The Beatles, "What You're Doing" (Not exactly, but Ringo supposedly had "BMB" in mind when he played it.)
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 26 April 2004 16:35 (twenty years ago) link
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― Jole, Friday, 21 January 2005 07:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 21 January 2005 08:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― koogs (koogs), Friday, 21 January 2005 15:24 (nineteen years ago) link
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― jed_ (jed), Friday, 18 March 2005 11:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― My Son Calls Another Man Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 18 March 2005 12:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 18 March 2005 12:30 (nineteen years ago) link
this is creepy, as i just bought a record with this track yesterday
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 18 March 2005 13:57 (nineteen years ago) link
"I Wish It Could Be 1965 Again" by the Barracudas pulls it off marvelously.
― everything (everything), Thursday, 2 November 2006 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Tyler W (tylerw), Thursday, 2 November 2006 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Friday, 3 November 2006 03:46 (seventeen years ago) link
Hall and Oates - "The Last Time"
― Stormy Davis, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 06:46 (sixteen years ago) link
The Flatmates "Happy All the Time" (iirc)
― bham, Wednesday, 4 July 2007 07:53 (sixteen years ago) link
"What's A Girl To Do" by Bat For Lashes.
― !Alicia!, Saturday, 17 May 2008 01:41 (fifteen years ago) link
A bunch of Outrageous Cherry songs, I think
― Pillbox, Saturday, 17 May 2008 02:40 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
Devil Dogs - Get Down on Your KneesJay Reatard - An Ugly Death
― bendy, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 23:51 (fifteen years ago) link
The Whore Moans - Rise and Shine (also ends with people singing "Be My Baby")
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 14 January 2009 03:45 (fifteen years ago) link
love to get a copy of the mixtape
― Mark, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 04:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Deerhunter: "Vox Humana"
― The Perfect Weapon 2, Thursday, 16 July 2009 08:52 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
A new song with this drum beat is "When Will You Come?" by Wavves
― tjms, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 03:09 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOCozpgMAgw
― Beach Pomade (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 03:44 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inXrH3SwMoQ
Add Still Corners' rather lovely 'Endless Summer' to the pile.
― Mitchell Stirling, Thursday, 5 August 2010 11:54 (thirteen years ago) link
The Cars, "All Mixed Up", very clearly around 1:45 but also other placeshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDnvHZO3zSg&feature=player_embedded#at=121
(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 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azVPDgENSeI
― Self-Taught Dougie, Saturday, 14 May 2011 12:36 (thirteen years ago) link
(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 (thirteen years ago) link
Pet Shop Boys - Kings Cross
― daavid, Saturday, 14 May 2011 13:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Hefner - The Weight Of The Stars
― Beggar On A Beach Of Shite. (PaulTMA), Saturday, 14 May 2011 14:11 (thirteen years ago) link
ABBA could have used this drumbeat to great effect on "Ring Ring".
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Saturday, 14 May 2011 16:21 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq6xGdFgNac
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 00:19 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
'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 (twelve years ago) link
Pixies - Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf)
― cock chirea, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 00:51 (twelve years ago) link
I remembered this thread when we were doing the poll: Cocteau Twins- "In the Gold Dust Rush".
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 5 October 2013 03:40 (ten years ago) link
Surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet, especially this past week:
Badfinger - "Baby Blue"
― hopping and bopping to the krokodil rot (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 5 October 2013 03:44 (ten years ago) link
“If you listen closely,” Blaine says, “I played the same beat on ‘Strangers in the Night’ that I played on ‘Be My Baby,’ just slower and softer.”
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 05:50 (nine years ago) link
The Cure "Kyoto Song"
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 2 July 2015 15:30 (eight years ago) link
Not sure what's already been said, but I've got a few:
"Reviens Vite et Oublie" Les Fingers"Night" and "Glory Days"Bruce Springsteen"I'd Much Rather Be With the Boys" Rolling Stones"Is There Something I Should Know" Duran Duran"Heat of the Moment" Asia"Domino" Cocteau TwinsIn addition to "Just Like Honey", "Cut Dead" and "Sowing Seeds" J&M Chain"Big Pink Cake" Razorcuts"Candy" Magnetic Fields"No Stories" Bartlebees"Monster" BJM"Resurrection" Misfits"A Higher Power" Jens Lekman"Run" Tillmanns"A Violent Yet Flammable World" Au Revoir Simone"Vox Humana" Deerhunter"Ghost Mouth" Girls"Perfection as a Hipster" God Help the Girl"Lewis Takes Action" Owen Prallet"A Candle's Fire" Beirut"Baby Don't You Cry" Fergus & Geronimo"Baby's Wearing Blue Jeans" Mac Demarco"The Devil" Nadine Shah"Every Time the Sun Comes Up" Sharon Van Etten"Tammy Faye" Young People"Tearing the Posters Down" Dick Diver"Love, Texas" Marriages
― sbes114, Friday, 24 July 2015 21:35 (eight years ago) link
Lansing-Dreiden do this on the first track of their first album, but it's a total fake-out and works perfectly
― gawker's psychotic monkeys (imago), Friday, 24 July 2015 21:43 (eight years ago) link
One of my favorite songs of 2015, "Secrets" by Le Pie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_HkvC9czXk
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 11 September 2015 07:08 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V-FYolawTw
The Ohio Express "Chewy Chewy" has a nearly perfect "Be My Baby" break including the bass riff just the final chorus (1:23 in the above video)
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 22:56 (seven years ago) link
opening track of the new Suede album does this, admittedly after a minute and a half of orchestral largesse
― imago, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 23:48 (seven years ago) link
track 3 of the new mitski album does this, presumably through gritted teeth
― imago, Thursday, 9 June 2016 19:50 (seven years ago) link