Everyday Chemistry
Everyday Chemistry is a remix album of unknown authorship that was made available as a free digital download on 9 September 2009. The album was released along with a story of anonymous authorship. It mashes up various songs from the Beatles' individual solo careers, including tracks from 27 albums. The album portends to be taken from an alternate universe where The Beatles had not broken up. Fictional context. The album was accompanied by a story written by an anonymous person under the pen name "James Richards" (a pseudonym drawn from the legal first names of Paul McCartney and  Ringo Starr, the two surviving Beatles, who were born James Paul McCartney and Richard Starkey respectively). Richards describes meeting a man named Jonas who lives in a parallel universe in which the Beatles never broke up. Jonas and Richards both discussed their enjoyment of the Beatles, and just before leaving the parallel universe and travelling back to his own, Richards stole a cassette tape containing one of The Beatles' albums from that imagined timeline. Richards denied that the album was composed of mashups, reasoning that "even though in the alternate universe the Beatles hadn't broken up, that didn't  mean their future music ideas disappeared". Track listing. Samples. "Four Guys" "Talking to Myself" "Anybody Else" "Sick to Death" "Jenn" "I'm Just Sitting Here" "Soldier Boy" "Over the Ocean" "Days Like These" "Saturday Night" "Mr. Gator's Swamp Jamboree" See also. Works that explore similar concepts