Songs with the 'Be My Baby' drum intro

this is creepy, as i just bought a record with this track yesterday

"I Wish It Could Be 1965 Again" by the Barracudas pulls it off marvelously.

Hall and Oates - "The Last Time"

The Flatmates "Happy All the Time" (iirc)

"What's A Girl To Do" by Bat For Lashes.

A bunch of Outrageous Cherry songs, I think

Alan Parsons Project: "Don't Answer Me".

Also, Norwegian popsters Popium and Sissy Wish have both used it a lot.

Devil Dogs - Get Down on Your Knees
Jay Reatard - An Ugly Death

The Whore Moans - Rise and Shine (also ends with people singing "Be My Baby")

love to get a copy of the mixtape

Deerhunter: "Vox Humana"

After reading Tom's piece today I thought I'd post a few more many of which use the beat somewhere other than the intro but there we go.

A couple of years ago there was a decent list on Wikipedia but clearly a section on Whigfield's version is more encyclopaedic!

Ruby Suns - 'Kenya Dig It'
The Carpenters - 'Only Yesterday'
Long Blondes - 'New Idols'
The Concretes - 'Say Something New' (as alluded to in 2005)
Supergrass - 'Butterfly'
Deerhoof - 'Matchbox Seeks Maniac'
Hot Hot Heat - 'A Good Day To Die'
Brendon Benson -'The Pledge'
Lucky Soul -'Give Me Love'
Glasvegas - 'Daddy's Gone'
Television Personalties - 'This Angry Silence'
Ravonettes - 'Little Animal'
Au Revoir Simone - 'A Violent Yet Flammable World'
Horrors - 'Who Can Say'
Editors - 'Weight of the World'
Gene - 'Fitting Fit'
Ian Brown - 'Destiny or Circumstance'
Shins - 'Turn On Me'
Gliss -'Morning Light'
Alessi's Ark - 'Memory Box'
Kings of Leon - 'The Bucket'
The Gaslight Anthem - 'Great Expectations'
Concrete Blonde - 'Joey'
The Explorers Club - 'Forever'
Green Day - 'Homecoming'
Pipettes - 'Sex'
R.E.M. - 'Radio Song'
ELO - 'The Way Life's Meant To Be'

A new song with this drum beat is "When Will You Come?" by Wavves

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOCozpgMAgw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inXrH3SwMoQ

Add Still Corners' rather lovely 'Endless Summer' to the pile.

The Cars, "All Mixed Up", very clearly around 1:45 but also other places
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDnvHZO3zSg&feature=player_embedded#at=121

(Thanks to JBR for posting to this thread: Benjamin Orr vs Doug Yule

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azVPDgENSeI

(xp) I probably shouldn't admit this on ILM but I genuinely had no idea the Red House Painters version was a cover.

Pet Shop Boys - Kings Cross

Hefner - The Weight Of The Stars

ABBA could have used this drumbeat to great effect on "Ring Ring".

What about "Glory Days" by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band? It's in the breakdown about 2/3 of the way through the song.

I just did a podcast about this actually: http://soundsfamiliarpodcast.tumblr.com/post/22381881971/sounds-familiar-1-the-drums-from-be-my-baby-and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq6xGdFgNac

There's a whole Wikipedia entry for this:

Songs that use the Be My Baby drum beat

Search Spotify too - I came across someone who put together an even more extensive playlist

'everybody wants something' by the zit remedy is almost entirely made up of the be my baby intro beat

Pixies - Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf)

I remembered this thread when we were doing the poll: Cocteau Twins- "In the Gold Dust Rush".

Surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet, especially this past week:

Badfinger - "Baby Blue"

“If you listen closely,” Blaine says, “I played the same beat on ‘Strangers in the Night’ that I played on ‘Be My Baby,’ just slower and softer.”

The Cure "Kyoto Song"

Not sure what's already been said, but I've got a few:

"Reviens Vite et Oublie" Les Fingers
"Night" and "Glory Days"Bruce Springsteen
"I'd Much Rather Be With the Boys" Rolling Stones
"Is There Something I Should Know" Duran Duran
"Heat of the Moment" Asia
"Domino" Cocteau Twins
In addition to "Just Like Honey", "Cut Dead" and "Sowing Seeds" J&M Chain
"Big Pink Cake" Razorcuts
"Candy" Magnetic Fields
"No Stories" Bartlebees
"Monster" BJM
"Resurrection" Misfits
"A Higher Power" Jens Lekman
"Run" Tillmanns
"A Violent Yet Flammable World" Au Revoir Simone
"Vox Humana" Deerhunter
"Ghost Mouth" Girls
"Perfection as a Hipster" God Help the Girl
"Lewis Takes Action" Owen Prallet
"A Candle's Fire" Beirut
"Baby Don't You Cry" Fergus & Geronimo
"Baby's Wearing Blue Jeans" Mac Demarco
"The Devil" Nadine Shah
"Every Time the Sun Comes Up" Sharon Van Etten
"Tammy Faye" Young People
"Tearing the Posters Down" Dick Diver
"Love, Texas" Marriages

Lansing-Dreiden do this on the first track of their first album, but it's a total fake-out and works perfectly

One of my favorite songs of 2015, "Secrets" by Le Pie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_HkvC9czXk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V-FYolawTw

The Ohio Express "Chewy Chewy" has a nearly perfect "Be My Baby" break including the bass riff just the final chorus (1:23 in the above video)

opening track of the new Suede album does this, admittedly after a minute and a half of orchestral largesse

track 3 of the new mitski album does this, presumably through gritted teeth

afghan whigs, "algiers"