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Beatles anomalies list…

Yesterday (you can read it here) I wrote about the three remastered Led Zeppelin albums I bought and my disappointment with the bonus materials on two of those albums (the third album I mistakenly bought without the bonus disc) while also noting the remastered albums themselves sounded damned good.

I noted in my review that I purchased those albums because I was curious to hear the bonus/alternate versions of the very famous songs on the albums themselves and that that curiosity was akin to the sometimes very illuminating rough versions of songs created by the Beatles.

Coincidentally enough, I later find this website devoted to cataloging the oddities found in various Beatles songs.  It is worth a look if you’re curious!

What Goes On – The Beatles Anomalies List

Getting back (there’s a pun there, read on!) to the topic of early/rough/alternate takes on famous songs, this is what I was kinda/sorta hoping to find in the Led Zeppelin bonus material.  Here is the original version of the very famous George Harrison/Beatles song While My Guitar Gently Weeps, for many years hidden away in the Beatles vaults:

Versus the version that made it to The White Album:

Of course, not every song a band/singer creates undergoes such a metamorphosis, but I guess I was hoping to glean something more radical in the Led Zeppelin bonus stuff found on the two albums I bought.  Perhaps the others will have more interesting stuff?

Before I move on, here’s another really interesting oddity from the Beatles: The original rambling, incomplete, and quite political (!) early version of the Beatles’ Get Back. (Told you there was a pun there!)

Versus what it eventually became: