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SPOOKY SONGS

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Songs / Tracks Listing

1. Tomorrow Never Knows (2:59)
2. I Am the Walrus (4:36)
3. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (3:28)
4. It's All Too Much (6:26)
5. Long, Long, Long (3:06)
6. I'm Only Sleeping (3:00)

Total Time 23:35

Line-up / Musicians

- John Lennon
- Paul McCartney
- George Harrison
- Ringo Starr

Releases information

Spooky Songs [p] Streaming
2020 Digital File Universal / n/a

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Review by siLLy puPPy
SPECIAL COLLABORATOR PSIKE, JRF/Canterbury, P Metal, Eclectic
1 stars As time drifts on ever further from the 60s which found THE BEATLES dominating the charts for most of the decade, the Fab Four's marketing execs seem to have an ever increasingly difficult time figuring out how to milk the public out of yet more money for music that they already own! In 2020 it's officially been 50 years since THE BEATLES called it quits and since then we have seen releases almost 20 archival releases in full-album form as well as several live releases as well as dozens of gimmicky EPs that nobody asked for yet keep appearing on the list as if John and George are conducting secret recording sessions from the other side.

Here's the latest moronic attempt to cash in on THE BEATLES' legacy. SPOOKY SONGS was released just before Halloween 2020 and features six songs that supposedly represent scary even though THE BEATLES are one of the least scary bands i can possibly think of with some of the most uplifting cheerful and optimistic pop rock songs ever recorded. Apparently all those drugs in the 60s didn't do some record execs any favors. The track list on this is utterly laughable! It starts off with the psychedelic "Tomorrow Never Knows" which comes off the "Revolver" album. I guess sitars are supposed to be scary? LOL.

Same goes with "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds." Would anybody in 2020 even find this stuff psychedelic much less scary? The only and i mean only shred of spookiness comes from the outro ghoulish vocals on "Long, Long, Long" perhaps one of the most forgettable songs on "The White Album." The track "It's All Too Much" seems to have been chosen from the "Yellow Submarine" album simply because it has an experimental short intro but once again the rest of the track is THE BEATLES at their most forgettable. As if 2020 wasn't surreal enough, releases like this simply amplify the WTF factor manyfold!

This is really just plain STUPID! If i were to make an actual scary music compilation then how in the world could you not include "A Day In The Life" which creates a multi-dimensional effect as two completely different songs trade off to narrate the death of a man in a car crash which according to legend was the first Paul McCartney! Oooo, spooky! "Revolution 9," hello!!! This is by far the weirdest and most experimental track THE BEATLES ever releases and parts of it are downright creepy and could be interpreted as spooky by those who don't feel safe outside of their bedroom filled with stuffed Teddy bears but i digress. Even "Blue Jay Way" with its dark themes and dramatic musical build up could possible be on the list however when i think of SPOOKY, sorry THE BEATLES just don't come to mind! All i can say is: who the flying [%*!#] is buying this ridiculousness? Just buy the friggin albums! Rating is for this lame compilation not for the excellent tracks on it.

Review by AtomicCrimsonRush
SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Honorary Collaborator
1 stars A shameless Halloween cash-in that would be amazing if it offered something new and wonderful. It does not. Instead we get one of the weirdest Beatles releases to date. Spooky songs are perhaps songs that have a strange disconcerting edge to them and there are plenty out there I have heard, some so scary I would not want to return to them, such as that album by Scott Walker that haunted me for days, or even that masterful shocker by Comus, or even some of Godspeed You! Black Emperor's work or the nasty "Murder Ballads" of Nick Cave, all unsettling beyond belief.

But The Beatles... yes the sodding Beatles for crying out loud! Perhaps this album is one of the biggest jokes of 2020, surely it cannot be serious. After all it opens with Tomorrow Never Knows which is a masterpiece but it aint scary folks. I Am the Walrus is less scary than this although the lyrics might freak out your grandparents. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds again has weird LSD inspired lyrics but not in the least spooky. It's All Too Much is an oddity that rarely finds its way on a compilation or is that a complication? But its cool to revisit being one of the lesser known Beatles. Long, Long, Long again is not often found on a comp but its pretty good, though not in the least spooky. Finally I'm Only Sleeping is here and unless sleep scares you it is not spooky.

So there it is folks. If you find a cheap CD copy it is perhaps worth grabbing as it is a definitive oddity. It does not feature the spookiest song by Beatles Revolution 9, which scares me silly, and perhaps Happiness is a Warm Gun freaks me out a bit because of how Lennon died. But Halloween will bring out the worst in the mad merchandise market and here is one such item.

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