Listen on:
Episodes
Saturday Oct 07, 2023
Saturday Oct 07, 2023
Cue the Salt ’N’ Pepa: Pu-Pu-Pushkin’s real good…at producing podcasts and audiobooks! They’re the force behind the just-dropped “McCartney: A Life in Lyrics” pod, which is off to a delightfully entertaining and insightful start. The dulcet tones of Paul Muldoon had better be the future voice of AI. (We’re talking about practice. Not a game.)
And on this very special episode of the UBP, the Gab Two is proud to present, in partnership with Pushkin, a special airing of “McCartney: A Life in Lyrics” Episode 2. How cool is that?! This one one’s a Double Paul deep-dish on “Back In The U.S.S.R.”, a definitive #FileUnderRock track, though, as the episode sadly fails to acknowledge, was largely unknown until Billy Joel’s live take on “Kohuept” (2 LP’s on 1 CD!).
We’ll be back with our usual chicanery and a whole new episode/world, DON’T YOU DARE CLOSE YOUR EYES, next week. In the meantime, all 3.5 of us at the UBP are absolutely honoured to be associated with anything Macca-related. We hope you will enjoy the show as much as we did. Five Freaking Fabs!
-----
McCartney: A Life in Lyrics | Back in the U.S.S.R
What’s Paul McCartney, a Liverpudlian, doing writing about the Soviet Union in 1968? Turns out McCartney was doing a little Chuck Berry, a bit of The Beach Boys, some pastiche and a lot of subversion. Opening “The White Album”, “Back in the U.S.S.R.” raised some eyebrows. And because of The Beatles’ evolving position within the former Eastern Bloc the song has over the years taken on a life of its own, following the trajectory of the West’s often fraught relationship with the region.
Saturday Sep 30, 2023
Saturday Sep 30, 2023
Roll up! Roll up for another Untitled Beatles Podcast Field Trip, this time to the 2023 Chicago Fest For Beatles Fans. In this podcast concrète, T.J. and Tony - aka the Beavis & Butthead of the Beatleverse - take a 2-day sound bath of live Beatle music, as they scratch and sniff rare Beatles vinyl, aimlessly wandering and wondering:
🎃 Is Halloween slasher Michael Myers’ favorite Beatles song “Help!”, “Run For Your Life” or “Chuck’s Monster?”
🦸🏻♂️ How many records must T.J. collect to warrant wearing a collector’s cape?
〰️ Is there anyone still in line for Pattie Boyd? Might want to check on them.
With interjections from Producer Casey, this episode is like taking a Time Machine back to August of 2023, or like wearing a Yellow Submarine Virtual Reality Helmet ($499) available on the official Beatles Store secret menu.
EPISODE LINKS
Like and subscribe!
Please support our scrappy show. Score some sweet merch or find us on Patreon
Come hang with us on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram!
Drop us a review on Apple Podcasts!
Saturday Sep 23, 2023
Saturday Sep 23, 2023
No less an authority than Mark Lewisohn knows that the skiing scene in "Help!" was filmed in Stowe VT, during the 1997 Winter X-Games, exclusively on ESPN.
But before (ahem, #apres) skiing was a very Beatles activity, Stowe was known as a small British boys school (Ringo! Ringo!), where the Beatles gave one of their longer and most interesting concerts whilst on the cusp of British fame.
Recently, a tape surfaced of the mostly complete show, and like the Star Club release in 1970's, this one is truly a mammoth moment in Beatles history. Tony & T.J. gab fab on the concert, the set list, and the immense historical significance. And because they're morons, they also ponder:
🕘2️⃣🕔 Do Dolly Parton and the Twotles perform the definitive whisper version of "Let It Be"?
🎙️ If you yell "How Do You Do It" repeatedly at an All Starr band concert, will Ringo and Steve Lukather feel compelled to tease it?
🇬🇧 Would Brexit have happened had rich white British kids learned to not clap on the f**king 1 and 3, ffs?
EPISODE LINKS
Check out Malik Rashaun and Max Comeau's "Play McCartney" album on Bandcamp
Like and subscribe!
Please support our scrappy show. Score some sweet merch or find us on Patreon
Come hang with us on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram!
Drop us a review on Apple Podcasts!
Saturday Sep 16, 2023
Saturday Sep 16, 2023
¿Què Pasa, New York? Mornings, on WXTV, Univision 41, Nueva York! But also, that’s a refrain from arguably the most commercially viable song from John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band’s “Some Time In New York City”. So why wasn’t the semi-title track a single? Why didn’t it lead off the album; not enough racial epithets in the title? And who in the love of Danza decided “Angela” - a heart-wrenching tribute to Judith Light - belongs on ANY Lennon comp? So many preguntas! Què Pasa, indeed!
Fortunately/Maybe (#Oasisish) it’s time for part two of the highly anticipated CHICAGO STYLE deep-dish of one of the most derided solo Beatles albums this side of “The Family Way” soundtrack! And as if this 2LP set isn’t long enough - the Giles Martin deluxe remix is slated to include the full 117 minute version of “Au” - the UBP’s very own Cap’n Jamrag and Lt. Scumbag (#PossibleForestGumpReference), to answer these, and more!
🎅🏽 Who the HELL did Bono think he was when he spent Christmas Eve ’93 hand delivering cassettes of “Zooropa” to everyone in the world?
🍕 Was Yoko the inspiration for one of 1982’s great raunchy comedy films? Hint: check out her #SixPack. #KennyRogersRoasters
🍆💨 There may not be much difference, between Tucker Carlson and someone with an actual dong, if you listen to their fartbeat. True?
EPISODE LINKS
Like and subscribe!
Please support our scrappy show. Score some sweet merch or find us on Patreon
Come hang with us on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram!
Drop us a review on Apple Podcasts!
Saturday Sep 09, 2023
Saturday Sep 09, 2023
All four solo Fabs released legendary albums in their lives. But among the critical darlings (“Gone Troppo”), chart topping smash hits (“Ringo Rama”, 5.1 edition) and absolutely despised, forgotten about, piles of doggie poo poo doo doo (“Band On The Run”), there are some solo albums that remain quite difficult to categorize. Like this week’s Deep Dish Part 1 (CALORIE ALERT!) on the ever-controversial John & Yoko “Some Time In New York City”.
Is this a terrible record? Is it actually brilliant? Has it aged better than expected in the 50 years since its release? What do you think this is, pal, “Sound Opinions?” Sure, you come here for us to answer those fab questions, but you also may be wondering:
💿🍆 Is it fair to judge what’s on a CD by the size of its’ ’87 longbox?
📻 Should classic rock radio still play the heavily edited, phat-shaming, radio friendly version of the album’s single, “[Your] Woman Is The Bigger Of The Girls”? Or is it time we finally cancel The Drive, 97.1? (Ed note: Cancel Culture is ruining America and must end! Unless it's books, constitutional rights, science, personal freedoms, rule of law, arts funding, kindness, actual f**king facts, etc...)
3️⃣4️⃣ (Angry Chicago Guy) How come Coach Ditka let William the Fridge Perry tackle a nun during Super Bowl XX, (slower, rhythmically, drunk on Malort) but not Sweetness?
Like Was (not Don Was) once sang: open the door, get on the floor, everybody go watch “Dinosaurs”! (#NotTheMama) Fridays, on ABC! But first, yo, check dis out!
EPISODE LINKS
Like and subscribe!
Please support our scrappy show. Score some sweet merch or find us on Patreon
Come hang with us on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram!
Drop us a review on Apple Podcasts!
Saturday Sep 02, 2023
Saturday Sep 02, 2023
Summertime done, come and gone, oh my my! (#RingoGarcia) Yep, fall is upon us and with it means a boatload of forthcoming Beatles goodies! Maybe? Could there be a 50th “Mind Games”? A deluxe “Rubber Soul”? The long-anticipated expanded “Love Songs” box set, with a bonus 7” test pressing of “Girl”/“You’re Gonna Lose That Girl” and a gnome or two, for only $400? Sign us up!And over at Untitled Beatles Podcast HQ, we can’t wait to kick off the fall season with our usual chicanery and good times. This week, in the spirit of Labor Day, we sip good old American brews, and preview our line-up with a TV Guide style Fall Preview Guide! And this ain’t the free one you get in the Sunday paper, jack! It’s the real deal. And you’ll straight-up cheers *and* jeers all of your favorite returning fall shows on WUBP, Channel 3, like:
🥩 Wednesdays on “She’s The Sheriff”, does Suzanne Summers microwave her meat? And does a poster of Nancy Reagan and Mr. T make special guest Mickey Rooney trickle down?
👃🏻 On Saturdays, “Valerie’s Family” returns…sans Valerie! She wanted more money, so she died in a fire and “Aunt” Sandy Duncan showed up with scratch ’N’ sniff Betty and Veronica fan art for all!
👩🏽⚖️ And “Night Court” returns Thursdays, as alternate juror “Flannel Casey” (Chris Makepeace) explains to Selma Diamond why iTunes is for soccer moms; but no Band On The Run retrospective is complete without the ’89 “Barn Rehearsal” (WTF?) of the title track.
EPISODE LINKS
Like and subscribe!
Please support our scrappy show. Score some sweet merch or find us on Patreon
Come hang with us on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram!
Drop us a review on Apple Podcasts!
Saturday Aug 26, 2023
Saturday Aug 26, 2023
Ice-T asked the question with which many Beatles fans wrestle on his 1988 hit, “Colors”: Red or Blue?
Both double albums are amazing chronicles of the Beatles’ chart hits and key album tracks. But they were assembled 50 years ago, and for their anniversary year, it’s been rumored that both LP’s will be reissued, remixed, and expanded! How do we know for sure? Well, it’s like Ice-T said in his 1988 hit, “Colors” - in arguably the most savage diss in rap history: “You don’t know me, foooooool! You disown me? Cool”! #SavageAF
This week, Tony & T.J. use the power of ESP to wildly speculate what essential Fab cuts will be added to each album. With music’s 2nd greatest catalog from which to choose (#1 is Korn, obvi), would the Red & Blue Two make similar adds? There’s only one way to find out! Send a check or money order to P3Z-Nutz! Or you could listen, I guess…because we also consider:
🍟 If The Beatles were McDonalds, would Allen Klein and Dave Dexter be the Fry Guys?
🍩 (Angry Chicago Guy:) HOW COME TONY CANCELLED DONUTS?
🐴👺 If Horst Fascher changed his name to Horse Fascist, would he be Florida's governor?
EPISODE LINKS
Like and subscribe!
Please support our scrappy show. Score some sweet merch or find us on Patreon
Come hang with us on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram!
Drop us a review on Apple Podcasts!
Saturday Aug 19, 2023
Saturday Aug 19, 2023
They did it live! The Untitled Beatles Podcast recorded their first-ever live show at The Fest For Beatles Fans in Rosemont, IL; proud home of a Caddyshack restaurant and a surprisingly large mafia influence. It marked Tony’s second consecutive Fest, and T.J.’s first since 2010. What kind of Beatles madness would the Gab Two create in front of an unsuspecting, live audience, as they break down a handful of their favorite live Beatles performances?
Sadly, Producer Casey accepted a can’t miss opportunity engineering (only! NO PRODUCING ALLOWED, “ENGINEER CASEY”) the Titled Bee Gees podcast and had to miss the fun. But when Producer Casey’s away, will the boys go astray (#1980sSitcomPromo) as they also discuss:
🍏 Is it really heckling if two Chicago jagbags scream at Fest For Beatles Fans house band Liverpool to play more Badfinger? [angry Chicago guy] AND HOW COME NO MARY HOPKINS?? [sic]
🌹🐔 Might the (genuinely awesome) Lapidos family ever consider adding Bette Middler and Kenny Rogers trivia to the Fest line-up? Maybe on the closing Sunday at 11:59pm, under the stairs?
🛎️🍆🛎️🍆 Do 4 out of 5 Festers really prefer Jimmie Nicol to Ringo? And would 10 out of 10 election deniers agree that the attendance for UBP’s live debut was the biggest crowd of people assembled in one room at one time in all of history? Was be wild!
EPISODE LINKS
Like and subscribe!
Please support our scrappy show. Score some sweet merch or find us on Patreon
Come hang with us on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram!
Drop us a review on Apple Podcasts!
Saturday Aug 12, 2023
Saturday Aug 12, 2023
Yang Yang! You’ve given me a Yang Yang! And we’re thinking of Yoko…so we’ve decided to reach into our archives for a limited, deluxe remix/remaster/reissue/bonus Gnome edition of our vaunted 4th episode in 2020, where we deep-dished a Tony favorite: Yoko Ono’s “Approximately Infinite Universe”!
Did you know it’s TWO albums? Well hell yeah, it is! Good for Tony. Butt, what about T.J.? Well, there are even more questions that must be answered, such a$:
🧹Spoilers: Did Yoko’s “Death Of Samantha” predict the “Who’s The Boss?” series finale decades before it aired?
☀️🍔 Does anyone remember the 1990’s Fiddler On The Roof/Don Henley theme restaurant, “Sunrise Sunset Grill”?
🏀 Was San Diego Clipper great World B. Free really a bastard? And if not, WTF with Yoko’s hateful tune?
EPISODE NOTES:
HEY COME AND MEET US AT THE FEST FOR BEATLES FANS IN CHICAGO AUGUST 11-13
Like and subscribe!
Please support our scrappy show. Score some sweet merch or find us on Patreon
Come hang with us on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram!
Drop us a review on Apple Podcasts!
——-
Originally published June 20, 2020
Tony turns TJ on...to Yoko Ono's 1973 double-LP Approximately Infinite Universe. They explore the merits of her influence and the complexities of her marriage to John at the time this album was recorded. TJ comes to terms with his disdain for Elephant's Memory, particularly the saxophone, and Tony reveals his least favorite song of all time. Spoiler: it's not by The Beatles (Remember, they like them!)
Monday Aug 07, 2023
Monday Aug 07, 2023
"F**K IT WE'LL DO IT LIVE!"
Join Tony, T.J., and Producer Casey for our FIRST EVER LIVE TAPING of the Untitled Beatles Podcast at the 2023 Chicago Fest for Beatles Fans (f.k.a. Beatlefest).
Saturday, August 12, 2:15 PMHyatt Regency O'Hare"Tell Me What You See" / SeaTac Room
There will be shenangans. There will be prizes. There will be piano ("SO ANNOYING!").
SEE YOU THERE.