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Thread started 03/31/05 9:00pm

Stax

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Beatles Covers That Work

What are the best covers of Beatles songs?

A few of mine are...

Earth Wind & Fire - Got To Get You Into My Life
Aerosmith - Come Together
Jeff Healy - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
The Breeders - Happiness Is A Warm Gun
David Bowie - Across the Universe
U2 - Helter Skelter

I know there are a ton more. Help me here. List some truly awful covers as well (William Shatner - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds ill)

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Reply #1 posted 03/31/05 9:20pm

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i love Bette Midler's "My Life" over the original....but not the soundtrack versus...the film version...


and i thought, "while my guitar gently weeps" was a george harrison tune...who knew?

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Reply #2 posted 03/31/05 9:30pm

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Sound Garden - Come Together
Across The Universe grammy jamboree - for it's sheer horror

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Reply #3 posted 03/31/05 9:42pm

Stax

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lilgish said:

Sound Garden - Come Together
Across The Universe grammy jamboree - for it's sheer horror



lol

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Reply #4 posted 03/31/05 10:04pm

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Eddie Hazel - I want You (She's So Heavy) Funkadelic MURDERS this!!!!!

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Reply #5 posted 03/31/05 10:27pm

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The Mama's And The Papa's - I Call Your Name

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Reply #6 posted 03/31/05 10:29pm

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Ben Harper
"Strawberry Fields"

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Reply #7 posted 03/31/05 10:33pm

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Tina Turner - HELP
Ike & Tina - Come Together

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Reply #8 posted 03/31/05 10:47pm

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Norwegian Wood - Allan Holdsworth
We Can Work It Out - Stevie Wonder
Blackbird - Jaco Pastorius
In My Life - Laurence Juber

Just realized that all of these are instrumental versions except Stevie's.

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Reply #9 posted 03/31/05 10:57pm

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Stax said:

Earth Wind & Fire - Got To Get You Into My Life


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Reply #10 posted 04/01/05 1:17am

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Blackbird by Bobby McFerrin is very different and quite amazing!

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Reply #11 posted 04/01/05 1:53am

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Ticket To Ride - Echo And The Bunnymen.
Helter Skelter - U2
Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except For Me And My Monkey - 60ft Dolls

Live Forever - Oasis...uh, oh wait.....

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Reply #12 posted 04/01/05 1:59am

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Sananda/Terence Trent D'Arby: You've got to hide your love away worship worship

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Reply #13 posted 04/01/05 8:43am

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*I love Stevie Wonder's and Chaka's version of We Can Work It Out.
*I also think Martha & the Vandellas' take on Something is exquisite!
*Our Lady Peace did a nice version of Tomorrow Never Knows on the soundtrack to The Craft

Bad remakes:
*The Four Tops doing Michelle barf
*Bananarama's remake of Help







Waiting for the MJ fanatics to proclaim his remake of Come Together as better than the original...

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Reply #14 posted 04/01/05 9:38am

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One of my favorites: Fiona Apple, "Across the Universe"

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Reply #15 posted 04/01/05 9:49am

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RocknRollDave said:


Live Forever - Oasis...uh, oh wait.....


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Reply #16 posted 04/01/05 12:42pm

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Dancelot said:

Stax said:

Earth Wind & Fire - Got To Get You Into My Life


and we have A WINNER!!! worship Just great! Great! Great! worship


I'm sorry but I don't like that cover. confused

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Reply #17 posted 04/01/05 1:28pm

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What about "With A Little Help From My Friends" by Joe Cocker?

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Reply #18 posted 04/01/05 1:28pm

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728huey said:

What about "With A Little Help From My Friends" by Joe Cocker?


nod good one.

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Reply #19 posted 04/01/05 1:44pm

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Check out the Kenny Rankin versions of...

With A Little Help From My Friends
Penny Lane
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Blackbird

...for a different perspective on these tunes.


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Reply #20 posted 04/01/05 1:46pm

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728huey said:

What about "With A Little Help From My Friends" by Joe Cocker?

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Also She Came In Through The Bathroom Window.


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Reply #21 posted 04/01/05 1:46pm

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Shoot me,

cause im starting to like I am the walrus, by styx

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Reply #22 posted 04/01/05 3:11pm

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theVelvetRoper said:

One of my favorites: Fiona Apple, "Across the Universe"



Rufus Wainwright's is good too!

Check out the "I Am Sam" soundtrack for covers by various artists!

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Reply #23 posted 04/01/05 5:10pm

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Booker T & The MG's McLemore Ave. album is a good one. Practically a song by song reinterpretation of Abbey Road as Memphis soul instrumentals.
I enjoyed the cheeky album cover too, the MG's crossing the road outside Stax Studios mimicking the Beatles cover outside Abbey Rd Studios.

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Reply #24 posted 04/01/05 5:53pm

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FunkMistress said:

728huey said:

What about "With A Little Help From My Friends" by Joe Cocker?


nod good one.



oohhh hump me!! hump me i say!! i love that version...

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Reply #25 posted 04/01/05 6:35pm

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Billy Bragg (who I usually can't stand) did an excellent cover of She's Leaving Home.

The Feelies - Everybody's Got Something To Hide (Except For Me and My Monkey)

The Wedding Present - Getting Better

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Reply #26 posted 04/01/05 7:06pm

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I recently burned two cds of my favorite Beatles covers, so I guess these would be my choices.

I Am NOT the Walrus
Vol. 1…

1. Aerosmith – Come Together [3:43]
2. the Supremes – A Hard Day’s Night [2:19]
3. Emmylou Harris – For No One [3:40]
4. the Breeders – Happiness is a Warm Gun [2:42]
5. Otis Redding – Day Tripper [2:29]
6. Merle Haggard & Willie Nelson – Yesterday [3:24]
7. Joe Cocker – She Came in Through the Bathroom Window [2:37]
8. Ray Charles – Eleanor Rigby [2:57]
9. Motley Crue – Helter Skelter [3:10]
10. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Let It Be [3:28]
11. Dwight Yoakam – Things We Said Today [3:48]
12. Paul Westerberg – Nowhere Man [3:20]
13. the Mission U.K. – Tomorrow Never Knows [4:50]
14. Richie Havens – The Long and Winding Road [3:25]
15. P.M. Dawn – Norwegian Wood (this bird has flown) [3:09]
16. Steve Earle – I’m Looking Through You [2:25]
17. the Jam – And Your Bird Can Sing [1:52]
18. Elvis Presley – Something (live) [3:34]
19. Stevie Wonder – We Can Work it Out [3:14]
20. Elvis Costello – You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away [2:33]
21. Rod Stewart – Get Back [4:22]
22. Nina Simone – Here Comes the Sun [3:42]
23. the Brothers Johnson – Come Together [4:11]




I Am NOT the Walrus
Vol. 2…

1. Soundgarden – Come Together [5:49]
2. Aretha Franklin – Let it Be [3:28]
3. the Vines – I’m Only Sleeping [3:03]
4. Little Richard – I Saw Her Standing There [3:24]
5. Richie Havens – Here Comes the Sun (live) [3:42]
6. Ray Charles – Yesterday [2:43]
7. Aerosmith – I’m Down [2:17]
8. Gregg Allman – Rain [3:00]
9. Rosanne Cash – I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party [2:33]
10. Joe Cocker – With a Little Help From My Friends [5:02]
11. Emmylou Harris – Here, There and Everywhere [3:40]
12. Earth, Wind, & Fire – Got to Get You Into My Life [4:00]
13. Paul Weller – Don’t Let Me Down [4:05]
14. the Wallflowers – I’m Looking Through You [2:36]
15. George Benson – The Long and Winding Road [5:52]
16. Fats Domino – Lady Madonna [2:15]
17. Johnny Cash – In My Life [2:54]
18. the Jimi Hendrix Experience – Day Tripper [3:16]
19. Wilson Pickett – Hey Jude [4:02]
20. Allison Moorer – Here Comes the Sun [3:06]
21. Cassandra Wilson & Dianne Reeves – Come Together [4:38]


The thing I dig about Beatles covers is the variety of artists that tackle their songs and the different spins they put on them.
[Edited 4/1/05 19:06pm]

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Reply #27 posted 04/01/05 7:36pm

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Both Billy Preston and Jimi Hendrix covered "Day Tripper"...

I dig both... cool

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Reply #28 posted 04/01/05 8:10pm

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MrTation said:

Both Billy Preston and Jimi Hendrix covered "Day Tripper"...

I dig both... cool

Aah yes. nod

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Reply #29 posted 04/01/05 8:13pm

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JACKAL said:

Little Richard – I Saw Her Standing There

That's a rockin' tune anyway and i'm sure The Architect ripped it up.

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