The Seventeen Club

This compilation can be purchassed without undu fears of overlapping with "The Blue Album". This title alludes to the 17.4 days of "missing time" in a Next Generation Startrek Episode. Seventeen point four years ago - Newt Gingrich and the Republicans were in their last gasp effort to try and shut down the United States government and ended up embarrassed by the whole thing.  The tide of events was swinging to the Democrats.  Chris Matthews pointed out that the questioning of Chuck Hagel was all for show since they'd already had their questions answered in advance and had already decided they were going to approve Hagel.  The questions were just some sort of "Inquisition" show case where questions were asked they really didn't want to hear any real answer to, but it was just for jackasses like John Mc Cain and Lindsey Graham to score political points in front of the media.  The trouble is that the outlandishness of their questions over-shadowed any answer that Hagal might provide them.  In the news there is violence in Egypt and in Turkey where a suicide bomber took out a few guards at a high security Embassy.  They are now saying it was "Al Qaeda spin off groups". I had some dream last night that various Christian fundamentalist groups were again amping up the end of the world stuff. If some of you are already "Beatled out" we understand.  So we have a little bullshit for you before we get into the Reorganized (once again) Beatles stuff the Federation is putting out.  Here is a generous excerpt of a letter I wrote to someone last night.

 I used to catch Tom Hartman on KPOJ before the station format change, occasionally.  I listen to Ed Schultz but sometimes I listen to whatever morning DJ is on KTLK from nine to twelve, and occasionally even tune in Rush Limbaugh to see what he is doing.  Sometimes I go off the rails completly and turn on the Price is Right.  Last night I dinally downloaded a link to Mike Meloy's live program, but it turned out to be really boring.  He was interviewing some woman on some health care polan.  So I listened to the pod cast from late August- - which is one of these rants where Meloy says the Military turns recruits into mindless programmed efficient killers.  I also looked at a lot of Linkin Park videos - - because they have good videos.  One day the player to the Monterey station where I usually catch Ed Schultz - - didn't download the play button one time so they referred me to Media Player.  They still have all the same screen savers but it almost seems as if some of them were "toned down" a bit from what they used to be.

Right now and today my blood sugar should be higher than normal.  First I had two complete pancake and scrambled egg breakfasts.  Then I went to the ATM and got a partry snack, and an eight pack of chocolate donuts.  I went with Sarah to Wall Mart for three cans of Master Chef coffee - - thus saving twelve dollars from what I would have paid next door.  That's nothing to sneeze at.  I also bought a big package of M & M peanut, which I ate, because Sarah was 37 minutes later than she said she would be back, and by now it had become quite warm in a jacket and the next seat up was shoved too far back and I was twisted like a sardine.  I had two helpings of dinner- - barbecue chicken and corn and yams, and bead pudding.  For lunch we had BLT sandwiches, which I noted they were more generous with the bacon than usual.  And tonight I exchanged some root beer candies of Glen for a cigarette.  I'd like to weigh myself now.

I wrote Dr. Levy a long letter last Saturday - - which is four long paragraphs pasted over from a blog done early last October.  Actually some of this material was edited down, but it's still long.  Maybe I mentioned this already.  My two main points were that God has no morals and doesn't care one way or the other about mankind - - and the other point was Soul Sleep - - we don't retain consciousness after death, and I cite numerous incidences from the Bible to illustrate this.  When Dr. Levy suggest the class write stuff- - I think he fancies exestentialist free verse poetrry of the stuff he likes.  Sometimes I darkly suspect that if We just parroted back HIS own thoughts, he'd be pleased.

The Federation has released a whole lot of Beatle albums under the series “The Seventeen Club”.  Each CD has seventeen Beatle songs.  Not all albums are covered.  The albums of Sgt Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour, Yellow Submarine, Let it Be, and Abbey Road are untouched.  As to the White Album, this series is the perfect complement, of sorts to the “Red, White, and Blue” series and the White album “The Whole Enchalada” has no overlap songs to anything in this eight disk compilation in a boxed set.  That is there are four compartments of CD jewel cases and each compartment contains two CD’s.  This compilation was released yesterday and the idea is that “People ought to be able to buy a whole Beatle album with all the songs recorded in that general period on the album.  There is some ingenious juggeling and the last disk is called “The Rest of the Beatle Songs” contains an “Ace in the Hole” song, we play a dirty trick on our fans by leaving out a big song they were expecting.  (included on disk 8)  There was talk of new mythical power in the number seventeen.  The price for this CD set is $136.00 in American dollars because there are a hundred and thirty six tracks on the entire boxed set.  Here we go.  By the way- - the front cover is surrounded by a black frame and the white print at the top is the term “The Seventeen Club”, which seems a little tacky, but that’s how they do it.  Of course there is the obligatory booklet with a lot of Beatle photos, hopefully ones you don’t have.

THE SEVENTEEN CLUB - Produced by Mal Evans and Syd Barrett

PLEASE PLEASE ME

1.      I Saw her Standing There

2.      Misery

3.      From Me to You

4.      Anna

5.      Chains

6.      Boys

7.      Ask Me Why

8.      I’ll Get You In the End

9.      Please Please Me

10.  Thank You, Girl

11.  Love Me Do

12.  P S I Love You

13.  Baby, it’s You

14.  A Taste of Honey

15.  Do You Want to Know a Secret>

16.  There’s a Place

17.  Twist and Shout

WITH THE BEATLES

1.      I Want to Hold Your Hand

2.      She Loves You

3.      This Boy

The Rest of this Album is the Fourteen regular songs on it

A HARD DAY’S NIGHT

1.      A Hard Day’s Night

2.      I Should Have Known Better

3.      And I Love Her

4.      Happy Just to Dance With You

5.      If I Fell

6.      Tell Me Why

7.      Long, Tall Sally

8.      Can’t Buy Me Love

9.      Matchbox

10.  I’ll Cry Instead (American version)

11.  Things We Said Today

12.  Anytime At All

13.  You Can’t Do That

14.  When I Get Home

15.  I Call Your Name

16.  I’ll Be Back

17.  Slow Down

BEATLES FOR SALE

1.       Kansas City

2.      No Reply

3.      Baby’s In Black

4.      I’m A Loser

5.      Mr. Moonlight

6.      Rock and Roll Music

7.      I’ll Follow The Sun

8.      Eight Days a Week

9.      Words of Love

10.  Honey Don’t

11.  Every Little Thing

12.  I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party

13.  What You’re Doing

14.  Everybody’s Trying to Be My Baby

15.  She’s A Woman (American version)

16.  I Feel Fine

17.  Shout! (TV Special – on Anthology)

HELP

1.      Help (with James Bond intro)

2.      I Need You

3.      You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away

4.      The Night Before

5.      Another Girl

6.      You’re Gona Lose that Girl

7.      Ticket To Ride (with un faded ending)

8.      Act Naturally

9.      I’m Really Down

10.  If You’ve Got Troubles

11.  It’s Only Love

12.  You Like Me Too Much

13.  Tell Me What You See

14.  Bad Boy

15.  I’ve Just Seen a Face

16.  Yes It Is

17.  Dizzy Miss Lizzy

RUBBER SOUL

1.      Drive My Car

2.      Norwegian Wood

3.      You Won’t See Me

4.      What Goes On?

5.      Think For Yourself

6.      Say the Word

7.      Michelle

8.      Twelve Bar Original (Anthology edit)

9.      Nowhere Man

10.  Girl

11.  I’m Looking Through You

12.  In My Life

13.  If I Needed Someone

14.  We Can Work It Out

15.  Wait

16.  Run For Your Live  (unfaded ending)

17.  Day Tripper

REVOLVER

1.      Paperback Writer

2.      Rain (mono 45 version)

3.      Taxman (mono version)

4.      I’m Only Sleeping (Stereo American version)

5.      Eleanor Rigbee

6.      Love You To

7.      Here, There and Everywhere

8.      I’m Only Sleeping – Instrumental (Anthology)

9.      Yellow Submarine (mono version)

10.  She Said, She Said

11.  And Your Bird Can Sing

12.  For No One

13.  Good Day Sunshine

14.  Dr. Robert

15.  I Want to Tell You

16.  Got To Get You Into My Life (mono version

17.  Tomorrow Never Knows (mono version)

THE REST OF THE BEATLE TRACKS – OR “NOT QUITE READY FOR PTIME TIME”

1.      How Do You Do It?

2.      Moonlight Bay – With TV Studio Bantor

3.      You Know What To Do (George Harrison demo track)

4.      Leave My Kitten Alone

5.      That Means A Lot (Anthology version)

6.      Yesterday (original version)

7.      I’m Looking Through You (anthology version)

8.      And Your Bird Can Sing (Anthology giggling version)

9.      Beatles 1966 Christmas release

10.  Strawberry Fields Forever (Version seven)  see footnote

11.  Only a Northern Song (Anthology version)

12.  Good Morning (Anthology version)

13.  You Know My Name - - (Anthology long edit)

14.  Beatles 1967 Christmas release

15.  The Inner Light

16.  Fool On The Hill (Anthology - first run-through)

17.  Across the Universe (Let It Be – Naked – version)

“Pink” favored the stripped down version.  As you know my favorite is a different version.  The only dinking around with the actual recorded music is in the end of Strawberry Fields- - where the flute playing is “warped out’ in the spirit of track seven of “Baxters” by the JA, where it sounds like the power is being turned off and on and the thing is very “snippit” sounding as well as warped out.  They did this to take your mind off the fact that the fade is a premature ending from what you normally expect.  Track seven is the version before the “drum beat” bit starts.