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Mon, Nov 25th 2013 5:00pm — Michael Ho

The Beatles broke up by 1970, but since then, they've still managed to release a few new songs, like Free As A Bird and Real Love.. and even the new music video for Words Of Love (released this year). Maybe it's a bit creepy to hear new songs coming from a band that hasn't existed in decades, but at least these guys were real people (and not some computer-generated pop stars). Imagine how much more music with the Beatles would be available if mashups of their songs weren't considered copyright infringement? Beyond the infamous Grey Album, check out some of these creative Beatles mashups.

Ever wonder what a hundred vinyl record players would sound like if they were playing the Beatles White Album's side 1 at (almost) the same time? Wonder no more. Check it out before the copyright bot on SoundCloud deletes it.... [url]
If you don't have the time to listen to every Beatles song sequentially, how about listening to them all at once (it only takes about 8 minutes)? Note: you can buy this track for the bargain price of $1 per Beatles song ($226) as a John-Cage-esque mashup (8 minutes 22 seconds of silence). [url]
Paul McCartney can still collaborate with John Lennon with a mashup like Imagine The Band -- a combination of Imagine and Band on the Run. Apparently, Lennon can also play with Coldplay and other bands, too. [url]

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Filed Under: beatles, coldplay, grey album, john cage, mashups, music, pop star, white album
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Anonymous Coward, 25 Nov 2013 @ 6:34pm

Is it really that creative to play the same song(s) at the same time? And does that track show how bad quality control is on vinyl recordings or how bad the person was at starting the album at the same time?
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Anonymous Coward, 25 Nov 2013 @ 8:09pm

You may be a dreamer, but you're not the only one ...
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Anonymous Coward, 26 Nov 2013 @ 4:40am

Re:
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not!
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Nick (profile), 26 Nov 2013 @ 9:05am

Um, the middle article is (now) worthless. Less than worthless, as the actual sound file with something to listen to was taken down in March, and the same artist is selling a version of it for (inexplicably) the same cost to purchase the files separately, but it isn't the song. So to "patron" the article of it's product would leave you with 8:22 of something I can make with sound recorder (and he likely did).

Pity they didn't see this as fair use (replacement for the actual product? Yeah right, only if you have the amazing ability to discern 226 different sounds at once).
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