My dad bought the Complete Beatles book with piano versions of every song, they got stuck in the mail, he got another one, so now I have a copy as well :)
― Frederik B, Sunday, 3 December 2017 20:51 (six years ago) link
YMO's "daytripper" is cool
― Men's Scarehouse - "You're gonna like the way you're shook." (m bison)
it is. so is bad brains'.
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Sunday, 3 December 2017 20:53 (six years ago) link
As far as I can see (and someone please correct me on this) the crazy thing in Another Girl is it goes from A minor to C Major and then to A Major for a couple measures, then back to A minor. Which is pretty great for a song about a breakup, but where you've already found someone else :)
― Frederik B, Sunday, 3 December 2017 20:55 (six years ago) link
Yeah, that's completely wrong.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Sunday, 3 December 2017 21:04 (six years ago) link
I remember having a copy of that Beatles complete songbook and a lot of the chords were wrong, various songs were in the wrong key, wrong lyrics etc.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Sunday, 3 December 2017 21:07 (six years ago) link
It's probably in the wrong key, yeah, but that doesn't really matter though?
― Frederik B, Sunday, 3 December 2017 21:08 (six years ago) link
The backing vocals on "The Night Before" are one of my favorite Beatles moments. Simultaneously simple and complex, bright and dark, in a way that few other bands could pull off at the time.― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Friday, December 1, 2017 4:50 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Friday, December 1, 2017 4:50 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah, I love the backing vocals on it and there's some neat chord changes in there too, and such a powerful melody line. I'm surprised it's not more celebrated outside of Beatles fandom.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Sunday, 3 December 2017 21:10 (six years ago) link
'Another Girl' is in A major, "through thick and thin she will always be my friend" should be C major, E7 and A major.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Sunday, 3 December 2017 21:13 (six years ago) link
Definitely modulates to C major there
― timellison, Sunday, 3 December 2017 21:19 (six years ago) link
Another girl (C) who will love (G) me to the end (C)(G) Through thick and thin (C) she will always (E) be my friend (A)
V/vi as pivot chord back
― timellison, Sunday, 3 December 2017 21:21 (six years ago) link
It's in A minor though? Melodic minor, to be precise.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 3 December 2017 21:24 (six years ago) link
I mean, most of the song, it's full of C's instead of C#. Friend is exactly on C#, solidifying it as major.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 3 December 2017 21:25 (six years ago) link
I'm really bad at describing this...
A major with a blues inflection.
― timellison, Sunday, 3 December 2017 21:26 (six years ago) link
That's a good call, though! Definitely C naturals in the melody.
Here's our guy Pollack:
http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/ag.shtml
― timellison, Sunday, 3 December 2017 21:29 (six years ago) link
Tim OTM, it's in A major with a blues inflection, but it modulates to C major and back to A major.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Sunday, 3 December 2017 21:31 (six years ago) link
'Things We Said Today' is a great example of a song where the verses are in a minor key but it switches to a major key for a tiny bridge and then back to minor again.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Sunday, 3 December 2017 21:33 (six years ago) link
I'm fascinated by the fact that augmented/diminished chords feature a fair bit in the Beatles' pre-Rubber Soul tracks, but from '66 onwards they appear far less.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Sunday, 3 December 2017 21:36 (six years ago) link
Right? I just figured out how to play "Ask Me Why" recently.
― timellison, Sunday, 3 December 2017 21:39 (six years ago) link
It'll be in F. For you. I'm in G, but it'll be in F. And it goes, E minor, to A7, to D minor.Ready?
― 'cause there's always been an it i can't truss (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 3 December 2017 21:41 (six years ago) link
???
― timellison, Sunday, 3 December 2017 21:42 (six years ago) link
Yeah, wut?
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Sunday, 3 December 2017 21:45 (six years ago) link
Looks like the chords to 'Yesterday' ...
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Sunday, 3 December 2017 21:46 (six years ago) link
Those Complete Beatles books were how I learned to play guitar back in the 80s.
― Moodles, Sunday, 3 December 2017 21:53 (six years ago) link
a punk/hardcore friend of mine that never listened to the beatles but would find beatles covers by other bands and fall in love with them shared this awesome cover of "She Said She Said" with me recently:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY6F11XXh-0
― flappy bird, Sunday, 3 December 2017 23:15 (six years ago) link
awesome, much better than that black keys bullshit. now if i can just find covers of "yellow submarine", "and your bird can sing", and "doctor robert" i'll have covers of everything on the revolver lp
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Sunday, 3 December 2017 23:18 (six years ago) link
the shop assistants also did a killer take on "ace of spades" on their second peel session in '86.
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Sunday, 3 December 2017 23:26 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV5Bd8Eu0ko
― Action of Boyle Man Prompts Visitor to Stay (Tom D.), Sunday, 3 December 2017 23:30 (six years ago) link
!!!
― sleeve, Sunday, 3 December 2017 23:33 (six years ago) link
I've Just Seen A Face is like their best pre-Rubber Soul deep cut
― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Sunday, 3 December 2017 23:51 (six years ago) link
strongly disagree
― sleeve, Sunday, 3 December 2017 23:57 (six years ago) link
Good cover version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIeypMABI8s
― Action of Boyle Man Prompts Visitor to Stay (Tom D.), Monday, 4 December 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
There was a thread one time that was called "Deleting The Beatles" or "Erasing..." Or something that was about a mix project that replaced every Beatles recording with a cover or in some cases the original versions of some of their covers. Can't find it now, but it was cool.
― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 4 December 2017 00:08 (six years ago) link
nobody wants to do "lovely rita"
weird and kinda wonderful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S2rnieM3_4
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 4 December 2017 00:43 (six years ago) link
So, Fats did "Lovely Rita", "Lady Madonna", and "Everybody's got something to hide.."
― Mark G, Monday, 4 December 2017 01:17 (six years ago) link
oh yeah that fats domino really makes it, y'all are definitely killing it here. for lady madonna i have elvis (fragmentary, but it's fuckin' ELVIS) and for "everybody's got something to hide", well, it's obviously the feelies.
hell, ok, i'm a little drunk, i'll post everything i've got so far here and let's see what other blanks other folks can fill in
Singles and EPs:- From Me To You- Thank You Girl- She Loves You- I'll Get YouAnand Milind - Tumse Hai Dil Ko (I Wanna Hold Your Hand) / Al Green - I Want To Hold Your Hand- This Boy- Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand- Sie Liebt DichThe Boys - I Call Your Name- I Feel Fine- She's A Woman- Yes It IsAdrian Belew - I'm Down
Bad Brains - Day TripperStevie Wonder - We Can Work It OutTempest - Paperback WriterWang Chung - RainElvis Presley - Lady MadonnaSoulful Strings - The Inner LightAssagai - Hey JudeThe Head Shop / Nina Simone - RevolutionMarcia Griffiths - Don't Let Me DownMike Melvoin - Ballad of John and Yoko- Old Brown ShoeBossacucanova - You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)
Please Please Me:Duffy Power/Daniel Johnston - I Saw Her Standing There- Misery- Ask Me WhyThe Limit - Please Please Me- Love Me Do- P.S. I Love YouFingerprintz - Do You Want To Know A Secret- There's A Place
With the Beatles:The Quick - It Won't Be Long- All I've Got To DoPrince Buster - All My Loving- Don't Bother Me- Little Child- Hold Me TightThe Rolling Stones - I Wanna Be Your Man- Not A Second Time
The Beatles For Sale:- No Reply- I'm A Loser- Baby's In Black- I'll Follow The Sun- Eight Days A Week[not fucking Yes, that's for sure] - Every Little Thing- I Don't Want To Spoil The Party- What You're Doing
A Hard Day's Night:Indexi - A Hard Day's NightPhil Ochs - I Should Have Known Better- If I FellIdiosyncratic Routine - I'm Happy Just To Dance With YouRita Lee - And I Love Her- Tell Me Why- Can't Buy Me Love- Anytime At All- I'll Cry InsteadThe Flow - Things We Said Today- When I Get Home- You Can't Do ThatThe Now Generation - You'll Never Know (I'll Be Back)
Help!:- Help!The Retreads - The Night Before- You've Got To Hide Your Love Away- I Need You- Another Girl- You're Going To Lose That Girl- Ticket to Ride- It's Only Love- You Like Me Too Much- Tell Me What You SeeThe Dillards - I've Just Seen A Face- Yesterday
Rubber Soul:- Drive My CarPeter Walker - Norwegian Wood- You Won't See Me- Nowhere Man- Think For Yourself13th Floor Elevators - The WordThe Free Design - Michelle- What Goes OnOxbow - Girl- I'm Looking Through You- In My Life- WaitBit-A-Sweet - If I Needed SomeoneThe Pair Extraordinare - Run For Your Life
Revolver:Fred Lonberg-Holm - TaxmanJeddah / BB Seaton / Sugarcane Harris / Esperanto / Mal Waldron / Uranium - Eleanor RigbyR Stevie Moore - I'm Only SleepingBongwater - Love You ToEwa Bem - Here, There, and Everywhere- Yellow SubmarineShop Assistants - She Said She SaidRoy Redmond - Good Day Sunshine- And Your Bird Can SingCaetano Veloso & Gilberto Gil - For No One/Superbacana- Doctor RobertJimmy & the Rackets - I Want To Tell YouEarth, Wind, & Fire - Got To Get You Into My LifeMorgana King - Tomorrow Never Knows
Sgt. Pepper:- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club BandThe Beach Boys - With A Little Help From My FriendsSleepytime Gorilla Museum - The Putrid Refrain (Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds)Ultrasound - Getting Better- Fixing a HoleL'Infonie - She's Leaving Home- Being For the Benefit of Mr. KiteSonic Youth - Within You, Without You- When I'm Sixty-Four- Lovely Rita- Good Morning Good Morning- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)The Fall - A Day In The Life
Magical Mystery Tour (American):Das Damen - Song for Michael Jackson to $ell (Magical Mystery Tour)- The Fool on the HillYonin-Bayashi - FlyingDaniel Mantey - Blue Jay Way- Your Mother Should KnowYogurt - I'm The Walrus- Hello GoodbyeDonal Hinely / Bill Hutchins - Strawberry Fields Forever- Penny Lane- Baby You're A Rich Man- All You Need Is Love
The White Album:The Dead Kennedys - Back in the USSRThe Five Stairsteps - Dear Prudence- Glass Onion- Ob La Di, Ob La DaThe Pixies - Wild Honey PieHan(s)olo - The Continuing Story of Bungalow BillPrince - While My Guitar Gently Weeps- Happiness is a Warm Gun- Martha My Dear- I'm So TiredRoslyn Sweat & the Paragons - Blackbird Singing- Piggies- Rocky RaccoonSkupina F. R. Cecha - Namale Mam (Don't Pass Me By)- Why Don't We Do It In The Road- I Will- JuliaPato Fu - BirthdayElliott Smith - Yer BluesHarry Nilsson - Mother Nature's SonThe Feelies - Everybody's Got Something To Hide (Except For Me And My Monkey)- Sexy SadieHusker Du - Helter SkelterYim Yames - Long, Long, Long- Revolution 1- Honey PieThey Might Be Giants - Savoy TruffleBardo Pond - Cry Baby CryThe Shazam - Revolution 9Ekkehard Ehlers - Plays John Cassavetes 2 (Good Night)
Yellow Submarine:Johann Heyss - Only a Northern Song- All Together NowThe Roots - Thought @ Work (Hey Bulldog)Steve Hillage - It's All Too Much
Abbey Road:The Butthole Surfers - Come TogetherJames Brown - Something- Maxwell's Silver Hammer- Oh! Darling- Octopus's GardenEddie Hazel - I Want You (She's So Heavy)Nina Simone - Here Comes the SunDEVO - Because- You Never Give Me Your Money- Sun King- Mean Mr. Mustard- Polythene PamWizz Jones - She Came In Through The Bathroom Window- Golden Slumbers- Carry That Weight- The End- Her Majesty
Let It Be:- Two Of UsSt. Vincent - Dig A PonyClammbon - Across the Universe- I Me Mine- Dig ItKommunizm - Let It Be- Maggie Mae- I've Got A Feeling- One After 909- The Long And Winding Road- For You Blue- Get Back
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Monday, 4 December 2017 01:29 (six years ago) link
I like his "Lovely Rita" best of all those!
xp
― timellison, Monday, 4 December 2017 01:31 (six years ago) link
If you're not familiar with this, you should be:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue0Mf7_EHk8
― Action of Boyle Man Prompts Visitor to Stay (Tom D.), Monday, 4 December 2017 01:38 (six years ago) link
Oh my god
― flappy bird, Monday, 4 December 2017 04:18 (six years ago) link
now if i can just find covers of "yellow submarine", "and your bird can sing", and "doctor robert" i'll have covers of everything on the revolver lp
"Yellow Submarine" is tough/can't come up with anything good by head but I like these covers of the other two:
Susanna Hoffs & Matthew Sweet - "And Your Bird Can Sing"J Mascis - "Doctor Robert"
― willem, Monday, 4 December 2017 05:54 (six years ago) link
That Nilsson track is quite something!
― willem, Monday, 4 December 2017 05:55 (six years ago) link
FOUND THE DELETE THE BEATLES MIX!: CDR700GO!: Delete the Beatles
― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 4 December 2017 06:18 (six years ago) link
nilsson rules
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Monday, 4 December 2017 06:18 (six years ago) link
Nowhere Man - Vikki CarrMe and My Monkey - Larry HarlowCan't Buy Me Love - Ella FitzgeraldThe Word - Jackie and RoyDrive My Car - CristinaGolden Slumbers/Carry That Weight - Elis ReginaHoney Pie - Barbra StreisandHappiness is a Warm Gun - The BreedersTicket to Ride - Cathy Berberian
― Josefa, Monday, 4 December 2017 08:01 (six years ago) link
I've Just Seen A Face is like their best pre-Rubber Soul deep cut― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Sunday, December 3, 2017 11:51 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkstrongly disagree― sleeve, Sunday, December 3, 2017 11:57 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Sunday, December 3, 2017 11:51 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― sleeve, Sunday, December 3, 2017 11:57 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yup, I strongly disagree too - it's not even the best deep cut on Help! ...
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Monday, 4 December 2017 08:20 (six years ago) link
― willem, Monday, December 4, 2017 5:55 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Otm! Beck made a whole career based on just this one song.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 4 December 2017 08:37 (six years ago) link
What are the deep cuts tracks ? Those that weren't singles ? In that case, I'd go with "YGTHYLA" or "It's Only Love" (I never understood why Lennon dislikes this song so much. I find it great, particularly his vocals !)."IJSAF" is also great though. Fantastic guitar parts(especially the intro).
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 4 December 2017 10:31 (six years ago) link
IJSAF - love the busy, giddy, slightly claustro enjambment of the verse juxtaposed with the simplicity and release of the chorus. Not a huge early-Beatles fan, but that song is fantastic
― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Monday, 4 December 2017 10:48 (six years ago) link
What are the deep cuts tracks ? Those that weren't singles ?
Yeah, but also the tracks that weren't singles that also didn't become a standard at some point (e.g. 'Yesterday', 'With a Little Help From My Friends' etc.)
So, in the case of Help!, stuff like 'The Night Before', 'Another Girl', 'You're Going to Lose That Girl', even 'You've Got to Hide Your Love Away' ...
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Monday, 4 December 2017 11:14 (six years ago) link