I'm also super-excited for tonight's Vinyl Tap:
“It was twenty years ago today…Sgt Pepper taught the band to play…” But we are
not worrying about Sgt Pepper right now. On Vinyl Tap this week Randy Bachman
turns his attention to the recording that came just before it. It was forty
years ago that The Beatles recorded their landmark “Revolver” album. The seventh
recording project by the Fab Four was lyrically and musically innovative and is
considered by many to be a pop masterpiece. There are new sounds and recording
techniques as well as the first backward guitar solo on a rock song. And some
fantastic tunes. In May of this year, Mojo Records released a compilation of
covers of those Beatles classics by a group of artists ranging from Belarus to
The Handsome Family With The Rivet Gang… a very quirky group of musicians
indeed. So it’s “Revolver Reloaded” this week on Vinyl Tap, as Randy compares
the originals with the covers.
If you're looking for me today, I'm huddled near the radio. Which is appropriate for a historian who writes about 1930s culture.
6 comments:
If I'm in arm's reach of a radio, I'll be listening to that Vinyl Tap. Bachman and Beatles...how can you go wrong?
Exactly!
Maryanne, for some reason I thought Vinyl Tap started at 8, not 7...so at 7, wanting to get a jump on the show, I listened to it out of Winnipeg for an hour, realized that the show was over, and jumped over to listen to the first hour of the show out of Victoria. Yay for radio on the internet!
Hooray! We're listening to the radio at the same time! I love how Bachmann keeps being annoyed with the covers and stopping them before they're done.
Most Beatles covers aren't very good. It's that simple. How can you be better than possibly the most innovative rock band which has graced this earth?
It was a good show, even if I did listening to it in pseudo-reverse order. Now I need to go sleep. It's...let's see...10:15, and I need to be up at 4. Ugh.
Bye Maryanne! Talk to you in a couple of weeks!
And that, ladies and gentlemen, concludes our show of "Matt and Maryanne listen to the radio together and talk about it on the internet."
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