//00:00//The Beatles' Revolver (1966)//On R.I.P. The Bunker*//On Cultural Scripture//On Church v. John Lennon by the numbers//On anthemic cultural shifts//On re-shaping conscious trajectories//On Revolver as the Sonic Moon Landing//On a Billy Elliot quote for the ages//On revolutionary implementation of technology as production//On sneaky Motown vibrations//On Bizarro Rubber Soul//On starting to make music not to be played live//On Pritchy--Mr. Sunshine//On Danny--hating all sunshiny Beatles songs//On Tomorrow Never Knows eternally//On Don Draper thinking Revolver was mid//On Taxman coming up repeatedly//On George levelling up helped to hit their ceiling and would ultimately rip them apart//On Taxman still//On 1 for you, 19 for me//On "You could recreate all of Rock n' Roll with Revolver"//

//(52:43)//The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)//On concept album scripture//On sneaky tidy album//On rock as high art//On Kaleidoscopic Parlor Pop//On rock as theatre//On song or vingette?//On sonically omniverous Sgt. Pepper's//On one's own strength buckling under the power of one's own strength a la Bo Jackson//On A Day in The Life//On Superior-deep metaphor//On an anxious lived-in experience//On Paul leading the way//On Mr. Kite's claustrophobic nature//On Lovely Rita truly being lovely//On the rock vanguard's biggest leap yet//On Within You and Without You as non-duel consciousness scripture//On being 'the one'//

//(1:38:04)//Preview of episode//29//

*This episode got put through the ringer and I feel the need to lay it out. I’d wanted to do Sgt. Pepper’s forever. I knew I was going to do it with Pritch. When he and my Mom came to help us with baby #2, we recorded a special teaser colored with a hyper speed backstory of The Beatles leading into their back-to-back albums covered here. It was the first recording in the completed studio space I’d been chipping away at for 3+ years. The room flooded two days after we recorded the teaser and I still can’t express my heartbreak to have had to tear it down over the course of a 24-hour period.

R.I.P. The Bunker.

We recorded the episode a few days after that, on schedule, in an impromptu location, and I blew the dunk on the setup in myriad ways. The plan the whole way was to embed samples of Beatles songs to amplify the density and importance of tip-toeing on such hallowed ground. I botched isolating the different tracks. I botched a sophisticated sound check on my microphone. The result was my mic sounding awful (Pritch’s sounding good as a consolation) and an inability to properly edit separate channels because I’d combined them improperly.

I ran the audio through a lot of AI doctoring and EQ gymnastics and it sounded..ok. I posted the episode and was proud of it but also distraught at the numerous ways this dream episode didn’t manifest in the way I wanted. Spotify then pulled the episode from all platforms because I’d apparently used too long or too many Beatles samples. On replay I can’t actually dispute either claim and perhaps I was distracted which had my mind off of that potential trip-up.

The episode here in final form is the doctored version which siphoned off the music samples, enhanced my mic sound (significantly, which I’m happy about), and serves as the final draft of the podcast episode which took, by far, the most effort to complete. Pritch and I are like Andy Dufresne climbing through football fields of shit to bring you this overwrought, overdramatic, overly thought-out overview of the peak of The Beatles career. Enjoy.