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
― Beta (abeta), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Beta (abeta), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 14:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 14:07 (eighteen years ago) link
Yes: Every Little Thing - This I can't even imagine.
― theophilus jones (theophilus), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 14:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ian Riese-Moraine: the crown prince of understatement. (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link
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 Woman801: Tomorrow Never KnowsEsperanto: Eleanor RigbyString Driven Thing: Things We Said TodaySteve Harley: Here Comes The SunTubes: I Saw Her Standing There
― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 15:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― darin (darin), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 15:34 (eighteen years ago) link
Wah??? More information please.
― Cunga (Cunga), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― darin (darin), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 15:44 (eighteen years ago) link
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
― donuty! donuti! donuté! (donut), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 16:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 16:46 (eighteen years ago) link
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
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
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
Across The Universe - Fionna Apple
― elgolfo (elgolfo), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 21:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 22:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― darin (darin), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 22:13 (eighteen years ago) link
>"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
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
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 14 July 2005 02:41 (eighteen years ago) link
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
― Curt (cgould), Thursday, 14 July 2005 03:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 14 July 2005 03:37 (eighteen years ago) link
douglas, you have email 8)
― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 14 July 2005 07:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Derek Rife, Monday, 12 December 2005 03:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 12 December 2005 11:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Monday, 12 December 2005 11:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mr., Snrub, Monday, 12 December 2005 23:40 (eighteen years ago) link
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
― R. Stevie Moore, Tuesday, 31 January 2006 13:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Starwarrior, Sunday, 7 May 2006 08:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 03:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Monty Von Byonga (Monty Von Byonga), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 04:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― timmy tannin (pompous), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 05:17 (seventeen years ago) link
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
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― Oh No It's Dadaismus! (Dada), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 08:45 (seventeen years ago) link
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― the table is the table (treesessplode), Monday, 22 January 2007 01:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― the table is the table (treesessplode), Monday, 22 January 2007 01:56 (seventeen years ago) link
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*
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