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Posts Tagged ‘the Beatles’

While Steve Jobs Gently Weeps

November 17, 2010 | by Patrick

With the announcement of iTunes now carrying the entire Beatles catalog the question has arisen whether it was worth all...

Tags: Apple, Apple Corp, itunes, Steve Jobs, the Beatles

Categories: Music Culture

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Shiny Toy Guns go there

May 5, 2009 | by Fred

I'm going to paraphrase it almost beyond recognition, but Jorge Luis Borges once wrote something to the effect of, "If...

Tags: Ghost Town, Helter Skelter, Jorge Luis Borges, Major Tom, Major Tom (Coming Home), Shiny Toy Guns, the Beatles, U2

Categories: Featured, New Music Tuesdays

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From the vault: "Cowen: What’s the opening chord in Hard Day’s Night?"

April 6, 2009 | by Fred

I’ll be taking some time off over the next few days. I’ll rehash an old post a day, just to...

Tags: Beatles songbook, G13, G7, George Martin, guitar chord, Hard Day' Night, Marginal Revolution, music theory, the Beatles, Tyler Cowen

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Nietzsche page by page: in summary

March 12, 2009 | by Fred

We've reached Chapter 18 of Dr. N's Birth of Tragedy, which, according to reliable sources, is far enough, thank...

Tags: Annie Liebovitz, Birth of Tragedy, Dionysian condition, economic collapse, film, Friedrich Nietzsche, global warming, Hieronymus Bosch, jihad, John Grisham, literature, page by page, painting, photography, poetry, resource allocation, television, the Beatles

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Cowen: What's the opening chord in "Hard Day's Night?"

March 11, 2009 | by Fred

Find the answer here.The Beatles producer [George Martin] added a piano chord that included an F note, impossible to play...

Tags: Beatles songbook, G13, G7, George Martin, guitar chord, Hard Day's Night, Marginal Revolution, music theory, the Beatles, Tyler Cowen

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A Day in The Life of Abbey Road

February 19, 2009 | by Patrick

Attached is a time lapse video of the ever famous intersection at 3 Abbey Road in St. John's Wood, London...

Tags: Abbey Road, EMI, the Beatles

Categories: Music Culture, Tracks and Clips

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Beatles Songs Ranked

January 23, 2009 | by Patrick

Let the debate begin! JamsBio magazine has ranked Beatles songs from #185 down to #1. This is an amazingly comprehensive...

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