― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 06:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― ____//?}}], Tuesday, 6 September 2005 08:12 (eighteen years ago) link
OTM@!&!&
― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 10:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― brittle-lemon (brittle-lemon), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 11:31 (eighteen years ago) link
ooh!
their cover of "long long long" is sublime. i should have mentioned this already.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 12:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 12:21 (eighteen years ago) link
And an unknown Japanese guy savaging Eleanor Rigby.http://s43.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=268VIVWTGLD761S9XSGPXA4A9B
― Brakhage (brakhage), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 12:30 (eighteen years ago) link
Sorry, have to disagree. I found that album unlistenable, except the ones she sang in Portuguese were okay.
I'll go for "Tomorrow Never Knows" by Junior Parker.
― Billy Pilgrim (Billy Pilgrim), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Je4nne ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brakhage (brakhage), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― gibson303, Tuesday, 6 September 2005 15:01 (eighteen years ago) link
A Hard Day's Night - The SupremesEleanor Rigby - The Four TopsWe Can Work It Out - Stevie Wonder Hey Jude - The Temptations Yesterday - Marvin GayeThe Long and Winding Road - Diana Ross Come Together - The SupremesShe's Leaving Home - SyreetaYou Can't Do That - The SupremesFool On The Hill - The Four TopsMichelle - The Four TopsAnd I Love Her - Smokey Robinson & The MiraclesSomething - Martha Reeves & The VandellasLet It Be - Gladys Knight & The PipsImagine - Diana RossMy Love - Jr. WalkerMy Sweet Lord - Edwinn Starr
― Zoe Espera (Espera), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― gghdgdgwd, Tuesday, 6 September 2005 15:37 (eighteen years ago) link
Beach Boys doing "Hide Your Love Away." Ian Gomm "You Can't Do That" (leaves out the bridge).
Booker T. "Hard Day's Night." Jr. Parker does, as is mentioned earlier, "Tomorrow Never Knows," also "Lady Madonna." And Lowell Fulson does "Why Don't We Do It in the Road."
For that matter, I like Earth, Wind & Fire's "Got to Get You Into My Life." Anne Murray "You Won't See Me."
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 15:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Roz (Roz), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 15:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― TRG (TRG), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― dlp9001, Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pvt. Dave Goes To Far (scarlet), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― darin (darin), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― j. rosenberg (pukeandburn), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― tonyD (noiseyrock), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 22:33 (eighteen years ago) link
hang on. pass the limewire and hold her steady ...
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 23:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 23:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 23:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― mucho, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 00:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― youse a bich, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 00:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pat, Friday, 9 September 2005 12:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 9 September 2005 12:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Friday, 9 September 2005 12:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― me, myself and i, Friday, 9 September 2005 16:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― mucho, Friday, 9 September 2005 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link
Although the one I find in my head most often is Frank Sidebottom's "Flying," to which he adds lyrics:
We are the BeatlesThere are four of usDirect from LiverpoolWe came here on the busJohn Paul George and Ringo, John Paul George and Ringo, that is uuuuuuus
George plays electric guitarRingo has loads of ringsJohn plays another guitarAnd Paul McCartney singsAnd then one day they broke up and Paul McCartney formed WingsOh yes he did, he really did
― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 9 September 2005 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― JAS, Friday, 9 September 2005 17:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark 0 (mark 0), Friday, 9 September 2005 17:23 (eighteen years ago) link
Tom Jones covering Hey JudeSonny & Cher covering SomethingNancy Sinatra covering Day Tripper
All great and all from The Good, The Bad, and The Beatles.
― darin (darin), Friday, 9 September 2005 18:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― don baird, Friday, 9 September 2005 18:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jeff Reguilon (Talent Explosion), Friday, 9 September 2005 21:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mike Maier, Saturday, 10 September 2005 02:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― madstocker, Saturday, 10 September 2005 06:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Saturday, 10 September 2005 08:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― madstocker, Saturday, 10 September 2005 11:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― spasticheritage, Saturday, 10 September 2005 13:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― billstevejim (billstevejim), Saturday, 10 September 2005 14:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― billstevejim (billstevejim), Saturday, 10 September 2005 14:33 (eighteen years ago) link
sorry for derailing thread. sadlol.
― "Why is the voice of reason treated as the unreliable narrator?", asked (Austin), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 20:48 (one year ago) link
It's been mentioned a couple times upthread but I'll third or fourth the recommendations for Ramsey Lewis's Mother Nature's Son, which has some really exceptional arrangements.
― Indexed, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 20:54 (one year ago) link
doh : i have that Axe comp.would love to hear the rest of that album of course.
― mark e, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 20:57 (one year ago) link
this is the only other song i've found. supercheese. i've heard it's a really bad album besides the beatles cover. axelrod did work on some other very schmaltzy records around the same time (some of which inevitably have another beatles cover or two).
― "Why is the voice of reason treated as the unreliable narrator?", asked (Austin), Wednesday, 6 July 2022 21:10 (one year ago) link
fair enough.makes me glad to have ripped my skinny promo cd-r of the anthology comp before it got too wrecked.i got it years before i realised who/why/where etc ...
― mark e, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 21:21 (one year ago) link
all of which reminds me ..
post beatles vs library brilliance
https://www.discogs.com/master/1710161-The-Larry-Page-Orchestra-And-Chorus-John-Paul-George-Ringo
― mark e, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 21:29 (one year ago) link
jimmy ponder - while my guitar gently weeps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npHqbfCIklw
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 00:48 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLqVioiDldc
Cathy Berberian - Ticket to Ride
(For those that may now know, she was a mezzo-soprano who specialized in contemporary music and a composer. She was also married to Luciano Berio who several works for her.)
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 06:25 (one year ago) link
Bluegrass covers of I've Just Seen a Face there are many. Ones which also incorporate hiccuping reels into the middle and end there is but one. Good harmonic invention vocally too.
Look I just like this stuff okay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sc3RU6Hsv0
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 10:45 (one year ago) link
The Dillards did "I've Just Seen a Face" back in 1968, I assume that was the first one.
― A Drunk Man Looks At Partick Thistle (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 12:06 (one year ago) link
This one builds up a nice head of steam.
Doug Parkinson In Focus - Dear Prudencehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a51r1wjaU0
― Thus Sang Freud, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 12:26 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esi7GO6VXU4
― buzza, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 12:32 (one year ago) link
I believe it originated with the Charles River Valley Boys in 1966, who used their version as the springboard for a whole album.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatle_Country
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 14:05 (one year ago) link
Ah right, good stuff!
― A Drunk Man Looks At Partick Thistle (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 15:02 (one year ago) link
I wouldn't say it's one of the best ever but at least it's different. Zeus B. Held, "The Fool on the Hill"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u-fSjhmDAs
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 March 2023 20:06 (one year ago) link
was this linked somewhere on ilx? some of it it fun/eerie: https://hallelujahthehills.bandcamp.com/album/the-music-of-the-beatles-as-channeled-in-1958-by-the-echo-lake-home-for-the-potentially-clairvoyant
― brimstead, Tuesday, 21 March 2023 20:36 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1Sqdey1c2s
― budo jeru, Friday, 23 June 2023 14:24 (eleven months ago) link