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Beatles Podcasts
29 April 2017
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Can’t seem to find a thread so why not create.

There are a world of Beatles podcasts out there and one I found but haven’t heard yet is ‘The Beatles Multi-Track Meltdown‘ which 

“..features stripped down, deconstructed mixes of classic Beatles songs, live cuts, solo material, demos, and much more. By highlighting different instruments and vocals you will experience these songs in a way that you’ve never imagined. Imagine sitting in the control room of EMI studios, and countless others, and having the opportunity to peel away the layers of a song, discovering new elements you never knew existed. This is the closest you can get to that experience. So sit back, tune in, and enjoy the Beatles Multi-Track Meltdown. 

It’s available on Soundcloud and on iTunes.

The ‘Fab4Free4All‘ is well worth listening to as is ‘Something About The Beatles‘ (even if it does have one of the worst opening songs i’ve ever heard).

A special notice should be made for ‘The Beatles Anthology Revisited’, an incredible audio retrospective of the Beatles from 1940 to the 2010’s, told by the Beatles and others close to them along with thru music. It was first made available in 2016 however it’s been revisited and revised for 2017. No website exists so you’ll have to search for it.

Anyone have anyone others?

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I regularly listen to ‘Fab4Free4All‘ and ‘Something About The Beatles‘. Out of the two I think SATB is better and they have some really in depth knowledge and analysis. But you are right about the intro which I dislike.  ‘The Beatles Multi-Track Meltdown‘ sounds interesting so I’ll have to have a listen. “Things We Said Today” is quite good.

Also I posted this elsewhere but this is a really excellent episode of a podcast called Fabcast. I don’t know who the host are but they have a lot insider info and personal recollections about John and Paul and one of them recalls how he was there when John recorded his famous “Goodbye from the Record Plant”. Some of the highlights include info on Paul’s not so smooth relationship with Elvis Costello, how Mark Lewisohn fell out with George and some squabbling in Paul’s solo band. I haven’t listened to any other episodes though.

 

https://soundcloud.com/fabcast…..3-lewisohn

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I regularly listen to Fab 4 Free 4 All, Something About The Beatles and the Multitrack Meltdown. 

One other one worth checking out is When They Was Fab.

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I’ve found Something About the Beatles to be the best overall. And if you’re try to train yourself to love solo Paul, try AllMcCartney.

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It’s a shame Richard and Robert broke up.  SATB just isn’t the same, even with Clapton.

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Here’s a podcast about the songs Paul McCartney wrote for other artists. It features Beatles author and expert Andrew Grant Jackson (Still The Greatest). 

Take it Away: The Complete Paul McCartney Archive Podcast

4 June 2018
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The Take It Away Podcast is covering the Flaming Pie album and how the songs “Free As A Bird ,” “Real Love ,” “Now And Then ,” as well as the Anthology production influenced Flaming Pie and all of its extras. I don’t really think this album had the strongest songwriting from Macca on it and it was propped up by a lot of great studio production. Thoughts?

http://smarturl.it/takeitawaypodcast

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We already have a thread for discussion about Flaming Pie  here.

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There’s a new one done by Rebeat magazine called BC the Beatles which just launched a few days ago, hosted by 2 women! They really know their stuff and are quite charming and funny, and I’m excited to see where they go with it. I’m always all about female Beatles fans, historians, scholars, and experts having a voice.

SATB has been doing quite well, despite Richard Buskin’s departure. Robert has had some fantastic guests! My recent favorites have been Dave Mirkin from the Simpsons who got to meet Paul and Linda when they recorded their voices for the “Lisa the vegetarian” episode in 1995 (Dave had great stories about meeting them). Dave is also a total music nerd and Beatles scholar in his own right!  He did a Simpsons and Beatles episode, then 2 episodes about the Beatles’ acoustic music. I was impressed by how knowledgeable he was about their gear and instruments. He was charming and had a great rapport with Robert. I’m also a fan of Erin Torkelson-Weber, author of the Beatles and the Historians. She has been on 2 episodes.

If you’re needing a little more lighthearted listening, Screw It, We’re Just Gonna Talk About the Beatles is a great podcast. It’s hosted by comedian and actor Will Hines and it’s just Will and an ever changing panel of his friends talking about the music, the albums, and other aspects of the band. They aren’t pedantic about facts and don’t have insider knowledge, but it’s fun, insightful, humorous, and it feels like you’re hanging out with a group of friends listening to their records together and talking about them. 

Fabcast is a bit heavy sometimes, but I do love it. I love how they have insiders come and tell stories about them. That’s worth its weight in gold.

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I’ve been investigating one called Alphabeatical wherein the hosts review a new Beatles song daily, alphabetically (“12 through Y”) and give a rating of zero through five. And sadly not finding it as hilarious and enlightening as the hosts’ other signature series – “Star Wars Minute”, where they analyze, scrutinize and celebrate the Star Wars movies one minute at a time. The Beatles universe just doesn’t inspire the same peculiar mixture of awe and loving ridicule that the SW universe induces in Alex Robinson, Pete the Retailer, and their various guest co-hosts, and the resultant reduction of wit makes for significantly less enthralling listening. There’s an air of reverence that isn’t conducive to the kind of humour I love, that’s a staple of the SWM podcasts – I find myself wishing that they’d constructed a “Beatles trivia – even easier!”-styled alternate reality/mythology to give them something to riff upon.

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GEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty. 

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I can vouch for Screw it, we’re just gonna talk about The Beatles. Really fun podcast to listen to, it had me chuckling along in the car this morning. The White Album and Revolver episodes in particular I enjoyed. 

I've been up on the mountain, and I've seen his wondrous grace,
I've sat there on the barstool and I've looked him in the face.
He seemed a little haggard, but it did not slow him down,
he was humming to the neon of the universal sound. 

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SATB is pretty great indeed – I just discovered it in the past few days while looking for detailed analyses of the Jan 69 sessions. I’ve been checking out past episodes…kinda annoyed with their homepage that there doesn’t seem to be a search feature.

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GEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty. 

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Here’s a podcast you may not have stumbled upon: Beatles City.

Done by the Liverpool Echo, the first series/ten episodes concentrates on the Liverpool that created them, with main featured interviews being with Paul, Pete Best, Freda Kelly, and former Quarryman Rod Davis (who is the uncle of one of one of the presenters).

Well worth a listen, it can be found for free on acast and iTunes.

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I really like I Am The Eggpod. Each episode features a Beatles fan (people within music, the media, sort of celebrities) talking about their favourite Beatles or solo Beatle album. The latest one has Neil Innes talking about Abbey Road .

 

https://iamtheeggpod.com/

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I’ve been listening to Swinging Through the Sixties: The Beatles an Beyond which is really good and is co-hosted by Richard Buskin from Something About the Beatles. The latest episode is a re-evaluation of Beatles For Sale with some excellent analysis and comparing early takes of the songs.

 

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Yeah, I’ve been loving that one a lot lately, likewise “Alphabetical” (to which I gave a reinvestigation, and now it makes laugh out loud regularly.) 

I can’t access SATB on the mobile anymore without a password…? a-hard-days-night-paul-10

Paul: Yeah well… first of all, we’re bringing out a ‘Stamp Out Detroit’ campaign.

         

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Von Bontee said
Yeah, I’ve been loving that one a lot lately, likewise “Alphabetical” (to which I gave a reinvestigation, and now it makes laugh out loud regularly.) 

I can’t access SATB on the mobile anymore without a password…? a-hard-days-night-paul-10

  

I’ll have to try Alphabeatical .

From my mobile I find “Player FM” android app really good for podcasts…not sure if it’s on Apple.

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I’ve looked a lot on Spotify for Beatles podcasts, and one of the best that I’ve found so far is “Nothing is Real: A Beatles Podcast”. The narrators go extremely in-depth into many topics. As they’ve just finished their first season, I’ll have to start looking for another one. I’ll probably try “Something About the Beatles” next.

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I’ve become a fan of I am the Eggpod, where Chris Shaw gets a celebrity Beatle fan or expert to discuss a Beatles or solo album.

The latest episode, recorded yesterday, has Mark Lewisohn discussing the Star Club tapes and their rise in depth. The first few minutes though see them, naturally, reflecting on the death of Neil Innes and the Rutles.

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How’s it going, I know there a million podcasts on the greatest band of all time, but if anyone wants a more humours take, check out this podcast on the Beatles called That’s Why They Were Quality.

 
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