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• 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:
1965-esque
Tater Tots; Echo And The Bunnymen;
The Like; Asylum Party.
Bob Dylan; Jimi Hendrix; The Monkees; Love.
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1965-esque
BEATLESQUE Songs: 1965-esque
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of alternative Beatles sounds!
Four Tops! The Byrds! Jefferson Airplane!
Stevie Wonder! Deep Purple! Chicago!
New York Dolls! Blondie! The Real Kids!
The Damned! YMO! Split Enz!
Squeeze! The Bangles! Replacements!
Happy Mondays! Chris von Sneidern! TCR!
Foo Fighters! Cornershop! Fastball!
Hoooverphonic! Los Flechazos! Soulive!
Sufjan Stevens! Fleet Foxes! El Goodo!
Franz Ferdinand! Mystic Braves! Shelters!
• 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, and followed by all the clones in their style.)
• 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...
• "Ticket To Ride/ Yes It Is" (April 1965)
• "Bad Boy", USA EP add (June 1965)
• "I'm Down", B-side (July 1965)
• HELP! (July 1965):
• "Help!"
• "The Night Before"
• "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away"
• "I Need You"
• "Another Girl"
• "You're Going To Lose That Girl"
• "Ticket To Ride"
• "Act Naturally"
• "It's Only Love"
• "You Like Me Too Much"
• "Tell Me What You See"
• "I've Just Seen A Face"
• "Yesterday"
• "Dizzy Miss Lizzy"
• "We Can Work It Out/ Day Tripper" (Dec 1965)
•• Song written for another artist: "That Means A Lot"
•• "If You've Got Trouble", "12 Bar Original" (both unreleased until 1996)
• RUBBER SOUL (Dec 1965):
• "Drive My Car"
• "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)"
• "You Won't See Me"
• "Nowhere Man"
• "Think For Yourself"
• "The Word"
• ""Michelle"
• "What Goes On"
• "Girl"
• "I'm Looking Through You"
• "In My Life"
• "Wait"
• "If I Needed Someone"
• "Run For Your Life"
(each cover version is preceded by the original)
•• June: "Ticket To Ride", "Dizzy Miss Lizzy"
•• August: "Yesterday", "Twist And Shout", "She’s A Woman", "Dizzy Miss Lizzy", "Ticket To Ride", "Can’t Buy Me Love", "A Hard Day’s Night", "Help!", "Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby", "Baby’s In Black"
• Christmas flexi; banter plus partial snippets of Holiday and Pop songs
The Playlists will follow the original British release of singles and albums in sequence.
2) BEATLESQUE Songs:
How Their Influence Never EndsHELP! (1965)
• The HELP! album
makes it clear that the band is creating a new canon of modern Pop albums, getting exponentially more progressive.
• The Abbey Road studio now becomes an instrument, with multi-layered tracking and more instruments.
• Influenced by their new friend/foil Bob Dylan, John moves to more confessional acoustic songs.
• With two songs, George starts to find his writing chops.
• Rocker Ringo mellows into Country Ringo.
• Paul's "Yesterday", the most covered song of all time, ushers in modern Chamber Pop.
• Along the way they nail the perfect Guitar Riff songs with "Ticket To Ride" and "Day Tripper".
• This was the first Rock album ever nominated for a Grammy.
Leads To:
▶ Beat Music/Merseybeat, Freakbeat, Mod, Garage Rock, Female bands, World bands, Northern Soul, Yé-yé, Group Sounds, Beat En Espanol, Rock'n'Soul, Pop Ballads, Chamber Pop, Folk Rock, Power Pop, Pub Rock, Punk, Jangle Pop, Dream Pop, Britpop, Beat Revival.
▶ British Invasion, Swinging London, Garage bands, World Tours, Stadium shows, Music Videos, Rock hybrids.
Beyond time, place, or genre, musical artists have continuously made specific homages reflecting the 1965 sounds of The Beatles.
(All bold names are heard on the Music Player)
• British Involution
As The Beatles went past phenomenon to zeitgeist, they graduated from 'teen idols' to a career path.
Finding their feet behind them were The Rolling Stones, Gerry And The Pacemakers, The Kinks, The Hollies, The Who, Herman's Hermits, The Swinging Blue Jeans, The Honeycombs, The Moody Blues, and The Equals with Eddy Grant.
The Free Design.
• From My Friends
They inspired and were inspired by their peers and rivals, pushing each other forward with new looks and outlooks.
Purveyors of the new Beat-driven sunshine pop included The Beach Boys, The Vejtables, Francoise Hardy (France), Paul Revere And The Raiders, The Turtles, The Mamas And The Papas, The Lovin' Spoonful, The Knickerbockers, and The Left Banke, followed later by expansive acts like Jefferson Airplane, The Bonzo Dog Band, and The Free Design.
• Idolatry
Espying their flag waving and transcribing the signals were mentors like Link Wray, The Everly Brothers, Miriam Makeba (South Africa), Lee Morgan, Joe Pass, Charlie Byrd, Asha Bhostle (India), and Henry Mancini.
• World Beat
The message of The Beatles was perceived aound the world.
Signaling global semaphores were The Del-Vetts, Les Playboys (France), Les Anges (France), Los Brincos (Spain), Los Pepes (Spain), Los Watts (Spain), Los Zooms (Spain), Los Soberanos (Spain), Los Salvajes (Spain), Els Picapedrers (Spain), Los Continentales (Spain), Liverpool (Brazil), Os Vips (Brazil), Kano Y Los Bulldogs (Uruguay), Miguel Y El Comité (Uruguay), Los Gatos (Argentina), La Barra De Chocolate (Argentina), Los Saicos (Peru), Les Baroques (Netherlands), Czerwone Gitary (Poland), Olympic (Czech.), The Beatmen (Czech.), Hungária (Hungary), Zé-Gé (Hungary), Zsuzsa Koncz (Hungary), Grupo 220 (Croatia), Les Lutins (Canada), Les Excentriques (Canada), Les Différents (Canada), Les Sultans (Canada), Les Merseys (Canada), Wells Fargo (Zimbabwe), The Spiders (Japan), The Siglap 5 (Indonesia), The Chosen Few (Australia), and The Easybeats (Australia).
The Pebbles; Thee Cherylinas; The Like.
• She's Got The Beat!
She didn't just follow the band, she was the band.
All-female combos getting little help from a sexist industry in the mid-'60s included Beat Music rockers like The Luv'd Ones, The Belles, The Daisy Chain, The Feminine Complex, Dara Puspita (Indonesia), Females (Indonesia), and Las Chic's (Mexico) '60s.
Support arrived across time with Noh Mercy, The Go-Go's, The Bangles, Les Calamités (France), The Delmonas, and Mad Monster Party '80s;
with Thee Headcoatees, The Muffs, The Pebbles (Japan), Thee Cherylinas (Germany), and The Donnas '90s;
and The Milkees (Japan), The Like, TCR, Sit n' Spin, Peach Kelli Pop, and La Sera '10s.
Katrina And The Waves.
• Pop Power
Three minutes with a hook.
With all the style expansions in Rock that eventually followed in their wake, the primal need for 3-minute melodic pop songs with punch still twined like a spine through the decades:
The Raspberries, Dwight Twilley, Blue Ash, Ronnie D'Addario, ABBA, Sneakers, Nick Lowe, The Records, The Pleasers, The Poppees, and The Knack '70s;
Utopia with Todd Rundgren, The Shivvers, Pretenders, The Romantics, The dB's, Marshall Crenshaw, Katrina And The Waves, and The Smithereens '80s;
The Young Fresh Fellows, The Posies, Matthew Sweet, and Velvet Crush '90s;
Splitsville, The Minders, Fastball, and Sufjan Stevens '00s;
Derrick Anderson, Best Coast, The Young Veins, and Telekinesis '10s.
• Put The BE In Beatles
Many acts tried on the boots and found their own stride.
Their reflection led to a refraction of new possibilities through artists like The Redcoats, The Monkees, The Clefs Of Lavender Hill, and The Merry-Go-Round with Emitt Rhodes '60s;
Harry Nilsson, The Move with Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne, Badfinger, The Rutles, Squeeze, and The Toms '70s;
The Spongetones and Crowded House '80s;
The Rembrandts, Chris von Sneidern, The Boo Radleys, Myracle Brah, and Cotton Mather '90s;
The Resonars, The Clientele, The Lovetones, Swag, The Coral, Three Hour Tour, Broken Vinyl Club, and The Red Button '00s;
The Midwest Beat, The Vals, The Draytones, Quilt, The Strypes (Ireland), The Cherry Bomb Peppers (Spain), The Clean, Jack Bartlett, Cut Worms, and El Goodo '10s.
RUBBER SOUL (1965)
• The RUBBER SOUL album
is when the Abbey Road studio changed from pitstop to playground, and the band could relax from touring to explore.
• If '50s Rock LPs were always hits and filler, this record redefined Albums as a unified statement of quality songs by vital artists.
• The fluid nexus of Beatles/Dylan/Byrds created the Folk Rock movement.
• For all the storied Country influence, the album is alive with jaunty Soul influence from Stax and Motown faves, hence the title pun.
• Their new relaxation herb led them into Psychedelia and the tonalities of World musics.
• Their contemplative and organic songs hearken the synthesis of Pop and Singer Songwriter.
Leads To:
▶ Freakbeat, Mod, Garage Rock, Female bands, World bands, Northern Soul, Yé-yé, Group Sounds, Beat En Espanol, Rock'n'Soul, Pop Ballads, Chamber Pop, Sunshine Pop, Folk Rock, Country Rock, World Music, Sitar Rock, Psychedelic, Psychedelic Soul, Power Pop, Pub Rock, Punk, New Pop, Jangle Pop, Paisley Underground, Dream Pop, Britpop, Beat Revival, Neo-Psyche.
▶ Swinging London, Garage bands, World Tours, Studio As Instrument, Art Albums, Music Videos, Rock hybrids, The Counterculture.
Soulive.
• Rubber Soul
Upbeat was the sound of a new world, and all fingers were snapping.
Bouncing back some soul tread were Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson And The Miracles, Four Tops, The Chambers Brothers, Otis Redding, Booker T And The MG's, The Bar-Kays, Bettye LaVette, David Porter, and Nolan Porter; and later artists like Black Heat, The Sylvers, PM Dawn, Soulive, and The Budos Band.
Jamaica redubbed The Beatles' groove in songs by Willie Lindo, Clarendonians, Ernest Ranglin, and Scientist.
• Are You Ready For The Country?
1965 saw The Beatles moving into Folk Rock.
Reacting naturally were Country stalwarts like Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, and Anne Murray;
building bridges from Folk to Rock were Bob Dylan, The Byrds with Gene Clark, Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills and Neil Young, Neil Diamond, and fluid troubadour Donovan;
broadening the hilly horizon were similar offspring like Gilbert O'Sullivan, Tom Petty, The Long Ryders, Suzanne Vega, 10,000 Maniacs,The Jayhawks, Shack, Sam Phillips, The Wallflowers with Jakob Dylan, Ben Kweller, and the folke chorals of Fleet Foxes.
• Drive My Car
From inspiring legions of teens bashing in their garages to the surly buzz of Garage Rock, they kicked open the club sidedoor for rude louts across time.
Rowdy guests on the Playlist include Velvet Underground, The Damned, Buzzcocks, The Real Kids, Ultravox, Sham 69, The Prisoners, Dagen D (Sweden), Shockabilly, The Fastbacks, The Replacements, The Flatmates, The Delmonas, Jesus And Mary Chain, The Muffs, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Von Bondies, The Go, Mr. Airplane Man, Los Flechazos (Germany), Sorrows, The Gore Gore Girls, The Gurus (Spain), Miss Ludella Black, The Ugly Beats, The Love Me Nots, Nicki And The Vengents, The Shake, The Limiñanas (France), Doctor Explosion (Spain), and Suzi Chunk of Groovy Uncle.
Thee Headcoatees.
• This Bird Has Flown
The highs were clearly kicking in on the wavery cover of RUBBER SOUL, and initial Psyche bands like Love, Traffic, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Joint Effort, and The Yankee Dollar followed their bliss.
Psyche evangelists continued to relay the joint spirit from the '80s to now through wavebenders like The Jam, The Stray Trolleys with Martin Newell, The Plimsouls, The Rain Parade, The Three O'Clock, The Bangles, The Revolving Paint Dream, Robyn Hitchcock And The Egyptians, The Dentists (Australia), Game Theory, White Flag, The Darling Buds, Ocean Colour Scene, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, of Montreal, The Apples In Stereo, Serpentina (Spain), Frankie Rose And The Outs, Banda de Turistas (Argentina), Aunt Nelly, Mystic Braves, The Psycrons (Japan), Sitcom Neighbor, and White Denim.
• New Waves
Do you really have to hide your love away?
As the press milked the conflict narrative using Punk's mantra of generational overthrow, in reality that next wave of youth of course reflected and expanded on their parents.
1965 sounds resonate clearly in Roxy Music, Blondie, The Cars, Elvis Costello, Devo, The Vapors, The Vertebrats, Small World, Telegrama (Spain), The Photos, The Flashcubes, Split Enz, Yellow Magic Orchestra, The Stripes with Nena (Germany), Holly And The Italians, The Police, The Boomtown Rats, Echo And the Bunnymen, Love Tractor, and R.E.M..
• And The Beat Goes On
Beat Beat repeat.
The jangling guitars and crack melodies of Beat Music became a timeless torch kept ablaze by Flamin' Groovies and The Beat with Paul Collins '70s;
The Rapiers, Sekret (Russia), and The Thanes '80s;
The Rooks, The Greenberry Woods, Cast, and The Bristols with Fabienne DelSol '90s;
Frank Lee Sprague of The Sprague Brothers, Dressy Bessy, The Connection, Muck and the Mires, The Singles, Slumber Party, The Grip Weeds, Kaiser George And The Hi-Risers, The Neatbeats (Japan), and The Belmondos (Italy) '00s;
and Filhos da Judith (Brazil), The Jikens (Japan), Cola Jet Set (Spain), Noonday Underground, Palmyra Delran, The Beat Rats, The Woggles, The Weeklings, The Moons, The Mergers (Germany), Peter Berry And The Shake Set (Norway), The Jerry Hormone Ego Trip (Netherlands), The Most (Sweden), and French Boutik (France) '10s.
• The Word is LOVE
The Beatles are the prism that projects all facets of Rock.
This period's sonic innovations also infused great songs across the years by a boundless array of artists like Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Deep Purple, Chicago, Piero Umiliani, New York Dolls, Heart, Aerosmith, Linda Ronstadt, NRBQ, Steely Dan, Adrian Belew, The Bats (New Zealand), Happy Mondays, Type O Negative, Traveling Wilburys, Lush, The Pearlfishers, Paul Westerberg, Jeffrey Gaines, Foo Fighters, The Fiery Furnaces, The Shelters, The London Souls, Black Grape, The Bye Bye Blackbirds, Cornershop, Franz Ferdinand, and Linus Of Hollywood.
In 1965, THE BEATLES rearranged what was possible in Rock Music.
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
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