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Low's cover of Nowhere Man looks good.

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

I really like Richie Havens' cover of "Here Comes the Sun."

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 12:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Assagai - Hey Jude (juju/highlife)
Anything Beatallica does
The Clarendonians - You Won't See Me (early ska)
Desmond Dekker - Come Together
Ella Fitzgerald - Savoy Truffle
The Langley Schools Music Project - The Long and Winding Road
Louis Armstrong - Give Peace a Chance (a Lennon solo one, but it's great)
The Residents - Beyond the Valley of a Day in the Life
Rob Grayson - Beatles A-Z (the entire catalog in 15 minutes)
Skatalites - Independent Anniversary Ska (Should Have Known Better)

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

The girl from Os Mutantes (I think her name is Rita Lee) had a Beatles covers album that was incredible.

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

I love Siouxsie's "Dear Prudence."

― Je4nne ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:35 (eighteen years ago) link

I thought that the I Am Sam soundtrack had some misses, but also some gems. I really liked Rufus's "Across the Universe," and I don't care who knows it.

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:41 (eighteen years ago) link

"Don't Let Me Down" - Charlotte Dada
"She Loves You (And You Know That Can't Be Bad)" - Ted Chippington
"With A Little Help From My Friends" - Joe Cocker
"Got To Get You Into My Life" - Earth Wind & Fire
"Here There & Everywhere" - Emmylou Harris
"It's All Too Much" - Steve Hillage
"I Wanna Be Your Man" - Rolling Stones
"Yesterday" - En Vogue

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:44 (eighteen years ago) link

I'd forgotten about the Charlotte Dada. That is great.

― Brakhage (brakhage), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 13:51 (eighteen years ago) link

obviously, "healter sketler" by Motley Crue
"Come together" by aerosmith

― gibson303, Tuesday, 6 September 2005 15:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Motown Meets the Beatles. Patchy and often pointless but Marvin Gaye's Yesterday lovely and of course Stevie Wonder's We Can Work It Out.

A Hard Day's Night - The Supremes
Eleanor Rigby - The Four Tops
We Can Work It Out - Stevie Wonder
Hey Jude - The Temptations
Yesterday - Marvin Gaye
The Long and Winding Road - Diana Ross
Come Together - The Supremes
She's Leaving Home - Syreeta
You Can't Do That - The Supremes
Fool On The Hill - The Four Tops
Michelle - The Four Tops
And I Love Her - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
Something - Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
Let It Be - Gladys Knight & The Pips
Imagine - Diana Ross
My Love - Jr. Walker
My Sweet Lord - Edwinn Starr

― Zoe Espera (Espera), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Roy Orbison's treatment of Help is utterly beautiful. All slow and sad and beautiful.

― gghdgdgwd, Tuesday, 6 September 2005 15:37 (eighteen years ago) link

I agree with Fanny "Hey Bulldog," that is great. Al Green doing "Want to Hold Your Hand," ditto. Alex Chilton does a horrible version of it on "Downtown Does the Beatles" from ten years ago. But he's drunk enough to do up "I'm So Tired" quite well back in 1975, about as much as the song deserves.

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

Nina Simone's "Here Comes The Sun". And I have a soft spot for Fiona Apple's version of "Across the Universe".

― Roz (Roz), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 15:46 (eighteen years ago) link

A Hard Day's Night - Mrs Miller
A Day in the Life - the Fall

― TRG (TRG), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Steve Marcus' Tomorrow Never Knows, with Larry Coryell going apeshit on guitar, has its moments.

― dlp9001, Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:34 (eighteen years ago) link

I've been listening to Teenage Fanclub's version of "Tell Me What You See" (from an old Beatles covers Cd given away with Uncnut). I'd hardly say it's the best but it isn't bad (esp me no liking Teenage Fannies or "TMWYS" particularly).

― Pvt. Dave Goes To Far (scarlet), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:04 (eighteen years ago) link

then there's this: CDR700GO!: Delete the Beatles

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Steve Marcus' Tomorrow Never Knows, with Larry Coryell going apeshit on guitar, has its moments.
OTM, and they do a pretty good vesion of "Rain" on that album too.

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Sufjan Stevens - "What Goes On"
Ray Charles - "Elennor Rigby"
Elliot Smith - "I Me Mine"

― darin (darin), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:15 (eighteen years ago) link

"Don't Let Me Down" - Charlotte Dada
SECONDED

― j. rosenberg (pukeandburn), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:17 (eighteen years ago) link

The Chameleons - "Tomorrow Never Knows"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:28 (eighteen years ago) link

I've never heard of Charlotte Dada- I thought somehow a fuXX0red database had merged two separate posts, one from Dadaismus and one from Alex in NYC.

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 18:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Aretha Franklin's "Eleanor Rigby" is fuckin off the hook.

― tonyD (noiseyrock), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 22:33 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm also going to - cautiously - mention billy bragg's cover of "she's leaving home". which i haven't heard in years but remember as being, er, a brave and individual take on the song.

hang on. pass the limewire and hold her steady ...

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 23:03 (eighteen years ago) link

... oh, it turns out to be far less powerful and nasally-essex than i remembered. WHY MUST YOU PLAY TRICKS ON ME, MIND?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 23:07 (eighteen years ago) link

nah, fuck this. it's not even average.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 23:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Cristina's Baby You Can Drive My Car, War's A Day in the Life

― mucho, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 00:41 (eighteen years ago) link

yr mom under the covers when she socked me off bich

― youse a bich, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 00:42 (eighteen years ago) link

The Shat's version of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, of course.

― Pat, Friday, 9 September 2005 12:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, I like that Aretha cover of "Eleanor Rigby" as well. Her cover of "Let It Be" is pretty good too- "Let it be, leave it alone, let it be!"

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 9 September 2005 12:14 (eighteen years ago) link

feelies - everybody has got something to hide 'cept me and my monkey. phantastic crazy song, great speedy cover.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Friday, 9 September 2005 12:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Peter Sellers' She Loves You

― me, myself and i, Friday, 9 September 2005 16:05 (eighteen years ago) link

rita lee - a minha vida (in my life)

― mucho, Friday, 9 September 2005 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link

I put together CDR700GO!: Delete the Beatles , and my personal favorite thing on it right now would have to be the Dickheads' "(S)He Loves You."

Although the one I find in my head most often is Frank Sidebottom's "Flying," to which he adds lyrics:

We are the Beatles
There are four of us
Direct from Liverpool
We came here on the bus
John Paul George and Ringo, John Paul George and Ringo, that is uuuuuuus

George plays electric guitar
Ringo has loads of rings
John plays another guitar
And Paul McCartney sings
And then one day they broke up and Paul McCartney formed Wings
Oh yes he did, he really did

― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 9 September 2005 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Seconding the Lowell Fulsom "Why Don't We Do It In the Road." Incredible.

― JAS, Friday, 9 September 2005 17:19 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.popsike.com.nyud.net:8090/pics/theputtery/20050116/4068037906.jpg

― mark 0 (mark 0), Friday, 9 September 2005 17:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Some new discoveries:

Tom Jones covering Hey Jude
Sonny & Cher covering Something
Nancy 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

Spore does a brilliant "She's so heavy."

― don baird, Friday, 9 September 2005 18:48 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't get enough of Shirley Horn's cover of "And I Love Him" (she changed the pronoun) lately.

― Jeff Reguilon (Talent Explosion), Friday, 9 September 2005 21:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Fats Domino - Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
The Jam - And Your Bird Can Sing
Matthew Sweet - She Said, She Said

― Mike Maier, Saturday, 10 September 2005 02:34 (eighteen years ago) link

tese are even better than the originals:
suggs - i'm only sleeping
candy flip - strawberry fields
thompson twins - revolution
zoot featuring daryl coton and rick springfield - eleanor rigby.

― madstocker, Saturday, 10 September 2005 06:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Phish - The whole White Album, live. No big deviations, but it's so great to hear the whole thing played out live (and played well).

― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Saturday, 10 September 2005 08:16 (eighteen years ago) link

aerosmith - i'm down - permanent vacation.
oasis have done at least 6 beatles songs.

― madstocker, Saturday, 10 September 2005 11:33 (eighteen years ago) link

daniel johnston - i saw her standing there

― spasticheritage, Saturday, 10 September 2005 13:10 (eighteen years ago) link

I was tempted to say "none of them," but there's a few on this thread that I've never heard before which seem very interesting.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Saturday, 10 September 2005 14:21 (eighteen years ago) link

I just remembered The Cyrkle's "I'm Happy Just To Dance With You."

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Saturday, 10 September 2005 14:33 (eighteen years ago) link

I know the Laibach Let It Be was mentioned upthread, but special attention must be drawn to their version of "Across The Universe."

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Saturday, 10 September 2005 17:19 (eighteen years ago) link

neil finn - two of us.
tiffany - i saw her (him) standing there.
fiona apple - across the universe.
u2 - helter skelter.
michael jackson - come together.

― madstocker, Sunday, 11 September 2005 01:39 (eighteen years ago) link

no one should do a cover of any beatles song. they were and will always be the best band ever. they created rock and roll. i don't care what you say, their songs were all perfect and fabulous without anyone covering them. doing a cover of a beatles song is pretty much butchering rock music. and why the heck should a child molester (b.k.a. michael jackson) even attempt to cover a beatles song? especially after the crap he put paul mccartney through by buying the rights to the band's songs, and refusing to give them back? i believe this is called asinie behavior.

― Hillary, Sunday, 11 September 2005 02:22 (eighteen years ago) link

sorry... *asinine*

― Hillary, Sunday, 11 September 2005 02:22 (eighteen years ago) link

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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

six months pass...

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 Prudence
https://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

The Dillards did "I've Just Seen a Face" back in 1968, I assume that was the first one.

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

two months pass...

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

three months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1Sqdey1c2s

― budo jeru, Friday, 23 June 2023 14:24 (ten months ago) link

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