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Old 01-10-2012, 06:44 AM   #291 (permalink)
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i would say i like his Beatles-esque stuff

Band on the Run, the track, is fine, cos it sounds like the Beatless

i have no problems with his "pop" stuff - i adore "My Love" and "Silly Love Songs"
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I like how there are three Beatles covers on Beach Boys' Party!, which I will be picking up once I see it at my local record store. That album is fun as hell.

I'll be honest; when I listen to Band on the Run I rarely get passed the first side of the record.
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Fair enough, but to quote wikipedia
"It became Wings' most successful album and remains the most celebrated of McCartney's post-Beatles albums. It was 1974's top-selling studio album in the United Kingdom and Australia, and revitalised McCartney's critical standing."
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I like how there are three Beatles covers on Beach Boys' Party!, which I will be picking up once I see it at my local record store. That album is fun as hell.

I'll be honest; when I listen to Band on the Run I rarely get passed the first side of the record.
the covers aren't much good
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the covers aren't much good
But they are very cute and that does it for me.
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I think all Beatles covers are interesting in some way no matter how bad they are. I have this fascination with Beatles cover songs... I don't know why. In some sense it answers the question to: "Did you ever wonder hey what if the Beatles were in an alternative universe and they were a Surf, (Garage, R&B, Country, Classical or Jazz ) Band? I think that adds to their posterity the fact so many artist and bands covered Beatles' songs. Like they say what comes around goes around (or in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make something like that) The Beatles started out as cover band, and did a wide variety of covers, genres spanning early Motown, Musicals, Country, early Rock and Roll and R&B. They did it in a time when radio was for the most part segregated in the US, and in the their own way help to bridge the gap, and in turn artist and bands from those genres covered their songs. I think it's fitting to have so many artist from all over take interest in a small band from Liverpool, it makes them one of the more unique Rock bands in Popular music.
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I think all Beatles covers are interesting in some way no matter how bad they are. I have this fascination with Beatles cover songs... I don't know why. In some sense it answers the question to: "Did you ever wonder hey what if the Beatles were in an alternative universe and they were a Surf, (Garage, R&B, Country, Classical or Jazz ) Band? I think that adds to their posterity the fact so many artist and bands covered Beatles' songs. Like they say what comes around goes around (or in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make something like that) The Beatles started out as cover band, and did a wide variety of covers, genres spanning early Motown, Musicals, Country, early Rock and Roll and R&B. They did it in a time when radio was for the most part segregated in the US, and in the their own way help to bridge the gap, and in turn artist and bands from those genres covered their songs. I think it's fitting to have so many artist from all over take interest in a small band from Liverpool, it makes them one of the more unique Rock bands in Popular music.
I don't share this obsession but would you share some of the most interesting Beatles covers you've stumbled across? I can't actually think of many memorable ones off the top of my head.

The Pixies do an awesome cover of Wild Honey Pie on their Live at the BBC album but since that song was basically a joke to begin with so I don't take it too seriously.
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I think all Beatles covers are interesting in some way no matter how bad they are. I have this fascination with Beatles cover songs... I don't know why. In some sense it answers the question to: "Did you ever wonder hey what if the Beatles were in an alternative universe and they were a Surf, (Garage, R&B, Country, Classical or Jazz ) Band? I think that adds to their posterity the fact so many artist and bands covered Beatles' songs. Like they say what comes around goes around (or in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make something like that) The Beatles started out as cover band, and did a wide variety of covers, genres spanning early Motown, Musicals, Country, early Rock and Roll and R&B. They did it in a time when radio was for the most part segregated in the US, and in the their own way help to bridge the gap, and in turn artist and bands from those genres covered their songs. I think it's fitting to have so many artist from all over take interest in a small band from Liverpool, it makes them one of the more unique Rock bands in Popular music.
even Wet Wet Wet's Yesterday?
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For anyone interested in Beatles cover versions, MrBeatlesCovers's great YouTube channel has 396 uploads to date:

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I haven't listened to any Beatles covers, so I should check those out.

Today I was thinking about how I admire the complexity of music by The Beatles, but I am more emotionally affected by The Beach Boys' music, and that matters more to me. The Beach Boys make me nostalgic for a life I've never had.

If I had to evaporate one band or the other, I'd rather evaporate the Beatles because I prefer the sweetness and emotional purity of The Beach Boys' songs to the bitter, intellectual coolness that I sense in many songs by The Beatles. I'd like to live more lives beyond my own, and the Beach Boys' music gives me the sense that I am. The Beatles' music, in contrast, leaves me being who I am, but shifts my state of mind and not always for the better.

For example, while listening to this Beach Boys song I get to enjoy being a teenage boy in love with a girl and dreaming sweetly with her of a simple, happy future together:


Beach Boys-(Wouldn't It Be Nice) - YouTube

Here I get to be some mellow, California former surfer reminiscing happily about the sunny, good ol' days that still can be resurrected:


Beach Boys - Do It Again (1968) - YouTube
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