CDR700GO!: Delete the Beatles

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

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

Wah??? More information please.

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

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...

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.

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..."

Across The Universe - Fionna Apple

>"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

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.

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.

douglas, you have email 8)

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!

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.)

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

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!

I saw you posting here.

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)

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.

Lol

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.

True. Wire did cover "After Midnight" though!

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

best beatles covers. ever.

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.)

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