Comments on: na na na na na yesterday....

na na na na na yesterday....

jrb223 — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:30:20 -0800

Yesterduh. [more inside]

By: jrb223

jrb223 — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:30:37 -0800

The Beatles' Yesterday holds the world record for being the most recorded song in history. So Brian Joseph Davis recorded it 60 more times. Via this interview I heard on the radio.(.mp3) [His work has been on Metafilter before]

By: dobbs

dobbs — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:33:56 -0800

Excellent. Thanks.

By: interrobang

interrobang — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:49:32 -0800

(The .mp3 link seems to be a RAM file.)

By: interrobang

interrobang — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:49:48 -0800

(Sorry, I mean Real Audio.)

By: jrb223

jrb223 — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:53:45 -0800

ah, is it? whoops, the url ended in .mp3, my msitake.

By: jrb223

jrb223 — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:53:57 -0800

ahem. my mistake.

By: godawful

godawful — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:54:31 -0800

So eerie. The singalong at the assylum.

By: lorbus

lorbus — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 09:00:07 -0800

What's on Aki Onda's mind? I love his interpretation the best... Thanks, great link.

By: crowman

crowman — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 09:54:29 -0800

Off topic... As a teenaged Beatles fans (in the late 70's) I remember my mother offhandedly telling me that when I was born and they cleaned me up and presented me to her she distinctly remembers Yesterday playing on the radio on the bedside table. So it was the first song me ears ever heard. Later it occured to me that when I'd first heard it I hadn't even had a yesterday. And to have a song about longing for the past as the beginning of the soundtrack of your life... *cue existential sigh* Couldn't it have least been a Lennon song? Perhaps... I'm Only Sleeping?

By: Ethereal Bligh

Ethereal Bligh — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 09:58:31 -0800

You probably heard other songs in the womb.

By: crowman

crowman — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 10:53:08 -0800

You probably heard other songs in the womb. Yeah, but they'd also have been murky underwater tones too. And being born in '65 many of those tunes would have been Beatles anyhow. Actually, I see Yesterday debuted at number 1 the day after I was born... but enough about me.

By: gohlkus

gohlkus — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 16:49:20 -0800

Here's a blog entry about Yesterduh from Salon's AudioFile (subscription or daypass required), including this link to an (actual) MP3 of Yesterduh from Brian Joseph Davis' site. I found it rather creepy-sounding, honestly, but fascinating... and maybe just a little bit touching.

By: 3.2.3

3.2.3 — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 17:21:29 -0800

ok, finally some best of the web. this is great. thanks. the all together version is weirdly compelling.

By: MetaMonkey

MetaMonkey — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 20:44:30 -0800

I find the all together version overwhelmingly discordant - remarkable brain-trickery and misdirection of threads of thought. Thanks!

By: philcliff

philcliff — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 22:09:15 -0800

My friends and I once recorded a version of Yesterday but instead of saying yesterday we said Christmas time.

By: RufusW

RufusW — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 22:14:24 -0800

Super Creepy Scary

By: eritain

eritain — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 01:59:39 -0800

I got so much dumber listening to that ... Not in a good way, either. Except for Solo Two, which was awesome, and Hey Yesterday, which wasn't half bad. But truly, this is a testament to brain-strangling ineptness. (How does anybody get past adolescence without memorizing Yesterday, and one or two other good, schmaltzy songs, anyway?)

By: Bugbread

Bugbread — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 06:06:02 -0800

crowman : "Yeah, but they'd also have been murky underwater tones too." That got me thinking: If you can take a normal tune and perform certain mathematical processes to convert it into a murky, underwater sound, then would it be possible to perform the inverse of those processes to make a shrill, high pitched tune that, when heard from inside the womb, sounded normal? If so, you could play really cool music for your fetus which it could hear properly.

By: headlessness

headlessness — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 02:24:57 -0800

Excellent post, thanks.

By: crowman

crowman — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 06:07:36 -0800

Bugbread: that's a great idea! Assuming the parents weren't subjecting their fetus to say, Metallica's Enter Sandman and the like. Scary! Be sure to let us know when you perfected your invention!