Episodes

  • Macca Snacks #2 / Paul McCartney’s The 7” Singles Box (2022)
    May 11 2024

    Having a Macca Snack Attack (TM, pending)? We are too! Or, at least we did in late-2022, when Tony & T.J. rocked out to then-recently reissued and remastered Macca 45's.

    Come join for part two of this long-running, daytime/nighttime Macca singles (only!) party, and stay for the painstaking play-by-play of the unique, heretofore unexplained, debut-and/or-mistake mistake mix of the “Only Love Remains” 7” single remaster. WHAT IN THE WORLD IS THIS? ARE YOU LISTENING, M.P.L.?? ALL FREAKING CAPS!!

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    22 mins
  • Let It Be 50th Anniversary
    May 4 2024

    We're all going Michael Lindsay-Hogg wild for next week's "Let It Be" documentary re-release. So let's set the mood, and get back to OUR VERY FIRST EPISODE. No MAL technology to clean the audio, no overproduced, Dumb & Schticky audio drops (you're welcome again, SpongeBobbyHil589). Just a couple guys gabbin' fab about the Fab Four exactly as you've always loved them: naked.

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    [Originally released May 29, 2020]

    It's the first episode of the Untitled Beatles Podcast, recorded before "Untitled" was decided as the title. On its 50th anniversary, TJ and Tony explore Let It Be - TJ's favorite Beatle album and Tony's second-least(?) favorite. Enjoy the long and rambling road.

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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • T.J. Shanoff (1974) 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition
    Apr 27 2024

    It’s T.J.’s birthday! It’s T.J.’s birthday! And we would like to give him all of the cassettes!

    The celebrated 4th member of the UBP (a. Tony, b. Casey, c. P3Z-Nutz) celebrates 46 years of Beatles love and weirdo-sniffer-collecting on the occasion of his 50th birthday! From meeting Paul McCartney to a crisis of what Apple ’92 closeout cassettes to buy in ’96, T.J. and Tony discuss some of the birthday boy’s favorite Beatles memories in a lifetime of loving the music and unmatched excellence of the Fab 4.

    But a special birthday episode can’t derail the usual chicanery, and lots of rando preguntas are asked, including:

    🐝 Is “My Girl” by The Turtles more or less of a soul classic than the one by The Temptations? And can a bee sting really f you up, like kill you? #MyGirl

    🐚 Holy s**t, Peter Noone is still alive? Do you think Kathy Bartlett knows? Holy s**t, is Kathy Bartlett still alive?

    🥁 Was the absolute highlight of Record Store Day 2024 Ringo’s “Crooked Boy” EP? Or are only the criminally insane interested in this item?

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    56 mins
  • Now and Then (2023) Revisted
    Apr 20 2024

    Now and then, do you ever want to hear, "Now And Then"? Or is your "Real Love" reserved for "Free As A Bird"?

    Believe it or not: a) I'm walking on air, never thought I could feel so freeeee!, and II) "Now And Then" is already 5 months old. Wtf? Where has the time gone? And more importantly, where have all the cowboys gone? #ShawnColvin (sfx: buzzer) #PaulaCole (sfx: ding)

    Now felt like the right time to revisit the "Last Beatles Song" (TM, until we get "Carnival Of Light"). Is it great? Rubbish? Somewhere in the middle, Patricia Heaton? And while we're on the subject-ish:

    🦅 Generally, from a laundry perspective, does Tony prefer to kick 'em when they're up, or kick 'em when they're down?

    🐂 (Angry Chicago guy:) How come they don't play the Dave Clark Five no more during timeouts at Bulls games? SAME GOES FOR THE BUCKINGHAMS, SON!

    🍆 (Happy Chicago guy:) I ain't religious but thank you, Lorde for Arne Harris in the summertime!

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    41 mins
  • SPECIAL REPLAY: The Beatles' Second Album (1964)
    Apr 13 2024

    The guys are on Spring Break this week, so we handed the reins over to P3Z-Nutz for another Untitled Beatles Podclassic!

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    [Originally released February 5, 2021]

    The gang continues its exploration of the early U.S. Capitol Records releases, this week covering the covers-heavy Beatles' Second Album.

    • Tony owns up to his early underestimation of this classic,

    • T.J. goes to bat for his official Fifth Beatle,

    • Bryan Adams brings his piano to your mom's porch,

    • And we think we've maybe stumbled upon the next great (grown-ups only) classic rock radio format, just in case this whole podcast thing doesn't pan out.

    Apologies in advance to the City of Sacramento, and those who are sensitive to explicit language. LINKS:

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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • Seventh Beatle Bracket Part 2
    Apr 6 2024

    It’s One Shining Moment at the Untitled Beatles Podcast, as we reach the thrilling (?) conclusion of Beatles March Madness, and crown the official, Apple-Endorsed (TBD) 7th Beatle! Who can it be, now? Colin Hay? Or, Colin Haaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyy?

    The A.M. white wine (angry Chicago guy: HOW COME WOKE SOMMELIERS DON’T LET YOU DRINK NO WHITE WINE NO MORE? AND HOW COME DEBRA LEFT ME IN ’81?) was flowing on this one, and as a result, many other questions are asked and answered, such as…

    💩🗿 Is “Butt Rock” the best-ever K-Tel compilation?

    🪕 If you put literally any two, generic male names together, is it possible they played in The Quarrymen?

    🪘 Would longtime Ringo All-Starr Band drummer Sheila E. have significantly improved “She’s Leaving Home”; at least when compared to ol’ Harpie Bromberg? #HarpieBromberg

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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • Seventh Beatle Bracket
    Mar 30 2024

    Glass Onions, baby! It's the UBP's third annual (note the TWO "n"'s and a "u", you grotty kids) Beatles March Madness! This week, we begin the Journey (#whenthelightsgodowninthecitay) to naming the official, Apple/Calderstone/Odeon/Ring'o Records 7th Beatle!

    This year, for what feels like the very first time, the field is all musicians; and Tony, T.J., and our very own Tim Donaghy, Producer Casey, have some tough life decisions to make! Among them:

    🎸 Is Beatlemania's Tom Teeley straight up more important to The Beatles than Linda, George, and original/best (of the) Beatles drummer Jimmie Nicol, combined?

    🎸 Did Beatlemania's Tom Teeley invent the music video? Or just the now-wildly popular subset of music videos featuring extended tripping-on-bodega-fruit takes?

    🎸 I just bet $20k on FanDuel that Beatlemania's Tom Teeley is gonna f'ing win this thing. I'll kill you bozos if I lose, do you f'ing hear me? And no, overly accessible legal gambling is definitely not f'ing up sports! Also, I'm sweating profusely. From the cocaine.

    Life's too short! So you'd better back off, because it's Beatles March Madness! Stay tuned next for your late local news. Then, don't miss Martin Mull in the hilarious, new, can't miss, 1984 comedy, "Domestic Life". Only on (this is) CBS!

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    • Check out the Beatlemania's Mitch Weissman on "Joanie Loves Chachie"

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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • SPECIAL REPLAY / NME vs. UBP: Ranking The Beatles’ Song Catalog (2022)
    Mar 23 2024

    These Three Cool Cats (3.5 if you count P3Z-Nutz, and we do not) are hard at work prepping our March Madness SEVENTH BEATLE BRACKET — coming soon to a podcast feed near you.

    But today, we crack open the vaults at EMI to bring you one of our Fab Faves from back in 2022.

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    [Originally released January 22, 2022]

    Rage Against The Machine sang, “Know Your Enemy”. Perhaps they were really singing “Know Your NME”, in reference to the U.K. magazine’s recent ranking of *almost* every Beatles song?Turns out, TJiskel and TonEBert’s rankings differ wildly from NME’s, and each other’s! Good thing (#FineYoungCannibals) Producer Casey is there to set the record straight, as we reveal our own exhaustively exhausting rankings of the Beatles catalog, and also delve into other major Beatles news, like:

    🚦Which 1982 hit-maker doubled as a traffic eye in the sky for WBBM/CBS-2?

    🏀🏈 Is T.J’s Derrick Rose Beatles song Tony’s Walter Payton Beatles song?

    🐣 How’s the Sgt. Pepper Chicken at official show sponsor, Kenny Rogers Roasters?

    Now open (only) in the Malaysia area! Less fat, less salt, less calories: it’s the #Untitled #Beatles #Podcast! EPISODE LINKS

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    1 hr and 7 mins