Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About the Beatles

The panel goes over the new Paul McCartney album "The Boys of Dungeon Lane." Spoiler: we like it. Panel: Will Hines, Brett Morris, Katie Plattner, Joel Spence ------------------ Email us at beatles@screwitpodcasts.com Subscribe at screwitpodcasts.com to support the show and for bonus episodes.

It's a two person panel this week with Joel and Will! Katie and Brett will be back! We review Ringo Starr's new country-ish album  Long Long Road, which is sort of volume II to last year's Look Up .  Same producer and songwriting team (mostly T-Bone Burnett), Molly Tuttle is back and a few other stars harmonizers (St. Vincent, Sheryl Crow, Billy Strings).  Will and Joel make it clear that they hav...

  The panel reviews and discusses last year's hit Beatle book John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs , by Ian Leslie. We loved this book. For those who haven't read it, it's a "biography of a relationship" - telling the story of John and Paul's partnership through their songs. Each chapter is named after a song which means even the table of contents tells a story.  For the casual fan, this book is a p...

This weekend (March 27 and 28, 2026), Sir Paul McCartney and his band did an "intimate" concert for just 1000 people in Los Angeles, at the Fonda Theater. 3/4 of the panel was there, so we did this episode to discuss it! Will, Joel and Brett share their memories, while Katie is here to help us describe things and do her best to contain her seething jealousy!  Joining us is special guest Scott Auke...

Today (March 26, 2026), Paul McCartney announced that he finished a new album that will come out in May, called The Boys of Dungeon Lane . He also released the first single, which is called "Days We Left Behind." We listen to it and talk about! And we also talk about what it felt like to hear Paul was releasing another album. Also, some of the panel won tickets to the McCartney concert happening i...

We cover the new Paul McCartney documentary MAN ON THE RUN, out on Amazon Prime, which covers the Wings part of Paul's post Beatles era.  Among other things, we hear Paul's motivations behind founding Wings, the emotional struggles after the end of the Beatles, thoughts about John's angry statements about Paul, his marriage to and relationship with Linda, musical decisions of many of his best know...

The panel goes over the newest episode of the Beatles Anthology - Episode 9! Released last November (2025), this episode shows interviews of Paul George and Ringo at the time they were filming the Anthology in the mid-90s. We see their thoughts and feelings about looking back on the Beatles. We also get extended looks at the recording the John Lennon Demos "Free As A Bird" and "Real Love." We get...

The panel goes over the recent documentary ONE TO ONE: JOHN & YOKO. This is a look at John's only real solo concert, which he did at Madison Square Garden in 1972 to benefit a children's hospital. The doc also takes a lot of the news issues of the day which were influencing John and his struggles with immigration at the time.  We're amazed at realizing how intense the nightly news was at this time...

The panel goes very deep on Anthology 4, the "new" volume of rare tracks released as a sequel to the 1994 documentary / music release Beatles Anthology. I put "new" in quotes since many of these tracks were included on the re-mixes of Revolver, White Album, Let It Be and Abbey Road. It's a fun listen. We spend a lot of time going track by track to give our thoughts on it. Panelists: Will Hines, Br...

The panel lists the songs they feel strong personal connections to. What songs do YOU feel the strongest connection to? Why has "Mr. Moonlight" become a treasured personal memory for the podcast? Panelists: Will Hines, Brett Morris, Katie Plattner, Joel Spence ------------------ Subscribe for our full back catalog and monthly bonus episodes at https://www.screwitpodcasts.com/ Join our free Discord...

The panel watches the 1967 film Magical Mystery Tour. Originally a television special for the BBC on Boxing Day (day after Christmas, Americans) it is now seen as the Beatles third movie. A largely improvised film led by Paul, the film is seen as.... a mixed bag! A lot of the sequences are kinda, how do I put this, boring? But we also have a great music video for I Am The Walrus and some comedy(is...

This is an abridged episode. For the full version, subscribe at screwitpodcasts.com -------------------------------------------------- The panel goes over Paul's 2005 solo album Chaos and Creation in the Backyard. This was a big change of pace for Paul. He teamed up with Radiohead's producer Nigel Godrich and produced a series of mostly quiet, introspective and beautiful songs. The most famous tra...

This is an abridged episode. For the full version, subscribe at screwitpodcasts.com -------------------------------------------------- We go over the 1974 John Lennon album Walls and Bridges! This was John's 4th solo album, and the final one he recorded before going on a nearly 5 year hiatus from recording. It's got the hits "#9 Dream" and "Whatever Gets You Through The Night" but of course has a...

This is an abridged episode. For the full version, subscribe at screwitpodcasts.com -------------------------------------------------- What would you put on your Beatles best-of if you couldn't use any of their hits? That's the challenge the panel does in this episode. We each complied a "deep cut" Beatles best-of. These were our rules: Nothing that was on the "red" (1962-1966) or "blue" (1967-197...

(This is an abridged version - subscribe at screwitpodcasts.com for the full version) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our tribute episode to Brian Wilson, the leader of the Beach Boys, who died on June 11, 2025. We talk briefly , in our usual "mostly informed" way, about the relationship and influence between the Beatles and the Beach Boys. We tal...

(This is an abridged version - subscribe at screwitpodcasts.com for the full version) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Let It Be came out in May 1970. In honor of its anniversary we look at Paul McCartney's version (basically) -- Let It Be... Naked. This is a version of the Let It Be album with much of producer Phil Spector's production removed. Th...

(This is an abridged version - subscribe at screwitpodcasts.com for the full version) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: although Midas Man is not available on major streaming platofmrs, you can buy and watch it at this link: https://bit.ly/4jQmYGa This supports the creators of the movie better than watching it on streaming does! --------------...

(This is an abridged version - subscribe at screwitpodcasts.com for the full version) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The panel takes a look at George Harrison's 1973 album Living In The Material World. Our reason is that a re-release came out last year (2024) and we've been meaning to examine it. But also we are sometimes big dummies who haven't...

(This is an abridged version - subscribe at screwitpodcasts.com for the full version) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The panel goes over Look Up, the 21st studio album from Ringo Starr. Largely written and produced by T-Bone Burnett, this album features a bit more of a country flavor, though still unmistakably Ringo, maybe because he's one of t...

(This is an abridged version - subscribe at screwitpodcasts.com for the full version) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A new Bob Dylan biopic, "A Complete Unknown" starring Timothy Chalamet, directed by James Mangold has been in theaters. The panel took this chance to spend an episode talking about Bobby D. We don't know his music nearly as well...

(This is an abridged version - subscribe at screwitpodcasts.com for the full version) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The panel discusses the new documentary Beatles '64, released November 2024 on Disney Plus. Using a lot of behind the scenes footage from the Beatles first U.S. visit, which includes their landmark appearance on the Ed Sullivan s...

(This is an abridged version - subscribe at screwitpodcasts.com for the full version) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The panel guesses at what the next Beatles album might have been if they hadn't broken up. This is a common pasttime for Beatles fans, and is one of the most commonly suggested topics for an episode! Well, we try it! We decided t...

(This is an abridged version - subscribe at screwitpodcasts.com for the full version) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The panel had never seen this 1972 concert film of George Harrison's seminal fundraising concert. We watched and it and, of course, loved it. The Concert for Bangladesh was the first celebrity concert fundraiser, at least in the...

This is a short except from a bonus episode available in our subscriber feed. We discuss the FILM "One Hand Clapping!" To subscribe go to screwitpodcasts.com. Here is the description from our bonus ep: ------------------ The panel discusses the recently re-released version of One Hand Clapping, the documentary! it's footage of Wings in the studio, originally filmed for the BBC. Now, it's a preciou...

(This is an abridged version - subscribe at screwitpodcasts.com for the full version) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The panels takes a look at what essentially is a live Paul McCartney solo album: One Hand Clapping. Done as part of a television special for the BBC in the 1970s, this album are some songs Paul recorded with a lineup of Wings sho...