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THE BEATLES: (tmrw_nvr_knws) EP
01 I Want to Tell You [the Tom Wilson deconstruction] [5:36]
02 Doctor Robert [Jamie xx remix] [7:24]
03 Rain [3:00]
04 Doctor Robert [Paul's truck stop variation] [6:11]
05 I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) [Electric Prunes cover] [12:11]
06 Tomorrow Never Knows [featuring Dean Torrence & Screaming Lord Sutch] [17:27]
07 Good Day Sunshine [featuring David Crosby] [31:01]
08 Doctor Robert [Jamie xx club version] [14:38]
The remixes are pleasant enough -- I mean, I never thought I'd want to hear a house beat attached to "Doctor Robert" but it's not the most disagreeable situation I've found myself in lately. And I appreciate the way Jamie xx and Tom Wilson filter John Lennon and George Harrison's voices through analog robotricks and watery voice compression thingos and all that, it's something different. I'm confused, though, about why we're subjected to twelve full minutes of David Crosby and Ringo Starr arguing about the location of a "rake," not to mention Ringo's piano solo that occupies all but the first two minutes of the Electric Prunes cover. It's nice to hear the Beatles' songs approached from other angles so we're reminded how lovely they really are, but the theremin breaks and "comedy routines"... Look, I love these guys, but is all this really necessary? Also, LSD etc.
[SEE ALSO:]
Burst Apart (2011)
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