The Beatles: Hey Jude

The Beatles: Hey Jude

1970

Capitol Records

Format I Own it on: Vinyl

Da Track Listin': 1. Can't Buy Me Love  2. I Should Have Known Better  3. Paperback Writer  4. Rain  5. Lady Madonna  6. Revolution  7. Hey Jude  8. Old Brown Shoe  9. Don't Let Me Down   10. The Ballad of John and Yoko      


 Oh shit! It's been a whole 3 months since the Beatles have put out an album! Quick! Put something together! HURRY!!!!

 Another Beatles comp (released shortly after "Abbey Road") that I find super interesting...It consists entirely of material that hadn't appeared on a US album..Mostly single-only releases and a couple of early songs that must have been overlooked in the mind-bending jumble of US Beatles album releases, where up is down, left is right, and "Rubber Soul" is partially "Help!"

This stuff is great though.. Some of my favorite Beatles material is contained here...Like the "Hey Jude/Revolution" single, which I almost consider (along with the "Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever" single) the quintessential Beatles release...The Beatles in miniature...Paul delivers some fluffy, hyper-catchy piano pop while John rocks the fried fuck out...

  I've also always had a soft spot for George's bizarre "Old Brown Shoe," which is the sort of odd thing that only the Beatles could have pulled off as a hit...A bizarrely mixed, lumpy, dry, shuffly blues pop thingy with George's vague, scratchy vocals...Such a great song, that we've propelled it to the top of the "Most Played" section at the local bar we frequent...It sounds especially great when blasted at an dark, dank, empty dive...

The only track I don't care too much for is "Lady Madonna" where Paul gets over-blustery on some ugly boogie woogie...Although I know a lot of people who swear by this song, I'm just not getting it...Everything else is magic, though...

If  you like dry statistics as much as I do, then check this out...At this point there were still 5 songs that hadn't yet made it to a Capitol Beatles album at the time of "Hey Jude"'s release: "There's a Place," "Misery," "From Me to You," "The Inner Light," "I'm Down."  I guess if you wanted to be a nazi about it, you could make it 6 and add "Sie Liebt Dich"...

Again, you're not allowed to have Beatles videos on youtube so watch this instead:

“There’s a Place,” “From Me to You” and “Misery” — were omitted, as were a couple of B-sides, “I’m Down” and “The Inner Light,” plus the German version of “She Loves You,” “Sie Liebt Dich.” With Hey Jude‘s

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“There’s a Place,” “From Me to You” and “Misery” — were omitted, as were a couple of B-sides, “I’m Down” and “The Inner Light,” plus the German version of “She Loves You,” “Sie Liebt Dich.” With Hey Jude‘s

Read More: 45 Years Ago: The Beatles Clean Their Closet With 'Hey Jude' LP | http://ultimateclassicrock.com/beatles-hey-jude-album/?trackback=tsmclip