Archive for the ‘Bonus Tracks’ Category
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Bonus Track: A Train of Thoughts
02 Jan 2020“We had decided to gather up our fragments of songs we hadn’t quite finished and create a train of thoughts…
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Bonus Track: Attracts Me Like a Pomegranate
01 Jan 2020As with “Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight,” the Abbey Road Super Deluxe Edition includes a strings-only version of “Something.” It’s a…
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Bonus Track: It Was 13 Bars Long
27 Dec 2019The Abbey Road Super Deluxe Edition includes take 3 of “The End,” which is a very primitive version of the…
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Bonus Track: Perverted Sex in a Polythene Bag
24 Dec 2019Like “Sun King” and “Mean Mr. Mustard,” “Polythene Pam” and “She Came in Through the Bathroom Window” were recorded as…
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Bonus Track: A Lot of People to Keep
22 Dec 2019When Abbey Road was first released on CD, the somewhat arbitrary decision was made to index each part of the…
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Bonus Track: Ringo Was Our Drum Machine
16 Dec 2019Back in 1996, The Beatles Anthology 3 included a vocal-only version of “Because.” This is perhaps my favorite Beatles alternate…
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Bonus Track: I’m Losing My Cool
14 Dec 2019Back on July 21, The Beatles had recorded eight takes of “Come Together.” Take 6 was the one overdubbed for…
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Bonus Track: The Nice Bits and the Other Bits
13 Dec 2019The Super Deluxe Liner Notes are keen to mount an intellectual defense of “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer,” making several references to…
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Bonus Track: A Fear of Changing from A to F
09 Dec 2019George Martin, say the Super Deluxe Liner Notes, thought that take 9 of “Here Comes the Sun” was good enough,…
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December 5, 1969
05 Dec 2019Released today: The Rolling Stones’ eighth album and their first after the death of Brian Jones, Let It Bleed. The…