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Posted: January 27 2015 at 11:16
chopper wrote:
I decided not to sit through another 14 minutes of weird sh*t. The general consensus on YouTube seems to be that they're all fakes - I guess only McCartney really knows for sure.
and he's dead!
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Posted: January 27 2015 at 14:02
chopper wrote:
someone_else wrote:
earlyprog wrote:
Stool Man wrote:
Carnival Of Light
You cannot possibly have heard this
Maybe he can. I don't know if this is genuine:
... or this: ...
Well they can't both be the real thing. I've just listened to the first one and I don't hear "Lennon and McCartney screaming dementedly and bawling aloud random phrases like 'Are you alright?' and 'Barcelona!" as it says on Wikepedia.
Let's try the second one.
The latter of the two comes closest to Lewisohn's desription in The Beatles Recording Sessions:
"Track one of the tape was full of distorted, hypnotic drum and organs sounds; track two had a distorted lead guitar; track three had the sounds of a church organ, various effects (the gargling with water was one) and voices; track four featured various indescribaable sound effects with heaps of tape echo and manic tambourine. But of all the frightening sounds it was the voices on track three which really set the scene, John and Paul screaming dementedly and bawling aloud random phrases like 'Are you alright?' and 'Barcelona*. Paul terminated the proceedings after almost 14 minutes with one final shout up to the control room: 'Can we hear it back now?'".
It's probably been a good 5 years since I last heard anything Beatles related...maybe 7
Still love A Day In The Life though. I know it by heart so I rarely need to refresh my memory. Pretty obvious choice on a prog forum, but it's always been my fave of theirs (John's).
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Posted: January 27 2015 at 15:34
HolyMoly wrote:
chopper wrote:
I decided not to sit through another 14 minutes of weird sh*t. The general consensus on YouTube seems to be that they're all fakes - I guess only McCartney really knows for sure.
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Posted: January 27 2015 at 16:06
The Long Medley Tomorrow Never Knows A Day In The Life Strawberry Fields Forever While My Guitar Gently Weeps I Want You (She's So Heavy) Eleanor Rigby Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds We Can Work It Out Ticket To Ride I Am The Walrus Things We Said Today Revolution Hey Bulldog Every Little Thing Help! It's All Too Much Rain Birthday She Said She Said
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Posted: January 27 2015 at 16:17
man.. I'd really have to think about that. So many great ones... so many so ingrained into the subconscious that I probably haven't physically listened to a Beatles album in ages.
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Of course I haven't heard it. But the descriptions of it easily put it way up there among my favourite Beatles songs (incidentally, I prefer the mono version of Revolution 9 over the better-known stereo version). If I hadn't heard the 1966 & 1967 Christmas flexis I would still love them just from reading detailed descriptions of their contents. And even though the above 14-minute things are fakes, I also like that several people have just listened to a bunch of weird sh*t just because you queried an item on my list
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Posted: January 28 2015 at 07:48
Stool Man wrote:
earlyprog wrote:
Stool Man wrote:
Carnival Of Light
You cannot possibly have heard this
Of course I haven't heard it. But the descriptions of it easily put it way up there among my favourite Beatles songs (incidentally, I prefer the mono version of Revolution 9 over the better-known stereo version). If I hadn't heard the 1966 & 1967 Christmas flexis I would still love them just from reading detailed descriptions of their contents. And even though the above 14-minute things are fakes, I also like that several people have just listened to a bunch of weird sh*t just because you queried an item on my list
yeah, thanks for that.
And that's the first time I've ever come across someone ranking a song amongst his favourites just from a description.
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Posted: January 28 2015 at 09:20
Stool Man wrote:
earlyprog wrote:
Stool Man wrote:
Carnival Of Light
You cannot possibly have heard this
Of course I haven't heard it. But the descriptions of it easily put it way up there among my favourite Beatles songs (incidentally, I prefer the mono version of Revolution 9 over the better-known stereo version). If I hadn't heard the 1966 & 1967 Christmas flexis I would still love them just from reading detailed descriptions of their contents. And even though the above 14-minute things are fakes, I also like that several people have just listened to a bunch of weird sh*t just because you queried an item on my list
And even though the above 14-minute things are fakes, I also like that several people have just listened to a bunch of weird sh*t just because you queried an item on my list
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Posted: January 28 2015 at 09:36
There ought to be an album compiling all the fake Carnival of Light songs that people created after reading McCartney's description. Even invite more people to have a go at it. I bet the resulting album would be pretty cool.
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There ought to be an album compiling all the fake Carnival of Light songs that people created after reading McCartney's description. Even invite more people to have a go at it. I bet the resulting album would be pretty cool.
Carnival Of Light - The Tribute Album! A double CD could just about fit five versions onto each disc (because just five versions wouldn't be enough)
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Posted: January 28 2015 at 13:37
1 - Abbey road medley 2 - A Day in the life 3 - Strawberry fields forever 4 - Tomorrow never knows 5 - I want you (she's so heavy) 6 - Something 7 - I'm only sleeping 8 - While my guitar gently weeps 9 - I am the walrus 10 - Eleanor Rigby 11 - Norwegian wood (This bird has flown) 12 - Rain 13 - Flying 14 - In my life 15 - Lucy in the sky with diamonds 16 - Get back 17 - Here comes the sun 18 - Hey Jude 19 - Sgt. Pepper's lonely hearts club band 20 - Penny lane
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Posted: January 28 2015 at 16:53
1. No Reply 2. Wait 3. Eleanor Rigby 4. Penny Lane 5. I Want To Hold Your Hand 6. Bluejay Way 7. Maxwell's Silver Hammer 8. Something 9. Helter Skelter 10. Bulldog 11. Piggies 12. Savoy Truffle 13. Sgt Pepper's' and reprise 14. Eight Days a Week 15. Help 16. I Feel Fine 17. Norwegian Wood 18. She's Leaving Home 19. I Am the Walrus 20. We Can Work It Out
Not necessarily the 20 best (and not necessarily in this order). These are just the ones that readily came to mind while preparing the list.
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Posted: January 29 2015 at 09:47
someone_else wrote:
richardh wrote:
Rednight wrote:
7. Maxwell's Silver Hammer .
I thought that song had been expunged from history?
Well, I think it should not be. It is just outside my top 20; I put it on my first draft list.
''Hammer was this throwaway ditty that charmed in the end. I feel the best Beatle songs were probably written in this spirit-on the whimsical fly and thus being in league with Hammer. Again, when preparing the list, I just jotted down for me what instantly came to mind-that is to say, the most memorable. As for the Beatles on a prog blog site, I don't get it entirely with what little they put forward in that vein. By the way, wasn't Oh-Bla-Dee (or however it's titled) the one the British press washed their hands of?
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