The Beatles

The Night Before' rules.

True fact, too seldom asserted

It's the Beatles song that could use the most asserting

do these guys have a new album coming out or something?

Good tunes imo

One off gig playing the "Yellow Submarine" album.

Re "Another Girl" -- the crazy chord progression on "Through thick and thin she will always be my friend" just kills me

The backing vocals on "The Night Before" are one of my favorite Beatles moments. Simultaneously simple and complex, bright and dark, in a way that few other bands could pull off at the time.

Their ability to do straw-boater almost barbershop harmonies in that vein is a definite thing

w/r/t the beatles, i've had this sort of ongoing project to find cover versions i like, and like at least as well as the beatles' version, of all the beatles' originals. it's pretty difficult even for how popular it is to play their songs. everybody wants to do "she's leaving home", nobody wants to do "lovely rita". and of all the thousands of versions of "yesterday" out there, i've never heard one as good as the beatles' version - that song is on a knife-edge.
i've got a decent chunk together, though. for "the night before", i like the version by the retreads.

YMO's "daytripper" is cool

My dad bought the Complete Beatles book with piano versions of every song, they got stuck in the mail, he got another one, so now I have a copy as well :)

YMO's "daytripper" is cool

― Men's Scarehouse - "You're gonna like the way you're shook." (m bison)

it is. so is bad brains'.

As far as I can see (and someone please correct me on this) the crazy thing in Another Girl is it goes from A minor to C Major and then to A Major for a couple measures, then back to A minor. Which is pretty great for a song about a breakup, but where you've already found someone else :)

Yeah, that's completely wrong.

I remember having a copy of that Beatles complete songbook and a lot of the chords were wrong, various songs were in the wrong key, wrong lyrics etc.

It's probably in the wrong key, yeah, but that doesn't really matter though?

The backing vocals on "The Night Before" are one of my favorite Beatles moments. Simultaneously simple and complex, bright and dark, in a way that few other bands could pull off at the time.

― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Friday, December 1, 2017 4:50 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, I love the backing vocals on it and there's some neat chord changes in there too, and such a powerful melody line. I'm surprised it's not more celebrated outside of Beatles fandom.

'Another Girl' is in A major, "through thick and thin she will always be my friend" should be C major, E7 and A major.

Definitely modulates to C major there

Another girl (C) who will love (G) me to the end (C)
(G) Through thick and thin (C) she will always (E) be my friend (A)

V/vi as pivot chord back

It's in A minor though? Melodic minor, to be precise.

I mean, most of the song, it's full of C's instead of C#. Friend is exactly on C#, solidifying it as major.

I'm really bad at describing this...

A major with a blues inflection.

That's a good call, though! Definitely C naturals in the melody.

Here's our guy Pollack:

http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/ag.shtml

Tim OTM, it's in A major with a blues inflection, but it modulates to C major and back to A major.

'Things We Said Today' is a great example of a song where the verses are in a minor key but it switches to a major key for a tiny bridge and then back to minor again.

I'm fascinated by the fact that augmented/diminished chords feature a fair bit in the Beatles' pre-Rubber Soul tracks, but from '66 onwards they appear far less.

Right? I just figured out how to play "Ask Me Why" recently.

It'll be in F. For you.
I'm in G, but it'll be in F.
And it goes, E minor, to A7, to D minor.
Ready?

???

Yeah, wut?

Looks like the chords to 'Yesterday' ...

Those Complete Beatles books were how I learned to play guitar back in the 80s.

a punk/hardcore friend of mine that never listened to the beatles but would find beatles covers by other bands and fall in love with them shared this awesome cover of "She Said She Said" with me recently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY6F11XXh-0

awesome, much better than that black keys bullshit. now if i can just find covers of "yellow submarine", "and your bird can sing", and "doctor robert" i'll have covers of everything on the revolver lp

the shop assistants also did a killer take on "ace of spades" on their second peel session in '86.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV5Bd8Eu0ko

!!!

I've Just Seen A Face is like their best pre-Rubber Soul deep cut

strongly disagree

Good cover version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIeypMABI8s

There was a thread one time that was called "Deleting The Beatles" or "Erasing..." Or something that was about a mix project that replaced every Beatles recording with a cover or in some cases the original versions of some of their covers. Can't find it now, but it was cool.

nobody wants to do "lovely rita"

weird and kinda wonderful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S2rnieM3_4

So, Fats did "Lovely Rita", "Lady Madonna", and "Everybody's got something to hide.."

oh yeah that fats domino really makes it, y'all are definitely killing it here. for lady madonna i have elvis (fragmentary, but it's fuckin' ELVIS) and for "everybody's got something to hide", well, it's obviously the feelies.

hell, ok, i'm a little drunk, i'll post everything i've got so far here and let's see what other blanks other folks can fill in

Singles and EPs:
- From Me To You
- Thank You Girl
- She Loves You
- I'll Get You
Anand Milind - Tumse Hai Dil Ko (I Wanna Hold Your Hand) / Al Green - I Want To Hold Your Hand
- This Boy
- Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand
- Sie Liebt Dich
The Boys - I Call Your Name
- I Feel Fine
- She's A Woman
- Yes It Is
Adrian Belew - I'm Down

Bad Brains - Day Tripper
Stevie Wonder - We Can Work It Out
Tempest - Paperback Writer
Wang Chung - Rain
Elvis Presley - Lady Madonna
Soulful Strings - The Inner Light
Assagai - Hey Jude
The Head Shop / Nina Simone - Revolution
Marcia Griffiths - Don't Let Me Down
Mike Melvoin - Ballad of John and Yoko
- Old Brown Shoe
Bossacucanova - You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)

Please Please Me:
Duffy Power/Daniel Johnston - I Saw Her Standing There
- Misery
- Ask Me Why
The Limit - Please Please Me
- Love Me Do
- P.S. I Love You
Fingerprintz - Do You Want To Know A Secret
- There's A Place

With the Beatles:
The Quick - It Won't Be Long
- All I've Got To Do
Prince Buster - All My Loving
- Don't Bother Me
- Little Child
- Hold Me Tight
The Rolling Stones - I Wanna Be Your Man
- Not A Second Time

The Beatles For Sale:
- No Reply
- I'm A Loser
- Baby's In Black
- I'll Follow The Sun
- Eight Days A Week
[not fucking Yes, that's for sure] - Every Little Thing
- I Don't Want To Spoil The Party
- What You're Doing

A Hard Day's Night:
Indexi - A Hard Day's Night
Phil Ochs - I Should Have Known Better
- If I Fell
Idiosyncratic Routine - I'm Happy Just To Dance With You
Rita Lee - And I Love Her
- Tell Me Why
- Can't Buy Me Love
- Anytime At All
- I'll Cry Instead
The Flow - Things We Said Today
- When I Get Home
- You Can't Do That
The Now Generation - You'll Never Know (I'll Be Back)

Help!:
- Help!
The Retreads - The Night Before
- You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
- I Need You
- Another Girl
- You're Going To Lose That Girl
- Ticket to Ride
- It's Only Love
- You Like Me Too Much
- Tell Me What You See
The Dillards - I've Just Seen A Face
- Yesterday

Rubber Soul:
- Drive My Car
Peter Walker - Norwegian Wood
- You Won't See Me
- Nowhere Man
- Think For Yourself
13th Floor Elevators - The Word
The Free Design - Michelle
- What Goes On
Oxbow - Girl
- I'm Looking Through You
- In My Life
- Wait
Bit-A-Sweet - If I Needed Someone
The Pair Extraordinare - Run For Your Life

Revolver:
Fred Lonberg-Holm - Taxman
Jeddah / BB Seaton / Sugarcane Harris / Esperanto / Mal Waldron / Uranium - Eleanor Rigby
R Stevie Moore - I'm Only Sleeping
Bongwater - Love You To
Ewa Bem - Here, There, and Everywhere
- Yellow Submarine
Shop Assistants - She Said She Said
Roy Redmond - Good Day Sunshine
- And Your Bird Can Sing
Caetano Veloso & Gilberto Gil - For No One/Superbacana
- Doctor Robert
Jimmy & the Rackets - I Want To Tell You
Earth, Wind, & Fire - Got To Get You Into My Life
Morgana King - Tomorrow Never Knows

Sgt. Pepper:
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beach Boys - With A Little Help From My Friends
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - The Putrid Refrain (Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds)
Ultrasound - Getting Better
- Fixing a Hole
L'Infonie - She's Leaving Home
- Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite
Sonic Youth - Within You, Without You
- When I'm Sixty-Four
- Lovely Rita
- Good Morning Good Morning
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
The Fall - A Day In The Life

Magical Mystery Tour (American):
Das Damen - Song for Michael Jackson to $ell (Magical Mystery Tour)
- The Fool on the Hill
Yonin-Bayashi - Flying
Daniel Mantey - Blue Jay Way
- Your Mother Should Know
Yogurt - I'm The Walrus
- Hello Goodbye
Donal Hinely / Bill Hutchins - Strawberry Fields Forever
- Penny Lane
- Baby You're A Rich Man
- All You Need Is Love

The White Album:
The Dead Kennedys - Back in the USSR
The Five Stairsteps - Dear Prudence
- Glass Onion
- Ob La Di, Ob La Da
The Pixies - Wild Honey Pie
Han(s)olo - The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
Prince - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
- Happiness is a Warm Gun
- Martha My Dear
- I'm So Tired
Roslyn Sweat & the Paragons - Blackbird Singing
- Piggies
- Rocky Raccoon
Skupina F. R. Cecha - Namale Mam (Don't Pass Me By)
- Why Don't We Do It In The Road
- I Will
- Julia
Pato Fu - Birthday
Elliott Smith - Yer Blues
Harry Nilsson - Mother Nature's Son
The Feelies - Everybody's Got Something To Hide (Except For Me And My Monkey)
- Sexy Sadie
Husker Du - Helter Skelter
Yim Yames - Long, Long, Long
- Revolution 1
- Honey Pie
They Might Be Giants - Savoy Truffle
Bardo Pond - Cry Baby Cry
The Shazam - Revolution 9
Ekkehard Ehlers - Plays John Cassavetes 2 (Good Night)

Yellow Submarine:
Johann Heyss - Only a Northern Song
- All Together Now
The Roots - Thought @ Work (Hey Bulldog)
Steve Hillage - It's All Too Much

Abbey Road:
The Butthole Surfers - Come Together
James Brown - Something
- Maxwell's Silver Hammer
- Oh! Darling
- Octopus's Garden
Eddie Hazel - I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Nina Simone - Here Comes the Sun
DEVO - Because
- You Never Give Me Your Money
- Sun King
- Mean Mr. Mustard
- Polythene Pam
Wizz Jones - She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
- Golden Slumbers
- Carry That Weight
- The End
- Her Majesty

Let It Be:
- Two Of Us
St. Vincent - Dig A Pony
Clammbon - Across the Universe
- I Me Mine
- Dig It
Kommunizm - Let It Be
- Maggie Mae
- I've Got A Feeling
- One After 909
- The Long And Winding Road
- For You Blue
- Get Back

I like his "Lovely Rita" best of all those!

xp

If you're not familiar with this, you should be:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue0Mf7_EHk8

Oh my god

now if i can just find covers of "yellow submarine", "and your bird can sing", and "doctor robert" i'll have covers of everything on the revolver lp

"Yellow Submarine" is tough/can't come up with anything good by head but I like these covers of the other two:

Susanna Hoffs & Matthew Sweet - "And Your Bird Can Sing"
J Mascis - "Doctor Robert"