Yellow Chatter Custard

The Beatles


Yellow Chatter Custard - Front Cover	Yellow Chatter Custard - Back Cover

Label Copy Cat Chronicle

Catalogue No. CCC 001

Release Date March 2012

Total Time Disc 1 - 60:28
Disc 2 - 74:35

Comments:
(from the sleeve) Giles Martin listened to hours of archival recordings to isolate more than 1,000 snippets of Beatles chatter from concerts and recording sessions. "It does make you feel as though you are back in Abbey Road" he says.
Read all about it !
This collection brings together all known fragments of studio matereal that have emerged since "Love" and during the 2009 Remasters project and includes tracks from the following sources:

Mini documentaries DVD (part of the Stereo Remasters Box Set)
The Beatles On Record (broadcast in September 2009)
090909 Radio Show (broadcast at the time of the Remasters release)
All Together Now DVD (The Making of Love)
The Rockband Game

Track Sources :
All of these tracks are presented in the best possibly quality, but note that all material presented from the Rockband Video Game was originally compressed to .ogg format on the game discs - but in very high quality. The Beatles On Record tracks are taken from the original broadcast via Sky+, these tracks suffer broadcast compression - but are truly superb quality.
Rockband Tracks :
The Rockband game contained over 250+ fragments of sound in 10 second bursts. Many of these were song specific, but some were generic unknown sound, again these have been marked. Also worth noting is the annoying 'She's A Woman' chord which is everywhere in this game, but means nothing, along with the guitar tuning which plagues the fragments of 'Dear Prudence.' Some of these tracks were easy to assemble as the fragments overlapped, but others were harder. Where a match was not obvious the snippets are presented as separate fragments.
Mono/Stereo :
Some tracks are presented in both mono and stereo mixes. As some of these tracks were made available online in their raw states (.ogg stereo files) whilst they often playback through the PS3 in mono (even when set to stereo!) Both mixes are presented for these tracks.
Take Numbers/Track Identities :
Take numbers have only been added to tracks with Take announcements, or those that could be located in Mark Lewisohn's book by description. Others have been named 'Unknown.' With regards to the identity of each track, most tracks were easy to identify, and in the case of the Rockband tracks, fragments relating to certain tracks only played during that level of the game. Others were more difficult to identify, and in these cases the tracks have been poured over by many experts and where a track could be identified, it has been - other tracks have been marked 'unknown.'
It is not guaranteed 100% that all tracks are what they claim to be, but I'm sure that they are not far off being correct.
Edited Game Fragments :
The 'Completed Song' tracks were edited by the game makers, mixing random notes with studio chat - you will see that there are several versions of some of these tracks. These are not true unedited studio fragments, but are included for completeness as some of the chat is unique to these tracks.

JPGR Comments :
This was the latest in the collections offered free on the internet to fans by Helter Skelter back in 2011.
This is one of the most pointless bootlegs of all time, a complete waste of money .... although, if you downloaded it for nothing you mustn't grumble.
Mostly from recording sessions this disc collects together (too many) tiny spoken asides from the Fab Four taken well out of context and without the following recordings. Also these so-called "different" mono and stereo versions are all lumped together back-to-back. So you then get the same bits twice (as if it wasn't nonsensical enough !).
One to be filed away and never touched again.
The liner notes are lifted word-for-word from the original release notes, and there is not a single acknowledgement of who actually put the effort into making this set.
But to be honest, Helter Skelter is better treated by being left out.
Disc 2 is basically the mini docs lifted from the 2009 Remasters DVD, with some random bonus tracks lifted from other internet sources.

C.D. One

No	Tracklisting	Comments	Time
1	This Boy	Unknown Takes	0:23
2	I Should Have Known Better	Take 2	0:04
3	If I Fell	Take 4	0:13
4	And I Love Her	Take 14 + Unknown Take "Take 50" - hang on John has broken a string	0:09
5	Tell Me Why	Take 2	0:13
6	You Can't Do That	Unknown Take	0:08
7	No Reply	Take 1 + Unknown Take	0:21
8	Baby's In Black	Take 7	0:12
9	Eight Days A Week	Unknown Take	0:10
10	Honey Don't	Unknown Take	0:10
11	Every Little Thing	Unknown Take	0:04
12	Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby	Unknown Take	0:04
13	She's A Woman	Take 1 John questions whether they are all in tune	1:14
14	Ticket To Ride	Take 1 + Edited Version	0:34
15	Yesterday	Take 1	0:05
16	Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)	Take 3 + Take 4	0:57
17	The Word	Unknown Take	0:02
18	Michelle	Take 1	0:20
19	Girl	Take 1	0:13
20	In My Life	Unknown Take	0:20
21	Run For Your Life	Unknown Take	0:09
22	Eleanor Rigby	Between Takes 1 + 2	0:07
23	Yellow Submarine	Takes 1 + 4 "It's twenty to 10"	0:52
24	And Your Bird Can Sing	Take 3	0:11
25	Tomorrow Never Knows	Take 1	0:09
26	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	Unknown Takes	1:28
27	With A Little Help From My Friends	Unknown Take	0:09
28	Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds	Unknown Takes	1:25
29	Getting Better	Unknown Takes	1:03
30	Fixing A Hole	Unknown Take	0:47
31	She's Leaving Home	Unknown Takes	0:19
32	Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite	Takes 1-7	1:09
33	Within You, Without You	Unknown Take	0:42
34	When I'm Sixty-Four	Unknown Take	0:27
35	Lovely Rita	Unknown Takes	1:12
36	Good Morning, Good Morning	Unknown Take	0:27
37	Sgt. Pepper (Reprise)	Unknown Takes	0:33
38	A Day In The Life	Takes 1 + 2 + Edit Piece	0:40
39	Fool On The Hill	Take 3	0:07
40	I Am The Walrus	Take 2	2:52
41	Hello, Goodbye	Unknown Takes	0:36
42	Strawberry Fields Forever	Unknown Take	0:04
43	All You Need Is Love	Unknown Takes	0:38
44	Back In The U.S.S.R.	Unknown Takes	0:38
45	Dear Prudence	Unknown Takes	0:43
46	While My Guitar Gently Weeps	Take 1, Take 27 + Unknown Take	1:09
47	Rocky Raccoon	Unknown Take	0:09
48	Don't Pass Me By	Unknown Take	0:16
49	I Will	Unknown Take	0:03
50	Birthday	Unknown Takes	1:03
51	Sexy Sadie	Unknown Takes	0:26
52	Helter Skelter	Take 18 + Take 19 + Unknown	2:25
53	Long, Long, Long	Unknown Takes	0:24
54	Revolution	Unknown Take	0:20
55	What's The New Mary Jane	Unknown Take	0:04
56	Hey Bulldog	Unknown Takes	1:10
57	Get back	Unknown Take from Nagra 516A	0:06
58	I've Got A Feeling	Unknown Take from Nagra 418A	0:10
59	I Me Mine	Unknown Take	0:08
60	Come Together	Take 4 + Take 5	1:19
61	Something	Unknown Takes	1:25
62	Maxwell's Silver Hammer	Take 8	1:33
63	Oh! Darling	Unknown Take	1:51
64	Octopus's Garden	Unknown Take	1:30
65	Here Comes The Sun	Take 1	0:57
66	Because	Unknown Take	0:22
67	You Never Give Me Your Money	Unknown Take	0:56
68	Sun King	Unknown Take	0:34
69	Polythene Pam/She Came In Through The Bathroom Window	Take 1 + 2	3:32
70	Golden Slumbers	Unknown Take	0:44
71	Her Majesty	Unknown Take	0:08
72	Unknown Tracks Montage	?	1:28
73	Completed Song Tracks Montage	Includes Paul, "Plastic Soul"	2:10
74	Failed Tracks Montage	John, "Somebody's got to own up"	3:45
75	Take Announcements Montage	Yes, just that one after the other ....	1:47
76	Rockband Opening Montage	?	2:31
77	Christmas 1965 Outtake	From BBC George Martin Arena Documentary	0:40

C.D. Two

No	Tracklisting	Comments	Time
1	Introduction	George, "Take 1" Ringo, "Right, well I'm not holding back George, I'm giving my all" John (in silly voice), "By the power invested in me by Her Royal Majesty I declare this fete well and truly open" Paul, "I can take you back via the magic media of song"	0:28
2	Please Please Me L.P.	Brief inserts of music from the time, with talking heads	6:15
3	From Me To You / With The Beatles L.P.	Brief inserts of music from the time, with talking heads	4:03
4	She Loves You	Brief inserts with the same talking heads	1:30
5	I Want To Hold Your Hand	Brief inserts with the same talking heads	1:00
6	A Hard Day's Night L.P.	Brief inserts of music from the time, with talking heads	3:26
7	George Martin Interview / I Feel Fine	Talking heads and about a minute of the song	1:52
8	Beatles For Sale L.P.	Brief inserts of music from the time, with talking heads	1:29
9	Help ! L.P.	Brief inserts of music from the time, with talking heads	4:18
10	Rubber Soul L.P.	Brief inserts of music from the time, with talking heads	2:48
11	Revolver L.P.	Brief inserts of music from the time, with talking heads	3:37
12	Reporting �66 / Sgt. Pepper�s Lonely Hearts Club Band L.P.	Brief inserts of music from the time, with talking heads "Reporting 66" was interviews recorded 20th December by John Edwards for ITN	6:27
13	Magical Mystery Tour L.P.	Brief inserts of music from the time, with talking heads	4:03
14	The Beatles (White Album) L.P.	Brief inserts of music from the time, with talking heads	4:12
15	Yellow Submarine L.P.	Brief inserts of music from the time, with talking heads	3:06
16	Let It Be L.P.	Brief inserts of music from the time, with talking heads	4:54
17	Abbey Road L.P.	Brief inserts of music from the time, with talking heads	3:36
18	Outro	Final chat	0:40
19	Ain't She Sweet	No reverb	2:09
20	My Bonnie	No reverb	2:40
21	George Martin Interview	An interview from 1964	5:03
22	Reporting �66: End Of Beatlemania	"Reporting 66" was interviews and The Beatles filmed arriving at Abbey Road recorded 20th December by John Edwards for ITN	4:42
23	While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Esher Demo)	End of May 1968	0:58
24	Apple Studio Test Tape	January 21st 1969 ?	0:48

Label	Copy Cat Chronicle
Catalogue No.	CCC 001
Release Date	March 2012
Total Time	Disc 1 - 60:28 Disc 2 - 74:35
Comments: (from the sleeve)	Giles Martin listened to hours of archival recordings to isolate more than 1,000 snippets of Beatles chatter from concerts and recording sessions. "It does make you feel as though you are back in Abbey Road" he says. Read all about it ! This collection brings together all known fragments of studio matereal that have emerged since "Love" and during the 2009 Remasters project and includes tracks from the following sources: Mini documentaries DVD (part of the Stereo Remasters Box Set) The Beatles On Record (broadcast in September 2009) 090909 Radio Show (broadcast at the time of the Remasters release) All Together Now DVD (The Making of Love) The Rockband Game Track Sources : All of these tracks are presented in the best possibly quality, but note that all material presented from the Rockband Video Game was originally compressed to .ogg format on the game discs - but in very high quality. The Beatles On Record tracks are taken from the original broadcast via Sky+, these tracks suffer broadcast compression - but are truly superb quality. Rockband Tracks : The Rockband game contained over 250+ fragments of sound in 10 second bursts. Many of these were song specific, but some were generic unknown sound, again these have been marked. Also worth noting is the annoying 'She's A Woman' chord which is everywhere in this game, but means nothing, along with the guitar tuning which plagues the fragments of 'Dear Prudence.' Some of these tracks were easy to assemble as the fragments overlapped, but others were harder. Where a match was not obvious the snippets are presented as separate fragments. Mono/Stereo : Some tracks are presented in both mono and stereo mixes. As some of these tracks were made available online in their raw states (.ogg stereo files) whilst they often playback through the PS3 in mono (even when set to stereo!) Both mixes are presented for these tracks. Take Numbers/Track Identities : Take numbers have only been added to tracks with Take announcements, or those that could be located in Mark Lewisohn's book by description. Others have been named 'Unknown.' With regards to the identity of each track, most tracks were easy to identify, and in the case of the Rockband tracks, fragments relating to certain tracks only played during that level of the game. Others were more difficult to identify, and in these cases the tracks have been poured over by many experts and where a track could be identified, it has been - other tracks have been marked 'unknown.' It is not guaranteed 100% that all tracks are what they claim to be, but I'm sure that they are not far off being correct. Edited Game Fragments : The 'Completed Song' tracks were edited by the game makers, mixing random notes with studio chat - you will see that there are several versions of some of these tracks. These are not true unedited studio fragments, but are included for completeness as some of the chat is unique to these tracks. JPGR Comments : This was the latest in the collections offered free on the internet to fans by Helter Skelter back in 2011. This is one of the most pointless bootlegs of all time, a complete waste of money .... although, if you downloaded it for nothing you mustn't grumble. Mostly from recording sessions this disc collects together (too many) tiny spoken asides from the Fab Four taken well out of context and without the following recordings. Also these so-called "different" mono and stereo versions are all lumped together back-to-back. So you then get the same bits twice (as if it wasn't nonsensical enough !). One to be filed away and never touched again. The liner notes are lifted word-for-word from the original release notes, and there is not a single acknowledgement of who actually put the effort into making this set. But to be honest, Helter Skelter is better treated by being left out. Disc 2 is basically the mini docs lifted from the 2009 Remasters DVD, with some random bonus tracks lifted from other internet sources.