Song Remix Ideas

This is a concept track-list of ideas of remixes for songs recorded by The Beatles. Also included are some clean editions of songs that have never been previously released without the cross fades from the preceding or the next songs on the albums of which the songs were originally released. Enjoy! :)

This page is still under construction and will be updated and revised over time.

Yesterday
This mix is identical to the original album mix from "Help!", except the violins, violas, and cellos found in the original mix are not included in this mix.

I've always been curious to know what the song sounded like without the string instruments, ever since I discovered that the string instruments were muted through one channel at the end of the stereo mix of the song.

So this mix features just Paul McCartney's vocal, and his acoustic guitar playing.

Wait
This mix is identical to the original album mix from "Rubber Soul", except Ringo Starr's maracas and tambourine overdubs found in the original mix are not included in this mix.

I've always been curious to know what the song sounded like without the maracas and tambourine overdubs, since I discovered that this song was recorded during the sessions for The Beatles' previous album "Help!" but was released on "Rubber Soul" instead.

Upon discovering that, it became clear to me why "Wait" sounded more like The Beatles' earlier 1964-5 tracks than the other songs on "Rubber Soul" did. To make the song blend in better with the other more recent songs, maracas and tambourines were added to the initial recording.

Also back in early 2008, I erroneously misremembered and imagined the lyrics from "Wait" and "I'll Be Back", and the music from "I'll Be Back" as being part of the same song, as I was unfamiliar with either of those songs at the time. I have tried to combine those two songs in the past, with Adobe Audition 3.0, but I was just never able to get them to both fit.

Drive My Car
This mix is identical to the original album mix from "Rubber Soul", except the guitar solo from "Taxman", the horn section from "Savoy Truffle", and the drums from "What You're Doing" which are played as the guitar solo transitions from the one from "Taxman" back to the one from "Drive My Car" are featured in this mix.

The added instrumentation from those songs are the same as the ones that were added to the "Drive My Car/The Word/What You're Doing" medley from "Love".

None of the lyrics from "What You're Doing" and "The Word" appear in this mix however, with "The Word" apparently being omitted from this mix entirely, since this is intended to be a remix of "Drive My Car" alone.

Think for Yourself
This mix is identical to the original album mix from "Rubber Soul", except the horn section and guitar riffs from "Savoy Truffle" have been added to the end of some of the lines of each of the verses, notably the last lines of the verses. It's been years since I noticed the similarities between the riffs of "Think for Yourself" and "Savoy Truffle".

Since "Savoy Truffle" has more instrumentation than "Think for Yourself", I always imagined that if there was a mix featuring one of the two songs with instrumentation added in from the other song, that "Think for Yourself" would be featured with some instrumentation from "Savoy Truffle".

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
This mix is identical to the original album mix from "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", except the drum roll from "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!", the clavioline from "Baby, You're a Rich Man", and the horns, guitars, bass and drums from "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" which are included in the "Love" remix of the song are included in this mix.

However the sound effects from "Tomorrow Never Knows" are omitted, as are the strings from "Good Night". This mix fades out the same way the album mix does, and the extended intro found in the "Love" remix is omitted from this mix. So aside from the overdubs taken from those other songs, it pretty much plays the same way the original mix does.

Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band [Reprise]
This is a clean edition of the album mix from "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" without the cross fade from the next song "A Day in the Life", and without the animal sound effects from the end of the previous song "Good Morning, Good Morning".

It's a shame that a clean edition of this song has never been officially released. The remix from "Love" doesn't count, because the song fades out before the cross fade from "A Day in the Life" starts.

Lady Madonna
This mix is identical to the original single mix from "Past Masters", except the final Ronnie Scott tenor saxophone solo which plays in the "Love" mix of the song, but not in the single mix, is played in this mix.

Across the Universe
This mix is identical to the world wildlife fund mix from "Past Masters", except the bird sound effects, and Lizzie Bravo and Gayleen Pease's backing vocals which are featured in the world wildlife fund mix are omitted from this mix. The tape is also slowed down so that it is playing at the same speed that it was recorded. This is also the case with the naked mix from "Let It Be... Naked". This mix also fades out the same way the naked mix does.

Pity they never released a mix of this song that is identical to the world wildlife fund mix, but at the correct speed and stripping the bird sounds and backing vocal overdubs. There's nothing wrong with the bird sounds and groupie backing vocals, but it would be nice to hear what it sounded like without those additional overdubs.

Back in the U.S.S.R.
This is a clean edition of the album mix from "The Beatles [White Album]" without the cross fade from the next song "Dear Prudence". It's a shame that a clean edition of this song has never been officially released.

The song's appearances on "1967-1970" and "Love" doesn't count, because the song fades out before the cross fade from "Dear Prudence" starts. Why couldn't they just separate the cross fade instead of having the song fade out before the cross fade starts? Don't tell me they don't still have the master copy of both tracks without the cross fade, right?

Dear Prudence
This is a clean edition of the album mix from "The Beatles [White Album]" without the cross fade from the previous song "Back in the U.S.S.R.". It's a shame that a clean edition of this song has never been officially released.

Glass Onion
This mix uses take 33 of "Glass Onion", the same take that the album mix uses, and the same take that the second version on "Anthology 3" uses. But it doesn't feature any of the overdubs that are exclusive to either mix.

The sound effects from the 20th September 1968 which consist of an organ, a telephone ringing, the sound of smashing glass, and BBC football commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme shouting "It's a goal!" which are featured in the mix on "Anthology 3" were omitted from this mix.

Also departed from this mix are the string overdubs that were recorded on the 10th October 1968 and featured in the album mix. This mix presented here is more stripped down in comparison to the mixes found on "The Beatles" and "Anthology 3". It is also presented in stereo, unlike the mix found on "Anthology 3" which is in mono.

Get Back
This mix is mostly identical to the naked mix from "Let It Be... Naked" except that the coda that was recorded on the 28th January 1969 and featured in the single mix from "Past Masters" is included in this mix. So this mix is mostly identical to the single mix as well, except the tape echo effect from the single mix is omitted from this mix.

Gnik Nus
This mix is easily the easiest to replicate out of all the ideas for song mixes listed here. To recreate this mix of "Gnik Nus", all you need to do is to get a copy of The Beatles' album Abbey Road, an audio editing program like Adobe Audition which is what I used, or Audacity, and turn "Sun King" around, so that it's in reverse.

Since the unedited mix of "Gnik Nus" had never been officially released, the only officially released mix of "Sun King" backwards is featured as a portion of the vocals included as a reversed a cappella for the 2006 album "Love", I'd been curious to know what the "Abbey Road" mix of the song sounded like. In February 2010, I got my wish.