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• 1) MUSIC PLAYER
• 2) The Influences
• 1963-esque
• 1964-esque
• 1965-esque
• 1966-esque
• 1967-esque
• 1968-esque
• 1969-esque
• 1970-esque
• 'REUNION' 1970-Now
1) BEATLESQUE Songs:
1969-esque
The Mops; XTC;
Komeda; Olivia Tremor Control.
Booker T And The MGs; Pink Floyd;
The Damned; Sleater Kinney.
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1969-esque
Graphic Novel, by Bill Morrison.
BEATLESQUE Songs: 1969-esque
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of alternative Beatles sounds!
CCR! Aretha! The Move! Marvin Gaye!
Temptations! Rolling Stones! Fanny!
Badfinger! Neil Young! Alice Cooper!
Zeppelin! Emitt Rhodes! King Crimson!
Eddie Hazel! 10cc! Thin Lizzy! Queen!
Patti Smith! Elvis Costello! The Slits!
Dead Boys! XTC! Squeeze! Talking Heads!
Soft Boys! Spongetones! Let's Active!
Melvins! Stone Roses! Tori Amos! Beck!
Nirvana! Primal Scream! Supergrass!
Garbage! Olivia Tremor Control! Oasis!
Radiohead! Fastball! White Stripes!
Sam Phillips! Earlimart! Buffalo Daughter!
The Raconteurs! Duke Spirit! El Goodo!
Deerhoof! The Clientele! Tame Impala!
Nicole Atkins! Linus Of Hollywood!
Lawrence Arabia! Smith Westerns!
• The BEATLES song plays first (shown here in blue).
• 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., 1966, 1968, 1978, 1987, etc.
• (If another acts' song inspired theirs, it is placed right before it: e.g., The Merseys, The Band, James Taylor, Mason Williams, Beethoven, Fleetwood Mac.)
• 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...
• YELLOW SUBMARINE (Jan 1969):
• "All Together Now"
• "Hey Bulldog"
• "It's All Too Much"
• "All You Need Is Love"
•• GET BACK Sessions
woodshedded songs (Jan 1969):
• Paul - "Paul's Piano Piece", "Teddy Boy", "I Lost My Little Girl", ('Too Bad About Sorrows', 'The Palace Of The King Of The Birds');
• John - "Gimme Some Truth", "Madman", "Rambling Woman", "Suzy Parker", "Shakin' In The Sixties", "Watching Rainbows"
• George - "Window Window", "All Things Must Pass", "Woman Don't You Cry For Me", "Beautiful Girl"
• Ringo - "Taking A Trip To Carolina"
• Cover versions - "The Walk", "Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues", "Ain't She Sweet", "Because I Know You Love Me So", "Without A Song", "Maggy Mae"/"Fancy My Chances With You"
• "Let It Be/ You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)" (March 1969)
• "Get Back/ Don't Let Me Down" (April 1969)
• "Give Peace a Chance/ Cold Turkey",
Plastic Ono Band
• "Don't Worry, Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow)",
Plastic Ono Band
•• Songs written for other artists:
"Come And Get It", "Goodbye", "Penina"
• ABBEY ROAD (Sept 1969):
• "Come Together"
• "Something"
• "Maxwell's Silver Hammer"
• "Oh! Darling"
• "Octopus's Garden"
• "I Want You (She's So Heavy)"
• "Here Comes The Sun"
• "Because"
• "You Never Give Me Your Money"
• "Sun King"
• "Mean Mr Mustard"
• "She Came In Through The Bathroom Window"
• "Golden Slumbers"
• "Carry That Weight"
• "The End"
• (+ "Her Majesty")
• Christmas flexi
The Playlists will follow the original British release of singles and albums in sequence.
2) BEATLESQUE Songs:
How Their Influence Never EndsYELLOW SUBMARINE (1969)
• The YELLOW SUBMARINE album,
like MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR, is the other postscript to SGT. PEPPER.
• Compiled mainly from 1967 recordings, it provides a lysergic chaser to the recent stark sobriety of THE WHITE ALBUM.
• A contract obligation for the band, the animated film exploded unexpectedly in popular culture because of its signature Pop Art graphics, and rejuvenated their popularity among a new wave of young.
• The combo of John and Paul's flip fun with George's murky heaviosity creates a heady kids album/kiddy heads album enjoyable for its own frivolity.
Leads To:
▶ Baroque Pop, Raga Rock, PostPunk, Paisley Underground, Neo Psyche, Indie Pop.
▶ Milton Glaser/Peter Max graphics, Midnight Movies, Cult films.
Beyond time, place, or genre, musical artists have continuously made specific homages reflecting the 1969 sounds of The Beatles.
(All bold names are heard on the Music Player)
Creedence Clearwater Revival.
• PEERS / All Together Now
The Beatles inspired and were inspired by the Blues and Popcraft of their compatriots: British bands like The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, The Hollies, Fleetwood Mac, and The Bonzo Dog Band; and American acts like The Turtles, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Three Dog Night.
• SOUL / You Got To Be Free
Their love of Soul was returned across time by Soul, Funk, and HipHop artists like James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, Gladys Knight And The Pips, Edwin Starr, Booker T And The MG's, Willie Bobo, Charles Wright and The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band, Brook Benton, Billy Preston, Joe Cocker, Ike And Tina Turner, George Benson, Shirley Scott, Syl Johnson, War, The Persuasions, Bloodstone, The Brothers Johnson, Parliament, Eddie Hazel, PM Dawn, Kindred The Family Soul, Soulive, André 3000, Curtis Harding, and Osaka Monaurail.
Their early love of Jamaican musics was reciprocated in kind by Marcia Griffiths, Toots And The Maytals, The Israelites, Harry J Allstars, and Peter Tosh.
• FOLK / You Know I Believe And How
Their moves paralleled the expressions of Folk and Roots artists over time like Gene Clark, The Band, James Taylor, Simon And Garfunkel, Neil Young, America, Jeffrey Gaines, The Jayhawks, Wilco, Sam Phillips, and Ron Sexsmith;
with Country acts like Chet Atkins + Jerry Reed amd The Sweet Remains;
and with piano balladeers like Carole King, Randy Newman, Eddie Hardin, Tori Amos, and Weyes Blood.
• WORLD / Because The World Is Round, It Turns Me On
They wanted Love for the world, and the globe gave it back, in fine work by Les Sextans (Canada), Les Bel Canto (Canada), Les Intrigantes (Canada), Tages (Sweden), The Invaders (South Africa), The Flame (South Africa), Los Brincos (Spain), and Liverpool (Brazil).
• HEIRS / All Good Children Go To Heaven
They parented a lineage of artists who retained that luminosity in their own outlooks:
The Move, Badfinger, Harry Nilsson, Gerry Rafferty, Emitt Rhodes, Sleepy Hollow, Electric Light Orchestra, The Rutles, and Cheap Trick '70s;
Squeeze, The Spongetones, The Bangles, and The Smithereens '80s;
Chris von Sneidern, Oasis with Noel and Liam Gallagher, The Grays, Sloan, Elliott Smith, The Badge, Myracle Brah, and The Clientele '90s;
Velvet Crush, Swag, The Coral, Spoon, Robbers On High Street, Dr. Dog, and Pugwash '00s;
El Goodo, The Lovetones, Lawrence Arabia, Quilt, Jack Bartlett, Aaron Lee Tasjan, and Yorick van Norden '10s.
• IDOLS / And I Will Sing A Lullaby
They kindled their elders like Sarah Vaughan, Vince Guaraldi, The Jazz Crusaders, and Peggy Lee.
• FAM / Sun Kings
Their best creations surveyed their own horizons, with some heartfelt callbacks to their parents in work by The Claypool Lennon Delirium and The GOASTT (The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger) with Sean Ono Lennon, and Fistful of Mercy with Dhani Harrison.
ABBEY ROAD (1969)
• The ABBEY ROAD album
is the true full-power finale of The Beatles.
• After trying to go to basics with the halted GET BACK project, it's a return to full production and a shift from solo demos to group interplay again.
• If THE WHITE ALBUM is the other bracket to RUBBER SOUL, this is the true bookend to SGT. PEPPER.
• Its warm, intricate production infuses a song cycle of Folk glow, contusion Blues, maniacal Pop, gutbucket Soul, Piano hymns, luminous madrigals, emerging Prog Rock, and prescient Moog electronics.
• John brings in his new Punk attack style, Ringo has jolly fun, Paul fuses it all together with grand virtuosity, and George blindsides them all with two of the best love songs ever made.
• The impossibly iconic cover shows our heroes walking from Abbey Road studios into the crossroads of the future.
Leads To:
▶ College Rock/FM, ‘20s/’30s Revival, '50s Revival, Classic Rock, Piano Rock, Boogie Rock, Electronic Rock, Soft Rock, Hard Rock, Punk, Grunge, Indie pop.
▶ Studio wizardry, headphone rock, FM stations, The Standard.
• NEW BEAT / Some Kind Of Innocence Is Measured Out In Years
Their Beat Music with 1969 sunshine remained perennial in the spirit of artists like The Grip Weeds, Push Kings, Frank Lee Sprague, The Redwalls, Filhos da Judith (Brazil), Groovy Uncle, and Miles Kane.
• POWER POP / We Would Sing And Dance Around
They motivated Pop artists to inflect some adult wisdom in their teen spirit, such as The Raspberries, 10cc, Dwight Twilley, The Motors, The Vapors, Utopia with Todd Rundgren, Peter Case, The Posies, The Young Fresh Fellows, Supergrass, Fountains Of Wayne, Fastball, The Badge, Kaiser Chiefs, The Young Veins, and Richard Swift.
• GARAGE / Killer Diller
Their noize blasts and snark were the lead-up to upstarts like Patti Smith, Ramones, Sex Pistols, The Damned, Dead Boys, The Slits, X-Ray Spex, Public Image Ltd., The Laughing Dogs, Nina Hagen, The Replacements, 60 Ft Dolls, The White Stripes, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Caesars, and The Gurus (Spain).
• PSYCHE / Sail Me On A Silver Sun
Their angel chorales, non sequitur cheek, and hypnotic distortion divinated flocks of lobestrobers like Pink Floyd with David Gilmour, Velvet Underground, Love, The Idle Race, and Caravan '60s;
The Soft Boys, The Dukes Of Stratosphear, Let's Active, The Dream Academy, and The Stone Roses '80s;
Jellyfish, Ocean Colour Scene, Kula Shaker, Santos Dumont (Chile), of Montreal, and The Olivia Tremor Control '90s;
Circulatory System, The Morning Benders, Super Furry Animals, Echobrain, Earlimart, Nicole Atkins, Tara Busch '00s;
Elf Power, The Green Pajamas, Turn Me On Dead Man, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Tame Impala, Kegawa No Maries (Japan), The Kissaten (Japan), Mikal Cronin, New Electric Ride, Cupid's Carnival, Vanishing Twin, and HOLY '10s.
• INDIE / By The Banks Of Her Own Lagoon
They opened up the latitude and attitude for Independent artists to explore their own errant spaces, like Alex Chilton, Elvis Costello And The Attractions, Talking Heads, Jane Kennaway, The Glove, Tears For Fears, Love And Rockets, Yo La Tengo, Primal Scream, Spiritualized, Paul Weller, Suede, Beck, Sleeper, Radiohead, Garbage, Blur, The Cardigans, Butter 08, Cornershop, Rooney, The Vines, Papas Fritas, Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks, Girls, Florence And The Machine, Elbow, The Duke Spirit, Arctic Monkeys, Dum Dum Girls, Animal Collective, TECLA, The Besnard Lakes, Low, Beachwood Sparks, Smith Westerns, Banda de Turistas (Argentina), Tashaki Miyaki, and Toro y Moi.
• ICONOCLASTS / Pataphysical Science
They, singlular and together, were noize and assemblage and shizoid and fearless, hence Yoko Ono, William S. Fischer, Sonic Youth, Butthole Surfers, Negativland, Ween, Buffalo Daughter, Deerhoof, and White Denim.
• ROCK / The Love That's Shining All Around You
They turned epic Rock into a malleable Art form, sculpted ever since by Led Zeppelin, King Crimson, Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, Chicago, Fanny, Eric Clapton, Elton John, T. Rex, New York Dolls, Humble Pie, Flied Egg, Velvert Turner Group, Aerosmith, Leslie West, Thin Lizzy, Angel, Queen, Bad Company, Be Bop Deluxe, King's X, Lenny Kravitz, Living Colour with Corey Glover, Jane's Addiction, Coroner, Type O Negative, Melvins, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Chris Cornell, Skunk Anansie, Silverchair, Jet, Black Joe Lewis, and The Raconteurs.
In 1969, THE BEATLES fractured in turmoil and yet reconvened for final glory.
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
© Research, Art, and Essay by Tym Stevens
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