help me think of covers of Beatles songs

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I love making creative playlists on my Ipod, and the other day I thought, how about one of Beatles cover songs? I already have a few on my computer, but not enough to make a good playlist. Here’s what I have so far:

The soundtrack to I Am Sam.
“With a Little Help” by Joe Cocker
“Lucy in the Sky” by Elton John
“Yesterday” by Boyz II Men
“Let it Be” by BeatleJazz
“Got to Get You Into My Life” by Earth, Wind and Fire
“Come Together” by Aerosmith

I’d like to include as many different music styles as possible, so suggestions from different eras, like the 80s, would be especially appreciated. Thank you.

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“Because” - Elliott Smith

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Rain by Shonen Knife?
Come Together by Michael Jackson?
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds by William Shatner?
Something by Frank Sinatra?
Across the Universe by Davide Bowie?
With a Little Help from my Friends by Sergio Mendes?
Not a Second Time by Robert Palmer?
Strawberry Fields Forever by Peter Gabriel?

Plenty more where that came from?

http://www.coversproject.com/artist/beatles

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Don’t forget Beatallica!

http://www.beatallica.org/

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The soundtrack to Sargent Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band.
The Aerosmith version of Come Together is pretty good and Steve Martin doing Maxwell’s Silver Hammer is fun.

The best version of Yesterday is by Ray Charles.

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One of the best Beatles covers, ever, is Tomorrow Never Knows by Danielle Dax off of her Blast the Human Flower CD. Great album, too, BTW.

Laibach also did a cover of almost the entire Let It Be album (minus the title track for some reason), that’s just bizarro good.

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Emmylou Harris did a nice cover of Here, There and Everywhere

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Siouxsie and the Banshees did a pretty good cover of Dear Prudence.

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How could you forget Grandaddy’s cover of Revolution?

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OK, actually you didn’t forget it, it’s on the I am Sam soundtrack. Carry on.

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Rare Earth - “Eleanor Rigby”
Jeff Beck - “She’s A Woman”
Gov’t Mule - “She Said She Said”
Deep Purple - “Help”
Jimi Hendrix - “Day Tripper”
Black Oak Arkansas - “Taxman”
Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush - “Norwegian Wood”
Zero - “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)”
Jeff Healey - “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”
Michael Hedges - “Come Together”
Richie Havens - “Here Comes The Sun”
Buddy Rich - “Norwegian Wood”

George Martin released an entire CD of covers worth hearing (In My Life). It contains gems such as Robin Williams and Bobby McFerrin doing “Come Together”, Jim Carrey doing “I Am The Walrus” and Sean Connery doing “In My Life”. It’s not as bad or weird as it sounds. It’s got some surprisingly great music on it.

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There are way too many Beatles covers that sound very similar to the original. Those bore me. Covers should be different.
Like:

Depeche Mode - Dressed in Black

Stereo Total - Tu Peux Conduire Ma Bagnole (Drive my car)

Pain - Eleanor Rigby

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Alison Krauss has a beautiful version of I Will.

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Joan Baez does a very nice cover of Let It Be.

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Beatle Country by the Charles River Valley Boys. I’ve got the 1966 LP by this Boston-based bluegrass/old timey group.

Now available on CD. Excellent versions of a dozen Beatle tunes.

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The Jam covered And Your Bird Can Sing…it can be found on their outtakes album Extras

The Rolling Stones covered I Wanna Be Your Man

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A surfer guitarist named Johnny A does a great rendition of “Yes It Is.” It’s my favorite song on the album.

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Wilson Pickett’s “Hey Jude.”

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“I am the Walrus” by Lol Cohill. The weirdest song ever.

“You Can’t Do That” by Harry Nillson. The cleverest Beatles cover ever. Not only a cover of the title song, but of about 20 other Beatles songs, too. The Beatles loved it.

Vanilla Fudge gave their trademarked “slow and heavy” treatment to “Eleanor Rigby”

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Fiona Apples “Across the Unvierse” is pretty good.

Stars on 45’s Beatles medley…exists.