billy Idol live for the first time at the end of July. Can't wait!
Just finished listening to Hawk by Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan. A great record I seem to gravitate towards if I happen to have a glass of whiskey in front of me and it's raining, as it currently is.
I’m envious. I’d love to see him in concert. Enjoy!
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This is quite enjoyable - I’ll have to add that to my library. The Hammond B3 is a nice touch.
It sure is! Another record by them I can very much recommend is Sunday at Devil Dirt, the predecessor to Hawk. Good tunes for quiet evenings.
I wouldn't really consider myself a fan of the band but this eight year-old kid is amazing (and exuberant in many other of her videos)
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Gin Blossoms - Congratulations I'm Sorry
Followed by.....
Thought bubble...... wouldn't it be cool to be able to shuffle albums in their entirety, instead of just being able to shuffle individual songs?
Followed by.....
Thought bubble...... wouldn't it be cool to be able to shuffle albums in their entirety, instead of just being able to shuffle individual songs?
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Three days ago, without fanfare, The Beatles officially made their entire catalogue* freely-with-ads available (including the previously unreleased Sessions disc from the recent Sgt. Pepper 2-disc set).
One of the videos that’s been up a few years now is this live/studio hybrid. About halfway through, when the coda begins, an audience joins the band. Even if his song has become cliché to many I can’t help but be increasingly moved as I see the faces unified by a simple melody.
Of course, nuts (genially speaking) such as @Scepticalscribe and myself will likely continue wearing out our CDs, records, mp3s, FLAC/ALAC files or whatever but I’m very happy that the music can be more easily and widely shared with simple subscription-free links to songs, albums and even custom playlists where those who love the band can tailor recommendations to those who might.
*stereo mixes and does not include certain modern collections like Let It Be... Naked, Yellow Submarine Songtrack, Anthology 1, 2, 3.
I believe the Cesium app allows “Shuffle by Album” on your iOS device.
One of the videos that’s been up a few years now is this live/studio hybrid. About halfway through, when the coda begins, an audience joins the band. Even if his song has become cliché to many I can’t help but be increasingly moved as I see the faces unified by a simple melody.
Of course, nuts (genially speaking) such as @Scepticalscribe and myself will likely continue wearing out our CDs, records, mp3s, FLAC/ALAC files or whatever but I’m very happy that the music can be more easily and widely shared with simple subscription-free links to songs, albums and even custom playlists where those who love the band can tailor recommendations to those who might.
*stereo mixes and does not include certain modern collections like Let It Be... Naked, Yellow Submarine Songtrack, Anthology 1, 2, 3.
Gin Blossoms - Congratulations I'm Sorry
Followed by.....
Thought bubble...... wouldn't it be cool to be able to shuffle albums in their entirety, instead of just being able to shuffle individual songs?
I believe the Cesium app allows “Shuffle by Album” on your iOS device.
Have you listened to pual mccarthy’s Album “new” I highly reminded that recording, it is amazing!
But "Stairway To Heaven" is seriously good; apart form that, yes, I think I would be in agreement with you.
And thanks for the Beatles updates; when I haven't listened to them for a while, - which sometimes happens, even for months at a time - I tend to forget just how good they really were.
Now, that is a very good choice.
Must rummage through my own collections: Do I want the tested, tried, trusted, and true, old and familiar, or some of the new stuff I have ordered and have yet to play?
I'd go with a random selection assuming your device can do such things!
Hm.
Interesting idea.
However, I think I'll aim for a mix of the tried and tested, and risk a sampling a few new pieces.
Probably my favorite band.
Picking something from each era, I never tire of Life’s Rich Pageant and Automatic for the People, though the latter I rarely listen to because it’s so familiar by now. I’m also a big fan of their penultimate album, Accelerate. Maybe it’s trying too hard for some but those first four tracks are my favorite opening run in their catalogue — Pageant aside.
If you haven’t given Up a try, I recommend it. Deeply flawed and overlong. Hope (an odd techno drone with its melody officially carved by Leonard Cohen’s “Suzanne”) At My Most Beautfil (a charming pastiche of Pet Sounds Beach Boys), Walk Unafraid (inspired by Patti Smith and a saying of former drummer Bill Berry’s mother) and Why Not Smile (a less cloying Everybody Hurts, maybe) are among my all-time favorite songs by the band.
The DVD set REMTV is an amazing career spanned. Among other things, includes their complete VH-1 Storytellers, complete with songs cut from broadcast. Sadly, the bonus I wanted to post (the story behind At My Most Beautiful) ain’t on the ol’ YouTube. Someone DID post the broadcast part and it’s a fine overview with some interesting interstitial stories.
As to Zeppelin. Yeah, Stairway is undeniable as one of those epics tattooed on the ol’ skull sponge. I also like several songs from their first, fourth and final (not counting Coda) studio albums but I can go years without hearing them (as opposed to The Beatles, which is months; Dylan/Cohen/R.E.M., weeks).