Posts Tagged “Beatles Week 2013”
Welcome to my annual Beatles Week. No, I’m not going to have a week’s worth of posts about The Beatles (which I could easily do). Instead I will be having regular blog post, only the post’s titles will be taken from titles of songs the band has released over the course of their career. Since within…
“You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)” For me, this is one of those songs that typifies what a B-side is. It’s definitely not something you would necessarily find on an album (well, the White Album, yeah). This was the flip side to the “Let It Be” single, the penultimate 45 the band would…
“I’m Down” This song was written almost solely by Paul, according to BeatleSongs and recorded the same day as “Yesterday” and ultimately released as the B-side to “Help!”. Tell Me Why describes George’s solo as “his most confidently unhinged yet” and praises the song’s general rock and roll roots harkening shades of Little Richard. We…
“The Inner Light” Written by George Harrison it would be his first song released on a single – as the B-side to “Lady Madonna” in 1968. Poor George. Tell Me Why describes George as using “delicate imagery” while using session musicians re record the music in India while the others were in England working on other…
“What Goes On” This B-side to “Nowhere Man” could easily be mistaken for a Carl Perkins cover, but it’s not. Ringo sings this song and even got partial writing credit – his first with the group, according to BeatleSongs. Tell Me Why claims the “innocuous, out-of-tune delivery” by Ringo was part of the plan with presenting the…
“Day Tripper” It might not technically be a B-side, but it was the “flip side” to “We Can Work It Out” and recorded during the sessions that produced the Rubber Soul album. The single was released for Christmas and as a result may not have been given the full attention in writing, but even then…
“You Can’t Do That” This was the B-side to “Can’t Buy Me Love” which is a certified hit, reaching number one on several charts. Tell Me Why offers up a few different takes on the meaning of the song but states the obvious about how Lennon as the singer (and sole songwriter according to BeatleSongs) is paranoid, angry,…
“Please Mister Postman” This is a cover of The Marveletts 1961 hit – not The Supremes or The Shirelles as many think. It was released as the B-side to another cover, “Roll Over Beethoven” and while it charted in America, it didn’t hit very high and wasn’t even a single in Britain. According to BeatleSongs it…
“Baby You’re A Rich Man” Released as a B-side to “All You Need Is Love” this song was, according to BeatleSongs written half and half by Paul and John. Tell Me Why claims the song is “unsettling in how lacking in purpose it all sounds.” This was one of my favorite Beatles songs growing…
What do you mean I haven’t ripped my Aretha Franklin yet? If you’ve been reading my blog since the beginning in 2009, which, according to the numbers you haven’t, you would know that ripping my CDs to MP3 format is a multi-year process. We’re coming up on 5 years now. And today I learned I…