Friday, August 16, 2019

BEATLESQUE Songs: 1966-esque

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BEATLESQUE SONGS

#4 of 9


Covers, Clones, + Cousins!

Hear every 1966 BEATLES song
matched to its covers, clones, + cousins,
all in chronological order.

The most comprehensive matching of Beatles songs to the songs they inspired ever made.

Explore a vast Multiverse of 'new Beatles music'!

Shortcut links:
1) MUSIC PLAYER
2) The Influences


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Hear the whole BEATLESQUE Songs series:
1963-esque
1964-esque
1965-esque
1966-esque
1967-esque
1968-esque
1969-esque
1970-esque
'REUNION' 1970-Now









1) BEATLESQUE Songs:

1966-esque



REVOLVER LP Cover homages:
Los Brincos; The Bangles;
Jet; Love.



Music Player:

1966-esque



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BEATLESQUE Songs: 1966-esque
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Over 625 songs and 36 hours worth
of alternative Beatles sounds!

Featuring:
Music Machine! Sly & Family Stone! VU!
Donovan! Pretty Things! Bobbie Gentry!
Jr Parker! Capt. Beefheart! CSNY!
Big Star! Rundgren! Bowie!
Eno! ELO! EWF! Tom Petty! Wire!
The Plimsouls! R.E.M.! Husker Du!
Los Lobos! XTC! Living Colour!
Jane's Addiction! Morrissey! Beck!
Ride! Screaming Trees! Soundgarden!
Radiohead! Oasis! Garbage!
The Vines! The Black Keys! Telekinesis!
Dum Dum Girls! La Sera! Temples! GUM!

And many, many more!



HOW IT WORKS:

The BEATLES song plays first (shown here in red).

Example

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., 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1973, 1986, etc.

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...


BEATLES Releases: 1966

"Paperback Writer/ Rain" (May 1966)

•• Song written for another artist: "Woman"

REVOLVER (Aug 1966):
"Taxman"
"Eleanor Rigby"
"I'm Only Sleeping"
"Love You To"
"Here, There, And Everywhere"
"Yellow Submarine"
"She Said She Said"
"Good Day Sunshine"
"And Your Bird Can Sing"
"For No One"
"Doctor Robert"
"I Want To Tell You"
"Got To Get You Into My Life"
"Tomorrow Never Knows"


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 Ends




REVOLVER
(1966)


The REVOLVER album,
true to its name, is a revolution, fixing Abbey Road studios as the centrum of sonic advances.
It is the album as Statement, songs for songs' sake, beyond touring or hits. This changes the industry into the artist's favor.
It jaunts with Soul, like the James Brown in "Taxman" and the Stax and Motown in "Good Day Sunshine" and "Got To Get You Into My Life".
Paul's ballads are poignant short stories, as beautiful as "Yesterday" yet more nuanced.
John becomes the Psychedelic exemplar with his songs, hitting zenith with the epochal "Tomorrow Never Knows".
George finds himself through India with "Love You To", and opens Western Pop music to World musics.
Ringo steals the show with "Yellow Submarine", a kids sing-along become countercultural choral become global anthem.
The singles "Paperback Writer" and "Rain" inaugurated Pyschedelic Rock as mainstream hits.
REVOLVER established Pop music as a modern art form on par with Jazz, and just as vibrant with possibility.

Leads To:
Freakbeat, Mod, Garage Rock, World bands, Northern Soul, Yé-yé, Group Sounds, Beat En Espanol, Rock'n'Soul, Pop Ballads, Baroque/Chamber Pop, Sunshine Pop, Folk Rock, Country Rock, Singer/Songwriter, World Music, Sitar/Raga Rock, Psychedelic, Psychedelic Soul, Art Rock, Experimental Rock, Power Pop, Pub Rock, Punk, New Pop, Jangle Pop, Paisley Underground, Dream Pop, Madchester, Shoegaze, Britpop, Beat Revival, Neo-Psyche, Drone/Stoner, Indie Pop.
Swinging London, Summer Of Love, Studio As Instrument, Art Albums, Music Videos, Rock as art form, eclectic bands, The Counterculture.



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Beyond time, place, or genre, musical artists have continuously made specific homages reflecting the 1966 sounds of The Beatles.

(All bold names are heard on the Music Player)



The Who; The Kinks; The Zombies.

British Evolution
The album is now an art form.
This had a transformative effect which liberated their home rivals to become themselves, producing great recordings and freer experimentation by The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Pretty Things, The Kinks, The Zombies, The Moody Blues, Herman's Hermits, The Tremeloes, Peter And Gordon, Chad And Jeremy, and The Twilights.

Love you, too
Their American peers responded to peer pressure the best way with more great work by The Beach Boys, Paul Revere And The Raiders, The Mamas And The Papas, Cryan' Shames, The Turtles, The Doors, and The Rascals.


The Temptations; The Supremes;
Sly And The Family Stone.

Free Your Mind and Soul
There is a jubilant pulse of Soul on RUBBER SOUL and REVOLVER.
Radiating back good rays of sunshine were illuminated '60s Soul gods like Diana Ross And The Supremes, The Temptations, Chris Clark, Aretha Franklin, Roy Redmond, P.P. Arnold, Booker T And The MG's, Sly And The Family Stone, and The Foundations;
and vibing this groovy radiance across the years were Rare Earth, Earth Wind And Fire, Terea, Stanley Jordan, Lenny Kravitz, PM Dawn, Soulive, Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings, The Avalanches, and Avery*Sunshine.

And Your Byrd Can Sing
Tin Pan Alley was speechless.
Bob Dylan and The Beatles ushered a wide spectrum of Folk Rock and upcoming Singer Songwriters, such as The Byrds, Gene Clark + The Gosdin Brothers, Bobbie Gentry, Richie Havens, Joni Mitchell, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Neil Diamond, Emmylou Harris, John Denver, Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers, Los Lobos, Rosanne Cash, 10,000 Maniacs, Jeffrey Gaines, Shack, Sam Phillips, The Smiles and Frowns, and Olden Yolk.


Hljómar; Los Brincos; Los Iberos.

Revolving Planet
The Beatles' sonic advances came from touring the world.
Now their global imitators were free to integrate their own roots sounds into their work, like Les Tallmud (Canada), Les Baronets (Canada), Les Aristos (Canada), Hljómar (Iceland), The Vanguards (Norway), The Fat And The Thin (Israel), Los Brincos (Spain), Los Iberos (Spain), Los Shakers (Uruguay), Los Mockers (Uruguay), Meire Pavão (Brazil), Los Macs (Chile), Almendra (Argentina), and Los Walkers (Argentina).


Las Chic's; The Daisy Chain; Honey Ltd.

She Said, You Listen
Never mind the bigots, here's the sex revolution.
Contrary to the flitwit version of Rock history, all-female bands inspired by The Beatles existed worldwide in the mid-'60s. Despite fools and blind historians and missing Spotify gaps, The Daisy Chain, The Feminine Complex, Honey Ltd, Las Chic's (Mexico), Plommons (Sweden), The Untouchable, and The Enchanted Forest beat four-to-the-floor on wax, in dancehalls, and across airwaves.
Their drumsticks righteously pounded the paths for modern acts like The Bangles, Thee Headcoatees, The Hot Toddies, Shonen Knife (Japan), The Kissaten (Japan), Dum Dum Girls, Habibi, and La Sera to explore.
> WOMEN OF ROCK: The 1960s


The Monkees; Bee Gees; Crowded House.

Hear Therein Everyone
Become your idol, become yourself.
Birds of a feather refract together. Artists who found their own unique expression through The Beatles' templates over time include The Redcoats, The Knickerbockers, The Monkees, Bee Gees, The Merry-Go-Round, Grapefruit, and Marmalade, '60s;
and Badfinger, Electric Light Orchestra, Klaatu, Cheap Trick, The Rutles, and The Toms '70s;
and XTC, The Spongetones, The Smithereens, and Crowded House '80s;
and Oasis, Chris von Sneidern, The Boo Radleys, Sloan (Canada), Elliott Smith, Super Ratones (Argentina), Four O'Clock Balloon, Myracle Brah, and Cotton Mather '90s;
and The Clientele, Lucky Bishops, The Resonars, The Autumn Defense, Robbers On High Street, and The Red Button '00s;
and Quilt, Beady Eye, Jack Bartlett, and Groovy Uncle '10s.


The Records; The Knack; The dB's.

Empower Pop
Beat Hook Solo +.
Because of this album, later Power Pop artists would become emboldened to splice more adventure into their arrangements, with classic wax melted by Flamin' Groovies, Big Star, The Tweeds, The Records, Prix, 20/20, Squire, Squeeze with Glenn Tilbrook, Small World, Utopia with Todd Rundgren, The Vapors, The Plimsouls, The dB's, Katrina And The Waves, The Bears with Adrian Belew, The Posies, The Young Fresh Fellows, Matthew Sweet, The Rooks, Menswear, Sleeper, Fastball, Splitsville, Velvet Crush, Kelley Stoltz, and Telekinesis.

Idol (Not Idle)
Their mentors learned new tricks, too, with bold cover versions by The Shadows, Big Maybelle, Ella Fitzgerald, Wes Montgomery, and Junior Parker.


Captain Beefheart; The Go; The Black Keys.

Garage Daze Fuzzshine
Merseybeat > Freakbeat > Garage Rock.
The clock's progression mutated into new chord progressions, resounding roundly through the fuzzboxes of lusty miscreants like The Music Machine, The Velvet Underground + Nico, Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band, Death, The Prisoners, The Chesterfield Kings, The Dirtbombs, The Go, The Black Keys, The Gurus (Spain), Mando Diao, The Len Price 3, DC Fontana, The Out Key Hole (Italy), and Night Beats.


The Jam; Dukes Of Stratosphear; Guadalcanal Diary.

Relax and float downstream
Listen to the colour of your dreams.
REVOLVER is when Beat melted into Psychedelia, opening global ears and quick minds to the new now. Que waves of feedback loops, undulating melodies, and woozy chorals.
Donovan, Love, Velvet Underground, Sagittarius, Daughters of Albion, Syd Barrett, and Trúbrot (Iceland) '60s;
and Ilous & Decuyper (France), The Jam with Paul Weller '70s;
and Stray Trolleys with Martin Newell, The Teardrop Explodes with Julian Cope, The Purple Hearts, The Rain Parade, The Dream Syndicate, The Revolving Paint Dream, The Three O'Clock, Game Theory, Plasticland, The Dentists (Australia), The Dukes Of Stratosphear/XTC, Let's Active, Screaming Trees, Los Negativos (Spain), Guadalcanal Diary, The Green Pajamas, The Darling Buds, The Primitives, Bongwater, and The Stone Roses '80s;
and Inspiral Carpets, Ocean Colour Scene, The Hair (Japan), of Montreal, Oranger, Dungen (Sweden), Pipodélica (Brazil), A Band Of Bees, The Jessica Fletchers, Serpentina (Spain), Bikeride, and Thee Oh Sees '00s;
and levitation room, The Reverberations, Turn Me On Dead Man, Banda de Turistas (Argentina), Sitcom Neighbor, Temples, The Claypool Lennon Delirium, GUM of Tame Impala, The Galileo 7, Lucille Furs, Glim Spanky (Japan), and The Heliocentrics '10s.

Iconoclast
"...of the beginning, of the beginning..."
Do what you wilt shall be the whole of the law.
David Bowie, Brian Eno, Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, Wire '70s;
Talking Heads, Pretenders, The Feelies/Yung Wu, Polyrock, The Psychedelic Furs, The Creatures/Siouxsie, R.E.M., Hüsker Dü, Meat Puppets, R. Stevie Moore, Sinead O'Connor, House of Freaks, Jane's Addiction '80s;
Morrissey, Galaxie 500, Ride, Beck, Garbage, Radiohead, The Chemical Brothers '90s;
The Vines, You Am I, Broadcast, Franz Ferdinand, Kasabian, Field Music, Pas/Cal '00s;
Jane Weaver, Hangabouts, Deradoorian, Django Django, Lorelle Meets The Obsolete (Mexico), Louise Burns, Frank Ocean, and Stealing Sheep '10s.


The Bangles; Nic Armstrong And The Thieves; The Most.

UnBeaten
"You got your Beat in my Psyche"/"You got your Psyche in my Beat."
Beat groups across the decades continually dosed their stomp with some soul and soar, like The Lambrettas, The Times, The Bangles, Eleanor Rigby, The Primitives, Nic Armstrong And The Thieves, Muck And The Mires, Frank Lee Sprague, Vinyl Kings, The Grip Weeds, The Bye Bye Blackbirds, The Moons, James Clarke Five, The Most (Sweden), The Mergers (Germany), and French Boutik (France).

Love is everyone
Rock out to the back of beyond and back around the turnaround.
Black Sabbath, Chicago, Aerosmith, Living Colour, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, Collective Soul, and Jet.





In 1966, THE BEATLES turned Pop albums into musicians' statements.
And as their sounds expanded, so did all the responses across time...


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Hear the whole BEATLESQUE Songs series:
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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