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6 December 2012
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My mom recently remarked that Regina Spektor’s song “Patron Saint” is a bit Beatles-ish. I’m not sure I entirely agree with her, though.
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14 February 2013
Offline Klaatu is my pick too! I thought that song was a Beatles song when I first heard it!
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8 November 2012
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Tears for Fears’ 1989 worldwide Top 10 hit, Sowing the Seeds of Love.
When TFF reunited in the 200s, they released an album called “Everybody Loves a Happy Ending” that’s even more insanely Beatlesque than “Seeds of Love,” with deliberate musical and lyrical references to songs such as “A Day In The Life ” (right down to the alarm clock), “Come Together ,” “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds ,” to name a few. When they performed one of their songs live, Roland Orzabal segued a bit into “Let ‘Em In.”
It can get a bit tiring, actually. But if you’re in the right mood, it’s a nice tribute and it’s fun to spot the references. During my Beatles hiatus years, I became a TFF fan, and I’m sure I wouldn’t appreciate The Beatles half as much as I do now if it weren’t for them.
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6.48am
1 November 2012
Offline I kind of intended this topic to be referencing bands that aren’t necessarily trying to sound Beatles-ish, but just do anyway — rather than those like Klaatu that seem to be going out of their way to do so.
But that’s okay; I’m not a Topic Nazi…
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16 August 2012
Offline Here’s one then: My friends in SLOAN. All four guys write, sing and play multiple instruments. Each album is usually 12 songs, so each member gets 4 tracks each. There have been no lineup changes in their 20-year history and their music could best be defined as “power pop”, although every album covers multiple styles.
This video is definitely more of a Rolling Stones vibe, but here’s “Coax Me”:
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21 November 2012
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That’s a cool song, though I don’t find them necessarily Beatley sounding. I love the song though. It’s kind of relaxing.
I had never heard of Klaatu before, but that song could easily have fit on Pepper. The guy kinda sounds like Paul, doesn’t he? Awesome song too.
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Offline MY word that ELO song is terrible. Sounds like bad Status Quo and their best material is unlistenable crap (in my opinion).
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Sure would hate to hear Status Quo’s WORST material, then…
I like a lot of ELO (including “Don’t Bring Me Down”, which isn’t anywhere near their best) but never cared for Jeff Lynne’s lead vocals – never thought he had any character in his voice. And I don’t even like his production methods much, even though I certainly should.
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21 November 2012
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Meh I only know about a handful of ELO songs, and I quite like them, but they’re not that special, except for Mr Blue Sky, that one always gives me a certain feeling.
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Offline Im not even that big a fan of Mr Blue Sky, I just don’t see the fuss over it.
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10.11am
26 March 2012
Offline I don’t particularly love ELO either. Jeff Lynne’s major trick seems to be trying as hard as he can to evoke a Beatles vibe, then turning it into a quasi-operatic over-compressed production-fest. That said, I am fond of “Telephone Line”, which is absurdly melodramatic and overblown but the pre-chorus and chorus melody just really get me.
And as for other artists who sound like the Beatles, there’s Emitt Rhodes, who has been referred to as the “one-man Beatles” although a more apt title would be “McCartney-lite.” His self-titled album was released in 1970 and he played all the instruments and sang all the harmonies himself. Vocally he also sounds a LOT like Paul. Considering that he was only 20 years old when he made the album, it is rather impressive – he has a serious ear for melody and there are a few tunes on it that I really enjoy. Sadly they are difficult to find on the internet so I’ll post a few that I could find on YouTube…
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3.56pm
14 December 2009
Offline I found an Emitt Rhodes anthology just last year, a 2CD set featuring all four of his solo albums! I remember posting something to the effect that “he even outdid Paul himself, as far as 1970 play-everything-yourself pop-rock albums go”, but in retrospect I’ve come to appreciate McCartney more than previously – Emitt’s record is less eccentric, he’s not trying to create odd instrumentals or sound experiments. His later albums sound even less Macca-like.
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26 March 2012
Offline I’ve not heard any of his later stuff, just the self-titled – are the other albums any good?
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10.06am
21 November 2012
Offline Hmm those songs aren’t bad at all. I quite like them and he does sound a teeny tiny bit like Paul. Which isn’t a bad thing. The songs themselves don’t really sound Beatles-ish to me though.
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16 August 2012
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17 January 2013
Offline I really don’t get how ELO sounds like The Beatles at all. Am I missing something here?
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1.12pm
16 August 2012
Offline Once you get past the overproduction, Jeff Lynne was a HUGE fan of the Beatles and used a lot of their ideas for chord progressions and song styles with ELO.
He also became one of the Travelling Wilburys, produced the Anthology reunion songs and worked with George extensively during the 1990s. So some of the comparisons might even be retroactive.
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