The Beatles - Revolver

So like I started saying in the last post, other than the fact that I really want to work my way through all this Beatles and get to something else, the real reason I'm playing the Beatles, other than the fact that I'd like to get them all done, is that they're some cheerful motherfuckers and I'm kind of bummed about the way CUNY has been treating me. But fuck those guys anyway.

The Beatles - Yesterday and Today

Yay, more Beatles. If you're starting to get tired of entries about the Beatles, you're starting to get the picture of what my childhood was like. I know I just wrote this long nostalgic post about Abbey Road. I also said they weren't my favorite band, just that they were always around. This one cleaned up okay. It had a really ugly scratch right in the middle of "We Can Work It Out" which I thought would not only cause it to skip, but might knock the needle all the fuck over the record. I hovered over the turntable ready to lift the needle the second that happened. But it didn't. It played right through it. Very minor skip once every 1.8 seconds through the second half of the song. That was it. The rest of the album played pretty good.

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Jean-Luc Ponty, Stephane Grappelli - Violin Summit

It's like dueling guitars only with violins and no one gets sodomized by a hillbilly. I hope.

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Love - Love

Ok, so, first I saw the name and thought, "Oh good god, what kind of hippy torture is this?"
But then I realized that these particular hippies don't look terribly dreamy and goofy. They look kind of sullen and pissed off. And then I checked the wikipedia entry and one of the genres they list is protopunk. That sounds intriguing. But wikipedia also says Jimmy Hendrix is heavy metal and George Harrison is gospel. So I guess we'll see. Hopefully this will play.

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The Rolling Stones - Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass)

Here's the thing about Mick Jagger, he sounds great on an album but he can't sing live. Like, not at all. My mom got all bent out of shape at me once when I told her that but I don't care because, A: it's true and B: I didn't tell her where this blog is so she's not reading this. Anyway, good songs on this one. 

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The Rolling Stones - Aftermath

 There are two versions of this in the stack, one in the handwritten sleeve seen below. Hopefully one of them is playable. With tracks like "Paint it Black" and "Under My Thumb" it would be a serious disappointment if I couldn't play either one of them.

 

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Simon & Garfunkel - Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme

This one was mom's. Has her name on it. Pretty sure this counts as folk. Your move, Pop. YOUR MOVE.