Songs The Beatles Gave Away...

Isn't there a Stones song too?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulor0uSkBCA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CMX0mCFYJ4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QftK51Qbu-8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMtl7xt99fw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b99SmcsDbg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjrLFgCIO90

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC0PG0PWnT0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMzME8oVNCY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wxDDCqot0A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et0JAl2jdfc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8JBNIb1zqM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuGzPbj6zjA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T2DERNmLP0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a6YbZGdtOU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6-26dnHARI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLmiOaX-nSU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyJ3_PiOWG0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGddBXNR3s8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEJBItLnw5I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgxR_7k03-w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSpW6MePb10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKgu8etXXcQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-vRYDC_Hd8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3TOcw7taBo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqXIeYTiJic

I knew It's For You as a kid by Springwell, and later Head East, before I ever heard Cilla. Love that song, but this is Come And Get It for me.

Don't know most of those, but "Badge" is a favourite, so I'll vote anyway.

as much as I love Badfinger, "sour milk sea" by Jackie Lomax is the bomb. maybe the best song George ever wrote?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEJBItLnw5I

the "outfake" version of sour milk sea is nice too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0G_8BgFYeM

Come And Get It ftw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1xss8MlwCk

this isn't.. quite the same version that's on Anthology 3, i think it's this take or this demo but they remixed it or something.

I can see Badfinger winning outright, but some of those earlier songs are pretty cool, and just listen to Penina, man it's *terrible*. The strings are all out of time with the drums and the singing is like some horrible working mens club crooner taking the piss.

Sour Milk Sea, hands down

Isn't there a Stones song too?

The Beatles released a version of "I Wanna Be Your Man" at the time, which isn't the case with all of these.

I like that early stuff a lot. Thinking "Love of the Loved" or "From a Window" of the ones that I know but there are a lot that I don't.

Should also do a poll for worst giveaway hackwork. "Bad To Me" is so bad. To me.

Would vote for "Badge" but should it really count?

It was George/Ringo so yeah

"Ringo" Clapton, you mean.

Ringo came up with the "told you about the swans that they live in the park" line.

Ringo responsible for every wonderful line that John, Paul, George wrote.

https://youtu.be/o894I9sW76Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o894I9sW76Y

Sorry the audio is bad, but perhaps the Hungarian subtitles will aid comprehension.

lol at proby's ridiculous, overwrought vocal on "that means a lot." just dripping. it was never a top-drawer lennon/mccartney classic but he really turns it into the most generic period dreck imaginable. like it should be in some shitty teen movie where the action gets periodically interrupted by a shitty band performing a shitty song or two while all the teens in the movie enthusiastically clap along.

The last version the Beatles attempted of that one had them basically ripping the piss out of it and laffing "a lot".

So, yeah, not top drawer..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krEvlMJBVZ8

Everyone upthread OTM re: "Sour Milk Sea." One of Ringo's finest moments, and I can think of maybe 8-10 songs on the White Album it could've/should've replaced (as-is, retaining Lomax' vocal). I forget which song Ian MacDonald said this about, but it applies here: if Paul wasn't jealous of George, he should've been.

Most of these songs are good to great, and the demos and outtakes versions the beatles did have become some of my favorite things to listen to over the past few years since they're relatively 'new'. I vote world without love, I've always loved that song. good version too.

This has to be 'Badge' for me.

The Beatles version of 'I'll Be On My Way' is on Live At The BBC.

Yeah, SMS is a really weird thing to sleep on, even by John and Paul's standards for George. I like "Savoy Truffle" a lot but no way is it a better song. I actually like the demo better than Lomax's though - the latter is a little slower and his throatier vocal suppresses what in hindsight seems like an almost proto-Bolan number lurking somewhere in Harrison's thin little vocal. I do like the shambley looseness of the instrumental track on its own though!

Inevitably, someone's combined the two tracks, which gets us sorta close to what a White Album "Sour Milk Sea" would have sounded like, since it's the Beatles playing on Lomax's version anyway. Obviously the vocals would have been more developed, hopefully without losing the charm of the demo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqCSfJmv3Tk

Let me think of that song:

"Get out of sour milk sea..
Get back to where you used to be"

Hmmm, I wonder...

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i love how in 2015 when someone mentions a song, there's a way to instantly hear it

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