"What's A Girl To Do" by Bat For Lashes.
― !Alicia!, Saturday, 17 May 2008 01:41 (5 years ago) Permalink
A bunch of Outrageous Cherry songs, I think
― Pillbox, Saturday, 17 May 2008 02:40 (5 years ago) Permalink
Alan Parsons Project: "Don't Answer Me".
Also, Norwegian popsters Popium and Sissy Wish have both used it a lot.
― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 17 May 2008 09:35 (5 years ago) Permalink
Devil Dogs - Get Down on Your KneesJay Reatard - An Ugly Death
― bendy, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 23:51 (4 years ago) Permalink
The Whore Moans - Rise and Shine (also ends with people singing "Be My Baby")
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 03:45 (4 years ago) Permalink
love to get a copy of the mixtape
― Mark, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 04:03 (3 years ago) Permalink
Deerhunter: "Vox Humana"
― The Perfect Weapon 2, Thursday, 16 July 2009 08:52 (3 years ago) Permalink
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'
― Mitchell Stirling, Friday, 9 July 2010 15:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
A new song with this drum beat is "When Will You Come?" by Wavves
― tjms, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 03:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Beach Pomade (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 03:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
Add Still Corners' rather lovely 'Endless Summer' to the pile.
― Mitchell Stirling, Thursday, 5 August 2010 11:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
The Cars, "All Mixed Up", very clearly around 1:45 but also other places
(Thanks to JBR for posting to this thread: Benjamin Orr vs Doug Yule
― stars on 45 my destination (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 14 May 2011 12:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Self-Taught Dougie, Saturday, 14 May 2011 12:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
(xp) I probably shouldn't admit this on ILM but I genuinely had no idea the Red House Painters version was a cover.
― russ conway's game of life (a passing spacecadet), Saturday, 14 May 2011 12:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
Pet Shop Boys - Kings Cross
― daavid, Saturday, 14 May 2011 13:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
Hefner - The Weight Of The Stars
― Beggar On A Beach Of Shite. (PaulTMA), Saturday, 14 May 2011 14:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
ABBA could have used this drumbeat to great effect on "Ring Ring".
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Saturday, 14 May 2011 16:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
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
― Blake Cooper, Monday, 7 May 2012 18:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 00:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
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
― Lee593 (Lee626), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 00:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
'everybody wants something' by the zit remedy is almost entirely made up of the be my baby intro beat
― the aower of aussy (electricsound), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 00:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
Pixies - Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf)
― cock chirea, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 00:51 (1 year ago) Permalink