Continuing my new picking whatever I want to do next approach to the Beatles songs series; today’s song is “Rain.” Yes, I’m really picking up steam. After waiting 9 months between “Hold Me Tight” to “And I Love Her” I’ve waited only 13 days to get to “Rain.” At this rate I may even finish [...]

Picking up where I left off (quite awhile ago) with my track by track look at The Beatles albums in mono. My first post was on Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. So I think I’m going to work back from there and then pick up Magical Mystery Tour & The White Album after I [...]

John Lennon won the Rubber Soul battle and is now up 6-0 in my continuing series on who contributed more to each Beatles album, John Lennon or Paul McCartney. But it should be noted that at least half of those battles were very, very close so this hasn’t really been as much of a landslide [...]

There’s an interesting story behind Petula Clark’s second #1 US single, “My Love,” which hit the top of the charts on February 5th of 1966. The song was written by a songwriter named Tony Hatch (who wrote most of Clark’s hits) and when Clark first heard the song she hated it. But she recorded it [...]

Sinead O’Connor was born on December 8th of 1966 in Dublin, Ireland. O’Connor is most well known for her massively successful cover of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” which was a #1 single in 1990 in the US, UK, Australia, Ireland, & Canada. Prince originally wrote the song in 1981. That song was included on [...]

Jeff Buckley was born on November 17th of 1966 in Anaheim, California. His father was singer-songwriter Tim Buckley who was only 19 when Jeff was born. Tim tragically died from a drug overdose on June 29, 1975 when his son was 8 years old. Jeff was raised by his mother and his stepfather Ron Moorhead. [...]

Mary Hanson was born on November 1st of 1966 in Australia. Hanson is most well known as a singer, guitarist, keyboardist, & percussionist for Stereolab. She joined the band in 1992. Stereolab has not been a hugely successful band commercially (their highest charting album is 1997′s Dots and Loops which hit #111 in the US [...]

Adam Horovitz was born on October 31st of 1966 in South Orange, New Jersey. Horovitz is a rapper, guitarist, & producer most well known as “Adrock” of the Beastie Boys. He has been a member of the Beastie Boys since 1983. In 1986 the Beastie Boys released their debut album, Licensed to Ill. It was [...]

The Nowhere Man EP featured 4 songs from 1965′s Rubber Soul. It was released just a month before their next album, Revolver. Quite a curious release considering that the songs had already been released on Rubber Soul quite some time ago and Revolver was about to come out. I’m guessing it was their record company [...]

The Beatles 1966 single “Paperback Writer” has always been one of my favorite Beatles rock n roll tracks. Here’s a few reasons why: + The main guitar riff rocks. + The bass is bad ass. + The harmonies are insane. + The crazy reverb on the vocals. + “Frere Jacques.” If you don’t know what [...]