Everyday Chemistry

Everyday Chemistry is a remix album of unknown authorship that was made available as a free digital download on 9 September 2009.[1] It mashes up various songs from the Beatles' individual solo careers, intending to present an album that the members would have recorded had they not broken up.[2][3]

Everyday Chemistry
Remix album credited to the Beatles
Released9 September 2009 (2009-09-09)
GenreMashup
Length40:48

Fictional context

The album was accompanied by a story written by an anonymous person under the pen name "James Richards" (a pseudonym drawn from the legal first names of Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, the two surviving Beatles, who were born James Paul McCartney and Richard Starkey respectively). Richards describes meeting a man named Jonas who lives in a parallel universe in which the Beatles never broke up. Jonas and Richards both discussed their enjoyment of the Beatles, and just before leaving the parallel universe and travelling back to his own, Richards stole a cassette tape containing one of The Beatles' albums from that imagined timeline.[4] Richards denied that the album was composed of mashups, reasoning that "even though in the alternate universe the Beatles hadn't broken up, that didn't mean their future music ideas disappeared".[5]

Track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Four Guys"4:17
2."Talking to Myself"3:38
3."Anybody Else"6:03
4."Sick to Death"2:56
5."Jenn"3:34
6."I'm Just Sitting Here"3:23
7."Soldier Boy"3:22
8."Over the Ocean"3:36
9."Days Like These"3:23
10."Saturday Night"3:22
11."Mr Gator's Swamp Jamboree"3:24
Total length:40:48

Samples

"Four Guys"

"Talking to Myself"

"Anybody Else"

  • "Somedays" (McCartney)[3]
  • "One Day (At a Time)" (Lennon)[3]
  • "Monkey See – Monkey Do" (Starr)

"Sick to Death"

"Jenn"

  • "Hard Times" (Starr)[3]
  • "Jet" (McCartney)
  • "Teardrops" (Harrison)
  • "God Save Oz" (Lennon)

"I'm Just Sitting Here"

"Soldier Boy"

"Over the Ocean"

"Days Like These"

"Saturday Night"

  • "Cold Turkey" (Lennon)[3]
  • "P2 Vatican Blues (Last Saturday Night)" (Harrison)
  • 'Night Out" (McCartney)

"Mr. Gator's Swamp Jamboree"

  • "Momma Miss America" (McCartney)[3]
  • "Sunday Bloody Sunday" (Lennon)
  • "$15 Draw" (Starr)

See also

Works that explore similar concepts

References
  1. Brennan, Colin (18 November 2015). "Transdimensional thief claims to be in possession of unreleased Beatles album". Consequence of Sound.
  2. Dreyer, Chris (31 March 2010). "'Everyday Chemistry', the Beatles". Inlander.
  3. JNSP (30 December 2009). "'Everyday Chemistry', el timo de la estampita" (in Spanish). jenesaispop.
  4. Spacek, Nick (9 November 2009). "The Beatles Never Broke Up?". Pitch. Kansas City, MO. Archived from the original on 18 March 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2015.
  5. "Everyday Chemistry: The Story Behind The Greatest Beatles' Albums That Never Existed". Of Fact and Fiction. 23 May 2014. Retrieved 13 March 2017.
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