NEWS: New Beatles!?

So this is kinda crazy - apparently an unreleased recording of The Beatles has made it's way to the internet. And it only took 40 years! The song is an unreleased take on 'Revolution 1' (Take 20, actually), from the White Album sessions. Clocking in at over 10 minutes, it's a pretty intriguing mash between the softer, bluesy 'Revolution 1' that appeared on that album, and the avant-garde pinwheel-dream of 'Revolution 9'. I'm not positive yet if this is completely genuine, but if it is, it's pretty killer. And even if it's not, it's still a pretty cool listen.

UPDATE: Once again, our post has been removed without warning by Google. Pretty lame if you ask me. You can still try to find the track at elbo.ws.

The Beatles - Revolution 1 (Take 20)

VIDEO: Colbert vs Sir Paul

Once again, we're experiencing server problems. Sorry for the lameness.

While we're figuring this out, here's a pretty hilarious clip from Stephen Colbert's new segment, "Better Know A Beatle". He sits down with Paul, and in true Colbert fashion proceeds to prod the musical legend - claiming to have never heard a Beatles song, describing Wings's best known song as "Stop Requesting 'Strawberry Fields' That Was John", and then proclaiming himself as the 5th Beatle. They make nice in the end, sing together, and we even learn who Mr. McCartney's favorite Beatle is in the process.

Enjoy.

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ARTIST: 60's Pop - The gift that keeps on giving

We're back!! Sorry about the technical difficulties. Such is life I guess.

So every year or so I get into a mood where nothing will satisfy me quite like The Beatles. I'll listen to their whole catalog again, sometimes several times over.

About mid-December I listened to an NPR podcast of Bob Boilen's All Songs Considered where he sat down and dissected The White Album with Bruce Spizer (who wrote The Beatles On Apple Records), and that set me off. I tore apart the White Album like I never had before, and if you've got a few minutes I could talk your ear off about how that album is the perfect post-modern follow-up to the seminal Sgt. Pepper's (insights I attribute mostly to my recent Humanities class). But I'll spare you.

The last couple times I've gone into a Beatles binge, it's been closely followed by an intense interest in The Beach Boys. Kinda funny, but I've just spent the last couple weeks tearing apart some of their old albums as well. I dived back into my (beloved) Pet Sounds, and finally purchased a copy of Brian Wilson's Smile (rather amazing). I also just became familiar with their early seventies efforts Sunflower and Surf's Up. Wow. I have to admit that I'd written these guys off as has-beens forever after Pet Sounds dropped, Smile got shelved, and Smiley Smile flopped. I've been excited to discover how wrong I was. Though neither of these records (Sunflower or Surf's Up) are quite the masterpiece that Pet Sounds was, they are far from has-been material, and I've had a blast discovering them.

Here's an exceptional track from Surf's Up, one I've already loved for awhile due to it's inclusion on the soundtrack to Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous. Though technically not 60's pop (it was released in 1971) it's still an incredible song. Hooray for re-discovering old gems.

The Beach Boys - Feel Flows
from the album Surf's Up (Amazon/iTunes)

VIDEO: I met the walrus

I saw this a few months ago when it was up for an Oscar, and just ran into it again on the internet. It's kind of amazing. Enjoy.