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Because I am totally insane, I put this together (having had the idea rattling around in my head since, um, considerably before there were such things as CDRs). Special thanks to Matos, my comrade in obsessive-compulsive comp-making, for the push I needed to do it. There are a handful of tracks I really ought to apologize for including, & I was a little sad to include a few artists multiple times (and to include so much from We Can Work It Out), but mostly I'm very happy with how it came out.

Daniel Johnston: I Saw Her Standing There
Flaming Groovies: Misery
Arthur Alexander: Anna (Go With Him)
The Cookies: Chains
The Shirelles: Boys
Os Sambeatles: Ask Me Why
Petula Clark: Please Please Me (Tu Perds Ton Temps)
Sandie Shaw: Love Me Do
The Chipmunks: P.S. I Love You
The Shirelles: Baby It's You
Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas: Do You Want to Know a Secret
Lenny Welch: A Taste of Honey
The Kestrels: There's A Place
Top Notes: Twist And Shout
Bee Gees: From Me To You
Airbag: Thank You Girl
Dickheads: He Loves You
Conjunto Misterio E Fernando Concha: I'll Get You (Sem Ti Não Sei Viver)
Franz Ferdinand: It Won't Be Long
Moon Martin: All I've Got to Do
Rita Lee: All My Loving
Eytan Mirsky: Don't Bother Me
Jackie Lynton: Little Child
Peggy Lee: Till There Was You
The Marvelettes: Please Mr. Postman
Chuck Berry: Roll Over Beethoven
The Treasures: Hold Me Tight
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles: You Really Got A Hold On Me
The Rolling Stones: I Wanna Be Your Man
The Donays: Devil In His Heart
Pretenders: Not A Second Time
Barrett Strong: Money (That's What I Want)
Al Green: I Want To Hold Your Hand
Shirley Abicair: This Girl
Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle: Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand
Punkles: Sie Liebt Dich
Little Richard: Long Tall Sally
The Mamas & the Papas: I Call Your Name
Larry Williams: Slow Down
Carl Perkins: Matchbox
Peter Sellers: A Hard Days Night
The Beach Boys: I Should Have Known Better
Chet Atkins: If I Fell
The Cyrkle: I'm Happy Just To Dance With You
Esther Phillips: And I Love Him
The Beach Boys: Tell Me Why
Didi & Die Abc Boys: Can't Buy Me Love (Nicht Eine Mark)
Melanie: Any Time At All
Raul Seixas: I'll Cry Instead
The London Jazz Four: Things We Said Today
Fewer Reasons to Get Out of Bed Than Ever: When I Get Home
Diana Ross & the Supremes: You Can't Do That
Now Generation: I'll Be Back (You Never Know)
Harvey Averne: I Feel Fine
Scritti Politti With Shabba Ranks: She's A Woman
The Clevers: No Reply (Sem Resposta)
Marianne Faithfull: I'm A Loser
Ruben Blades: Baby's In Black
Chuck Berry: Rock And Roll Music
Glyn Johns: I'll Follow the Sun
Dr. Feelgood & The Interns: Mr. Moonlight
Little Richard: Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey Hey
Alma Cogan: Eight Days a Week
Buddy Holly: Words Of Love
Carl Perkins: Honey Don't
Yes: Every Little Thing
Rosanne Cash: I Don't Want to Spoil the Party
Terri Fisher: What You're Doing
Carl Perkins: Everybody's Tryin' to Be My Baby
Scott McCarl: Yes It Is
Larry Williams: Bad Boy
Beastie Boys: I'm Down
Thee Headcoats: Help!
lili Ivanonva: The Night Before
The Glands of External Secretion: You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
Boca Livre: I Need You
George Martin Orchestra: Another Girl
Renato E Seus Blue Caps: You're Gonna Lose That Girl (Meu Primeiro Amor)
The 5th Dimension: Ticket to Ride
Buck Owens: Act Naturally
The Missing Links: It's Only Love
Chris Richards: You Like Me Too Much
Teenage Fanclub: Tell Me What You See
Ludella Black: I've Just Seen A Face
Ebony Steelband: Yesterday
Larry Williams: Dizzy Miss Lizzy
Otis Redding: Day Tripper
Stevie Wonder: We Can Work It Out
Cristina: Drive My Car
Marshall Williams: Norwegian Wood
Ernie Smith: You Won't See Me
Three Good Reasons: Nowhere Man
The Out of Towners: Think For Yourself
13th Floor Elevators: The Word
The Free Design: Michelle
Joe Val & the New England Bluegrass Boys: What Goes On
Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle: Girl
The Posies: I'm Looking Through You
Miriam Makeba: In My Life
Rockfour: Wait
Roger McGuinn: If I Needed Someone
Nancy Sinatra: Run For Your Life
Lefty in the Right: Paperback Writer
Petula Clark: Rain
Junior Parker: Taxman
Aretha Franklin: Eleanor Rigby
Suggs: I'm Only Sleeping
The Trypes: Love You To
Gal Costa: Here, There and Everywhere (Viver E Reviver)
Black Dyke Mills Band: Yellow Submarine
Aki Takahashi: She Said, She Said
Jimmy James: Good Day Sunshine
Joe Goldmark: And Your Bird Can Sing
Cilla Black: For No One
Paul Weller & Nick Heyward: Dr. Robert
The Smithereens: I Want To Tell You
Thelma Houston and Pressure Cooker: Got To Get You Into My Life
801: Tomorrow Never Knows
David Bowie: Penny Lane
Candyflip: Strawberry Fields Forever
Bill Cosby: Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
David Peel: With A Little Help From My Friends
Rita Lee: Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
The Wedding Present: Getting Better
Hampton Avenue: Fixing a Hole
Syreeta: She's Leaving Home
Les Miserables Brass Band: Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite
Sonic Youth: Within You Without You
Claudine Longet: When I'm Sixty-Four
the Nields: Lovely Rita
The Triffids: Good Morning Good Morning
Big Daddy: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
Chocolate Snow: A Day in the Life
Swell Maps: nevertoseeanyotherway
The Freedom Sounds: All You Need Is Love
Dr. Zing: Baby You're A Rich Man
Don Carlos: Hello, Goodbye
Lol Coxhill: I Am The Walrus
Cheap Trick: Magical Mystery Tour
R. Stevie Moore: Your Mother Should Know
Björk: The Fool On The Hill (Álfur Út Úr Hól)
Frank Sidebottom: Flying
Colin Newman: Blue Jay Way
Fats Domino: Lady Madonna
Jeff Lynne & Anoushka Shankar: The Inner Light
Assagai: Hey Jude
Elliott Smith: Revolution
Chubby Checker: Back In The USSR
DJ Kazimir: Dear Prudence
Arif Mardin: Glass Onion
Arthur Conley: Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
Pixies: Wild Honey Pie
Young Blood: The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
Marc Ribot: While My Guitar Gently Weeps
The Breeders: Happiness Is A Warm Gun
Slade: Martha My Dear
Say Hi to Your Mom: I'm So Tired
Sylvester: Blackbird
Theodore Bikel: Piggies
Lena Horne & Gabor Szabo: Rocky Raccoon
Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle: Don't Pass Me By
Lowell Fulsom: Why Don't We Do It In the Road
Rose Melberg: I Will
Bongwater: Julia
Underground Sunshine: Birthday
Shena Ringo: Yer Blues
Ramsey Lewis: Mother Nature's Son
Kristin Hersh: Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
pHoaming Edison: Sexy Sadie
Hüsker Dü: Helter Skelter
Calla: Long, Long, Long
Nina Simone: Revolution 1
King's Singers: Honey Pie
Ella Fitzgerald: Savoy Truffle
Ramsey Lewis: Cry Baby Cry
Alan Smithee: can you take me back?
Kurt Hoffman's Band of Weeds: Revolution #9
The Moog Beatles: Good Night
pHoaming Edison: Only A Northern Song
The Muppets: All Together Now
V.P.N.: Hey Bulldog
The Church: It's All Too Much
Charlotte Dada: Don't Let Me Down
Teenage Fanclub: The Ballad Of John And Yoko
The Marlowes: Old Brown Shoe
Ike & Tina Turner: Come Together
James Brown: Something
Frankie Lane: Maxwell's Silver Hammer
I Ribelli: Oh, Darling
The Persuasions: Octopus's Garden
Sarah Vaughan: I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Nina Simone: Here Comes The Sun
Elliott Smith: Because
The Bevis Frond: You Never Give Me Your Money
Umphrey's McGee: Sun King
Receiver: Mean Mr. Mustard
Volcano Suns: Polythene Pam
Joe Cocker: She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
Robert Nanna: Golden Slumbers
Dobby Dobson: Carry That Weight
George Benson: The End (part 1)
London Symph Orchestra: The End (part 2)
. . .: Her Majesty
Fly Ashtray/Rats of Unusual Size/Youth Gone Mad/Sea Monkeys: You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)
R Dean Taylor: Two Of Us
Keller Williams: Dig a Pony
Rufus Wainwright: Across the Universe
Elliott Smith: I Me Mine
Laibach: Dig It
Aretha Franklin: Let It Be
Bob Roberts: Maggie May
Yo La Tengo: I've Got A Feeling
Willie Nelson: One After 909
Zumpano: The Long and WInding Road
Laibach: For You Blue
Deidre Wilson Tabac: Get Back
Phono-Comb: Beatles Record

― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 06:46 (eighteen years ago) link

this looks amazing!! well done, sir.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 07:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Wow.

Surprised there's no Feelies there.. or The Jam (well, ok, more surprised about the former... haha)

― donuty! donuti! donuté! (donut), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 08:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Unless the purpose was to have the covers be more "off the path" if you will.

― donuty! donuti! donuté! (donut), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 08:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Either way.. again. wow.

― donuty! donuti! donuté! (donut), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 08:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Didn't include The Fall's "A Day In The Life"???? (ok, i PROMISE I'll stop.. I realize I could go on forever.. this is still very very very awesome.. maybe it's best that none of these are ones I would have thought of at all... heh... also, I'm tired. I'm honestly impressed.. I'll do a Mine The Deleted Beatles comp if half of my brain decides to run a coup)

― donuty! donuti! donuté! (donut), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 08:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Nicely done Douglas. I'd pondered doing something similar but didn't have the time or inclination to do it. Nice picking something from Ella's late 60's London sessions. If I could add one it would be Rosalyn Sweet and The Paragons version of Blackbird.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 08:17 (eighteen years ago) link

(The secret weapon, as far as I'm concerned: Dickheads' "He Loves You." Recorded in late 1980; the vocals have that Inflatable Boy Clams/Pulsallama thing going on, and the music is a slightly rocked-up variation on the sort of thing the Delta 5 were doing in those days...)

― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 08:21 (eighteen years ago) link

I would love a copy of this CDR!

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 08:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh, this is fantastic, Douglas. Like you, I have long thought about doing something exactly like this. Although I had in mind to start ILM threads on each LP individually and trawl for suggestions for the best cover of each song. But this is just great. Mmm yes plz i'd love a copy too plz.

― Jeff W (zebedee), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 09:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Wow, this indeed looks great. I'm impressed at the breadth of artists and the fact that you didn't go necessarily with the obvious choices. If you are making copies of this for anyone I would love one too.

― mms (mms), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 09:15 (eighteen years ago) link

another request for a copy. why do these threads always result in people telling the mixmaker what he left out, rather than trusting the good judgment of what he chose to include?

― president carter loves repetition (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 09:26 (eighteen years ago) link

> Joe Goldmark: And Your Bird Can Sing

the pastels did a version of this for Peel's 60th(?) birthday cd (it was a favourite of his and sheila's) and it was played exactly once on the radio and doesn't appear anywhere else. is nice, katrina vocals.

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 09:55 (eighteen years ago) link

mmm katrina vocals

― president carter loves repetition (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 09:57 (eighteen years ago) link

It's amazing how many songs the Beatles have taken over (Dizzy Miss Lizzy, Twist and Shout, etc.).

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 10:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Donut, are there more than two Feelies possibilities ("...Me and My Monkey" and "She Said She Said")? I guess there's that Trypes song, which I did put on. but for "Monkey" I had to go with the Kristin Hersh version, and for some reason "She Said" seems to resist everyone who tries to play it straight, which is why I went with Aki Takahashi's piano-solo mutation of it. As for the Fall's "A Day in the Life"... I've just never liked that version.

Would have loved to have heard the Pastels' "Bird"--one of my absolute favorites and hard to find good covers of. The one I put on is a nice steel-guitar instrumental.

― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 13:46 (eighteen years ago) link

sweet god! how can this mix not have Wilson Pickett's version of "Hey Jude" on it?

― Beta (abeta), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link

or Ike and Tina's "Get Back"

― Beta (abeta), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 14:00 (eighteen years ago) link

And Alison Krauss/Tony Furtado's version of "I Will" is excellent. Her soprano is just so ridiculous.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 14:07 (eighteen years ago) link

WOW! How amazing and bravo and I really want a copy of this! I think I've heard about a dozen of these at most.

Yes: Every Little Thing - This I can't even imagine.

― theophilus jones (theophilus), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 14:20 (eighteen years ago) link

I never realised the Swell Maps song was a cover!

― Ian Riese-Moraine: the crown prince of understatement. (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link

(wipes drool from keyboard...) AMAZING!

Some friends and I DJ'd a club night a few years back and did a similar thing, but we didn't hit too many of these. I did a sorta prog segment which included:

Jeff Beck: She's A Woman
801: Tomorrow Never Knows
Esperanto: Eleanor Rigby
String Driven Thing: Things We Said Today
Steve Harley: Here Comes The Sun
Tubes: I Saw Her Standing There

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 15:14 (eighteen years ago) link

This is awesome, Douglas. I would also love a copy, if at all possible.

― darin (darin), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 15:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Franz Ferdinand: It Won't Be Long

Wah??? More information please.

― Cunga (Cunga), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, that one caught my eye, too.

― darin (darin), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 15:44 (eighteen years ago) link

why do these threads always result in people telling the mixmaker what he left out, rather than trusting the good judgment of what he chose to include?

Because, in my case, I was super tired and not thinking straight.

― donuty! donuti! donuté! (donut), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 16:31 (eighteen years ago) link

and I admit that my choices would have been far more obvious, relatively.. which was somewhat the anti-purpose of this, which I acknowledged but poorly phrased upthread. anyway... yay!

― donuty! donuti! donuté! (donut), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Douglas, are you making copies available for (ILM) consumption? And if so, when should the first copies be ready to roll off the assembly line?
and can I get in line for one?

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 16:37 (eighteen years ago) link

crazy, just in the car this morning i was listening to Tomorrow's version of Strawberry Fields and was wondering what the best beatles covers were. i was thinking the 801 version of Tomorrow Never Knows would be up there.

― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 16:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Franz Ferdinand's "It Won't Be Long" was done for the French TV show "Trafic Musique," I believe. It's really good.

The Swell Maps thing isn't a cover, really, but it's a loop, and named after what the inner-groove loop on Sgt. Pepper sounds like...

On "Hey Jude": you might not be asking about the Wilson Pickett version if you'd heard Assagai's! There's a link to an MP3 at http://www.ubu.com/outsiders/365/05-2.html . They were South African and Nigerian expatriates living in the U.K. in 1971, including Mongezi Feza and Dudu Pukwana... amazing stuff.

Rose Melberg's "I Will" is totally lovely too, and brings out elements of the song that I haven't heard in any other version of it.

Questions intended for me alone (as opposed to for general discussion, i.e. talking about the songs) should probably be sent to my email...

― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 18:54 (eighteen years ago) link

I was going to do a competing version of this but it was just too much at the point I was doing it. Maybe later. but yeah, this is really something.

btw, the "Don't Let Me Down"s I am most enamored of are by the Harry J Allstars (RIDICULOUS organ-funk-reggae version, the drumming is unhinged as fuck) and an African version off an Original Music comp that I cannot recall the title or artist of for the life of me. haven't heard Charlotte Dada's yet.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 18:58 (eighteen years ago) link

That is effin' insane, Douglas. Good work. (Love to make a trade with you.)

Yes: Every Little Thing - This I can't even imagine.

Once you hear it, you'll think "Oh. It's Yes covering 'Every Little Thing'." Big intro before fading off to Jon Anderson sweetly singing "when I am walking beside her..."

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 19:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Wow! Bravo indeed. I just have something to say.

Across The Universe - Fionna Apple

― elgolfo (elgolfo), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 21:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, there do seem to be a lot of good "Don't Let Me Down" renditions out there. And there were three super-great "Lady Madonna"s--I especially regretted having to leave off Dave Edmunds guitar-solo instrumental version. Ditto for the Charles River Valley Boys' "I've Just Seen a Face." And Bren't Lewiis's "Why Don't We Do It In the Road."

― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 22:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Good lord. I just realized you found covers of Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand AND Sie Liebt Dich.

― darin (darin), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 22:13 (eighteen years ago) link

amazing work Douglas

>"She Said" seems to resist everyone who tries to play it straight, which is why I went with Aki Takahashi's piano-solo mutation of it.

one note about this: Aki Takahashi is the performer, but the actual composer of this arrangement is Carl Stone, the credit should go equally to him... I love what they did to it, a great pick

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 22:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, Yes's cover of "Every Little Thing" isn't that big a deal. They do throw in the Day Tripper riff though.
They also covered "I'm Down" in concert in the 80s, but I don't expect much. Nothing like their cover of Paul Simon's America anyway (probably their only cover that actually improves on the original overall)

You probably should have put in Jeff Lynne's covers of Free As A Bird and Real Love :p

As for actual suggestions, I would have pointed out the Fall's cover of ADitL only because I want it really really bad.
F***ing AWESOME list overall. Incredible.

― Alex Major, Thursday, 14 July 2005 01:17 (eighteen years ago) link

I just realized that the end thing to Sgt. Pepper as well as "can you take me back" is even represented. That thing is incredible.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 14 July 2005 02:41 (eighteen years ago) link

"the "Don't Let Me Down"s I am most enamored of are by the Harry J Allstars (RIDICULOUS organ-funk-reggae version, the drumming is unhinged as fuck) and an African version off an Original Music comp that I cannot recall the title or artist of for the life of me"

Female vocalist on the African version? I heard that on the radio once and it was killer. I'd like to know who it is, too.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 14 July 2005 02:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Staggering accomplishment! My one teeny tiny nitpick is the absence of Danielle Denin's bittersweet, breezy ye ye version of "I'm Looking Through You", sung in French ("Quand Tu M'embrasses"), which appears on Ultra Chicks, Vol. 4.

― Curt (cgould), Thursday, 14 July 2005 03:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Turns out that the one Matos and Tim are both thinking of seems to be in fact the same one I included--the Charlotte Dada version from Money No Be Sand! http://mattgy.net/music/archives/2004/12/02/dont-you-know-its-gonna-last/ (which is where I first heard it) has details on it.

― Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 14 July 2005 03:37 (eighteen years ago) link

oh, cornershop's norwegian wood is also good.

douglas, you have email 8)

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 14 July 2005 07:47 (eighteen years ago) link

four months pass...

Thrice - Eleanor Rigby
Sufjan Stevens - What Goes On
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - I'm Looking Through You

― Derek Rife, Monday, 12 December 2005 03:33 (eighteen years ago) link

The version of "Bungalow Bill" on one of the exotica comps has to be heared. Hans Breyer? Something like that. Basically, the chorus is a tape loop of the chorus from the white album, with him and his next door neighbors singing along. etc.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 12 December 2005 11:31 (eighteen years ago) link

galaxie 500 "rain" for god's sake

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Monday, 12 December 2005 11:32 (eighteen years ago) link

This CDR seems AWFUL.

― Mr., Snrub, Monday, 12 December 2005 23:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Douglas: Wow!

Quibbles: No Caetano? He's covered "Lady Madonna," "For No One," "Eleanor Rigby," and "Help."

Also: where's Ray Charles' "Eleanor Rigby"? I mean, Aretha's version is amazing, but you have her "Let It Be."

Anyway, fantastic job. LOVE that Assagai track!

― Jody, Tuesday, 13 December 2005 16:46 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

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― R. Stevie Moore, Tuesday, 31 January 2006 13:20 (eighteen years ago) link

three months pass...

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― Starwarrior, Sunday, 7 May 2006 08:10 (eighteen years ago) link

four months pass...

That actually kind of sums up the whole Beatles thing.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 03:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Impressive list indeed...but I don't get the "Delete" part. What's being deleted? And what are we filling the CDR with?

― Monty Von Byonga (Monty Von Byonga), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 04:59 (seventeen years ago) link

hmmm, impressive, but i'd go with claudine longet's "here, there and everywhere"
also, no dillard & clark "don't let me down"

― timmy tannin (pompous), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 05:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Impressive list indeed...but I don't get the "Delete" part. What's being deleted? And what are we filling the CDR with?

Erm.

(The idea, see, is that by filling the CDR with these covers then therefore the Beatles are effectively erased from their own songs' story, ergo they are 'deleted.' As it were.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 05:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Massive respect to Douglas, but I was riffing on Starwarrior's post.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 06:05 (seventeen years ago) link

R. Stevie Moore posted to this thread!!!!!!!!

― Oh No It's Dadaismus! (Dada), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 08:45 (seventeen years ago) link

four months pass...

If Otis Redding's version of "Day Tripper" is better than Yellow Magic Orchestra's, I definitely have to check it out.

― Zachary S (Zach S), Monday, 22 January 2007 01:39 (seventeen years ago) link

It isn't.

― the table is the table (treesessplode), Monday, 22 January 2007 01:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, my mind still gets boggled when thinking of such an assemblage. I mean, I like the Beatles, but christ, to like the Beatles this much... are yall Britishes?

― the table is the table (treesessplode), Monday, 22 January 2007 01:56 (seventeen years ago) link

fourteen years pass...

I began a similar project a while back as a Spotify playlist. I stalled out after the 2nd LP until I discovered this thread.

So uh I stayed up way too late last night finishing it off. Lots of “preferred” versions not available on Spotify; I did what I could.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1AI8AE3c3Lw8HqPeV5j83D?si=z-la_gneQeOcYgt2Ebvnfg&dl_branch=1

― "The Pus/Worm" by The Smiths (hardcore dilettante), Wednesday, 1 September 2021 15:54 (two years ago) link

nice, thank you! i had never seen this thread before, so i was just scanning through the original post, wishing that the conveniences of 2021 could be applied to the efforts of 2005. then i saw your post!

― professional anti- (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 1 September 2021 16:04 (two years ago) link

I saw you posting here.

― "Bobby Gillespie" (ft. Heroin) (Tom D.), Wednesday, 1 September 2021 16:06 (two years ago) link

i had never seen this thread before,

FALSE. FIVE PINOCCHIOS

If Otis Redding's version of "Day Tripper" is better than Yellow Magic Orchestra's, I definitely have to check it out.
― Zachary S (Zach S), Sunday, January 21, 2007 7:39 PM (fourteen years ago)

― professional anti- (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 1 September 2021 16:06 (two years ago) link

what other amazing things have i completely forgotten about!?

*thinks*

― professional anti- (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 1 September 2021 16:06 (two years ago) link

I mean, I like the Beatles, but christ, to like the Beatles this much... are yall Britishes?

This is a weird comment given that Americans are far more obsessed with the Beatles than the British are.

― "Bobby Gillespie" (ft. Heroin) (Tom D.), Wednesday, 1 September 2021 16:07 (two years ago) link

Lol

― Gwar ina Babyon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 1 September 2021 16:17 (two years ago) link

Colin Newman's "Blue Jay Way" is, to my knowledge, both the only cover he's ever recorded solo or with Wire, and just about the worst thing he's ever done.

― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 1 September 2021 16:26 (two years ago) link

True. Wire did cover "After Midnight" though!

― "Bobby Gillespie" (ft. Heroin) (Tom D.), Wednesday, 1 September 2021 17:45 (two years ago) link

Maybe it inspired the bump, and it won't be on Spotify, but this posted yesterday is pretty fabtastic.

best beatles covers. ever.

― Noel Emits, Wednesday, 1 September 2021 17:52 (two years ago) link

I considered the Fanny version but found it kinda stuff vocally. Opted for the Gods instead… but that vid rocks & I found a live Fanny version to replace the Gods version, thanks for the heads up!

(One note, Spotify has new search functionality that brings you results based on LYRICS which is crazy… but it doesn’t actually let you sort or filter the results, so if you’re looking for covers of say “I Me Mine” well good fuckin luck.)

― "The Pus/Worm" by The Smiths (hardcore dilettante), Wednesday, 1 September 2021 19:23 (two years ago) link

Thanks to this thread bump, I'm now listening to The Fall's "A Day in the Life", which I had no idea existed

― JRN, Wednesday, 1 September 2021 19:36 (two years ago) link

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