{"id":5822,"date":"2011-05-24T21:08:54","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T02:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=5822"},"modified":"2011-05-24T21:08:54","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T02:08:54","slug":"on-ukulele-playlists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=5822","title":{"rendered":"On Ukulele Playlists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several months ago I discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/thebeatlescompleteonukulele.com\/\">The Beatles Complete on Ukulele<\/a>, a weekly podcast of ukulele Beatles covers.  I added the feed to iTunes, and within an hour I had all the songs that had been released to date.  Since then, I&#8217;ve stayed on top of downloading the podcast, though I&#8217;ve recently had to fix a number of ID3 tags.<\/p>\n<p>To be honest, staying on top of <i>listening<\/i> to the podcast has proven a greater challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, there&#8217;s a track or two that I&#8217;ve enjoyed, especially the <a href=\"http:\/\/thebeatlescompleteonukulele.com\/2011\/01\/104-let-it-be-barack-obama-and-the-beatles-complete-on-ukulele-community-choir\/\">cover of &#8220;Let It Be&#8221; with President Obama<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But, by and large&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>Well, I don&#8217;t normally listen to Beatles tracks one at a time.  I&#8217;m so used to listening to the Beatles and their music in large, album-sized chunks that one track of roughly three minutes once a week just doesn&#8217;t make an impact.<\/p>\n<p>So, this evening I started arranging the Beatles ukulele covers into WinAmp playlists to assemble them into the canonical album sequencing.  Then, as new tracks are released, I&#8217;ll add the tracks to the appropriate playlist(s).<\/p>\n<p>With the Beatles Complete on Ukulele project only about 60% complete, naturally none of these playlists are complete, but some are more complete than others.<\/p>\n<p>Right now I&#8217;m listening to the <i>Abbey Road<\/i> playlist.  I really like the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.thebeatlescompleteonukulele.com\/?p=189\">Holly Palmer&#8217;s &#8220;Here Comes the Sun<\/a>.&#8221;  And even though the BCOU version of &#8220;Something&#8221; hasn&#8217;t been released yet (it&#8217;s scheduled for next-to-last), I&#8217;m tempted to sneak The Leisure Society&#8217;s cover of the song, which does feature the uke, into the playlist. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Enough about that, however.<\/p>\n<p>If you like the Beatles and you&#8217;re wanting something <i>new<\/i> from their music, The Beatles Complete on Ukulele is a pretty neat &mdash; and totally <i>free<\/i> &mdash; way of getting your Fabs fix. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several months ago I discovered The Beatles Complete on Ukulele, a weekly podcast of ukulele Beatles covers. I added the feed to iTunes, and within an hour I had all the songs that had been released to date. Since then, I&#8217;ve stayed on top of downloading the podcast, though I&#8217;ve recently had to fix a<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=5822\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Ukulele Playlists&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4097],"tags":[98,800,801],"class_list":["post-5822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beatles","tag-the-beatles","tag-ukulele","tag-winamp","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}