Can you name this tiny little riff?

March 30, 2008 10:53 PM

I recently saw the "Beatles LOVE" show in Vegas and was absolutely blown away. I now have the DVDA disc but am trying to identify all the songs mashed into it by Sir George Martin. Here's a clip I am particularly interested in.

Can someone please tell me exactly what song is mashed up at the 3:56 mark of the Beatles "LOVE" song here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waHWwZsjvCk


Bonus points if you can tell me where I can find what songs go into the entire soundtrack.

posted by crazyray to Media & Arts (8 answers total)

Best answer: Those strings are from the last track on the White Album, Good Night.
posted by ssg at 10:59 PM on March 30, 2008

Damn! Well-spotted, ssg. At around 1:50 here if you don't have the White Album, crazyray.
posted by mumkin at 11:14 PM on March 30, 2008

Response by poster: wow. Are you kidding me? You can seriously hear four chords and pick it out just like that? Is there a trick I am missing? SSG- how did you do you that? Can you pick out the other mashups from LOVE? Or is there a website that lists all 130 pieces used in the CD?
posted by crazyray at 11:18 PM on March 30, 2008

Wikipedia has a partial list, but states that "a complete list has not been disclosed." It rather beggars belief that after a year and a half, a casual Googling doesn't turn up a source listing, particularly given that it's The Beatles. I mean really, there has to be a corner of Usenet or IRC where trainspotting Beatles fans obsessively hash this shit out. If there were, though, I'd have expected their results to have been posted directly into Wikipedia, which... well, this is about to become circular.
posted by mumkin at 12:30 AM on March 31, 2008

There's no site that lists all 130 pieces because Martin wants to preserve the mystery (or he doesn't remember...one or the other.) The wikipedia entry for the album lists several track elements however.

Technically, according to Martin, the piece isn't the end of Lucy, but the beginning of Octopus's Garden. Thus, making this the Ringo Starr portion of the show.
posted by aristan at 12:36 AM on March 31, 2008

Best answer: Another list of songs used. A tad more detailed that the Wikipedia list, but nothing to back it up.
posted by aristan at 12:39 AM on March 31, 2008

Hmm, sounds quite a bit like this, around 2:20.
posted by lubujackson at 7:27 AM on March 31, 2008

In all fairness, it's my understanding that Sir George's son Giles Martin did most of the actual conception and editing work on this project, with dad gently nodding his approval - credit where credit is due.
posted by DandyRandy at 9:07 AM on March 31, 2008