Review by: Charly Saenz
Album assigned by: Franco Micale
BEST SONG: No idea! I’ll choose.. And this is my new Xmas song for 2016 (remind me in december):
First time I feel grateful the Beatles didn’t last longer!
1963! Young and innocent days, right? John and his usual acid humour ("I'd like to thank everyone for my birthday gifts but I just haven't enough pens!"). Wise bit about Paul having the audience send more adequate Beatle gifts (stop those jelly babies!). He was clever, huh? The best musical bits are John doing his deep voice and Ringo does the best King Wenceslas bit. Let the boy sing!
1964! Jingle bells intro. Guys are more professional hey!
Paul -"Don't know where we'd be without you (the fans)"
John - "The Army, Perhaps"
Lots of mad laughter, probably drug-induced (Drugs were invented already! But Dr Robert will turn up later). Those were the days! (Mary Hopkin)
1965! Ad-Lib record. Best Yesterday, off-key version ever.
Some banter without any script and some great John and Ringo singing. Ringo thing was Xmas record, no doubt.
More psychedelic talk. We're entering the period (L-S-D!). They went to the dentist already, I bet. "AULD LANG SYNE" with some Vietnam and China mentions. And more Yesterday, beats Sinatra anytime!
This is an epic record, no doubt. Zappa level. Well a short record anyway. Guys, press it! Rating? Mm.. it’s a The Force Awakens in Stars Wars scale.
1966.. This one is truly weird! Don’t you love 1966? Could be the rehearsal for Tomorrow Never Knows.
Hisses here and there, they act a script? Pantomime! Old Stories told. Odd voices. And Everywhere is Xmas.
In the words of Gordon Gano when he remembered the chaos and turmoil in the Violent Femmes concerts "That was beautiful". 4 stars and a half on this record.
1967.. Gorgeous version of "Xmas time is here again". Bootleggers even made a song out of this, God Bless Them (Bob Dylan’s best album is no doubt “The Great White Wonder”). It’s Magical Mystery Tour quality, man.
Their last Xmas record done together. Sad, that's life. This one gets a heartily thumbs up!
1968 - Interesting. Remixed bits of a sped up Helter Skelter, Ob-la-di Ob-la-da. Great Xmas song from Paul (the new one, the other one is dead - "HAPPY CHRISTMAS, HAPPY NEW YEAR, ALL THE BEST TO YOU FROM HERE".)
I would have put this in the White album instead of Revolution 9, probably. Gets a pass!
1969 - Yoko is here. Geez. John preparing corn-flakes; that would surely influence Pink Floyd and their Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast; that cunning Rog Waters boy. Paul McCartney, the doppelganger, saves the day again with a bit from his solo album sessions, probably. John sings with Yoko? At least they did “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” later, maybe they were just warming up.
Thumbs down! says my Beatle heart. Shouldn't you quit, guys? The Xmas records I mean. But.. Oh well.
/*----------- AND IN THE END… THE LOVE YOU TAKE.. ---------------------*/
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