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The best Beatles covers (other musicians covering Beatles songs)
23 May 2014
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Great cover of Dig A Pony by St. Vincent, never heard of her before this, her music is nothing Id be interested in unless she did more of this, but really great cover. I love how she’s comes back into the verse from the solo.

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^^ Her performance on SNL was visually interesting, but I couldn’t get into her music. But that’s a good one. 

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I wonder how much of kick John would have gotten to see a new artist cover Dig A Pony , a song he never rated and called garbage, 40 years after it was recorded. I also wonder how many in the audience knew it was a Beatles track as that is one deep cut.

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parlance said

^^ Her performance on SNL was visually interesting, but I couldn’t get into her music. But that’s a good one. 

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Like I said, her music I don’t think I’d enjoy, but I really like that cover. I knew she was on SNL, but don’t watch too much TV, I’ll have to look up the performance.

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I wonder how much of kick John would have gotten to see a new artist cover Dig A Pony , a song he never rated and called garbage, 40 years after it was recorded. I also wonder how many in the audience knew it was a Beatles track as that is one deep cut.

He’d definately find it amusing! And probably not too many.

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In 1966, the consummate guitarist Chet Atkins (died in 2001) put out a cleverly titled album, Chet Atkins Picks on the Beatles.

The idea was good, but I find his playing on that album uninspired, compared with so much other solid gold he put out in later years.

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That reminds me that I need to hear The Supremes’ 1964 Beatles/Merseybeat tribute album A Bit of Liverpool someday. Even if it sucks, the cover photo is classic.

GEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty. 

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I wasn’t aware that he had ever done a cover of this song until today.  This particular recording of it is done in a medley with Robert Johnson’s “I Believe I’ll Dust My Broom.”  There was another version of Rory playing this song on youtube that wasn’t a medley, but the sound quality was terrible.

 

EDIT: For some reason or other, the video isn’t embedding, but that link should be correct.

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I wasn’t expecting to like this one, but I do – Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’66 covering Norwegian Wood :

 

 

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Annadog40 said
My favorite Revolution 9 cover

 

 

Yoko needs to see this. I think John would have approved.

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Annadog40 said My favorite Revolution 9 cover  

  Yoko needs to see this. I think John would have approved. parlance
@parlance Wait a second. How do you cover Revolution 9 ? It’s a collage of sounds! How do you replicate that? a-hard-days-night-ringo-4a-hard-days-night-ringo-4a-hard-days-night-ringo-4

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That cover is a hoot and a half!

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Re the above Revolution 9 cover video, it must have been so much fun to do, its certainly fun to watch. John would have totally loved that.

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Seemed to be the best place for this… Examiner article on five Weird Al covers/song references.

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Hello friends! Good night! Tell me what you think! I prefer a thousand times the original but I think this was excellent! For me, they are the ones that most closely Beatles here in Brazil. A hug and even more!

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a-hard-days-night-ringo-8 Very nice. They are quite enthusiastic about their work.

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I hope it hasn’t been mentionned yet but I think the Franz Ferdinand’s cover of It won’t be long is super cool, I know a lot of people dislike it but I really like the punky vibe to it and if you know them, it really has a FF touch. I also like Tom Odell’s cover to Oh Darling, it’s just very lovely and with a lot of feelings inside it.

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I love it! It is very amazing !! The Beatles is all and in all! What do you think?

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