About a Girl/ the beatles

Jeffrey Margrave

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Nov 3, 1994, 7:32:16 PM11/3/94

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Daniel Pearce (remo...@RTD.COM) wrote:
: Has anyone noticed that About A Girl sounds very beatles like???

sounds like it should have been in the movie _help!_ for that matter.....

remember, beatles like is a rather vague term......

--lbh

who

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Nov 3, 1994, 9:07:59 PM11/3/94

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Daniel Pearce (remo...@RTD.COM) wrote:
: Has anyone noticed that About A Girl sounds very beatles like???

Yes, it does! I mentioned it to a few of my friends and we all agree. It
is very strange. It sounds as if it were a remake of an early-Beatles song.
But let's not begin comparing the two groups.

Leigh Hancock

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Nov 4, 1994, 12:27:16 AM11/4/94

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It /does/ Sound like The Beatles circa "Help!" It sounds, in fact,
like the song "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away."

Stephen A Schuster

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Nov 6, 1994, 2:31:11 PM11/6/94

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In article <39bveg$j...@mark.ucdavis.edu>,

True. AAG actually is pretty Lennon-like.

Steve

Stephen A Schuster

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Nov 6, 1994, 2:33:44 PM11/6/94

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In article <he3X7zE....@delphi.com>,

Which was Lennon doing his best Bob Dylan imitation.

Steve

Jeffrey Margrave

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Nov 9, 1994, 2:10:36 AM11/9/94

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Stephen A Schuster (rai...@world.std.com) wrote:

: Jeffrey Margrave <ez04...@rocky.ucdavis.edu> wrote:
: >Daniel Pearce (remo...@RTD.COM) wrote:
: >: Has anyone noticed that About A Girl sounds very beatles like???
: >
: >sounds like it should have been in the movie _help!_ for that matter.....
: >
: >remember, beatles like is a rather vague term......

: True. AAG actually is pretty Lennon-like.

hmmm, i think it's more mccartney-like. of course, during the beatles
lennon often sounded mccartney-like too. and verse visa.

but as long as it's not ringo like.....

--lbh

Sherm

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Nov 9, 1994, 10:09:04 PM11/9/94

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I always thought that parts of All Apologies sounds very 60's, with
the sixties rock cliche of the way Kurt says "Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah at the end
of the second verse.

Peace
Love
Empathy
--Sherm

Stephen A Schuster

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Nov 10, 1994, 9:22:45 AM11/10/94

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In article <39pslc$f...@mark.ucdavis.edu>,

I heard "Things We Said Today" (a McCartney lead) on the radio
last night and thought it to be a great prototype for AAG.
Have a listen and update it in your mind to Kurt singing.
Would have been a great Nirvana cover.

SAS

James Christopher Morley

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Nov 10, 1994, 9:17:49 PM11/10/94

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That was definately my impression. AAG does sound like the Beatles. I
think I saw something on Kurt where he said or it was said that he loved
the Beatles as a kid. In particular, he liked the Rubber Soul album.

Does "Serve the Servants" remind anyone else of "Day Tripper"? Or at
least some other Rubber Soul era Beatles.
Jimi

haw...@infodude.com

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Nov 11, 1994, 9:53:14 AM11/11/94

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IR>who (jo...@phantom.com) wrote:
IR>: Daniel Pearce (remo...@RTD.COM) wrote:
IR>: : Has anyone noticed that About A Girl sounds very beatles like???

IR>: Yes, it does! I mentioned it to a few of my friends and we all agree. It
IR>: is very strange. It sounds as if it were a remake of an early-Beatles song
IR>: But let's not begin comparing the two groups.

Hmmmmm, maybe Nirvana wan't from Seatle (sp).......

IR>Have no intention of comparing the two... Apples and Oranges... :)

IR>But it struck me funny that it had a beatles rythm and feel... I love the
IR>song...

IR>RW... Of course the Beatle's
member of GATB!!! were the better of the bands

IR>Our motto:
IR>GA is IDDG! :)
IR>I go ga ga over GA! ;)

-Haw...@infodude.com

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Vijay Ramanujan

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Nov 12, 1994, 8:02:12 PM11/12/94

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In article <39pslc$f...@mark.ucdavis.edu> Jeffrey Margrave,

ez04...@bullwinkle.ucdavis.edu writes:
>hmmm, i think it's more mccartney-like. of course, during the beatles
>lennon often sounded mccartney-like too. and verse visa.
>
>
>but as long as it's not ringo like.....

About A Girl sounded to me like the Let It Be era Beatles - with things
like I've Got A Feeling (Everybody had a ...) and others, although the
Things We Said Today comparison holds as well. The thing about sounding
like Lennon or McCartney is that, in the end, a lot of McCartney songs
would be altered by Lennon throwing in tid bits, and vice versa. There
was a definite sound that the two of them combined to make that neither
of them had on his own. That sound is what reminds me of About A Girl.

As for Serve The Servants, it sounds kind of like a Harrison song. In
fact, Bleach and In Utero sound to me a lot like Beatles meet Velvet
Underground or something, especially In Utero.

gac...@delphi.com

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Nov 15, 1994, 1:41:05 AM11/15/94

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Daniel Pearce <remo...@RTD.COM> writes:

>Has anyone noticed that About A Girl sounds very beatles like???

My brother and I have said for since we heard it for the first time
that it sounds like the Beatles. Our two favorite all time groups are the
Beatles and Nirvana. They are just about all we listen to. Those to groups
have shaped modern music more than any others. Gachamp

gac...@delphi.com

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Nov 15, 1994, 1:47:16 AM11/15/94

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Jeffrey Margrave <ez04...@bullwinkle.ucdavis.edu> writes:

>: True. AAG actually is pretty Lennon-like.
>
>hmmm, i think it's more mccartney-like. of course, during the beatles
>lennon often sounded mccartney-like too. and verse visa.
>
>
>but as long as it's not ringo like.....

HEY! Don't be dissin Ringo! What about Octopus's Garden?
-Gachamp

gac...@delphi.com

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Nov 15, 1994, 1:51:28 AM11/15/94

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Vijay Ramanujan <Vijay.R...@umich.edu> writes:

>About A Girl sounded to me like the Let It Be era Beatles - with things
>like I've Got A Feeling (Everybody had a ...) and others, although the

Let it be!?! Give me a break! It's MUCH more Rubber Soulish.

P.S. - I would have loved to hear Nirvana sing Across The Universe.

-Gachamp

Jeffrey Margrave

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Nov 18, 1994, 11:41:14 PM11/18/94

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gac...@delphi.com wrote:
: Jeffrey Margrave <ez04...@bullwinkle.ucdavis.edu> writes:
:
: HEY! Don't be dissin Ringo! What about Octopus's Garden?

well, it's okay but ringo shouldn't be the archetype around which
anything is built.

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Leigh Hancock

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Nov 20, 1994, 6:14:58 PM11/20/94

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Stephen A Schuster <rai...@world.std.com> writes:

>>
>> It /does/ Sound like The Beatles circa "Help!" It sounds, in fact,
>>like the song "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away."
>
>Which was Lennon doing his best Bob Dylan imitation.

Actually, there is a song by the Beatles on the Rubber Soul LP called
"A Girl." Coincidence or....???? Similarl, the "she said, she said"
chorus on Breed reminds me of the Beatles song, "She Said, She Said" on their
Revolver LP. Coincidence or..????

WAYCORE

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Nov 21, 1994, 4:32:26 PM11/21/94

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Leigh Hancock <step...@delphi.com> writes:

> Actually, there is a song by the Beatles on the Rubber Soul LP called
>"A Girl." Coincidence or....???? Similarl, the "she said, she said"
>chorus on Breed reminds me of the Beatles song, "She Said, She Said" on their

Actually the song is called "Girl" and the lyrical content preceding the
"She Said" on Breed is what she said. "we can havel all three" all three
beinghaving to breed, planting a house and building a tree. Genius