Archive For December 31, 2016

Ranking The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Beatles Week 2016 Day 7)

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Ranking The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Beatles Week 2016 Day 7)

Please see my introduction and explanation about this project here. This was one of the more difficult albums to rank because this album is so spectacular. The ranking on this album is the most volotile, depending on my mood when I listen to it, so this entry in particular is the most subjective (and subject…

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Ranking The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour (Beatles Week 206 Day 6)

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Ranking The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour (Beatles Week 206 Day 6)

Please see my introduction and explanation about this project here. This might be my 2nd favorite Beatles album. The band had already stretched the concept of what a rock and roll album could be and what was possible in the studio, so what to do next? While there are a couple of weaker numbers on…

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Ranking The Beatles: The Beatles (Beatles Week 2016 Day 5)

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Ranking The Beatles: The Beatles (Beatles Week 2016 Day 5)

Please see my introduction and explanation about this project here. The Beatles, or The White Album, was the only double record the band released during their career. Past Masters is a compilation that was released well after the band broke up. Not only does this album fall into many of the typical trappings of a…

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Ranking The Beatles: Yellow Submarine (Beatles Week 2016 Day 4)

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Ranking The Beatles: Yellow Submarine (Beatles Week 2016 Day 4)

Please see my introduction and explanation about this project here. For this entry I am not using the officially released soundtrack as in the box sets, but instead the Yellow Submarine Songtrack. Because I can. With Help! and Hard Day’s Night being full albums and not the soundtrack albums that Yellow Submarine was, I figured…

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Ranking The Beatles: Abbey Road (Beatles Week 2016 Day 3)

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Ranking The Beatles: Abbey Road (Beatles Week 2016 Day 3)

Please see my introduction and explanation about this project here. At times I absolutely love Abbey Road as one of my favorite Beatles albums, and other times I simply can’t listen to it. Interestingly, Abbey Road was recorded after the sessions for Let It Be, but released ahead of what would be the film’s soundtrack. While…

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Ranking The Beatles: Let It Be (Beatles Week 2016 Day 2)

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Ranking The Beatles: Let It Be (Beatles Week 2016 Day 2)

Please see my introduction and explanation about this project here. Beatles Week 2016 continues with what is probably my least favorite album in the Beatles catalog – Let it Be. It’s not that the songs are bad, it’s that I just don’t enjoy this record as much as any of the others. And that includes the…

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Ranking The Beatles: Past & Mono Masters (Beatles Week 2016 Day 1)

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Ranking The Beatles: Past & Mono Masters (Beatles Week 2016 Day 1)

Please see my introduction and explanation about this project here. Beatles Week 2016 starts off with an examination of Past Masters. This compilation is an official release gathering up various singles, B-sides and E.P. appearances that did not make it onto the other albums. In addition to these songs, I have added the songs from…

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Beatles Week 2016 (Introduction)

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Beatles Week 2016 (Introduction)

It is time for Beatles Week, an annual tradition that I can not take credit for, but look forward to every year. Started by Mark Zwolanek (on a website I can no longer find) in 2008 I have done it every year since. Nobody else does this exercise as far as I know. This week…

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Christmas Ideas – Good And Bad

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Christmas Ideas – Good And Bad

Good idea: Having your children make “wish lists” using catalogs that arrive in the mail. Bad idea: Not having them mark which catalog and page number they get their gift ideas from. Good idea: Buying that new, hard to find video game early when it is on sale. Bad idea: Hiding it in a place…

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Pete’s Dragon (2016) Blu-ray

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Pete’s Dragon (2016) Blu-ray

Look at the cover. It says “From the studio that brought you The Jungle Book” referring to the recently released live action remake of the Disney animated classic. It pointedly is not referencing the original Pete’s Dragon, as “From the studio that already brought you Pete’s Dragon 40 years ago” would be weird. I say…

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