Everyday Chemistry
Everyday Chemistry is a remix album that was made available as a free digital download on 9 September 2009. The album was released along with a story of anonymous authorship.[1] It mashes up various songs from the Beatles' individual solo careers, including tracks from 27 albums. The album portrays itself as being taken from an alternate universe in which the Beatles had not broken up.[2][3]
Everyday Chemistry | |
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Remix album credited to the Beatles | |
Released | 9 September 2009 |
Genre | Mashup |
Length | 40:48 |
Context
The album was first posted on the website thebeatlesneverbrokeup.com, accompanied by a short story written by an anonymous person under the pen name "James Richards" (a pseudonym drawn from the legal first names of Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, the two surviving Beatles, who were born James Paul McCartney and Richard Starkey respectively). Richards describes meeting a man named Jonas who lives in a parallel universe in which the Beatles never broke up. Jonas and Richards both discussed their enjoyment of the Beatles, and just before leaving the parallel universe and travelling back to his own, Richards stole a cassette tape containing one of The Beatles' albums from that timeline.[4] Richards denied that the album was composed of mashups, reasoning that "even though in the alternate universe the Beatles hadn't broken up, that didn't mean their future music ideas disappeared".[5]
Track listing
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Four Guys" | 4:17 |
2. | "Talking to Myself" | 3:38 |
3. | "Anybody Else" | 6:03 |
4. | "Sick to Death" | 2:56 |
5. | "Jenn" | 3:34 |
6. | "I'm Just Sitting Here" | 3:23 |
7. | "Soldier Boy" | 3:22 |
8. | "Over the Ocean" | 3:36 |
9. | "Days Like These" | 3:23 |
10. | "Saturday Night" | 3:22 |
11. | "Mr Gator's Swamp Jamboree" | 3:24 |
Total length: | 40:48 |
Samples
"Four Guys"
- "I'm Moving On" (John Lennon)
- "Band on the Run" (Paul McCartney)[3]
- "When We Was Fab" (George Harrison)[3]
- "Vertical Man" (Ringo Starr)
- "Beatlemania In Action" (The Beatles' Story)
- "We were four guys ... that's all (Interview Anthology 1)" (The Beatles)
"Talking to Myself"
- "I'm Losing You" (John Lennon)
- "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" (Paul McCartney)[3]
- "Stuck Inside a Cloud" (George Harrison)[3]
- "Early 1970" (Ringo Starr)
"Anybody Else"
- "One Day (At a Time)" (John Lennon)[3]
- "Somedays" (Paul McCartney)[3]
- "Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll)" (George Harrison)
- "Monkey See – Monkey Do" (Ringo Starr)
"Sick to Death"
- "Gimme Some Truth" (John Lennon)[3]
- 'No More Lonely Nights (playout version)" (Paul McCartney)
- "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" (George Harrison)
- "All By Myself" (Ringo Starr)[3]
"Jenn"
- "God Save Oz" (John Lennon)
- "Jet" (Paul McCartney)
- "Teardrops" (Harrison)
- "Hard Times" (Ringo Starr)[3]
"I'm Just Sitting Here"
- "Watching the Wheels" (John Lennon)[3]
- "Call Me Back Again " (Paul McCartney)
- "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)" (George Harrison)
- "Loser's Lounge" (Ringo Starr)
"Soldier Boy"
- "Isolation" (John Lennon)[3]
- "Phil and John 1" (John Lennon)[3]
- "Listen to What the Man Said" (Paul McCartney)[3]
- "Woman Don't You Cry For Me" (George Harrison)[3]
- "I Don't Believe You" (Ringo Starr)[3]
- "John Lennon Becomes A DJ For A Day At KHJ Radio 27 September 1974" (and now back to your local station) (John Lennon)
"Over the Ocean"
- "You Are Here" (John Lennon)[3]
- "Heather" (Paul McCartney)
- "I Dig Love" (George Harrison)
- "Marwa Blues" (George Harrison)
- "Back Off Boogaloo" (Ringo Starr)
"Days Like These"
- "Nobody Told Me" (John Lennon)[3]
- "Write Away" (Paul McCartney)
- "Soft-Hearted Hana" (George Harrison)[3]
- "Christmas Eve" (Ringo Starr)
"Saturday Night"
- "Cold Turkey" (John Lennon)[3]
- "Night Out" (Paul McCartney)
- "P2 Vatican Blues (Last Saturday Night)" (George Harrison)
- "Runaways" (Ringo Starr)
"Mr. Gator's Swamp Jamboree"
- "Sunday Bloody Sunday" (John Lennon)
- "Momma Miss America" (Paul McCartney)[3]
- "Tired of Midnight Blue" (George Harrison)
- "$15 Draw" (Ringo Starr)
References
- Brennan, Colin (18 November 2015). "Transdimensional thief claims to be in possession of unreleased Beatles album". Consequence of Sound.
- Dreyer, Chris (31 March 2010). "'Everyday Chemistry', the Beatles". Inlander.
- JNSP (30 December 2009). "'Everyday Chemistry', el timo de la estampita" (in Spanish). jenesaispop.
- Spacek, Nick (9 November 2009). "The Beatles Never Broke Up?". Pitch. Kansas City, MO. Archived from the original on 18 March 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2015.
- "Everyday Chemistry: The Story Behind The Greatest Beatles' Albums That Never Existed". Of Fact and Fiction. 23 May 2014. Retrieved 13 March 2017.