This is quite possibly my least favorite song ever, not just my least-favorite Beatles song.
I've always disliked that song. The damned thing never ends.
You know, it's funny. We went to war never looking to come back, but it's the real world I couldn't survive.
Tracy ,'The Message'
Buffista Music II: Wrath of Chaka Khan
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
DXMachina - Apr 20, 2005 2:47:04 pm PDT #8306 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
joe boucher - Apr 20, 2005 2:47:23 pm PDT #8307 of 10003
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine
For people covering the Beatles...
Jeff Beck's cover of "She's a Woman" on Blow by Blow is pretty great -- and both versions were produced by George Martin!
Someone doesn't like U2
Proof that the internet is a fun way to kill time, ch. 1,678,921: U2 hater provides a handy French translation for some reason. Couldn't let that pass without popping it into Babelfish, now could I?
- "When U2 did it leave a tube for the last time?"
- "Whore of assholes which tell it..."
- "Can be that U2 would be less to shit if they stopped a little playing the donors of lesson and that they started to tear a little."
Sorry to run, but like U2, I too must leave a tube, not for the last time I hope.
JZ - Apr 20, 2005 2:57:39 pm PDT #8308 of 10003
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Siouxsie does a lovely "Dear Prudence."
t re-lurkety
tina f. - Apr 20, 2005 3:52:34 pm PDT #8309 of 10003
Beatles covers I like:
Joe Cocker's "With a Little Help from My Friends" (hearing it every week at the beginning of the Wonder Years did nothing to diminish my love for it either)
Fiona Apple's "Across the Universe"
Eddie Vedder's "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"
U2's "Helter Skelter"
Phish used to do tons of Beatles covers, once playing the entire White album in order. But they do an especially lovely "Blackbird."
I used to have a tape of XTC doing "Strawberry Fields Forever" from a radio show. Great.
I found a somewhat comprehensive if not hard to read list of Beatles covers (including covers that the Beatles performed) here.
God, who knew there were SO many reggae Beatles tribute albums?
Sue - Apr 20, 2005 3:56:54 pm PDT #8310 of 10003
hip deep in pie
I love the Laibach Let it Be, especiually their surprising "Across the Universe."
Lyra Jane - Apr 20, 2005 4:01:52 pm PDT #8311 of 10003
Up with the sun
Someone doesn't like U2:
I think that guy used to have a different page about how much he hates U2. I don't get the appeal of making a hate page, but I applaud his persistence.
Fred Pete - Apr 20, 2005 4:40:23 pm PDT #8312 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
I've always disliked that song. The damned thing never ends.
My sentiments exactly, except the Beatles song is "Hey Jude."
Covers? Props to the Carpenters' "Ticket to Ride" and Anne Murray's "I'm Happy Just to Dance with You." I know a lot of people don't share my love of such soft rock, but credit for completely re-imagining the originals.
DXMachina - Apr 20, 2005 4:52:32 pm PDT #8313 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Joe Cocker's "With a Little Help from My Friends"
I've been tempted to stick knitting needles in my ears to avoid listening to Joe Cocker.
Alicia K - Apr 20, 2005 5:35:41 pm PDT #8314 of 10003
Uncertainty could be our guiding light.
I fart in that U2-hating guy's general direction.
(But I think I chuckled while reading it. Once. Maybe.)
Tom Scola - Apr 20, 2005 5:37:07 pm PDT #8315 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I'm tempted to say that The Feelies' "Everybody's Got Something To Hide (Except for Me and My Monkey)" is my favorite, but the cover of "Hey Jude" by the African band Agassai is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard. (real audio here)