The title describes this CD perfectly, as it is mostly a jumbled mess. The liner notes are often wrong, and some revisions have been noted below. There are one or two tracks that appeared here first that hardcore collectors will desire. Otherwise it's a waste of time with generally bad sound quality.
1. Yesterday, liner notes say acetate version, in fact it's from the
1973 TV special, James Paul McCartney
2. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown), take 2
3. 12-Bar Original, takes 1,2 and rehearsal
4. That Means A Lot, Takes 22, 23, 24 and "Test".
5. I'm So Tired, outfake
6. Penny Lane overdub session
7. The Inner Light, monitor mix, no vocals
8. Revolution, promo film version
9. I'm So Tired, This is taken, not from a "safety copy", but from
the STEED echo tape. This system is explained in detail in "Recording Sessions",
wherein a third-engineer type would sit with a box with a knob on it. He
would turn the knob back and forth, altering the speed of an open-reel
machine that was sending the main feed to the echo chamber. These variable-speed
echoes
were then mixed back into the main program. This is the tape that came
off that machine...that's why the speed wanders back and forth. [Note,
however, that the whole tape is not on this CD. See "Control Room Monitor
Mixes".] Engineer Chris Thomas said "I did that for hours...what a boring
job!"
10. I'm So Tired, outfake part 2
11. I Am The Walrus, a variation on the mix on "Acetates". This is
indeed an acetate, but through the heavy scratches, you'll note that a
gap of silence has been edited into it, right in the place where the sound
of the radio dial being tuned, and the string section would later be put,
just before "Sitting in an English garden". This piece made its debut on
this CD. It is undocumented in Lewisohn or elsewhere.
12. (Instrumental), AKA "Rock Peace." This odd instrumental circulated
among collectors as 12-Bar Original before the actual thing surfaced.
A clean version was even used as background on the American Lost Lennon
Tapes series. We're not sure what, when, or even who this is.
13. The Long And Winding Road, home demo
14. Paperback Writer, raw mix