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My iPod #413: The Rutles – Get Up and Go

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For those of you who see this and think this sounds a bit like the song I posted a few days ago….. you would be correct to do so. But it is intentional. The Rutles aren’t some band who appeared to replicate everything the Beatles did, like their Rooftop concert or whatever. It’s just a parody that was created by the minds of Neil Innes and Eric Idle of Monty Python. But it was the former who wrote all of the music.

So if you didn’t guess, “Get Up and Go” is a parody of “Get Back”. But unlike the all of the other tracks on The Rutles album which incorporate little riffs, chord progressions and instruments similar to Beatles tracks but created to make them sound unique in their own way, “Get Up and Go” is basically “Get Back”. Very similar. From the melodies to the drumbeat. John Lennon himself told Neil Innes this, even though he did love The Rutles. As a result, “Get Up and Go” was not released on the original soundtrack for “All You Need Is Lunch” in 1978. It was released on the 1990 CD re-release, so it turned out alright in the end.

If “Get Back” didn’t do it for you, then the likelihood of enjoying this track will be low. Though I think it’s juuusssst fiiiiine.

My iPod #412: OK Go – Get Over It

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“Get Over It” was the first single OK Go released as a band in 2002. And what a way to introduce yourselves. The track is fun as hell and catchy as anything, and gives a lesson concerning ‘getting over’ the silly little things in life that shouldn’t really matter. It’s one of the most poppy tracks the band have ever done before changing to a more indie-rock style for “Oh No”.

It wasn’t until 2006 that I began listening to OK Go, so when I decided to look them up on the web and saw that they “Get Over It” had actually done quite well in the UK (it got to #16, which ain’t too shabby) I thought why not see what the song and video’s like. Maybe I had seen it before, and just forgotten about the track as time went on. It turned out that I had in fact not heard the song before.

The video is just as fun too. This is before the band went out to try out spectacular record-breaking stuff in their music videos, and instead just focuses on them playing the track as the camera zooms in to random objects that are mentioned in the lyrics. And ping-pong occurs for about 3 seconds. Damian Kulash, Jr. also looks very, very young in it, even though he was about 26/27.