Also love Brasil 66's samba-ized cover of "Day Tripper."
― mike a, Wednesday, 21 September 2005 20:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― andrew k, Wednesday, 22 March 2006 19:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― BARMS, Thursday, 23 March 2006 10:01 (eighteen years ago) link
also, Edu Lobo, "Hey Jude"...Ted Nugent, "I Want To Tell You"...Harvey Averne, "THe Word"...The Jam, "Taxman"...(I mean, "Start!")
― hank (hank s), Thursday, 23 March 2006 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link
ihttp://comics.heritageauctions.com/highlights/beatles/todayandyesterday.jpg
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― hank (hank s), Thursday, 23 March 2006 14:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 23 March 2006 15:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― retrokid, Friday, 24 March 2006 11:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 25 March 2006 04:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― timmy tannin (pompous), Saturday, 25 March 2006 05:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Trevor Wood, Thursday, 4 May 2006 12:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― AJ, Thursday, 4 May 2006 13:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― gregor vox (Gregor Vox), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― musically (musically), Thursday, 4 May 2006 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― dan (dan), Thursday, 4 May 2006 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― wilder penfield, Friday, 19 May 2006 09:49 (seventeen years ago) link
everything is better with clarinet!
― Keywords: revenge, knife, granddaughter, demonic-possession, rock-star, eel (Aus, Friday, 19 May 2006 11:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― christoff (christoff), Monday, 22 May 2006 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― jean-michel Robert, Monday, 29 May 2006 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link
Other than that, I generally have a problem with Beatles cover versions. Simply because the originals are too good.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 29 May 2006 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 29 May 2006 22:31 (seventeen years ago) link
Daniel Ash - "Day Tripper"
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 29 May 2006 22:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 29 May 2006 23:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Monday, 29 May 2006 23:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Monday, 29 May 2006 23:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 00:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jackson Boxer (JacksonB), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 05:49 (seventeen years ago) link
Stevie Wonder's version of "We Can Work It Out" runs circles around the original, and I don't say that lightly.
Werd.
I liked David Cook's (American Idol 7) version of Day Tripper. He might have jacked that from someone else but I don't care.
― youcangoyourownway, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 01:57 (fifteen years ago) link
It has to be Money by the Flying Lizards surely.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_iQZiVD_zA
― moley, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 02:01 (fifteen years ago) link
I've always liked Coroner's version of "She's So Heavy" quite a bit.
― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 03:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Just heard for the first time (my bad) Bill Withers' version of "Let It Be"; it's awesomely beautiful. Ramsey Lewis' LP of Beatles covers--Mother Nature's Son--is wonderful, too.
― inhibitionist, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 03:44 (fifteen years ago) link
David Grisman's band has done a pretty moving instrumental version, all mandolined-up and shit, of "Because".
Lol Coxhill's take on "I'm The Walrus" is also great.
― t**t, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 10:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Arcwelder did a great version of "I Am The Walrus," superfast, stripped-down, with no attempts at mimicking the 'cellos or tape effects. Worked amazingly (and surprisingly) well.
― Sara Sara Sara, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 13:06 (fifteen years ago) link
So then what, if any, are the few cases in which the cover version actually surpasses the Beatles original?
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 15:43 (fifteen years ago) link
This was mentioned upthread as part of the Motown Beatles covers album, and it warrants more attention (BSJ, I think it surpasses the original):
Let It Be - Gladys Knight & The Pips
Gladys gave one of her absolute best performances on that. (I also welled up during the gospelly version of "Let It Be" in Across the Universe.)
― Joseph McCombs, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 15:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I haven't heard a lot of those, but the original versions of those are so great, I don't see how ALL of them could surpass.. Maybe a few do..
What bothers me about this thread is that it's supposed to be a list of the "best beatles covers. ever." and instead people are just listing random cover versions..
Stevie Wonder seems to have been mentioned here a lot.. it's hard to say which version I like better, because the Beatles version is great for so many reasons (one of the true Lennon/McCartney penned songs, John's bridge w/ changing time signature, and the harmonium!!!) ... however Stevie Wonder's version simply killed it.
I also still think The Cyrkle's "I'm Happy Just To Dance With You" may surpass the original. It helped me to better appreciate the original version. There's changing key signatures constantly throughout the song, which somehow works in this case.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 15:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh my mistake, I thought you were suggesting all of those Motown covers were better.. Yeah the Gladys Knight version is lovely.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 15:54 (fifteen years ago) link
the Hendrix Sgt Pepper runner-up: the Grateful Dead's Rain
― gabbneb, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 15:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Still amazed that Oasis haven't covered rain. It would have been perfect for them, as opposed to "I Am The Walrus" which doesn't fit with their style at all.
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 08:44 (fifteen years ago) link
What would be the point of covering "Rain"? It's exactly Oasis.
(I know, answers on a postcard etc)
― Mark G, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 09:12 (fifteen years ago) link
I am surprised Jeff Buckley's 'A Day in the Life' hasn't been mentioned. That, for my money, is the best Beatles cover by quite a distance and one of only a handful to have any musical merit.
― Philosopher_King, Friday, 20 June 2008 06:30 (fifteen years ago) link
they created rock and roll.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41R2XR2Q6WL._SL500_AA240_.jpg
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, 20 June 2008 08:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Are there any non-punk/metal/indie covers of "Helter Skelter"? The more exotic or easy listening the better, but any unusual genre would do I guess.
― Jeff W, Friday, 20 June 2008 12:54 (fifteen years ago) link
today i'd like to remember michael jackson's absolutely wicked cover of "come together". being a punk rock highschooler i wasn't really much into michael back then, but hearing this in shop class made me stop and ask someone who in the hell doing this cool-ass beatles cover. learning it was mj totally made me stop and reconsider my previously held views on the dude...
i might suggest we leave the heated debate on the whole michael/paul/beatles catalog thing until a respectful interval had passed, and maybe today just ponder why, out of all the beatles tracks he coulda used FOR FREE - yesterday, hey jude, a day in the life etc (and probably made a gazillion dollars offa, almost guaranteed) he decided to just record this one fairly obscure, strange, and edgy beatles tune, and do it in this cool, but not very radio-friendly, glamrockfunk style?
― messiahwannabe, Friday, 26 June 2009 13:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Do get ahold of yourself. "Come Together" is hardly "fairly obscure." And he took a giant dump on it. Let's not pretend otherwise.
― Alex in NYC, Friday, 26 June 2009 13:52 (fourteen years ago) link
it's pretty straight, but the five stairsteps doing dear prudence is great
― the heart is a lonely hamster (schlump), Friday, 26 June 2009 13:58 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaZzZactGQU
This song is kind of a template for non-ballad post-Bad MJ.
― Eazy, Friday, 26 June 2009 14:07 (fourteen years ago) link