Here's an album you can't have—at least not yet, as of this writing. In the past couple of weeks, I've posted two versions of albums in which I used most of the tracks of The Beatles' "White Album." But I deliberately left off "Wild Honey Pie" and "Revolution 9." I just don't think they fit well with the other tracks.
The Beatles—specifically Paul, John and George—experimented extensively with music and wrote pop songs. George released Electronic Sound, and John and Yoko released Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins, Unfinished Music No. 2: Life with the Lions and the Wedding Album. Paul also created experimental music but didn't release it commercially.
Back in Your Safely Beds is what might have happened if The Beatles released their more experimental songs together on one album.
However, one of the tracks I propose for this album, "Carnival of Light," a nearly 14-minute sound collage, has yet to be released. It was originally recorded by the band in 1967 for the Million Volt Light and Sound Rave event. It has never appeared on any Beatles release and has only been heard by a select few since the rave event. Paul wanted to put it on The Beatles' Anthology 2 album, but George vetoed the idea. Paul occasionally teases the possibility of releasing it someday in the future. The rest of the tracks on this proposed album are all commercially available.
"What's the New Mary Jane?" was completed during production of the White Album, but was not officially released until 1996 on Anthology 3. "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)" was released as the B-side to the "Let It Be" single. The final recording work on this song was in April 1969 (the last of these five tracks to be completed), and so I see Back in Your Safely Beds as a summer of '69 release that wasn't.
SIDE A
1. You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)
2. Carnival of Light
SIDE B
1. What's the New Mary Jane?
2. Wild Honey Pie
3. Revolution 9
My simple album cover is stark white, with the title in big, fat letters and the logo of Zapple Records—the avant-garde and spoken-word subsidiary of Apple Corps. The title comes from one of Ringo's malapropisms (aka Ringoisms), like "A Hard Day's Night" and "Tomorrow Never Knows," which the band has previously used for titles. Maybe the band wouldn't even include their name on this record. Maybe they'd make up a fake name. Who knows?
With this blog entry, I'll move on to other proposed albums that don't involve The Beatles. Stay tuned.
This would definitely be cool. If only we had Carnival of Light. You could use one of the many fakes as a place holder. Could have been a Zapple release.
ReplyDeleteChange the label logo. Thanks for the idea
DeleteYeah, a Zapple release would have been perfect.
ReplyDeleteIf you were interested in creating a similar album prior to the (hopeful) release of Carnival of Light, you could use Revolution 20.
ReplyDeleteA track list of
SIDE A
1. You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)
2. Wild Honey Pie
3. What's the New Mary Jane?
SIDE B
1. Revolution 20
2. Revolution 9
would sound pretty cool
It's been awhile since I listened to Rev 20, but doesn't it include part of what became Rev 9?
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