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“Something” (Beatles Week 2012 Day 6)

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“Something” was recorded for the Abbey Road album, and would be the only track by Harrison to be released as a single and reach the charts (any other song he wrote that was released as a single was as a b-side). Tell Me Why has a lot of praise for the song (almost 2 full pages)…

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“Only A Northern Song” (Beatles Week 2012 Day 5)

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  Tell Me Why offers up that if Ringo had sung “Only A Northern Song” it might be more believable and that it “confirms all suspicions about the psychedelic hubris of 1967.” BeatleSongs considers it “one of the worst songs Harrison ever wtrote.” It was initially written and partially recorded for the Sgt. Pepper’s album, but left off…

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Phamily Foto Phriday 12-27-12 or Beatles Week 2012 Day 4 “It’s All Too Much”

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Phamily Foto Phriday 12-27-12 or Beatles Week 2012 Day 4 “It’s All Too Much”

I missed a few of the Phamily Foto Phriday posts, and have a few random pictures from the last few months to share.   “It’s All Too Much” was recorded for Magical Mystery Tour, but left off of that album and would find a place in Yellow Submarine. It’s a hazy sort of love song…

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Beatles Week 2012 Day 3 “Think For Yourself”

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Think For Yourself was initially released on Rubber Soul, both original UK and butchered US versions.     Tell Me Why mentions the “fuzz bass adds just the right guttural cynicism” but doesn’t really give the song itself high praise. BeatleSongs quotes Harrison as saying the song “…must be about ‘somebody’ from the sound of…

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Beatles Week 2012 Day 2 “For You Blue”

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Beatles Week 2012 Day 2 “For You Blue”

Tell Me Why refers to the song as “harmless” and Beatleongs mentions it was inspired by George’s then wife Patti. It’s a simple song, pretty much a love song. It’s been released twice, originally on the soundtrack album Let It Be and then again on Let It Be… Naked. The more recently released version is truer to…

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Beatles Week 2012 Day 1 “Don’t Bother Me”

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  “Don’t Bother Me” was written by George and appears on With The Beatles, their second album. It is the first song written by George to appear on a Beatles album. It was not, however, the first George Harrison vocal appearance or Harrison song to be recorded.   Tell Me Why considers this a “weak…

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Beatles Week 2012 Introduction

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Beatles Week is a wonderful tradition I look forward to every year. I wish I could claim to have come up with the idea, but it was Mark Zwolanek who started it back in…. what … 2008? He hoped somebody else would also do the same thing, and I did starting in 2009. It’s a…

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The Odd Life Of Timothy Green Blu-ray Review

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The Odd Life Of Timothy Green Blu-ray Review

The Odd Life of Timothy Green starts out with Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Garner at the adoption agency telling their story. They want to adopt a child, but the thing is, we know the film is about them as a couple with a young boy that magically comes into their lives. If you’ve seen the…

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The Expendables 2 Blu-ray Review

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The Expendables 2 Blu-ray Review

The Expendables 2 wastes literally no time getting the action underway. The scene is set and with a location, a hooded prisoner, then the familiar crew starts busting in. You get exactly what you expect in a film of this type.   Packed with action stars the film is a testosterone-filled love letter to the…

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A Good Music Day

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Today started off with the offer of a few free MP3 downloads from Amazon. Usually they are by artists I don’t know or don’t care that much for. This time, it was a mix of 5 different artists, one of which was Rick Springfield. The songs were all Christmas themed. A free Christmas song by…

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