The Beatles are fucking good.

[PaulTMA]

I've recently discovered the music of Strawberry Walrus, a man who has written many albums exclusively about The Beatles.  It's kind of mind-blowing.

This is the story of Paul McCartney AKA 'Sir Beatles Wings'.

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


http://www.strawberrywalrus.com/aboutsw.html

[Pseudopath]

Wasn't sure where else to put this, but Facebook is currently kicking off about this clip of Lennon apparently mocking disabled people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zDtRLLyAuQ

Not a particularly fine example of Lennon's trademark acerbic wit, but I suppose they were different times.

[Replies From View]

I quite like the design of that, but they leave the quote going for far too long.

What fonts are going on there?

[Head Gardener]

Ringo is auctioning the very first copy of The White Album   



http://www.thevinylfactory.com/vinyl-factory-news/ringo-starr-is-auctioning-his-copy-of-the-white-album-no-0000001/

[studpuppet]

Ringo is auctioning the very first copy of The White Album

*phone rings, a weeping Yoko answers it*

"Hi, it's Ringo here; can I pop round and pick up some records I lent John (peace&love peace&love)?"

[Head Gardener]

It's a bit sad he's prepared to sell this lovely picture someone so very kindly sent him 

[Steven]

Dunno where else to put this, but a lot of Beatles related shite hovering over this. It's Never Walk Alone, a French doc on Liverpool from the 80s. Chanced upon it on YouTube last night, hadn't seen it in well over a decade. Lots of social observation and Ian McCulloch tossing about, people on the dole, pubs and misdirected anger etc, fucking gray as fuck, a cat, the rain, vim under the sink etc, fucking bleak half of it. I think even the first Beatles manager Alan Williams turns up at one point, pissed on a bus. Worth a punt.

[Ted-Maul]

Thanks for sharing that doc,. ive just finished watching it.

It does look like it's filmed in the 80's but its actually from the 90's! I would have been 9 when this was made and a lot of the bleakness rings true to my memories of the place at that time. I remember the filthy city centre buildings, crumbling shopfronts and urgh, those brown buses. We really were in the doldrums until the mid nineties.

I'm not sure why exactly (maybe getting awarded the "Capital of Culture" thing at the end of the nineties?) but the place has really transformed to having a positive outlook instead of the self-pity we are perhaps known for. Self pity and THE BEATLES. All the Beatles shit remains in place and all the scenes from the doc set around The Cavern or the Beatles tours could have been filmed yesterday. I'm a big fan but it's hard to carry on appreciating them when they're so ubiquitous.

Plus in 32 years. i've yet to see anyone bring a shopping trolley full of sprouts into a pub to sell. Maybe im going the wrong places.

[Steven]

We really were in the doldrums until the mid nineties.

Doledrum.

[DukeDeMondo]

I think this thing by our own ajsmith needs more exposure. This is just brilliant. https://youtu.be/QbPAu5jGr3c

[koeman]

I think this thing by our own ajsmith needs more exposure. This is just brilliant. https://youtu.be/QbPAu5jGr3c

That is remarkably good.

[Gavin M]

Lots of speculation that their back catalog will be added to all the major streaming sites on Thursday, which would be a very surprising but welcome Christmas present.

[shiftwork2]

It's on.  Fuck off Adele love.

Apple Music
Deezer
Google Play
Microsoft Groove
Amazon Prime
Rhapsody
Spotify
Slacker
Tidal

Microsoft what?  With it baby!

[biggytitbo]

Microsoft Groove, the music service not even Microsoft have ever heard of.

[surreal]

Groove is what used to be Zune I think

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"I'm grooving it on Songsmith Dad, making up new songs."

[Milverton]

Lots of speculation that their back catalog will be added to all the major streaming sites on Thursday, which would be a very surprising but welcome Christmas present.

It was only this and the first Discover Weekly delivery in six weeks which didn't include Shuggie Otis that stopped me cancelling Spotify Premium.

[PaulTMA]

Anyone gone and done a playlist with all the stuff in chronological order with singles between albums in the correct places yet?

[daf]

I remember a few years ago Mark Lewisohn saying he'd been listening to the songs in the order they were recorded (the 'Revolution in the Head' book also lists them in this order) - I'm thinking of giving that a go one of these days.

[daf]

http://anthologyrevisited.podbean.com/

Only the definitive Beatles documentary 'Anthology' could have been : in 18 parts and 28 hours long.

(grab it quick - before The Blue Meanies find out about it, and clonk you on the nut with their giant apples!)

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Anyone gone and done a playlist with all the stuff in chronological order with singles between albums in the correct places yet?

About 15 years ago I did.  Burned them all to CDs like that for my Gran and my Dad, who both went on never to listen to them.  I split the singles from Magical Mystery Tour into their correct places, and must have done something similar with the Yellow Submarine soundtrack so that 1967 off-cuts weren't incongruously popping up in 1969.

[Glebe]

Noticed they've taken a lot of songs down off YouTube and whatnot.

[Head Gardener]

nice of this to turn up over half a century later : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-35660169

[Head Gardener]

[Steven]

"Why don't we do it in the road?"

[Head Gardener]

exactly!

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Somebody should point out to them that they already are!!!

[Custard]

Nice new Macca Best Of. 4 discs, and picked and compiled by the man himself

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B01DN253G2/

Could've probably done without Dance Tonight, mind

[biggytitbo]

No Monkberry Moon Delight? Or Love in Song? Or When the Night! Or Magneto and Titanium Man? Or Little Lamb Dragonfly? Or Mamas Little Girl? Or Tomorrow? Not even This One? Crazy he could do another 4 sides and still not run out of good songs.

[Maurice Yeatman]

Take It Away and My Brave Face are two ace singles I'm surprised not to see on there. Not sure why he needs another compilation now - is it because of the Philip Norman biography?