The Beatles

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"

That Nilsson track is quite something!

FOUND THE DELETE THE BEATLES MIX!: CDR700GO!: Delete the Beatles

nilsson rules

Nowhere Man - Vikki Carr
Me and My Monkey - Larry Harlow
Can't Buy Me Love - Ella Fitzgerald
The Word - Jackie and Roy
Drive My Car - Cristina
Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight - Elis Regina
Honey Pie - Barbra Streisand
Happiness is a Warm Gun - The Breeders
Ticket to Ride - Cathy Berberian

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

― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Sunday, December 3, 2017 11:51 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

strongly disagree

― sleeve, Sunday, December 3, 2017 11:57 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yup, I strongly disagree too - it's not even the best deep cut on Help! ...

That Nilsson track is quite something!

― willem, Monday, December 4, 2017 5:55 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Otm! Beck made a whole career based on just this one song.

Yup, I strongly disagree too - it's not even the best deep cut on Help! ...

What are the deep cuts tracks ? Those that weren't singles ?
In that case, I'd go with "YGTHYLA" or "It's Only Love" (I never understood why Lennon dislikes this song so much. I find it great, particularly his vocals !).
"IJSAF" is also great though. Fantastic guitar parts(especially the intro).

IJSAF - love the busy, giddy, slightly claustro enjambment of the verse juxtaposed with the simplicity and release of the chorus. Not a huge early-Beatles fan, but that song is fantastic

What are the deep cuts tracks ? Those that weren't singles ?

Yeah, but also the tracks that weren't singles that also didn't become a standard at some point (e.g. 'Yesterday', 'With a Little Help From My Friends' etc.)

So, in the case of Help!, stuff like 'The Night Before', 'Another Girl', 'You're Going to Lose That Girl', even 'You've Got to Hide Your Love Away' ...

I'll never understand why people who praise stuff like the lacklustre The Beatles or dig the Let It Be stuff often can't get on board with the 1963-1965 stuff... there's far more energy and excitement to the early stuff, and a lot of great Lennon/McCartney originals.

I've told the story before on here, but once at work I found myself stuck wokring in a room where the first two Beatles albums were blasted out one after the other and it was absolute fucking torture, I hate that stuff.

... well, not all of it, it was the cumulative effect of all that head bobbing knee bending Scouse cheeriness.

To explain, I never grew up in a household with any Beatles music, I heard the later albums through flatmates, friends or whatever but I'd never heard the early albums because it never struck me as being music I'd be interested in - turns out I was right.

I like a lot of "early" Beatles stuff but none of my favourite Beatles' track is from that period I think. Overall, I prefer the songwriting and production of the post "rocknroll" years.
That said, I totally agree that the songs, excitement, energy of these days are great and fresher than the latter ones. Also, ironically, since I much prefer his songs, that's the most dominant Lennon period, when he was more productive than McCartney (with the peak of Hard Day's Night).

The entirety of A Hard Day's Night, but I think it's generally considered to be the best album they made pre-Rubber Soul...

...but...

'I Saw Her Standing There', 'Please Please Me, 'It Won't Be Long', 'All My Loving', 'Don't Bother Me', 'I Wanna Be Your Man', 'No Reply', 'I'm a Loser', 'I'll Follow the Sun', 'Eight Days a Week', 'Every Little Thing', 'From Me To You', 'Thank You Girl', 'She Loves You', 'I'll Get You', 'I Want to Hold Your Hand', 'This Boy', 'I Call Your Name', 'I Feel Fine', 'She's a Woman', 'I'm Down', 'Help!', 'The Night Before', 'You've Got to Hide Your Love Away', 'You're Going to Lose That Girl', 'Another Girl', 'Ticket to Ride', 'It's Only Love' and 'Yesterday' ... all killer.

And if you want to throw covers into the mix, then: 'Anna (Go to Him)', 'Baby It's You', 'Twist and Shout', 'Till There Was You', 'You Really Got a Hold On Me' and 'Long Tall Sally' all rule.

Turrican, please stop calling it 'The Beatles'

"Eight Days a Week"
Lennon's vocals on that one are so good (especially the "oh ohohohh" before one of the choruses) !
Sometimes I wish they had recorded a slower version of "Help!", without the rocknroll arrangements, like Lennon wanted it to be, as he expressed later on....

I Def don't see 'You've Got To Hide...' as a deep cut. Or anything that was on the red/blue albums

hum. yeah, the red/blue might be a good indicator of what's not deep cuts.

xxxpost:

Yes, let's all stop calling albums by their actual titles.

I always kinda liked this, noticeably beholden to Husker Dü mind you.

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

Everyone calls it the White Album. I'm sure even the fuckin' Beatles don't call it 'The Beatles'

It's like referring to Metallica's fifth album 'Metallica'. No one in the universe calls it that

I don't call it anything

Calling it "The Beatles" is nice.

Calling it either The Beatles or the white album is fine - one is its actual title and the other is an informal way of referring to it. But calling it The White Album with capitals makes no sense - like you don't call the VU & Nico album The Banana Album.

well, unfortunately, nearly fifty years of usage and millions of people are against y'all on this. fans of weezer and metallica also. :-/

also fwiw i get the sense from the way the band members refer to it this way, that they really saw it as having no title, to go with having no cover. that doesn't relate to the capitalization but insisting on "The Beatles" as a title seems quite odd. but it takes all kinds i guess.

This is a new low

Calling it the White Album with capitals is totally fine, 99.999% of people know the album in question and can very possibly cope with the album titled in such an informal manner.

Jesus fucking Christ

having no title, to go with having no cover

(What 99% of people can cope with is of course of no relevance whatsoever.)

This is a new low

eheh. That said, it's for that kind of unexpected (or wtf) heated debates that ILX is classic !

The Beatles - Untitled#1

Metallica has some great stuff on it, but I'd rather save my thoughts on Metallica for a Metallica thread.

The Beatles isn't untitled, it actually says both The Beatles on its cover and its spine. It's the actual title vs. the mythology.

The Beatles also has a cover - if it had no cover, then that would have been the stupidest idea and would have led to a lot of the records being scratched in transit before they'd even reached the shops.

fyi the spines of albums often identify the artists responsible for them, but i'm glad you brought this up as it is now clear at last that the title of this LP is Stereo SWBO 101. i'll kindly ask everyone itt to start using that - or are you all too bogged down in mythology? wake up, sheeple!

You can call it that if you want, but you'd be wrong.

Poll!

What's the real name of The White Album?

The Beatles
The White Album
Stereo SWBO 101