OK, it is a strong statement. But I really mean it. If he hadn’t been killed, Double Fantasy would have been a flop, I’m sure of that. Both commercially and critically. Fans would slam him and critics would not spare him either. Five years of waiting for the god of rock and roll to return…
Unlike John’s version, Paul’s White Album is more… well more white. It sounds more optimistic, joyful and bright. Which isn’t such a big surprise, we’ve known both of them for a long time. It actually sounds like McCartney’s record. Nothing is missing, everything is there, like always. Grand opening, hard rocker, simple unplugged melody played…
“Every track is an individual track; there isn’t any Beatles music on it. It’s John and the band, Paul and the band, George and the band.”, John later said when describing The White Album. And I agree. That´s the reason why I put the White Album so low in my Beatles Albums Ranking – for…
The most difficult album to fix is without a doubt Beatles For Sale. Leaving aside Yellow Submarine, there is kind of general consensus among most of the Beatles fans that For Sale is probably the weakest album in Beatles catalogue. Some covers are really poor, the rest of John and Paul’s songs are misplaced and…
Let’s take a break for a moment from fixing the Beatles and try to improve perhaps one of the most overrated records in the history of popular music. Maybe with the exception of Pet Sounds, in which I also could not find the same quality as other fans and critics. All Things Must Pass is…
Help! is another album that I tried to fix a bit. Overall it’s pretty good, although The Beatles again did not avoid a few small mistakes here either. But this time it just needed only a tiny tweak. Or more precisely there was no other chance to get rid of some of the songs because…
Now it’s getting a little bit more challenging. I personally consider both With The Beatles and Beatles For Sale to be the weakest albums in their career, although I love them dearly and play often. The songs on them are not bad, of course not, they’re just badly selected and put together. And it’s a…
The last of the relatively simple fixes is Sgt. Pepper. Of course, the ‘Ringo rule’ remains in force here as well, but the much more important object of this exercise is to return to the original purpose of the whole album. As we all know, the whole record should have been built around the two…
Improving The Beatles Revolver was an another relatively easy job. There are not many obvious mistakes on this one. Just one, actually. But even though I consider it their best (sometimes, sometimes it’s Sgt. Pepper, I haven’t decided yet in 40 years) and definitely the most important album, I can still imagine it to be better….
Rubber Soul… Naked was probably the first of my many attempts to correct some clear and obvious mistakes made by George Martin in producing Beatles records. Such a statement may seem bold and rude, too, but if you think about it, you may actually agree with me. And you will, I dare to say. Plus,…