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.

After a whole flurry of November drops and live episodes and whatnot, this week the Untitled Beatles Podcast gets back (see what we did there?) to what we do best: Super Deluxe Reissues of our early classics. We're revisiting our review of the critically unclaimed 1978 Sgt. Pepper film, this time replete with music cues, needle drops, and other sonic shenanigans.

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[Originally published 31 October 2020]

It’s the silliest episode to date...

For Halloween, T.J. and Tony dissect the 1978 box office flop Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Robert Stigwood, Peter Frampton and the very lupine Bros. Gibb have a lot of ‘splainin' to do. THERE WILL BE SPOILERS...and fact-check buzzers!

While inside, T.J. takes Steve Martin and Sir George Martin to task and Tony offers a hot take on the television show Emergency!

Due to a technical error, Tony was forced to put on a T.J. costume and re-record T.J.’s keyboard parts in post, with note-for-note precision. He hopes he passed the audition.

Dust off your cheaply-made Pepper outfit and Trip or Treat to this delightful monstrosity in the Beatles story.

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Here we go! GET BACK IS HERE, and T.J., Tony, and Casey wolfed down their turkey so they could get back onto Twitch and talk all about it with their Untitled Beatles Podfriends.

Spoilers abound! But let's be real, if you haven't watched Part 1 yet, that's on you.

We hope your holiday has been harmonious, and we hope to see you 'round the clubs. (Or Friday and Saturday night, right back here on Twitch!)

• Friday and Saturday

Thanks again to our friends at Chicago4Real for hosting all our shenanigans!

IT HAS ARRIVED.

AND WE CAN'T WAIT TO TALK ABOUT IT.

WE HOPE YOU'LL JOIN US.

THURSDAY / FRIDAY / SATURDAY @ 10 PM ET / 9 CT / 7 PT

 📺 TWITCH.TV/CHICAGO4REAL

To gear up for this week's momentous release of the Get Back documentary series, Tony and T.J. went live on the ol' Twitch to:

🍳 Review this week’s Breakfast With the Beatles playlist by Chicago radio legend Terri Hemmert

📽 Set the stage for the weekend with a (thin crust) deep dish into the 1970 Michael Lindsey-Hogg documentary Let It Be

🗣 And field all sorts of fab fan comments along the way.

It was a blast! Special thanks to everyone who came out and joined the conversation. The only thing more fun than making this show is making it with all of you in the virtual room alongside us. So much fun that we're trying something new: releasing this special edition VIDEO PODCAST.

And if you missed it, don't sweat, we'll be back on Twitch this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evening to talk about each day's Get Back release. We hope we'll see you there!

• Thursday, Friday, and Saturday

Thanks again to our friends at Chicago4Real for hosting us!

🍏 IT’S GET BACK WEEK!

And to celebrate, the Untitled Beatles Podcast is GOING LIVE. T.J. and Tony present Twitch and Shout, a live, loose conversation about all things Beatles.

Tune in on Twitch tonight to join in the conversation, as the guys:

🍳 Review this week’s Breakfast With the Beatles playlist by Chicago radio legend Terri Hemmert

📽 Get geared up for the weekend with a (thin crust) deep dish into the 1970 Michael Lindsey-Hogg documentary Let It Be

🗣 And field all your questions and comments along the way.

LIVE STREAM DETAILS:

• Tuesday, November 23

And if that wasn't enough, we'll be back on Twitch this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evening to talk about each day's Get Back release. It's just too momentous; we just can't wait. So gobble up that turkey, squeeze in some quality time with the in-laws, and come join us to talk all things Get Back.

• Thursday, Friday, and Saturday

Many thanks to our fine friends at Chicago4Real for hosting us on their channel.

Move over thrice!!! As part three of our Let It Be 50th Anniversary gabfest, T.J. and Tony inspect the Glyn Johns mixes of 1969's Get Back LP, along with the 12" 4-song EP. Then they crack open the new Get Back book, providing Cliff Notes (and Norm Notes) for its 200 pages, give or take a two. Along the way:

📻 Tony reveals the identity of the villain who calls in all those pesky Beatles covers to 93 XRT

🎸 T.J. offers Garageband tutorials on editing out the new pre-song chatter to "Don't Let Me Down"

🚀 We can all agree that everything sounds better when it is "Super High Mastered"

All that and an order of cheese sauce! The sounds of laughter are inciting and inviting you ho-ho hee-hee ha-ha...

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Move over twice! It's Part 2 of the runaway train that is The Untitled Beatles Podcast as it careens around the Let It Be 50th anniversary box set. This week T.J. and Tony wax ecstatic about Side Two's 2021 mixes then trade favorite studio outtakes. Also, they grumble about what was curiously left off, though they don't know why they're moaning.

Along the way they ask:

📦 Who packaged it better: Universal Music Group or Dr. Ebbetts?

👄 How many ways can two people pronounce the word “warble”?

🎭 What is the name of Paul McCartney’s improv workshoppe and do current students get a discount?

Plus a "controversial" word has T.J. stumbling into blooper hell. You'd hate to miss this train, oh yeah!

Timpani drumroll courtesy of David Skidmore and Vic Firth Percussion.

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