volume 1
january 1999 |
 Notes on ... Series 1 - 28
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The first 28 song analyses |
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by Alan W. Pollack |
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Pollack started his series with choosing 28 songs more or less arbitrarily from the songbook of the Beatles. These articles are especially interesting, because Pollack spices his analyses with some lucid explanations of his musicological insights and knowledge. If you are unknown in musicological territory, the best you can do is to read these pieces in numerical order. You'll find the index here down below. From the left to the right in the columns you'll see Pollack's number of the song, the title of the song, the year of publication and the number of the song in Ian MacDonald's book Revolution in the Head, as this last book gives some usefull information for those who want to know more about it than just the musicological aspects. |
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| 001 |
We Can Work It Out |
(1989; 2000) |
68 |
| 002 |
Eight Days A Week |
(1989; 2000) |
43 |
| 003 |
And I Love Her |
(1989; 2000) |
25 |
| 004 |
Day Tripper |
(1989; 2000) |
65 |
| 005 |
She Loves You |
(1989; 2000) |
12 |
| 006 |
Help! |
(1989; 2000) |
56 |
| 007 |
You're Going To Lose That Girl |
(1989; 2000) |
55 |
| 008 |
No Reply |
(1989; 2000) |
42 |
| 009 |
You Won't See Me |
(1989; 2000) |
75 |
| 010 |
It Won't Be Long |
(1989; 2000) |
14 |
| 011 |
Good Day Sunshine |
(1989; 2000) |
90 |
| 012 |
She Said She Said |
(1989; 2000) |
92 |
| 013 |
You Never Give Me Your Money |
(1989; 2000) |
173 |
| 014 |
Hey Jude |
(1990; 2000) |
137 |
| 015 |
I Should Have Known Better |
(1990; 2000) |
26 |
| 016 |
Thank You Girl |
(1990; 2000) |
11 |
| 017 |
Any Time At All |
(1990; 2000) |
34 |
| 018 |
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away |
(1990; 2000) |
53 |
| 019 |
I'll Be Back |
(1990; 2000) |
33 |
| 020 |
Birthday |
(1990; 2000) |
146 |
| 021 |
Love Me Do |
(1990; 2000) |
1 |
| 022 |
Please Please Me |
(1990; 2000) |
3 |
| 023 |
Intro to 'Strawberry Fields Forever',
'A Day In The Life', and 'I Am The Walrus' |
(1990; 2000) |
93, 96, 116 |
| 024 |
Things We Said Today |
(1991; 2001) |
35 |
| 025 |
While My Guitar Gently Weeps |
(1991; 2001) |
136 |
| 026 |
I Saw Her Standing There |
(1991; 2001) |
6 |
| 027 |
All My Loving |
(1991; 2001) |
15 |
| 028 |
From Me To You |
(1991; 2001) |
10 |
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Copyright © 1989-2001 by Alan W. Pollack. All Rights Reserved. This article may be reproduced, retransmitted, redistributed and otherwise propagated at will, provided that this notice remains intact and in place. |
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In case you want to quote these pages, please refer to the original sources. So for Pollack's remarks on "Free As A Bird" refer to: Pollack, Alan W. (1995), Notes on "Free As A Bird". Notes on ... Series no. 194, 1995. The 'Official' rec.music.beatles Home Page (http://www.recmusicbeatles.com). |
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Conversion to HTML by Ed Chen, Mike Markowski, Bruce Dumes, and Maurizio Codogno. Indexed and adapted for Soundscapes by Ger Tillekens. |
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The numbers in the last column refer to the second, updated edition of Ian MacDonald's book: Revolution in the Head. The Beatles' Records and the Sixties. London: Random House (Pimlico), 1997. |
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