White Abbey - The Beatles

[Ataraxia]

Have I ever shown you this?

I came up with this idea on another board a ways back: A playlist of the Beatles' heaviest songs. With help from the other members there, this was the result:

DISC 1

Why Don't We Do It In The Road
I've Got A Feeling
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Birthday
Tomorrow Never Knows
Blue Jay Way
Think For Yourself
Polythene Pam
Get Back
Glass Onion
Revolution (2)
I Am the Walrus
Hey Bulldog

DISC2

Yer Blues
Taxman
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
Back In The USSR
She Said She Said
Long, Long, Long
Come Together
Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except For Me And My Monkey
Love You Too
Helter Skelter
Dig A Pony
I Want to Tell You
Oh! Darling
Sgt. Pepper's Reprise

[Todd]

Basically perfect.  Might start disc two with Taxman, but otherwise no complaints.  More than half tempted to burn some CD-Rs for my next road trip.  (I'm one of those idiots who bought the reissued box-set, so I got it all.)

[Ataraxia]

Glad you like it, Todd. It's a fun listen.

[TheGSMoeller]

Hey Bulldog is included, then you get a thumbs up from this guy.

[jwinter]

Ditto here, I'm a long time Beatles nut.  That's a good playlist; I may whip it up in iTunes this evening.  Shame you couldn't fit Strawberry Fields in there somewhere.

And Todd, I bought the stereo AND the mono.  Idiocy loves company.   

[Todd]

And Todd, I bought the stereo AND the mono.  Idiocy loves company.

Ah, shit, now I think I need to get the mono set.  (No one is dumber than me.  Ask my wife.)

You know, this makes me think of the deleted Pulp Fiction scene where Uma Thurman's character discusses Elvis and Beatles fans.  (Is it wrong that I've started to enjoy Elvis more in the last decade?)

[Ataraxia]

Shame you couldn't fit Strawberry Fields in there somewhere.

Go for it.

[Ataraxia]

(Is it wrong that I've started to enjoy Elvis more in the last decade?)

No, it's not. He's growing on me too, especially his Sun stuff. Classic.

[jwinter]

Dudes, we share a brain...  I've gotten quite a bit into Elvis the past year or so... the Sun stuff is great, though I've really become somewhat obsessed with From Elvis in Memphis, truly gorgeous album.  I also have a weakness for the early-mid 70s stuff, there are some real gems hidden in those last few albums.

[Ataraxia]

Dudes, we share a brain...  I've gotten quite a bit into Elvis the past year or so... the Sun stuff is great, though I've really become somewhat obsessed with From Elvis in Memphis, truly gorgeous album.  I also have a weakness for the early-mid 70s stuff, there are some real gems hidden in those last few albums.

If lovin' this CD is wrong, I don't want to be right:

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[Todd]

But Elvis is so old.  Wait, my daughter delights in telling me that I'm old.  I'm not, I swear.

[Ataraxia]

Yeah, when did that shit happen??

[jwinter]

Seriously.  We should get matching hats that say "Old Fart" on them...

[Ataraxia]

Well, if enjoying older music is what makes you old, all us early music listeners are in BIG trouble.

[Todd]

[Ataraxia]

Jeez, can't I wait until I'm fifty?

[jwinter]

Speaking of the mono box, it is worth getting if you're fanatical on the subject.  Nothing truly revelatory, but they are very differently mixed, and a few of them include alternate takes.  The mono White Album is actually kind of bizarre; Back in the USSR sounds strange in mono.

I actually think I prefer the mono Sgt. Pepper to the stereo -- so did George (Harrison, not that Cortot-loving guy ), who apparently never heard the stereo mix until he was at a friend's house in the 1970s -- in those days, the boys heard and approved the mono track, and the engineers then went through and split it up into stereo.

[Karl Henning]

Have I ever shown you this?

I came up with this idea on another board a ways back: A playlist of the Beatles' heaviest songs. With help from the other members there, this was the result:

DISC 1

Why Don't We Do It In The Road
I've Got A Feeling
I Want You (She’s So Heavy)
Birthday
Tomorrow Never Knows
Blue Jay Way
Think For Yourself
Polythene Pam
Get Back
Glass Onion
Revolution (2)
I Am the Walrus
Hey Bulldog

DISC2

Yer Blues
Taxman
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
Back In The USSR
She Said She Said
Long, Long, Long
Come Together
Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except For Me And My Monkey
Love You Too
Helter Skelter
Dig A Pony
I Want to Tell You
Oh! Darling
Sgt. Pepper’s Reprise

Where's "Doctor Robert"?

[Szykneij]

Where's "Doctor Robert"?

With "Day Tripper" and "And Your Bird Can Sing".

[Marc]

Where's "Doctor Robert"?

With "Day Tripper" and "And Your Bird Can Sing".

And with "Ticket To Ride", "I'm Down" and "I Me Mine".