Sixties Saturday: The Beatles: “I Want to Hold Your Hand”
It started it all in America, when in 1964, the Beatles had a #1 hit in America with “I Want to Hold Your Hand” and an Ed Sullivan appearance, and the rest was absolute history. From The Citrus Report...
View ArticleThursday Never Knows: “I Am the Walrus”
This song is over 40 years old, and there is absolutely no band that could ever sound like “I Am the Walrus” today. You think Animal Collective is cool? They are really, really late. From The Citrus...
View ArticleThursday Never Knows: “If I Fell”
A little love song early in the morning from this band called The Beatles. From the 1964 album A Hard Day’s Night, it features a bit of an odd structure in the introduction by John Lennon, and the...
View ArticleThursday Never Knows: “I Want to Tell You”
One of the most underrated songs in the Beatles catalog (which is a dumb thing to even write) is the George Harrison 1966 gem, “I Want to Tell You.” Revolver is full of special moments, jumping from...
View ArticleThursday Never Knows: “Rain”
Just one of those Beatles songs, stuck between albums, experimental for the time, a Lennon masterpiece, backwards guitar loops, a monotone lyric, and something about “Rain.” It’s raining here, so this...
View ArticleThursday Never Knows: “No Reply”
Beatles For Sale! is a weird album for even us, a die-hard Beatles follower. Their 4th LP, released in late 1964, doesn’t feature any of the mega hits everyone knows from Greatest Hits collections....
View ArticleThursday Never Know: “Hello Goodbye”
We wanted to go latter years Beatles this morning, with one of the few songs in the latter years from Paul that we actually enjoy time after time. From November 1967, with the tremendous B-side of “I...
View ArticleThursday Never Knows: “Eleanor Rigby”
A bit of a dark, haunted way to start off your Thursday morning, we start with Paul’s minor masterpiece, one with some of the most advanced production, vocal effects, and beautifully composed string...
View ArticleThursday Never Knows: “Twist & Shout”
Probably the only Beatles song that you could here in a sports arena, and we have fond memories of the Golden State Warriors using this song as a great 4th quarter momentum shifter in the late 1980s...
View ArticleThursday Never Knows: “Within You Without You”
This is entirely a George Harrison moment, opening Side B of one of the most landmark albums ever, Sgt Pepper’s, with one of the most surreal moment ever created by a pop band. Listening to it now,...
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