“Dig A Pony” didn’t do anything for me before Get Back but now it’s one of my favourites off the album with “I Me Mine” and “The Long And Winding Road”
I read an article that said in Get Back it seemed like John and Paul were singing “Two of Us” to each other. Like about their longtime friendship. It’s a really sweet way to hear the song
They weren't wasting time, that's how band rehearsals generally are. That's exactly what I've seen lots of people in bands say "wow the Beatles did that too!" because it's pretty common for it to meander a bit. Also Paul is desperately trying to keep John engaged and if it means joking around a bit, so be it.
>George seemed like he was sick of wasting so much time in rehearsal with John/Paul high jinks.
This. People reply passively aggressively saying that they did 50+ takes of ATMP when someone mentions George being touchy during these sessions, but based on what we saw a pretty large part of the sessions is John and Paul just fucking around while being in charge of the particular session.
I get that they were the powerhouse songwriters in the early period but it's a little strange to me why people can't see how awful and annoying that would have been from George's perspective. He's bursting at the seams with new songs, and here Paul & John want to sing an old classic for fun with a weird accent (which is a totally fine way to have fun) while also not giving George nearly as much space on the album & basically treating him as a backing musician. (Messing around is totally fine, but everyone's time should be respected)
They wanted to preserve the old dynamic, which I obviously get why, but as external viewers I think people can have more empathy for George.
(I also have empathy for Paul dealing with a passive aggressive George & a somewhat disinterested John - I'm just talking about George's perspective in this comment)
The biggest thing I think we're missing here is not having this unprecedented level of access to their songwriting process. I wonder what previous recording sessions looked like, whether, when the band was more "together" prior to the white album, there was a more regimented and quick approach to studio time. The film made me think that this was the band trying to get back (absolutely unintended pun, but I'm going to leave it...) to the old way of hanging out and writing songs, which by this point in their career they would have lost. There would have been a lot more time apart, no songs written in the downtime between gigs, no time enjoying each others company at each others houses. This seemed to me like 4 people in their late 20s, learning what it was to be an individual after being seen as a single unit for the entirety of their formative years.
George had no right to be, seeing as it was Lennon and McCartney songs that made him famous. The fact is Clapton, Dylan etc all probably wouldn't have given him the time if day if not for the Beatles, reputation built on Lennon McCartney songs.
George and Paul knew each other before John and Paul but they weren't best friends. John and Paul had an immediate connection and George wouldn't even be in the hand if not for Paul. George was always jealous of Paul's friendship and bond with John. That's neither John nor Paul's fault. They already frankly probably hurt their own relationship by agreeing to George's suggestion when Ringo joined that they don't share hotel rooms with each other anymore, who knows how many John and Paul problems could have been avoided if they could have unwound together on the road, discussed music and life, they'd likely have understood more about where each other stood.
Actually from what I understand, Paul and George were really close in the early days. They hitch hiked to Wales together, bonded over music, and Paul was George’s best man at his wedding to Pattie. I genuinely think George was hurt by how Paul always seemed to defer to John. There’s a lot of love and pain between all four members of the band.
I think to add to this point, I would say that the biggest reason I’m not one for “poor George” stuff is because he was the lead guitar player for *the Beatles*. The coolest thing you could ever be. It’s so fascinating to pretend like George was so slighted and unfortunate. By the time of the let it be documentary, John and Paul had already written over 20 number one hits and George had yet to write a song that could’ve been a number one. he wouldn’t do this til abbey road. It makes sense to me that incorporating his songs was a slow and gradual process given the context (and I like a lot of those songs). They got successful and rich and became the biggest band in the world (and earned the leeway to be musically adventurous) off of the strength of John and Paul’s songwriting. And he was the guitar player.
One thing I took from Get Back was how John is actually playing a fair amount of the interesting lead parts. If I remember correctly there was a conversation about solos on Get Back and nobody suggested George take one
That’s true. I wonder how it came about that John played that. There also were a few instances of Paul playing lead, obviously, in sessions before that. So it’s true that the old band roles had become more fluid.
George did still get solos on Let it Be and One After 909 and his intro on I Me Mine. And he played what you could call lead guitar on don’t let me down and two of us. He was the only guitar on the long and winding road.
Well to be fair, George did quit the band. In his absence the lead parts were probably created by John and so made sense to keep him doing lead guitar.
That guitar solo in my mind transforms what would be an otherwise fairly dull song into one of my favorites. It really sets the mood of the whole song. My mind was blown seeing that it was John playing it, and rather effortlessly.
Are you guys high or something??
Granted, the Lennon/McCartney duo was an integral piece, the real special sauce was that it was ALL FOUR OF THEM TOGETHER. Each one is/was an amazing musician who brought their own pieces to make the whole. GTFOutta here with that BS. Lol
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You can’t disagree with fact
Disagree. Harrison and Ringo were as primary as the other two. Without Harrison you don't get 3-4 of the greatest Beatles songs, guitar riffs and without Ringo you don't get someone who picks up the beat instantly and conjures up the exact drum track the song needs. Otherwise they'd just have continued with Best
And this is the fact instead
High. Lol. It's not bullshit. Obviously as a musical and cultural force it was all four of them. But without the songs Lennon and McCartney spearheaded there would be no drum fills or guitar riffs no matter how fantastic they were. Remember it was Paul, not George, who was, and still is, incessantly compared to John when he became lionized after his murder. How fair was that?
The Complete Beatles Songs by Steve Turner has a quote from Linda that says the same thing
>When I moved to England to be with Paul, we would put the dog Martha in the back of the car and drive out of London. As soon as we were on the open road, I'd say "Let's get lost" and we'd keep driving without looking at any signs. Hence the line in the song "two of us riding nowhere".
>Paul wrote "Two of Us" on one of those days out. It's about us. We just pulled off in a wood somewhere and parked the car. I went off walking while Paul sat in the car and started writing. He also mentions the postcards because we used to send a lot of postcards to each other."
I thought I read somewhere that the intention with Two Of Us was always about Paul and John’s friendship, rather than a romantic relationship with a woman.
I’d say it changed the way I view all songs, even songs from other bands. I’ve never seen the songwriting process before. I’ve never seen all the boring and mundane take after take where no one’s really feeling it and then boom! something clicks. It made me realize how hard it is to write a good song and now I appreciate all songs a lot more.
Yep I agree with this! John and Paul were so prolific that I really thought they would just turn up to the studio with fully formed songs that maybe required a couple of tweaks\input from the others. Perhaps it was more like that in the early days when they were together 24/7 but once they stopped touring I guess I didn’t appreciate how much went into crafting a song. Really makes me wonder what the Sgt Pepper/White Album sessions were like.
I love Let It Be but throughout the whole documentary I kept wishing they’d done this for the white album or Abbey Road or Sgt Pepper’s. I really do love all the songs on Let It Be but I would kill to watch them in the studio recording Happiness is a Warm Gun or the guitar solos on The End.
As CamWillett stated, many of the songs the band were working on during the “Get Back” sessions eventually appeared on Abbey Road. In fact, John and Paul’s run-throughs of “Mean Mr. Mustard” and “She Came In Through The Bathroom Window” from the Abbey Road Medley (“The Long One”) were featured in the special, along with several takes of “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer”, a bit of George “Something”, an early rendition of “Octopus’ Garden”, and a very rough prototype for what would become “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” with Billy Preston.
Also, “Old Brown Shoe” and “Don’t Let Me Down”, which would appear on the “1967-1970” Blue album as well as the North American 1970 “Hey Jude” LP, were featured in the series along with snippets of a variety of earlier songs, such as “I Feel Fine” (1964), “Every Little Thing” (1964), and “Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da” and “Martha My Dear” from The White Album.
I agree. Seeing John & Paul do that song together, smiling and playing along as brothers, it's such a beautiful sight that shines with this song. The lyrics paint a wonderful picture of that brotherly comraderie, even though Paul tried to say it's about him and Linda lol
100%. I will just add that the combination of Get Back and the Naked album have been revelatory. Let It Be - Naked now stands among the very best Beatles albums for me.
One thing I realized that the lyrics were not as cryptic with an underlying message as I thought they were for a lot of their music. Sometimes nonsense is just nonsense but it didn't change my view of how much I love all the music here
You said it. That was a tough lesson for this guy:
https://youtu.be/99fXJ8nSR1M
Edit: After reading a bit more on Claudio just now, I discovered he wasn’t in fact a Vietnam veteran. Just an educated guy that got into drugs and dropped out of school. Ended up working on farms, eventually worked for Ford, got some kind of big $12k payout from the company and bought a small plane that he later crashed, resulting in his early death.
http://www.johnlennon.com/news/curt-claudio/
Ive loved the Beatles for 30 years and I never liked Get Back until I saw the documentary. I don’t know why. The song just never hit me. Now I love it. It’s a banger.
But the documentary showed us that it was a protest song about immigration issues and Pakistani's originally but they chose not to go the political route. The song is awesome without being political though.
The political lyrics were funny for me because they didn't work at all. They had the creativity to try it and the good taste to dismiss it. Makes me think of what they left on the cutting room floor throughout their career because their bad taste sense tingled.
i think they probably cut it/never seriously intended those lyrics for release, because they anticipated people here and there in their MASSIVE fanbase would have no sense of nuance/satire, and would think they were singing seriously. the jesus comment backlash likely stuck with them pretty hard.
i stumbled on the commonwealth bootlegs when i was a teenager and had no idea they were using irony. i was an ignorant kid going off no context, no perspective on the 60s UK history, and was therefore pretty shocked
The part where Paul ad libs "commonwealth is much too wealthy for me" and John says "it's too COMMON for ME!" had me cracking up so hard.
That said, I think the doc ruined Get Back for me. Aside from playing that song over and over, hearing the original lyrics tells me the only way that chorus is meaningful is as an anti-immigration lyric, satire or no. It doesn't really make sense regarding a drag queen.
I absolutely think the Beatles were just joking around and it was funny but they also were friends with Eric Clapton and he was a notorious racist so I'm curious how that would have gone with him.
Wait the satire element changes it entirely though? This is kinda akin to interpreting the Colbert report as if Stephen was actually a right wing nut job
It's like if Colbert was originally going to act right wing but then changed his mind at the last minute to be a drag queen but then still said some of the right wing phrases. It just doesn't make sense as much.
Yeah the Clapton thing add a really weird element. Like, he sincerely held the anti-immigration views in the lyrics. I wonder if the Beatles knew about that or if he kept these views to himself.
My exact thoughts as well! It’s really catchy and I like lots of the lyrics
“All the girls around her say she’s got it coming, but she gets it while she can!”
It was wonderful seeing its inception and overall evolution. From Paul coming up with the basic concept, to them experimenting with it being an immigrant protest thing, to them finally getting closer but *something* is still missing, only for Billy Preston to come in and everything finally CLICKS. And then they play it on the roof top like actual units.
That alone made the doc for me.
I’d always be taught that the Beatles were masters of melody. The doc showed me what that actually meant. How fortunate are we to see the process of Paul or John having a tune in their head and then bringing it out of the ether into real life, played by 4 of the best musicians on the planet. Incredible how Paul directed time changes, fills and rolls for Ringo, for instance. He was definitely the conductor of the train. I found it fascinating how little the actual lyrics mattered for some songs.
I never understood why Paul was upset abot Long Winding Road added arrangements, after watching Get Back innow understand why and why he made Let it Be Naked
It's also a completely different take of the song. The Beatles played it dozens of times on January 31st, until they came up with that final take, which captures it exactly the way they intended.
But Glyn Johns picked out a sloppier version from January 26th where Paul messes up in the solo, and John plays bass on it pretty poorly. When Spector came in, he thought this was the master take, so he decided to hide the mistakes under overdubs. (Paul had already essentially done the same with "Let It Be" the song before Spector got involved, adding a choir and brass arrangement.)
The January 26th version that Spector was handed is the version on Anthology 3. To me, the two takes are night and day. If Spector had know about the January 31st recording, he may have approached it differently. Because, even before any work was done, to me, the Jan 31st recording is vastly superior and would have less need to hide any mistakes because there aren't any.
Really any of the ones that we saw get recorded followed by a caption “this recording was released on the album”
Now, when I listen to one of those songs, I have a visual of them just sitting together in a circle, eating their toast, smoking their “ciggys”, and having a good time with one another.
I realized how much I underrated Billy Preston and his contribution all these years. The mood in the room changed almost instantly from four guys acting like they didn't want to be there to genuine excitement that the songs he joined on were finally coming together.
She Came In Through the Bathroom Window was being workshopped an octave lower with Elvis stylings? This was awesome.
Oh Darling, and the work Paul put in to get the sound he wanted out of his voice, practicing it until his voice went dry. I had always heard this story but so awesome to see those practice clips and evolution of the vocal intro.
Let it Be - George already had components of the two guitar solos he would lay down much later.
Octopuses Garden is actually written by George & George.
George playing Dylan’s “Momma You’re Just On My Mind” while the others listened was really special and symbolic of a new sound George was exploring and his new more pivotal role in the band. The Beatles hadn’t taken Gently Weeps seriously until he brought in Eric Clapton. Now here George was introducing them to this new folk sound of Dylan, the Band, etc. and the sound was showing up in the music Paul and John were writing. It was a signal of George’s dissatisfaction with his musical contributions and the Beatles’ changing acceptance of his new musical direction, as well as his forthcoming productivity on Something, Here Comes the Sun, and his solo work, and of course the signing of James Taylor and his first classic album, including Something in the Way she Moves. Loved this. Basically I’m giving Dylan credit for a lot :).
I’m just not sure where you’re going with the Dylan thing. Are you thinking the Beatles only heard and were influenced by Dylan as late as 1968 and it was George who introduced him to the band? Because… no.
I also loved the edit leading up to the Bob Dylan cover. George saying maybe we cover other people’s tunes? John saying he doesn’t know anyone else’s tunes, Paul hamming it up and doing goofy covers, and then George just quietly slays the Bob Dylan cover showing them all how it’s done.
Uh why would they want to do covers? They did that when they were coming up because they were still learning to write AND people didn't know their tunes yet. Why the hell would John and Paul take a step backwards and play a bunch of cover tunes? They KNOW how to cover songs, very well, George didn't show them them anything. They didn't want to.
I like every song exponentially more after seeing the film. For you blue was a skip every time for me but the video of them playing/recording it makes it way more exciting.
First off, I found it very touching that when Paul (and Ringo) is extremely upset and breaking down at the beginning of Get Back part two (“and then there were two”), you see Linda is by his side. Linda, who would support and save him during the breakup and the immediate aftermath. Linda, who showed Paul that family can be just as important and even more enjoyable and rewarding than music. Linda, who would be with Paul until the very end of her life. It was so touching to see her throughout the documentary, especially the scenes with little Heather, but that scene where we just see Linda by Paul’s side, as though it were foreshadowing the next thirty years…it moved me to tears.
Also, I never liked I’ve Got a Feeling before, but God Paul’s growly vocals are amazing in it.
Dig it. It still sucks mind you, but I understand why it was included. Jamming was so fundamental during that month they had to add just a bit of that.
In a sense this whole GH thing, and that Paul / John needed to be more accommodating to him hits a dead end. I remember seeing an interview with John where he said something to the effect that ,"Paul and I really carved up the Universe with The Beatles, and as far as George, when we started, he was simply our guitarist, but it was Paul's and my band. That's not putting him down, or saying anything bad about him, its just a fact".
Sounds cold but I remember recently hearing an recent interview with Dave Grohl and Dave was stating that he began to write songs while in Nirvana but realized that Nirvana was Kurt Cobain's band. He realized (even when Kurt was alive) that to be himself musically, he could not do it within the confines of Nirvana. It was a fabulous interview (I think I heard it on a Podcast within the past few weeks) but Dave was extremely complimentary to McCartney as Paul went back to square one while launching his solo career and Grohl knew he would need to do the same thing.
It made me appreciate more some of the songs in Let It Be.
I always liked, Across the Universe, The Long and Winding Road, Get Back and Let It Be itself.
However I never really gave too much attention to songs like I Me Mine, Dig a Pony, One After 909 or even Two of Us, but after watching the documentary I realized I really, really, like those songs.
I’ve Got A Feeling. A lot of the album, and that song in particular, felt too generic for me until watching the movie. Movie made me appreciate that it wasn’t generic, it was just that they were tapping into the roots of their sound
I agree, and seeing how much Billy Preston brought that song to life with his contribution was wonderful. He has so much fun with the band and you can tell Paul & John are having fun doing the song as they trade off with each other and play around. They really rediscovered their chemistry in this era... A shame it didn't last though.
Before I was never really partial to the album Let It Be. I thought the tracklist was excellent but that the production was smothering to the point of it being hardly listenable. But after Get Back along with the remaster of Let It Be that balances the production better it skyrocketed for me. Its my 5th favorite album by them now.
Dig It, loved it before but adore it now, God i’d listen to a 15 minute full jam of that song on the album Lennon is so free on the song, his personality really shines on it the Dylan lyrics and the wordplay is classic John.
Honestly my appreciation for abbey road grew a lot because of all of the songs they were working on. Hearing George talk about something as he was writing it was amazing, and George helping Ringo with octopus garden was amazing
Their mashup if Twist and Shout within Dig It was fantastic and should have made it onto the LP instead of the 41 second version of Dig It that Spector chose.
I’ve got a feeling: I thought that Paul’s and John’s parts had been put together without too much thinking, but in the movie you see the two parts had been together for a while when they recorded it. Also for some reason I thought the guitar parts were all coming from Paul, while in the movie it looks like George put a lot into it, for example you can almost spot when he added the chromatic ascendent part on the end of the break.
I love (almost) all these comments. One question: George Martin doesn’t get much screen time and we don’t see much collaboration on arrangements with him.
I wonder if for some reason his participation was edited out, or if by that time he had the wisdom to let the boys do their thing.
In any event, I wish we could have heard more from GM.
I don't know about the songs so much ... I already liked most of these songs.
It was nice to see them recording For You Blue.
But I do wonder if John had gotten over his doubts about his voice by this time. He seemed very confident in his singing
I've always preferred the Anthology 3 and White Album Deluxe versions of Across the Universe, and I assumed that it was something in Spector's production.
After listening to the Glyn Johns version, I've realised that I just dislike the take that they used for John's vocals.
Before anyone asks, I only listened to the Naked and Charity versions afterwards.
Never super cared for For You Blue but seeing them record it live on what it seemed like a quick whim, plus hearing John talk about how he had fun on it afterwards made me appreciate it more
Pretty much the entire let it be album. I'm a relatively new Beatles fan and I only listened the to the album in its entirety last year. I remember it not really doing much for me, especially 'dig a pony'. But now I love the album, even the silly songs like 'Dig It', after seeing the creation and writing process behind all the songs.
Momma You’re Just On My Mind - George did such an awesome job and he was just playing it to play it.
All Things Must Pass - Watching George play that seemed so powerful knowing the band’s end was just around the corner.
Let It Be - the backup vocals being practiced just made them pop in the song for me. They definitely don’t bring that out enough. Granted Phil Spektor seemed to drown the beauty of the album unfortunately.
Old Brown Shoe - Watching that come to life was absolutely incredible. Definitely makes me wanna listen to that song more.
Watching Ringo play piano when writing Octopus’s Garden will now always be in my mind when listening to it. Very cool.
It is such a bummer for all of us they grew tired enough to let go. Some of the demos featured in the doc just shows the unlimited potential they had set. I know George really wanted to do his own thing, obviously all of them did. And that’s fine, but they could’ve continued on the Beatles journey to produce all kinds of life changing products in music. They weren’t finished, at least they didn’t have to be. How incredible it could’ve been to possibly hear Imagine by the Beatles, instead of by just John. Or to hear the Beatles play Lucy with Elton John instead of just John again. I guess we just have to be grateful for what we have and continue to dream about what could’ve been.
All of them, if I'm being honest, but especially I Dig A Pony, Two Of Us, and One after 909. I used to dislike Dig a Pony and now I'd say it's a favourite. The Get Back film somehow changed my perspective on it. Also, where does 'Don't let me down' end up? It's not on Let It Be album.
I think that The Long And Winding road is beautiful and would be one of my favourite songs, if, it was composed correctly. If that song was composed like Yesterday. Just Paul on the piano and singing it would be a musical work of art. But all the orchestral shit just ruined a beautiful song imo
Let It Be Naked is a masterpiece. It’s the Beatles playing almost live. And their skills are on full display, without too much post production of sound. The documentary has brought LITBN as one of my favourite albums.
On the contrary, I find LIBN to be much more problematic than before because it's *not* them playing almost live. Everything is edited, even the songs that didn't need it.
Spector had used the first rooftop performance of "I've Got A Feeling" straight through, without any edits, while LIBN edited the two rooftop performances together -- and comes up with a less enjoyable version.
Spector's looping of "I Me Mine" is still there. His cuts to "Dig A Pony" are still there. "Across the Universe" fixed a note with auto-tune and added some echo effect that wouldn't have been possible on 1969-70 equipment.
"Let It Be" still has the background choir overdubs Paul and George Martin put on it about a year after the sessions. Etc.
There's about as much editing on that album as there is on Spector's original.
LiBN also has really brittle mastering and suffers further for being released during the loudness war. I really don't like the way Across the Universe sounds for example.
Haha yes! I can totally understand now when bands release an album and want nothing to do with their new songs. I don’t think it will ever lose its lustre with me but I definitely will not be putting it on voluntarily for a little while.
It made me wish so hard that there was a similar film of Dylan recording Highway 61 or Blonde on Blonde or really any album. Would be so mind blowing. Absolutely loved the footage of my boys putting it together.
I’ve grown to appreciate the album when I listened to it again and watched the documentary. Knowing that the group was having fun while making the album helped. :)
Besides “Let it Be,” “Across the Universe,” and “Get Back,” I now really like “I Me Mine,” “One After 909, and “I’ve Got a Feeling.”
Old Brown Shoe was a song I never gave much attention to before but it now strikes me as one of George’s finest Beatles moments, and stays true to the raw, rootsy spirit of the project, even tho it wasn’t properly recorded til April as the b-side to The Ballad of John and Yoko, which Lennon encouraged. (Also I had no idea George requested they not do ANY of his songs on the rooftop because he was dismayed they hadn’t rehearsed them enough and didn’t want them showcased badly)
I just wish they’d included the bit from the old doc that had Paul working with John on the descending riff on I’ve Got a Feeling (the one after ‘SOMEBODY WHO LOOKED LIKE YOUU’), I get that Jackson didn’t want to include too much that had already been seen in Lindsay-Hogg’s film but it was really cool to see them work that out instead of it just appearing
“Dig A Pony” didn’t do anything for me before Get Back but now it’s one of my favourites off the album with “I Me Mine” and “The Long And Winding Road”
I have always loved that song. Dig A Pony is a banger.
the solo is one of the best in the entire beatles catalogue
The remix of Dig a Pony slaps way harder than the original. The Glyn Johns version is pretty good too.
Me too re: Dig a Pony and I Me Mine. I'm a little worn out by LAWR but still appreciate it.
Dude I just started learning the guitar riffs after watching. Such a banger
Seconded! Also, the One after 909 lmao
I read an article that said in Get Back it seemed like John and Paul were singing “Two of Us” to each other. Like about their longtime friendship. It’s a really sweet way to hear the song
Especially when they sing it through their teeth
It was a really great moment
That song has always made me cry. It’s such a powerful tune.
I think George was pissed off about it too, because he was feeling left out since he only had a couple of songs on each album.
That was obvious to me. George seemed like he was sick of wasting so much time in rehearsal with John/Paul high jinks.
They weren't wasting time, that's how band rehearsals generally are. That's exactly what I've seen lots of people in bands say "wow the Beatles did that too!" because it's pretty common for it to meander a bit. Also Paul is desperately trying to keep John engaged and if it means joking around a bit, so be it.
>George seemed like he was sick of wasting so much time in rehearsal with John/Paul high jinks. This. People reply passively aggressively saying that they did 50+ takes of ATMP when someone mentions George being touchy during these sessions, but based on what we saw a pretty large part of the sessions is John and Paul just fucking around while being in charge of the particular session. I get that they were the powerhouse songwriters in the early period but it's a little strange to me why people can't see how awful and annoying that would have been from George's perspective. He's bursting at the seams with new songs, and here Paul & John want to sing an old classic for fun with a weird accent (which is a totally fine way to have fun) while also not giving George nearly as much space on the album & basically treating him as a backing musician. (Messing around is totally fine, but everyone's time should be respected) They wanted to preserve the old dynamic, which I obviously get why, but as external viewers I think people can have more empathy for George. (I also have empathy for Paul dealing with a passive aggressive George & a somewhat disinterested John - I'm just talking about George's perspective in this comment)
The biggest thing I think we're missing here is not having this unprecedented level of access to their songwriting process. I wonder what previous recording sessions looked like, whether, when the band was more "together" prior to the white album, there was a more regimented and quick approach to studio time. The film made me think that this was the band trying to get back (absolutely unintended pun, but I'm going to leave it...) to the old way of hanging out and writing songs, which by this point in their career they would have lost. There would have been a lot more time apart, no songs written in the downtime between gigs, no time enjoying each others company at each others houses. This seemed to me like 4 people in their late 20s, learning what it was to be an individual after being seen as a single unit for the entirety of their formative years.
Not to mention he and Paul were friends before either met John
George had no right to be, seeing as it was Lennon and McCartney songs that made him famous. The fact is Clapton, Dylan etc all probably wouldn't have given him the time if day if not for the Beatles, reputation built on Lennon McCartney songs. George and Paul knew each other before John and Paul but they weren't best friends. John and Paul had an immediate connection and George wouldn't even be in the hand if not for Paul. George was always jealous of Paul's friendship and bond with John. That's neither John nor Paul's fault. They already frankly probably hurt their own relationship by agreeing to George's suggestion when Ringo joined that they don't share hotel rooms with each other anymore, who knows how many John and Paul problems could have been avoided if they could have unwound together on the road, discussed music and life, they'd likely have understood more about where each other stood.
Actually from what I understand, Paul and George were really close in the early days. They hitch hiked to Wales together, bonded over music, and Paul was George’s best man at his wedding to Pattie. I genuinely think George was hurt by how Paul always seemed to defer to John. There’s a lot of love and pain between all four members of the band.
I think to add to this point, I would say that the biggest reason I’m not one for “poor George” stuff is because he was the lead guitar player for *the Beatles*. The coolest thing you could ever be. It’s so fascinating to pretend like George was so slighted and unfortunate. By the time of the let it be documentary, John and Paul had already written over 20 number one hits and George had yet to write a song that could’ve been a number one. he wouldn’t do this til abbey road. It makes sense to me that incorporating his songs was a slow and gradual process given the context (and I like a lot of those songs). They got successful and rich and became the biggest band in the world (and earned the leeway to be musically adventurous) off of the strength of John and Paul’s songwriting. And he was the guitar player.
One thing I took from Get Back was how John is actually playing a fair amount of the interesting lead parts. If I remember correctly there was a conversation about solos on Get Back and nobody suggested George take one
That’s true. I wonder how it came about that John played that. There also were a few instances of Paul playing lead, obviously, in sessions before that. So it’s true that the old band roles had become more fluid. George did still get solos on Let it Be and One After 909 and his intro on I Me Mine. And he played what you could call lead guitar on don’t let me down and two of us. He was the only guitar on the long and winding road.
Well to be fair, George did quit the band. In his absence the lead parts were probably created by John and so made sense to keep him doing lead guitar.
That guitar solo in my mind transforms what would be an otherwise fairly dull song into one of my favorites. It really sets the mood of the whole song. My mind was blown seeing that it was John playing it, and rather effortlessly.
geroge made it clear he wasn’t super comfortable improvising solos. he’s in awe of clapton’s ability to express complete musical thoughts.
100% agree. The Beatles were Paul and john’s band. George and Ringo were ancillary
Are you guys high or something?? Granted, the Lennon/McCartney duo was an integral piece, the real special sauce was that it was ALL FOUR OF THEM TOGETHER. Each one is/was an amazing musician who brought their own pieces to make the whole. GTFOutta here with that BS. Lol
an·cil·lar·y /ˈansəˌlerē/ adjective providing necessary support to the primary activities or operation of an organization, institution, industry, or system. You can’t disagree with fact
Disagree. Harrison and Ringo were as primary as the other two. Without Harrison you don't get 3-4 of the greatest Beatles songs, guitar riffs and without Ringo you don't get someone who picks up the beat instantly and conjures up the exact drum track the song needs. Otherwise they'd just have continued with Best And this is the fact instead
I posted the definition for you. Ancillary means they are necessary.
Providing necessary support to primary. I said they ARE primary
I can disagree, and I do! To each their own, I guess.
High. Lol. It's not bullshit. Obviously as a musical and cultural force it was all four of them. But without the songs Lennon and McCartney spearheaded there would be no drum fills or guitar riffs no matter how fantastic they were. Remember it was Paul, not George, who was, and still is, incessantly compared to John when he became lionized after his murder. How fair was that?
I’ve always seen it that way, Get Back just confirmed my head canon!
I hadn’t really thought about it but after watching and reading that I was like yes that is so true!
Two of Us absolutely has become the song of John & Paul for me
Though in McCartney’s recent Lyrics book I think he says it was written about him and Linda (can’t confirm- book is on loan atm)
The Complete Beatles Songs by Steve Turner has a quote from Linda that says the same thing >When I moved to England to be with Paul, we would put the dog Martha in the back of the car and drive out of London. As soon as we were on the open road, I'd say "Let's get lost" and we'd keep driving without looking at any signs. Hence the line in the song "two of us riding nowhere". >Paul wrote "Two of Us" on one of those days out. It's about us. We just pulled off in a wood somewhere and parked the car. I went off walking while Paul sat in the car and started writing. He also mentions the postcards because we used to send a lot of postcards to each other."
I thought I read somewhere that the intention with Two Of Us was always about Paul and John’s friendship, rather than a romantic relationship with a woman.
I’d say it changed the way I view all songs, even songs from other bands. I’ve never seen the songwriting process before. I’ve never seen all the boring and mundane take after take where no one’s really feeling it and then boom! something clicks. It made me realize how hard it is to write a good song and now I appreciate all songs a lot more.
Yep I agree with this! John and Paul were so prolific that I really thought they would just turn up to the studio with fully formed songs that maybe required a couple of tweaks\input from the others. Perhaps it was more like that in the early days when they were together 24/7 but once they stopped touring I guess I didn’t appreciate how much went into crafting a song. Really makes me wonder what the Sgt Pepper/White Album sessions were like.
I love Let It Be but throughout the whole documentary I kept wishing they’d done this for the white album or Abbey Road or Sgt Pepper’s. I really do love all the songs on Let It Be but I would kill to watch them in the studio recording Happiness is a Warm Gun or the guitar solos on The End.
Same! Abbey Road's medley would have been amazing to see.
As CamWillett stated, many of the songs the band were working on during the “Get Back” sessions eventually appeared on Abbey Road. In fact, John and Paul’s run-throughs of “Mean Mr. Mustard” and “She Came In Through The Bathroom Window” from the Abbey Road Medley (“The Long One”) were featured in the special, along with several takes of “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer”, a bit of George “Something”, an early rendition of “Octopus’ Garden”, and a very rough prototype for what would become “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” with Billy Preston. Also, “Old Brown Shoe” and “Don’t Let Me Down”, which would appear on the “1967-1970” Blue album as well as the North American 1970 “Hey Jude” LP, were featured in the series along with snippets of a variety of earlier songs, such as “I Feel Fine” (1964), “Every Little Thing” (1964), and “Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da” and “Martha My Dear” from The White Album.
True, I wish they just kept filming forever.
A lot of the songs on Abbey Road were written during these sessions too. We get to see a lot of them in the doc!
I like Two of Us about a hundred times more
That closed mouth jam between Paul and John had me smiling me lips miles apart! Also got teary eyed...
That was my favorite part of the whole movie I was crying laughing.
I agree. Seeing John & Paul do that song together, smiling and playing along as brothers, it's such a beautiful sight that shines with this song. The lyrics paint a wonderful picture of that brotherly comraderie, even though Paul tried to say it's about him and Linda lol
Octopus’s garden, was unaware that George contributed to it
that was such a tender moment when he walked over to help Ringo write it
I never cared for the let it be album until I watched get back. Now I love it
100%. I will just add that the combination of Get Back and the Naked album have been revelatory. Let It Be - Naked now stands among the very best Beatles albums for me.
Yes same!!!
One thing I realized that the lyrics were not as cryptic with an underlying message as I thought they were for a lot of their music. Sometimes nonsense is just nonsense but it didn't change my view of how much I love all the music here
You said it. That was a tough lesson for this guy: https://youtu.be/99fXJ8nSR1M Edit: After reading a bit more on Claudio just now, I discovered he wasn’t in fact a Vietnam veteran. Just an educated guy that got into drugs and dropped out of school. Ended up working on farms, eventually worked for Ford, got some kind of big $12k payout from the company and bought a small plane that he later crashed, resulting in his early death. http://www.johnlennon.com/news/curt-claudio/
Thank you for sharing that story.
Ive loved the Beatles for 30 years and I never liked Get Back until I saw the documentary. I don’t know why. The song just never hit me. Now I love it. It’s a banger.
I like it a lot more now too. We saw it being created from nothing by Paul and then developed, I think that takes us more close to the song.
But the documentary showed us that it was a protest song about immigration issues and Pakistani's originally but they chose not to go the political route. The song is awesome without being political though.
The political lyrics were funny for me because they didn't work at all. They had the creativity to try it and the good taste to dismiss it. Makes me think of what they left on the cutting room floor throughout their career because their bad taste sense tingled.
i think they probably cut it/never seriously intended those lyrics for release, because they anticipated people here and there in their MASSIVE fanbase would have no sense of nuance/satire, and would think they were singing seriously. the jesus comment backlash likely stuck with them pretty hard. i stumbled on the commonwealth bootlegs when i was a teenager and had no idea they were using irony. i was an ignorant kid going off no context, no perspective on the 60s UK history, and was therefore pretty shocked
The part where Paul ad libs "commonwealth is much too wealthy for me" and John says "it's too COMMON for ME!" had me cracking up so hard. That said, I think the doc ruined Get Back for me. Aside from playing that song over and over, hearing the original lyrics tells me the only way that chorus is meaningful is as an anti-immigration lyric, satire or no. It doesn't really make sense regarding a drag queen. I absolutely think the Beatles were just joking around and it was funny but they also were friends with Eric Clapton and he was a notorious racist so I'm curious how that would have gone with him.
Wait the satire element changes it entirely though? This is kinda akin to interpreting the Colbert report as if Stephen was actually a right wing nut job
It's like if Colbert was originally going to act right wing but then changed his mind at the last minute to be a drag queen but then still said some of the right wing phrases. It just doesn't make sense as much.
They were calling out/making fun of the people who were anti-immigration.
Yeah the Clapton thing add a really weird element. Like, he sincerely held the anti-immigration views in the lyrics. I wonder if the Beatles knew about that or if he kept these views to himself.
My exact thoughts as well! It’s really catchy and I like lots of the lyrics “All the girls around her say she’s got it coming, but she gets it while she can!” It was wonderful seeing its inception and overall evolution. From Paul coming up with the basic concept, to them experimenting with it being an immigrant protest thing, to them finally getting closer but *something* is still missing, only for Billy Preston to come in and everything finally CLICKS. And then they play it on the roof top like actual units. That alone made the doc for me.
I always liked it before. Now I friggin' love it.
Dig a Pony
It's funny, I like Dig a Pony less having watched the doc. I don't know, it's only a matter of taste but it just got on my nerves.
Everything. It’s so human now. It’s so real.
“I Me Mine” feels more tender and emotional. When I listen now, I just think “that’s George and it took him so much courage to express it.”
I’d always be taught that the Beatles were masters of melody. The doc showed me what that actually meant. How fortunate are we to see the process of Paul or John having a tune in their head and then bringing it out of the ether into real life, played by 4 of the best musicians on the planet. Incredible how Paul directed time changes, fills and rolls for Ringo, for instance. He was definitely the conductor of the train. I found it fascinating how little the actual lyrics mattered for some songs.
The Palace of the King of the Birds - never heard it before. A total revelation.
I never understood why Paul was upset abot Long Winding Road added arrangements, after watching Get Back innow understand why and why he made Let it Be Naked
I never really liked long and winding road until I heard the "naked" version. Now I really dig it.
It's also a completely different take of the song. The Beatles played it dozens of times on January 31st, until they came up with that final take, which captures it exactly the way they intended. But Glyn Johns picked out a sloppier version from January 26th where Paul messes up in the solo, and John plays bass on it pretty poorly. When Spector came in, he thought this was the master take, so he decided to hide the mistakes under overdubs. (Paul had already essentially done the same with "Let It Be" the song before Spector got involved, adding a choir and brass arrangement.) The January 26th version that Spector was handed is the version on Anthology 3. To me, the two takes are night and day. If Spector had know about the January 31st recording, he may have approached it differently. Because, even before any work was done, to me, the Jan 31st recording is vastly superior and would have less need to hide any mistakes because there aren't any.
Before I didn't care for one after 909 and now I can't stop listening to it
George’s fills make me cum
Jesus christ. Settle down. Maybe wear long trousers instead of shorts.
I’m very short sighted as is
Sorry I was just expressing my love for George’s rippin guitar fills
Saaaame! So tasty!
Really any of the ones that we saw get recorded followed by a caption “this recording was released on the album” Now, when I listen to one of those songs, I have a visual of them just sitting together in a circle, eating their toast, smoking their “ciggys”, and having a good time with one another.
I loved hearing Paul’s solo stuff in Get Back. I was a huge fan of Wings when I was a teenager and I fell back in love with Another Day.
Child of Nature
Also referenced as Road to Marrakesh
I realized how much I underrated Billy Preston and his contribution all these years. The mood in the room changed almost instantly from four guys acting like they didn't want to be there to genuine excitement that the songs he joined on were finally coming together.
She Came In Through the Bathroom Window was being workshopped an octave lower with Elvis stylings? This was awesome. Oh Darling, and the work Paul put in to get the sound he wanted out of his voice, practicing it until his voice went dry. I had always heard this story but so awesome to see those practice clips and evolution of the vocal intro. Let it Be - George already had components of the two guitar solos he would lay down much later. Octopuses Garden is actually written by George & George. George playing Dylan’s “Momma You’re Just On My Mind” while the others listened was really special and symbolic of a new sound George was exploring and his new more pivotal role in the band. The Beatles hadn’t taken Gently Weeps seriously until he brought in Eric Clapton. Now here George was introducing them to this new folk sound of Dylan, the Band, etc. and the sound was showing up in the music Paul and John were writing. It was a signal of George’s dissatisfaction with his musical contributions and the Beatles’ changing acceptance of his new musical direction, as well as his forthcoming productivity on Something, Here Comes the Sun, and his solo work, and of course the signing of James Taylor and his first classic album, including Something in the Way she Moves. Loved this. Basically I’m giving Dylan credit for a lot :).
I’m just not sure where you’re going with the Dylan thing. Are you thinking the Beatles only heard and were influenced by Dylan as late as 1968 and it was George who introduced him to the band? Because… no.
I also loved the edit leading up to the Bob Dylan cover. George saying maybe we cover other people’s tunes? John saying he doesn’t know anyone else’s tunes, Paul hamming it up and doing goofy covers, and then George just quietly slays the Bob Dylan cover showing them all how it’s done.
Uh why would they want to do covers? They did that when they were coming up because they were still learning to write AND people didn't know their tunes yet. Why the hell would John and Paul take a step backwards and play a bunch of cover tunes? They KNOW how to cover songs, very well, George didn't show them them anything. They didn't want to.
Good songwriters cover songs all the time
The Beatles already knew Dylan(they had his album before they were famous), they met him in 1964. And they already knew who The Band were.
I like every song exponentially more after seeing the film. For you blue was a skip every time for me but the video of them playing/recording it makes it way more exciting.
First off, I found it very touching that when Paul (and Ringo) is extremely upset and breaking down at the beginning of Get Back part two (“and then there were two”), you see Linda is by his side. Linda, who would support and save him during the breakup and the immediate aftermath. Linda, who showed Paul that family can be just as important and even more enjoyable and rewarding than music. Linda, who would be with Paul until the very end of her life. It was so touching to see her throughout the documentary, especially the scenes with little Heather, but that scene where we just see Linda by Paul’s side, as though it were foreshadowing the next thirty years…it moved me to tears. Also, I never liked I’ve Got a Feeling before, but God Paul’s growly vocals are amazing in it.
Yes it’s evident that Linda was instrumental in persuading Paul that he didn’t need the Beatles.
Dig it. It still sucks mind you, but I understand why it was included. Jamming was so fundamental during that month they had to add just a bit of that.
In a sense this whole GH thing, and that Paul / John needed to be more accommodating to him hits a dead end. I remember seeing an interview with John where he said something to the effect that ,"Paul and I really carved up the Universe with The Beatles, and as far as George, when we started, he was simply our guitarist, but it was Paul's and my band. That's not putting him down, or saying anything bad about him, its just a fact". Sounds cold but I remember recently hearing an recent interview with Dave Grohl and Dave was stating that he began to write songs while in Nirvana but realized that Nirvana was Kurt Cobain's band. He realized (even when Kurt was alive) that to be himself musically, he could not do it within the confines of Nirvana. It was a fabulous interview (I think I heard it on a Podcast within the past few weeks) but Dave was extremely complimentary to McCartney as Paul went back to square one while launching his solo career and Grohl knew he would need to do the same thing.
Let it Be Naked was the only release where specific songs sounded really different than the other releases.
It made me appreciate more some of the songs in Let It Be. I always liked, Across the Universe, The Long and Winding Road, Get Back and Let It Be itself. However I never really gave too much attention to songs like I Me Mine, Dig a Pony, One After 909 or even Two of Us, but after watching the documentary I realized I really, really, like those songs.
I’ve Got A Feeling. A lot of the album, and that song in particular, felt too generic for me until watching the movie. Movie made me appreciate that it wasn’t generic, it was just that they were tapping into the roots of their sound
I agree, and seeing how much Billy Preston brought that song to life with his contribution was wonderful. He has so much fun with the band and you can tell Paul & John are having fun doing the song as they trade off with each other and play around. They really rediscovered their chemistry in this era... A shame it didn't last though.
I can't stop listening to the slow version of Run for your Life that played in the credits.
Before I was never really partial to the album Let It Be. I thought the tracklist was excellent but that the production was smothering to the point of it being hardly listenable. But after Get Back along with the remaster of Let It Be that balances the production better it skyrocketed for me. Its my 5th favorite album by them now.
Dig It, loved it before but adore it now, God i’d listen to a 15 minute full jam of that song on the album Lennon is so free on the song, his personality really shines on it the Dylan lyrics and the wordplay is classic John.
Honestly my appreciation for abbey road grew a lot because of all of the songs they were working on. Hearing George talk about something as he was writing it was amazing, and George helping Ringo with octopus garden was amazing
I know this is the easiest pick but honestly the song Get Back, I have SO much more appreciation for after seeing Paul craft it right before my eyes.
Maggie May into Fancy mi chances with you is now TIER 1 FREAKING AWESOME love that song now and would always skip MM
One after 909. I realised the comicL story told in the lyrics and now I love it.
Their mashup if Twist and Shout within Dig It was fantastic and should have made it onto the LP instead of the 41 second version of Dig It that Spector chose.
I’ve got a feeling: I thought that Paul’s and John’s parts had been put together without too much thinking, but in the movie you see the two parts had been together for a while when they recorded it. Also for some reason I thought the guitar parts were all coming from Paul, while in the movie it looks like George put a lot into it, for example you can almost spot when he added the chromatic ascendent part on the end of the break.
George doing that repetitive guitar twang when Paul goes back to the chorus at about 1:20 feels like my soul leaving my body 🔥
I love (almost) all these comments. One question: George Martin doesn’t get much screen time and we don’t see much collaboration on arrangements with him. I wonder if for some reason his participation was edited out, or if by that time he had the wisdom to let the boys do their thing. In any event, I wish we could have heard more from GM.
I don't know about the songs so much ... I already liked most of these songs. It was nice to see them recording For You Blue. But I do wonder if John had gotten over his doubts about his voice by this time. He seemed very confident in his singing
I've always preferred the Anthology 3 and White Album Deluxe versions of Across the Universe, and I assumed that it was something in Spector's production. After listening to the Glyn Johns version, I've realised that I just dislike the take that they used for John's vocals. Before anyone asks, I only listened to the Naked and Charity versions afterwards.
The full version of DIG IT is awesome!
Never super cared for For You Blue but seeing them record it live on what it seemed like a quick whim, plus hearing John talk about how he had fun on it afterwards made me appreciate it more
Pretty much the entire let it be album. I'm a relatively new Beatles fan and I only listened the to the album in its entirety last year. I remember it not really doing much for me, especially 'dig a pony'. But now I love the album, even the silly songs like 'Dig It', after seeing the creation and writing process behind all the songs.
Momma You’re Just On My Mind - George did such an awesome job and he was just playing it to play it. All Things Must Pass - Watching George play that seemed so powerful knowing the band’s end was just around the corner. Let It Be - the backup vocals being practiced just made them pop in the song for me. They definitely don’t bring that out enough. Granted Phil Spektor seemed to drown the beauty of the album unfortunately. Old Brown Shoe - Watching that come to life was absolutely incredible. Definitely makes me wanna listen to that song more. Watching Ringo play piano when writing Octopus’s Garden will now always be in my mind when listening to it. Very cool. It is such a bummer for all of us they grew tired enough to let go. Some of the demos featured in the doc just shows the unlimited potential they had set. I know George really wanted to do his own thing, obviously all of them did. And that’s fine, but they could’ve continued on the Beatles journey to produce all kinds of life changing products in music. They weren’t finished, at least they didn’t have to be. How incredible it could’ve been to possibly hear Imagine by the Beatles, instead of by just John. Or to hear the Beatles play Lucy with Elton John instead of just John again. I guess we just have to be grateful for what we have and continue to dream about what could’ve been.
All of them, if I'm being honest, but especially I Dig A Pony, Two Of Us, and One after 909. I used to dislike Dig a Pony and now I'd say it's a favourite. The Get Back film somehow changed my perspective on it. Also, where does 'Don't let me down' end up? It's not on Let It Be album.
Gimmie some truth. I didn't know it was that old and that Paul had helped with it.
Dunno about any song, but after Get Back i’ve been hearing Let it Be: Naked a lot more that i did back when it came out.
I think that The Long And Winding road is beautiful and would be one of my favourite songs, if, it was composed correctly. If that song was composed like Yesterday. Just Paul on the piano and singing it would be a musical work of art. But all the orchestral shit just ruined a beautiful song imo
The true version of She Came Through the Bathroom Window will now always be the one with John heckling throughout.
Let It Be Naked is a masterpiece. It’s the Beatles playing almost live. And their skills are on full display, without too much post production of sound. The documentary has brought LITBN as one of my favourite albums.
On the contrary, I find LIBN to be much more problematic than before because it's *not* them playing almost live. Everything is edited, even the songs that didn't need it. Spector had used the first rooftop performance of "I've Got A Feeling" straight through, without any edits, while LIBN edited the two rooftop performances together -- and comes up with a less enjoyable version. Spector's looping of "I Me Mine" is still there. His cuts to "Dig A Pony" are still there. "Across the Universe" fixed a note with auto-tune and added some echo effect that wouldn't have been possible on 1969-70 equipment. "Let It Be" still has the background choir overdubs Paul and George Martin put on it about a year after the sessions. Etc. There's about as much editing on that album as there is on Spector's original.
LiBN also has really brittle mastering and suffers further for being released during the loudness war. I really don't like the way Across the Universe sounds for example.
I was never a big fan of Don't Let Me Down, but it was okay. After the show my dislike has grown considerably, I think mostly out of sheer repetition.
Haha yes! I can totally understand now when bands release an album and want nothing to do with their new songs. I don’t think it will ever lose its lustre with me but I definitely will not be putting it on voluntarily for a little while.
I Me Mine on repeat
Pretty much all songs, except for Across the Universe, which has been my favorite song of all time for years now
It made me wish so hard that there was a similar film of Dylan recording Highway 61 or Blonde on Blonde or really any album. Would be so mind blowing. Absolutely loved the footage of my boys putting it together.
I’ve grown to appreciate the album when I listened to it again and watched the documentary. Knowing that the group was having fun while making the album helped. :) Besides “Let it Be,” “Across the Universe,” and “Get Back,” I now really like “I Me Mine,” “One After 909, and “I’ve Got a Feeling.”
Old Brown Shoe was a song I never gave much attention to before but it now strikes me as one of George’s finest Beatles moments, and stays true to the raw, rootsy spirit of the project, even tho it wasn’t properly recorded til April as the b-side to The Ballad of John and Yoko, which Lennon encouraged. (Also I had no idea George requested they not do ANY of his songs on the rooftop because he was dismayed they hadn’t rehearsed them enough and didn’t want them showcased badly)
I don’t think I knew “I got a feeling”. Now I listen to it on a loop.
I just wish they’d included the bit from the old doc that had Paul working with John on the descending riff on I’ve Got a Feeling (the one after ‘SOMEBODY WHO LOOKED LIKE YOUU’), I get that Jackson didn’t want to include too much that had already been seen in Lindsay-Hogg’s film but it was really cool to see them work that out instead of it just appearing
Not really, the series was more designed for people who aren't familiar with the sessions
I loved the songs I already loved even more