Untitled Beatles Podcast
Gen X ex-cruise ship comedians T.J. Shanoff and Tony Mendoza celebrate the Fab Four without taking anything too seriously. Roll up for the long and rambling road. More at untitledbeatlespodcast.com
Episodes
Saturday Feb 12, 2022
Beatles Valentimes: Songs for Significant Others Part 1
Saturday Feb 12, 2022
Saturday Feb 12, 2022
Would you look at that? It’s almost Valentimes Day! Better run to CVS or lastminutegiftcarddepot.oops and show that special someone how much you care. Or, better yet, you could write your lover song after song after song that will forever stand the test of time and be meaningful to millions all over the world? I mean John, Paul, & George did it, why can’t you? #FailureAlert
With so much love in the air, Tony & T.J. look at some of their favorite songs inspired by The Beatles significant others. Along the way, their hearts explode with these hot topics/wet seals:
🏄♂️ Who was more in love with baby Linda Eastman: Jan or Dean?
⚾️ If “Shipoopi” played baseball, would it bat in the two or three hole?
🛋 Is Paul’s longtime keyboard player actually a defunct furniture superstore?
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Saturday Feb 05, 2022
Beatles B-Sides
Saturday Feb 05, 2022
Saturday Feb 05, 2022
For centuries, humankind has wondered:
What does the “B” in “B-side” stand for?
Blench? Brackle? Bywoner?
Perhaps we’ll never know.
By the by, this week T.J. and Tony bloviate brusquely about B-sides by The Beatles, like a barrel of barmy bywoners. Baby they are not rich men, but their benevolence for this band will never blench!
Be that as it may, they often brood:
🌊 Could Tony’s inimitable soprano have secured him a spot with The Beach Boys, or was he forever destined to push Al Jardine’s sad inert duck into a dusty Chicago barn?
🥯 Had T.J. attended the 14 Hour Technicolor Dream, would he and Suzy Creamcheese have become the Roseanne & Tom of the 1960s?
💥 Will Peter Jackson add the Lennon-penned onomatopoeic graphic “Chatoong!” to restored episodes of TV’s Batman? And then will Disney postpone its DVD and Blu-Ray release?
Besides, B-sides are boss! Won’t you brackle with us?
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Saturday Jan 29, 2022
The Beatles ”Rarities” (1978 or 1980)
Saturday Jan 29, 2022
Saturday Jan 29, 2022
If your ideal “Penny Lane” ends with a trumpet riff, if you prefer “I Am The Walrus” with extra beats, if you struggle to enjoy “And I Love Her” without the longer outro: a) seek help, friend, and b) "Rarities" was a big part of your 80's Beatles experience!
Tony & T.J. deep dish on Capitol’s long-forgotten 1980 offering and the wholly different '78 U.K. version, and along the way, consider:
📻 Is “The Boombox In The Backseat Of Tony’s Car" the standout track on "Ram"?
🌈 Is mono “Don’t Pass Me By” a better song on the Capitol rainbow label?
🖖 Is Stuart Sutcliffe best remembered for his spoken contribution to the stereo “Helter Skelter”?
One audio note: this episode was sourced from an original Ron Furmanek 45. You can tell because Producer Casey's not on tambourine.
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Read Nicholas Schaffner’s real-time Rarities thoughts here.
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Saturday Jan 22, 2022
NME vs. UBP: Ranking The Beatles Song Catalog
Saturday Jan 22, 2022
Saturday Jan 22, 2022
Rage Against The Machine sang, “Know Your Enemy”. Perhaps they were really singing “Know Your NME”, in reference to the U.K. magazine’s recent ranking of *almost* every Beatles song?Turns out, TJiskel and TonEBert’s rankings differ wildly from NME’s, and each other’s! Good thing (#FineYoungCannibals) Producer Casey is there to set the record straight, as we reveal our own exhaustively exhausting rankings of the Beatles catalog, and also delve into other major Beatles news, like:
🚦Which 1982 hit-maker doubled as a traffic eye in the sky for WBBM/CBS-2?
🏀🏈 Is T.J’s Derrick Rose Beatles song Tony’s Walter Payton Beatles song?
🐣 How’s the Sgt. Pepper Chicken at official show sponsor, Kenny Rogers Roasters?
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See T.J. and Tony's complete lists ranking every Beatles song
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Saturday Jan 15, 2022
The Concert for Bangla Desh (1971)
Saturday Jan 15, 2022
Saturday Jan 15, 2022
For many, the most significant Beatle fundraising contribution on record is Macca’s nonsensical gibberish on the extended mix of Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”
For Tony and T.J., it’s the George Harrison-organized “Concert For Bangla Desh,” whose 3-LP boxed set just turned 50 years old. The album and film are powerful, joyous, and iconic, filled with both bangers and ladeshers. In this episode, the Gab Two salutes their favorite moments and other hawt topics like:
🏀 Who was a better New York Knick: Eric Clapton or John Starks?
😵 Have Leon Russell and Leon Redbone ever been seen together in Belvedere, IL, or on Chicago’s Webster street?
🥁 Is Keith Moon’s most famous solo that time he f**ked up Badfinger’s drum set?
We’d appreciate if you could, uh, try and settle down and get into this episode. That’s the way (the Untitled Beatles) Pod planned it!
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Saturday Jan 08, 2022
DELUXE REISSUE: Beatles Covers Clambake
Saturday Jan 08, 2022
Saturday Jan 08, 2022
UBP Exclusive: 85th Beatle Bruce Springsteen sang “Cover Me”. And in this Uber Deluxe Remix Archive #Gnomedition of an early episode, Producer Casey lets loose and drops in all the great (and G-d awful) covers of Beatles classics.
Get clam-baked and join us as we ponder:
🛥Does Tony groove, man, to the silky smooth sounds of Yacht Soul?
🧅 Who wins a Chicago Band-Beatle-off: The Ides Of March or The Buckinghams?
💸 What’s the deal with the (allegedly) too damn high prices at the Stax Records gift shop?
If you like Skank and Pickle - Tuesdays, on TNT - you’ll love this newly overstuffed Beatles Covers Clambake! #🦨🥒🧨
Originally published August 15, 2020
Why listen to a cover of The Beatles when The Beatles version is often the best? Because freedom!
T.J. and Tony delve into the endless jackpot of Beatle covers, including favorites, flops, and curios. They were unable to review all of them, but they did get to 136 of them. Also, Tony auditions for a rock zine and T.J. settles an old score with Judd from Latin school.
Please pardon the Zoom-related glitches, some occasional sweetening was required.
As a token of our appreciation, the Untitled Beatles Podcast has curated a playlist of Beatle covers. Listen here
Saturday Jan 01, 2022
Wings’ Wild Life 50th Anniversary (1971)
Saturday Jan 01, 2022
Saturday Jan 01, 2022
Is any solo Paul and/or Wings album as controversial as “Wild Life”? (OK, fine, we see you, “Standing Stone”.) In (gently belated) honor of its 50th anniversary, Tony and T.J. kick off 2022 with a “Wild Life”-off, and debate the highs and lows of one of Macca’s most polarizing and #ekaturkel albums. Along the way, the Whatever Happened Two discuss:
🤖 Is Huey Lewis’s jazz-adjacent LP “Small World” fantastic, or merely made of plastic? Maybe Vicki knows?
🏊🏻♂️ Are early 70’s, indulgent rock guitar solos the original “Baywatch”?
🚽Was Sir Paul feelin’ alright while recording “Mumbo” because he was giving his regards to brown street at the time?
Whether you love or hate this record, one thing is for sure: it’s a classic for Thanksgiving smoochin’. Dear friends, spill the wine! Leave us an inebriated New Years Day review and like & subscribe here. And please join us for “Twitch & Shout”, live Tuesdays at 6pm CT on twitch.tv/chicago4real
Saturday Dec 25, 2021
The Beatles’ Christmas Records, 1963-69 (Xmas Flexis)
Saturday Dec 25, 2021
Saturday Dec 25, 2021
It’s been a real gear year for the Untitled Beatles Podcast and it’s all due to you! ‘Spect some of you are getting out a 50¢ piece to weigh down your rare out of print Beatles Christmas Flexi Discs. For those going without these cherished “only fans” records, T.J. and Tony will cover each holiday curiosity released from 1963-1969, with noses red from holiday cheer.
In this very special holiday episode:
🍆 Ho Ho Ho! Will the boys succeed in referencing “Ding Dong” on XXXmas day?
🍗 Yeah Yeah Yeah! Since T.J. and Tony have gone right off jelly babies, will they switch to Kenny Rogers Roasters roasted chicken?
🌿 Hi Hi Hi! Was the first legal dispensary in the United States run by Mrs. Garrett from The Facts of Life?
Plus shout outs to Beedle Peedles in the Untitled Beatle Community.
Garry Crimble to you (and Garry Mimble for those who don’t celebrate Crimble) and a Happy Goo Year!
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Check out these other fab fave podcasts of ours: Paul or Nothing and Something About The Beatles
Saturday Dec 18, 2021
Something New (1964)
Saturday Dec 18, 2021
Saturday Dec 18, 2021
Sure, "A Day In The Life" is ok, and "Tomorrow Never Knows" is fine, but only one Beatles album closes with maybe their greatest song, "Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand".
It was certainly Something New for Capitol to close their third Beatles album in German, not to mention generously including 5 songs fans in ’64 had already purchased a few weeks beforehand. (#NowOnCapitol!) And yet, because it’s The Freaking Beatles, it’s such a fun and uniquely Capitol album.
Tony and T.J. fawn over this million-seller and along the way ask the hard questions they don’t address in Liverpool, like:
🐸 Is the Muppet Show’s "Mahna Mahna" best heard in stereo or "Mahnaphonic"?
🍨 Why did Paul ask a witness to #coldstone murder to drum on "Press To Play’s" "Angry"?
🥪 Any of y’all ever spread Heinz Helmer on a sammich?Timpani drum roll courtesy of David Skidmore, Vic Firth Percussion.
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Saturday Dec 11, 2021
DELUXE REISSUE: Beatle Bottoms
Saturday Dec 11, 2021
Saturday Dec 11, 2021
Beatle Bottoms. To some, bottoms is a synonym for “tushie”, as they say in the industry. For Tony & T.J., it’s their least favourite Fab 4 songs. And boy do they just disagree. But there ain’t no good guy, there ain’t no bad guy, there’s only this deluxe reissue of one of our favorite early episodes, reproduced for disc by Grandmaster Casey.
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[Originally released September 5, 2020]
Clickbait: Are T.J. and Tony in a Beatles cult? The answer may dumbfound you!!
In this Labor Day Spectacular (not that spectacular really) T.J. and Tony comb the floor of the Sea of Holes in search of the least fab Beatles songs. Listen for adjectives like "treacly" and "loathsome"(!).
Also included are hot takes on R.E.M. vs Barenaked Ladies, and a very brief tribute to short form improv.
Meanwhile, T.J. discloses one of his "Beatle nightmares" while Tony wears out his “Beatle bag.”
Fact cheque: "It’s All Too Much" was recorded at De Lane Lea Studios and "Baby, You’re A Rich Man" at Olympic Sound Studios.
Neither T.J. nor Tony can remember what a clavioline is.
Listen to the Beatle Bottoms playlist here.