Yesterday I unexpectedly got paid right as I left work, so to celebrate, I went crazy and bought a pantload of cool stuff. I got me a couple of Sonic Youth CDs, V for Vendetta (which I still haven't watched), and a book called The Beatles Complete Discography by Jeff Russell. If you are a Beatles fan thirsting for knowledge about every song ever released by them, you should definitely check this sucka out. It goes album by album, song by song, listing who wrote it, who played what instrument, and any interesting stories behind the song or its recording.

Immediately I searched for what I think is probably my favourite song ever, I Am the Walrus. What an awesome bunch of info! Apparently the voices are the result of John plugging a radio into the recording console and tuning it into stations randomly. Even cooler is the fact how perfectly it worked out; if you listen to one of the last choruses, when John sings "I am the eggman," a radio voice says "Are you then, sir?" and when he says "They are the eggmen," a different radio voice says "A man may take you for what you are."

That was all coincidental! Insane!

And the chanting at the end, which I always thought was just people shouting, is apparently a boys choir singing "Oompah, oompah, stick it up your jumpah" and a girls choir singing "Everybody's got one."

In closing, it's a really neat book if you're a stickler for useless facts like I am.