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The Great Albums

The Beatles - Part III

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3749 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2016

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

In part 3 of 4, Brian and Bill continue the album by album review of the entire Beatles catalog. In this episode we cover Revolver, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and Magical Mystery Tour with musicians Chris Nova and Ben Resnick and bloggers Ed Magdziak and Beanie Zee (sirkaytheawesome.com). WE talk about psychedelia, experimentation, George Martin, what would make Sgt. Pepper's better, and the film Across the Universe.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Let me take you down because I'm going to strawberry fields. Strawberry fields Hello and

0:21.1

I'm Bill.

0:35.9

And what are we just listening to right there, Brian? Strawberry Fields, baby. By the Beatles. If you've never

0:43.8

listened to the podcast before, what we do here every week is take a different album of music

0:48.0

and talk about what makes it great. And we do a kind of deep dive into the album, have a conversation, the way that fans have a

0:56.5

conversation about the music, and we follow that up with a track-by-track review. But instead,

1:01.9

what we're doing for the month of December is this is part three of four, where we are doing

1:08.7

an album-by-album review of the Beatles, where we're, instead of doing

1:13.5

the track by track, we're going to get into each album, talk about, you know, our favorite

1:17.5

tracks off the album and what it means in general, because, you know, we just didn't know

1:21.5

where to start with the Beatles, so we're getting them all done in one shot.

1:24.8

Yeah, and even a little bit too, now that you mention it,

1:27.6

a little bit too, of where the rest of music is at during the time of the Beatles, because

1:34.4

we do mention that a little... A.k.a. the 60s. Yeah, you know, we talk a little bit about,

1:38.5

you know, like the Four Seasons, the birds, the Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, like other bands that

1:44.1

were kind of all these in-house sort of songwriting groups and how they sort of moved and kind of how they, and maybe Dylan aside, how they sort of rose and fell while the massive like ocean liner that was the Beatles just cut through everything else and of course

2:02.7

the rolling stones as well too uh and yeah could we talk i'd say we talk quite a bit about the

2:08.5

stones or they the stones come up quite a bit throughout the program so today we are going to be

2:14.2

talking about revolver sergeant pepper's's Lonely Hearts Club band, and

2:19.6

Magical Mystery Tour, which may be a little bit controversial, but, you know, as we say in the

2:25.8

episode, Magical Mystery Tour has since the U.S. version with the singles, the 1967 singles,

2:33.1

on the back half of it, has become canonized. And honestly,

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