Every Little Thing

This is Beatles month, the 40th anniversary (coming up on the 7th) of the American invasion.

Alan W. Pollack's "Notes on ..." series offers detailed notes on the entire Beatles catalog -- the sort of micro-analysis that is probably appreciated only by musicologists or true aficionados:

"The form [of "Across the Universe"] is clearly articulated but unorthodox in construction. At the high level it is close to the flat form of the folk ballad, in which a grouping of sections is repeated several times as a group, per se. The unusual touch here is the interpolation of what I've called the 'Mantra' before each refrain."

Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da . . .

My favorite Beatles album is The Beatles (better known as The White Album), though in truth I love them all.

(via Incoming Signals)

This week's New Yorker has an interesting article about a new (but unauthorized) Beatles-related remix project called The Grey Album.