Let The Music Play

side-blog for all my favorite music

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If you have Spotify reblog this and tag what your number one song on your “on repeat” playlist is.

[franklyimissparis]

and your bird can sing take 2 save me. save me and your bird can sing take 2. and your bird can sing take 2.

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Had a stressful week at work, so I said fuck it and drove out to see my favorite Beatles tribute band.

Time to rock out to my favorite songs and forget everything.

[way-beyond-compare]

The Beatles Cirque Du Soleil show in Las Vegas is closing on July 7th omg good thing I saw it last year :(

[ljblueteak]

From Paul's Instagram April 16, 2024. Let It Be coming May 8!

[beatleswings]

GEORGE HARRISON on his 21st birthday. 25 February, 1964.

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Ringo Starr is playing a show in my area on my birthday. It’s fate.

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Paul McCartney - “Live in the New World (1993)”

This aired ‘live’ in the US, on my dad’s 41st birthday, a few weeks after I turned 10. I remember him turning to me during his birthday dinner and telling me he’d secretly set the VCR to record it so I could watch it later, because he knew how much it would mean to me. We sat down to watch it together the next day, and much to both of our relief it worked perfectly.

I watched that VHS tape so much over the next few years I legitimately wore it out. I’m now a few months out from my own 41st birthday, and legitimately cried tears of joy when I found it on YouTube.

the what-sounds-like russian overdubs when Paul talks were obviously not in the version I saw as a kid

Fun fact - in the original US broadcast (and thus captured on that VHS) there was a beer commercial set on a train that played a couple times that was my rather random introduction The James Gang.

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I was watching a YouTube video about Saturday morning cartoons, and the video mentioned The Beatles cartoon series.

The cartoon went into syndication when I was four, and at that point I was already beyond obsessed with the band. So with those memories triggered, I decided tonight would be a good time to watch the series again for the first time in 30-something years.

This show is even more of an acid trip than I remember (and I remembered it being really fucking weird).

No wonder I was such a bizarre child.

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I’ve been a Beatles fan since the early 1980’s, first hearing them when I was 2 or 3.

The moment I first heard their music is legitimately my earliest childhood memory. They imprinted on me in a very special way from the start, and they’re still my favorite band and the one constant positive I’ve had in my life to this day.

And it’s amazing, to me at least, that all these years later I’m still finding new performances and interviews and other video/audio I’ve never seen before.

Like this performance at the ABC Theater in 1965 - I’d seen clips, and the performance of “Yesterday”, but getting to see it in its entirety now is incredible to me.

don’t mind me I’m just over here getting super emotional over a youtube video

[monkeesdaydream]

The Monkees play Michael Nesmith's "Cruisin'" (live at the Universal Amphitheatre on July 9, 1989). The very brief snippet of footage is courtesy of CNN, the rest of the audio is courtesy of the indispensable Monkees Live Almanac.

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Holiday Song of the Day: *NSYNC - “Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays”

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Holiday Song of the Day: The Waitresses - “Christmas Wrapping”

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Holiday Song of The Day: Trans-Siberian Orchestra - “Christmas Eve/Sarajevo”

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A slightly late Holiday Song of the Day: Straight No Chaser - “The 12 Days of Christmas”

Because sometimes you just need a good laugh.

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I’m feeling salty, so here’s today’s Holiday Song of the Day: Valencia - “How Valencia Stole Christmas”

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Holiday Song of the Day: 98 Degrees - “Ave Maria (a cappella)”