Best Beatles Cover Ever:

[CanuckAmok]

Poll question: Best Beatles Cover Ever:

Tales from the warped side: The gems one comes across while burning one's old rare LPs to MP3...

THIS IS NOT DEBATEABLE, PEOPLE. I am listening to Xaviera Hollander (the Happy Hooker)'s second(!) album, and hs edoes a torch version of the Beatles' "Michelle".

There has never been a better tribute to the Beatles' works. In fact, I can say without hyperbole, that this is the best cover version of anything, ever. In fact, it's one hundred trillion times better than Nick Drake's "Know", as performed by the Happy Flowers.

And that's saying ahelluvalot!

[nemo137]

1. um...

there's no option for it, but i found a comp once with a cover of don't let me down on it, and it was fantastic.

[NightTrain]

2. Ever heard either of these?

Tina Turner's torch-song remake of "Help."
Stevie Wonder's funkification of "We Can Work It Out."

Admittedly, I've never heard the Xaviera Hollander track, but it'll have to be pretty damned good to beat out those two!

By the way, wasn't Xaviera Hollander the infamous Happy Hooker?

[CanuckAmok]

4. NO! NO DEBATE!

I have heard the Stevie Wonder version, but not the Tina Turner version.

I can say, confidently, that this one whomps all.

I think that version of "Don't Let Me Down" ia by Paul Weller. It's excellent. BUT NOT AS GOOD AS THE HAPPY HOOKER!!

[nemo137]

6. my dad's a big stevie wonder fan

so i've heard his version more times than i can count.

[Terwilliger]

3. THATS a new one....a ONE QUESTION POLL!

Other need not apply! :D

[NewYorkerfromMass]

8. Really. I think Jeb and Kate Harris have some job openings for canuck

meanwhile, Elton John's "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" is one powerful ass piece of music.

[Terwilliger]

10. just thinking of that, but didn't think it was best

I actually like the Fiona Apple version of "Across The Universe" from "Pleasantville"

[CanuckAmok]

15. A Yugoslavian Industrial band (Laibach) did the entire Let It Be album...

It's pretty incredible. And their version of Across the Universe is a masterpiece of choir arrangement...

But it's no "Michelle"!

[thom1102]

34. What about Bill Shatner's version...

Come on! Where's the love for Bill?!?!?!?

[rucky]

5. And runners up are....

Breeders - Happiness is a warm gun
Cornershop - Norwegian Wood (In PUNJABI!)
Spooky Pie - Hey Bulldog

[CanuckAmok]

9. NONONONO!

Maybe the Breeders, and maybe Spore's "I Want You (She's So Heavy)", come close, but...

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!

You have GOT to hear this. It begins with a 10 minute (!) long quasi-phone sex date between Hollander and a woman named "Michelle". She says "groovy" at least six times during the sex. Then the horns kick in. Imagine the band in the gay S&M cigar lounge Bruce Wayne would take Dick Greyson to on their night off---that's the horn seciotn.

She half whispers/half warbles the lyrics completely out of step with the band, hitting dizzying crescendos which would make Lotte Lenya and Diamanda Galas vomit in futile frustration.

OH MY GOD. ALL HAIL XAVIERA HOLLANDER!

[BurtWorm]

12. You really are amok, aren't you?

:toast:

[BurtWorm]

7. My band did a great cover of "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"

if I do say so myself.

[Terwilliger]

11. mp3?

;-)

[BurtWorm]

14. Memorex

:(

[ZenLefty]

13. Souxsie and the Banshees did a cover of Helter Skelter

It may not be the best cover of a Beatles tune, but it freaking rocks!

[CanuckAmok]

16. From "Join Hands". I know it well.

Not as good as you-know-what.

[UCLA02]

17. U2-Helter Skelter

'Nuff said.

[CanuckAmok]

18. They Claim to have "stolen it back" from Manson. Whatever...

(game show buzzer sound) Sorry, not Michelle. U2's "Helter Skelter doesn't even come close. Personally, I liked it better whne Manson had it.

[WillyT]

19. Oh... Hell... I Thought You Meant ALBUMN Cover !!!

So sorry...

:eyes:

[CanuckAmok]

22. That is sooo creepy--what were they on?!

Meat? Baby parts? Is this a spoof cover?

[Jim Sagle]

20. Some anonymous bubble gum group covered "Love Me Do."

It was FANTASTIC!

If someone knows the name of that group, please let me know!

[AntiCoup2K4]

21. The real question is :How many "artists" killed their careers with.....

awful Beatles covers....

First of all, there was the Bee Gees & Frampton and that horrid piece of shit movie they did. Frampton never recovered from that. The Bee Gees only had a semi-comeback in recent years because people refuse to let disco remain dead and buried.

Aerosmith - did one song in the horrible movie (which wasn't actually a bad cover) and promptly began their slide downhill. Recovered briefly in the mid 80's before degenerating into the world's oldest boyband.

Tiffany - I saw him standing there?? Uh, I don't think so.

Michael Jackson - He didn't even cover any of the songs, he just bought 'em. And his life promptly went straight to Hell.

Anybody think of any other deserving casualties??

[NewYorkerfromMass]

28. Your post made for a guffaw or 2 from me

very funny, esp. the part about MJ going straight to hell (nice song by the Clash BTW)

But I actually liked that syrupy sgt. peppers stuff (from the horrible movie as you put it).

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

23. WITHOUT A DOUBT...William Shatner doing Lucy in The Sky

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

24. Sorry

Fiona Apple's Across The Universe is GREAT.

[chenGOD]

25. The best Beatles cover is actually by...

Severed Heads. His cover of "Baby you're a rich man" is without a doubt the creme de la creme of Beatles covers.

This Japanese band I saw in Fukuoka did an amazing version of "Across the Universe", very psychedelic.

[mitchum]

26. David Bowie (with John Lennon) "Across The Universe"

[arwalden]

27. Michael Jackson's "Come Together"

[thom1102]

32. Daddy, please make the scary man go away!

:cry:

[Tikki]

29. Joe Cocker's..."I Get By....

.....With A Little Help From My Friends."

[Iverson]

37. She Came In Through the Bathroom Window

Equally strong by Joe Cocker.

[Spirochete]

30. Spooky Tooth

I Am the Walrus

[thom1102]

31. The Beatles, huh? Wasn't that the band Paul McCartney was in before Wings

that ought to spin up some Beatles fans...<insert evil mad doctor laugh here>

[Richardo]

33. ...except these days, few people remember "Wings"

...that band broke up, what, 20+ years ago?

[Michael Daniels]

35. Wilson Pickett's version of Hey Jude

esp. the finale with Pickett showing McCartney how to really scream and Duane Alman (sp?) going at it on guitar

[bif]

36. Brad Meldau-"Blackbird"

Jazz piano trio.