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Pop quiz, hotshot: What's the best action movie of the 90s? Stiff competition, but Speed will certainly fight you for the top pick. We revisit this commuter nightmare classic and can't stop talking about Keanu Reeves' cool guy charisma, crushing on Sandra Bullock, the legendary Dennis Hopper, Jeff Daniels' moment of clarity, and that delicious unfinished-freeway jump.Other topics include David Lynch, the L.A. wildfires, Darren's art show, other 90s action movies and the decade of entertainment, Jan de Bont and Twister, movies we've watched on break, biopics that work and biopics that don't, Chalamet appreciation, and Jim Carrey's absurdist revival.Songs of the WeekComin' Home by Murder By DeathMe and My Monkey by Robbie WilliamsRemainders Podcast JukeboxWebsiteFacebookInstagramYouTubeTwitter

Sarah Shook & the Disarmers “Revelations”:”Revelations””You Don't Get to Tell Me””Motherfucker””Dogbane””Nightingale””Backsliders””Stone Door””Jane Doe””Give You All My Love””Criminal”Teresa James “With A Little Help From Her Friends”:”Oh Darlin'”You've Got to Hide Your Love Away”“Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey””You Won't See Me”Escuchar audio

The longest titled song in the Beatles' catalogue is also one that maybe flies a bit below the radar. Buried on side 3 of the White album, "Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me and My Monkey" is one of the heaviest rockers in the back half of their career. Inspired by the Maharishi, and also possibly by a growing drug issue, John leads the band through a frantic and hard tune with lyrics that maybe don't quite make sense. George's playing is at his heaviest and most guitar-hero, as if he's trying to claim his spot in the late 60s guitar world. There's so much to love on this track, from Paul's whoops and firebell frenzy to the brilliant beat swapping intro. This is one that I think can surprise people who don't think the Beatles could REALLY rock. Speaking of monkeys, we're super excited to be joined this week by Brian Marchese, host of the podcast "Where's That Sound Coming From? presents 'Questions But No Answers,'" a brilliant show diving deep into the song catalogue of the late, great Michael Nesmith. If you've listened to our show, you know I love the Nez and the Monkees, so I was thrilled to have Brian join to talk about what inspired him to create his show, as well as his own history with Beatles. Be sure to check out "Questions But No Answers" anywhere you get podcasts, and follow along on Facebook and Instagram. Wanna check out my own personal Nez playlist and see what makes his stuff so special? Here you go! What do you think about "Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey" at #91? Too high? Too low? Or just right? Let us know in the comments on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Be sure to check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.rankingthebeatles.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and grab a Rank Your Own Beatles poster, a shirt, a jumper, whatever you like! And if you're digging what we do, don't forget to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Buy Us A Coffee⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rankingthebeatles/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rankingthebeatles/support

Singles Going Around- KicksThe Kinks- "Most Exclusive Residence For Sale"Mel Brown- "Chicken Fat"Elvis Presley- "Maybellene"Van Morrison- "Wild Night"Frank Sinatra- "I Get A Kick Out of You"The Velvet Underground- "White Light/White Heat"The Beatles- "Everybody's Got Something To Hide, Except For Me and My Monkey"Band Of Gypsys- "Machine Gun"Beastie Boys- "Groove Holmes"The Everly Brothers- "All I Have To Do Is Dream"The Byrds- "This Wheel's On Fire"The Rolling Stones- "Little By Little"Captain Beefheart- "China Pig"Howlin' Wolf- "I Asked Her For Water, She Gave Me Gasoline"Led Zepplin- "Poor Tom"Beach Boys- "Our Prayer/Cabinessence"

Episode 171 looks at "Hey Jude", the White Album, and the career of the Beatles from August 1967 through November 1968. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a fifty-seven-minute bonus episode available, on "I Love You" by People!. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt's irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ Errata Not really an error, but at one point I refer to Ornette Coleman as a saxophonist. While he was, he plays trumpet on the track that is excerpted after that. Resources No Mixcloud this week due to the number of songs by the Beatles. I have read literally dozens of books on the Beatles, and used bits of information from many of them. All my Beatles episodes refer to: The Complete Beatles Chronicle by Mark Lewisohn, All The Songs: The Stories Behind Every Beatles Release by Jean-Michel Guesdon, And The Band Begins To Play: The Definitive Guide To The Songs of The Beatles by Steve Lambley, The Beatles By Ear by Kevin Moore, Revolution in the Head by Ian MacDonald, and The Beatles Anthology. For this episode, I also referred to Last Interview by David Sheff, a longform interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono from shortly before Lennon's death; Many Years From Now by Barry Miles, an authorised biography of Paul McCartney; and Here, There, and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles by Geoff Emerick and Howard Massey. This time I also used Steve Turner's The Beatles: The Stories Behind the Songs 1967-1970. I referred to Philip Norman's biographies of John Lennon, George Harrison, and Paul McCartney, to Graeme Thomson's biography of George Harrison, Take a Sad Song by James Campion, Yoko Ono: An Artful Life by Donald Brackett, Those Were the Days 2.0 by Stephan Granados, and Sound Pictures by Kenneth Womack. Sadly the only way to get the single mix of “Hey Jude” is on this ludicrously-expensive out-of-print box set, but a remixed stereo mix is easily available on the new reissue of the 1967-70 compilation. The original mixes of the White Album are also, shockingly, out of print, but this 2018 remix is available for the moment. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript Before I start, a quick note -- this episode deals, among other topics, with child abandonment, spousal neglect, suicide attempts, miscarriage, rape accusations, and heroin addiction. If any of those topics are likely to upset you, you might want to check the transcript rather than listening to this episode. It also, for once, contains a short excerpt of an expletive, but given that that expletive in that context has been regularly played on daytime radio without complaint for over fifty years, I suspect it can be excused. The use of mantra meditation is something that exists across religions, and which appears to have been independently invented multiple times, in multiple cultures. In the Western culture to which most of my listeners belong, it is now best known as an aspect of what is known as "mindfulness", a secularised version of Buddhism which aims to provide adherents with the benefits of the teachings of the Buddha but without the cosmology to which they are attached. But it turns up in almost every religious tradition I know of in one form or another. The idea of mantra meditation is a very simple one, and one that even has some basis in science. There is a mathematical principle in neurology and information science called the free energy principle which says our brains are wired to try to minimise how surprised we are --  our brain is constantly making predictions about the world, and then looking at the results from our senses to see if they match. If they do, that's great, and the brain will happily move on to its next prediction. If they don't, the brain has to update its model of the world to match the new information, make new predictions, and see if those new predictions are a better match. Every person has a different mental model of the world, and none of them match reality, but every brain tries to get as close as possible. This updating of the model to match the new information is called "thinking", and it uses up energy, and our bodies and brains have evolved to conserve energy as much as possible. This means that for many people, most of the time, thinking is unpleasant, and indeed much of the time that people have spent thinking, they've been thinking about how to stop themselves having to do it at all, and when they have managed to stop thinking, however briefly, they've experienced great bliss. Many more or less effective technologies have been created to bring about a more minimal-energy state, including alcohol, heroin, and barbituates, but many of these have unwanted side-effects, such as death, which people also tend to want to avoid, and so people have often turned to another technology. It turns out that for many people, they can avoid thinking by simply thinking about something that is utterly predictable. If they minimise the amount of sensory input, and concentrate on something that they can predict exactly, eventually they can turn off their mind, relax, and float downstream, without dying. One easy way to do this is to close your eyes, so you can't see anything, make your breath as regular as possible, and then concentrate on a sound that repeats over and over.  If you repeat a single phrase or word a few hundred times, that regular repetition eventually causes your mind to stop having to keep track of the world, and experience a peace that is, by all accounts, unlike any other experience. What word or phrase that is can depend very much on the tradition. In Transcendental Meditation, each person has their own individual phrase. In the Catholicism in which George Harrison and Paul McCartney were raised, popular phrases for this are "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner" or "Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen." In some branches of Buddhism, a popular mantra is "_NAMU MYŌHŌ RENGE KYŌ_". In the Hinduism to which George Harrison later converted, you can use "Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare, Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare", "Om Namo Bhagavate Vāsudevāya" or "Om Gam Ganapataye Namaha". Those last two start with the syllable "Om", and indeed some people prefer to just use that syllable, repeating a single syllable over and over again until they reach a state of transcendence. [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Hey Jude" ("na na na na na na na")] We don't know much about how the Beatles first discovered Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, except that it was thanks to Pattie Boyd, George Harrison's then-wife. Unfortunately, her memory of how she first became involved in the Maharishi's Spiritual Regeneration Movement, as described in her autobiography, doesn't fully line up with other known facts. She talks about reading about the Maharishi in the paper with her friend Marie-Lise while George was away on tour, but she also places the date that this happened in February 1967, several months after the Beatles had stopped touring forever. We'll be seeing a lot more of these timing discrepancies as this story progresses, and people's memories increasingly don't match the events that happened to them. Either way, it's clear that Pattie became involved in the Spiritual Regeneration Movement a good length of time before her husband did. She got him to go along with her to one of the Maharishi's lectures, after she had already been converted to the practice of Transcendental Meditation, and they brought along John, Paul, and their partners (Ringo's wife Maureen had just given birth, so they didn't come). As we heard back in episode one hundred and fifty, that lecture was impressive enough that the group, plus their wives and girlfriends (with the exception of Maureen Starkey) and Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull, all went on a meditation retreat with the Maharishi at a holiday camp in Bangor, and it was there that they learned that Brian Epstein had been found dead. The death of the man who had guided the group's career could not have come at a worse time for the band's stability.  The group had only recorded one song in the preceding two months -- Paul's "Your Mother Should Know" -- and had basically been running on fumes since completing recording of Sgt Pepper many months earlier. John's drug intake had increased to the point that he was barely functional -- although with the enthusiasm of the newly converted he had decided to swear off LSD at the Maharishi's urging -- and his marriage was falling apart. Similarly, Paul McCartney's relationship with Jane Asher was in a bad state, though both men were trying to repair their damaged relationships, while both George and Ringo were having doubts about the band that had made them famous. In George's case, he was feeling marginalised by John and Paul, his songs ignored or paid cursory attention, and there was less for him to do on the records as the group moved away from making guitar-based rock and roll music into the stranger areas of psychedelia. And Ringo, whose main memory of the recording of Sgt Pepper was of learning to play chess while the others went through the extensive overdubs that characterised that album, was starting to feel like his playing was deteriorating, and that as the only non-writer in the band he was on the outside to an extent. On top of that, the group were in the middle of a major plan to restructure their business. As part of their contract renegotiations with EMI at the beginning of 1967, it had been agreed that they would receive two million pounds -- roughly fifteen million pounds in today's money -- in unpaid royalties as a lump sum. If that had been paid to them as individuals, or through the company they owned, the Beatles Ltd, they would have had to pay the full top rate of tax on it, which as George had complained the previous year was over ninety-five percent. (In fact, he'd been slightly exaggerating the generosity of the UK tax system to the rich, as at that point the top rate of income tax was somewhere around ninety-seven and a half percent). But happily for them, a couple of years earlier the UK had restructured its tax laws and introduced a corporation tax, which meant that the profits of corporations were no longer taxed at the same high rate as income. So a new company had been set up, The Beatles & Co, and all the group's non-songwriting income was paid into the company. Each Beatle owned five percent of the company, and the other eighty percent was owned by a new partnership, a corporation that was soon renamed Apple Corps -- a name inspired by a painting that McCartney had liked by the artist Rene Magritte. In the early stages of Apple, it was very entangled with Nems, the company that was owned by Brian and Clive Epstein, and which was in the process of being sold to Robert Stigwood, though that sale fell through after Brian's death. The first part of Apple, Apple Publishing, had been set up in the summer of 1967, and was run by Terry Doran, a friend of Epstein's who ran a motor dealership -- most of the Apple divisions would be run by friends of the group rather than by people with experience in the industries in question. As Apple was set up during the point that Stigwood was getting involved with NEMS, Apple Publishing's initial offices were in the same building with, and shared staff with, two publishing companies that Stigwood owned, Dratleaf Music, who published Cream's songs, and Abigail Music, the Bee Gees' publishers. And indeed the first two songs published by Apple were copyrights that were gifted to the company by Stigwood -- "Listen to the Sky", a B-side by an obscure band called Sands: [Excerpt: Sands, "Listen to the Sky"] And "Outside Woman Blues", an arrangement by Eric Clapton of an old blues song by Blind Joe Reynolds, which Cream had copyrighted separately and released on Disraeli Gears: [Excerpt: Cream, "Outside Woman Blues"] But Apple soon started signing outside songwriters -- once Mike Berry, a member of Apple Publishing's staff, had sat McCartney down and explained to him what music publishing actually was, something he had never actually understood even though he'd been a songwriter for five years. Those songwriters, given that this was 1967, were often also performers, and as Apple Records had not yet been set up, Apple would try to arrange recording contracts for them with other labels. They started with a group called Focal Point, who got signed by badgering Paul McCartney to listen to their songs until he gave them Doran's phone number to shut them up: [Excerpt: Focal Point, "Sycamore Sid"] But the big early hope for Apple Publishing was a songwriter called George Alexander. Alexander's birth name had been Alexander Young, and he was the brother of George Young, who was a member of the Australian beat group The Easybeats, who'd had a hit with "Friday on My Mind": [Excerpt: The Easybeats, "Friday on My Mind"] His younger brothers Malcolm and Angus would go on to have a few hits themselves, but AC/DC wouldn't be formed for another five years. Terry Doran thought that Alexander should be a member of a band, because bands were more popular than solo artists at the time, and so he was placed with three former members of Tony Rivers and the Castaways, a Beach Boys soundalike group that had had some minor success. John Lennon suggested that the group be named Grapefruit, after a book he was reading by a conceptual artist of his acquaintance named Yoko Ono, and as Doran was making arrangements with Terry Melcher for a reciprocal publishing deal by which Melcher's American company would publish Apple songs in the US while Apple published songs from Melcher's company in the UK, it made sense for Melcher to also produce Grapefruit's first single, "Dear Delilah": [Excerpt: Grapefruit, "Dear Delilah"] That made number twenty-one in the UK when it came out in early 1968, on the back of publicity about Grapefruit's connection with the Beatles, but future singles by the band were much less successful, and like several other acts involved with Apple, they found that they were more hampered by the Beatles connection than helped. A few other people were signed to Apple Publishing early on, of whom the most notable was Jackie Lomax. Lomax had been a member of a minor Merseybeat group, the Undertakers, and after they had split up, he'd been signed by Brian Epstein with a new group, the Lomax Alliance, who had released one single, "Try as You May": [Excerpt: The Lomax Alliance, "Try As You May"] After Epstein's death, Lomax had plans to join another band, being formed by another Merseybeat musician, Chris Curtis, the former drummer of the Searchers. But after going to the Beatles to talk with them about them helping the new group financially, Lomax was persuaded by John Lennon to go solo instead. He may later have regretted that decision, as by early 1968 the people that Curtis had recruited for his new band had ditched him and were making a name for themselves as Deep Purple. Lomax recorded one solo single with funding from Stigwood, a cover version of a song by an obscure singer-songwriter, Jake Holmes, "Genuine Imitation Life": [Excerpt: Jackie Lomax, "Genuine Imitation Life"] But he was also signed to Apple Publishing as a songwriter. The Beatles had only just started laying out plans for Apple when Epstein died, and other than the publishing company one of the few things they'd agreed on was that they were going to have a film company, which was to be run by Denis O'Dell, who had been an associate producer on A Hard Day's Night and on How I Won The War, the Richard Lester film Lennon had recently starred in. A few days after Epstein's death, they had a meeting, in which they agreed that the band needed to move forward quickly if they were going to recover from Epstein's death. They had originally been planning on going to India with the Maharishi to study meditation, but they decided to put that off until the new year, and to press forward with a film project Paul had been talking about, to be titled Magical Mystery Tour. And so, on the fifth of September 1967, they went back into the recording studio and started work on a song of John's that was earmarked for the film, "I am the Walrus": [Excerpt: The Beatles, "I am the Walrus"] Magical Mystery Tour, the film, has a mixed reputation which we will talk about shortly, but one defence that Paul McCartney has always made of it is that it's the only place where you can see the Beatles performing "I am the Walrus". While the song was eventually relegated to a B-side, it's possibly the finest B-side of the Beatles' career, and one of the best tracks the group ever made. As with many of Lennon's songs from this period, the song was a collage of many different elements pulled from his environment and surroundings, and turned into something that was rather more than the sum of its parts. For its musical inspiration, Lennon pulled from, of all things, a police siren going past his house. (For those who are unfamiliar with what old British police sirens sounded like, as opposed to the ones in use for most of my lifetime or in other countries, here's a recording of one): [Excerpt: British police siren ca 1968] That inspired Lennon to write a snatch of lyric to go with the sound of the siren, starting "Mister city policeman sitting pretty". He had two other song fragments, one about sitting in the garden, and one about sitting on a cornflake, and he told Hunter Davies, who was doing interviews for his authorised biography of the group, “I don't know how it will all end up. Perhaps they'll turn out to be different parts of the same song.” But the final element that made these three disparate sections into a song was a letter that came from Stephen Bayley, a pupil at Lennon's old school Quarry Bank, who told him that the teachers at the school -- who Lennon always thought of as having suppressed his creativity -- were now analysing Beatles lyrics in their lessons. Lennon decided to come up with some nonsense that they couldn't analyse -- though as nonsensical as the finished song is, there's an underlying anger to a lot of it that possibly comes from Lennon thinking of his school experiences. And so Lennon asked his old schoolfriend Pete Shotton to remind him of a disgusting playground chant that kids used to sing in schools in the North West of England (and which they still sang with very minor variations at my own school decades later -- childhood folklore has a remarkably long life). That rhyme went: Yellow matter custard, green snot pie All mixed up with a dead dog's eye Slap it on a butty, nice and thick, And drink it down with a cup of cold sick Lennon combined some parts of this with half-remembered fragments of Lewis Carrol's The Walrus and the Carpenter, and with some punning references to things that were going on in his own life and those of his friends -- though it's difficult to know exactly which of the stories attached to some of the more incomprehensible bits of the lyrics are accurate. The story that the line "I am the eggman" is about a sexual proclivity of Eric Burdon of the Animals seems plausible, while the contention by some that the phrase "semolina pilchard" is a reference to Sgt Pilcher, the corrupt policeman who had arrested three of the Rolling Stones, and would later arrest Lennon, on drugs charges, seems less likely. The track is a masterpiece of production, but the release of the basic take on Anthology 2 in 1996 showed that the underlying performance, before George Martin worked his magic with the overdubs, is still a remarkable piece of work: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "I am the Walrus (Anthology 2 version)"] But Martin's arrangement and production turned the track from a merely very good track into a masterpiece. The string arrangement, very much in the same mould as that for "Strawberry Fields Forever" but giving a very different effect with its harsh cello glissandi, is the kind of thing one expects from Martin, but there's also the chanting of the Mike Sammes Singers, who were more normally booked for sessions like Englebert Humperdinck's "The Last Waltz": [Excerpt: Engelbert Humperdinck, "The Last Waltz"] But here were instead asked to imitate the sound of the strings, make grunting noises, and generally go very far out of their normal comfort zone: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "I am the Walrus"] But the most fascinating piece of production in the entire track is an idea that seems to have been inspired by people like John Cage -- a live feed of a radio being tuned was played into the mono mix from about the halfway point, and whatever was on the radio at the time was captured: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "I am the Walrus"] This is also why for many decades it was impossible to have a true stereo mix of the track -- the radio part was mixed directly into the mono mix, and it wasn't until the 1990s that someone thought to track down a copy of the original radio broadcasts and recreate the process. In one of those bits of synchronicity that happen more often than you would think when you're creating aleatory art, and which are why that kind of process can be so appealing, one bit of dialogue from the broadcast of King Lear that was on the radio as the mixing was happening was *perfectly* timed: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "I am the Walrus"] After completing work on the basic track for "I am the Walrus", the group worked on two more songs for the film, George's "Blue Jay Way" and a group-composed twelve-bar blues instrumental called "Flying", before starting production. Magical Mystery Tour, as an idea, was inspired in equal parts by Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters, the collective of people we talked about in the episode on the Grateful Dead who travelled across the US extolling the virtues of psychedelic drugs, and by mystery tours, a British working-class tradition that has rather fallen out of fashion in the intervening decades. A mystery tour would generally be put on by a coach-hire company, and would be a day trip to an unannounced location -- though the location would in fact be very predictable, and would be a seaside town within a couple of hours' drive of its starting point. In the case of the ones the Beatles remembered from their own childhoods, this would be to a coastal town in Lancashire or Wales, like Blackpool, Rhyl, or Prestatyn. A coachload of people would pay to be driven to this random location, get very drunk and have a singsong on the bus, and spend a day wherever they were taken. McCartney's plan was simple -- they would gather a group of passengers and replicate this experience over the course of several days, and film whatever went on, but intersperse that with more planned out sketches and musical numbers. For this reason, along with the Beatles and their associates, the cast included some actors found through Spotlight and some of the group's favourite performers, like the comedian Nat Jackley (whose comedy sequence directed by John was cut from the final film) and the surrealist poet/singer/comedian Ivor Cutler: [Excerpt: Ivor Cutler, "I'm Going in a Field"] The film also featured an appearance by a new band who would go on to have great success over the next year, the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. They had recorded their first single in Abbey Road at the same time as the Beatles were recording Revolver, but rather than being progressive psychedelic rock, it had been a remake of a 1920s novelty song: [Excerpt: The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, "My Brother Makes the Noises For the Talkies"] Their performance in Magical Mystery Tour was very different though -- they played a fifties rock pastiche written by band leaders Vivian Stanshall and Neil Innes while a stripper took off her clothes. While several other musical sequences were recorded for the film, including one by the band Traffic and one by Cutler, other than the Beatles tracks only the Bonzos' song made it into the finished film: [Excerpt: The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, "Death Cab for Cutie"] That song, thirty years later, would give its name to a prominent American alternative rock band. Incidentally the same night that Magical Mystery Tour was first broadcast was also the night that the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band first appeared on a TV show, Do Not Adjust Your Set, which featured three future members of the Monty Python troupe -- Eric Idle, Michael Palin, and Terry Jones. Over the years the careers of the Bonzos, the Pythons, and the Beatles would become increasingly intertwined, with George Harrison in particular striking up strong friendships and working relationships with Bonzos Neil Innes and "Legs" Larry Smith. The filming of Magical Mystery Tour went about as well as one might expect from a film made by four directors, none of whom had any previous filmmaking experience, and none of whom had any business knowledge. The Beatles were used to just turning up and having things magically done for them by other people, and had no real idea of the infrastructure challenges that making a film, even a low-budget one, actually presents, and ended up causing a great deal of stress to almost everyone involved. The completed film was shown on TV on Boxing Day 1967 to general confusion and bemusement. It didn't help that it was originally broadcast in black and white, and so for example the scene showing shifting landscapes (outtake footage from Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, tinted various psychedelic colours) over the "Flying" music, just looked like grey fuzz. But also, it just wasn't what people were expecting from a Beatles film. This was a ramshackle, plotless, thing more inspired by Andy Warhol's underground films than by the kind of thing the group had previously appeared in, and it was being presented as Christmas entertainment for all the family. And to be honest, it's not even a particularly good example of underground filmmaking -- though it looks like a masterpiece when placed next to something like the Bee Gees' similar effort, Cucumber Castle. But there are enough interesting sequences in there for the project not to be a complete failure -- and the deleted scenes on the DVD release, including the performances by Cutler and Traffic, and the fact that the film was edited down from ten hours to fifty-two minutes, makes one wonder if there's a better film that could be constructed from the original footage. Either way, the reaction to the film was so bad that McCartney actually appeared on David Frost's TV show the next day to defend it and, essentially, apologise. While they were editing the film, the group were also continuing to work in the studio, including on two new McCartney songs, "The Fool on the Hill", which was included in Magical Mystery Tour, and "Hello Goodbye", which wasn't included on the film's soundtrack but was released as the next single, with "I Am the Walrus" as the B-side: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Hello Goodbye"] Incidentally, in the UK the soundtrack to Magical Mystery Tour was released as a double-EP rather than as an album (in the US, the group's recent singles and B-sides were added to turn it into a full-length album, which is how it's now generally available). "I Am the Walrus" was on the double-EP as well as being on the single's B-side, and the double-EP got to number two on the singles charts, meaning "I am the Walrus" was on the records at number one and number two at the same time. Before it became obvious that the film, if not the soundtrack, was a disaster, the group held a launch party on the twenty-first of December, 1967. The band members went along in fancy dress, as did many of the cast and crew -- the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band performed at the party. Mike Love and Bruce Johnston of the Beach Boys also turned up at the party, and apparently at one point jammed with the Bonzos, and according to some, but not all, reports, a couple of the Beatles joined in as well. Love and Johnston had both just met the Maharishi for the first time a couple of days earlier, and Love had been as impressed as the Beatles were, and it may have been at this party that the group mentioned to Love that they would soon be going on a retreat in India with the guru -- a retreat that was normally meant for training TM instructors, but this time seemed to be more about getting celebrities involved. Love would also end up going with them. That party was also the first time that Cynthia Lennon had an inkling that John might not be as faithful to her as she previously supposed. John had always "joked" about being attracted to George Harrison's wife, Patti, but this time he got a little more blatant about his attraction than he ever had previously, to the point that he made Cynthia cry, and Cynthia's friend, the pop star Lulu, decided to give Lennon a very public dressing-down for his cruelty to his wife, a dressing-down that must have been a sight to behold, as Lennon was dressed as a Teddy boy while Lulu was in a Shirley Temple costume. It's a sign of how bad the Lennons' marriage was at this point that this was the second time in a two-month period where Cynthia had ended up crying because of John at a film launch party and been comforted by a female pop star. In October, Cilla Black had held a party to celebrate the belated release of John's film How I Won the War, and during the party Georgie Fame had come up to Black and said, confused, "Cynthia Lennon is hiding in your wardrobe". Black went and had a look, and Cynthia explained to her “I'm waiting to see how long it is before John misses me and comes looking for me.” Black's response had been “You'd better face it, kid—he's never gonna come.” Also at the Magical Mystery Tour party was Lennon's father, now known as Freddie Lennon, and his new nineteen-year-old fiancee. While Hunter Davis had been researching the Beatles' biography, he'd come across some evidence that the version of Freddie's attitude towards John that his mother's side of the family had always told him -- that Freddie had been a cruel and uncaring husband who had not actually wanted to be around his son -- might not be the whole of the truth, and that the mother who he had thought of as saintly might also have had some part to play in their marriage breaking down and Freddie not seeing his son for twenty years. The two had made some tentative attempts at reconciliation, and indeed Freddie would even come and live with John for a while, though within a couple of years the younger Lennon's heart would fully harden against his father again. Of course, the things that John always resented his father for were pretty much exactly the kind of things that Lennon himself was about to do. It was around this time as well that Derek Taylor gave the Beatles copies of the debut album by a young singer/songwriter named Harry Nilsson. Nilsson will be getting his own episode down the line, but not for a couple of years at my current rates, so it's worth bringing that up here, because that album became a favourite of all the Beatles, and would have a huge influence on their songwriting for the next couple of years, and because one song on the album, "1941", must have resonated particularly deeply with Lennon right at this moment -- an autobiographical song by Nilsson about how his father had left him and his mother when he was a small boy, and about his own fear that, as his first marriage broke down, he was repeating the pattern with his stepson Scott: [Excerpt: Nilsson, "1941"] The other major event of December 1967, rather overshadowed by the Magical Mystery Tour disaster the next day, was that on Christmas Day Paul McCartney and Jane Asher announced their engagement. A few days later, George Harrison flew to India. After John and Paul had had their outside film projects -- John starring in How I Won The War and Paul doing the soundtrack for The Family Way -- the other two Beatles more or less simultaneously did their own side project films, and again one acted while the other did a soundtrack. Both of these projects were in the rather odd subgenre of psychedelic shambolic comedy film that sprang up in the mid sixties, a subgenre that produced a lot of fascinating films, though rather fewer good ones. Indeed, both of them were in the subsubgenre of shambolic psychedelic *sex* comedies. In Ringo's case, he had a small role in the film Candy, which was based on the novel we mentioned in the last episode, co-written by Terry Southern, which was in itself a loose modern rewriting of Voltaire's Candide. Unfortunately, like such other classics of this subgenre as Anthony Newley's Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?, Candy has dated *extremely* badly, and unless you find repeated scenes of sexual assault and rape, ethnic stereotypes, and jokes about deformity and disfigurement to be an absolute laugh riot, it's not a film that's worth seeking out, and Starr's part in it is not a major one. Harrison's film was of the same basic genre -- a film called Wonderwall about a mad scientist who discovers a way to see through the walls of his apartment, and gets to see a photographer taking sexy photographs of a young woman named Penny Lane, played by Jane Birkin: [Excerpt: Some Wonderwall film dialogue ripped from the Blu-Ray] Wonderwall would, of course, later inspire the title of a song by Oasis, and that's what the film is now best known for, but it's a less-unwatchable film than Candy, and while still problematic it's less so. Which is something. Harrison had been the Beatle with least involvement in Magical Mystery Tour -- McCartney had been the de facto director, Starr had been the lead character and the only one with much in the way of any acting to do, and Lennon had written the film's standout scene and its best song, and had done a little voiceover narration. Harrison, by contrast, barely has anything to do in the film apart from the one song he contributed, "Blue Jay Way", and he said of the project “I had no idea what was happening and maybe I didn't pay enough attention because my problem, basically, was that I was in another world, I didn't really belong; I was just an appendage.” He'd expressed his discomfort to his friend Joe Massot, who was about to make his first feature film. Massot had got to know Harrison during the making of his previous film, Reflections on Love, a mostly-silent short which had starred Harrison's sister-in-law Jenny Boyd, and which had been photographed by Robert Freeman, who had been the photographer for the Beatles' album covers from With the Beatles through Rubber Soul, and who had taken most of the photos that Klaus Voorman incorporated into the cover of Revolver (and whose professional association with the Beatles seemed to come to an end around the same time he discovered that Lennon had been having an affair with his wife). Massot asked Harrison to write the music for the film, and told Harrison he would have complete free rein to make whatever music he wanted, so long as it fit the timing of the film, and so Harrison decided to create a mixture of Western rock music and the Indian music he loved. Harrison started recording the music at the tail end of 1967, with sessions with several London-based Indian musicians and John Barham, an orchestrator who had worked with Ravi Shankar on Shankar's collaborations with Western musicians, including the Alice in Wonderland soundtrack we talked about in the "All You Need is Love" episode. For the Western music, he used the Remo Four, a Merseybeat group who had been on the scene even before the Beatles, and which contained a couple of classmates of Paul McCartney, but who had mostly acted as backing musicians for other artists. They'd backed Johnny Sandon, the former singer with the Searchers, on a couple of singles, before becoming the backing band for Tommy Quickly, a NEMS artist who was unsuccessful despite starting his career with a Lennon/McCartney song, "Tip of My Tongue": [Excerpt: Tommy Quickly, "Tip of My Tongue"] The Remo Four would later, after a lineup change, become Ashton, Gardner and Dyke, who would become one-hit wonders in the seventies, and during the Wonderwall sessions they recorded a song that went unreleased at the time, and which would later go on to be rerecorded by Ashton, Gardner, and Dyke. "In the First Place" also features Harrison on backing vocals and possibly guitar, and was not submitted for the film because Harrison didn't believe that Massot wanted any vocal tracks, but the recording was later discovered and used in a revised director's cut of the film in the nineties: [Excerpt: The Remo Four, "In the First Place"] But for the most part the Remo Four were performing instrumentals written by Harrison. They weren't the only Western musicians performing on the sessions though -- Peter Tork of the Monkees dropped by these sessions and recorded several short banjo solos, which were used in the film soundtrack but not in the soundtrack album (presumably because Tork was contracted to another label): [Excerpt: Peter Tork, "Wonderwall banjo solo"] Another musician who was under contract to another label was Eric Clapton, who at the time was playing with The Cream, and who vaguely knew Harrison and so joined in for the track "Ski-ing", playing lead guitar under the cunning, impenetrable, pseudonym "Eddie Clayton", with Harrison on sitar, Starr on drums, and session guitarist Big Jim Sullivan on bass: [Excerpt: George Harrison, "Ski-ing"] But the bulk of the album was recorded in EMI's studios in the city that is now known as Mumbai but at the time was called Bombay. The studio facilities in India had up to that point only had a mono tape recorder, and Bhaskar Menon, one of the top executives at EMI's Indian division and later the head of EMI music worldwide, personally brought the first stereo tape recorder to the studio to aid in Harrison's recording. The music was all composed by Harrison and performed by the Indian musicians, and while Harrison was composing in an Indian mode, the musicians were apparently fascinated by how Western it sounded to them: [Excerpt: George Harrison, "Microbes"] While he was there, Harrison also got the instrumentalists to record another instrumental track, which wasn't to be used for the film: [Excerpt: George Harrison, "The Inner Light (instrumental)"] That track would, instead, become part of what was to be Harrison's first composition to make a side of a Beatles single. After John and George had appeared on the David Frost show talking about the Maharishi, in September 1967, George had met a lecturer in Sanskrit named Juan Mascaró, who wrote to Harrison enclosing a book he'd compiled of translations of religious texts, telling him he'd admired "Within You Without You" and thought it would be interesting if Harrison set something from the Tao Te Ching to music. He suggested a text that, in his translation, read: "Without going out of my door I can know all things on Earth Without looking out of my window I can know the ways of heaven For the farther one travels, the less one knows The sage, therefore Arrives without travelling Sees all without looking Does all without doing" Harrison took that text almost verbatim, though he created a second verse by repeating the first few lines with "you" replacing "I" -- concerned that listeners might think he was just talking about himself, and wouldn't realise it was a more general statement -- and he removed the "the sage, therefore" and turned the last few lines into imperative commands rather than declarative statements: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "The Inner Light"] The song has come in for some criticism over the years as being a little Orientalist, because in critics' eyes it combines Chinese philosophy with Indian music, as if all these things are equally "Eastern" and so all the same really. On the other hand there's a good argument that an English songwriter taking a piece of writing written in Chinese and translated into English by a Spanish man and setting it to music inspired by Indian musical modes is a wonderful example of cultural cross-pollination. As someone who's neither Chinese nor Indian I wouldn't want to take a stance on it, but clearly the other Beatles were impressed by it -- they put it out as the B-side to their next single, even though the only Beatles on it are Harrison and McCartney, with the latter adding a small amount of harmony vocal: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "The Inner Light"] And it wasn't because the group were out of material. They were planning on going to Rishikesh to study with the Maharishi, and wanted to get a single out for release while they were away, and so in one week they completed the vocal overdubs on "The Inner Light" and recorded three other songs, two by John and one by Paul. All three of the group's songwriters brought in songs that were among their best. John's first contribution was a song whose lyrics he later described as possibly the best he ever wrote, "Across the Universe". He said the lyrics were “purely inspirational and were given to me as boom! I don't own it, you know; it came through like that … Such an extraordinary meter and I can never repeat it! It's not a matter of craftsmanship, it wrote itself. It drove me out of bed. I didn't want to write it … It's like being possessed, like a psychic or a medium.” But while Lennon liked the song, he was never happy with the recording of it. They tried all sorts of things to get the sound he heard in his head, including bringing in some fans who were hanging around outside to sing backing vocals. He said of the track "I was singing out of tune and instead of getting a decent choir, we got fans from outside, Apple Scruffs or whatever you call them. They came in and were singing all off-key. Nobody was interested in doing the tune originally.” [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Across the Universe"] The "jai guru deva" chorus there is the first reference to the teachings of the Maharishi in one of the Beatles' records -- Guru Dev was the Maharishi's teacher, and the phrase "Jai guru dev" is a Sanskrit one which I've seen variously translated as "victory to the great teacher", and "hail to the greatness within you". Lennon would say shortly before his death “The Beatles didn't make a good record out of it. I think subconsciously sometimes we – I say ‘we' though I think Paul did it more than the rest of us – Paul would sort of subconsciously try and destroy a great song … Usually we'd spend hours doing little detailed cleaning-ups of Paul's songs, when it came to mine, especially if it was a great song like ‘Strawberry Fields' or ‘Across The Universe', somehow this atmosphere of looseness and casualness and experimentation would creep in … It was a _lousy_ track of a great song and I was so disappointed by it …The guitars are out of tune and I'm singing out of tune because I'm psychologically destroyed and nobody's supporting me or helping me with it, and the song was never done properly.” Of course, this is only Lennon's perception, and it's one that the other participants would disagree with. George Martin, in particular, was always rather hurt by the implication that Lennon's songs had less attention paid to them, and he would always say that the problem was that Lennon in the studio would always say "yes, that's great", and only later complain that it hadn't been what he wanted. No doubt McCartney did put in more effort on his own songs than on Lennon's -- everyone has a bias towards their own work, and McCartney's only human -- but personally I suspect that a lot of the problem comes down to the two men having very different personalities. McCartney had very strong ideas about his own work and would drive the others insane with his nitpicky attention to detail. Lennon had similarly strong ideas, but didn't have the attention span to put the time and effort in to force his vision on others, and didn't have the technical knowledge to express his ideas in words they'd understand. He expected Martin and the other Beatles to work miracles, and they did -- but not the miracles he would have worked. That track was, rather than being chosen for the next single, given to Spike Milligan, who happened to be visiting the studio and was putting together an album for the environmental charity the World Wildlife Fund. The album was titled "No One's Gonna Change Our World": [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Across the Universe"] That track is historic in another way -- it would be the last time that George Harrison would play sitar on a Beatles record, and it effectively marks the end of the period of psychedelia and Indian influence that had started with "Norwegian Wood" three years earlier, and which many fans consider their most creative period. Indeed, shortly after the recording, Harrison would give up the sitar altogether and stop playing it. He loved sitar music as much as he ever had, and he still thought that Indian classical music spoke to him in ways he couldn't express, and he continued to be friends with Ravi Shankar for the rest of his life, and would only become more interested in Indian religious thought. But as he spent time with Shankar he realised he would never be as good on the sitar as he hoped. He said later "I thought, 'Well, maybe I'm better off being a pop singer-guitar-player-songwriter – whatever-I'm-supposed-to-be' because I've seen a thousand sitar-players in India who are twice as better as I'll ever be. And only one of them Ravi thought was going to be a good player." We don't have a precise date for when it happened -- I suspect it was in June 1968, so a few months after the "Across the Universe" recording -- but Shankar told Harrison that rather than try to become a master of a music that he hadn't encountered until his twenties, perhaps he should be making the music that was his own background. And as Harrison put it "I realised that was riding my bike down a street in Liverpool and hearing 'Heartbreak Hotel' coming out of someone's house.": [Excerpt: Elvis Presley, "Heartbreak Hotel"] In early 1968 a lot of people seemed to be thinking along the same lines, as if Christmas 1967 had been the flick of a switch and instead of whimsy and ornamentation, the thing to do was to make music that was influenced by early rock and roll. In the US the Band and Bob Dylan were making music that was consciously shorn of all studio experimentation, while in the UK there was a revival of fifties rock and roll. In April 1968 both "Peggy Sue" and "Rock Around the Clock" reentered the top forty in the UK, and the Who were regularly including "Summertime Blues" in their sets. Fifties nostalgia, which would make occasional comebacks for at least the next forty years, was in its first height, and so it's not surprising that Paul McCartney's song, "Lady Madonna", which became the A-side of the next single, has more than a little of the fifties about it. Of course, the track isn't *completely* fifties in its origins -- one of the inspirations for the track seems to have been the Rolling Stones' then-recent hit "Let's Spend The Night Together": [Excerpt: The Rolling Stones, "Let's Spend the Night Together"] But the main source for the song's music -- and for the sound of the finished record -- seems to have been Johnny Parker's piano part on Humphrey Lyttleton's "Bad Penny Blues", a hit single engineered by Joe Meek in the fifties: [Excerpt: Humphrey Lyttleton, "Bad Penny Blues"] That song seems to have been on the group's mind for a while, as a working title for "With a Little Help From My Friends" had at one point been "Bad Finger Blues" -- a title that would later give the name to a band on Apple. McCartney took Parker's piano part as his inspiration, and as he later put it “‘Lady Madonna' was me sitting down at the piano trying to write a bluesy boogie-woogie thing. I got my left hand doing an arpeggio thing with the chord, an ascending boogie-woogie left hand, then a descending right hand. I always liked that, the  juxtaposition of a line going down meeting a line going up." [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Lady Madonna"] That idea, incidentally, is an interesting reversal of what McCartney had done on "Hello, Goodbye", where the bass line goes down while the guitar moves up -- the two lines moving away from each other: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Hello Goodbye"] Though that isn't to say there's no descending bass in "Lady Madonna" -- the bridge has a wonderful sequence where the bass just *keeps* *descending*: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Lady Madonna"] Lyrically, McCartney was inspired by a photo in National Geographic of a woman in Malaysia, captioned “Mountain Madonna: with one child at her breast and another laughing into her face, sees her quality of life threatened.” But as he put it “The people I was brought up amongst were often Catholic; there are lots of Catholics in Liverpool because of the Irish connection and they are often religious. When they have a baby I think they see a big connection between themselves and the Virgin Mary with her baby. So the original concept was the Virgin Mary but it quickly became symbolic of every woman; the Madonna image but as applied to ordinary working class woman. It's really a tribute to the mother figure, it's a tribute to women.” Musically though, the song was more a tribute to the fifties -- while the inspiration had been a skiffle hit by Humphrey Lyttleton, as soon as McCartney started playing it he'd thought of Fats Domino, and the lyric reflects that to an extent -- just as Domino's "Blue Monday" details the days of the week for a weary working man who only gets to enjoy himself on Saturday night, "Lady Madonna"'s lyrics similarly look at the work a mother has to do every day -- though as McCartney later noted  "I was writing the words out to learn it for an American TV show and I realised I missed out Saturday ... So I figured it must have been a real night out." The vocal was very much McCartney doing a Domino impression -- something that wasn't lost on Fats, who cut his own version of the track later that year: [Excerpt: Fats Domino, "Lady Madonna"] The group were so productive at this point, right before the journey to India, that they actually cut another song *while they were making a video for "Lady Madonna"*. They were booked into Abbey Road to film themselves performing the song so it could be played on Top of the Pops while they were away, but instead they decided to use the time to cut a new song -- John had a partially-written song, "Hey Bullfrog", which was roughly the same tempo as "Lady Madonna", so they could finish that up and then re-edit the footage to match the record. The song was quickly finished and became "Hey Bulldog": [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Hey Bulldog"] One of Lennon's best songs from this period, "Hey Bulldog" was oddly chosen only to go on the soundtrack of Yellow Submarine. Either the band didn't think much of it because it had come so easily, or it was just assigned to the film because they were planning on being away for several months and didn't have any other projects they were working on. The extent of the group's contribution to the film was minimal – they were not very hands-on, and the film, which was mostly done as an attempt to provide a third feature film for their United Artists contract without them having to do any work, was made by the team that had done the Beatles cartoon on American TV. There's some evidence that they had a small amount of input in the early story stages, but in general they saw the cartoon as an irrelevance to them -- the only things they contributed were the four songs "All Together Now", "It's All Too Much", "Hey Bulldog" and "Only a Northern Song", and a brief filmed appearance for the very end of the film, recorded in January: [Excerpt: Yellow Submarine film end] McCartney also took part in yet another session in early February 1968, one produced by Peter Asher, his fiancee's brother, and former singer with Peter and Gordon. Asher had given up on being a pop star and was trying to get into the business side of music, and he was starting out as a producer, producing a single by Paul Jones, the former lead singer of Manfred Mann. The A-side of the single, "And the Sun Will Shine", was written by the Bee Gees, the band that Robert Stigwood was managing: [Excerpt: Paul Jones, "And the Sun Will Shine"] While the B-side was an original by Jones, "The Dog Presides": [Excerpt: Paul Jones, "The Dog Presides"] Those tracks featured two former members of the Yardbirds, Jeff Beck and Paul Samwell-Smith, on guitar and bass, and Nicky Hopkins on piano. Asher asked McCartney to play drums on both sides of the single, saying later "I always thought he was a great, underrated drummer." McCartney was impressed by Asher's production, and asked him to get involved with the new Apple Records label that would be set up when the group returned from India. Asher eventually became head of A&R for the label. And even before "Lady Madonna" was mixed, the Beatles were off to India. Mal Evans, their roadie, went ahead with all their luggage on the fourteenth of February, so he could sort out transport for them on the other end, and then John and George followed on the fifteenth, with their wives Pattie and Cynthia and Pattie's sister Jenny (John and Cynthia's son Julian had been left with his grandmother while they went -- normally Cynthia wouldn't abandon Julian for an extended period of time, but she saw the trip as a way to repair their strained marriage). Paul and Ringo followed four days later, with Ringo's wife Maureen and Paul's fiancee Jane Asher. The retreat in Rishikesh was to become something of a celebrity affair. Along with the Beatles came their friend the singer-songwriter Donovan, and Donovan's friend and songwriting partner, whose name I'm not going to say here because it's a slur for Romani people, but will be known to any Donovan fans. Donovan at this point was also going through changes. Like the Beatles, he was largely turning away from drug use and towards meditation, and had recently written his hit single "There is a Mountain" based around a saying from Zen Buddhism: [Excerpt: Donovan, "There is a Mountain"] That was from his double-album A Gift From a Flower to a Garden, which had come out in December 1967. But also like John and Paul he was in the middle of the breakdown of a long-term relationship, and while he would remain with his then-partner until 1970, and even have another child with her, he was secretly in love with another woman. In fact he was secretly in love with two other women. One of them, Brian Jones' ex-girlfriend Linda, had moved to LA, become the partner of the singer Gram Parsons, and had appeared in the documentary You Are What You Eat with the Band and Tiny Tim. She had fallen out of touch with Donovan, though she would later become his wife. Incidentally, she had a son to Brian Jones who had been abandoned by his rock-star father -- the son's name is Julian. The other woman with whom Donovan was in love was Jenny Boyd, the sister of George Harrison's wife Pattie.  Jenny at the time was in a relationship with Alexis Mardas, a TV repairman and huckster who presented himself as an electronics genius to the Beatles, who nicknamed him Magic Alex, and so she was unavailable, but Donovan had written a song about her, released as a single just before they all went to Rishikesh: [Excerpt: Donovan, "Jennifer Juniper"] Donovan considered himself and George Harrison to be on similar spiritual paths and called Harrison his "spirit-brother", though Donovan was more interested in Buddhism, which Harrison considered a corruption of the more ancient Hinduism, and Harrison encouraged Donovan to read Autobiography of a Yogi. It's perhaps worth noting that Donovan's father had a different take on the subject though, saying "You're not going to study meditation in India, son, you're following that wee lassie Jenny" Donovan and his friend weren't the only other celebrities to come to Rishikesh. The actor Mia Farrow, who had just been through a painful divorce from Frank Sinatra, and had just made Rosemary's Baby, a horror film directed by Roman Polanski with exteriors shot at the Dakota building in New York, arrived with her sister Prudence. Also on the trip was Paul Horn, a jazz saxophonist who had played with many of the greats of jazz, not least of them Duke Ellington, whose Sweet Thursday Horn had played alto sax on: [Excerpt: Duke Ellington, "Zweet Zursday"] Horn was another musician who had been inspired to investigate Indian spirituality and music simultaneously, and the previous year he had recorded an album, "In India," of adaptations of ragas, with Ravi Shankar and Alauddin Khan: [Excerpt: Paul Horn, "Raga Vibhas"] Horn would go on to become one of the pioneers of what would later be termed "New Age" music, combining jazz with music from various non-Western traditions. Horn had also worked as a session musician, and one of the tracks he'd played on was "I Know There's an Answer" from the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds album: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "I Know There's an Answer"] Mike Love, who co-wrote that track and is one of the lead singers on it, was also in Rishikesh. While as we'll see not all of the celebrities on the trip would remain practitioners of Transcendental Meditation, Love would be profoundly affected by the trip, and remains a vocal proponent of TM to this day. Indeed, his whole band at the time were heavily into TM. While Love was in India, the other Beach Boys were working on the Friends album without him -- Love only appears on four tracks on that album -- and one of the tracks they recorded in his absence was titled "Transcendental Meditation": [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Transcendental Meditation"] But the trip would affect Love's songwriting, as it would affect all of the musicians there. One of the few songs on the Friends album on which Love appears is "Anna Lee, the Healer", a song which is lyrically inspired by the trip in the most literal sense, as it's about a masseuse Love met in Rishikesh: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Anna Lee, the Healer"] The musicians in the group all influenced and inspired each other as is likely to happen in such circumstances. Sometimes, it would be a matter of trivial joking, as when the Beatles decided to perform an off-the-cuff song about Guru Dev, and did it in the Beach Boys style: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Spiritual Regeneration"] And that turned partway through into a celebration of Love for his birthday: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Spiritual Regeneration"] Decades later, Love would return the favour, writing a song about Harrison and their time together in Rishikesh. Like Donovan, Love seems to have considered Harrison his "spiritual brother", and he titled the song "Pisces Brothers": [Excerpt: Mike Love, "Pisces Brothers"] The musicians on the trip were also often making suggestions to each other about songs that would become famous for them. The musicians had all brought acoustic guitars, apart obviously from Ringo, who got a set of tabla drums when George ordered some Indian instruments to be delivered. George got a sitar, as at this point he hadn't quite given up on the instrument, and he gave Donovan a tamboura. Donovan started playing a melody on the tamboura, which is normally a drone instrument, inspired by the Scottish folk music he had grown up with, and that became his "Hurdy-Gurdy Man": [Excerpt: Donovan, "Hurdy Gurdy Man"] Harrison actually helped him with the song, writing a final verse inspired by the Maharishi's teachings, but in the studio Donovan's producer Mickie Most told him to cut the verse because the song was overlong, which apparently annoyed Harrison. Donovan includes that verse in his live performances of the song though -- usually while doing a fairly terrible impersonation of Harrison: [Excerpt: Donovan, "Hurdy Gurdy Man (live)"] And similarly, while McCartney was working on a song pastiching Chuck Berry and the Beach Boys, but singing about the USSR rather than the USA, Love suggested to him that for a middle-eight he might want to sing about the girls in the various Soviet regions: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Back in the USSR"] As all the guitarists on the retreat only had acoustic instruments, they were very keen to improve their acoustic playing, and they turned to Donovan, who unlike the rest of them was primarily an acoustic player, and one from a folk background. Donovan taught them the rudiments of Travis picking, the guitar style we talked about way back in the episodes on the Everly Brothers, as well as some of the tunings that had been introduced to British folk music by Davey Graham, giving them a basic grounding in the principles of English folk-baroque guitar, a style that had developed over the previous few years. Donovan has said in his autobiography that Lennon picked the technique up quickly (and that Harrison had already learned Travis picking from Chet Atkins records) but that McCartney didn't have the application to learn the style, though he picked up bits. That seems very unlike anything else I've read anywhere about Lennon and McCartney -- no-one has ever accused Lennon of having a surfeit of application -- and reading Donovan's book he seems to dislike McCartney and like Lennon and Harrison, so possibly that enters into it. But also, it may just be that Lennon was more receptive to Donovan's style at the time. According to McCartney, even before going to Rishikesh Lennon had been in a vaguely folk-music and country mode, and the small number of tapes he'd brought with him to Rishikesh included Buddy Holly, Dylan, and the progressive folk band The Incredible String Band, whose music would be a big influence on both Lennon and McCartney for the next year: [Excerpt: The Incredible String Band, "First Girl I Loved"] According to McCartney Lennon also brought "a tape the singer Jake Thackray had done for him... He was one of the people we bumped into at Abbey Road. John liked his stuff, which he'd heard on television. Lots of wordplay and very suggestive, so very much up John's alley. I was fascinated by his unusual guitar style. John did ‘Happiness Is A Warm Gun' as a Jake Thackray thing at one point, as I recall.” Thackray was a British chansonnier, who sang sweetly poignant but also often filthy songs about Yorkshire life, and his humour in particular will have appealed to Lennon. There's a story of Lennon meeting Thackray in Abbey Road and singing the whole of Thackray's song "The Statues", about two drunk men fighting a male statue to defend the honour of a female statue, to him: [Excerpt: Jake Thackray, "The Statues"] Given this was the music that Lennon was listening to, it's unsurprising that he was more receptive to Donovan's lessons, and the new guitar style he learned allowed him to expand his songwriting, at precisely the same time he was largely clean of drugs for the first time in several years, and he started writing some of the best songs he would ever write, often using these new styles: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Julia"] That song is about Lennon's dead mother -- the first time he ever addressed her directly in a song, though  it would be far from the last -- but it's also about someone else. That phrase "Ocean child" is a direct translation of the Japanese name "Yoko". We've talked about Yoko Ono a bit in recent episodes, and even briefly in a previous Beatles episode, but it's here that she really enters the story of the Beatles. Unfortunately, exactly *how* her relationship with John Lennon, which was to become one of the great legendary love stories in rock and roll history, actually started is the subject of some debate. Both of them were married when they first got together, and there have also been suggestions that Ono was more interested in McCartney than in Lennon at first -- suggestions which everyone involved has denied, and those denials have the ring of truth about them, but if that was the case it would also explain some of Lennon's more perplexing behaviour over the next year. By all accounts there was a certain amount of finessing of the story th

10:00 PM | Iggy Pop | I'm Bored 10:03 PM | Robert Palmer | You Are in My System 10:08 PM | Cafuné | Tek It10:13 PM | Beachwood Sparks | Desert Skies10:17 PM | The Beatles | Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey 10:20 PM | Bratmobile | Cherry Bomb 10:23 PM | Beach Bunny | Eventually 10:25 PM | Beach House | Alien10:29 PM | Tori Amos | Rattlesnakes 10:35 PM | The Connells | '74-'75 10:39 PM | Keane | Somewhere Only We Know10:43 PM | Peter Gabriel | Family Snapshot 10:48 PM | Oasis | Roll With It 10:52 PM | Fleetwood Mac | World Turning

There are enough people out there who yearn for the arcane, the odd, the unsuccessful, the strange, and the historically overlooked to justify 200 podcast episodes of D-Sides, Orphans, and Oddities.  This makes me happy, and the topics are inexhaustible. From the strange singles of Freddie Cannon and Lou Christie to the occasionally wonderful singles of Les Humphries Singers, Doris, Os Mutantes, to the strange paths to fame like The American Breed ("Bend Me Shape Me") evolving into Rufus, and then Chaka Kahn, and then "I Feel For You", her biggest hit, written by Prince, but the Kahn version was actually the 4th release and, had Patrice Rushen opted to try it (she turned it down), the 5th. A Prince song with Stevie Wonder playing harmonica over his own voice being sampled.  To me, pop music is styles and the biggest records tend to be styles smooshed together. People like dangerous white music and safe black music. People like rap, but with a melodic vocal hook. While the Bee Gees were not a disco group, the Saturday Night Fever movie was a perfect petri dish. Combine Travolta's white-hot star power with the zeitgeist of Disco and the very odd recordings the Bee Gees were doing at that time. It was the success and the playing it safe in the movie's wake that doomed them.  The Beatles were preternaturally gifted with a work ethic that would kill the musicians of today. But their fame was also born of withering luck. A producer and a manager (and record company) that didn't really know what they were supposed to do with these four tough guys. None of them tried to make The Beatles pick a lead singer, so, like their live act, all four would do it. Because they had the shocking temerity to say "Nope, we're not doing that song...", it was like saying to someone with a gun In your face, "Go ahead. We've come this far. You don't know WHAT we've seen. We see through you, over and over. In Germany. In Sweden. In Wales. We never said 'no' to a gig, no matter how much driving or begging or lack of sleep, and if the Reeperbahn couldn't stop us, what makes you think YOU will?" And their genuine love of Black music somehow broke the barriers for generations of singers, players, etc.  Imagine that moment. You're in The Beatles, you've struggled and burned the roads up and played innumerable gigs, and sat, nose to nose, creating songs in your room that people would be singing and playing for 60 years hence. But now, the sessions begin, and the man in the tie wants you to record a "ringer". And you try it, but it doesn't really do anything. It's ok. But you have to decide. Play the game? Or risk this dude's red pen. Or show up with something better. And the guy with the tie has been through some shit as well. And he's tired of being relegated to 2nd string and he resents being put in a place where these four punks dare question his choice. Do better. I'm tired of this shit.  And "Please Please Me" is as black a record as anything any band from England before them had tried. And that little phrase can be attributed to everything they tried after that. Because they proved it, in that ONE shot across the bow that would resonate for what will be eons, that your old choices for ringers, publishing company favors, Brill building production lines, plug-and-play Motown stuff, etc., were going to either fade or have to adapt.  I stop my show pretty much at 1980 because that's when drum machines and synths became songwriting devices. I never liked Joy Division. I just don't get it. At that point, and with exceptions, sure, drum programming and synth programming made songwriting easy. That didn't make the songs any better. Just easier to make. Someone else can do that show.  Anyhow, this is to say thank you to all the folks that have listened and downloaded.  THIS show is me delivering a preamble and then playing 4 hours of music from past shows that I really like. Let's call this "Part 1" because the show, as I originally tried to put it together, lasted 10+ hours. So consider this show when you're on a long drive, doing work, making love to your woman, or man, or both, or none.  So...... This is the setlist, but they're not all ‘good songs'. Some are meant to show you the arcane nature of what I find most enjoyable. Song-poems (“The Beatle Boys”), artists coping with the end of their heyday (Gary Glitter) and ill-prepared for life after that, or artists way before they found their niche (The Gap Band). And, of course, groups I love like Rose Tattoo, The Free Design, and SAHB.    Leo's Sunshipp - Give Me The Sunshine (1978) The Free Design - My Very Own Angel (1969) GLS United - Rapper's Deutsch (1980) Samples “Rapper's Delight”, which samples “Good Times” by Chic, “Here Comes That Sound Again” by Love De-Luxe with Hawkin's Discophonia (which i played on one of my previous shows), and a quote from the movie Five on the Black Hand Side, specifically, a scene in the barbershop that predated the advent of Rudy Ray Moore' Dolemite character by 2 years.  Louis Armstrong - The Creator Has a Master Plan (1970) w/ Leon Thomas Rick Wakeman - I'm So Straight, I'm a Weirdo (1980) I just like playing this awful oddity from the keyboard player from Yes. This record defies description. But if you see the video on Youtube, look for a young Boy George.  James Last - Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) (1971) From the album Voodoo-Party.  Billy Preston - My Sweet Lord (1970) One of two albums he released on Apple Records.  Rod Rogers (really, Rod Keith) and the Swinging Strings - The Beatle Boys (196?)  The Gap Band - Magician's Holiday (1974)  Gary Glitter - A Little Boogie Woogie in the Back of My Mind (1977)  The Free Design - There Is A Song (1972) I will never stop praising this wonderful group.  Stuart Damon - Eros (1970) Dr. Alan Quartermaine from General Hospital had a brief singing career.  The Millennium - There Is Nothing More To Say (1968) Lou Christie lifted this wonderful melody for his own “Canterbury Road" later that year.  From the film “Till [sic] Kingtom Comes”.  XTC- Across This Antheap (1987) I never tire of this amazing track. It's my show.  Aerosmith -Nobody's Fault (1976) I like Aerosmith's '70s albums very much. They were all loaded with hidden gems, and to me, “Nobody's Fault” was just the most succinct example of a band that made consistently good/great albums.  Frank Zappa - Andy (1980) A great, difficult tune (you try it with your band.) Recorded live in Buffalo.  Annette Peacock - The Succubus (1979)  The Red Shadow - Anything Good (1975) Carpenters - B'wana She No Home (1977) Bruford - Back To The Beginning (1978) Frank Sinatra - Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown (1974) Barry McGuire & The Doctor - South Of The Border (1970) I love this song. We are on the eve of destruction indeed. Might as well… Beach Boys - Rollin' Up To Heaven (1972?) This is so insane, and especially from a major artist, that it defies categorization.  Rose Tattoo - We Can't Be Beaten (1982) Ferocious.  Billy (Crash) Craddock - Knock Three Times (1971)  Led Zeppelin - Black Dog (1972) Unbelievable live version from “How The West Was Won”. Listen to those bass drum tricks. Especially during the coda. I wish Robert Plant never smoked. A normal drummer would go crazy with fills. Bonham put them where they belonged, no more. He showed amazing restraint at times. You wouldn't think so, but he was a grooving monster above all else.  Black Oak Arkansas - Hot And Nasty (1971) Michael (Mick) Jackson - Blame It On The Boogie (1978)  Bob & Earl - Harlem Shuffle (1969) The Kids From The Brady Bunch - Candy (Sugar Shoppe) (1972) So inappropriate that I wonder what the record company/TV show producers were thinking. Good song and a nice performance by the studio band.  Bread - Everything I Own (1972)  Carla Bley - Rawalpindi Blues (1972)  Nick Mason - Do Ya? (1980)  Liberace - Say Ciao (1970) Liberace puts it into words and music..."Never Say Goodbye, Say Ciao"...capturing the mood of Ciao Liqueur...the imported new liqueur with the elusive new taste. I can't find another song that Liberace wrote himself.  Crack The Sky - Surf City (Here Come The Sharks) (1975) Les Humphries Singers - Dancing Queen (1976) You can still hear Jimmy Bilsbury's straining, smoky tenor in the choruses. “Having the time of your life…” Poor guy.  Eddie Kendricks - Me 'N Rock 'N Roll Are Here To Stay (1974) Denny Greene - The Great Escape (1981) Ex-Sha Na Na member trying to break type like J Jocko tried a few years before. I love this. This is a dance mix of the original he did in 1977.  Dennis Wilson - River Song (1977)  Doris - Did You Give The World Some Love Today, Baby? (1970) No one knows who Doris is. I'd rather listen to her and this crazy Swedish band for a year before I ever give any time to Janis Joplin.  Rotary Connection - Didn't Want To Have To Do It (1967) Adriano Celentano - Prisencolinensinainciusol (1972) This is a wonderful remix of the original fluke hit.  The Move - Do Ya (different version) (1971)  Jeff Lynne - Doin' That Crazy Thing (1977) Rick Nelson - Don't Blame It On Your Wife (1968)  Sha Na Na Anti-Drug PSA (197?) Doris - Beatmaker (1970)  Dschinghis Khan - Rocking Son Of Dschinghis Khan (1979) Edith Head Fashion Prescription  Emerson, Lake, and Palmer - Trilogy (1973) Utopia - Eternal Love (1976)   Alix Dobkin - View Form Gay Head (1973)  Fats Domino - Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except For Me and My Monkey (1968)  John Farrar - Falling (1980)  Creedence Clearwater Revival - Feelin' Blue (1969)  Laverne and Shirley - Five Years On (1976) Written by Michael McKean. His story is too long for me to get into. For POACA he was "Lenny" of Lenny and Squiggy. Or he was David St. Hubbins in Spinal Tap. Or he was Saul Goodman's brother in Better Call Saul.  Genesis - Fly On A Windshield/Broadway Melody of 1974 (1974)  Fonzie Impressionist Track (Aaaaay, Cool, Nerd, Sit On It) (1976) One of the weirdest things in my collection. Why does it exist? And then it repeats in reverse!!              

Brian Burrescia and Dusty Moon (@the.dustymoon) have begun working on a new musical project and it's B.A.D. (Brian & Dusty before you think we're being too harsh). They joined Scott Ramsay in-studio to discuss their ConcertZeros. We also play a track from Brian's first band, Take Five. It's a cover of The Beatles track "Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except For Me and My Monkey". 

Today welcomes guest, Ken Knudsten (nude-sen), a NY writer and artist(Wolverine) and the creator of My Monkey's Name is Jennifer(SLG Publishing), and has also worked on animation for projects developed by Comedy Central, Robert Reich, and PBS. Today we chat about about his NEW Kickstarter project going live on 09/13/2021, My Monkey's Name is Jennifer Omnibus! It's a project 20 yrs in the making with covers and commentary by legends about this cool title, tune in to learn all about how, what and why! Follow Ken on Twitter and Instagram @kenknudtsen or check out his website: kenknudtsen.com Video Version: https://youtu.be/O_DazR1QD4c Thanks for listening / watching! Host: Al Mega (Twitter/Instagram/Facebook): @TheRealAlMega / @ComicCrusaders Make sure to Like/Share/Subscribe if you haven't yet. https://www.youtube.com/c/comiccrusad… Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/comiccrusaders Visit the official Comic Crusaders Comics Shop! Get all your new comics by going to comiccrusaders.shop Visit the OFFICIAL CC Swag Shop at: comiccrusaders.us Episode 71 in an unlimited series! Main Site: https://www.comiccrusaders.com/​​​​ Sister Sites: http://www.undercovercapes.com​​​​ http://www.geekerymagazine.com​​​​ http://www.splinteredpress.com Make sure to pick up your official UCPN merchandise exclusively on RedBubble.com – bit.ly/UCPNMerch Streamyard is the platform of choice used by Comic Crusaders and The Undercover Capes Podcast Network to stream! Check out their premium plans for this amazing and versatile tool, sign up now: https://bit.ly/ComicCrusadersStreamyard  

Welcome to the All Things Nerd Podcast! Your weekly dive into all the things we find nerdy and worth talking about. This week's episode we get talk about episode 8 of Marvel's What If..? from Disney+, then we follow that up with the latest episode of Titans on HBO Max. We talk about the things we enjoyed about these episodes, point out some easter eggs, our honest opinions about the shows, and like always find ourselves on tangents that have little to do with the topic... and of course jokes about everything we can. We also hype up our upcoming trip to New York Comic Con! Today's Episode is sponsored by Raze Energy Drinks. Visit www.reppsports.com and use promo code “NERDPODCAST” for 15% off your order total, or if you are wanting an introductory sample pack, visit https://reppsports.com/free/ for a $50 sample pack for FREE! Just pay S+H and use the promo code “NERDPODCAST” to let them know we sent you. Today's Episode is also sponsored by Cry Baby Craigs. An incredible hot sauce made from pickled habaneros and garlic. Honestly, this stuff goes on everything. For your chance to enhance the flavor of your favorite foods, or bloody mary's, check out Cry Baby Craigs at www.crybabycraigs.com to get yours today. Ken Knudtsen's Kickstarter for My Monkey's Name Is Jennifer has officially launched and runs through October 13th! You can find Ken Knudtsen at: https://www.kenknudtsen.com https://www.facebook.com/kenknudtsen Instagram: @kenknudtsen And check out his kickstarter at: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/742841445/my-monkeys-name-is-jennifer You can always find us online at www.allthingsnerdpodcast.com with links to our social media pages, or email us with any questions or requests at hello@allthingsnerdpodcast.com We recently launched our WEBSTORE AND PATREON and are adding more to them soon! So if you want to get your hands on some new merh, or help support us in everything we do, follow us there and check it out! Here's a link tree to find us everywhere: https://linktr.ee/allthingsnerdpodcast If you want to help us grow our nerd collection and build our studio spaces to bring you even better content you can also check out our amazon wishlist here: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/genericItemsPage/32P1V8QA7YU28 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/allthingsnerdpodcast/support

Welcome to the All Things Nerd Podcast! Your weekly dive into all the things we find nerdy and worth talking about. This week's episode we get talk about episode 7 of Marvel's What If..? from Disney+, then we follow that up with the latest episode of Titans on HBO Max. We talk about the things we enjoyed about these episodes, point out some easter eggs, our honest opinions about the shows, and like always find ourselves on tangents that have little to do with the topic... and of course jokes about everything we can. We also hype up our upcoming trip to New York Comic Con! Today's Episode is sponsored by Raze Energy Drinks. Visit www.reppsports.com and use promo code “NERDPODCAST” for 15% off your order total, or if you are wanting an introductory sample pack, visit https://reppsports.com/free/ for a $50 sample pack for FREE! Just pay S+H and use the promo code “NERDPODCAST” to let them know we sent you. Today's Episode is also sponsored by Cry Baby Craigs. An incredible hot sauce made from pickled habaneros and garlic. Honestly, this stuff goes on everything. For your chance to enhance the flavor of your favorite foods, or bloody mary's, check out Cry Baby Craigs at www.crybabycraigs.com to get yours today. Ken Knudtsen's Kickstarter for My Monkey's Name Is Jennifer has officially launched and runs through October 13th! You can find Ken Knudtsen at: https://www.kenknudtsen.com https://www.facebook.com/kenknudtsen Instagram: @kenknudtsen And check out his kickstarter at: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/742841445/my-monkeys-name-is-jennifer You can always find us online at www.allthingsnerdpodcast.com with links to our social media pages, or email us with any questions or requests at hello@allthingsnerdpodcast.com We recently launched our WEBSTORE AND PATREON and are adding more to them soon! So if you want to get your hands on some new merh, or help support us in everything we do, follow us there and check it out! Here's a link tree to find us everywhere: https://linktr.ee/allthingsnerdpodcast If you want to help us grow our nerd collection and build our studio spaces to bring you even better content you can also check out our amazon wishlist here: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/genericItemsPage/32P1V8QA7YU28 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/allthingsnerdpodcast/support

Welcome to the All Things Nerd Podcast! Your weekly dive into all the things we find nerdy and worth talking about. This week's episode we get talk about episode 6 of Marvel's What If..? from Disney+, then we follow that up with the latest episode of Titans on HBO Max. We talk about the things we enjoyed about these episodes, point out some easter eggs, our honest opinions about the shows, and like always find ourselves on tangents that have little to do with the topic... and of course jokes about everything we can. We also talk about our live stream that is on September 22nd. Today's Episode is sponsored by Raze Energy Drinks. Visit www.reppsports.com and use promo code “NERDPODCAST” for 15% off your order total, or if you are wanting an introductory sample pack, visit https://reppsports.com/free/ for a $50 sample pack for FREE! Just pay S+H and use the promo code “NERDPODCAST” to let them know we sent you. Today's Episode is also sponsored by Cry Baby Craigs. An incredible hot sauce made from pickled habaneros and garlic. Honestly, this stuff goes on everything. For your chance to enhance the flavor of your favorite foods, or bloody mary's, check out Cry Baby Craigs at www.crybabycraigs.com to get yours today. Ken Knudtsen's Kickstarter for My Monkey's Name Is Jennifer has officially launched and runs through October 13th! You can find Ken Knudtsen at: https://www.kenknudtsen.com https://www.facebook.com/kenknudtsen Instagram: @kenknudtsen And check out his kickstarter at: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/742841445/my-monkeys-name-is-jennifer You can always find us online at www.allthingsnerdpodcast.com with links to our social media pages, or email us with any questions or requests at hello@allthingsnerdpodcast.com We recently launched our WEBSTORE AND PATREON and are adding more to them soon! So if you want to get your hands on some new merh, or help support us in everything we do, follow us there and check it out! Here's a link tree to find us everywhere: https://linktr.ee/allthingsnerdpodcast If you want to help us grow our nerd collection and build our studio spaces to bring you even better content you can also check out our amazon wishlist here: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/genericItemsPage/32P1V8QA7YU28 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/allthingsnerdpodcast/support

Welcome to the All Things Nerd Podcast! Your weekly dive into all the things we find nerdy and worth talking about. This week's episode we get caught up on the past two episodes of Marvel's What If..? from Disney+, then we follow up with the last two episodes of Titans on HBO Max. We talk about the things we enjoyed about these episodes, point out some easter eggs, our honest opinions about the shows, and like always find ourselves on tangents that have little to do with the topic... and of course jokes about everything we can. We also announce that we will be heading out to New York Comic Con this October and of course we remind everyone about our upcoming live stream on Wednesday September 22nd. Today's Episode is sponsored by Raze Energy Drinks. Visit www.reppsports.com and use promo code “NERDPODCAST” for 15% off your order total, or if you are wanting an introductory sample pack, visit https://reppsports.com/free/ for a $50 sample pack for FREE! Just pay S+H and use the promo code “NERDPODCAST” to let them know we sent you. Today's Episode is also sponsored by Cry Baby Craigs. An incredible hot sauce made from pickled habaneros and garlic. Honestly, this stuff goes on everything. For your chance to enhance the flavor of your favorite foods, or bloody mary's, check out Cry Baby Craigs at www.crybabycraigs.com to get yours today. Ken Knudtsen's Kickstarter for My Monkey's Name Is Jennifer has officially launched and runs through October 13th! You can find Ken Knudtsen at: https://www.kenknudtsen.com https://www.facebook.com/kenknudtsen Instagram: @kenknudtsen And check out his kickstarter at: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/742841445/my-monkeys-name-is-jennifer You can always find us online at www.allthingsnerdpodcast.com with links to our social media pages, or email us with any questions or requests at hello@allthingsnerdpodcast.com We recently launched our WEBSTORE AND PATREON and are adding more to them soon! So if you want to get your hands on some new merh, or help support us in everything we do, follow us there and check it out! Here's a link tree to find us everywhere: https://linktr.ee/allthingsnerdpodcast If you want to help us grow our nerd collection and build our studio spaces to bring you even better content you can also check out our amazon wishlist here: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/genericItemsPage/32P1V8QA7YU28 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/allthingsnerdpodcast/support

Today we welcome Ken Knudtsen to the show to talk about his origin story, art background, how he broke into the business, and his new Kickstarter for his creator owned series, My Monkey's Name is Jennifer Omnibus! Support this project on Kickstarter starting September 13, 2021 ! Follow Ken on Twitter and Instagram @kenknudtsen or check out his website: kenknudtsen.com!! Connect with us: You can also listen to our show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Google Play Music, or wherever you get podcasts. Please subscribe, rate us, and leave a review to let us know what you think! Do you have questions or follow up thoughts on anything we discussed? You can reach us at our Official Website, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or send us an email at dontfeedthegeeks@licomicguys.com Thanks for watching loyal Geek Freaks!! Website: https://licomicguys.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/licomicguys/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/licomicguys/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dontfeedthegeekspodcast/ To Contact Us for reviews and promotional appearances please email requests@licomicguys.com    

Welcome to the All Things Nerd Podcast! Your weekly dive into all the things we find nerdy and worth talking about. This week's episode we get to finally talk about Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. We talk about the things we loved about this movie, point out some easter eggs, our honest opinions about the film, and like always find ourselves on tangents that have little to do with the topic... and of course jokes about everything we can. We are joined in the second half of the episode by a special guest, Ken Knudtsen - who is a comic book artist and writer promoting his new kickstarter for a collection of his hilariously dark and witty stories of “My Monkey's Name Is Jennifer”. We do remind everyone about our upcoming live stream on Wednesday September 22nd. Today's Episode is sponsored by Raze Energy Drinks. Visit www.reppsports.com and use promo code “NERDPODCAST” for 15% off your order total, or if you are wanting an introductory sample pack, visit https://reppsports.com/free/ for a $50 sample pack for FREE! Just pay S+H and use the promo code “NERDPODCAST” to let them know we sent you. Today's Episode is also sponsored by Cry Baby Craigs. An incredible hot sauce made from pickled habaneros and garlic. Honestly, this stuff goes on everything. For your chance to enhance the flavor of your favorite foods, or bloody mary's, check out Cry Baby Craigs at www.crybabycraigs.com to get yours today. You can find Ken Knudtsen at: https://www.kenknudtsen.com https://www.facebook.com/kenknudtsen Instagram: @kenknudtsen And check out his kickstarter at: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/742841445/my-monkeys-name-is-jennifer You can always find us online at www.allthingsnerdpodcast.com with links to our social media pages, or email us with any questions or requests at hello@allthingsnerdpodcast.com We recently launched our WEBSTORE AND PATREON and are adding more to them soon! So if you want to get your hands on some new merh, or help support us in everything we do, follow us there and check it out! Here's a link tree to find us everywhere: https://linktr.ee/allthingsnerdpodcast If you want to help us grow our nerd collection and build our studio spaces to bring you even better content you can also check out our amazon wishlist here: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/genericItemsPage/32P1V8QA7YU28 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/allthingsnerdpodcast/support

127 - SPECIAL INTERVIEW with My Monkey's Name is Jennifer creator, Ken Knudtsen Every kid needs a homicidal monkey named Jennifer. Ken Knudtsen joined Travis for a chat about getting started in comics, Wolverine, and his awesomely titled project My Monkey's Name is Jennifer.  Ken is launching a Kickstarter campaign for his graphic novel: My Monkey's Name is Jennifer. Here's Ken to tell you all about the Kickstarter via YouTube Support this project on Kickstarter starting September 13, 2021. The campaign ends on October 13, 2021. Follow Ken on Twitter and Instagram @kenknudtsen or check out his website: kenknudtsen.com --- Our next movie review - Judge Dredd   Discuss the episode over at the Facebook group: The Reel Comic Heroes League of Citizens   Twitter | Instagram | Website   Music from https://filmmusic.io: "Prelude and Action" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) Licence: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)   Music from https://filmmusic.io: "Deep Haze" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) Licence: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)   Intro/Outro by Matthew S Mendoza

First Zoom show, first interview show, first time comics in the name means more than just comedians… This is a big moment for us! LOOK AT US GROWING EH?! Ken Knudtsen, a great comic book writer and artist on a ton of popular properties within Marvel and other mediums, has zoom'd in with us to talk about his favorite cartoon from when he was a kid, the Super Friends version and Arian wet-dream (pun intended) version of Aquaman. Campy and fun with the monster-of-the-week style to show off Aquaman's rogues' gallery. On top of that, Ken has his own comic to promote and it so perfectly fit Jon and Joe's taste in art style, theme, and overall plot. “My Monkey's Name is Jennifer” is something everyone should experience. Thanks Ken for coming on with us. Link to his kickstarter in out Bio. Show some love! #comicscartooonsandcraftbeer #comicscartooonsandcraftbeerthepodcast #comics #cartoons #craftbeer #craft #beer #podcast #pod #cccbthep #cccb #ashareduniverse #Aquaman #Superfriends #aqualad #mera #tusky #blackmanta #kickstarter #kenknudtsen #mymonkeysnameisjennifer #StayTooned --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/comics-cartoons-craftbeer/support

Andy Woldman is at the helm this week, making his first appearance on Bonzai Basik Beats radio with a stellar set to whet the appetite. Tracks and remixes come from the likes of Clay Lio, Gav Easby, Facunda Sosa, Orgymu5ik, MartyOn, Carlo Whale, Moize London, Audiojack ft Polarbear, Apo Tulup and Klement Bonelli as well as a few tracks from Andy’s own repertoire. 1º Andy Woldman - Frozen Twilight (Original Mix) 2º Clay Lio - Solivagant (Gav Easby Remix) 3º Facundo Sosa - Amethyst 4º Orgymu5ik - Travel (Original Mix) 5º MartyOn J rgk - Red Lights (Original Mix) 6º Serhan Guney Me & My Monkey, Serhan Guney - Abrete Corazon (Original Mix) 7º Carlo Whale - Melancholia (Noize London Remix) 8º TSOS Feat. Nontu X - Umlilo (Klement Bonelli Tinnit Remix) 9º Audiojack ft. Polarbear - Introspection (Original Mix) 10º Apo Tulup - Viento solar (Original Mix) 11º Andy Woldman, Gav Easby & Sean Change - Sweet Desire (Original Mix) This show is syndicated & distributed exclusively by Syndicast. If you are a radio station interested in airing the show or would like to distribute your podcast / radio show please register here: https://syndicast.co.uk/distribution/registration

Andy Woldman is at the helm this week, making his first appearance on Bonzai Basik Beats radio with a stellar set to whet the appetite. Tracks and remixes come from the likes of Clay Lio, Gav Easby, Facunda Sosa, Orgymu5ik, MartyOn, Carlo Whale, Moize London, Audiojack ft Polarbear, Apo Tulup and Klement Bonelli as well as a few tracks from Andy's own repertoire. 1º Andy Woldman - Frozen Twilight (Original Mix) 2º Clay Lio - Solivagant (Gav Easby Remix) 3º Facundo Sosa - Amethyst 4º Orgymu5ik - Travel (Original Mix) 5º MartyOn J rgk - Red Lights (Original Mix) 6º Serhan Guney Me & My Monkey, Serhan Guney - Abrete Corazon (Original Mix) 7º Carlo Whale - Melancholia (Noize London Remix) 8º TSOS Feat. Nontu X - Umlilo (Klement Bonelli Tinnit Remix) 9º Audiojack ft. Polarbear - Introspection (Original Mix) 10º Apo Tulup - Viento solar (Original Mix) 11º Andy Woldman, Gav Easby & Sean Change - Sweet Desire (Original Mix) This show is syndicated & distributed exclusively by Syndicast. If you are a radio station interested in airing the show or would like to distribute your podcast / radio show please register here: https://syndicast.co.uk/distribution/registration

Leon Russell - The Ballad of Hollis Brown (1974) With The Gap Band. What a great song. Bobo Dylan wrote this.  The Gap Band - Easy Life (1974) The Gap Band - Knuckle Head Funkin' (1977) Listen to the bass. Shite.  The Gap Band - Humpin' (1980)  Brownsville Station - The Red Back Spider (1973) Brownsville Station - Do The Bosco (1971) Brownsville Station - Rock N Roll Holiday (1969) Brownsville Station - Fever (1978) Listen (Robert Plant) - You'd Better Run (1966)  Robert Plant - Laughin' Cryin' Laughin' (1967) Robert Plant - Our Song (1967) Alexis Corner (Robert Plant) - Operator (1968) Screaming Lord Sutch - Cause I Love You (1970) Screaming Lord Sutch - Flashing Light (1970) Screaming Lord Sutch - Wailing Sounds (1970) P J Proby (featuring Led Zeppelin) - Medley: It's So Hard To Be A N*****/Jim's Blues/George Wallace Is Rollin' In This Mornin' (1969) The Bell Notes - I've Had It (1959) Fanny - I've Had It (1974)  The Christian Con Man - Maui Girl (?) Joe Freeman - My Nana (?) Basically, a song-poem ripoff of Neil Diamond.  The Real Pros - Deep Freeze Mama (?) Song-poem Joe Freeman - Are You Giving Green Stamps, Baby (?) Song-poem The Free Design - Starlight (1970) The Free Design - That's All People (1970) Chubby Checker - No Need To Get So Heavy (1971) The Dave Pell Singers - Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town (1969) Robert Goulet - Green Tambourine (2001) Paul Williams - I Kept On Loving You (?)  Sal Mineo - LSD PSA (1967) Sammy Davis Jr. - You Can Count On Me (Theme From Hawaii 5-0) (1976)  The Supremes - You Keep Me Hanging On (in Japanese) (1968) Fats Domino - Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except For Me and My Monkey (1968)    

TRACKLIST Horse feat. Haptic (Mind Against Remix) Darlyn Vlys Claret Loss You And Me Senlin "Original Mix" Budakid Ocelotes (Original Mix) Adana Twins Abrete Corazon (Original Mix) Me & My Monkey, Serhan Guney Orbital Fur Coat El Sol (Roger Martinez Remix) Kamilo Sanclemente, Golan Zocher Ravens (Extended Version) Blancah, Clawz SG Overlook (Paul Angelo & Don Argento Remix) Gaston Ponte Free Your Mind Deepower Molecular Pulsar Stella Luce (Original Mix) Jay Lumen Otherworld (Extended Mix) NVO, BLR Zelda (Original Mix) WO-CORE Multicellular (Original Mix) Enrico Sangiuliano Revolved (Original Mix) K.A.L.I.L. Eable (Antonio Citarella Remix) Saive Quixotic "Esteble Remix" Budakid & Westseven Look How Hard I've Tried (Original Mix) Barker Heaven Scent "Marc Romboy Remix" Bedrock Atica Aaryon Ethereum (Original Mix) Steve Mulder, Durtysoxxx 6A - 125.00 - In Silence Kaane

Timely – NOV. 9: Hidden Meanings of Lyrics on Beatles' "White Album” Guest Opportunity: Dr. Susan Shumsky --- Intuition and Meditation Expert, Award-Winning Author of Maharishi & Me: Seeking Enlightenment with the Beatles' Guru, and Founder of Divine Revelation® With Paul McCartney getting over 33 million hits on YouTube for Carpool Karaoke, appearing on 60 minutes, his first #1 album in over 36 years, and upcoming reissue of the 50th anniversary "White Album" on November 9th, the Beatles are more relevant today than they've been for decades. Because Susan Shumsky spent 22 years in the ashrams and 6 years on the personal staff of the Beatles' guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of Transcendental Meditation (TM), she is a rare insider who can surprise and entertain your audience by exposing the secret hidden meanings of Beatles songs written under Maharishi's influence, and tell shocking stories about what really happened to the Beatles in India. Susan has 14 books in print with New York publishers and has done over 990 media appearances, including Alan Colmes on Fox News, Washington Post, LA Times, Cosmopolitan, GQ, Woman’s World, and much more. Here’s what Susan will reveal: • What it was really like in Maharishi’s ashram at Rishikesh. • The 3 real reasons the Beatles left India in a huff, and why it wasn’t about Mia Farrow. • Which Beatle Maharishi thought was the best meditator (not George!). • Why John Lennon and Yoko Ono were arrested in Mallorca, Spain in 1971 when I was there. • Predictions Maharishi made about the Beatles and about John Lennon. • The devastating remark Maharishi made when Lennon tried to return. • Why George Harrison apologized to Maharishi in 1991. • Why the Beatles made a pact never to reveal why they left India. • Who "Sexy Sadie," "Dear Prudence," "Bungalow Bill," and “Jojo" were. • The real Jean Simmons' look-alike in "The Maharishi Song" by John and Yoko. • Hidden meanings of "Revolution,” "Get Back,” “Blackbird," "Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey," "Long, Long, Long," "Mother Nature’s Son," "Child of Nature," "Across the Universe," "My Sweet Lord," "Dehra Dun," and more. • And many more revelations! **Susan Shumsky will be at Monmouth University in Long Branch, NJ, speaking at the White Album Symposium Nov. 8 to 11, and she will also be available for live interviews during that time.

On this weeks show, Chris, Rob, and Aaron talk about: Getting silly, Rob's last show, Florida men lovin' and fightin', a Michigan State Professor bangs a dog (get it on!), Trump says he will support re-classification of marijuana, Michigan continues to fail on medical marijuana.  Please follow us on Twitter @TheWeedsmen420, Instagram @TheWeedsmenPotcast, and on... The post 211: Me and My Monkey first appeared on Christopher Media.

THE NEXT PHASE OF MY MUSICAL JOURNEY BEGINS - THE LX SERIES. BACK FROM NYC/BROOKLYN AND A COUPLE OF TRACKS FROM THE GIG WELCOME TO LX. BON VOYAGE. TRACKLIST El Sol (Roger Martinez Remix) Kamilo Sanclemente, Golan Zocher Evenflow (Robert R. Hardy Remix) GuyRo Antivirus (Original Mix) Kastis Torrau Awkward Dance (Original Mix) Hasan Mogol, Be Morais Skyfall (Original Mix) Kohra, SHFT Winter Sun (Fractal Architect's Shortest Day Remix) Imran Khan Abrete Corazon (Original Mix) Me & My Monkey, Serhan Guney Arrival (Original Mix) Imran Khan Taiga (N'to Remix) Joachim Pastor Vizeon (Original Mix) Hannes Bruniic Two Souls Reconciliation (Original Mix) Juan Pablo Torrez Andkoln (Original Mix) Jeremy Olander Backwards (Matias Chilano Remix) Monojoke Daniel's Dream (Original Mix) Michael Klein Mayday (Olivier Giacomotto Remix) Few Nolder Life Thoughts (Original Mix) Robert R. Hardy Elea (Original Mix) Worakls Ojas (Blancah Remix) Soul Button Sibylline (D-Formation Remix) Stan Kolev Bipolar Star (Animal Picnic & Aaryon Remix) Olivier Giacomotto La Musica Obscura (Original Mix) Niko Schwind, Uv Savanah (Original Mix) Stereo Express, Matchy, Bott Opal (Four Tet Remix) Bicep The Last Trip (2FD Remix) Hidden Empire

Find Your Soul The Official Radio Show selected and mixed by acclaimed Spanish DJ & Producer "Dezarate". Top 3 on iTunes US / Top 1 on Podomatic / Featured over 15 countries !!! Find Your Soul will take you from Deep Techno To Underground Progressive beats. Join us to Find your Soul Stan Kolev - Sequence 1.168 (Original Mix) Giorgia Angiuli & Lake Avalon - You Caress (Moonwalk Remix) Me & My Monkey,@Serhan Guney - Abrete Corazon FEHRPLAY - Malnati (Extended Mix) Flowers (Icarus Soft Focus Mix) Savana (Original Mix) THe WHite SHadow FR Joan Retamero - Between Two Souls (Original Mix) Airwave - Rain Upon My Skin (Cherry Remix) Baobab (Original Mix) This show is syndicated & distributed exclusively by Syndicast. If you are a radio station interested in airing the show or would like to distribute your podcast / radio show please register here: https://syndicast.co.uk/distribution/registration

00:00 Mollono.Bass - Sundew (Original Mix) 04:51 Beat Maniacs - Djomla (Hot TuneiK Remix) 11:40 Raul Techmal-Horizonte(Original Mix) 16:23 Miyagi - The Last Day (Original Mix) 20:35 Arlequeen, Dofenbeck-My Headbones(Original Mix) 24:16 Jobe - Lissome (Original Mix) 30:03 Sebastian Busto - Chronos (Pacco & Rudy B Remix) 36:18 Yves Eaux feat. Jay Davi - Soul Grabbin Music (Wild Dee & Mazai Remix) 39:56 Me & My Monkey, Serhan Guney - Abrete Corazon (Original Mix) 45:12 Marc Grabber - White Clouds (Rene Bourgeois Remix) 50:05 Black 8 & Arrab - Sandwaves (Original Mix) 58:38 Darko De Jan, Esphyr - Clairvoyant (Matter Remix) 1:04:22 Matias Chilano - Timeline (Original Mix) 1:09:03 Coeus - Beta (Original Mix) 1:13:28 Snowzy Feat. Krystal Troyano - Face (Original Mix) 1:19:11 Matan Caspi - Exodus (Original Mix) 1:24:54 Geist-Tiny Little Things(Tripswitch Remix).. 1:31:33 Hot TuneiK Presents OneTwo - O'Girondo (K Nass Remix) 1:36:40 ADMRO - Vision Quest (Original Mix) 1:41:21 Desusino Boys, Larissa Jay - Psysical Level (Original Mix) 1:45:27 Mr Hart-Second Reality(Original Mix) 1:49:23 Ben Coda - Nightfall (Original Mix)

00:00 Mollono.Bass - Sundew (Original Mix) 04:51 Beat Maniacs - Djomla (Hot TuneiK Remix) 11:40 Raul Techmal-Horizonte(Original Mix) 16:23 Miyagi - The Last Day (Original Mix) 20:35 Arlequeen, Dofenbeck-My Headbones(Original Mix) 24:16 Jobe - Lissome (Original Mix) 30:03 Sebastian Busto - Chronos (Pacco & Rudy B Remix) 36:18 Yves Eaux feat. Jay Davi - Soul Grabbin Music (Wild Dee & Mazai Remix) 39:56 Me & My Monkey, Serhan Guney - Abrete Corazon (Original Mix) 45:12 Marc Grabber - White Clouds (Rene Bourgeois Remix) 50:05 Black 8 & Arrab - Sandwaves (Original Mix) 58:38 Darko De Jan, Esphyr - Clairvoyant (Matter Remix) 1:04:22 Matias Chilano - Timeline (Original Mix) 1:09:03 Coeus - Beta (Original Mix) 1:13:28 Snowzy Feat. Krystal Troyano - Face (Original Mix) 1:19:11 Matan Caspi - Exodus (Original Mix) 1:24:54 Geist-Tiny Little Things(Tripswitch Remix).. 1:31:33 Hot TuneiK Presents OneTwo - O'Girondo (K Nass Remix) 1:36:40 ADMRO - Vision Quest (Original Mix) 1:41:21 Desusino Boys, Larissa Jay - Psysical Level (Original Mix) 1:45:27 Mr Hart-Second Reality(Original Mix) 1:49:23 Ben Coda - Nightfall (Original Mix)

Mrs. Toad and I, as you possibly know, went on something of an epic road trip at the end of July this year. We took the ferry to Amsterdam and drove up through Germany to Denmark, through Sweden via the Volvo Museum, and into Norway, where we went all the way up the West Coast via the Trollstigen in the South, up through Molde, Kristiansund, Trondheim, Mo I Rana, through the Lofoten Islands to Tromsø. After a couple of days there we went East and South through Finland, took the ferry from Helsinki to Tallinn, then drove through Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania into Russia where we spent our 10th wedding anniversary in Kaliningrad, on board a decommissioned oceanographic research vessel. From there it was Poland and the Czech Republic to Vienna, where Mrs. Toad flew home and I carried on to even sillier adventures. But that is the subject for another podcast. For now, here are a bunch of songs from our Norway trip. Because these were all on mixtapes to play in the car whilst driving it's all actually surprisingly upbeat too. Not your usual miserable shite. 01. The Get Me Downs - Sexsie Volvo (00.13) 02. The Spencer Davis Group - I'm a Man (05.44) 03. Evan Dando - Hard Drive (11.47) 04. Fleetwood Mac - Tusk (15.07) 05. She and Him - Don't Look Back (22.16) 06. Jerry Reed - Tex Bound and Flyin' (27.52) 07. The Beatles - Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey (35.33) 08. Kate and Anna McGarrigle - Come a Long Way (38.03) 09. The Come Ons - Strangelove (41.35) 10. Dory Previn - The Lady With the Braid (48.17) 11. Grandaddy - El Caminos in the West (52.17) 12. Raggare United - Volvo 245 (58.17)

啊，天边太阳 是我冬日信仰 求你散发热量 让我不再冷得哭爹喊娘 啊，亲爱的爹娘 我即将坐上一节车厢 回到生我的家乡 陪您过年打麻将 哈哈哈哈 欢迎大家收听吐槽天气和回家路上糗事的一期段子来了~~ 采采微信，订阅号搜采采，新浪微博@1053采采 BGM： Susie Tallman - Ten Monkeys in the Bed Joe Strummer - It's a Rockin' World Caspar Babypants - Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey

啊，天边太阳 是我冬日信仰 求你散发热量 让我不再冷得哭爹喊娘 啊，亲爱的爹娘 我即将坐上一节车厢 回到生我的家乡 陪您过年打麻将 哈哈哈哈 欢迎大家收听吐槽天气和回家路上糗事的一期段子来了~~ 采采微信，订阅号搜采采，新浪微博@1053采采 BGM： Susie Tallman - Ten Monkeys in the Bed Joe Strummer - It's a Rockin' World Caspar Babypants - Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey

HOUSE JET RADIO VOL.209 GUEST DJ: ME & MY MONKEY (HAMBURG, GERMANY) SOCIAL MEDIA: https://soundcloud.com/mymonkeysounds https://www.facebook.com/Mymonkeybook https://pro.beatport.com/artist/me-and-my-monkey/206341/tracks TRACKLIST: 01 - Me & My Monkey, Juanfra Munoz - Dialogue (Original Mix) (soon on MINOO) 02 - Echomen - Perpetual (Robert R. Hardy Unofficial Remix) 03 - Veitengruber - Everybody's Darling (Original Mix) 04 - Ruben Garvi - Back to you (Original Mix) 05 - Mikey V - That Beat Inside My Head (Gene Farris Southern Fried Re-Rub dub) 06 - Rick Sanders-Ninah (Original Mix) 07 - Jordi Castillo, Me & My Monkey - You are the One (Original Mix) 08 - Hot Since 82 - Veins (Original Mix) 09 - Cuartero - El Africano (Original Mix) 10 - Me & My Monkey, Ben Teufel - West Coast (Original Mix) 11 - Butch - Dope (Original Mix)

Достойное завершение недели в Денди 1Raz Ohara, The Odd OrchestraHappy Song (Original Mix)Get Physical Music 2Carrot GreenSmokeless (Original Mix)Get Physical Music 3Guy JWelcome RealityThe Trees, The Sea & the Sun 4Fractal MoodJoro Da Prates (Original Mix)Get Physical Music 5Davis, L_cioEthnic feat L_cio (Original Mix)Get Physical Music 6ClavisBanzaFreerange 7Modular ProjectAncient Tree (Original Mix)Off Recordings 8Shades Of GrayRoll The DiceElectronical Reeds 94 Da PeopleAll It TakesGrey City Records 10Mass DigitalInner BlazeHeavenly Bodies Records 11A M I RKeep Up (Original Mix)Society 3.0 12Ania IwinskaHang Drum (Original Mix)Beachside Records 13DoorlyP&O (Original Mix)Cajual Records 14GuardateThat Chic Cray (Original Mix)Beachside Records 15Da SunloungeI Come From (Original Mix)Myna Music 16J.E.E.P.Rockefeller's Punch (Original Mix)Get Physical Music 17Dj Burlak feat Veselina PopovaKeep Walking (JazzyFunk Remix)LoveStyle Records 18Me & My Monkey, Jordi Castillo, XYPOFire (Extended Mix)Still Finest 19Namito, BramsTemple of Sun (Original Mix)Systematic Recordings 20Sascha BraemerMonogamy (Original Mix)Hive Audio 21Thankyou CityLovely Sunday (Original Mix)Open Records 22Young Galaxy, ClaptoneLeave Your Light On (Original Mix)Exploited 23Benno BlomeAbotha (Mihai Popoviciu Remix)Time Has Changed Records 24AudioJackTraction (Lauer Remix)Tsuba Records 25Metodi HristovInsert Feelings (Original Mix)Street King 26German BriganteSo Good (D-Nox & Beckers Remix)Get Physical Music 27David GranhaAria feat Emiliyan Stankov (Original Mix)Steyoyoke Black 28Andhim, ElderbrookHow Many Times (KANT Remix)Black Butter Records 29Bakers Dozen, England BrooksReaching (Original Mix)Poker Flat Recordings 30Flex CopCursed feat Michael O. (Original Mix)Onelove

Достойное завершение недели в Денди 1Raz Ohara, The Odd OrchestraHappy Song (Original Mix)Get Physical Music 2Carrot GreenSmokeless (Original Mix)Get Physical Music 3Guy JWelcome RealityThe Trees, The Sea & the Sun 4Fractal MoodJoro Da Prates (Original Mix)Get Physical Music 5Davis, L_cioEthnic feat L_cio (Original Mix)Get Physical Music 6ClavisBanzaFreerange 7Modular ProjectAncient Tree (Original Mix)Off Recordings 8Shades Of GrayRoll The DiceElectronical Reeds 94 Da PeopleAll It TakesGrey City Records 10Mass DigitalInner BlazeHeavenly Bodies Records 11A M I RKeep Up (Original Mix)Society 3.0 12Ania IwinskaHang Drum (Original Mix)Beachside Records 13DoorlyP&O (Original Mix)Cajual Records 14GuardateThat Chic Cray (Original Mix)Beachside Records 15Da SunloungeI Come From (Original Mix)Myna Music 16J.E.E.P.Rockefeller's Punch (Original Mix)Get Physical Music 17Dj Burlak feat Veselina PopovaKeep Walking (JazzyFunk Remix)LoveStyle Records 18Me & My Monkey, Jordi Castillo, XYPOFire (Extended Mix)Still Finest 19Namito, BramsTemple of Sun (Original Mix)Systematic Recordings 20Sascha BraemerMonogamy (Original Mix)Hive Audio 21Thankyou CityLovely Sunday (Original Mix)Open Records 22Young Galaxy, ClaptoneLeave Your Light On (Original Mix)Exploited 23Benno BlomeAbotha (Mihai Popoviciu Remix)Time Has Changed Records 24AudioJackTraction (Lauer Remix)Tsuba Records 25Metodi HristovInsert Feelings (Original Mix)Street King 26German BriganteSo Good (D-Nox & Beckers Remix)Get Physical Music 27David GranhaAria feat Emiliyan Stankov (Original Mix)Steyoyoke Black 28Andhim, ElderbrookHow Many Times (KANT Remix)Black Butter Records 29Bakers Dozen, England BrooksReaching (Original Mix)Poker Flat Recordings 30Flex CopCursed feat Michael O. (Original Mix)Onelove

Subscribe to our VIP list to get the download link (320kbps) straight to your inbox: bit.ly/sumviplist Subscribe on iTunes: www.strictlyum.com/itunes Subscribe to the RSS feed: www.strictlyum.com/podrss Read reviews and find more information about the best Underground music at: www.strictlyundergroundmusic.com Strictly Underground Music brings you a weekly round up of our favourite new tracks. Listen in this week for new music from Arnas D, DJ Tezzo, Me & My Monkey, Trulz & Robin, DJ Jarvis. Listen for your chance to win a copy of 'Larry Levan’s Paradise Garage: The Legend Of Dance Music Vol 3' - 3x vinyl. Strictly Underground Music's podcast is proudly brought to you by www.HouseMusicDirectory.com. Track list 5. Arnas D: Satellite (Original Remix) - Perspectives Digital 33 4. DJ Tezzo: Don't Stop - Oh So Coy 076 3. Me & My Monkey: Terminal - MINOO Records 006 2. Trulz & Robin: Magnetisk Smultring - Cymawax 003 1. DJ Jarvis: Juno - Cylon Dub Receptor 003

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CUE 31.10.2014 tracklist: 1. David Guetta - Dangerous Feat. Sam Martin (Robin Schulz Remix) 2. Jutty Ranx - I See You (Pretty Pink Remix) 3. Chicane feat Bo Bruce - Still With (Andreas van Hoog Modulate Mix) 4. Myon & Shane 54, Seven Lions, Tove Lo - Strangers (My Digital Enemy Remix) 5. Siwell - I Need It (Original Mix) 6. Probe - Baila (Original Mix) 7. Super8 & Tab feat. Julie Thompson - Let Go (Extended Mix) 8. Dunkan - Never Too Late (Sergey Shemet Remix) 9. Simion feat Roland Clark - Lost (Club Mix) 10. The Avener - Fade Out Lines (Original Mix) 11. Hot Since 82 feat Black Box - Somebody Everybody (Original Mix) 12. Chris Willis, Crazibiza - Lonely One (Extended Mix) 13. Nightcrawlers - Push The Feeling On (Me & My Monkey & Juanfra Munoz Remix) 14. Variavision, Rhythmoholia - Move (Original Mix) 15. Oliver Heldens feat K Stewart - Last All Night (Koala) (Radio Edit) 16. Otto Knows, Bebe Rexha - Can't Stop Drinking About You (Extended) (Original Mix) 17. Mbase - Just You (Original Mix) 18. Schuhmacher, Dr. May - Back Home (Original Mix) 19. Milk & Sugar with Barbara Tucker - Needin U (Original Mix) 20. Matt Caseli, Terry Lex, Catraz feat Catraz - Born Slippy .Nuxx (Original Mix) 21. Groove Phenomenon - Africa Tribe (Absolut Groovers Remix) 22. NERVO, R3hab feat Ayah Marar - Ready For The Weekend (Don Diablo Remix)

Soul-Titanium Radio Show - Manuel Beat Tracklisting: Adriatique - Bodymovin (Original Mix) Vintage Culture - Make My Body Move (Original Mix) Kolombo - Throw Your Hands (Original Mix) The Deepshakerz, Dario D'Attis - Attitude (Original Mix) Sharam Jey - Like Nobody Does (Andre Crom Remix) Teenage Mutants & Andre Crom - You Don't Know (Original Mix) Super Flu & Andhim - Scuzzlebutt (Girl Version) Purple Disco Machine - My House (Original Mix) Me & My Monkey - 5 On It (Original Mix) Mat Joe - Ride (Original Mix) Jay West, Manuel Sahagun - Fool Me (Andre Crom Remix) Eda - Love Worn (Original Mix) Kike Peña - I Want It (Marco Grandi Remix) Daniel Nitsch - Soul To Rest feat. Madeleine (Kombinat 100 & Ginger Remix) Cocolores - Serious Pleasure (Original Mix) Anturage & Marcato & Tiny Toon & KCentric - Automatic Superstar (Original Mix) Andhim, Super Flu - Reeves (Original Mix) Benn Finn - Beautiful Instant (Beatamines Remix) Asaf Avidan - Maybe You Are (Vijay & Sofia Zlatko) Andlee - Give It Back (Original Mix) Monkey Safari - Hi Life Bakermat - Zomer (Original Mix) Mumford & Sons - Little Lion Man (Monkey Safari Remix)

00:00:00 - A new study sheds light on the effects of social hierarchies in monkeys, which may then help us understand why those of lower social status are less healthy than their well-to-do peers. Finally, monkeys helping the poor instead of just messing stuff up. 00:11:39 - Drinks, they're what monkeys wish they had to unwind. Charlie ups the ante with a Drake's IPA. Patrick keeps it local with a Starr Hill Jomo lager. And Ryan is perplexed by the hipster can of his Sixpoint Resin Imperial IPA. 00:16:11 - This week's Trailer Trash Talks discusses the pleasant lack of found footage, the creepiness of little girls, and the propensity of Russians for drink all contained within the preview of Chernobyl Diaries. 00:26:04 - Fossil raindrops be falling! We know they happened, but under what conditions? A new study sheds light upon the status of the atmosphere whence old rain fell. Further, this also helps explain the 'faint young sun paradox'. All that science from one old rock with dimples! Thanks for Manuel G. for submitting this story via our Facebook page! 00:38:09 - PaleoPOWs are a lot like fossil raindrops, they can both be used as proxies for the atmosphere of the room. Patrick rejoices in the addition of a NEW RECURRING DONATION via Tommy G. all the way from Lund, Sweden! Ryan gets slightly self conscious over a website comment left by Shanna. And Charlie reads our first new iTunes review in over a month from Sciencer44, who may just want a prize pack, but was willing to give us 5 stars to get it!   Thanks for listening and be sure to check out the Brachiolope Media Network for more great science podcasts!   Music for this week's show provided by: My Monkey - Jonathan Coulton I Like Beer - Tom T. Hall Under Pressure - Queen Have You Ever Seen The Rain? - Creedence Clearwater Revival

show#31712.20.09John Lennon - Happy Christmas (3:34)Mickey Jupp - No place like home (3:03)Mickey Jupp - From a barstool (3:14)Bobby Kyle - Can't Make Ends Meet (4:16)Eugene Bridges - Take Home Pay (4:42)Nappy Brown - My Jug And I (3:47)Spinner's Section:England by the bandBeatles: birthday (2:42) (White Album, Parlophone, 1968)Van Morisson & Georgie Fame: I will be there (2:30) (How Long Has This Been Going On, Verve, 1995)Snatch It Back: howling tom cat (4:19) (Hot Stuff, Tramp, 1995)Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings: bad to be alone (3:19) (Struttin' Our Stuff, BMG, 1997)Fleetwood Mac: no place to go (3:24) (-, Blue Horizon, 1968)John Dummer Blues Band: big feeling blues (1967) (2:34) (Nine By Nine, Indigo, 1995)Ruby Turner: don't mess up a good thing (3:46) (Guilty, Indigo, 1996)Blues 'n' Trouble: You got me spinnin' (5:00) (Bag Full Of Boogie, Barkin' Mad, 1994)Frankie Miller: love letters (3:00) (Full House, Chrysalis, 1977)Hokie Joint: back where we are going (4:13) (The Way It Is… Sometimes, Cool Buzz, 2008)Duster Bennett: gone Gershwin - summertime (4:35) (Fingertips, Toadstool, 1974 / Castle, 2003)Back to Beardo:Cream-Wheels Of Fire(1968)Politician (4:16)Back Door Slam - Outside Woman Blues (3:27)Bloomfield-Hammond-Dr. John - Ground Hog Blues (3:31)Johnny Hoy - You Better Listen (3:35)David Migden and The Dirty Words - Second Hand Tattoo (3:55)Chris James/Patrick Rynn - Hawaiian Boogie (3:10)Chuck E. Weiss - (2002) Blood Alley (4:45)Clarence Spady - Won't Be This Way Always (3:43)Carlos del Junco Band - I Know Your Wig Is Gone (3:25)Frank "Paris Slim" Goldwasser - Back Door Key (4:18)Jimmy Carpenter - Don't Believe It (7:50)Kid Andersen - I Really Love My Monkey (3:26)Nick Moss & the Flip Tops - Grease Monkey (6:23)Omar & the Howlers - Monkeyland (4:36)The Beatles - Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey (2:24)Does your music make the cut?Contact Beardo at thebeardo@gmail.com and we we'll talk..Meanwhile, Bandana Blues archives at http://beardo1@libsyn.com

On this week's episode of Dancing With Elephants, we visit the Brookfield Zoo with Jim of Iowa and his family, Tina, Adam, Ryan, and his parents, Jim and Marianne. Don't forget this is the last week to get your reviews into the Let Them Hear You Contest. Please send your contest entries to dwecontest@gmail.com. Items featured on this week's show: Brookfield Zoo Brookfield Zoo Interactive Map Podcasts featured or mentioned on this week's show: The Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast 101 Uses For Baby Wipes The DaddyCast The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd comedy4cast The Dinkycast The Lifespring Family of Podcasts Music featured on the show My Monkey provided by Jonathan Coulton. You can find him on the Podsafe Music Network. Please Digg us by Digging Dancing With Elephants on Digg.com Next Week: A storm is on the way. Until then, keep an eye on the center ring.

New Storms, Schizophrenia, Silicon Chip Implants, Brain Chip, Brenda Ann Spencer, Foundations, Societies with Secrets, Moses, Scientific Exposes, Privilege to Work, "Second Genesis", BSP, Untwisting the Molecules, Nature Shows, Animal Testing, Reversing Normal, Artificial Driving, Enjoying Electrical Stimulation, Management of Aggression, Cryosurgical Probes, "Damaged Tissue", Pleasure Centers, Public Testing, (Song: "I Don't Like Mondays" by Boomtown Rats, "We're the Monkees" by the Monkees, "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey" by the Beatles, "Monday, Monday" by the Mamas and the Papas)