'Octopus's Garden' by The Beatles (w/ Reilly Anspaugh)

Punch Up The Jam

Headgum

Music, Comedy, Music Commentary

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2022

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

🎶I'd like to be🎶....punching up a song from the Fab Four! A scary prospect! And that's even before you get the tentacles involved. Obviously fans of the pod have been begging for a Beatles punch up for ages and we've just been too intimidated until now, tiptoeing through Lennon & McCartney solo work as prelude. But today WE'VE DONE IT. With the intrepid help of Beatlemaniac and Professional Reviewer Reilly Anspaugh, we got to the bottom of this song and the bottom of the ocean. Extensive non-maritime sidebars on cave geology, Evan's all-too-brief marimba career, and things a squirrel can do to a hollow log.

Guest: Reilly Anspaugh of Headgum's Review Revue.

Walk-in music: ‘Act Naturally' by Buck Owens; SpongeBob SquarePants Theme Song; 'Honky Cat' by Elton John.

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0:00.0	This is a head gamma region.
0:02.0	I remember we went to college together.
0:08.0	You had to have some sort of thesis to graduate.
0:12.0	You had to have a music thesis.
0:13.0	Yes.
0:14.0	Are any of the punch ups that we made?
0:16.0	Could you have turned them into the music department?
0:18.0	Just sort of been like, this is it.
0:20.0	This is my final project.
0:22.0	Here's my punch up of John Lennon's Imagine.
0:25.0	And I've also written an accompanying 10-page paper
0:28.0	about why this is valuable and how I made it.
0:32.0	Absolutely not.
0:33.0	If I turned in any of the work from this podcast,
0:36.0	I would be flunked out of the major for sure.
0:39.0	But I will tell you what I did do for my thesis,
0:42.0	which is it was a classical piece composed for Marimba.
0:46.0	And this is hilarious.
0:47.0	And what I had to do was a classical Marimba.
0:50.0	Yeah, this is for every music major.
0:53.0	You had to select a single piece and then prove
0:56.0	that you had comprehensively mastered the discipline of music
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