Thanks for posting this, Purd Werfect, I think it’s my new favorite Beatles cover!
Not covers, but remixes that I actually like more than I like the original (and it’s one of my favorite Beatles songs, so there’s that):
Come Together (SirCular Remix)
Come Together (David Starfire Remix)
Bette Midler-In My Life
A great cover of Baba O’Riley sequeing into Tomorrow Never Knows by the Greatful Dead. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaZL5QYb5z8
That was my answer. They really rock out on the “Mother superior jumped the gun” part.
I love Lol Coxhill’s version of I am the Walrus, probably the strangest version of a Beatles song ever recorded.
Funny. I woke up this morning with Billy Preston’s arrangement of “Blackbird” in my ears. Before going out for a run, while waiting for my friend, I tried to remember some of it more concretely.
One of the best covers ever. Certainly up there in Beatles covers.
Well, that and Laibach’s “Get Back.”
Can’t find a working link, but The Jam did a rocking version of And Your Bird Can Sing.
The Alice Cooper version of “Because” (on the otherwise horrible '76 Sgt. Peppers movie soundtrack) is quite wonderful!
Ray Charles also did a very good version of “Elanor Rigby.”
He’s also done a cover of While My Guitar Gently Weeps in tandem with violinist Charles Yang that is unbelievable. (The latter of which, by the way, also does an amazing cover of Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean.)
I’ve also always liked Rod Stewart’s cover of Get Back.
I have heard it said about dog lovers that a true dog lover would never just go out and buy a new dog to replace a dog that had died or disappeared.
I think that may also apply to Beatle songs in that a true lover of The Beatles would never love or like or even want to listen to a Beatles song that was sung by anyone else.
I know many people will say that is just stupid and that if someone can make good music … well … good music is good music after all.
But the way I feel about it is that I loved the Beatles and still do love their music and I have absolutely no interest in hearing any of their songs performed by anyone else.
If anyone else wants to display their own talent, let them write their own songs or let them record any songs they like. But, if it’s a Beatles song, I just don’t want to hear it.
P.S. My feeling also applies to any songs by Lennon or Harrison. I don’t care for any of McCartney’s post-Beatles music. I consider it to be almost all style with very little substance. Give me Lennon’s Working Class Hero (that has almost zero music) over any shit performed by Wings any day.
I don’t intend any offense to anyone else or any other musicians. My love for The Beatles is just so strong, I can’t find any room for anyone else singing their music.
This must be one of the earliest - and weirdest - Beatles covers: Peter Sellers recitation ofA Hard Days Night. The 1965 television show “The Music of Lennon and McCartney” featured a brilliant recitation of “A Hard Day’s Night” by Peter Sellers as channeled through Laurence Olivier’s performance of Shakespeare’s “Richard III”.
I’ll see your Peter Sellers recitation and raise you another: Peter Sellers as Dr. Strangelove reciting She Loves You as a conversation with Der Führer. I used to love hearing this on Dr. Demento, and the animation that Meliss did is excellent.
On preview: sorry about the ad, but the quality is better than what they posted to youtube.
3/1/69…the Dead’s encore cover of “Hey Jude”…Pig’s melodious rendition has never been duplicated! ;)/Katie
I can’t believe I read all this. What a waste of time.
A lot of good covers in this thread. I really like the Shiina Ringo one and I came in to suggest The Feelies.
Instead I will submit Paul McCartney covering his own I’ve Just Seen a Face, in a faster version: Link
Elanor Rigby by Ethel The Frog
This.
Quite possibly the best cover of any Beatles song ever.