I'm still waiting for someone to drop a copy of "Commonwealth" in my lap. I've never had a copy of it--I've only ever heard a sliver of it once, back in college, on a record owned by a friend who (nonsensically) thought it would be somehow unethical for me to make a cassette copy of his bootleg LP.
Anybody? Bueller?
rwcass
· 2 months ago
Never heard of it, but you might find some interesting stuff at this blog:
I've noticed that there are multiple versions of "The Alternate Abbey Road" floating around. Beatles minutiae makes my head spin -- and I LIKE minutiae.
JonCummings
· 2 months ago
Thanks for that link. "Commonwealth" is an ultra-rare "Get Back" jam-session outtake of the group fooling around while Paul is trying to figure out what he wants to do with the song "Get Back" itself. It is a parody of a speech given by a douchebag member of the House of Commons named Enoch Powell, which became known as the "Rivers of Blood" speech. It was militantly anti-immigrant and racist in nature, and turned Powell into a pariah. During the jam session Paul sang a line going "You better get back to your Commonwealth homes," a reference to Powell's desire to re-patriate immigrants from British Commonwealth nations.
A later session featured Paul singing a tune much more similar to "Get Back," but featuring a similar satire of anti-immigrant conservatives, which is now known as "No Pakistanis." I don't have that, either, but would like to.
rwcass
· 2 months ago
Hmm ... I feel like "Commonwealth" relates to current events in this country somehow, but I can't quite put my finger on it.
DwDunphy
· 2 months ago
Unethical to copy a bootleg. Sounds right to me, like denying health care to the poor because insurance companies pay for my campaign - OOPS. Did I say that?
mojo
· 2 months ago
the poor?
You said that.
I would have phrased it "denying health care to the poor--and middle class--so insurance CEOs can pocket multimillion dollar bonuses and brag about the tight financial ships they're running...while Glenn Beck fiddles." Oops, did I say **that?**
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I've noticed that there are multiple versions of "The Alternate Abbey Road" floating around. Beatles minutiae makes my head spin -- and I LIKE minutiae.
A later session featured Paul singing a tune much more similar to "Get Back," but featuring a similar satire of anti-immigrant conservatives, which is now known as "No Pakistanis." I don't have that, either, but would like to.
You said that.
I would have phrased it "denying health care to the poor--and middle class--so insurance CEOs can pocket multimillion dollar bonuses and brag about the tight financial ships they're running...while Glenn Beck fiddles." Oops, did I say **that?**
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