Songs you thought were by the Beatles
Edwin Blassett
to mind is "Lies" by the Knickerbockers and some of Badfinger's songs.
Any ideas?
SMerri1109
>to mind is "Lies" by the Knickerbockers and some of Badfinger's songs.
>Any ideas?
>
always thought it was a Beatle's tune, and have never fully recovered from the
ridicule I've received because of this :)
Stacie
Charlie Reinhart
wrote:
>I'm trying to compile a CD of good Beatles imitations. Stuff that comes
>to mind is "Lies" by the Knickerbockers and some of Badfinger's songs.
>Any ideas?
One that I never hear mentioned, but I remember from the late sixties
is: "Love Heals" by Colours. Anyone remember this one?
When I first heard "Money" by Pink Floyd, I thought it was Paul
McCartney, although I don't hear it now. Don't forget "Money", at the
time, was a complete departure for Floyd and didn't sound like
anything else they had done.
Charlie Reinhart
Rush3671
McCartney that I'd never heard until I found out the real story...
Pink Floyd's "Remember a Day" has always put me in the mind of that trippy
little bass/piano section on the fadeout of "Magical Mystery Tour."
Adrian M. Rush
Jeff
You are probably aware that some people hate
"Go all the way" by the raspberries. I have always loved that song. Sure
they had Beatles
influences but were still original in their own way too. Some of their
stuff is like a
Harrison/MCcartney song if they would ever do
one together.
Eramon1
It's on an album that I won't buy because of the cover. Now *there* was some
bad marketing!
-Eric Ramon
Portland, Oregon
AWRuss
Also, Sewing the seeds of love is very beatleish as is:
More than words - extreme
Jeff
bit like "Hey Jude"
David Goodwin
<b...@bob.co.uk> wrote:
>I'm trying to compile a CD of good Beatles imitations. Stuff that comes
>to mind is "Lies" by the Knickerbockers and some of Badfinger's songs.
>Any ideas?
>
Although this isn't strictly an imitation, I've always been amazed on
how Beatlish this song is:
"Anyway the Wind Blows" by the MOI, on Freak Out!
Now, I'm not sure if Frank was parodying the Beatles directly (as it
appears earlier and later as sort of a Motown-ish thing) but the
arrangement on this version...the electric guitar "catch", the rhyming
of "Blue/True/You", the way the harmony vocals are done...just VERY
accurate. And, if Frank was ATTEMPTING this, a brilliant parody of the
early Beatles.
David
Jimswan
always thought it was a Beatle's tune, and have never fully recovered from the
ridicule I've received because of this :)
>>
It was "Stuck In The Middle With You" by Steeler's Wheel, who by the way
contained Gerry Rafferty, who went on to have the smaksh solo hit "Baker
Street'. But I'll bet you knew that.
regards, Jim
KEVLANG
>(Also try "Bike Ride to the Moon" by XTC/Dukes -- slightly more generic
Ok, I5 was onto something here. The Dukes of Stratosphear is XTC's tribute to
the 60s.
The Mole From the Ministry and Shiny Cage are two other Beatle influenced songs
on the same disc. Shiny Cage is very Revolver-like and The Mole is
Walrus/Strawberry Fields-like.
XTC's Here Comes President Kill Again off of the Oranges and Lemons disc is
very much influenced by the White Album.
The song other than Steeler's Wheel's
"Stuck in the middle with you" that I thought was Beatles-like in the early
70's was a song called "I Can Help", which sounded like Ringo. Who sang it?
People have asked me before if it's the Beatles.
Can anyone help me on that one?
Kevin L.
DaftChris8
>I always thought it was a Beatle's tune, and have never fully recovered
>from the ridicule I've received because of this :)
>>>
>
>
I never recovered from the ridicule I've recieved for insisting it WASN'T a
Beatles song.
I was a brand-spankin' new fan, and my mom, two of my aunts, and one of my
uncles ALL insisted it was a Beatles song. All I could say was, "no, it's
not." I wonder if they'd dare try that on me now.
--
Christine
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They could be in Miami, smuggling Cuban immigrants across the border."
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b...@bob.co.uk wrote:
> I'm trying to compile a CD of good Beatles imitations. Stuff that comes
> to mind is "Lies" by the Knickerbockers and some of Badfinger's songs.
> Any ideas?
>
"Red chair fade away" by the Bee Gees
"Tuesday afternoon" by Stonecake
A lot of ELO songs.
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SMerri1109
>I
>always thought it was a Beatle's tune, and have never fully recovered from
>the
>ridicule I've received because of this :)
>>>
>
>
>contained Gerry Rafferty, who went on to have the smaksh solo hit "Baker
>Street'. But I'll bet you knew that.
>regards, Jim
>
>
>
and "Baker Street". As a matter of fact, I didn't even know who Steeler's
Wheel was when I heard the song. I guess that's why I was ridiculed so badly
:) Learn something new everyday...especially here.
Stacie
Jud McCranie
>I'm trying to compile a CD of good Beatles imitations. Stuff that comes
>to mind is "Lies" by the Knickerbockers and some of Badfinger's songs.
If you include solos, then I thought that the Hudson Brothers "So you
are a star" was Paul when I first heard it.
Jud McCranie
and...@webtv.net
remind me of them...they had a certain "Beatley" quality to 'em... at
least to me they did.
Nilsson - "Me and My Arrow"
Marmalade - "Reflections of My Life"
Hotlegs - "Neanderthal Man"
The first time I heard Badfinger's "No Matter What" I couldn't figure
out what that was. I knew it wasn't the Beatles...it wasn't Paul or
George
singin' a new solo song...WHO is it?! I think this song would get my
vote as sounding about as close to the Beatles that anybody's ever done.
Tom
>>The song other than Steeler's Wheel's
>>"Stuck in the middle with you" that I thought was Beatles-like in the
early
>>70's was a song called "I Can Help", which sounded like Ringo. Who sang
it?
>>People have asked me before if it's the Beatles.
>>Can anyone help me on that one?
>>
>>Kevin L.
>>
>
>I can't answer that question right now, Kevin, but I have it on a
compilation CD
>that is right now in my gym locker, of all places. I will post the artist
>tomorrow. In any event, I always thought that was more of an Elvis sound.
>
>interstate5
Both Ringo and Elvis recorded covers, but it was written and originally
recorded by BIlly Swan, who wrote "Lover Please" for Clyde McPhatter and
produced Tony Joe White's Polk Salad Annie. (also recorded by Elvis)
I'm not positive, but I think "I Can Help" was produced by Elvis' 50s lead
guitarist, Scotty Moore.
Tom
>Feels ridiculous now, but "Quinn The Eskimo" by whoever that was.
>Lol...
>
Manfred Mann. I think Jack Bruce was still on bass, but it might have been
Klaus Voormann.
Susan Gagne
Edwin Blassett wrote:
> I'm trying to compile a CD of good Beatles imitations. Stuff that comes
> to mind is "Lies" by the Knickerbockers and some of Badfinger's songs.
> Any ideas?
Jeff U.
>
> I'm trying to compile a CD of good Beatles imitations. Stuff that comes
> to mind is "Lies" by the Knickerbockers and some of Badfinger's songs.
> Any ideas?
Back in the fall of 1980 I heard a song on the radio called Rock And
Roll Stew. I thought it might have been a track from the soon to be
released Double Fantasy LP! Of course turns out it was Traffic from the
Low Spark LP. To this day everytime I hear it, it sounds just like
John.
Jeff U.
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SMerri1109 wrote in message
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>>I'm trying to compile a CD of good Beatles imitations. Stuff that comes
>>to mind is "Lies" by the Knickerbockers and some of Badfinger's songs.
>>Any ideas?
>>
I
>always thought it was a Beatle's tune,
very very beatles-ish i reckon....
"clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right here i am, stuck in the
middle with you"......
MarkWGPSU
Gees had me fooled.
Memphis28
Lol...
* *
Johnny
"There's a need and desire I have
To express what's inside of me
I must figure it out while it's still there
And an endless amount of
Of a joy that you touched me with
Though it's almost too much for me to bear" - GH
R4949
Memphis28 wrote
>Feels ridiculous now, but "Quinn The Eskimo" by whoever that was.
Manfred Mann written by Zimmerframe.. I mean man (Bob to you)... Nothing
like the FABS.
DavidR
ccs
I didn't know the fabs had split up!
Barb
oblio
KEVLANG wrote in message <19981211162556...@ng153.aol.com>...
>>"Vanishing Girl" by XTC (as the Dukes of Stratosfear) (very Rubber Soul)
>>(Also try "Bike Ride to the Moon" by XTC/Dukes -- slightly more generic
>
>Ok, I5 was onto something here. The Dukes of Stratosphear is XTC's tribute
to
>the 60s.
>The Mole From the Ministry and Shiny Cage are two other Beatle influenced
songs
>on the same disc. Shiny Cage is very Revolver-like and The Mole is
>Walrus/Strawberry Fields-like.
>XTC's Here Comes President Kill Again off of the Oranges and Lemons disc is
>very much influenced by the White Album.
sidetrack to pettycoat junction:
i think that some(most) acts tried way too hard to sound like the fabs and
it shows.
"sowing the seeds" although well produced, always smacked of those guys
trying their hardest to be fab (stinky poo).
"steeler's wheel" was a very blatant rip rather than a homage.
as for "acts" like oasis etc, "well that's another thread", and a rather
boring one at that(flame away noasis fans:)
but an act like xtc took the flavour and fabric of the fabs and weaved a new
cloth with it, rather than trying to copy the old garment stitch for
stitch.
others that i would lump in with the tcer's camp are:
uk squeeze's, especially with tunes like "pulling mussels from a shell" or
"up the junction"
anything by Crowded House, who probably keeps the fabs musical heritage
alive more than any other act on the planet(this is not me being parochial
here).
elvis costello can get a good fabs thing going when he wants..
even the smithereens on a good day can have an enjoyable beatles twist to
some of their tunes (dont know why they popped into my head)
but ultimately the torch bearers for the "sound of the fabs" being carried
into the next century would have to be partridge's mob.
bravely illuminating the obvious,
oblio
KJunk22
>I'm trying to compile a CD of good Beatles imitations. Stuff that comes
>to mind is "Lies" by the Knickerbockers and some of Badfinger's songs.
>Any ideas?
"A World Without Love" (Peter & Gordon) and "Come And Get It" (Badfinger) for
obvious reasons. A friend thought "Because" (Dave Clark Five) was a Beatles
song. And how about "Hippy Hippy Shake" (Swinging Blue Jeans)?
ChrisCoopr
I Can Help was by Billy Swan
Jkix
>little bass/piano section on the fadeout of "Magical Mystery Tour."
Actually, all of Rick Wright's early songs with PF remind me of the Beatles,
and Fat Old Sun off ATom Heart Mother seems a whole lot like Let It Be.
Silent Z
"It all makes perfect sense, expressed in dollars and cents, pounds, shillings
and pence"
"I never met Napoleon, but I plan to find the time!"
jim ramirez
1."Perfect" by the Lightning Seeds
(the chords are the same as Let It be)
2. "Joel" by the Boo Radleys
(you'd swear it was Lennon singing)
3."Wild Days" by Fool's Garden
(very Sgt.Pepper era song)
give these songs a try!
M and M
Way" and McCartney's "Eat At Home"?
Some parts sound so similar to me....
Jeff
I have a better question for you? Have you ever
heard " I wanna be with you" by the raspberries? I am sure you have.
Anyway, about 3 years ago, I decided to do this experiment cause I
thought this song sounded like a spinoff of The Beatles "I'm happy just
to
dance with you." As it turned out, I was right. The two songs had
exactly the same timing. I
had one of those machines at the time where I
started one of the songs, pushed down on the
pause button, let it back up, and edited the two
songs together perfectly which made for very
interesting similarity.
Oh yeah, as to your question, no I don't hear
Paul's 'eat at home" anything like "Go all the way' by the Raspberries.
Joe Caldwell
>
> Peter Perpetua III <ne...@usaor.net> wrote:
>
>> Ringo recorded "I Can Help in 1987" but it was never released. One of
>> the Chips Morman Songs.
> I Can Help was by Billy Swan
"I Can Help" was indeed recorded by Ringo during the 1987 sessions for
'Chips' Moman in Memphis. In fact, "I Can Help" along with "Whiskey and
Soda", another recording done at Moman's Memphis recording studio in
1987, were played in court during Ringo's 1989 battle with Moman in
which Ringo finally won the right to prevent Moman from releasing the
"subpar" (Ringo's words) album.
BTW, the "Burley on Bootlegs" column in the latest issue of "Beatlefan"
is reporting that these session tapes are now in the hands of a
bootlegger and could finally see the light of day in the near future.
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actually sit and listen, you can totally tell it's just some trying to
sound like them.
"Every once in a while you get a really great pizza, and your faith in
humanity is restored. Mmmkay?"
henry charles anton myers
Beatley of course you could tell it wasn't the Beatles but it is great.
Jeff
I didn't know that Pizza's had anything to do
with the song 'Green Tamborine"LOL
Gallard
everyone liked those colors and want to include them in their own art.
Same with the Beatles... Alot of what they did is very nice and others
want to do the same with their songs. Thats all.
Jeff wrote:
>
> Ken
> You are probably aware that some people hate
> "Go all the way" by the raspberries. I have always loved that song. Sure
> they had Beatles
> influences but were still original in their own way too. Some of their
> stuff is like a
> Harrison/MCcartney song if they would ever do
> one together.
Devolver42
(esp. Making Plans For Nigel) were by Wings.
Trent
Jean-Yves Rousselle
"Believe me" by Badfinger (sounds like "Oh Darling" to me)
and great bands like Klaatu, The Pleasers and The Romantics' 1st album.
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PopOrange
Klaatu, man.....All of their stuff.....
Jeff
yeah, I think it is fine for a group to have Beatle
influences as long as they have their own bit
of originality too like the Raspberries did.
The only group I think that pulled off doing an
almost constant beatles style and did it well
was 'Badfinger" "Mccartney" is the easiest to
imitate as a musican, and then George. John
is almost impossible to imitate as a song writer.
Melody wize though, it is the easiest to imagine
a song Paul might do, although the screaming
rocking numbers would be more difficult. It's
easy to think up a 'Mccartney' type ballad though.
david oldfield
PopOrange wrote in message <19981213030318...@ng135.aol.com>...
>Songs you thought were by the Beatles
>
>Klaatu, man.....All of their stuff.....
"please explain" by pauline pantsdown?
MWS2468
Manfred Mann, written by Dylan. On reflection, the record does have an
exuberance, a mystery and a bit of wordplay which are Beatlesque.
I mistook the BeeGee's "New York Mining Disaster 1941" as The Beatles. ("Have
you seen my wife, Mr. Jones?")
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Except I like them anyway.
Listen to Mr. Blue Sky... they friggin went as far as sampling the anvil
noise from Maxwell's Silver Hammer, and throwing that into the song...
In article <19981213071105...@ng154.aol.com>,
Jeff
yeah check out 'Dear Christine" by Klaatu if
you haven't. Would have made a great Harrison
song with or without the beatles, and it's a
beautiful song too. I wish I knew what I did with
it. I would send it to Christine, but it's out of print
I think. One of their abums sounds more like
'Bread' and the 'guess who" Than the Beatles.
Eberhard
Edwin Blassett wrote:
> I'm trying to compile a CD of good Beatles imitations. Stuff that comes
> to mind is "Lies" by the Knickerbockers and some of Badfinger's songs.
> Any ideas?
Why hasn't anyone mentioned Emmitt Rhodes? Try his first self-titled
album and you'll hear the ghost of Paul.
Cheers!
Eberhard
Frederick W. Harrison
>
> You should try :
>
> "Believe me" by Badfinger (sounds like "Oh Darling" to me)
> and great bands like Klaatu, The Pleasers and The Romantics' 1st album.
Or the Hudson Brothers "So You Are A Star" which had a lot of people
doing a double take at the time of release.
Speaking of the Romantics, I caught them in concert at Ontario Place
just after the first album was released. I camped out early to get good
(under cover) seats - which turned out to be a wise decision as the
place quickly filled up with hordes of teenage girls who had also
discovered the band.
They put on a great show, playing material from the first album and the
energy level continued to build and build. Suddenly there erupted from
the crowd screaming of the type heard on live Beatles recordings which
continued for the rest of the show. There was a definite frenzy in the
crowd which made my companions (older die-hard Beatles fans like myself)
stare at one another as we wondered "could it (Beatlemania) be happening
again?" ("The men don't know, but the little girls understand" indeed!)
This band was HOT!
Sadly, the Romantics would be hit with the sophomore jinx. Their second
album lacked the obvious hits that were never fully exploited on their
first album. The girls either defected to the Knack camp or went back to
whoever was the flavour of the month. The Romantics managed to hit the
charts again with "Talking In Your Sleep", but by then they had become,
or were moulded into, just another faceless "new wave" band. Radio
wasn't interested in playing their more original 60's pop influenced
material; only the tracks that sounded like the current "new wave" got
any airplay. The pop spark that ignited their first album had been all
but extinguished.
But they will always be remembered for "What I Like About You", a song
that in my nine years of disc jockeying never failed to raise the energy
level of a crowd to full party mode.
--
Frederick W. Harrison Toronto
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Nilsson's early work was obviously inspired by the Beatles. By the
time of _The Point!_ (which includes "Me and My Arrow") he had started
to get away from music that was obviously Beatle-ish. So _The Point_
is a nice transition album for him - kind of a mix of the early,
Beatle-sounding _Pandemonium Shadow Show_ and hinting at _Nilsson
Schmilsson_.
Many of Nilsson's songs from his early albums might have been mistaken
for Beatles songs - he even multi-tracked his vocals (prompting John
and Paul to call him their "favorite group").
His covers of Beatles songs, "She's Leaving Home" and "You Can't Do
That" from _Pandemonium Shadow Show_ and "Mother Nature's Child" from
_Harry_ are also great.
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kev...@aol.com (KEVLANG) wrote:
> The song other than Steeler's Wheel's
> "Stuck in the middle with you" that I thought was Beatles-like in the early
> 70's was a song called "I Can Help", which sounded like Ringo. Who sang it?
> People have asked me before if it's the Beatles.
> Can anyone help me on that one?
>
> Kevin L.
>
Funny - when I was a kid, I always thought this sounded very much like Ringo
too! I don't know if I ever actually thought it was him, but the vocal
similarity is uncanny. (The song was by Billy Swan, I'm sure this has already
been answered later in this thread.)
A song from the '60s that you would almost think was the Beatles, a very
successfuly sonic rip-off, the Knickerbockers' 1965 (I think?) hit Lies.
A great song in its own right - they couldn't help it if they weren't the
Beatles but just wanted to be! Especially in the fade-out, the little ad-lib
shouts ("Lies - YEAH BABY!") sound just like Paul. Actually the vocals
throughout the whole song (I'm sitting here "playing" it in my head) sound a
lot like both John and Paul.
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answer...@webtv.net (Jeff) wrote:
> Ken
> You are probably aware that some people hate
> "Go all the way" by the raspberries. I have always loved that song. Sure
> they had Beatles
> influences but were still original in their own way too. Some of their
> stuff is like a
> Harrison/MCcartney song if they would ever do
> one together.
>
People hate that song? I am incredulous. I have enormous admiration for
everything about that record, think it's one of pop-rock's best-ever written,
sang and produced singles, and am blown away anew every time I hear it on
the radio. Just about the perfect pop record, something about the lyrics,
the harmonies, the energy level, the production and the whole sound, just
takes me to that teen/pop rock'n'roll ecstasy. The writing seems extremely
clever to me too, the melody, key changes and chord sequences just perk your
ears up and keep 'em there. And it's so sexy, so many millions of songs are
about sex or try to be sexy but something about the girl saying "Please,
baby, go all the way" just gets me going, .... y'know? Sets some kind of
tender romantic porn movie playing in my mind!
Anyone feel the same, or am I just an easy mark with an insatiable musical
sweet tooth?
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answer...@webtv.net (Jeff) wrote:
> Melody wize though, it is the easiest to imagine
> a song Paul might do, although the screaming
> rocking numbers would be more difficult. It's
> easy to think up a 'Mccartney' type ballad though.
>
>
Do check out Todd Rundgren's Beatle spoof/tribute album Deface The Music
(with Utopia, circa around '79 I think). He has John's and Paul's writing
and vocal styles down to a spooky "tee," even out-Rutling the Rutles.
richf...@my-dejanews.com
>
> "A World Without Love" (Peter & Gordon) and "Come And Get It" (Badfinger) for
> obvious reasons. A friend thought "Because" (Dave Clark Five) was a Beatles
> song. And how about "Hippy Hippy Shake" (Swinging Blue Jeans)?
>
Right, the SBJ's hit of "Hippy Hippy Shake" sounds like the Beatles with Paul
singing. (So does the Beatles' version on the Starr Club Hamburg!)
Klaatu didn't sound anything like the Beatles, really (although they were a
very entertaining "head"-type studio band in their own right), except for one
moment toward the end of "California Jam" on their self-titled first album,
when the singer just sings the word "California" going into I think a guitar
solo or the fade-out, anyway right there he sounds dead-on like McCartney.
richf...@my-dejanews.com
That takes me back to some Klaatu nostsalgia (I got into them through the
Beatles "controversy" from their first album and continued to buy all the
rest of their albums as they came out). "Dear Christine" was a beautiful
song, but remember this other one on the same album? I think it was the
title track, "Sir Army Suit." Check this out, readers who aren't familiar
with this. If I remember correctly, the whole song was another song, or part
of one, played backwards (I think it was a song from their first album,...?)
They just played it backwards and tried to approximate what the lyrics
sounded like. Then they printed those complete nonsense lyrics on the lyric
sheet, but backwards so you had to put a mirror up to it to read them! This
gave you the final clue to try playing the song backwards on your turntable
(if the backwards-sounding- ness of the track itself wasn't enough!) to get
to "the answer".
Pretty Beatle-y stunt, but in a sort of over-the-top, extra-CHEESY way!
clark kent
the new U2 song sounds a bit like John Lennon (I think the name of it is
"Baby's Got Blue Eyes" or something to that). Bonnie Raitt's "Only the
Lonely" (I believe is the name)... doesn't sound like the Beatles, but the
melody sounds McCartney-ish.
Hope this helps!
ck
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Kent Stewart
of which still elude me--which sounded very much like early Len-Mac
to me.
No matter where you are
I will always be with you
'cause no matter what you do girl
ooh, girl, I want you
etc, etc.
Very Rutle-esque bridge, something like:
knock over any wall
be a part of it all
nothing to see
nothing to say
nothing to do.
Who the heck was that, anyway?
cheers,
--bongo the senile
henry charles anton myers
Tom
>
>Who the heck was that, anyway?
>
Anyone remember
There's a flame in the back of my mind
and it's burning for you all the time
I just want to touch you
do you want to touch me too?
milton the monster
Frederick W. Harrison wrote in message <36755E...@istar.ca>...
>>Speaking of the Romantics, I caught them in concert at Ontario Place
>just after the first album was released. I camped out early to get good
>(under cover) seats - which turned out to be a wise decision as the
>place quickly filled up with hordes of teenage girls who had also
>discovered the band.
>They put on a great show, playing material from the first album and the
>energy level continued to build and build. Suddenly there erupted from
>the crowd screaming of the type heard on live Beatles recordings which
>continued for the rest of the show. There was a definite frenzy in the
>crowd which made my companions (older die-hard Beatles fans like myself)
>stare at one another as we wondered "could it (Beatlemania) be happening
>again?" ("The men don't know, but the little girls understand" indeed!)
>This band was HOT!
agreed.
i heard on a recent "where are they now" radio poll that the drummer is now
18 stone and working in a filling station or supermarket or some such thing
"writing new material".......gotta love that phrase..it's almost as good as
"musical differences".
but yeah, that was one energetic single thats for sure. and a real crowd
pleaser. we still play it at gigs and punters go nuts for it.
best
milt
THarri3779
to be the Beatles reunited incognito?
fabfour
>Funny - when I was a kid, I always thought this sounded very much like Ringo
>too! I don't know if I ever actually thought it was him, but the vocal
>similarity is uncanny. (The song was by Billy Swan, I'm sure this has already
>been answered later in this thread.)
I thought the same. Get this, though: I believe that the unreleased
drunken Ringo Starr LP produced by Chips Moman includes a cover of
that very track!
>A song from the '60s that you would almost think was the Beatles, a very
>successfuly sonic rip-off, the Knickerbockers' 1965 (I think?) hit Lies.
Probably the best knockoff in history. I have it on my vinyl copy of
"Nuggets."
milton the monster
henry charles anton myers wrote in message ...
>Isn't that Badfinger's "No Matter What"?
>
>On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Kent Stewart wrote:
>
>> There was some Rutle-esque song in the early 80's--the performers
>> of which still elude me--which sounded very much like early Len-Mac
>> to me.
>>
>>
>> No matter where you are
>> I will always be with you
>> 'cause no matter what you do girl
>> ooh, girl, I want you
>>
>> etc, etc.
>>
>> Very Rutle-esque bridge, something like:
>>
>> knock over any wall
>> be a part of it all
>> nothing to see
>> nothing to say
>> nothing to do.
>>
>> Who the heck was that, anyway?
>>
>> cheers,
>> --bongo the senile
>>
>>
>
Jason Mole
Charlie Reinhart (rein...@frontiernet.net) writes:
> When I first heard "Money" by Pink Floyd, I thought it was Paul
> McCartney, although I don't hear it now. Don't forget "Money", at the
> time, was a complete departure for Floyd and didn't sound like
> anything else they had done.
It's funny you bring this up, Floyd while recording the album were
recording answers to question they were asking people, they didn't really
like the responces that Paul was giving (guess all those years of the
press made be on guard), so Paul was almost on the album, also when Sgt.
Pepper was being recorded Floyd was recording Pied Piper and The Mop Tops
did go see Floyd while both bands were recording
--
http://members.tripod.com/~mole_man/mole.htm (updated Oct 22nd, 98)
"I want a coffee so strong that it feels like a mountain of kittens
licking you to death from the inside"-Jairus
richf...@my-dejanews.com
>
> Anyone remember
>
> There's a flame in the back of my mind
> and it's burning for you all the time
> I just want to touch you
> do you want to touch me too?
>
Jeff
like the Beatles.
rut...@my-dejanews.com
richf...@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> In article <754nm6$nm1$1...@remarQ.com>,
> "Tom" <Blac...@msn.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >Who the heck was that, anyway?
> > >
> > Badfinger.
> >
> > Anyone remember
> >
> > There's a flame in the back of my mind
> > and it's burning for you all the time
> > I just want to touch you
> > do you want to touch me too?
> >
> Isn't that the always-rockin' Joan Jett?
> richforman
> >
She had a a song with similar lyrics, but this belongs to the Utopia album
Deface the Music. Great stuff, esp. "Take it Home" (Daytripper), "Hoi Poloi"
(Penny Lane), "Everybody else is Wrong" (I am the Walrus). I liked the way
the song order followed the Beatle's musical phases (more or less), sometimes
combining one or more songs into one ("Feel Too Good" = "Getting Better" +
"Fixing a Hole")
rm
richf...@my-dejanews.com
rut...@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> In article <755so1$8g3$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
> richf...@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> > >
> > > There's a flame in the back of my mind
> > > and it's burning for you all the time
> > > I just want to touch you
> > > do you want to touch me too?
> > >
> > Isn't that the always-rockin' Joan Jett?
> > richforman
> > >
>
> She had a a song with similar lyrics, but this belongs to the Utopia album
> Deface the Music. Great stuff, esp. "Take it Home" (Daytripper), "Hoi Poloi"
> (Penny Lane), "Everybody else is Wrong" (I am the Walrus). I liked the way
> the song order followed the Beatle's musical phases (more or less), sometimes
> combining one or more songs into one ("Feel Too Good" = "Getting Better" +
> "Fixing a Hole")
>
> rm
>
Dopey me - elsewhere in this very same thread I was talking about Deface the
Music and how great it is! (An absolute must for any Beatles fan, I was
saying; Todd had both John and Paul's writing and singing styles eerily down,
even out-rutling the the Rutles!) Besides the ones you mentioned, I remember
"Alone" sounding for all the world like Paul McC wrote it!
richforman
Tidyland
moondog
>
> PopOrange wrote in message <19981213030318...@ng135.aol.com>...
> >Songs you thought were by the Beatles
> >
> >Klaatu, man.....All of their stuff.....
>
> "please explain" by pauline pantsdown?
LOL :-)
Gordon Hodgson
<d...@globalnet.co.uk> writes
>First time I heard "Last train to Clarksville" I swore it was the Beatles!
>
>Ps I'm pretty deaf, stupid and a cretin - but it sounded like Paul to me...
>especially on AM radio... and The Monkees sounds like a made up name doesn't
>it...
>
Aren't all names made up? (The Beatles sounds like a made up name,
doesn't it?
--
Gordon Hodgson
http://listen.to/RealLove
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Remove the nospam bit to reply
"It's better to fade away like an old soldier than
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Vicious or of dead James Dean or of dead John Wayne.
It's the same thing. I worship the people who survive"
-- John Lennon (Playboy, January 1981)
Tom
>Aren't all names made up? (The Beatles sounds like a made up name,
>doesn't it?
Crosby Stills Nash and Young.
McGuinn Clark and Hillman.
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band.
The Graham Bond Organization.
Danny Caccavo
Love" is pretty "Beatle-y"....
DC
--
Danny Caccavo (dan...@interport.net)
"Hey, Bee-atle - we shall have fun, eh?"
R4949
Ps I'm pretty deaf, stupid and a cretin - but it sounded like Paul to me...
especially on AM radio... and The Monkees sounds like a made up name doesn't
it...
DavidR
saki-to-me
Tom wrote in message <75ch9r$ndt$1...@remarQ.com>...
milli vanilli
>
Gordon Hodgson
writes
didn't evolve with some sort of divine name-tag, did they?
Danny Caccavo
> Back in the fall of 1980 I heard a song on the radio called Rock And
> Roll Stew. I thought it might have been a track from the soon to be
> released Double Fantasy LP! Of course turns out it was Traffic from the
> Low Spark LP. To this day everytime I hear it, it sounds just like
> John.
>
> Jeff U.
It's just that blasted echo on the voice...<g>
Danny Caccavo
and...@webtv.net wrote:
> I didn't actually think these songs were by the Fabs, but they did
> remind me of them...they had a certain "Beatley" quality to 'em... at
> least to me they did.
>
> Nilsson - "Me and My Arrow"
> Marmalade - "Reflections of My Life"
> Hotlegs - "Neanderthal Man"
>
> The first time I heard Badfinger's "No Matter What" I couldn't figure
> out what that was. I knew it wasn't the Beatles...it wasn't Paul or
> George
> singin' a new solo song...WHO is it?! I think this song would get my
> vote as sounding about as close to the Beatles that anybody's ever done.
yeah, a great track!!
Danny Caccavo
don't even sound like each other!
kmi...@sprynet.com
harmonies. The Beatles (rarely) were formulaic and were always changing. What do you think, then, is the most *representative*
Beatle song for that proverbial time capsule? If it's possible at all to answer this question, I might say "Day Tripper": the guitars,
witty lyrics, the J&P vocals, etc.
KM
Richard
As the story goes (from the Billboard book of No. 1 hits), "Last Train
to Clarkesville" was inspired by "Paperback Writer". Supposedly,
when Bobby Hart first listened to "Paperback Writer", he misheard
the lyrics, thinking that they were singing about a "last train".
When Hart realized that wasn't the case, he was inspired to write
his own song about a "last train". I think however that the
inspiration goes further than that. While I wouldn't claim that
"Last Train..." is a direct steal of "Paperback Writer", the two
songs have a very similar sound.
Richard
Corlett
> to Clarkesville" was inspired by "Paperback Writer". Supposedly,
> when Bobby Hart first listened to "Paperback Writer", he misheard
> the lyrics, thinking that they were singing about a "last train".
> When Hart realized that wasn't the case, he was inspired to write
> his own song about a "last train". I think however that the
> inspiration goes further than that. While I wouldn't claim that
> "Last Train..." is a direct steal of "Paperback Writer", the two
> songs have a very similar sound.
I recall him saying something about having taken the PW guitar riff and
changing it around a little. The guitar has the same sound and the riffs
are kinda similar. That's one of the reasons the two songs have a similar
sound.
S.A.
--
Isn't it a pity, isn't it a shame
How we break each other's hearts
And cause each other pain...
Thunderbird 2
Love" was a new McCartney & Wings song. Oh, yeah ... I ate crow that day.
Mind you I felt somewhat justified in my mistake, when Eric Stewart did
vocals on "Tug Of War".
damonb...@gmail.com
> I'm trying to compile a CD of good Beatles imitations. Stuff that comes
> to mind is "Lies" by the Knickerbockers and some of Badfinger's songs.
> Any ideas?
Dave Clark Five - Because
Gilbert O'Sullivan - Alone Again
and almost anything by ELO
hislop
zippl...@gmail.com
> On Friday, December 11, 1998 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-5, Edwin Blassett wrote:
> > I'm trying to compile a CD of good Beatles imitations. Stuff that comes
> > to mind is "Lies" by the Knickerbockers and some of Badfinger's songs.
> > Any ideas?
BlackMonk
I Love My NezMonkee
understand how anyone could do that. . .)
topazgalaxy
> I'm trying to compile a CD of good Beatles imitations. Stuff that comes
> to mind is "Lies" by the Knickerbockers and some of Badfinger's songs.
> Any ideas?
If you were unaware that the Rutles were a Monty Python imitation of the Beatles, you could be fooled. Their material is on you tube. Check out songs like "Ouch",
Cheese and Onions, "Get Up and Go"
Most people I believe would realize the songs were so silly that they were a joke.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePaHG6g7uFw
zippl...@gmail.com
The McCartney influence is there, though it doesn't sound like a Beatles
song, and what this thread is about.
P-Dub
> >I'm trying to compile a CD of good Beatles imitations. Stuff that comes
> >to mind is "Lies" by the Knickerbockers and some of Badfinger's songs.
> >Any ideas?
> >
> always thought it was a Beatle's tune, and have never fully recovered from the
> ridicule I've received because of this :)
>
> Stacie
It's 'Stuck in the Middle with You'. The slide is reminiscent of George. But's it's not George. It's Gerry Rafferty. And I'm sure he was influenced by George.
Another one in this vein is 'I Saw the Light' by Todd Rundgren. That slide sounds a bit like George.
Back in those days - if you sounded a little 'Beatleish', and had a good melody - you had a hit.
zippl...@gmail.com
in them. But the proper title of this thread should state that because after 10
seconds, (or whatever) of close listening, it's easy enough to know none of
these songs are the Beatles, or solo Beatles.
mcbassguitar
> I'm trying to compile a CD of good Beatles imitations. Stuff that comes
> to mind is "Lies" by the Knickerbockers and some of Badfinger's songs.
> Any ideas?
dopazgalaxy
> On Friday, December 11, 1998 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-5, Edwin Blassett
wrote:
> > I'm trying to compile a CD of good Beatles imitations. Stuff that
comes
> > to mind is "Lies" by the Knickerbockers and some of Badfinger's
songs.
> > Any ideas?
>
You can check out anything by the Rutles.
the real Beatles. Then one of my friends who actually is a Beatles fan
(don't forget, I am NOT a Beatles fan. I just hate Yoko Ono), said that
it was a Monty Python imitation of the Beatles.
However they were not Monty Python fans because they would have known
that only Eric Idle was in the project and it had no association with
Python. Me and my friends are so stupid and get fooled by everything.
Check out songs like "Ouch", Cheese and Onions, "Get Up and Go"
that they were a joke. But not me and my friends. We are all dumb
asses with no lives and post tons of shit here just because.
JEFFIES NOT DEAD BUT HE SURE IS CRABBY
wrote:
>Many of the songs listed in this thread have Beatles or solo Beatles
>influences in them. But the proper title of this thread should state
>that because after 10 seconds, (or whatever) of close listening, it's
>easy enough to know none of these songs are the Beatles, or solo
>Beatles.
Think about how many times you died just in the last 17 months.
Christ you are one crabby old bitch. You need to listen to Johnny
Mathis's Strangers In The Night on some toasty linens.
zippl...@gmail.com
> On Monday, October 19, 2015 at 10:08:59 AM UTC-4, zippl...@gmail.com
> wrote:
> >
> >Many of the songs listed in this thread have Beatles or solo Beatles
> >influences in them. But the proper title of this thread should state
> >that because after 10 seconds, (or whatever) of close listening, it's
> >easy enough to know none of these songs are the Beatles, or solo
> >Beatles.
> Christ you are one crabby old bitch. You need to listen to Johnny
> Mathis's Strangers In The Night on some toasty linens.
blackpo...@gmail.com
> I'm trying to compile a CD of good Beatles imitations. Stuff that comes
> to mind is "Lies" by the Knickerbockers and some of Badfinger's songs.
> Any ideas?
blackpo...@gmail.com
poisoned rose
come up with of me thinking a song was by the wrong artist is that, back
in my naive days of FM-radio gleaning, I thought "Welfare Mothers" was
by Ted Nugent rather than Neil Young. Yikes. :)
Tim
> The group is Badfinger.
Odd name for The Ivys.
BTW - Hasn't 1998 come and gone by now?
Tim
zippl...@gmail.com
:-)