• Big City Orchestra – The Beatlerape
1 September, 2008
CD, Staalplaat, 1994
San Francisco’s avant garde cheerleaders, with the second version of their Beatles-butchering antics, all wrapped in a White Album-alike sleeve. Subtitled “Sound Effects Library Volume Four”, it includes a section of what we all are now calling “stems”, for fucking about with.
Oh, and you may not want to click to get a better view of that inlay. Mind-bleach may be needed.
1. Cry Baby (3:12)
2. Because (5:46)
3. Bleujay (5:17)
4. When I 64 (2:26)
5. Mr Kite (1:19)
6. Hard Day (4:49)
7. Take Two (3:14)
8. Madona (3:01)
9. Yeah Yea (3:07)
10. Revolver (2:56)
11. Boy (3:15)
12. Drums (2:46)
13. Bulldog (2:58)
14. Ringo’s T (1:40)
15. SFX #1 (0:15)
16. SFX #2 (0:21)
17. SFX #3 (0:12)
18. SFX #4 (0:18)
19. SFX #5 (0:18)
20. SFX #6 (0:22)
21. SFX #7 (0:17)
22. SFX #8 (0:15)
23. SFX #9 (0:19)
24. SFX #10 (0:16)
25. SFX #11 (0:18)
26. SFX #12 (0:18)
27. SFX #13 (0:17)
28. SFX #14 (0:17)
29. SFX #15 (0:19)
30. SFX #16 (0:15)
31. SFX #17 (0:18)
32. SFX #18 (0:16)
33. SFX #19 (0:17)
34. SFX #20 (0:17)
35. SFX #21 (0:16)
36. SFX #22 (0:08)
37. Philobeatle (11:41)
38. Psa (0:22)
39. Cry Remix (6:07)
PS: The lovely BCO – plus glitzy showbiz friends like ECC and Wobbly – gathered as one on January 31st, 2010 to recreate Beatlerape for their 30th Anniversary Show. There’s a full download right here.
PPS: An absolute fuck-load of rare BCO tapes are currently being upped at a great rate at Nostalgia de la Boue. Go go go…
hey thanks for this — go big city orchestra go.
keep up the good work, liking it so far…
both editions are still available at the above site
I presume you mean “on the link hidden in my name”…namely http://www.ubuibi.org/. Couldn’t spot them myself, though there’s plenty of other BCO material for download there. Which link do you prod to get the discs we posted?
Stefan M—
It’s worth noting that this brilliant record was in fact first released by the Realization Records label in 1993.