New Episodes Every Tuesday! Trailer from Episode 3: Revolver and Dr. Feet

[00:00]Hey everybody, this is Rob from the podcast Beck Did It Better. We're a podcast where we're going through each of the top 500 albums as determined by Rolling Stone magazine, going through one a week and talking about it. This is a short trailer where we talk about, from our third episode, and where we talk about the Beatles' Revolver. Here we talk about Eleanor Rigby, how sad the story is, and then Russ relates it directly to an experience he had at my wedding. It's a sad story and a great essay on the state of human condition. If you enjoy it, feel free to go to anywhere you can get podcasts and subscribe Beck Did It Better. You can also go to beckdiditbetter.podbean.com. Find us on Instagram and Twitter at beckdiditbetter. And finally, email us at beckdiditbetter.gmail.com. Not finally, because you can also call the Beck line if you hate us or love us and you want to leave a review, something about the Beatles, something about music, or you just want to say something funny that'll get you on the podcast, 802-277-BECK. 802-277-BECK. 802-277-2325.

[01:02]So here's the episode. If you enjoy it, feel free to go and download, rate, and review. Talk to you later. When you want to hear about the greatest albums of all time But you're just too lazy to look it up online If you want to hear four guys who chat and then they get off track I've got the perfect podcast for you, Jack Beck Did It Better So let's go, next one. Eleanor Rigby, one of the few songs where there are no Beatles playing on it at all. No guitar, no nothing. George Martin arranged this on strings. Paul still plays it with acoustic stuff, but... I think this was my favorite song on the album. And I love this opening lyric about Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where the wedding has been, lives in a dream. And it's all about this loneliness of this person.

[02:03]Her job was literally to pick up the rice at the wedding. What a horrible job. And she's wearing a face that she keeps in a jar by the door. Like, that is some lonely shit. Well, see, now that I can relate to. That is actually the one part I do relate to. I can actually directly relate to this picking up the rice in the church. Like, I've never had to do that. That seems like a terrible job. But I was a groom, er, not a groomsman. I believe an usher in Rob's wedding. That's like a, that's like a above groomsman for a lot of weddings, Russell. Just to let you know. I was an usher at Rob's wedding probably, what, 15 years ago. 16. And we're there. And the wedding gets over and everyone runs out to the limos, to jump in the limos. We're going to drive downtown afterwards. And Rob's mom, I believe, comes up to me and essentially tells me, hey, you need to go pick up all those statues that we put up out there. Like, she treated me like the help, kind of. It was 105 degrees. See, I don't remember any of this. Yeah, you were having fun. I get, I pick up all these statues and then I come running out. And I barely make the limo.

[03:00]And the limo is full. So I have to sit in the front fucking seat with the limo driver for a 45-minute drive downtown. I'm so tired of all that. And so I literally, I am literally sitting in the front, you know, where they have to put up the screen or the window where you can't see in the back. So all my friends, all the bridesmaids that are back there that I'm going to try to talk to, and I don't get to sit by anyone. I'm sitting up by the front with the driver. And I remember looking at him and I'm like, can I at least drink up here? And he looks at me and kind of gives me the, he realized I am the lonely person, like in this Eleanor Rigby song. You're Eleanor Rigby. And he just, he said, you do what you need to do, man. So I sat up there, but I never really thought about it. And then I listened to the lyrics of the song. I'm like, man, I'm the lonely person who had to pick up the damn statues at Rob's wedding like this. Eleanor Rigby had to pick up the fucking rice. Yeah, we threw those away the next day. We didn't even want those statues. We just tossed them. We didn't even need them.

[04:00]I remember the back of the limo is a problem. I mean, the air conditioning was too, it was too cold in there. Conversation. There was just too wild. You were laughing too much. Hey, John, what about the change the song where it's about somebody picking up statues? My Paul McCartney voice is going away pretty badly. Sounds like Rob. It's perfect. Thanks everybody for the support. Keep it up, buddy. Yeah. So that song's fun. Uh, and not depressing at all. And Russell, once again, thank you for picking up the statues. Yeah. Cause how are you supposed to have a wedding if I don't have statues of myself around where it's like, Oh, here's, here's me as a centaur. The nude statues, like the David Rob version was probably not necessary, but it worked for you. Yeah, exactly. I'm like, Hey, make it bigger. Okay. And that was the joke you thought I was going to make. And I made it so disappointed in myself. Okay. Wait a minute. I'm going to come up with a different take of that joke.

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