Who sang what?

Sometimes you discover online something that combines two things you love and then you realize that all that procrastination was actually worth it. So for today’s pleasure combo I present to you one three Beatles infographs, charting the instrumentation of all of their songs, in their three phases.

I consider the haircut chart a bonus:

By Pop Chart Lab

See also:

• A girl with colitis goes by…
• The Beatles, more popular than Jesus?
  
• The Beatles in the year 3126
  

A girl with colitis goes by…

In the early days of the web, Am I Right was one of the funniest sites there was: a database of misheard lyrics. The misunderstanding of the psychedelic Beatles lyrics “A girl with kaleidoscope eyes” with the absurdist “A girl with colitis goes by” is still one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard.

And now there is a wonderful infograph by direct lyrics, to summarize the most common mistakes. Wasn’t it about time?

By the way, Am I Right has also published a collection of misheard lyrics in Hold Me Closer, Tony Danza: And Other Misheard Lyrics.

See the full infograph after the jump.

Read it elsewhere

While you were getting married:

• Bark Twain and other authors as dogs – shortlist
• The interactive thesaurus of Seattle bands – Seattle band map
• Five bands that should be on Rockband (a hint: Pink Floyd) – joystickdivision
• Free yourself from the hassle of folding the map – design taxi
• Computer mouse evolution – dvice
• Instead of keeping diary, just summarize your day in a smiley figure – lost at E minor
• Who are these people? Abbey Road bystanders – snap galleries
• The wood bike that aspires to break the world record for speed – wired

The Beatles, more popular than Jesus?

Since there is not another band or musician that can challenge the popularity of the Beatles, the only one who can is Jesus.

So, which will go first, rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity?

via Daily Infographic

See also:

• Please, don’t wake me
• The Beatles in the year 3126
• The meta-infograph
• The lyrics on the wall

Songs as books

These renditions of music albums as books have been going around the web lately:

Which reminded me of these by Little Pixel:

Which in turn reminded me of these posters by Hunting Bears:

This idea just never grows old.

See also:

• The lyrics on the wall
• We sure are cute for two ugly people*
• Ten rock movies we would like to see

Read it elsewhere

Jeff Koons gets the video game treatment, Time Zones get analyzed and religion falls out of fashion:

• Jeff Koons Must Die, the video game – Hunter Jonakin via boingboing
• What if Angry Birds were an action movie directed by Michael Bay (video) – the curious brain
• The fascinating and often absurd convention of Time Zones – BBC
• Rare Beatles photos – npr
• Since Radiohead published a newspaper (The Universal Sigh), Guardian writers are challenging them at their game, by covering Creep – Guardian
• Are symmetrical faces more beautiful? – toxel via holykaw
• 50% of tweets come from 0,05% of users – mashable
• Is religion falling out of fashion? – Discovery news
• Sex is no accident (MTV’s safe sex campaign) – buzzfeed
• This blogger asks his favorite authors to sign their books. The twist? Instead for dedications he asks for insults – insulted by authors via flavorwire
• Read it horizontally, read it vertically; the genius of Lewis Caroll – i love charts

Read it elsewhere

The Beatles, Social Media and more Japan aid:

• For mixtape nostalgics: Stereolizer is the app that turns your iPad into an 80’s cassette player – wired
• Etsy users find themselves exposed to world as a result of the new privacy policy – boingboing
• Taking a stand on the McCartney – Lennon feud – Though Catalog
• In other Beatles news Apple files to trademark the old Beatles Apple Logo – patently apple
• Fear of missing out in the social media – caterina.net via swissmiss
• Isn’t that a surprise: poor countries have more digital piracy – boingboing
• Happy people stick together in Twitter (so do the miserable also) – mashable
• The history of web browser (infograph) – bit rebels
• More designers come to the aid of Japan – this is colosal & imprint

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The lyrics on the wall

Well, although I wouldn’t go as far as calling it Music Philosophy, it sure as hell  is good Music Typography.

Mike Toledo creates these amazing typographical posters inspired by lyrics from rock songs. Love the colors, love the fonts, love the songs. Especially this one:

See more posters after the jump

The Beatles in the year 3126

It’s the year 3126. Scientists piece together the scarce evidence of the existence of a mythical band: The Beatles. See what they have to say:

via Kottke

See also:

• Please, don’t wake me
• Battle of the plastic figures: Playmobil dark wave vs LEGO heavy metal
• I love Cash
• When stuck in an airport just sing

Please, don’t wake me

Please, don’t wake me, no, don’t shake me/Leave me where I am – I’m only sleeping

Have you ever wondered why sleep is so important?

Even for the Beatles:

Read it elsewhere

It’s link time, again.

• Egypt initially blocks Twitter and Facebook and now cuts off all access to internet but Egyptians are still tweeting for freedom –guardian/bbc
• it has happened. During the holidays kindle books outsold paperback books on Amazon – dvice
• 15 free, non-pirate, Hitchcock movies online – openculture
• you already knew that the Martin Luther King “I have a dream” speech was brilliant, but now there is the infogram to prove it – fastcodesign
• apparently you can now earn a degree at The Beatles – ctv
• this, below, is a photograph (of soap bubbles), not an illustration; see more psychedelic images in science – discover