Comments on: Hey Jude

Hey Jude

flapjax at midnite — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:28:55 -0800

Best Beatles cover ever.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:31:27 -0800

My God, somebody shrunk Sean lennon!

By: roomthreeseventeen

roomthreeseventeen — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:33:01 -0800

OK, that was cute.

By: The World Famous

The World Famous — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:34:23 -0800

I disagree. Mortal Kombat is a very good videogame, but Donkey Kong is the best Beatles Cover ever. (And the Breeders' version of Happiness Is A Warm Gun, as well as Sonic Youth's version of Within You Without You.)

By: The World Famous

The World Famous — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:35:58 -0800

Oh, and don't even get me started about the Laibach version of One After 909.

By: Navelgazer

Navelgazer — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:41:41 -0800

Wait a minute... That kid can't play guitar! (super cute, though, in all seriousness)

By: DoctorFedora

DoctorFedora — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:41:46 -0800

I'm actually sort of stunned that this hasn't been posted here yet.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:42:51 -0800

I disagree. I beg to differ with your disagreeing! But on your recommendation, I checked out Laibach's One After 909. Too obvious for me man. And the Smoke On The Water quote in the guitar solo? Uh-uh. Not smart, not even close. The wah-wah guitar toward the end sorta kinda almost redeemed it, but, too little too late.

By: amyms

amyms — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:44:27 -0800

Cute! I can't stop staring at the couch. I think it's trying to hypnotize me.

By: doctor_negative

doctor_negative — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:44:43 -0800

I wouldn't want to be there when the audience starts throwing their diapers onstage.

By: Abiezer

Abiezer — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:45:04 -0800

He even slurs his "t"s to "r"s like a Scouser!

By: jonmc

jonmc — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:46:59 -0800

I wouldn't want to be there when the audience starts throwing their diapers onstage. The GG Allin thread was a couple days ago, man. Try to keep up.

By: ND¢

ND¢ — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:47:30 -0800

That was racist.

By: ornate insect

ornate insect — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:48:25 -0800

meh. Was this an audition tape for Baby American Idol or something? He was off key, didn't play the guitar, and I found it too cloying by half. I've heard better child performers in the Russian Circus. I watched about 10 seconds, and then watched this instead.

By: The World Famous

The World Famous — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:50:49 -0800

I beg to differ with your disagreeing! I submit, then, for your consideration, The Damned.

By: binturong

binturong — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:52:23 -0800

Excellent sense of timing.

By: mattoxic

mattoxic — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:55:41 -0800

Yeah Sean Lennon, he was always more talented than Julian.

By: Challahtronix

Challahtronix — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:58:40 -0800

Between this and the Chinese MC Hammer, maybe we should look to Asia for all our Sweding outsourcing needs.

By: mattoxic

mattoxic — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:59:14 -0800

Actually best Beatles covers ever are either Laibach's Across the Universe or Jaco Pastorius' Blackbird

By: ornate insect

ornate insect — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:03:18 -0800

Beatles Cover One Beatles Cover Two

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:07:18 -0800

YAY! BEATLES COVER THREAD!! Dionne Warwick: We Can Work It Out. (WARNING: NOT BEST BEATLES COVER EVER)

By: jonmc

jonmc — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:16:54 -0800

Actually best Beatles covers ever are either Laibach's Across the Universe or Jaco Pastorius' Blackbird I'll assume you've never heard Otis Redding's 'Day Tripper,' Fats Domino's 'Lady Madonna,' Stevie Wonder's "We Can Work It Out,' Rufus Wainright's "Across The Universe,' Soundgarden's 'Come Together" Eddie hazel's "I Want You (She's So heavy)" Joe Cocker's "With a Little Help From My friends" Booker T & the MG's McLemore Avenue (an album of Beatles covers) or Bill Cosby's "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band."

By: Rock Steady

Rock Steady — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:19:07 -0800

Beatles Cover One Beatles Cover Two How did I not know that Sergio Mendes looked exactly like Abe Lincoln?

By: jonmc

jonmc — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:19:32 -0800

and Johnny Cash's 'In My Life.'

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:24:10 -0800

I'll assume you've never heard Otis Redding's 'Day Tripper,' Fats Domino's 'Lady Madonna,' Stevie Wonder's "We Can Work It Out,' Rufus Wainright's "Across The Universe,' Soundgarden's 'Come Together" Eddie hazel's "I Want You (She's So heavy)" Joe Cocker's "With a Little Help From My friends" Booker T & the MG's McLemore Avenue (an album of Beatles covers) or Bill Cosby's "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band." Yeah, go jonmc, go! As far as this, though, My God, somebody shrunk Sean lennon! I dunno, I think you maybe "shrunk" is not the word you're looking for...

By: maudlin

maudlin — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:25:23 -0800

A pile of awesome Beatles covers linked here.

By: ornate insect

ornate insect — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:27:00 -0800

Siouxsie did "Dear Prudence" but I was never fond of it. Thanks flapjax: I just watched a whole lot of bad Beatles covers on youtube b/c of this thread (the "Jazz Beatles" seemed especially bad to me: good way to ruin perfectly good pop tunes), and this was especially bad, at least in my estimation--although people on youtube seemed to like it?

By: jonmc

jonmc — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:27:01 -0800

They Shrunk and shaved him, then (actually I realized right after I hit 'post' that i should have said 'Honey, I Shrunk Sean Lennon!" Damn.) Also, Paul Westerberg's cover of 'Nowhere Man' is pretty good, too, but he does a live version of Sham 69's 'Borstal Breakout' that's kicakss.

By: paintist

paintist — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:27:30 -0800

And then he hit it big!

By: emelenjr

emelenjr — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:28:09 -0800

Not the Beatles proper, but a Lennon cover: Donny Hathaway's Jealous Guy.

By: t2urner

t2urner — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:28:59 -0800

Not the best Beatles cover ever, by any means, but...Bobby McFerrin, anyone?

By: xmutex

xmutex — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:29:03 -0800

This was actually totally annoying. Cloying by half indeed.

By: middleclasstool

middleclasstool — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:30:50 -0800

This is precisely how I intend to raise my children. That kid contains 50% more of the US RDA of Vitamin Awesome than the average kid.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:34:49 -0800

The Beatles at MetaFilter Music.

By: ornate insect

ornate insect — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:35:45 -0800

If the kid had sung "God Save the Queen" of "Ace of Spades" I might have respected him.

By: ornate insect

ornate insect — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:36:40 -0800

of/or

By: jonmc

jonmc — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:38:09 -0800

I once taught two toddlers I was baby-sitting to sing "Beat On the Brat." Do you respect me? (They thought it was funny. The same evening there was a commercial for a sixties comp featuring 'Magic Buss' the commercial showed Daltrey going 'I want it I want it I want it' which they found incredibly hilarious.)

By: Herodios

Herodios — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:41:11 -0800

I nominate Jeff Beck's cover of A Day In The Life -- though not necessarily this performance. I prefer the one on the George Martin In My Life album. Beck gets a vox humana quality out of a guitar that for me perfectly captures the emotional tone of the piece without uttering a single word.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:41:34 -0800

Do you respect me? I respect you, jon. Course, my standards aren't always the highest...

By: Ynoxas

Ynoxas — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:42:56 -0800

I know Paul McCartney has a babyface, but I'm not sure what you all are going on about. This version was at least as good as the trainwreck at the end of Live 8.

By: Herodios

Herodios — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:44:43 -0800

...Bobby McFerrin, anyone? Oh yes, please! The Voice is one of my desert island disks.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:48:19 -0800

Just in case there's anyone out there who hasn't yet heard the infamous Linda McCartney Hey Jude tape... feast your ears.

By: ornate insect

ornate insect — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:49:32 -0800

ok I just waded through a lot of utter crap beatles covers on yt, but did find this gem

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:52:39 -0800

ok I just waded through a lot of utter crap beatles covers on yt, but did find this gem That's what a good MeFite does, ornate: filters for the rest of us! Cheers!

By: davelog

davelog — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:54:13 -0800

My vote goes to Joe Pesci's cover of 'Got To Get You Into My Life'.

By: Reth_Eldirood

Reth_Eldirood — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:57:21 -0800

flapjax, I grudgingly accept your nomination for best Beatles Cover. Second Place. Third Place.

By: ornate insect

ornate insect — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:01:56 -0800

now I know what hell sounds like

By: vronsky

vronsky — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:04:00 -0800

That is weird ornate insect! I watched that Gong Show clip last night (stumbled upon it looking for something else) and was going to post it in flapjax's avant-garde thread, but then got distracted. also - oingo boingo on the Gong Show.

By: maxwelton

maxwelton — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:05:07 -0800

I dunno. I thought "The White Album" was kinda brilliant in its minimalism, but it's hard to beat Abbey Road as the iconic Beatles cover. Wait, I got this wrong again, didn't I?

By: Sailormom

Sailormom — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:10:17 -0800

Lets not forget Mr. Jake Shimabukuro.

By: vronsky

vronsky — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:11:07 -0800

Couldn't find a tube of my fave cover -- Gonzalo Rubalcaba doing "Here, There, and Everywhere" -- but here he is with John Patitucci and Jack DeJohnette playing Imagine.

By: ornate insect

ornate insect — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:15:21 -0800

for those who can stomach it, I just found one so unspeakably bad it will curdle fresh milk and give you nightmares.

By: kristinahoge

kristinahoge — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:16:34 -0800

Oldest video ever. I kinda feel like once a video passes the 2million mark we can call it viral and just watch it on the homepage of youtube.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:33:15 -0800

Some of the covers mentioned so far in this thread appear in this list from the execrable-but nonetheless-in-this-instance-handy New York Magazine: Our Ten Favorite Beatles Covers of All Time. Complete with audio excerpts for each song.

By: ornate insect

ornate insect — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:37:26 -0800

James Brown covers The Beatles - Something (1973)

By: liza

liza — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:40:48 -0800

ZOMG davelog, Pesci is one helium baloon away from chipmunk!

By: liza

liza — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:45:28 -0800

ornate insect, kylie minogue ... KYLIE MINOGUE! somethings cannot be unseen nor unheard ...

By: ornate insect

ornate insect — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:47:36 -0800

liza--yeah it's a definite "OMG, what were they thinking?" moment

By: Item

Item — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:48:02 -0800

This comment is, in its entirety, a link to a page that contains a mp3 of the only version of Hey Jude worth listening to.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:59:26 -0800

item, that version is indeed the total bomb. Sweet!

By: mattoxic

mattoxic — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:05:54 -0800

I'll assume you've never heard Otis Redding's 'Day Tripper,' Fats Domino's 'Lady Madonna,' Stevie Wonder's "We Can Work It Out,' Rufus Wainright's "Across The Universe,' Soundgarden's 'Come Together" Eddie hazel's "I Want You (She's So heavy)" Joe Cocker's "With a Little Help From My friends" Booker T & the MG's McLemore Avenue (an album of Beatles covers) or Bill Cosby's "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band." And I assume YOU have yet to hear Laibach's Across the Universe or Jaco Pastorius' Blackbird

By: buriedpaul

buriedpaul — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:09:24 -0800

Man alive does Metafilter love babies, lately.

By: ornate insect

ornate insect — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:16:42 -0800

Hey Jude on Theremin

By: ornate insect

ornate insect — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:20:23 -0800

Hey Jude on Harmonica

By: fingers_of_fire

fingers_of_fire — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:25:25 -0800

People, people, people - I really want for you to hear me. (an all too brief shining star, if you will, from an otherwise dark, dark movie)

By: ornate insect

ornate insect — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:37:40 -0800

Hey Jude by Lawrence Welk Hey Jude by John Denver

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:39:46 -0800

These guys do a passable version.

By: tellurian

tellurian — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:43:35 -0800

Elvis - Hey Jude and Yesterday.

By: vronsky

vronsky — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:24:25 -0800

This version of Blackbird by hanaregumi is very nice. Charming animation too. And an acapella version from the King's Singers.

By: pyramid termite

pyramid termite — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:28:50 -0800

no, no, no, no, no THIS is the best beatles cover of all time - in fact, it's a better job than the beatles did of it

By: Shepherd

Shepherd — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:15:10 -0800

I assume YOU have yet to hear Laibach's Across the Universe Hooray mattoxic! That's my favourite Beatles cover ever.

By: psmealey

psmealey — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:20:09 -0800

A few of my favorites from over the years:

Hüsker Dü doing justice to Ticket to Ride

Cheap Trick performing Day Tripper

Oasis doing John Lennon doing Bob Dylan on Hide Your Love Away

By: maxwelton

maxwelton — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:24:54 -0800

As long as we're talking Beatles covers, "Yesterday" is (was?) the most covered song of all time. So do the Beatles own the definitive, last word, version--or, if not, who does?

By: emf

emf — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:25:19 -0800

The Zoot – Eleanor Rigby

By: fearfulsymmetry

fearfulsymmetry — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:50:49 -0800

Thank goodness, someone finally got the Prince video up.

By: bobbyone

bobbyone — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:05:25 -0800

In a similar vein, this kinda rocks

By: greasepig

greasepig — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:55:49 -0800

maxwelton: without doing any research, I'm pretty sure it's Michael Jackson, these days.

By: Herodios

Herodios — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:31:01 -0800

I nominate this this as the best this ever. Wasn't that a great this? No wait -- not that this, this this. Actually, this this is the one true best this ever. And weren't you surprised when you clicked on that this and saw just how entertaining a this can be? I, on the other hand, will not be clicking on your this, because it might be a righteous this, but it might be mr. goatse's mtv video for all we know. ~~/cranky~~ /collicky As you were. This is a great thread.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:40:05 -0800

THIS this is the this-est this, so y'all better get with this this or this this is gonna be THAT. And brother, you do NOT want that.

By: Herodios

Herodios — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:43:20 -0800

I dunno if that this is really all that.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:45:11 -0800

Hey Jude, Don't make it that...

By: Herodios

Herodios — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:49:25 -0800

Flap, now you got me thinking a Beatles Mondegreen thread is in order. . .

By: Herodios

Herodios — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:52:26 -0800

Like: the girl with colitis goes by. . .

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:57:04 -0800

...a Beatles Mondegreen thread is in order. . . When my daughter was about 4, I taught her "When I'm 64". We listened to it a lot and we used to sing it together quite a bit. Anyway, her mondegreen for that song was: will you still be sending me a valentine, birthday greetings, buffalo wine...

By: Herodios

Herodios — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:07:14 -0800

Excellent. (lol) Perhaps too much buffalo wine contributed to the colitis.

By: Jaltcoh

Jaltcoh — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:26:58 -0800

Regina Spektor plays Real Love St. Vincent plays Dig a Pony in the back of a taxi

By: smackfu

smackfu — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:32:25 -0800

He knows the lyrics as well as I do.

By: vronsky

vronsky — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:41:08 -0800

Kate Bush -- Long and Winding Road This is a great Beatles cover (so say John and Paul) -- Esther Phillips - And I Love Him

By: quin

quin — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:57:17 -0800

I don't know about Beatles covers, but the kid about 40 seconds into this video is going to be a death-metal god one day.

By: elendil71

elendil71 — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:06:08 -0800

I think someone linked it already and commented (but I couldnt find it so here it is again), but nothing compares to Prince merging with the spirit of Jimmy Hendrix during 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps'. Un-frikken-believable.

By: ElmerFishpaw

ElmerFishpaw — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:15:54 -0800

Babies are played out. I wish people would stop breeding for a while.

By: Lucinda

Lucinda — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:19:54 -0800

My Beatles monedegreen, from when I was a kid: "Paperback Writer" = "Think about Brighton"

By: Dr-Baa

Dr-Baa — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:29:36 -0800

Best Beatles cover cover ever. Runner up.

By: monospace

monospace — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:48:17 -0800

I hate babies.

By: Sailormom

Sailormom — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:03:17 -0800

My Beatles monedegreen, from when I was a kid: Little darling I feel that acid slowly melting.

By: elfgirl

elfgirl — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:15:25 -0800

It needed a pony.

By: lazaruslong

lazaruslong — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:19:09 -0800

elendeli71, you rock for posting that. Prince owned that shit. zomg.

By: anagrama

anagrama — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:20:54 -0800

The Fall's take on A Day In The Life deserves an honourable mention, not least because it's a remarkably straight take rather than the train wreck you'd imagine.

By: The Card Cheat

The Card Cheat — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:47:18 -0800

Did someone say Beatles covers?

By: DenOfSizer

DenOfSizer — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:19:11 -0800

When actual beatles cover the Beatles, please wake me up.

By: bwg

bwg — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:54:56 -0800

Wait a minute... That kid can't play guitar! He'll grow into it.

By: cogneuro

cogneuro — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:24:07 -0800

Best worst cover. Also pretty bad. But, best 60s cosplay. The kid? "America's best home videos," which are the worst.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:27:12 -0800

I've heard Jaco's cover. It's Ok and I like Weather Report. I haven't heard laibach's cover but what I'veheard from them has been interesting but not my bag. The covers I mentioned are all excellent.

By: misanthropicsarah

misanthropicsarah — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:01:28 -0800

meh.

By: psmealey

psmealey — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:05:36 -0800

meh. posted by misanthropicsarah [+] EponyMEHrical.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:26:33 -0800

misanthropicsarah: Didn't you get the memo? A single "meh" is the laziest and lowest form of MetaFilter comment. This has been clearly established. But, as psmealey pointed out above, you are, after all, living up to your username, so it's all good.

By: snsranch

snsranch — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:28:44 -0800

Ha, that little sucker kicks ass. I knew I should have started my kids earlier!

By: Herodios

Herodios — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:24:26 -0800

Hey, Flap, I just realized I'd made a half dozen or so posts to your thread including a couple of derails and hadn't got around to actually watching the video. I just rectified that oversight. It's interesting how the kid sort of counts out time between vocal lines to avoid rushing the rhythm. (I wish I could get my brother to do that.) OK, the kid's timing is off, but he seems to have the concept and what is he, three? Maybe he'll be a singing drummer one day.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:47:38 -0800

Yay! Herodios for the win! You know, the knee jerk reaction to any toddler/little kid video like this is generally to, well, if not to dismiss it outright, is almost always to immediately just sort of file it under "cute" or "funny", and leave it at that. Only rarely do people look at something like this and actually think about it. Like Herodios, the kid's sense of timing is something that struck me immediately about this clip. It's actually pretty unusual and noteworthy. Far more normal is the tendency for tots his age to sing any song they know straight through, ignoring the pauses between lines. This kid, aside from having an above-average sense of melody, articulation and phrasing, has that sense of structure. So, yeah, anyway, it's a wee tot, and the clip is cute and funny, but I posted it here for reasons of musicality as well. And concerning all that, I was, therefore, somewhat surprised that one MeFite in particular (cough*ornateinsect*cough) dissed it straightaway.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:49:36 -0800

but he seems to have the concept and what is he, three? No, more like two, which is a huge difference developmentally and makes the performance all the more impressive.

By: Herodios

Herodios — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:16:18 -0800

OK, so I know music performance, but kids are a mystery. Thing is, I work with (adult) singers all the time who don't have the song down in their belly, and I have to coach 'em to count it out. Still working on how to get 'em to put eyebrows on. Anyway, if this kid's got timing and eyebrows at, as you say, two. . . BTW, I think Hey Jude is probably the third most boring Beatles song, which is why I didn't follow the first this until after some discussion ensued.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:20:57 -0800

the third most boring Beatles song One and two being?

By: Herodios

Herodios — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:28:53 -0800

By: ornate insect

ornate insect — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:31:39 -0800

somewhat surprised that one MeFite in particular (cough*ornateinsect*cough) dissed it straightaway. I'm no scrooge, but there's a point where cute turns to saccharine. Sorry. But I ended up enjoying what the thread became, so there's the silver lining.

By: Herodios

Herodios — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:35:38 -0800

Oops -- how did that happen? One and two being? Anyway, Scrambled Eggs probably goes in the #2 slot, and #1 is: The long And boring song, (dunt dah) That Paul wrote, This morning (da da da daaaaaaaa) . . .

By: Herodios

Herodios — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:38:06 -0800

Baroque Bug: It has turned out to be a particularly rewarding thread overall.

By: Herodios

Herodios — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:40:14 -0800

Oh, and don't go blaming Phil Spectre. It's not the arrangement that makes it boring.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:44:39 -0800

Love your spelling of Phil's last name, very appropriate, actually. And, no, I certainly wouldn't blame Phil. I've read where Paul was angry over his string arrangement on The Wrong and Whining Toad, but I've heard the pre-Spectre version and I don't think it's any better.

By: Herodios

Herodios — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:47:37 -0800

spelling of Phil's last name An oblique obscure homage to In His Own Write.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:50:02 -0800

Aha! It was punster Lennon you nabbed that one from!

By: Herodios

Herodios — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:12:22 -0800

No flies on Frank, inspectre.

By: dasheekeejones

dasheekeejones — Thu, 01 May 2008 10:04:31 -0800

The kid looks like a talking Maria Elena Milagro "Helen" de Hoyos

By: LeLiLo

LeLiLo — Thu, 01 May 2008 23:28:34 -0800

I was really enjoying this thread until Kylie Minogue...AAAGGH!!!... showed up. Even turning that off as quickly as possible left true psychic damage, I'm sure. Meanwhile, that little kid way back at the beginning of all this really does have excellent, even surprising timing. And also has the good sense to keep the nah-nah-nahs at 15 seconds or so, to bring the song in at 1:42. The original is at least twice as long as it should be (which actually makes it more like an Oasis tune), and indeed, because of that, is one of the most boring Beatles songs ever. (Along with, yes, Herodios is right again, "The Long and Boring Road.") As for classic Beatles covers, other people may have done one, but Joe Cocker did a whole bunch. Also, I'm surprised no one seems to have mentioned the dogs... p.s. That African version was pretty good too; thanks, item. And thanks too, ornate insect, for including Brasil '66. Reminds me that I really liked them, oh, 42 years ago. (And, diving further into youtube, I was surprised to find that at least once, Donovan sat in with them.)

By: Herodios

Herodios — Fri, 02 May 2008 06:09:36 -0800

As for classic Beatles covers, other people may have done one, but Joe Cocker did a whole bunch. Now there's a cat who puts eyebrows on a project. Joe Cocker's cover of With A Little Help From My Friends is a very different tune from the original. He even goes so far as to shift it from shuffle-y 4/4 to a heavy 3/4 -- an acid waltz, perhaps? If you've ever seen the film of Joe Cocker singing this tune with Mad Dogs and Englishment and Leon Russell on guitar (I'm sure it's on youtube, you can tube it yourself if you're interested) you'll notice a couple things: 1) That cat is totally fried, sunny side up. B) But he's totally in control of his own performance and that of the band (a big one). We'd been given the impression over the years that Leon Russell was some sort of svengali who stole the show (and briefly, the career) from Cocker, but it doesn't show in that performance. And as this tune is arguably the last true collaboration between Lennon and McCartney, I wonder what each thought of this cover at the time. -

By: LeLiLo

LeLiLo — Fri, 02 May 2008 13:53:17 -0800

I'm sure it's on youtube Right here. Nice to see it again, too. The same song, the same guy at Woodstock.

By: LeLiLo

LeLiLo — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:02:37 -0800

you'll notice a couple things: 1) That cat is totally fried, sunny side up. Off-topic: over the years I grew to think of Cocker's singing style as 'normal,' but the other day, following up a reference in a book I was reading, I saw David Thomas of Pere Ubu for the first time. "Now that guy is weird," I said to myself.

By: psmealey

psmealey — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:38:01 -0800

As for classic Beatles covers, other people may have done one, but Joe Cocker did a whole bunch. That particular one is a gem. Since it was a Ringo song, I had assumed that, for the Beatles it was a throw-away tune (it was a B-side to Sgt. Pepper single), but Cocker totally fucking owns it. I think his studio version is only pretty good, but the live version from Scorsese's Woodstock documentary blows doors off of cars and melts paint. It rocks. It's kind of funny to me that such a famous singer would cover a tune by an even more famous band, when the song had only been out for a handful of years. Ray Charles, Wes Montgomery and countless other jazz guys covered tons of Lennon/McCartney songs in short order as well. I guess it still occasionally happens today, but you almost seem to have to wait an artistically acceptable length of time to cover a song. I'm not sure if this is due to licensing issues being different (ASPCAP, BMI, etc.) or if it's an issue of taste. In my bands, the rule about doing covers was that they always needed to be at least 10 years old, and even then, it had to be relatively obscure one (like "Glittering Girl" as opposed to "I Can't Explain", or "Dead Flowers" instead of "Jumping Jack Flash"). We did, however throw in "Blank Generation" just to confound the suburbanites, they always told us it was a great version of "Stray Cat Strut".

By: Sailormom

Sailormom — Fri, 02 May 2008 20:41:38 -0800

It's kind of funny to me that such a famous singer would cover a tune by an even more famous band, when the song had only been out for a handful of years. Jimi Hendrix played Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band live (with Paul McCartney and George Harrison in the audience) only three days after the Beatles had released the album. But thats Jimi Hendrix.