Best Beatles Cover?

[Va Lefty]

Poll question: Best Beatles Cover?

[dbt]

1. "Oh Darling" by Robin Gibb

George Martin even mixed white noise into this overlooked gem.

:smoke:

[AlCzervik]

2. Strawberry Fields-Cyndi Lauper.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbD5iOXLwvs

the video quality is terrible but the audio is good.

[liberaltrucker]

3. None. Period.

The Beatles are, well, The Beatles.

All who "try" to cover ANY of their songs are fools.
Including Sir Elton. Damn close to blasphemy, IMHO.

[Va Lefty]

5. I used to think that it should be a felony to cover a Beatles song

I have since changed my mind. There are some good covers out there and they get airplay The Beatles (sadly) don't.

[liberaltrucker]

15. True, pragmatically.

But when it comes to the Fab Four, I tend to run on emotion.

But that's just me.

:)

[alsame]

60. I'm like you. I cringe when I hear anyone cover a Beatles song. n/t

[fishwax]

4. Maynard Ferguson's Hey Jude

:)

[XemaSab]

36. Maynard's cover of almost anything

He doesn't cover songs that don't kick ass.

[mitchum]

Thug Bottom's cover of "Revolution 9"

[Bennyboy]

6. Phish...While My Guitar Gently Weeps....

From Hampton last week. Incredible.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGz0gY9sVfc&feature=related not the best vid but you get the idea....
String Cheese Incident did Abbey Road side B on NYE 99-00 that was truly incredible too. the jam at the end was amazing....

[3.14158675309]

11. Jeff Healey's is superior IMO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJh3KaIKDAw

[Bennyboy]

12. Wow, I forgot about Jeff....

Yeah his rips huge. but better than Phish....? I really hate the better than question when it comes to music. It is all good if you ask me. Jeff played the shit out of that song and so does Phish and everyone else that plays it.

[3.14158675309]

16. When you get to be an old man like I am, you fixate on the past at some point

Phish is too hip for me. They are the new Grateful Dead when I am still stuck in the past with Jerry. :hi:

[Bennyboy]

25. I am an old Deadhead too....

First show NYE 68-69. Phish is awesome. I like the newer bands myself, String Cheese leftover salmon, railroad earth and tons of otehrs.

[Twillig]

40. I wish it was strictly a performance video

I just wanna see a guy play guitar. That was excellent.

RIP.

[Sebastian Doyle]

51. His Purpleness didn't do so bad on that one either.

No, he's not singing it, (that would be Mr. Petty) but he nails the solo at the end.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifp_SVrlurY

[Twillig]

17. I won't say anybody's version is better.

That Phish version was fine and dandy.

But my tendencies lie with more, ahem, technical virtuoso-ish guitar players.

So, here is 'Yellow Matter Custard' a superstar cover band featuring Paul Gilbert, Mike Portnoy, Neal Morse, and Matt Bissonette.
It's all about the excitement of the moment. And Gilbert is just an insane player. So is Portnoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2Xi8BHwGpg&feature=channel_page

[Bennyboy]

27. Awesome....

Wow....

[Twillig]

30. Glad you like it. Sometimes the shredders get shit upon. (for no reason but too many notes..)

Here's a tighter and slicker version with better film work at a different time. Gilbert loves George Harrison as a guitarist.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynB3Ei45MhM&feature=related

[Bennyboy]

34. I am a shredder fool...

The longer the jam the better if you ask me. Show me all you got!

[SoxFan]

31. and weeps, and weeps, and weeps, and weeps...

:P

[Danger Mouse]

7. Joe Cocker - She Came In Through the Bathroom Window. Better than the original.

He makes it rock pretty hard.

[XemaSab]

37. This kicks ass

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14dncQ3EBh8

[Mike 03]

8. Wow, I almost voted for "Come Together" but seeing "Helter Skelter" reminded me of U2's cover

and I LOVE that cover.

So my vote is U2, "Helter Skelter" in the movie "Rattle and Hum."

But it's really hard to pick.

I'm one of those rare idiots that actually liked the movie version of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

[Mike 03]

9. "Helter Skelter" by U2. "Charles Manson stole this from the Beatles, and

we are stealing it back."

Bono

[Bryan]

10. Gov't Mule, "She Said She Said"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu3ZIEXFUyY

[Bennyboy]

13. Yeah that one is an alltimer..

Warren kills that tune.

[OmahaBlueDog]

14. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - Elton John

Note - he does use John Lennon on guitar.

[jobycom]

18. Not my vote, but there's something endearing about George Burns's "Fixing a Hole"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhYBDCXkTyE&feature=related

[Diana Prince]

19. Siouxsie doing Helter Skelter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szPQCvJ8MPg&feature=PlayList&p=D0ACAE4B67F7E220&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=3

I agree with one of the commenter's on youtube. The Beatles were not dark enough to do this song.

[Epiales]

45. I'll see your Helter Skelter and raise you a Siouxsie doing "Dear Prudence"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_Qe8d95vCc

She's so great.

[RagAss]

20. Jeff Beck "She's A Woman"

[Gabi Hayes]

41. the reggae version, with the tube in his mouth? I have that

on audiotape.

the one with the Freeway Jam, or whatever?

wish I could find it.....

[RagAss]

46. The Blow by Blow album - 1975

[Symarip]

21. Here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2YxgyKbIKo&feature=channel_page

[Twillig]

23. If you said what it is, do you think nobody would click?

No description, no click for me.

[Symarip]

24. Oingo Boingo - I am the Walrus

Universal Ampitheater, 1993.

I was there.

[Twillig]

28. Cool, that must have been great! n/t

[Mike 03]

Self-Delete. (Dupe, sorry)

[Mike 03]

22. Can anyone help me with this: "Baby you can drive my car..."

MAD, Mothers against Drunk Drivers, has been running ads behind which is this song, but it does not sounds like the Beatles.

The lyrics are something like, "Baby you can drive my car, I'm going to be a star," but I don't know who is performing the cover.

Would love to know, though.

[Bennyboy]

26. Jerry Garcia Band....Dear Prudence.....

Mind blowing. Love this version so much....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqFJ-bRKJr4

[DarkTirade]

29. Rufus Wainwright's 'Across the Universe'.

One of the few Beatles covers I actually like.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H71Fv3PcQQY

[XemaSab]

32. Vedder's "You've got to hide your love away"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNMhPQoEbJE

[GCP]

53. +1

Love his version.

[IcyPeas]

58. + another 1...... eom

[LeftyMom]

33. Best one I've ever seen IRL anyhow- Thrice doing Helter Skelter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEtJXjvj-Tk

[Resuscitated Ethics]

35. Danielle Dax : Tomorrow Never Knows

the lemon kitten speaks!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc2JTQZ_nfQ

[hellbound-liberal]

38. Richie Havens-Here Comes the Sun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8HBHWYd6ug

I also think Joe Cocker did an excellent version of With a Little Help From My Friends

[GReedDiamond]

39. Spooky Tooth...I Am The Walrus

[Dystopian]

55. Yes! And a question....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QpoSUBQhxc

I was looking for it to see if anyone else would post it...Spooky Tooth fans are rare..in my world anyway.


I noted your link. Is this the same band I've seen on Neil Young's Living with War page? I haven't been there in a very long time and the name sounded familiar.


peace~

[GReedDiamond]

56. I have a band called...

Benedict Arnold & The Traitors...we have a song on Neil's "Living With War Today - Songs of the Times" page:
http://www.neilyoung.com/lwwtoday/lwwsongspage.html

We're at #28 this past week ("Hello Baghdad").

I'm not sure what "link" you mean, is that what you're referring to?

[Dystopian]

57. I was right : )

I've heard your music there....Being that you're a Spooky Tooth fan, I clicked the link on your DU profile, and saw the band, and figured it had to be the same one. I submitted a song from my son's band a very long time ago.
It was in the top 40 for a while.....He wasn't all that interested, and politely told me to stop playing it as it messed up the plays on his myspace....I just checked, and the song is still hanging there way down on the list.
His music is really heavy metal....That's what he plays, but it's not what he loves...

Good luck with your music!

peace~

[GReedDiamond]

59. Thanks...

...and best of luck to your son's musical endeavors as well!

What's his band's myspace url? I'd like to give it a listen.

[last_texas_dem]

42. My three favorites are

Cocker's "With a Little Help...," Elton's "Lucy in the Sky..," and The Buckinghams' "I'll Be Back."

[soleiri]

43. My favorite

Dear Prudence by Siouxsie & the Banshees.

[Bennyboy]

44. Jake Shimabukuro ..While My Guitar Gently Weeps....

The Hendrix of the Ukelele!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mEqEe-PIC8&feature=related

[Yavin4]

47. William Shatner's "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"

Thread over, I win.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7258896287489458266

[Amerigo Vespucci]

48. Joe Cocker's "W.A.L.H.F.M.F."...but it's gotta be the Woodstock version

I was sitting in Barnes & Noble the other day, thumbing through the new Mojo special issue on 1969, and there was a photo of Cocker at Woodstock. He said basically that he was flown straight to the stage in a helicopter and didn't know that every single member of his band had dropped acid.

The intensity of the Woodstock version eclipses the studio version.

:toast:

[NaturalHigh]

49. Helter Skelter, without question...

but I'll also give a shout out to Aerosmith.

[brettdale]

50. Randy Travis

Version of John Lennon's nowhere man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjyJk4hpS_w

[Sebastian Doyle]

52. David Lee Roth - Tomorrow Never Knows

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiZGLhGXxsk

[Condem]

54. The Chameleons

Tomorrow Never Knows.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

61. Wilson Pickett/Duane Allman-Hey Jude

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWwUIXyqeao