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| 22 Oct 2022 | SPECIAL RE-RUN: Revolver LP (1966) | 01:42:40 | |
In anticipation of THE BIG DROP coming this week, T.J. and Tony (a.k.a. The Tab Two #sponsored #by #nutrasweet) dig into some of the teaser tracks already released, and then present the Super Replayable Super Re-Run Edition of our 2020 Deep Dish of Revolver. Be sure to follow our socials for details about our LIVE REACTION TWITCH & SHOUT coming soon!
----- Originally released November 14, 2020 It's time to serve up a deep dish of The Beatles most colorful LP with a b/w cover. In this episode, T.J. and Tony talk ADT, LSD, Geoff Emerick recording techniques, and the Alan Civil War. Plus diversions into the goth Lennon & McCartney, Rupert the Bear, The Frogs, and the Soul Train Scramble Board. Revolver's track-by-track musings come augmented with enough collector scum needle drops to power a small, fab village, including a sample of their favorite punching bag, 60s Capitol Records honcho Dave Dexter. Turn off your mind, relax and float tangentially.
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| 14 Jan 2023 | 1973 Fantasy Beatles Albums | 00:49:30 | |
We asked 100 Untitled Beatles Podcast (only)fans what comes to mind when they hear the words “1973 Fantasy.” Show me, Tattoo! (Buzzer sfx.) Show me, Seven Years Pre-“Double”! (Louder buzzer sfx. Too loud, even.) Show me, 1973 Fantasy Solo LP! Survey says? (Ding ding ding ding!) (Dong dong dong dong!) Yes, it’s the 50th anniversary of one of the great solo Beatles years. And listener Beatle Dave suggested that we honor ’73 by compiling a fantasy Beatles island/album culled from that year’s releases. Did any surprises make the list, Tony? What classics are nowhere to be found, Todd? What other gold did you, Producer Casey, begrudgingly leave in this edit? Possibly, but not limited to… 🦕 Is Tony on Team Barney, Team Betty, or Team Rock Roll? #TwitchTwitch 📼 Should the “family values” jokers be concerned that the kids are getting into ASMVCR? 🐔👅 Does the Kenny Rogers Roasters in Meat Free Monday City serve impossible chicken suckin’ mother truckin’? What 1973 Fantasy Solo LP would you compile? Let us know on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram OR HELL GO MAKE YOUR OWN PODCAST, WE DON’T HAVE A MONOPOLY ON THE FORMAT. #allcaps
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| 17 Apr 2021 | Give My Regards to Broad Street (Film Review) | 01:26:26 | |
At long last, T.J. and Tony review Sir Paul's magnum opus: Give My Regards to Broad Street. Starring and written by Paul McCartney, the 1984 movie was panned by critics and audiences alike, but brought us some of Paul's best music of the decade ("No More Lonely Nights"), and some of his worst remakes of his best music from decades past (lookin' at you, "Long and Winding Road"). This long and rambling podcast leads to all the usual goofs and giggles, and—as far as we're able to ascertain—what we believe to be the first reference to the theme music from NBC's "The Days & Nights of Molly Dodd" in podcasting history. And what movie review is complete without also covering the Commodore 64 video game adaptation? Movie viewing recommended (you might be able to find it on YouTube), but certainly not required. Good times guaranteed either way, or your money back. EPISODE LINKS
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| 03 Sep 2022 | Fantasy Solo Set Lists | 01:14:32 | |
Here at the Untitled Beatles Podcast, we have more than only fans. Not only fans like #OnlyFans, we’re old AF and don’t exactly know what that is. (Casey might. Damn millennial…) But we’re fortunate to have fans who contribute to the vibe and content of our show. And in this episode, we salute many of our contributing listeners, including one Young Chosso (Thursdays on CBS), who provides the impetus for our topic: Fantasy Beatles Concert Set Lists, or FCBSL for the acronym-heads or AH’ers…. Tony and T.J. create fantasy tour set-lists for John, Paul, George, and Ringo - tho sadly not Jimmie, the famous third and (not Pete) Best Beatle. Along the way, the Two T’s consider other deep n’ nerdy Beatles topics, like: ☝️ Should the Bloody Beatles White Album, shut up, only have had songs from the far more adventurous “Beatles 1”? 🐻 You’re looking at the Fridge (not Danimal), he’s a rookie, he may be large, why’s Tony dressed like a cookie? 👚 When Ringo takes off his Caveman blouse, does he get blisters on his dingers? Whether you like your fantasy Fab concerts at Soldier Field or a maternity ward in DuPage County (future home of Da Bears) come take a Magical Fantasy Liverpool Oratoritour with us! Follow us on Facebook! Discover us on Discord! Intimidate us on Instagram! Tweak us on Twitter! Review us on Rapple Podcasts! Mishandle us on MySpace! Frenemy us on Friendster! Joust with us on J-Date! F**k with us on Free Credit Report Dot Com! Actually F**k us on Farmers Only Dot Com! #30 | |||
| 24 Aug 2024 | UBP Live from The Fest for Beatles Fans (Feat. Skylar Moody!) | 00:34:31 | |
Live, from Beatlefest’s famous/non-existent Midway Ballroom, in the outskirts of beautiful, mobbed-up, downtown Rosemont, it’s Saturday Afternoon Live! WITH SPECIAL GUEST, #1 BEATLES STAN, SKYLAR MOODY! For the second year in a row, Tony Shanoff, T.J. Mendoza, and Producer Case3Z-Nutz said, “f**k it, we’ll do it live!”, and recorded this episode at the always-incredible Fest For Beatles Fans (née Beatlefest), in front of some loyal UBP fans; and a few very confused people who were probably too embarrassed/disturbed to leave. (Seeing P3Z-Nutz in person can do that to a newbie.) This year, they’re joined by Beatles superfan/influencer/digital creator - the wonderful Skylar Moody - for an intense game of Beatles Trivial Pursuit! Plus, Tony celebrates the Beatles rich history in Chicago - AMERICA’S GREATEST CITY, YA JAGBAGS! T.J. pays tribute to arguably 2025’s 8th Beatle (#GiveIrelandBackToTheIfield)! And they also ask, to a HUGE CROWD THAT’S WAY BIGGER THAN KAMALA’S, WHICH IS IMPORTANT AND TRUE BECAUSE I’M MISERABLE INSIDE: 🦊📰🍆 Who’s more of a failed cartoon character in America? Rupert The Bear, or Rupert The Murdoch? 📺🇺🇸😷Which is a more culturally impactful moment in American media history: Producer Casey bravely producing this live recording sick, from his hotel room via Zoom, or the 1970’s WGBH Boston kids-show “Zoom”? 🦁👑🐭How many times has noted Disney-phile Tony seen “The Lion King”? Special thanks to the Fest For Beatles Fans family for hosting us. It’s an honor to be a very small part of such a wonderful, joyful, celebration of the greatest rock band not named Korn! 📸 Photos courtesy of Patreon Star Club supporter Glen K.!
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| 04 Dec 2021 | DELUXE REISSUE: Sgt. Pepper‘s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Film Review) | 01:26:43 | |
After a whole flurry of November drops and live episodes and whatnot, this week the Untitled Beatles Podcast gets back (see what we did there?) to what we do best: Super Deluxe Reissues of our early classics. We're revisiting our review of the critically unclaimed 1978 Sgt. Pepper film, this time replete with music cues, needle drops, and other sonic shenanigans. ----- [Originally published 31 October 2020] It’s the silliest episode to date... For Halloween, T.J. and Tony dissect the 1978 box office flop Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Robert Stigwood, Peter Frampton and the very lupine Bros. Gibb have a lot of ‘splainin' to do. THERE WILL BE SPOILERS...and fact-check buzzers! While inside, T.J. takes Steve Martin and Sir George Martin to task and Tony offers a hot take on the television show Emergency! Due to a technical error, Tony was forced to put on a T.J. costume and re-record T.J.’s keyboard parts in post, with note-for-note precision. He hopes he passed the audition. Dust off your cheaply-made Pepper outfit and Trip or Treat to this delightful monstrosity in the Beatles story. ----- EPISODE LINKS
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| 31 Dec 2022 | ”Get Back to Let it Be” at the Rock Hall (A Very Special Untitled Beatles Field Trip Part 2) | 01:15:35 | |
Hey pal. Yeah you, wearing that thing. You may think you’re a Beatles fan. Or that you’ve been to Cleveland’s Rock Hall. But ask yourself this question: are you Steve Vai? In Part 2 of our journey to the ‘Land to see the “Get Back” exhibit, we address this strange old question, and also tell no Vai’s about: Are the good ‘ol boys in Don McClean’s way-too-brief hit “American Pie” drinking Agave and Rye? What torchy Beatles songs will “Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas! The Musical” include? Will the Gab Two ever don’t stop believin’? Or will they never stop don’t believin’? Like Yakov Smirnoff always says, “What a Journey!" Originally recorded in AAD, remixed to ADD, and finally pressed in Japan in DDD (*information current as of November ’87 issue of “CD Review”), we’re proud to present Producer Casey’s masterful edit of the Untitled Beatles Podcast’s trip to the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame! (#RipIreneCara) EPISODE LINKS:
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| 04 May 2024 | Let It Be 50th Anniversary | 01:16:18 | |
We're all going Michael Lindsay-Hogg wild for next week's "Let It Be" documentary re-release. So let's set the mood, and get back to OUR VERY FIRST EPISODE. No MAL technology to clean the audio, no overproduced, Dumb & Schticky audio drops (you're welcome again, SpongeBobbyHil589). Just a couple guys gabbin' fab about the Fab Four exactly as you've always loved them: naked. ----- [Originally released May 29, 2020] It's the first episode of the Untitled Beatles Podcast, recorded before "Untitled" was decided as the title. On its 50th anniversary, TJ and Tony explore Let It Be - TJ's favorite Beatle album and Tony's second-least(?) favorite. Enjoy the long and rambling road.
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| 11 May 2024 | Macca Snacks #2 / Paul McCartney’s The 7” Singles Box (2022) | 00:21:41 | |
Having a Macca Snack Attack (TM, pending)? We are too! Or, at least we did in late-2022, when Tony & T.J. rocked out to then-recently reissued and remastered Macca 45's. Come join for part two of this long-running, daytime/nighttime Macca singles (only!) party, and stay for the painstaking play-by-play of the unique, heretofore unexplained, debut-and/or-mistake mistake mix of the “Only Love Remains” 7” single remaster. WHAT IN THE WORLD IS THIS? ARE YOU LISTENING, M.P.L.?? ALL FREAKING CAPS!!
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| 02 Jan 2021 | Deep Dish: McCartney II | 01:17:24 | |
While TJ mends a newly fractured arm, the Untitled Beatles Podcast explores Sir Paul’s strangest record, 1980’s McCartney II. What this episode lacks in live piano accompaniment, it makes up for in analog synthesizers and bonehead needle drops, as TJ and Tony do battle over "Temporary Secretary," "On The Way," and "Front Parlour." Other bouts include TLC vs En Vogue and ET vs M&Ms. By the end of this unnecessary special edition, you'll know which kind of retail sandwich this album most resembles. Check your machine! | |||
| 06 Jan 2024 | Why We Love The Beatles | 00:50:02 | |
Ding Dong, Ding Dong! It’s a New Year! And all we are saying is, it’s about time we open a universal can of Beatles whoop-ass on 2024! Our first show of ’24 gets to the heart of why the UBP crew - and a good many listeners! - all passionately love this incredible band and their magical story; album after album, song after song, year after year, reissue after reissue… But a few other major Beatles-related question remain, such as: 📺 In the fall of 1988, Sundays at 7p Eastern/6p Central and Mountain, did you watch ABC’s “Incredible Sunday” or FOX’s “21 Jump Street”? (*For our younger listeners, there were only two channels in 1988.) 🤖 (Angry Chicago Guy) How come Lapidos don’t got no Fest-branded jet packs for sale at the TWA hotel? (Tearing up:) And how come no lady won’t be the Rosie to my George Jetsons [sic]? And how come that jagbag P3Z-Nutz don’t return no fan mail? And why ain’t Magglio Ordóñez (zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz) 🎸 It’s totally normal for late 40-somethings to consider the stage and movie musical “Beatlemania’ their “Ed Sullivan Show”, yes?
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| 13 Apr 2024 | SPECIAL REPLAY: The Beatles' Second Album (1964) | 01:08:06 | |
The guys are on Spring Break this week, so we handed the reins over to P3Z-Nutz for another Untitled Beatles Podclassic! ----- [Originally released February 5, 2021] The gang continues its exploration of the early U.S. Capitol Records releases, this week covering the covers-heavy Beatles' Second Album.
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| 10 Jul 2021 | Deep Dish: Let It Be...Naked (2003) | 01:19:59 | |
Take it off! Wait, leave some on! In anticipation of the continuing delay of Peter Jackson's Get Back film, T.J. and Tony react to the recent Vanity Fair teaser about said project, then delve into the first revisionist history attempt of The Beatles swan song, 2003's Let It Be... Naked. They dissect the merits and flaws of these stripped down "newer phase" mixes, and reveal which bits they prefer clothed. Meanwhile, Tony impresses T.J. with his Star Wars knowledge, T.J. impresses non-listeners with his musical theatre knowledge, and the two explore Harry Caray backwards masking, Rappin' Rodney and the cola wars. As always our producer Casey comes to the rescue with any trivia T.J. and Tony deem too difficult to google. We hope you dig this episode as much as you dig a pony or a pygmy… Naked.
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| 06 Mar 2021 | Deluxe Reissue: Help! LP (1965) | 01:19:40 | |
The guys go all Dave Dexter this week, issuing a remixed, remastered, special deluxe vinyl edition of their August 2020 deep dish into the Help! LP. More music, more goofs, maybe a little extra reverb, but always the same classic Tony and TJ tangents. [FROM AUGUST 2020] For the 55th anniversary of the Help! album, TJ and Tony go track by track, offering hot takes on Maureen Cleave and a cautionary tale for prospective buyers of the Back to the Future III soundtrack. LINKS:
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| 11 Nov 2023 | Liverpool Drag | 00:49:34 | |
What happens when you take the energy of Beatlemania and mix it with a helping of questionably written and performed Beatles-inspired songs? You get Liverpool Drag. Not the Beatles, but an unincredible simulation! This week, Tony & T.J. examine the early 60's phenomenon of Beatle-inspired cash-in records. Are they good? Awful? Somewhere in between? The answer is, "yes". Along the way, the Drag Duo ask: 🇺🇸 Since drag shows are unarguably killing our children, is the only solution to ban more books? Because, freedumb? 1️⃣ Who’s idea was it to exclude “Little Miss Margie” from The Manchesters “Not 1” compilation? 🗓️ Come March 2024, should MadTV’s Bobby Lee become eligible for the Untitled Beatles Podcast 7th Beatle Bracket? Place a mop atop your head, shake it like a mimeograph, and chant “yeah” 3 times, because it’s Liverpool Drag on the UBP! Wooo!!! EPISODE LINKS
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| 20 Nov 2021 | Let It Be (1970) 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition Part 3 | 01:13:47 | |
Move over thrice!!! As part three of our Let It Be 50th Anniversary gabfest, T.J. and Tony inspect the Glyn Johns mixes of 1969's Get Back LP, along with the 12" 4-song EP. Then they crack open the new Get Back book, providing Cliff Notes (and Norm Notes) for its 200 pages, give or take a two. Along the way: 📻 Tony reveals the identity of the villain who calls in all those pesky Beatles covers to 93 XRT 🎸 T.J. offers Garageband tutorials on editing out the new pre-song chatter to "Don't Let Me Down" 🚀 We can all agree that everything sounds better when it is "Super High Mastered" All that and an order of cheese sauce! The sounds of laughter are inciting and inviting you ho-ho hee-hee ha-ha... Do you like the Untitled Beatles Podcast? Well then picture the fingers pressing Subscribe wherever you enjoy podcasts. Then leave us a review - you can make it longer if you like the style, you can change it round cuz we want you to be an Untitled Beatles Podcast Subscriber. | |||
| 10 Apr 2021 | Favourite Beatles Extras | 00:59:21 | |
Sure, we've all heard the Abbey Road medley a million times, but when's the last time you checked out Mean Mr. Mustard Take 20 or Polythene Pam Take 27? This week, the guys dig through their crates of reissues, bonus tracks, and bootlegs to unearth their favorite Fab Four extras.
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| 30 May 2020 | Let It Be 50th Anniversary | 01:12:52 | |
It's the first episode of the Untitled Beatles Podcast, recorded before "Untitled" was decided as the title. On its 50th anniversary, TJ and Tony explore Let It Be - TJ's favorite Beatle album and Tony's second-least(?) favorite. Enjoy the long and rambling road.
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| 08 Apr 2023 | Sixth Beatle Bracket Part 2 | 00:36:41 | |
OK, OK, we got all our April foolishness out of our systems… now back to the VERY SERIOUS BUSINESS at hand. This week T.J., Tony, and Casey pick up right where they left off in their pursuit to crown the undisputed SIXTH BEATLE. Join as we narrow the field down from our Sweet XVI, see whether any Cinderella stories stretch through the Final IV, and find out: 🍳 What’s Tony’s deal with Mel from Mel’s Diner? 👖 What’s Brian Epstein’s deal with trousers? 🤖🍑 What’s T.J.’s deal with robutts? To almost quote the great Chicago Bulls play-by-play announcer Chuck Swirsky: This hotly anticipated finale is (glass) ONIONS BABY, ONIONS. EPISODE LINKS:
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| 29 Mar 2025 | Eighth Beatle Bracket! | 01:05:39 | |
It’s March Madness! Can you feel the excitement, between bouts of despair from our rapid descent into a fascist state? And did anyone else pick Fascist State to beat Attica State in the Hate Eight? The UBP takes March Madness more seriously than Americans take hating Duke. (David. F**k him!) Because at the UBP, we have two jobs: being the podcast of academic record for serious Beatle (and bible) study, and creating a tournament bracket destined to cement Dick Biondi’s legacy as a Top 10 figure in Beatles history! So play along with us as Tony, T.J., and Casey crown this year’s champion, the iron-clad, Apple/Calderstone-endorsed, OFFICIAL Eighth Beatle. Who will win it all this year? As John & Yoko once said, “Listen To This Podcast”!
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| 23 Nov 2024 | Macca Snacks #3 / Paul McCartney’s The 7” Singles Box (2022) | 00:30:13 | |
This week, we gotta get back in time. Back to 2022, when a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, and edible-influenced T.J. and Tony ripped through Teej’s brand new box set of the 7” Macca Singles, joined by their close (and possibly hallucinated) friends P3Z-Nutz, Mrs. Vandebilt, and Uncle Pecos. Will they make it all the way through the bonus test (your patience) pressing of 4 random songs from Liverpool Oratorio? Pop in your earbuds and a coupla your favorite Macca Snacks, and you might just find out. EPISODE LINKS
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| 04 Feb 2023 | The White Album (1968) Part 2 | 01:20:21 | |
It’s Part 2 of the Untitled Beatles Podcast White Album Fabstravaganza! This week T.J. and Tony deep dish Side One, going track-by-track and getting off-track-by-off-track, just like the 1987 CD did with the track separation on “Wild Honey Pie” into “Bungalow Bill”. Along the way, they ask the important questions, such as: 👅 Which part of the body is the balalaika? Is it a uvula, a female breast, or a Beatle growth? Please get that looked at! 🛏 What is A.C. “Iron Man” Green’s definition of the S-word? Does that mean his least favorite Beatles song is “S-word Sadie”? 🐾 On “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”, did Eric Clapton perform the guitar solo as a teenage werewolf? Ay up! Like and subscribe, write a review, send us a message on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram, join our Patreon, chat with us on Discord, buy some merch, join our cult! | |||
| 09 Sep 2023 | John & Yoko / Plastic Ono Band - “Some Time in New York City” (1972) Part 1 | 01:05:16 | |
All four solo Fabs released legendary albums in their lives. But among the critical darlings (“Gone Troppo”), chart topping smash hits (“Ringo Rama”, 5.1 edition) and absolutely despised, forgotten about, piles of doggie poo poo doo doo (“Band On The Run”), there are some solo albums that remain quite difficult to categorize. Like this week’s Deep Dish Part 1 (CALORIE ALERT!) on the ever-controversial John & Yoko “Some Time In New York City”. Is this a terrible record? Is it actually brilliant? Has it aged better than expected in the 50 years since its release? What do you think this is, pal, “Sound Opinions?” Sure, you come here for us to answer those fab questions, but you also may be wondering: 💿🍆 Is it fair to judge what’s on a CD by the size of its’ ’87 longbox? 📻 Should classic rock radio still play the heavily edited, phat-shaming, radio friendly version of the album’s single, “[Your] Woman Is The Bigger Of The Girls”? Or is it time we finally cancel The Drive, 97.1? (Ed note: Cancel Culture is ruining America and must end! Unless it's books, constitutional rights, science, personal freedoms, rule of law, arts funding, kindness, actual f**king facts, etc...) 3️⃣4️⃣ (Angry Chicago Guy) How come Coach Ditka let William the Fridge Perry tackle a nun during Super Bowl XX, (slower, rhythmically, drunk on Malort) but not Sweetness? Like Was (not Don Was) once sang: open the door, get on the floor, everybody go watch “Dinosaurs”! (#NotTheMama) Fridays, on ABC! But first, yo, check dis out!
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| 21 Nov 2020 | All Things Must Pass 50th Anniversary Pt 1 | 01:11:25 | |
George Harrison's six-sided, 2/3 masterpiece All Things Must Pass is celebrated in true Untitled Beatles Podcast fashion, with fun facts, recycled bits and enough giggles to fill a superfluous third LP. In the first of a two-part series, TJ and Tony discuss the quiet Beatle's greatest work, even though Phil Spector's production gives Tony a "wah wah." Fab tangents include record stores, grocery stores and dollar stores. Plus, TJ revives an old favorite from his time at Harand Camp. Settle in for a podcast of mountain tops and vast digressions. | |||
| 10 Aug 2024 | A Hard Day's Night LP (1964) Part 2 | 00:58:55 | |
Tell me why? Ain’t nothing but a heartache! Tell me why? Ain’t nothing but a mistake!Maybe if you’re a jag-bag! Because real Fab fans love “Tell Me Why”, by The Beatles but, especially, The Backstreet Boys. ALL RIGHT!The Gab 2 love this record in all of its’ forms, and they get a little overly excited as they continue to deep dish “A Hard Day’s Night”, both the U.K. and U.S. versions. Perhaps unintentionally, Tony & T.J. make a strong case that the 1987 cassette track listening is definitive, but also - rather generously - take the time to ask: 🍖 Is it past time that the feds shut down Mentor Ohio’s illicit, bootleg-filled Record Den? Look Record Den, either join the f.y.e. chain or you’re DEAD MEAT. 1️⃣ [Angry, Functionally Drunk Chicago guy:] How come Calderstone didn’t put no “Ain’t She Sweet” on “Beatles 1”? And how come “Once Bitten Twice Shy” ain’t longer? More like Great Woke. GET IT? [weeping] Please come home, Diane. 📬 Pick a Newman: the “Cars” guy or Wayne Knight?
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| 24 Sep 2022 | BeatleFest 2022 (A Very Special Untitled Beatles Field Trip) | 01:18:47 | |
Since 1974, Beatlefest aka The Fest For Beatle Fans has been a safe space for Beatle nerds, kooks and sniffers to gather, celebrate and inhale everything fab. On this magically mysterious tour, Tony spends two days reporting to T.J. from the 2022 festival in Chicago. Posing as a journalist, Tony asks the hardest-hitting questions in order to get to the bottom of this whole “Beatles” thing. Such as: 📸 How many tambourines were used by the people under the stairs jam band? The correct guess wins an autographed 8x10 glossy of the Ringo look-a-like guy! 🦸🏻♂️ Why didn’t Billy J Kramer or Chris O’Dell participate in the Beatles LARPing experiment? 🧼 How much should a Young & The Restless LP in fair condition retail for? (Yes T.J., it’s a first pressing on Nuance Records.) Hear snippets from Mark Lewisohn, Michael-Lindsey Hogg, Laurence Juber, Terri Hemmert, and other beautiful Beatle people. Plus, a new segment called Nerking, in which The Untitled Beatles Podcast interviews regular working people about The Beatles in the workplace. A splendid time is guaranteed for some! EPISODE LINKS | |||
| 27 Feb 2021 | Brainwashed (2002) | 01:00:16 | |
It seems almost unfathomable, but this past week would’ve been George Harrison’s 78th birthday, almost 20 years after his body exited the material world. In honor of that melancholy milestone, Tony & T.J. do a deep dish into his last album of new material, 2002’s Brainwashed; much of which was recorded as George knew he was dying. It’s a poignant, beautiful record, which gets its proper due here, but of course doesn’t stop the Untitled Duo from their usual insane diversions; including, but not limited to:
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| 15 Aug 2020 | Beatles Covers Clambake! | 01:01:28 | |
Why listen to a cover of The Beatles when The Beatles version is often the best? Because freedom! TJ and Tony delve into the endless jackpot of Beatle covers, including favorites, flops, and curios. They were unable to review all of them, but they did get to 136 of them. Also, Tony auditions for a rock zine and TJ settles an old score with Judd from Latin school. Please pardon the zoom-related glitches, some occasional sweetening was required. As a token of our appreciation, the Untitled Beatles Podcast has curated a playlist of Beatle covers. Listen here | |||
| 24 Apr 2021 | Magical Mystery Tour (1967) Part 1 | 00:59:46 | |
ROLL UP! T.J. and Tony have been waiting over 50 episodes to take you away on a journey into the psychedelic 1967 Beatles classic "Magical Mystery Tour." The album, not the movie. Well, the U.K. EP and side 2 of the U.S. LP. Because that's how we roll up. Along the way, you just might learn:
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| 03 Jun 2023 | A Trivial Beatles Podcast - Game 1, Part 2 | 00:56:02 | |
Arguably, the most famous sitcom episode of the 1990’s was from the syndicated-only “New WKRP In Cincinnati”, where station manager Arthur “Big Guy” Carlson challenges rival station WPIG to an on-air poker match. Two problems: 1) poker on the radio? WHUT. And 2) Despite the generational hilarity of its predecessor, “The New WKRP” su-su-su-su-SUCKED! What were you thinking, Bill Dial? But you know what doesn’t suck? The Beatles! And especially non-sucking is The Beatles Trivial Pursuit special edition! This week, Tony & T.J. square off and conclude their inaugural game. No spoilers, but a last-minute rule change fixed the result worse than the only actual rigged election in recent memory, the one the Supreme Court handed to GW Bush that began the downfall of America! BUT WE DIGRESS!!! So girl, get your game play on, and join us as we also ask: 🥧 What’s the best Prince song: “Purple Pie”, “When Doves Pie”, “The Ballad Of Dorthy Pie-ker”, “Raspberry Pie-ret”, or “Sexy Mother F🥧🥧ker (Pie Remix)?” #RuleOfFives ⚾️ (Read as angry, vaguely drunk White Sox fan): How come Bruce Spizer don’t write no books about CBS’ critically adored, little watched, New Orleans-focused dramedy from 1987, “Frank’s Place”? And how come Spizer hates Tim Reid AND Tim Anderson? 📻 Is Radiohead’s “Kid A” the equivalent of “Abbey Road”, for people who don’t care about minor details like “memorable songs”?
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| 25 Jan 2025 | Episode CC.V (Our 200th Episode Part 2!) | 01:01:30 | |
The rager of an anny party continues over at the UBP, as the team celebrates their 200th (200-point-fifth?) episode! With the help of some fab listener questions, Tony, T.J., & Casey dish deep on all things Beatles - and some exciting news that may be revealed for 2025! (This is called a tease, but it’s a bad one, because there’s no special news. There is, however, a rarely-heard Tony Mendoza production, crafted exclusively for Beatlefest 2024, seamlessly bringing together the world’s two most important proper nouns.) While reflecting on the future of UBP, and also preparing for the past, the UB3 (#Cantaloop?) also ponder: 🌧️🪩 Was it (metaphorically) raining on Tony’s prom night, and how many of you would get and/or appreciate a “Grease” reference here? 🚫🏆 Does Charles Barkley calling T.J. “short and ugly” make up for him, shamefully, never winning an NBA title? T.J., I mean. B**ch a** coward can't win when it matters. 🎞️🎵 (Our Chicago Friend. He’s drunk, sad, and very, very cold) “If Nobama was such a great president, how come I can’t retire off my Beatles Reel Music 8-track tape no more? And how come Sarah Palin ain’t wearing no skirts no more on the reruns of that one SNL with John McCain?"
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| 29 Jun 2024 | One Hand Clapping (2024) | 01:02:11 | |
What exactly is the sound of one hand clapping? Is it similar to one man napping? Some band slapping? Dumb planned crapping? Crumb...tanned...uh, line? LINE? No, you can't get in line at your local record shoppe for a midnight release party, because the first ever official, complete vinyl issue of "One Hand Clapping" is being sold exactly as it would've been in 1974: exclusively on Universal's website. Eat it, beloved, local record stores! And unlike Wacco Jacko's '88 parody "Eat It", these live-in-studio Wings tracks have never sounded fresher. 50 years after they were recorded, can a case be made that this is a top-tier McCartney album, filled with definitive versions of Macca classics? We'll leave that to Rob Sheffield, who'll rank "Love My Baby" ahead of "Watching The Wheels", and instead ask: 🐶 If NBC's "Geoff Emerick And A Dog" hadn't followed "Glücklich And Froh" in the fall of '77, would it have been a bigger hit? ❓If you mash up Paul Simon's "One Trick Pony" with Macca's "One Hand Clapping", do you get "One Simon's Hand Pony Macca's Clapping Trick"? Or might you, more than likely, find a different combination of words? 🐦 (Angry Chicago Guy): HOW COME THE CD SOUNDTRACK OF "THE IN-LAWS" 2003 REMAKE AIN'T AVAILABLE AT CROW'S NEST? (Sadly, reeking of old Old Style) AND WHEN DID THE RAP SECTION OUTNUMBER SINATRAS? EPISODE LINKS
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| 14 Dec 2024 | Beatles '64 Documentary (2024) | 00:31:46 | |
George Harrison's tribute to Smokey Robinson, "When Smokey Sings", isn't just Rob Sheffield's favourite solo Beatles tune. The Motown legend, arguably best known for covering "So Bad", is a huge part of "Beatles '64", the Mouse's latest entry in the world of Beatles documentaries. 1964 is THE seminal year in Beatles history, so surely this Scorcese-produced doc provides a comprehensive look at the full year? Clearly, the talking heads are relevant and used sparingly? Obviously, this release comes in concert with expanded, cleaned up footage improving on what we all really want, a reissued "The First U.S. Visit"? Our own Medved and (Mister) Roeper explore the highs and lows of yet another Beatles holiday gift, and along the way they ask: 📆 If Leonard Bernstein discusses "She Said She Said" in "Beatles '64", should Dave Grohl and Questlove discuss "Now And Then" in "Beatles '67"? 💿 Why did director David Tedeschi opt to open with a whispery YouTube cover of "All My Loving" over one of Tears for Fears' celebrated Depeche Mode covers? 📓 If this doc was trying to attract a younger audience, how come it didn’t include an interview with Matt Gaetz?
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| 19 Oct 2024 | "Daytime Revolution" Documentary (2024) | 00:18:37 | |
In 2003, The Redwalls, a really good band hailing from Chicago suburb Deerfield, IL kicked off their album “Universal Blues” by encouraging a “Colorful Revolution”; in a most Beatle-esque Banger fashion. By coincidence (?), a mere 31 years earlier, there was a colorful “Daytime Revolution” as John, Yoko, and friends took over a week’s worth of “The Mike Douglas Show” - a.k.a. the guy all of us, if we’re being honest, initially confused/conflated with “The Dick Cavett Show”. This new, soon-to-stream documentary examines these historic episodes, and had a brief in-theaters showing on what would’ve been John’s 84th birthday. Tony saw the film solo in Chicago suburb Glenview, IL, as T.J. handled the un-related, un-paid improv rehearsal many miles from his home - and even further from #GlenviewsFamousDawgPark. The result is a new-ish phase Beatles podcast, reproduced for streaming by Producer Casey. Roll up for this special UBP field trip, an aural journey (cue: “Faithfully”) of Tony documenting a documentary, as documentary commentary from T.J. documents Tony’s documentary commentary of the documentary's documentary commentary. ALSO: The UBP’s Medved + (Helen) Roeper ask: 🔥🏡 Does a movie with too many talking heads stop making sense? Or does it get nothing but flowers? Is Wings Wild Life > Wild Wild Life? Sick Byrne, qu’est-ce que c'est? ⚾️📻 (Chicago guy - a Sox fan, but he doesn’t hate the Cubs; only Wrigleyville and their fans, and maybe he has a point): “How come the unique single mix of Steve Goodman’s “Go Cubs Go” - pressed, my friendt, on WGN Records! - ain’t been made available anywhere else since the original 45? Maybe Dean Richards will return one of my many handwritten letters and tell me what exactly woke WGN is trying to hide? 🥪 Would former American Idol Reuben Studard have been more successful if he’d been slathered in extra 1000 Island and better swiss?
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| 15 Apr 2023 | Red Rose Speedway 50th Anniversary Part 1 | 00:44:24 | |
1973 was a banner year for classic rock LPs. But from "Houses Of The Holy" to "Goats Head Soup", only one album that year rocked the loudest, hottest, and wettest: "Red Rose Speedway". Ok fine, it's not really a "rock" album. It might not even roll. But that doesn't prevent it from being an inventive and quintessentially Paul (uh, oh yeah, "and Wings") album. On its 50th anniversary, the UBP Living Un-Single pigeons extoll its many charms, in another patented, cliffhanger-laden multi-parter. #HyphenFest In Part 1 (read: "eye", obviously), they also consider: 🐂 'Round holiday time, would you rather eat moldy old dough alone, or with your Oxfam? 🛼What's the better hard rock record: The Who's "Live At Leeds", or Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Starlight Express" original cast album? 🧤 Trivia Alert: the back cover of "Red Rose Speedway" has a tribute to Stevie Wonder, but do you know which two longtime NBC all-stars Paul honors on the front cover?
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| 22 Jun 2024 | Rolling Stone's 100 Best Beatles Solo Songs (A Very Special Untitled Beatles Penpals Episode) | 00:40:38 | |
Is any magazine as influential as Rolling Stone magazine? From the iconic Garth Brooks/Goo Goo Dolls issue (4/93) to the glibly unsuccessful attempts to help sway the outcomes of the ass-brutal 2004 and 2016 elections, hooray for Rolling Stone! (And, Caddyshack fans, hooray for the Douglasses!) We at the Untitled Beatles Podcast don’t dare hold a Beatles-related opinion without first consulting what the culture-makers at RS want us to know. So we were thrilled - no, THRILLED - when RS (dba Rob Sheffield) released a list this spring of the 100 Best Beatles Solo Songs! In fact, we were so thrilled, we decided to start an old-school letter writing campaign all about the rankings - to each other! Thanks to the bravery and diligence of the U.S. Postal Service - which the previous president proudly tried to sabotage, because, uh, “Own the libs” I f’ing guess? - the New Box Tops (dba Tony & T.J.) read their pointed correspondences aloud. They have some questions, including: 🍕 (Angry Chicago fella): How come Paul’s got a song about Dominoes, and not a real Chicago pizza joint like the Barnaby’s in South Bend or the Old Town Pizza Hut on North & Wells that they turned into some woke Boston Market? And how come I keep getting kicked out of Old Town Ale House at 2 in the afternoon? ❤️📦 If Kurt Cobain were Jesus, would he have returned to stop “Cut Me Some Slack” from happening? 🍗 Is it a coincidence that the UBP is sponsored by Kenny Rogers Roasters in Malaysia, and longtime Beatle roadie Mal Evans and early 80’s supergroup Asia are both essential parts of The Beatles story? #MalAsia
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| 22 Mar 2025 | Macca Snacks Finale / Paul McCartney’s The 7” Singles Box (2022) | 00:22:25 | |
It’s the end of an error, as Tony & T.J. conclude their three years/one day saga of binging reissued Macca 45s with a couple of absolute late-era McCartney gems; and an exclusive, world-wide/WorldStar, legally dubious debut of T.J.'s "Liverpool Oratorio" test pressing! We’ll be back next week with an all new episode where we get in the March Madness spirit; and by that we mean point-shaving, baby!! In the meantime, go ahead and grab a Macca snack; they’re meat free and it’s not even Monday. Unless it is!
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| 16 Sep 2023 | John & Yoko / Plastic Ono Band - “Some Time in New York City” (1972) Part 2 | 01:25:55 | |
¿Què Pasa, New York? Mornings, on WXTV, Univision 41, Nueva York! But also, that’s a refrain from arguably the most commercially viable song from John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band’s “Some Time In New York City”. So why wasn’t the semi-title track a single? Why didn’t it lead off the album; not enough racial epithets in the title? And who in the love of Danza decided “Angela” - a heart-wrenching tribute to Judith Light - belongs on ANY Lennon comp? So many preguntas! Què Pasa, indeed! Fortunately/Maybe (#Oasisish) it’s time for part two of the highly anticipated CHICAGO STYLE deep-dish of one of the most derided solo Beatles albums this side of “The Family Way” soundtrack! And as if this 2LP set isn’t long enough - the Giles Martin deluxe remix is slated to include the full 117 minute version of “Au” - the UBP’s very own Cap’n Jamrag and Lt. Scumbag (#PossibleForestGumpReference), to answer these, and more! 🎅🏽 Who the HELL did Bono think he was when he spent Christmas Eve ’93 hand delivering cassettes of “Zooropa” to everyone in the world? 🍕 Was Yoko the inspiration for one of 1982’s great raunchy comedy films? Hint: check out her #SixPack. #KennyRogersRoasters 🍆💨 There may not be much difference, between Tucker Carlson and someone with an actual dong, if you listen to their fartbeat. True?
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| 06 Feb 2021 | Deep Dish: The Beatles' Second Album (1964) | 01:06:29 | |
The gang continues its exploration of the early U.S. Capitol Records releases, this week covering the covers-heavy Beatles' Second Album.
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| 11 Sep 2021 | Deluxe Reissue: Star Club Tapes | 00:58:06 | |
It's the super deluxe reissue of our Star Club Tapes episode, remixed and remastered using the latest in "Mach Schau" technology. These excerpts of "The Little Beatles" in Germany will make you so hungry for live music, you could eat a Christmas horse! [Originally issued September 12, 2020] Pills, Punk, and Knuckle-Dusters! This week T.J. and Tony zip, zap and zop thru the long out-of-print collection of lo-fi recordings of the Fab Four in Hamburg. Also, T.J. tries out both his sexy voice and his creepy voice (it's two different voices) while Tony dogs on Ferris Bueller. And they accidentally do a Harold...we think. Get out your Grundig reel-to-reel tape recorder and bootleg this episode. It could be worth something someday! EPISODE LINKS
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| 04 Sep 2021 | All Things Must Pass 50th Anniversary Edition Part 2 | 01:12:33 | |
Like the Dark Horse, we too love dig! And this week T.J. & Tony love digging thru the demos and “party record” from the 8-LP All Things Must Pass 50th Anniversary Box Set, prompting Frankie Crisp-like musings such as:
Plus T.J. scores pajama points with the estates of Adler and Ross! Oh, and don’t invite Tony to “drum” for your outdoor acoustic guitar jam. Isn’t it a pity this couldn’t be a 3-parter? Brought to you by The Pope and General Motors.
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| 30 Jan 2021 | Solo Beatles Mt. Rushmore | 00:51:24 | |
For this week's show, Tony and TJ blast their current favorite Fab Four solo tracks into the side of a mountain for everyone to see and hear. It's a long and meandering drive to the Black Hills of South Dakota, but along the way:
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| 07 Nov 2020 | Fab Political Songs | 01:17:31 | |
It's election month in the US and the Untitled Beatles Podcast is cautiously optimistic. After paying lip service to the recently released John Lennon Gimme Some Truth Ultimate Mixes, TJ and Tony delve into the political songs of The Beatles and their solo work, with the occasional zoom glitch and personal political view expressed. Q-flakes beware! Plus, TJ opens up about his Marshall Crenshaw support circle, and at long last one of the UBP off-topic tangents spawns an important social justice movement. Lookin' at you, U2... | |||
| 06 Nov 2021 | Let It Be (1970) 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition Part 1 | 00:54:23 | |
It may have arrived (without traveling/and to prove it, it’s here) a year late, but the Let It Be 50th anniversary box set is finally in our hands. To date, we have 4 LPs! Multiple CDs! BluRay audio! One random EP! And a book! And another book! There’s so much to digest in this universally excellent deluxe set and Get Back book, that this is officially a THREE PART EPISODE. Buckle up, Untitled Beatle People... And, sure, you can say Part 1 of this deep dish is attractively built, even if you’ve never let us be naked. Uh, what? Exactly. And as if there wasn’t a ton of Let It Be material to cover, Tony & T.J. still find time to ask the hard questions, like: 🧇 Who released better 45s, The Beatles or The Waffle House? Ü Is T.J.’s favorite Hansen song "Umlaut"? 🎙 Should Tony get a "Poddy" (a podcast Emmy, maybe?) for his dramatic reenactment of Paul McCartney’s letter to Allen Klein? As Hulk Hogan once said, "You don’t need drugs to move your feet. So when the dealer tries to push on you, just tell him: leave me alone, I’m subscribing to the Untitled Beatles Podcast here!" And, maybe leave us a review wherever you listen, lest Rowdy Roddy Piper’s ghost come back to F you up. | |||
| 08 Jun 2024 | (Not So) Fab Greed | 00:36:27 | |
For us UBPeedles who also dig old school rap, it's clear that the Fat Boys cover of "Baby, You're A Rich Man" absolutely betters the Beatles' far less trilly/rappy original. And some four decades since the Disorderlies soundtrack shocked the world, the Fat Boys have never been more relevant, en vogue, or even En Vogue. Never gonna get it, never gonna get it (this reference)? Here goes: baby, you'd better be a rich them to afford Beatles-related reissues these days! A "Mind Games" cube for $1,700? WTF?!?! Only (rich) people, indeed... Tony and T.J. delve into the shamefully burgeoning world of Fab Greed, the debut of Lennon/McCartney 2.0, and also: 🐏 Is buying a Billy Budapest Belt Buckle beyond Beatle believability? 🍁 Can "Primrose Hill" replace "Solsbury Hill" as the go-to music used in previews for autumn-based romantic comedies? (Angry Chicago Guy: AND HOW COME WAGS IS TOO WOKE TO SERVE SALISBURY STEAK NO MORE??) 😵 Does P3Z-Nutz know a little too much about T.J.'s mom? Uh-oh! AI stalker-of-dead-parents alert! #NotAGame #Practice
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| 19 Jun 2021 | Black Music and The Beatles | 00:51:05 | |
Hey it's Juneteenth! In honor of the holiday, let's take a minute to reflect on the Black artists who inspired, wrote, or originally recorded SO MUCH of the Beatles' music we know and love. T.J and Tony pick some of their favorite songs that the Beatles covered, including some of the lesser-known originals.
There's a ton of great music throughout the show. We loved getting to dig into some groundbreaking R&B artists we already knew a little bit about—and some we're just getting to know for the first time—and we hope you do too.
"I was given back my body in the 1950s by Black music. I appreciate it, and I’ll never stop acknowledging it – Black music is my life." John Lennon, JET Magazine, October 1972
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| 19 Sep 2020 | Love LP and All Together Now DVD | 00:46:05 | |
In this episode of Pizza Talk, TJ and Tony get acrobatically off-topic trying to discuss The Beatles collaboration with Cirque de Soleil. It contains 101 local Chicago references. We think this episode will sell a lot of tickets for the Vegas show. | |||
| 02 Dec 2023 | The Beatles: 1962–1966, a.k.a. THE RED ALBUM (2023 Edition) | 01:13:28 | |
November saw a fete of new Beatles releases and re-releases. So this month the Untitled Beatles Podcast begins a fab-four-course feast, guaranteed to be the toppermost of the ploppermost. We hope you like deep dish! A beginning… 1st Course: Amuse-bouche A Siskel & Ebert review of Peter Jackson’s “Now and Then” music video 2nd Course: Deep Dish Disc One of the 2023 Edition of the Red Album 3rd Course: Deep Dish Disc Two of the 2023 Edition of the Red Album 4th Course: Deep Dish 2023 Edition of the Blue Album On its 50th anniversary, the latest Giles Martin demix-remixes are a sonic revelation for Beatle sniffers of all palettes. And as always, T.J. and Tony offer these questions to fab folk of a certain vintage: 🥁 Yes, the merits of Ringo’s drumming have finally been brought to the fore, but are they Dave Grohl-approved? 🛥️ Why won’t Brian Epstein return my calls about having The Beatles play my private yacht in Dolby Pro-Logic 4.1 surround sound? Dealbreaker: They NEED to stand in a ITU-R BS 775 configuration! 🪘 Was the bongo tickle at the end of “And I Love Her” consensual? Please pace yourself, there are two courses in this episode. And don’t load up on bread - your fingers will puff up and you won’t be able to properly play “Now and Then” on piano!
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| 27 Dec 2020 | Deep Dish: McCartney (1970) | 01:37:01 | |
The first in a series of the Untitled Beatles Podcast’s exploration of the “McCartney” albums kicks off with the cute one’s 1970 solo debut. TJ and Tony make a case for its greatness and its weakness in the context of other solo Beatle ventures that year while revealing which Breakfast Club members they most identified with. Also, what if Lady Madonna and The Fool On The Hill had made it? Meanwhile a random Joe Jackson reference unwittingly unlocks a turbulent used car memory for Tony in the California desert of the 90s, and TJ ponders an incontinent Rocky Raccoon. It should also be noted that Don Mattingly bats left/throws left. Q: Is this a Beatles podcast or Gen X pop culture therapy? A: It's both. | |||
| 07 Aug 2021 | Ringo Starr's "Old Wave" (1983) | 00:58:39 | |
Commonly regarded (by no one) as one of the greatest post-Beatles solo projects of all time, this week T.J. and Tony finally dish deep upon Ringo Starr’s 1983 masterpiece, “Old Wave.” True to its title, Ringo and Joe Walsh teamed up to make a mid-70s record that was so hot, it wasn’t even originally released in the U.S. Thankfully, in 2021, this rarity can be easily found on the internet to stream. Which is great news for fans, not so great news for T.J.’s side hustle selling bootleg burned German import CDs out of his trunk at the Lincoln Mall in Matteson. Between tracks, the guys take a couple detours to revisit:
And, in what we have to assume is another first in podcast history, we may just take a quick pause to enjoy two full minutes of Chicagoland’s WGBO Super 66, originally broadcast in January, 1986. We don’t want to overhype this episode or anything, but let's just say it beats sleep.
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| 28 Dec 2024 | The Beatles' Christmas Records, 1963-69 (Xmas Flexis Special Re-Run) | 01:09:00 | |
The fellas are offline for the holidays this week, enjoying a restful end of the year and prepping furiously for all-new episodes in 2025. And hey BY THE WAY, UBP Episode 200 is coming up real soon! If you'd like to be a part of the celebration, we'd love to have you. Record an audio memo with a question for the guys and email it to untitledbeatlespod@gmail.com with "Episode 200" and we'll try to find a way to work it into the episode. And in the meantime, dust off those old Xmas Flexidiscs, and please enjoy this encore release of our 2021 deep dish conversation about the Beatles' Christmas Records.
----- Originally released December 25, 2021 It’s been a real gear year for the Untitled Beatles Podcast and it’s all due to you! ‘Spect some of you are getting out a 50¢ piece to weigh down your rare out of print Beatles Christmas Flexi Discs. For those going without these cherished “only fans” records, T.J. and Tony will cover each holiday curiosity released from 1963-1969, with noses red from holiday cheer. In this very special holiday episode: 🍆 Ho Ho Ho! Will they succeed in referencing “Ding Dong” on XXXmas day? 🍗 Yeah Yeah Yeah! Since T.J. and Tony have gone right off jelly babies, will they switch to Kenny Rogers Roasters roasted chicken? 🌿 Hi Hi Hi! Was the first legal dispensary in the United States run by Mrs. Garrett from The Facts of Life? Plus shout outs to Beedle Peedles in the Untitled Beatle Community. Garry Crimble to you (and Garry Mimble for those who don’t celebrate Crimble) and a Happy Goo Year! EPISODE NOTES:
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| 16 Apr 2022 | A Hard Day’s Night - The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (U.S., 1964) | 01:00:42 | |
🎸 BOINNNNNNG Arguably the most recognizable chord in the history of rock and roll, the opening G7add9sus4 lets you know INSTANTLY that it’s been a hard day’s night, and George Martin’s been working like a dog. This week, T.J. and Tony dish deep on the United Artists LP of the Original Motion Picture Sound Track to The Beatles’ “A Hard Day’s Night.” Our dynamic duo gets duophonic, breaking things down track-by-track, including all the classic George Martin instrumentals. Between tracks, we make time for the important stuff, like: 🐈 A preview of the first known copy of the long-rumored Asia / Alf collab 🍗 Which was more commercially viable: Kenny Rogers’s records for United Artists, or his roasted chicken? 🕵🏻♂️ T.J.’s audition for Beatle Forensics, his spinoff podcast inspecting every version of I’ll Cry Instead ever recorded 🏴☠️ And Tony’s audition for Is Joe English Dead, his spinoff podcast about dubious Google results and internet polls
This one’s not streamable, kids, so you’ll have to hit the record store crates for your copy, or send a self-addressed stamped envelope to: T.J. Shanoff Somewhere in Chicago. And by Chicago, he probably means Deerfield.
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| 16 Nov 2024 | "Problematic" Beatles Fantasy Albums | 00:41:23 | |
You got a problem with me, guy? What about The Beatles, you don't got a problem with them, right? Because some of their songs, depending who you ask, are pretty darn problematic. Where's Jerry Falwell when you need him? Oh, yeah, dead! He Gone!!! 🥰 Tony and T.J. attempt very hard to get cancelled as they debate which Beatles songs are, to quote Lindsey Buckingham, Trouble; as they discuss their unique and very real compilations of Problematic Beatles Songs. Along the way, Tony, T.J., and stone cold early 90s Miami DJ legend - nepotism alert! - DJ Double DJ, discuss these dirty, Murica hatin songs and also ask: 🤡 Is Matt Gaetz's favorite song, "I Saw Her Standing There"? Because, she was just 17? #GaetzyPuckett 👸 (Our Chicago friend at the bar. It's 3pm, he hasn't showered in a bit, and he just called the RC Cola delivery guy "Ozzie Guillen, Jr.") "How come Queen and Fred McMercury stole that big butts song from the Beatles and then Sir Mix A A Lot made a rap song about it? And how come rap music don't go away, so I can feel comfortable again??" 🥛🎙️ If one man makes another man "spit on his microphone", is it probably at Matt Gaetz's house? | |||
| 25 Dec 2021 | The Beatles’ Christmas Records, 1963-69 (Xmas Flexis) | 01:07:34 | |
It’s been a real gear year for the Untitled Beatles Podcast and it’s all due to you! ‘Spect some of you are getting out a 50¢ piece to weigh down your rare out of print Beatles Christmas Flexi Discs. For those going without these cherished “only fans” records, T.J. and Tony will cover each holiday curiosity released from 1963-1969, with noses red from holiday cheer. In this very special holiday episode: 🍆 Ho Ho Ho! Will the boys succeed in referencing “Ding Dong” on XXXmas day? 🍗 Yeah Yeah Yeah! Since T.J. and Tony have gone right off jelly babies, will they switch to Kenny Rogers Roasters roasted chicken? 🌿 Hi Hi Hi! Was the first legal dispensary in the United States run by Mrs. Garrett from The Facts of Life? Plus shout outs to Beedle Peedles in the Untitled Beatle Community. Garry Crimble to you (and Garry Mimble for those who don’t celebrate Crimble) and a Happy Goo Year!
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| 23 Oct 2021 | The Beatles and Sampling Part 1 | 00:53:59 | |
This week, the Untitled Beatles Podcast introduces new hosts, Casio and Yamaha, who kick off a two-parter all about The Beatles and sampling. From “Yellow Submarine” to, arguably, the greatest Beatles single, “Movie Medley”, Cas & Yam go over some of their favorite samples used by the Fabs and, later, disco-lovin’ producers who were not at all on loads of cocaine. Along the way, the Gab Two get down to the nitty gritty Beatles hot topics the old hosts were, frankly, too cowardly to address, like: 🤠Who would you rather see at legendary Chicago venue Schubas: Cowboy Mouth or Hillbilly Teeth? ⚾️ Does Tony bat 1.000 while strenuously trying to pronounce difficult European last names? 💡Where does T.J. place 37th Beatle Kenny Loggins on the list of great artists who, like Steve Perry, obviously influenced the Beatles? To all of our priest listeners, we say sit you down, Father, rest you…as you download and subscribe to our show here. And if you leave us a review, Cas and Yam will send you totally legal re-enactments of laugh track-free episodes of M*A*S*H. | |||
| 13 Feb 2021 | Beatles Valentimes [sic] | 00:54:02 | |
Love is in the air, and for Tony, TJ, and the Fab Four, it's more than just holding hands. This Valentine's Day, the guys present some of their favorite Beatles love songs. Not the 1977 Love Songs compilation; not the 2006 Cirque du Soleil soundtrack. They cut straight to the good stuff. We're talking:
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| 18 Dec 2021 | Something New (1964) | 01:07:10 | |
Sure, "A Day In The Life" is ok, and "Tomorrow Never Knows" is fine, but only one Beatles album closes with maybe their greatest song, "Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand".
It was certainly Something New for Capitol to close their third Beatles album in German, not to mention generously including 5 songs fans in ’64 had already purchased a few weeks beforehand. (#NowOnCapitol!) And yet, because it’s The Freaking Beatles, it’s such a fun and uniquely Capitol album.
Tony and T.J. fawn over this million-seller and along the way ask the hard questions they don’t address in Liverpool, like:
🐸 Is the Muppet Show’s "Mahna Mahna" best heard in stereo or "Mahnaphonic"? 🍨 Why did Paul ask a witness to #coldstone murder to drum on "Press To Play’s" "Angry"? 🥪 Any of y’all ever spread Heinz Helmer on a sammich? Timpani drum roll courtesy of David Skidmore, Vic Firth Percussion.
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| 18 Jun 2022 | Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), Part 3 | 00:53:04 | |
It was 80 years ago today that Sir Paul McCartney was born! In honor of this awesome moment in Fab Four history, the Untitled Beatles Podcast is proud to present part three of our look at his most important record: the “Hope For The Future” EP. (#Thrash) WAIT! HOLD UP, YO! STOP THE PRESSES, NEWSIES! We’re actually discussing Side 2 of the iconic, legendary “Pepper”, as the cool kids call it. And whether you prefer your transition from “Good Morning, Good Morning” to the “Sgt. Pepper” reprise in mono or stereo, we hope you will enjoy our final installment of this “Pepper” deep dish, which also dares to ask: ✏️ When not microwaving pencils, did young Tony used to raw-dawg Doritos sandwiches? ⚾️ Was “Within You Without You” George’s tribute to Kenny Lofton, given how much he loved Cleveland Indian music? 📼 When it comes to Macca-inspired blank audio cassettes (emoji not available), are you team “Maxell's Silver Hammer” or “Mother Nature’s Sony”? So wake up, fall out of (your Pepper’s water)bed, and before you drag a comb across Judge Dredd, join Tony and T.J. for one final look at an album that quite literally changed the trajectory of popular culture in ways unseen until Asia’s self-titled debut in ’82. (“A Day In The Life” is fine, but have you heard “Heat Of The Moment”, son?)
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| 24 Nov 2022 | An Untitled Beatles Fabsgiving Special | 00:44:24 | |
Were The Beatles at the very first Thanksgiving? We may never know, but we do know they wrote some great Thanksgiving-style songs throughout their career. It’s Fabsgiving on the Untitled Beatles Podcast! Gather round the UBP piano, sing along and wonder: ☕️ Did T.J. use the remaining points on his 2007 Paul McCartney Starbucks® Card to get a discount on the forthcoming 7” Box Set? 🦃 If deep frying a turkey, should one avoid listening to "Norwegian Wood"? What about the BBC track "Set Fire To That Lot" or the unreleased Macca song "Set This Town on Fire"? 👊🏼 Will Tony get into a Black Friday Record Store Day fistfight over a translucent orange copy of Ringo the 4th? Plus Producer Casey drops by to read us unsavory anti-fan mail. TryptoFAB! As John Lennon once screamed, “Remember the (4th Thursday) of November!”
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| 15 Jun 2024 | Favourite Beatle Musical Moments | 01:12:20 | |
It’s not so easy to pick favorites, is it? Whether foods, books, music, kids, or wives, picking your favorites can be a real pain in the rear end; which is a more socially acceptable way of saying “dumper”. But(t) what about fave Beatles moments? Doesn’t every Beatles song (*except “From Me To You”) have indelible, life-changing, favorite moments? So how can any mere mortal pick their favorite Beatles moments without the strict, Maharishi-like guidance of Tony & T.J.? Well thanks to a great suggestion from loyal listener Glen K, this week the Gab Two pick some of the favorite moments in a career filled with the best songs in rock history (*except “From Me To You”, which is a fine song, but not when compared with “Please Please Me”. YA FEEL ME, BEATLES 1?) In this episode, Tony & T.J. are overflo-ing (#Progressive #PollyHolliday) with both favorite and precious moments, among them: 🎸 Joe Val and Steve Satriani are the best rock guitar pickers not named Pink Floyd. Fight me? #WFUK-FM #Appleton 🐔 Does the Skokie, IL Browns Chicken (AND PASTA) accept gift cards from the Mandaluyong, Metro Manila Kenny Rogers Roasters? 🚫💵 (Angry Chicago Guy:) HOW COME THE MUSICAL “PIPPEN” AIN’T GOT NOTHING TO DO WITH THE CHICAGO BULLS? AND HOW COME RAP LEGEND BIG DADDY KAINE SANG “PIPPEN AIN’T EASY?”
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| 23 Jul 2022 | Deep Dish: The Music of 1982 Part2 | 01:00:57 | |
Summer of ‘59 is a classic Macca b-side. 1967 was the frigid Summer of Gloves. The summer of ‘69 was when you got your first real g string. But only 1982 was the Summer of Producer Casey, and some of Tony & T.J.‘s most formative, favorite hits, blasting off from WLS-FM, young B96, and Downtown Records & Tapes. And in our continued look at the (you can do) magic of 1982, upon the year’s 40th anniversary, we talk about those great tunes, many more Beatles-related releases, and other “Brady Brides”-worthy madcap hijinks, like: 🎸Zeppelin rocked okay, but could they touch Kenny Loggins & Steve Perry? 📺 OK fans of Weird Al originals: “This Is The Life” or “That Boy Could Dance”? 🏍 Is the Cadillac Foxes take on “Gloria (feat. Erik Estrada)” from the punk rock episode of “CHiPs” the definitive version? If E.T. hadn’t pulled a #hegone, probably from all those damn Reese’s Pieces or from getting water on him after midnight (buzzer sfx), they’d phone bone for our deep dish part II (#eyeeye) of the last official year before the 80’s began: 1982!
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| 01 Apr 2021 | BONUS: Klaatu's 3:47 EST (1976) | 00:30:09 | |
In the heat of the mid-70s desperate anticipation of a Beatles reunion, the mysterious Canadian band Klaatu released an out-of-this-world album that listeners couldn't help but speculate had been secretly recorded by... some other fabulous foursome. Tony and TJ pick apart the enduring enigma surrounding 3:47 EST. And, in the process:
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| 26 Feb 2022 | Get Back - The Rooftop Concert IMAX Experience (A Very Special Untitled Beatles Field Trip) | 00:53:51 | |
This is a new phase Untitled Beatles Podcast...essential to the content of seeing the film, Get Back in IMAX was that Tony & T.J. each recorded their experiences driving to the theater; in comes the warmth and general nonsense of discussing the film together in a live bar performance, as reproduced for mp4 by Producer Casey. Also in this very special episode: 📻 Baby, if you’ve ever wondered, does T.J. wax nostalgic when his favorite sitcom actor leaves the material world? 📷 Which better suits the George Martin Orchestra’s “This Boy”: Sad Ringo (not living in a van) down by the river, or Tony’s musings on the Sgt. Pepper costumes? 🤦♂️ Do the Gab (and/or Abacab) Two know if one of the most influential figures in Beatles history is alive or dead? (Spoilers: Nope.) Take that plastic flap off your mouth holes, slam an I-talian beef or two, and enjoy this inside look at a joyous, Tony & T.J. field trip to see this remarkable film together.
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| 01 Jun 2024 | Ringo Starr, "Crooked Boy" EP (2024) | 00:41:21 | |
If it’s Saturday, it means one thing: Ringo has another new EP! Nobody other than Ringo has released more music in such a short amount of time - LOOKING AT YOU, TAYLOR* (*Fred Taylor, longtime Jaguars running back.) The masses want to know: is Ringo’s “Crooked Boy” the biggest musical release of 2024? As Macca might opine, Who Cares what the idiots say! Any Ringo album is a gift to us all, right? RIGHT? In this episodic journey - which also begins to touch on the recent, disturbing silver streak of greed in Beatles reissues - we discuss the newest Ringo record, arguably his finest EP since whatever the hell the last one was called, and also get into these hot button hot topics: 🍕🛖 Is the Pizza Hut in Normal Illinois best known for its personal pan pizza, or for Rich Hall’s infamous 1987 visit? 💩🏄 Is Ringo a Butthole Surfer, or merely one of the two? 📻 Is Linda Perry’s “What’s Goin’ On” way better than Marvin Gaye’s long-forgotten, critically derided, socially irrelevant version? (Angrier than usual Chicago guy:) AND HOW COME WGN AM-720 STOPPED USING BOTH OF THOSE SONGS, FEAT. DEAN RICHARDS, AS PROMO BUMPERS? AND WHY DID MILT ROSENBERG HAVE TO DIE? EPISODE LINKS
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| 23 Apr 2022 | Beatle-esque Bangers, Part 1 | 00:52:40 | |
Webster’s dictionary defines “music” as… you know what, only d-bags start a sentence with that nonsense. So let’s cut right to the chase—without The Beatles, is there even music? Extreme, maybe (#MoreThanWords), but the Fabs—together and solo—rewrote the rules of what popular music could be many times over, inspiring a term now commonly known as “Beatle-esque”. But what does “Beatle-esque” even mean? Is it even a word if it isn’t in Websters? Does Emanuel Lewis know? Tony and T.J. consider what the term means to them, providing examples of how elements of Beatles music have seeped into some of their favorite songs by other artists. Along the way, the Gab Two ponder: 🚽 Did nepotistic 80’s singer Rockwell record his lone hit in the same room where Elvis died? 🍔 Would you let your child near a McDonalds clown with a quarter pounder in his pants? 🎹 Did Billy Joel’s wonton cussing in “Laura” inspire Macca’s “Big Boys Bickering”? We’re Beatles fans, sure—but we also understand that some artists, namely Asia, Stephanie Mills and Joe Diffie, were better and bigger than The Beatles. So they get their due, too.
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| 11 Mar 2023 | Beatle-esque Bangers II Part 2 | 00:35:26 | |
It’s like Mark Bolan and T. Rex once said: "Get it on! Banger, Gong! Get it, Gong!” We’re not certain who Gong is - according to Lewisohn, it's longtime Lennon idol Chuck Barris - but we’re sure fans of Beatle Bangers. And in Part Two of Part Two, we hear some killer listener-suggested Bangers, and also ask: 🤲 Would “Hans Zimmer Across America” have been more successful if came after “Rain Man”? 🎻 Is “Andrew Black Bird” really about civil rights? 🏈 And why, exactly, is longtime NFL referee Ed Hochuli such a huge Monkees fan? These are the Tates, and these are the Campbells. And this is Part Two, of Part Two, of Beatles Bangers! #LikeAndSubscribe
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| 30 Jul 2022 | Deep Dish: Beatles ’65 (1964) Part 1 | 00:46:29 | |
Most rock historians agree that The Beatles were ahead of their time, as evidenced by their impressive entrance at the Royal Command Performance via jetpack. In fact, the lads from Liverpool were so ahead of their time, they released an album in 1964 called Beatles ’65 (!!!). And boy did it age them, judging from their sullen publicity photos, maturing songwriting, and Wurther’s Original hard candies thrown at them on stage. As the Rutles would later say, "Ouch!" This week T.J. and Tony deep dish another curious LP in their long forgotten American discography - Beatles ’65 - an album that has nothing to do whatsoever with The Beatles in 1965. It causes one to ponder: 📱Is it possible John Lennon owned the world’s first mobile cellular telephone? 🎡Could T.J. get carnival work guessing when Beatles LPs were pressed? 👃🏻If Ringo Starr was a scratch ’n’ sniff sticker, what would he smell like? #BeatleSniffer So don something black, have a good cry for yourself, and let the phone ring endlessly, because the Untitled Beatles Podcast is just beginning to talk about The Beatles in ’65.* *’64 (But by the time we finish talking about this album it will be 1965)
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| 22 Jul 2023 | The Beatles’ (Fantasy) Summer LP | 01:01:31 | |
Rumour has it, if you mash up The Beach Boys' "Endless Summer" compilation with the Grease showstopper "Summer Nights", you get 137th Beatle Richard Marx's classic cassingle, "Endless Summer Nights" (🚫) "Right Here Waiting" (🛎). But…what if you get crazy and accidentally add John & Yoko's "Double Fantasy"? MAYBE NOBODY KNOWS? (#MccartneyII #McCartneyEyeEye) Good thing Tony and TJ, 98.9's Hot FM midday summer jamz expertz, know about Summer, The Beatles, and fantasies, dear mister! And the #TanTwo have generously assembled their own fantasy summer Beatles compilations to cure your summertime blues! So don't raise a fuss and don't raise a holler, Wisk helps get rid of ring around the collar! And: 🦭 Do Arctic-adjacent kids who love art projects listen to a lot of Seals and Crafts? And was that really worth it? 🪖 So, turns out Tony's a WW-Eye expert, huh? 🍦 If Mike Love was flavor of ice cream, would he still be a d**k?
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| 17 Feb 2024 | Paul McCartney and Wings "Band On The Run" Underdubbed Mixes (2024) | 00:47:54 | |
Here’s an actual e-mail from The Untitled Beatles Podcast to M.P.L., sent on The Fifth of November, 2023: Hi Sir Paul or Freda! We are the Untitled Beatles Podcast, America’s foremost discussion of profound, focused Beatles scholarship. With the holidays around the corner (AMERICAN ONES, LIKE CHRISTMAS! USA! USA! USA!) we wanted to represent all Beatles and Macca fans with this wish list for 2024: First off, please, absolutely do not deliver long-delayed remasters of “London Town” and “Back To The Egg”. Who needs’ em! The most “recent” ones from 1993, with their harsh compression and lack of any meaningful bonus tracks, have held up JUST GREAT. But, please do make us buy “Band On The Run” again! Only this time, change things up. Maybe put the songs in a different order? Take away all of the beautiful arrangements that are baked into this album’s legacy? Just one thing: please, do not include “Helen Wheels”. Feel me, holmes? We at the UBP - the home of Producer Casey’s exclusive re-mix of your old band’s most famous single, “The Movie Medley”, as you’re well aware from your cruel lawsuit - guarantee that even the most skeptical fan will find this to be a stunning reissue we never knew we needed. Your skilled team can give this album an intimacy and rawness that somehow elevates the these already great songs. What do you think? Are you in? And while we have a minute with you Sir Paul, or Freda: 👩❤️💋👩 What’s your favorite old porno rag: Screw? Naked? Stripped? Underdubbed? Cracked? Stacked? Smothered? Covered? Or Chunked? #TruffleShuffle 🎻 Is Tony Visconti the Phil Spector of producer/arrangers who don’t kill people? 👍❌ Is the BTS K-Pop smash “Dyno-mite” a fitting or, quite frankly (#StephenASmith) insulting tribute to “Good Times” legend Jimmie Walker? Thank you, Sir Paul, or Freda, for liking and subscribing to our show like decent/non-awful people do! And, because we’re writing this on Sunday, 11/5/23 (Remember??), and it’s Daylight Savings Time, it’s probably already Meat Free Monday where you are. As they say at NEMS, Mazel Tov! With Kisses On Your Bottom, Tony, T.J., Producer Casey, and P3Z-Nutz
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| 18 Jul 2020 | Yesterday (Film Review) | 00:39:25 | |
TJ and Tony dissect the fab-themed rom-com “Yesterday” from the perspective of aging Gen X Beatle jerks trying really hard to give it the benefit of the doubt. There will be spoilers, beefs, and the occasional charitable offering. | |||
| 10 Jun 2023 | The Beatles Sell Out: The Fab Four in Ads | 01:08:11 | |
What makes a "sell out"? Did you sell out? Did Who? How 'bout when? Or sometimes, y? #sometimesand #provtalk And what about AI? Does it scare you? Is it weird to be scared of a 76'er who retired years ago and hated - I mean, HATED - practice? Not the game! He's talking about practice. Today's episode considers both related topics. Do commercials with covers or (ahem, sloppily edited) original Beatles music brand our beloved Fabs as sell outs? And what of Beatles AI: awful, or artful? Along this Journey (#OpenArms), our own cell outs (#AmeritechBell) consider: 🥩 Does everybody know your name at Chili's, Applebees, or Rudy Tuesjays? 🇺🇸 John Lewis remains a beloved, American civil rights hero. Was he also a UK department store? 🐴🪦 Is Golden Slumbers best heard as a cover in a TV commercial with the sounds of a large, apparently quite ill animal snoring and I think farting?
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| 03 Apr 2021 | The Beatles Live at Budokan (1966) | 00:58:32 | |
Missing live music as much as we are? This week we offer you an hour-long escape to 1966 Japan, where the Fab Four played their iconic concerts at Budokan. Maybe not their most polished performances, but definitely memorable, and definitely a portrait of the Beatles in a critical moment of transition, fresh off their Revolver recording sessions. We've got lots of music in store for you, along with:
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| 22 May 2021 | Deep Dish: U.S. Rubber Soul (1965) Part 2 | 00:47:17 | |
The British Rubber Soul is for the birds! OK, that might be a little aggressive. The album's a masterpiece, but T.J. and Tony make a pretty compelling argument that nobody really misses "What Goes On," and that Dave Dexter's U.S. version for Capitol Records is just a superior collection. It's so fine. It's sunshine. It's PART TWO of our U.S. Rubber Soul deep dish. And along the way, we ponder:
"Run For Your Life" may not age well, but we like to think our dumb Peter Cetera jokes will. YOU BE THE JUDGE.
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| 04 Jan 2025 | Beatles Mono Box Set Listening Party | 00:36:23 | |
To celebrate the release of The Beatles 1964 US Albums in Mono, Untitled T.J. invited Untitled Tony over to his Untitled Beatles Paradise, where the two middle-aged lads Beatled about for hours with these new HOTLY CUT platters. In this episode, the first in a sporadic series, they delve into this MOSTLY FAB box set, leading off with Side 1 of Meet The Beatles. While the hot wax spins, the Jurk Twins ponder: 🥩 Is Tony’s new copy of “Mono Meet The Beatles: feat “Not A Second Time Sgt. Paper Inner Groove [Lee Minkler Remix]” more rare or medium rarer than T.J.’s “Target Presents: Mono Meat The Beatles [Exclusive Limited Marbled Blue Vinyl Presented by Target. Target: A Fun Place To Shop!]? 🛍️ Is the key to corporate improvisation, “Bring a bag, not a cathedral”? 🥀 Not to be ’90’s rap conspiratorial, but can we be certain that the Flowers In The Dirt World Tour Pack Shakur really died in ’96? (Angry Chicago Guy: And how come White Sox manager Terry Bevington ain’t at SoxFest no more?)
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| 24 Jun 2023 | Ringo & His All-Starr Band (1990) Part 2 | 01:05:20 | |
From TV's "All Star Blitz" to the the NBA all star celebrity game (feat. some dude from "Grey's Anatomy"), a collection of rando all-stars usually sucks. But not when left to the devices of our dear Ringo, as evidenced in part two of our deep dish on his first all starr band LP!Along the way, Tony and T.J. ask: 🔦🤫 Is "Shine Silently" to 1989 what "Shine Silently" was to 1979, only double? 🛥🛥 Speaking of double, If T.J. plays Double’s “The Captain Of Her Heart” on the piano for no reason, and Tony doesn’t notice the forgotten '85 yachty deep cut jam, did T.J. even play it? #GetRidOfThePiano #Horrible 🧙💩 (Angry Chicago Guy:) How come Ringo had a Cardinals shortstop play guitar in his first all starr band? And what ever happened to that big guy, big home run hitter, oh yeah, poo holes? Dat's rite, my friendt, POO HOLES!
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| 25 Jul 2020 | Happy 80th, Ringo! | 01:12:01 | |
For Ringo Starr's 80th birthday, TJ and Tony wax percussive on the bearded drummer who was known to have a Zephyr Zodiac, including favorite Beatle drumming moments and a deep dive into his solo heights and depths. Plus hot supermarket takes from TJ (Jewel vs. Mariano's), and Tony's fascination with pillows continues. Also, what sitcom character would Ringo play? The long and rambling road eventually has most of the answers. | |||
| 16 Mar 2024 | Macca Snacks #1 / Paul McCartney's The 7" Singles Box (2022) | 00:28:23 | |
In the fall of 2022, acclaimed (fictional) documentarian and (fictional) podcast factchequer P3Z-Nutz planted a microphone in a flower pot embedded in the Shanoff residence to surreptitiously record T.J. and Tony as they unboxed and auditioned select cuts from the then-newly-released McCartney 7" Singles Box Set. (Don't worry -- our AI lawyers assure us it's totally legal.) While we were unable to obtain Peter Jackson's proprietary AI sound-cleaning technology, we were able to get access to a turntable once used to play Pete Best's "Best of the Beatles", and frankly, the sonic results are astounding. Please enjoy the first of what we hope will be like 80 occasionally recurring episodes—part of a complete, balanced breakfast—that we're calling MACCA SNACKS.
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| 13 May 2023 | Living In The Material World 50th Anniversary Part 1 | 00:58:45 | |
George Harrison holds a special place in the hearts of the Untitled Beatles Podcast, and millions of Beatles fans. As prolific as John and Paul were, and as much as few could lay a beat down like Bernard Purdie, who overdubbed many, if not all, of Ringo’s tracks (chew on that, Lewishon), George was arguably the spirit and soul of The Beatles; no little feat. #DixieChicken Join us as we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of his 1973 blockbuster, “Living In The Material World”. It heightened the spirituality of “All Things Must Pass”, while ditching that album’s sprawl and layers upon layers of production, resulting in a fascinating, beautiful record laden with musical and lyrical juxtapositions. In part 1 of this Deep Dish, the Material Two, with an assist from Producer Casey and a rather aggressive P3Z-nuts, break down the album’s history, reception, and legacy, and also ask: 🍗 Is Minnie Pearl a Nashville sexpot, or more of a Nashville Hot Chicken Wrap? Now available at participating Manillaland/Northwest Indiana Kenny Rogers Roasters. 🤕 If Whitney Houston is the Beatles of the 80’s, and the Miami Heat Threetles were the Beatles of the 2010's, and Skittles are the 80’s candy equivalent of the 60’s Beatles, are the Miami Heat Threetles to the '10's what the actual Threetles were to the 90’s what the 60’s Beatles were to Skittles in the 80’s? #MeetTheSkittles 🐀 Sign here if you think Rhonda Santis should ban book slappin’! _________________________
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| 30 Apr 2022 | Beatle-esque Bangers, Part 2 | 01:02:43 | |
Who was The Godfather of Gum? What on earth is Elephant Six?? Who was the other guy in XTC??? None of them were The Beatles. Nor were they Beatlemania. But their music is an incredible simulation that could be considered “Beatle-esque”. In this “thrilling-esque” conclusion, T.J. and Tony continue trading their favorite songs that come close to That Thing The Fab Four Did. Like most journeys, this episode uncovers more questions than answers... 🥤 Why did Billy Joel succumb to madness during the Cola Wars? 📺 Did the kids on BBC’s Seven Up! series experience Monotones-Mania? 🎲 Was Andrew “Dice” Clay the 5th member of Badfinger? No matter how you slice it (we slice it tavern-style), The Beatles DNA can be heard on worldwide chart toppers, crate-buried oddities, and your favorite cold, robot-selected algorithms.
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| 14 Aug 2021 | The Songs They Gave Away Part 1 | 00:49:02 | |
Not every Lennon and McCartney tune made its way onto a Beatles record, but that didn’t mean they had to hide away gathering dust, only to be released on some future 20-disc rarities box set. The greatest songwriting duo in history also kicked some of their work over to other artists making their names in the 60s—Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, Cilla Black, the Fourmost, some scrappy Londoners calling themselves the Rolling Stones, etc.—and this week T.J. and Tony share some of their four-fab faves the Beatles gave away. And maybe also a couple of tossers. While they’re at it, they also made some time to:
Buckle up! It's gonna be a two parter. * Please no stealing our amazing podcast ideas
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| 29 Jan 2022 | The Beatles ”Rarities” (1978 or 1980) | 01:12:11 | |
If your ideal “Penny Lane” ends with a trumpet riff, if you prefer “I Am The Walrus” with extra beats, if you struggle to enjoy “And I Love Her” without the longer outro: a) seek help, friend, and b) "Rarities" was a big part of your 80's Beatles experience! Tony & T.J. deep dish on Capitol’s long-forgotten 1980 offering and the wholly different '78 U.K. version, and along the way, consider: 📻 Is “The Boombox In The Backseat Of Tony’s Car" the standout track on "Ram"? 🌈 Is mono “Don’t Pass Me By” a better song on the Capitol rainbow label? 🖖 Is Stuart Sutcliffe best remembered for his spoken contribution to the stereo “Helter Skelter”? One audio note: this episode was sourced from an original Ron Furmanek 45. You can tell because Producer Casey's not on tambourine. ----- EPISODE LINKS
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| 16 Oct 2021 | A Collection of Beatles Newsies | 00:51:45 | |
Extra! Texture! Is not featured in this episode. This one’s chock-full of #BreakingBeatlesNews, of which there’s been a lot these last few weeks. Tony & T.J. delve into Ringo’s new E.P., Macca’s eye-opening interview in The New Yorker, the first released tracks from the "Let It Be" remix, and much more. Along the way, they ponder/pander: Did Ringo have a Babyfaced "Premonition" while watching a John Travolta flick in ‘96 that would Change The World? Did Tony’s steadfast allegiance to Phar-Mor help destroy an iconic Chicagoland record store chain? Is nudie T.J. always Yoko, or only when re-enacting the cover of Tetragrammaton’s hundred seller, "Two Virgins"? Look, folks, Tony and T.J. are the Ron Magers and Carol Marin of Beatles podcasts. (Producer Casey is a respectable Allison Rosati.) So trust us to give it to you straight, on A Collection of Beatles Newsies, dateline 16 October 2021, Chicago, U.S.A. Subscribe here, yell at us on Facebook and please support the show - your likes and reviews make a huge difference! | |||
| 09 Mar 2024 | BONUS! Maxwell's Silver Hammer from McCartney: A Life in Lyrics | 00:40:15 | |
The UBP is honored to partner once again with the good folks at Pushkin, as we proudly present Season 2, Episode 3 of McCartney: A Life In Lyrics.
This week, T.J., Producer Casey, and a rather talkative, dialed-in, obviously present Tony, listen in and discuss Macca and Paul Muldoon's deep-dish of "Maxwell's Silver Hammer". Bang Bang! On the door, baby!
----- McCartney: A Life in Lyrics | Maxwell's Silver Hammer One day in the car, Paul McCartney heard a BBC production of the absurdist play “Ubu Cocu” by French writer Alfred Jarry. Taken by the rebelliousness of the radio play, McCartney wrote a sweet-sounding tune about a murderous medical student that seemingly lives in the same universe as Ubu: “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer.” “McCartney: A Life in Lyrics” is a co-production between iHeart Media, MPL and Pushkin Industries. The series was produced by Pejk Malinovski and Sara McCrea; written by Sara McCrea; edited by Dan O’Donnell and Sophie Crane; mastered by Jason Gambrell with assistance from Jake Gorski and sound design by Pejk Malinovski. The series is executive produced by Leital Molad, Justin Richmond, Lee Eastman and Scott Rodger. Thanks to Lee Eastman, Richard Ewbank, Scott Rodger, Aoife Corbett and Steve Ithell. -- McCartney: A Life in Lyrics offers listeners the opportunity to sit in on conversations between Paul McCartney and poet Paul Muldoon dissecting the people, experiences, and art that inspired McCartney’s songwriting. These conversations were held during the past several years as the two collaborated on the best selling book, “The Lyrics: 1965 to Present.” Over two seasons and 24 episodes of McCartney: A Life in Lyrics, you’ll hear a combination master class, memoir, and improvised journey with one of the most beloved figures in popular music. Each episode focuses on one song from McCartney’s iconic catalog – spanning early Beatles through his solo work. “McCartney: A Life in Lyrics” is a co-production between iHeart Media, MPL and Pushkin Industries. | |||
| 12 Dec 2020 | Favourite Musical Moments & Quirks, 1962-65 | 00:56:41 | |
From squeaky bass drum pedals to orgasmic yeahs, TJ and Tony divulge their favorite moments and quirks from the Beatles recorded catalog, covering Please, Please Me to Rubber Soul. Along the way, TJ tells us what life was like when Benson was on television while Tony ponders what we may hear on future Beatle reissues. Hopefully this episode will secure the Untitled Beatles Podcast a slot on MeTV Radio...or at least make their bone phones ring.
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| 03 Oct 2020 | Rutlemania! | 01:33:47 | |
TJ and Tony praise the comedic and musical genius of The Rutles, with about a trailer’s worth of spoilers. This episode is chockful of chuckles (and chug-a-lugs) honoring Eric Idle and Neil Innes’ pre-fab spamsterpiece. Along the way, they talk Chainsaw & Dave, autographed long boxes, and the merits of Grease 2. Plus, TJ pinpoints the moment Ringo Starr’s All-Starr Band “jumped the sharrk.” And it’s the debut of TJ & Tony’s Fife & Jam Band, The Fools on Hill. Occasional glitches brought to you by Zoom (free account). | |||
| 08 Oct 2022 | John Lennon and Plastic Ono Band’s ”Shaved Fish” (1975) | 01:06:41 | |
Beatles fans all over the globe celebrate John Lennon’s birthday the same way: eating a tasty Filet-O-Shaved Phish sammy while listening to the Untitled Beatles Podcast. In honor of what would have been Lennon’s 82nd birthday (woah), we break down the first solo-Beatles hits comp, and along the way ponder(osa): 🍆 Are Tony & T.J. more “radio edit” or “full length” fellas? 🧛♀️ Would there be a Led Zeppelin without the Hollywood Vampires? 🥒 If Jimmie Nicol was a tasty dill pickle, would Jimmy John’s charge him to eat himself? Like and subscribe, but never bike and imbibe; lest you be an imbibecile. Oh yeah? Then you write the jokes, pal. (Seriously would you?)
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| 12 Feb 2022 | Beatles Valentimes: Songs for Significant Others Part 1 | 00:34:53 | |
Would you look at that? It’s almost Valentimes Day! Better run to CVS or lastminutegiftcarddepot.oops and show that special someone how much you care. Or, better yet, you could write your lover song after song after song that will forever stand the test of time and be meaningful to millions all over the world? I mean John, Paul, & George did it, why can’t you? #FailureAlert With so much love in the air, Tony & T.J. look at some of their favorite songs inspired by The Beatles significant others. Along the way, their hearts explode with these hot topics/wet seals: 🏄♂️ Who was more in love with baby Linda Eastman: Jan or Dean? ⚾️ If “Shipoopi” played baseball, would it bat in the two or three hole? 🛋 Is Paul’s longtime keyboard player actually a defunct furniture superstore?
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| 18 Jan 2025 | Episode CC (Our 200th Episode!) | 01:01:19 | |
It was 200 episodes ago today… The world was thrown into chaos by a pandemic that real scientists, like the bumbling, mediocre, former host of a largely stupid, 2000’s NBC reality show, knew could be cured with basic medical know how; like injecting bleach. #NegativeCreep #FileHimUnderARock From this weird, wild world of alternative facts and despair came The Untitled Beatles Podcast, and we couldn’t be more proud to share our 200th sojourn into the vast, beautiful world of Beatles music and culture. In this special episode, Tony, T.J., and Producer Casey take the rare step of making things about themselves, and discuss how a deep love of Beatles music—as well as the much anticipated sequel to “All The Best”—brought them together. They answer pointedly personal, potentially problematic questions from some loyal listeners, and also consider: 🎙️🥁 Is the discovery of cassettes featuring Tony’s long lost, desert rock band’s Beatle covers this generation’s “Live At The Star Club”? But the 2 LP Pickwick version, not that lame 16-track Sony Music CD from 1991? 🇺🇸🧦 Angry Chicago Guy: HOW COME MALCOM MCDOWELL DON’T SPELL “COMPLETE” LIKE AN AMERICAN IN “THE COMPLEAT BEATLES”? AN’T MCDOWELL IN CHARGE OF DAT KIND OF STUFF, THE SAME WAY AJ PERZINSKI WAS IN CHARGE OF KICKING THAT JAG CUBS CATCHER MICHAEL BARRETT’S ASS BACK IN 2006? LET’S GO WHITE SOX! DIANE, I’M WET AGAIN HON…. NO, BAD WET, SWEETIE. 🦁💰 Is “Can You Feel Deloitte Tonight”, T.J.’s “Lion King” parody about noted consulters (?) Deloitte, arguably the best corporate “Lion King” parody about Deloitte of 2000? No? Cool. Cool. Whether you’re an OG listener, or you’ve tuned in exclusively for a review of Ringo’s new country LP (coming soon!), we’re grateful for all of you, and especially those with the stones to demand that we “get rid of the piano”. THANK YOU, and here’s to the next 200! EPISODE LINKS
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| 18 Sep 2021 | Imagine (1971) 50th Anniversary Part 1 | 00:46:35 | |
Most casual John Lennon fans pick “Sometime In NYC” as their favorite solo album (hashtag Attica State). But for us die-hards, "Imagine" ranks as either #1 or #2. This week, Tony & T.J. consider this seminal record on its 50th anniversary, looking at the album’s history and the immense staying power of its title track. (You “It’s So Hard” fans will have to wait until Part 2, next week!) Along the way, the Fab Two™, with Producer Casey’s expertise, also examine these hard-hitting Lennon topics: How a 1981 episode of “WKRP In Cincinnati” artfully referenced Lennon to presage today’s cuckoo crazy culture wars Which Chicago expressway has more hits on the Billboard charts #MattBusby Why cruise ship Elvis impersonators rely so heavily on arrhythmic hippy hippy hip shaking and incoherent mumbling All this and more, now with a very 1987-y “Digitally Remastered” banner added to the front cover!
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| 08 Feb 2025 | Beatles For Sale (1964) | 00:58:02 | |
It’s one of the more unique and perhaps under-appreciated albums in the Beatles otherworldly catalog: “Beatles For Sale”. Recorded in the eye of the Beatlemania storm, with the making of what would become “Help” right around the corner, this is one of the few Beatles albums that, to quote TLC’s tribute to Zach Braff (NBC’s “No Scrubs”), “Beatles For Sale”, sadly gets no love. It’s occasionally dismissed as a creative and energy step down from the album which preceded it, “A Hard Days Night”. BY MORONS, AM I RIGHT? Because this is a damn fine album, however exhausted and transitional the boys may have been, and it’s long past time it gets an authentic, patented UBP deep dish. Hold the sausage, it’s almost Meat Free Monday, you jagbag! In addition to dishing Dylan, The Beatles, and the age old political battle of mono vs. stereo, the Now On Sale Two also ponder: 🍔 Is Tony a first time grunter, a longtime grunter, or a R.J. Grunter? 🌈 Marvin Gaye ganked the riff and feel of “Got To Give It Up” from longtime, actual soul legend Robin Thicke, yes? Like, obviously? 🥁 Is Bernard Purdie, scientifically, the world’s only drummer?
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| 23 Jan 2021 | Caveman (Film Review) | 00:48:28 | |
This week TJ and Tony dust off their "Sneak Previews" sweaters to review the cult classic Caveman, starring Ringo Starr. Is this difficult-to-stream comedy superior to A Hard Day's Night? Is this hard-to-watch romp more enjoyable than Two Virgins? Is it better than a stag film shown in a small room at Beatlefest 81? In this spoiler-laden assessment, the Tangential Two wax nostalgic about the golden era of NBC's Thursday night line-up, Ribbie and Roobarb, and a pre-Fox television landscape. Meanwhile, R.E.M. finds their way within blowtorch range of a Barenaked Ladies/They Might Be Giants hot take. Plus TJ and Tony dream of turning this celluloid oddity into a cruise ship musical that's sure to win a coveted "Code Oscar." See you at the movies! | |||
| 05 Oct 2024 | Paul McCartney and Wings, "One Hand Clapping" film screening | 00:39:58 | |
As Marla Gibbs (look her up, Boomer. Did I get that right?) once said, “there’s no place like home!” And she was obviously singing about Skokie, Illinois - home of a cookie cutter AMC Movie Palace so glorious, it rivals only Chicago’s famous Esquire Theater, now home to a shuttered Dallas-based steak chain. (#Progress) Usually, Tony and T.J. only go on post-Bears game movie dates when it involves seeing the latest Marvel sequel to a Marvel sequel. (Turn up the volume on those explosions, projector man!) But a special field trip was made after a SEASON-TURNING BEARS WIN, to go see the limited, first ever theatrical release of Paul McCartney’s “One Hand Clapping”. Is the film better on the big screen than tucked away on the “Band On The Run” Archive Collection DVD? Does the music rock even harder in the theater? What’s the deal with popcorn prices these days, Obama? Tony and T.J. ask these salient and Soily questions, and also ponder from the backyard (of the theater): 📚😭 Is the Half Price Books in Skokie, IL this generation’s Tower Records? And if it is, is society in more trouble than we previously ever imagined? 🍿💩 Did “The Popcorn Kid”, the 1987 CBS flop about teens working in a movie theater, that T.J. used to videotape for some weirdo reason, ever have an episode about cleaning human feces from an exterior wall? 🍔🤮 (Angry Chicago Guy): “How come woke Tony don’t ever get no Ohio-based Red Robin Gourmet Burgers on Hulu/FX’s “The Bear”? Some Chicagoan, NOT!” (He laughs a little too hard at his own use of “NOT”, and begins to cough up Old Style from acid reflux. He vomits on his worn shoes. It’s quite sad, actually. His son doesn’t even call him anymore on Christmas; and after the hell he went through as a kid, damn right he doesn’t. And yet, this man needs help - especially after this White Sox season - and y’all laugh? Like your life is perfect? What do you get out of this abject cruelty? Maybe that’s a better question.)
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| 10 Sep 2022 | 70s Solo B-Sides Part 1 (Ringo & George) | 00:42:19 | |
Untitled Beatles Fans, What’s Happening!!! Hey, hey hey! (#StanleyClarke) Which Doobie yoobie is b-sides the point. And b-sides, today’s show is Solo 70’s B-Sides that weren’t married to an LP; from the absolute classics (“Blindman”, “I Don’t Care Anymore”,) to the hated-by-real-fans missteps (“Daytime Nighttime Suffering”, “Move Over Ms. L”). In this episode, the Off White T’s focus on Flingo & George (Tuesdays, on BBC1), and also consider: 🎸 Are The Byrds really “just alright” with Jesus? 🍆 Should Tony be concerned about his #ThrobbingGristle? ❄️ How come that lib Ringo didn’t call his classic “Chachi-Chachi”? As George once said, we had a B-sides podcast episode to make, ladies and gentlemen. And we made two. Come back next week for the thrillington (angry Chicago voice: DAT’S NOT A B-SIDE) conclusion of solo 70’s B-Sides from John and an old estranged fiancée called Paul.
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| 01 Jan 2022 | Wings’ Wild Life 50th Anniversary (1971) | 00:52:30 | |
Is any solo Paul and/or Wings album as controversial as “Wild Life”? (OK, fine, we see you, “Standing Stone”.) In (gently belated) honor of its 50th anniversary, Tony and T.J. kick off 2022 with a “Wild Life”-off, and debate the highs and lows of one of Macca’s most polarizing and #ekaturkel albums. Along the way, the Whatever Happened Two discuss: 🤖 Is Huey Lewis’s jazz-adjacent LP “Small World” fantastic, or merely made of plastic? Maybe Vicki knows? 🏊🏻♂️ Are early 70’s, indulgent rock guitar solos the original “Baywatch”? 🚽Was Sir Paul feelin’ alright while recording “Mumbo” because he was giving his regards to brown street at the time? Whether you love or hate this record, one thing is for sure: it’s a classic for Thanksgiving smoochin’. Dear friends, spill the wine! Leave us an inebriated New Years Day review and like & subscribe here. And please join us for “Twitch & Shout”, live Tuesdays at 6pm CT on twitch.tv/chicago4real | |||
| 15 Mar 2025 | An Untitled Farewell to Hard Rock Cafe Chicago | 00:42:12 | |
| 22 Feb 2025 | Beatles Fantasy Reunion Setlists | 00:57:30 | |
Have you ever had a Rock & Roll Fantasy? The Kinks did. So did Bad Company. And nobody hated Bad Company more than rock music’s Stephen Sondheim. #FireElaineStritch Some Rock & Roll fantasies are quite dangerous, like the troubling, cancel-worthy ones Rick Rubin has about feet. ALLEGEDLY. But others are healthy enough to dream out loud, on, by any reasonable metric, one of America’s most acclaimed podcasts. Inspired by an inspiring suggestion from longtime listener, Patreon supporter, and singer/songwriter, Montreal’s own Max "Como" Comeau (which translates loosely in ‘Murican to "Max, how"?), Tony and T.J. dare to dream: what would have a Beatles reunion concert been like in the late 1970’s? Would George wear his silly stache from his self titled LP? Would Paul arrive on a laconic boat from London Town? Would John bake bread as Yoko verbally assaults Chuck Berry? And would Ringo be sober enough to zug-zug his way from Monte Carlo to the venue? These questions will NOT be answered in this fairly insane excursion in to fantasyland - you’ll thank us for the two drink minimum, folks - but don’t fret; neither will these: 🚫👖 (Angry Chicago Guy:) How come Frankie Goes To Hollywood instead of Sheridan when he’s getting off the outer drive? And how come Wix got a problem with America's hottie, Sister Jean? 🚫🏊🏻♂️ Why is it literally impossible to find out how/where Keith Moon died? Nobody has this information? 🚫⚾️ Sox Fest was hella sad, right? More like, Konerk-NO!
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| 18 Feb 2023 | The White Album (1968) Part 4 | 01:08:20 | |
A long, cold, lonely winter’s month of the UBP Deep Dish on the White Album comes to a ceremonious close this week! Today, we focus on Sides 3 + 4 of the most landmark double album since the forthcoming Record Store Day 2-LP (da fuq?) version of Ringo’s “Stop And Smell The Roses”. (“Private Property” > “Honey Pie”, anyone? #LoveMonopoly) In addition to analyzing the classic, punchy pop tunes (“Revolution 9”), clubby dance jams (“Good Night”), and other hits shamefully left off of Tony’s copy of the Blue Album, the Gab Two also ask: 🐣 Do most fonts taste better (#BrownsChicken #AndPasta #SorryKennyRogers) when used in Pot Lovers Corner? ⛓ Did rapper 2 Chainz once consider calling himself 2 Mizery or 2 Anna (Go To Himz)? 💄🐆 Will the 2028 60th Anniversary remix of “The Beatles (Peter Sellers Version)” be released in a limited edition deluxe wooden crate featuring a collection of The Pink Panther gnomes? And what about The Stink Panther? #CamNewton #2020NFLJokez It’s great, it sold, it’s the bloody Untitled Beatles Podcast’s “White Album” (sorry, a-hole, “The Beatles”) Deep Dish, part Eye-Vee! (Not affiliated with noted Des Moines-area grocery chain, Hy-Vee - where there's a helpful smile, in every aisle!) Maybe now Bad Boy will finally get some love? Join us on Patreon and Facebook to find out…BEFORE WE FIND YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU....
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| 15 Jan 2022 | The Concert for Bangla Desh (1971) | 01:11:52 | |
For many, the most significant Beatle fundraising contribution on record is Macca’s nonsensical gibberish on the extended mix of Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” For Tony and T.J., it’s the George Harrison-organized “Concert For Bangla Desh,” whose 3-LP boxed set just turned 50 years old. The album and film are powerful, joyous, and iconic, filled with both bangers and ladeshers. In this episode, the Gab Two salutes their favorite moments and other hawt topics like: 🏀 Who was a better New York Knick: Eric Clapton or John Starks? 😵 Have Leon Russell and Leon Redbone ever been seen together in Belvedere, IL, or on Chicago’s Webster street? 🥁 Is Keith Moon’s most famous solo that time he f**ked up Badfinger’s drum set? We’d appreciate if you could, uh, try and settle down and get into this episode. That’s the way (the Untitled Beatles) Pod planned it! -- EPISODE LINKS
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| 07 Dec 2024 | George Harrison's "Living In the Material World" Super Deluxe Edition | 01:16:51 | |
Right around Thanksgiving (the American one, THE ONLY ONE), the Material World got a whole lot more material! The Harrison estate graciously reintroduced one of George’s most acclaimed records to the world; via a sparkling, glorious Paul Hicks remix in honor of its’ (approximately, infinite) 50th anniversary. There are many iterations of this current reissue, as Beatleworld continues its transition from “marketing exclusively for the masses” to “marketing primarily for boomers with loads of disposable cash”. In arguably the greatest national tragedy of 2024, Theater Tony (The Annoyance) and Theatre T.J. ("Madonna: The Musical") could only afford the 2-LP/streaming version of this title. (Producer Casey, please put an “awwwww” drop here. K? Then do it, damn it!) But fear not! The guys delve into this reissue with their usual panache, like a couple of panache-holes, but also find the holiday spirit to ask other hard questions, like: 🎤 What’s the Kim Deal with Seinfeld? 👺🚽 Does the deluxe remix archive crate gnome edition of “Living In The Material World” come with a skibidi toilet? 🚪 If Krishna showed up to Ed McMahon’s house, would McMahon hand him a cartoonishly large check and then bellow in his face, “you are correct, sir?”
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| 29 Apr 2023 | Red Rose Speedway 50th Anniversary Part 3 | 00:37:17 | |
How much 'Red Rose Speedway' is too much Red Rose Speedway? It’s the age old question. Paul wanted it to be a 2-LP set. EMI said, “no”. And, with that, Macca’s recording career was effectively over. So today we’ll look at Julian Lennon’s 1989 hit, “Mr. Jordan”! [BUZZER SFX] No! It’s actually Part Three of our 17-part deep dish full-on-sausage-patty salute to Wings’ 2nd album, which sadly does not feature “Thank You Girl”. THANKS FOR NADA, DAVE DEXTER. This week, we look at Paul’s original 2-LP iteration of this title, which finally surfaced as a limited vinyl set in 2018. Is it an improvement on the single (pigeon) album we've known for 50 years? Tony & T.J. select the best of the best of tracks left off the original Red-and/or-Blue Rose Speedway, and along the way they ponder: 🚗 If Willie Dixon is also Willie Nelson, did Harry Nilsson drive a Nissan? 🦅 Is the civil rights anthem “Blackbird” also Paul’s most nazty, bangin’ f**k tune? 🥞🍳🥓 Woah woah woah woah! Woah woah woah woah! Does Denny’s do it good? #MoonsOverMyHandy EPISODE LINKS:
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