re: Beatles Get Back trailer. Airs on Disney+ November 25 in 3 parts

all 123 songs played in the documentary, in order of appearance

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And he doesn’t say much either. Although he’s not as silent as Ringo is.

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Ringo is like the child who is sitting in a room full of adults and is afraid to say anything and get noticed, because it’s passed his bedtime!

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Really good Rolling Stone article on Get Back


Rolling Stone

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Man, that writer is pretentious and tries way too hard to be a little too on the nose with his references, but some of the moments are interesting.

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One morning Paul comes in with a riff in his head — he strums while George and Ringo yawn in his face. Then they notice it. George plays along. Ringo does his hand-claps. They’re whipping up “Get Back” on the spot. What the frick? Whatever else the virtues of this song (never a fave for me), they love playing it together — for them, the riff is a clubhouse where they can hang out and converse. “A goer number,” as George Martin would say.(I promise I won’t keep bashing MLH, but the fact that he had this scene on film, yet suppressed it from Let It Be? Practically sabotage.)

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This is a great point, and one I thought about as well when watching...how the hell can you knowingly have that on film and choose not to include it in the original doc? It's literally the creation of an iconic Beatles hit, and it's all captured on film from its inception to it's finished recording. I agree that it's criminal that it's taken over 50 years to get that out into the open.

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Ringo plunks out “Octopus’ Garden” at the piano. Everybody chuckles. But George comes over with his guitar and helps Ringo turn it into a real song, asking for zero credit, even though he’s having enough trouble getting the band to consider his own tunes. The generosity here says so much about these two. On his 80th birthday TV special last year, Ringo explained how George helped him write: “I can write it all, but I can’t end it, so he’d end my songs for me!’”

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This is what I said a page or two back. That was a really cool moment to see on film. George honestly wanted to help Ringo. I mean shite, this is from the Wiki page for the song:

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"Octopus's Garden" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written and sung by Ringo Starr (credited to his real name Richard Starkey), from their 1969 album Abbey Road. George Harrison, who assisted Starr with the song, commented: "'Octopus's Garden' is Ringo's song. It's only the second song Ringo has ever written, mind you, and it's lovely." He added that the song gets very deep into the listener's consciousness "because it's so peaceful. I suppose Ringo is writing cosmic songs these days without even realising it."

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another good review here

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and i agree with the general sentiment...the whole 8 hours "is" a bit much, but i still want more .. john & george are gone, and paul & ringo will be gone sooner than later. this is for posterity, and should be viewed that way

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This is a great point, and one I thought about as well when watching...how the hell can you knowingly have that on film and choose not to include it in the original doc? It's literally the creation of an iconic Beatles hit, and it's all captured on film from its inception to it's finished recording. I agree that it's criminal that it's taken over 50 years to get that out into the open.

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The Beatles self edited and limited what the film could show, they probably at that time didn't think noodling and showing the literal creation moment of a song should have the curtain lifted off just yet.

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and i agree with the general sentiment...the whole 8 hours "is" a bit much, but i still want more .. john & george are gone, and paul & ringo will be gone sooner than later. this is for posterity, and should be viewed that way

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I too found some of the documentary redundant and tedious, but when I saw John’s face light up singing” don’t let me down” live , a tear welled up in me, wishing he were still around to see this!

That moment when your vision of getting shutdown by the police comes full circle:

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The songs sound great in their original album form IMO.

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Both are good, but Naked would be "original form" of the songs, and Spectors vision (just on three tracks, BTW) works pretty well too, I just think it slaughter's long and winding road, and omitting don't let me down is just criminal imo.

I like the wall of sound he brought, but for this album it's just not meant for it, the entire project was a "live to tape" approach, which is why it was "Get Back", in the first place, back to the basics.

Phil's stuff is mostly great, but it was not intended for these sessions imo.

That said, both are essential, especially after seeing this, imo

To give you an idea "A day in the life" is one of my favorite tracks, I like the wall of sound...

I think the surviving Beatles agreeing to the Naked.. project speaks volumes, but on that same note, every one supported the Spector cut intially (except Paul)

watching the first episode now, damn they kind of sucked, but then they write get back on the fly and i'm floored

i retract my sucked statement, they are clicking now and it's magic

One thing that blew my mind was that Paul only had two basses and one of them was had a right-handed nut so the strings kept popping off. Instead of getting a new bass he is just like frick it I'll play guitar instead. They were rich and could get anything they wanted. There were probably 5 music stores within walking distance.

His guitar part on it turned out to be pretty slick and complimentary to the other two guitars so the skeptic me thinks it may have been staged for the documentary, but who knows..