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1) BEATLESQUE Songs:
1963-esque
The Rutles; Blur; Shampoo; Sex Pistols.
Everly Bros.; Blondie; Pretenders; Utopia.
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1963-esque
BEATLESQUE Songs: 1963-esque
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of alternative Beatles sounds!
Los Shakers! The Hollies! Los Brincos!
Guess Who! Czerwone Gitary! Badfinger!
Flamin' Groovies! Ramones! The Rutles!
Elvis Costello! The Jam! Pretenders!
The Go-Go's! Robyn Hitchcock! Lyres!
The Pandoras! The Smithereens! Pixies!
Nirvana! The Muffs! Sloan!
Apples In Stereo! The Coral! Spoon!
Dressy Bessy! Kasabian! Best Coast!
• The BEATLES song plays first (shown here in red).
• It is followed by Clones and Cousins, often bracketed at the beginning and end by Cover versions. Then the next Beatles song repeats the cycle.
• A Clone is a song directly imitating the song. A Cousin is within the same sonic spirit as the original.
• The Beatles' songs are in order of their release; the matching songs are listed sequentially in the order of their own release, i.e., 1963, 1964, 1966, 1976, 1982, etc.
• (If The Beatles recorded a cover version, it is preceded by the original, shown here in yellow.)
• Because The Beatles finished each year with a Christmas flexidisc for their UK Fan Club, each Music Player ends with Holiday songs done in their style.
The Playlist matches each of these songs to its children, in this order...
pre-album recordings
(each cover version is preceded by the original)
•• Phillips' Sound Recording Services (1958): "That'll Be the Day", "In Spite of All the Danger"
•• Home demos (1960): "Hallelujah, I Love Her So", "You'll Be Mine", "Cayenne"
•• Hamburg (1961): "My Bonnie", "Ain't She Sweet", "Cry For A Shadow", by Tony Sheridan And The Beat Brothers
•• Decca audition (1962): "Searchin'", "Three Cool Cats", "The Sheik of Araby", "Like Dreamers Do", "Hello Little Girl"
•• EMI (1962): "Besame Mucho", "How Do You Do It", "One After 909"
• "Love Me Do/ P.S. I Love You" (Oct 1962)
• PLEASE PLEASE ME (Jan 1963):
• "I Saw Her Standing There"
• "Misery"
• "Anna (Go To Him)"
• "Chains"
• "Boys"
• "Ask Me Why"
• "Please Please Me"
• "Love Me Do"
• "P.S. I Love You"
• "Baby It's You"
• "Do You Want To Know A Secret"
• "A Taste Of Honey"
• "There's A Place"
• "Twist And Shout"
• "From Me To You/ Thank You Girl"
• "She Loves You/ I'll Get You"
•• Songs written for other artists: "I'll Keep You Satisfied", "Bad To Me", "I'll Be On My Way", "Love Of The Loved", "I'm In Love", "Hello Little Girl", "Tip Of My Tongue"
• WITH THE BEATLES (Nov 1963):
• "It Won't Be Long"
• "All I've Got To Do"
• "All My Loving"
• "Don't Bother Me"
• "Little Child"
• "Till There Was You"
• "Please Mister Postman"
• "Roll Over Beethoven"
• "Hold Me Tight"
• "You Really Gotta Hold On Me"
• "I Wanna Be Your Man"
• "Devil In Her Heart"
• "Not A Second Time"
• "Money"
(each cover version is preceded by the original)
•• January: "Keep Your Hands off My Baby", "Beautiful Dreamer"
•• March: "Misery", "I'm Talking About You"
•• June: "Young Blood", "Baby It's You", "I Got to Find My Baby", "Sure to Fall (In Love with You)", "Some Other Guy", "Thank You Girl", "I'll Be On My Way", "Boys", "Chains", "P.S. I Love You"
•• July: "That's All Right (Mama)", "Carol", "Soldier Of Love", "Clarabella", "Lend Me Your Comb", "A Taste Of Honey", "Sweet Little Sixteen", "Lonesome Tears In My Eyes", "Nothin' Shakin'", "So How Come (No One Loves Me)", "Love Me Do", "Memphis, Tennessee", "The Hippy Hippy Shake", "Matchbox", "Do You Want To Know A Secret", "Till There Was You", "Please Mr. Postman"
•• August: "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down aAd Cry (Over You)", "Crying, Waiting, Hoping", "To Know Her Is To Love Her", "The Honeymoon Song", "Kansas City / Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!", "Twist and Shout", "I Got A Woman", "Long Tall Sally", "Please Please Me", "Words Of Love", "Glad All Over", "I Just Don't Understand", "Slow Down", "You Really Got A Hold on Me", "A Shot Of Rhythm And Blues", "Ooh! My Soul", "Don't Ever Change", "Anna (Go to Him)"
•• September: "Honey Don't", "Roll Over Beethoven", "There's A Place", "Too Much Monkey Business", "Hippy Hippy Shake", "Lucille", "Ask Me Why", "Devil In Her Heart", "Sure to Fall (In Love With You)"
•• October: "Lucille", "I'll Get You", "She Loves You", "Memphis, Tennessee", "I Saw Her Standing There" (x2)", "From Me To You"
•• December: "This Boy", "Money (That's What I Want)", "I Want To Hold Your Hand"
• Christmas flexi; banter plus "Good King Wenceslas", "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Ringo"
The Playlists will follow the original British release of singles and albums in sequence.
2) BEATLESQUE Songs:
How Their Influence Never EndsPLEASE PLEASE ME (1963)
• The PLEASE PLEASE ME album
reignited Rock'n'Roll in 1963, after the USA Idol dropouts and the varied genre splits on polished Pop radio.
• It was the World returning the music as a renewed force and an act of fervid faith, abolishing the fad narrative of dismissers.
• The debut album swept aside false genre divisions, declaring solidarity with Girl Groups and Soul artists and even Broadway.
• The Beatles took Rock'n'Roll away from the machine, foiling the slick and processed with the raw and shaggy.
• They were the all-in-four real deal: they wrote their own songs, each sang, and they turned the backing bands of the past into the modern self-contained group.
• And they lit the youth fuze with focused fire on a scale no one had ever imagined possible.
Leads To:
▶ Beat Music/Merseybeat, Freakbeat, Garage Rock, Female bands, World bands, Northern Soul, Rock'n'Soul, Pop Ballads, Power Pop, Punk, Britpop.
▶ British Invasion, Rock Groups, Self-written songs.
From their songbook to their style, The Beatles created the template for all others to follow, starting with their first albums.
Artists of every slant found their starting point in these records, and have often reflected the 1963 sounds of The Beatles with direct homages. Here's a quick throughline of the patterns and the creators heard on the Playlist.
(All bold names are heard on the Music Player)
• British Invasion
The rising tide of Beatlemania brought a second wave of Rock'n'Roll into the charts, the airwaves, the screens, and the youth.
A cascade of UK acts -wearing suits and moptops- returned the gift to the USA, including bands like The Rolling Stones, Gerry And The Pacemakers, The Dave Clark Five, The Animals, The Yardbirds, The Kinks, The Hollies, Billy J. Kramer And The Dakotas, Chad And Jeremy, The Swinging Blue Jeans, The Shadows, The Fourmost, and The Remo Four; as well as Pop singers like Dusty Springfield, Lulu, Helen Shapiro, Julie Grant, and Cilla Black.
• World Beat
The Beatles inspired everyone to pick up a guitar and form a group.
Globally, mirror moptops bashed out the beat and leaped crazy on 45" sleeves, including The Rattles (Germany), The Motions (Netherlands), The Phantoms (Netherlands), Czerwone Gitary (Poland), Elipse (Yugoslavia), Kvartet 4M (Croatia), Equipe 84 (Italy), The Rebels (Iran), The Easybeats (Australia), The Rondells (Australia), Les Lutins (Canada), Les Bel Canto (Canada), Les Sultans (Canada), Les Hou-Lops (Canada), Les Merseys (Canada), Los Shakers (Uruguay), Los Mockers (Uruguay), Kano Y Los Bulldogs (Uruguay), Los Impala (Venezuela), Los Jets (Spain), Los Canarios (Spain), Los Pekenikes (Spain), Los Sirex (Spain), Los Idolos (Spain), Los Gatos Salvajes (Argentina), Arco Iris (Argentina), Los Saicos (Peru), Liverpool (Brazil), Os Vips (Brazil), and Los Monstruos (Mexico).
The Debutantes; The Girls At Dawn.
• Female Bands
The Beatles inspired everyone to pick up a guitar and form a group.
There were scores of all-female bands around the world, like The Liverbirds, Goldie And The Gingerbreads, The Debutantes, The Luv'd Ones, The Pleasure Seekers with Suzi Quatro, The Ace Of Cups, The Chicks, Honey Ltd., Les Beatlettes (Canada), Les Soeurs Gallant (Canada), Las Chic's (Mexico), Las Mosquitas (Argentina), Dara Puspita (Indonesia), and The Fair Sect (New Zealand).
They were mistreated, unsigned, underrecorded, and conveniently written out of history, but they were just as vital and valuable as their brothers, and became the baseline for the exponential waves of female bands that followed, including such Beat Music fans as The 'B' Girls, The Go-Go's, The Bangles, Mad Monster Party, The Aquanettas, The Pebbles (Japan), The Milkees (Japan), That's A NO NO! (Japan), THE LET'S GO's (Japan), BIGMAMA SHOCKIN' 3 (Japan), The Beat Girls (Japan), Some Girls with Juliana Hatfield, The Gore Gore Girls, The Girls At Dawn, Vivian Girls, Peach Kelli Pop, Bleached, and Habibi.
> Women Of Rock: 1960s
• Idols
The Beatles had been inspired by their heroes, like Chuck Berry, Little Richard, The Crickets, The Isley Brothers, The Shirelles, Count Basie, Brenda Lee, and Del Shannon. As Beatlemania took sway, their heroes began assimilating their acolytes' innnovations into their own continuing work.
• Peers
May you live with interesting peers.
The Beatles were blessed to be inspired by friends and rivals like The Supremes, The Byrds, The Chambers Brothers, The Guess Who (Canada), Prince Buster (Jamaica), The Golliwogs (pre-Creedence Clearwater Revival), The Bobby Fuller Four, The Remains, The Beau Brummels, and The Beach Boys.
WITH THE BEATLES (1963)
• The WITH THE BEATLES album
established British Beatlemania as a galvanizing force.
• The Brill Building wrote down to youth, whereas The Beatles were youth redefining themselves.
• They were the working class rising from the underground (literally, The Cavern Club) with their own style and outlook.
• With a quantum leap they dramatically increased their song range and melodic chops: brisk hits, pretty ballads, and a showtune offset by surly rockers.
• Its startling graphic cover channeled the Art Cool of Berlin into the mainstream, and redefined them as a new level of modern Pop.
Leads To:
▶ Beat Music/Merseybeat, Freakbeat, Garage Rock, Female bands, World bands, Northern Soul, Rock'n'Soul, Pop Ballads, Power Pop, Pub Rock, Punk, Britpop.
▶ Beatlemania, The Mod scene, Long hair, Art covers, British Invasion.
• Heirs
The Beatles became a compass from which to explore possibilities, and directly led others to make fine and distinctive work of their own, such as The Monkees, Badfinger, (the uncanny post-Python parody) The Rutles, The Motors, The Toms, The Spongetones, Sekret (Russia), The Smithereens, The Posies, The Rembrandts, Sloan, The Boo Radleys, The Minders, Myracle Brah, Frank Lee Sprague, Spoon, The Coral, The Midwest Beat, The Strypes (Ireland), Jack Bartlett, and The Red Button.
• Power Pop
Beatles melodicism, Who crunch.
The hallmarks of both resonate through '70s and '80s acts like Flamin' Groovies, Shoes, The Tweeds, Paul Collins' The Beat, Nikki and the Corvettes, Squire, The Rubinoos, The Poppees, The Pleasers, The Shivvers, The Heaters, The Knack, 20/20, The Last, Pretenders, The Stripes (Germany), and The Times.
• Power Punk
Ramping the Garage Rock in the Beat were thrashing yobs like The 101'ers, Ramones, The Damned, Buzzcocks, The Boys, Elvis Costello And The Attractions, The Nerves, The Breakaways, The Fruit Eating Bears, The Jam, Adam And The Ants, The Rats, Goteborg Sound (Sweden), The Pop Rivets, and The Godfathers.
• Beat Revival
Parallel to Punk, a counter-movement of revival/revisal blossomed in the mid-'80s, with Beat-repeaters like The Catholic Girls, The Rapiers, Lyres, Game Theory, Talulah Gosh, and Marshall Crenshaw.
The pulse still pounded through the '90s and 2000s with Muck and the Mires, The Most, The Weeklings, The Hi-Risers, The Beat Rats, Derrick Anderson, The Jikens (Japan), The Kaisers (Scotland), The Bristols with Fabienne Delsol (France), I Ganzi (Italy), Filhos da Judith (Brazil), The Undershakers (Spain), Kommando Beat (Germany), The Mergers (Germany), Janey And The Ravemen, The Beatophonics (Netherlands), and Acid House Kings (Sweden).
• Garage Rock '80s
Meanwhile, Punk gave permission for Garage revivalists like The Scientists (Australia), Les Playboys (France), The Pandoras, The Milkshakes, and their sisters The Delmonas to jang strings.
This continues in countless 2000s acts like Caesars, Mr. Airplane Man, The Mooney Suzuki, The Come Ons, The Fondas, The Ugly Beats, The Electric Mess, The Pink Tiles (Australia), Doctor Explosion (Spain), Miss Chain And the Broken Heels (Italy), The Peawees (Italy), and The Trip Takers (Italy).
• Alternative
Both Pixies and Nirvana grounded their corrosion in a strong sense of melody and memorable hooks, an underlying trait that is shared by Indie acts like The Lemonheads, Blue Skies For Black Hearts, and Best Coast.
In 1963, THE BEATLES overwrote the history of Rock'n'Soul with a new future.
And as their sounds expanded, so did all the responses across time...
• 1963-esque
• 1964-esque
• 1965-esque
• 1966-esque
• 1967-esque
• 1968-esque
• 1969-esque
• 1970-esque
• 'REUNION' 1970-Now
✭ BEATLESQUE: Christmas
© Research, Art, and Essay by Tym Stevens
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