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Songs which reference The Beatles

Started by Sin Agog, January 11, 2019, 05:08:03 PM

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Sin Agog

Fuck it, let's go full on Steve Hoffman.

I'll start with a couple of '60s ye-ye tunes, the first of which almost sounds like proto-Can:

Leonie - Lennon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO6qF_BEdHc
(I always laugh when the backing singer comes in with a clear impression of McCartney in rock singer mode.  Must have fucked him off if he ever heard it)

Charlotte Leslie - Monsieur 'arrison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UpgLEJfUmo

The Culture Bunker

House of Love - The Beatles and the Stones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgXijaDkqVM

Not one of their best efforts, admittedly. The opposite of the sentiment it expresses may be:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KorwwAjKpaY

purlieu

Taxman, Mr. Thief by Cheap Trick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp_qMbDmB8Y

Direct and indirect Beatles references galore.

Egyptian Feast

The White Noise Revisited by The Boo Radleys.

QuoteKill yourself at work for what seems nothing at all
Then you go home and you cry and you feel so
Very small, so you listen to the Beatles and relax and close your eyes
And you feel it running through you
Feel the hate well up inside


Just a recurring lyrical reference to the Beatles and the Stones.

Metric - Gimme Sympathy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqldwoDXHKg


Sin Agog

Quote from: wosl on January 11, 2019, 05:21:28 PM
Ex-fan des sixties!

Haha, cracking up at how Birkin reverts to her British accent every time she speak-sings a reference.

PaulTMA

Sir Beatles Wings by Strawberry Walrus.  Macca's entire life story in 2m 46.  Stick with it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvYKh41mE98

eifion

"With John F Kennedy and The Beatles (yeah yeah yeah)" - The Dream Academy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UXnulANF8g

"Before The Quarrymen and The Moondogs" - The Lilac Time - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUnW8olFv7c

(Irrelevantly, one dedicated to Nick Drake, the other named after a Nick Drake lyric).

Quote from: The Culture Bunker on January 11, 2019, 05:10:21 PM
House of Love - The Beatles and the Stones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgXijaDkqVM

Not one of their best efforts, admittedly. The opposite of the sentiment it expresses may be:

Beady Eye - Beatles and Stones

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dO6arA7dzwQ


Not one of Liam Gallagher's best etc.

DrGreggles

'I Can See My House From Here' by Steven Page
https://youtu.be/h5Sn5QKN9-o

Plenty of references to The Beatles and some of their solo stuff.

The Culture Bunker

Quote from: thecuriousorange on January 11, 2019, 06:09:52 PM
Beady Eye - Beatles and Stones

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dO6arA7dzwQ


Not one of Liam Gallagher's best etc.
Hell's teeth! That makes the House of Love effort seem up there with the source material.



Bingo Fury

Sissy Spacek feeling betrayed by Lennon exposing his knob on the sleeve of Two Virgins:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfeQ3wuvXn0

hummingofevil

Jagger shouts "Back In The USSR" during Dancing In The Street.

pigamus



Sin Agog

Think Caetano Veloso did this a few times.  Especially in the period when he'd been exiled from sunny, happy Brazil to damp, sardonic England.  Probably as a way of finding some connection to the land he was forced to live in.

"Woke up this morning, singing an old Beatles song"

It's a Long Way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH046GJFnS4

(Also mentioned It's a Long and Winding Road in the same song).

Custard

The Clash had a harsh one in London Calling with "phony Beatlemania has bitten the dust"

The Boo Radleys - The White Noise Revisited

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UrnFuKnu6Y

"Then you go home and you cry and you feel so
Very small, so you listen to the Beatles and relax and close your eyes."

Absorb the anus burn

ELO: "and faded like The Beatles on Hey Jude!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5qk2c1OuRA

Lemon Jelly: "John....... Paul.......... George......... Ringo......"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKMg2o4hOoo

kalowski

No Elvis, Beatles or Rolling Stones in 1977.

Crabwalk

'Genius Envy' by Teenage Fanclub

QuoteSo what if you see other people?
I only get jealous when I listen to The Beatles
So go and get someone new

Crabwalk

One of my favourites is the little throwaway line in The Temptations' 'Ball of Confusion'

QuoteFear in the air, tension everywhere
Unemployment rising fast, The Beatles's new record's a gas

Unbeknownst to the band, The Beatles had already split up when the song was written. I wouldn't exactly call 'Let it Be' a blast in any case, but it's fun to have a little record review drop in the middle of such a heavy song.

"I don't believe in Beatles" - 'God', John Lennon.

non capisco

"Shut about the Beatles and all that ber-luddy lark
I'm trying to get off my face with Barbara ber-luddy Bach"
:- Ringo Starr, 'Leave Me Alone' from the 1978 album "Ringo From The Beatles"

Howj Begg

Quote from: Sin Agog on January 11, 2019, 10:20:33 PM
Think Caetano Veloso did this a few times.  Especially in the period when he'd been exiled from sunny, happy Brazil to damp, sardonic England.  Probably as a way of finding some connection to the land he was forced to live in.

"Woke up this morning, singing an old Beatles song"

It's a Long Way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH046GJFnS4

(Also mentioned It's a Long and Winding Road in the same song).

and one by his compadre Gilberto, "Chuck Berry Fields Forever"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOHkaJt1WI8

purlieu

Has anyone mentioned The White Noise Revisited by The Boo Radleys yet?