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BEATLESQUE SONGS
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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:
1968-esque
The Move; Harry Nilsson;
Black Sabbath; Billy Preston.
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1968-esque
BEATLESQUE Songs: 1968-esque
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of alternative Beatles sounds!
CCR! Beach Boys! Ramsey Lewis!
Pink Floyd! Stevie Wonder! MC5!
Os Mutantes! Simon & Garfunkel!
Led Zeppelin! Black Sabbath!
Badfinger! Nilsson! Big Star! ELO!
Bowie! Eno! Elton!
10cc! Tom Waits! Queen!
The Clash! The Rutles! The Cars!
Squeeze! Siouxsiee! The Knack!
Swell Maps! R.E.M.! Prince!
Eurythmics! The Smiths! Hüsker Dü!
Fugazi! Flaming Lips! Wilco! Ween!
Nirvana! The Breeders! The Jayhawks!
Soundgarden! GBV! STP! Beck!
Oasis! Blur! Supergrass!
Elliott Smith! QOTSA! White Stripes!
Spoon! BRMC! The Vines!
Thee Oh Sees! Fiery Furnaces! Ty Segall!
Bon Iver! Habibi! London Souls!
Kikagaku Moyo! Weyes Blood!
• 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., 1968, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1986, 1996, 2005, etc.
• (If another song inspired theirs, it is placed right before it.: e.g., "Back In The USA" and "Surfin' USA" before "Back In The USSR".)
• 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...
• "Lady Madonna/ The Inner Light" (March 1968)
• "Hey Jude/ Revolution" (Aug 1968)
• THE BEATLES/ 'The White Album' (Nov 1968):
• "Back In The USSR"
• "Dear Prudence"
• "Glass Onion"
• "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"
• "Wild Honey Pie"
• "The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill"
• "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
• "Happiness Is A Warm Gun"
• "Martha My Dear"
• "I'm So Tired"
• "Blackbird"
• "Piggies"
• "Rocky Raccoon"
• ("A Beginning", unused George Martin intro to...)
• "Don't Pass Me By"
• "Why Don't We Do It In the Road"
• "I Will"
• "Julia"
• "Birthday"
• "Yer Blues"
• "Mother Nature's Son"
• "Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except For Me And My Monkey"
• "Sexy Sadie"
• "Helter Skelter"
• "Long, Long, Long"
• "Revolution (1)"
• "Honey Pie"
• "Savoy Truffle"
• "Cry Baby Cry"
• ("Can You Take Me Back" fragment)
• "Revolution #9"
• "Good Night"
•• Song written for other artists: "Thingumybob", "Badge", "Sour Milk Sea", "Step Inside Love"
• Songs demos that were recorded later:
"Los Paranoias" (loose jam), "Junk", "Not Guilty", "Circles", "Dehra Dun", "What's The New Mary Jane", "Cosmically Conscious", "Child Of Nature", "Look At Me"
• "WONDERWALL" soundtrack, by George Harrison
• Christmas flexi; banter, collage, John's poems, and Paul's ad-lib "Happy Christmas, Happy New Year"
The Playlists will follow the original British release of singles and albums in sequence.
2) BEATLESQUE Songs:
How Their Influence Never EndsTHE BEATLES (1968)
• The double-LP THE BEATLES,
the un-PEPPER, stripped away ambition and embellishment for feel and spontenaity.
• The entirely blank cover with small, askew embossed title had to be rorshached and felt in every sense.
• The songs are intimate demos or loose jams with light overdubs.
• The four sides reflect four individuals looking for peace amid chaos, rolling between abrasion and introspection.
• The songs are generally straight-ahead Rock, Blues, Ska, Folk, Soul, Music Hall, Country, or Musique Concrète.
• Called THE BEATLES more as a culmination than collection, it is quietly the seeds of their solo careers.
• The climax "Revolution 9", a found-sound montage perfectly summing the chaos of 1968 and the tensions that created the album, may be the most brashly challenging/alienating/revelatory statement in Rock music history.
• Its fractured beauty forecast every band tension record, schizoid and sprawling double album, loose solo side project, stark or mellow Indie confessional, and nervous breakthrough recording that ever followed.
Leads To:
▶ Alt Country, Indie Folk, Singer/Songwriter, Art Rock, Baroque Pop, Heavy Mod, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Punk Blues, Grunge, Stoner, Musique Concrète, Industrial, Noize, PostPunk, Protest Rock, 2 Tone, '50s Revival, Lo Fi.
▶ Adult Rock, Protest Culture, cornucopia double-albums.
Beyond time, place, or genre, musical artists have continuously made specific homages reflecting the 1968 sounds of The Beatles.
(All bold names are heard on the Music Player)
• PEERS
The Beatles' back-to-basics approach and mature material was liberating for kindrid spirits like
The Beach Boys with Dennis Wilson, The Pretty Things, Bonzo Dog Band with Neil Innes, Fire, Fleetwood Mac, The Equals, The Kinks, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Turtles, Steve Miller Band, Spirit, Redbone, and Affinity's Linda Hoyle.
• SOUL
Their organic Soul and liberation stance moved major shakers like
Wilson Pickett, Arthur Conley, Lowell Fulson, The Five Stairsteps, Stevie Wonder, The Bar-Kays, Swamp Dogg, American Gypsy, Minnie Riperton, The Moments, Bootsy Collins, Prince, Public Enemy, Dionne Farris, Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood, Adele, Alice Smith, Nappy Roots, Benjamin Booker, and Curtis Harding.
Reggae and Ska artists dubbed that spirit in jams by Jackie Mittoo, Joyce Bond, John Holt, Ken Lazarus, The Dynamites, The Paragons, and The Crystalites; and later works by Max Romeo, The Specials, and Sublime.
• SIDE SONGS
In a bountiful year, Paul and George wrote songs for
Cilla Black, Black Dyke Mills Band, and Jackie Lomax.
• FOLK + PIANO
After Bob Dylan and The Band went Roots, The Beatles embraced the path that led to Singer-Songwriter, as did varied acts like
Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, Simon And Garfunkel, America, The Eagles, Gilbert O'Sullivan, John Denver, Stackridge, Los Lobos, The Waterboys, Tracy Chapman, Suzanne Vega, The Jayhawks, Sam Phillips, Billy Bragg + Wilco, Aimee Mann, Shack, Alison Krauss, The Mavericks, Daniel Johnston, Ed Harcourt, Keren Ann, Bon Iver, and Hollow Hand.
The phenomenal success of the "Hey Jude" single put the spotlight on piano balladeers like
Randy Newman, Eddie Hardin, Billy Joel, Fiona Apple, Sheryl Crow, Regina Spektor, Lana Del Rey, Tobias Jesso Jr, and Weyes Blood.
• HEIRS
Across time, The Beatles became a thought experiment where intuned acolytes mined new stratagems, like
The Redcoats, The Monkees, The Idle Race, Grapefruit, Paper Garden, and The Move '60s;
and Badfinger, Sleepy Hollow, Harry Nilsson, Emitt Rhodes, Bernard Chabert (France), Electric Light Orchestra, 10cc, Cheap Trick, The Rutles, and The Motors '70s;
and Squeeze with Glenn Tilbrook, The Spongetones, The Smithereens, Crowded House with Neil Finn, Guadalcanal Diary, The Young Fresh Fellows, and The Posies '80s;
and The Rembrandts, Teenage Fanclub, The Auteurs, Chris von Sneidern, The Boo Radleys, Sloan, Blur, Oasis with Liam Gallagher, You Am I, Elliott Smith, Four O'Clock Balloon, Myracle Brah, and Cotton Mather '90s;
and Jason Falkner, The Clientele, Lucky Bishops, Swag, Frank Lee Sprague, Ross, Pugwash, Her Majesty's Buzz, The Autumn Defense, Spoon, Robbers On High Street, Fugu, Dr. Dog, The Bootles, Sitcom Neighbor, The Resonars, and Cirrone (Italy) '00s;
and The Like, Beady Eye, The Vals, The Lovetones, The Draytones, The Weeklings, The Strypes (Ireland), Three Hour Tour, Cut Worms, Quilt, Groovy Uncle with Suzi Chunk, The Cherry Bomb Peppers (Spain), Aaron Lee Tasjan, and Yorick van Norden '10s.
The Redwalls.
• MENTOR
Bringing wisdom to new ideas were
Fats Domino, Little Junior Parker, Ella Fitzgerald, Cal Tjader, Sarah Vaughan, and Nina Simone.
Jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis made an entire exploratory album interpolating this one.
• FAM
The possibilities opened by this album were transmuted in unique ways by
Julian Lennon, Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger with Sean Ono Lennon, James McCartney, and Dhani Harrison.
The spirit of this album also moved within solo Beatle side-projects like Traveling Wilburys (George) and The Fireman (Paul).
• WORLD
The Beatles explored the wide reaches of music, while the far corners explored theirs, like
Os Mutantes (Brazil), Caetano Veloso (Brazil), Os Lobos (Brazil), Liverpool (Brazil), Los Diablos (Spain), Los Brincos (Spain), Los Iberos (Spain), Los Mustang (Spain), Trúbrot (Iceland), Hungária (Hungary), Juventus (Hungary), I Bisonti (Italy), Les Sinners (Canada), Les Bel Canto (Canada), Los Johnny Jets (Mexico), and The Flame with Ricky Fataar (South Africa).
• BEAT + GARAGE
Their unerring melodicism socked more bang to the Pop for
The Raspberries, Flamin' Groovies, Oister with Dwight Twilley, The Knack, The dB's, Sekret, The Times, The Nines, Velvet Crush, Supergrass, The Singles, The Fondas, Vinyl Kings, Push Kings, Serpentina (Spain), The Merrymakers, The Moons, THE MIDNIGHT TV PROGRAMS (Japan), and Miles Kane.
• GARAGE PUNX
Their cruel chords and withering snark puctured through to
Sex Pistols, The Clash, Ian Dury, Chelsea, Sham 69, The Laughing Dogs, Téléphone (France), The Adicts, Crass, Hüsker Dü, Fugazi, The White Stripes, Green Day, Cheap Time, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, and The Go.
• PSYCHE
Post-LSD and then TM, their detox pilgrimage of mindtrips and soulsearching on this album illumined thirdsightseers like
Pink Floyd '60s and Love;
and Robyn Hitchcock, Game Theory, The Flaming Lips, The Green Pajamas, Primal Scream, and White Flag '80s;
and Ultra Vivid Scene, Ocean Colour Scene, The Bevis Frond, Kula Shaker, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Lida Husik, The Soundtrack Of Our Lives, The Olivia Tremor Control, and Elf Power '90s;
and The Apples In Stereo, of Montreal, Chewy Marble, The High Dials, Dungen (Sweden), Thee Oh Sees, Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground, and Chewy Marble '00s;
and Weaves, The Ruby Suns, Meatbodies, Turn Me On Dead Man, Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats, Kikagaku Moyo (Japan), Ty Segall Band, levitation room, Ultimate Painting, GUM, Uni, Holy Wave, Black Elephant, and Cupid's Carnival '10s.
• ICONOCLAST
Their skewed popcraft and cacophony montages and mischief flux unloosed the abstruse for aberrant anglers like
Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band, Fifty Foot Hose, Joe Byrd And The Field Hippies, Yoko Ono, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Brian Eno, The Residents, Tom Waits, Jaco Pastorius, Swell Maps, Family Fodder, Cabaret Voltaire, Lemon Kittens, Nurse With Wound, Tackhead, Meat Beat Manifesto, Butthole Surfers, Ween, Negativland, Marc Ribot, Broadcast, Rasputina, Ex-Girl, Martina Topley-Bird, Julianna Barwick, Flying Lotus, and White Denim.
• INDIE
Their wayward and willful journey without any road map un/charted the courses for Independent artists like
Alex Chilton, The Cars, Radio Stars, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Split Enz '70s;
The Feelies, Simple Minds, R.E.M., Echo And the Bunnymen, Eurythmics, Depeche Mode, The Smiths, Love And Rockets, U2, House of Freaks, and The Soup Dragons '80s;
Throwing Muses, The Breeders, Kristin Hersh, Superdrag, Sebadoh, Gallon Drunk, Ride, Stereophonics, The Verve, Guided By Voices, Paul Weller, Beck, Komeda, Tracy Bonham, and Belle And Sebastian '90s;
LCD Soundsystem, Ben Kweller, Low, Travis, The Vines, Martina Topley-Bird, Salim Nourallah, Kasabian, The Fiery Furnaces, and Telekinesis '00s;
Liam Bailey, MGMT, Portugal The Man, Jim Noir, Linus Of Hollywood, Banda de Turiatas (Argentina), Sexy Sadie of course, Blaire Alise And The Bombshells, and Habibi '10s.
• ROCK
Their bruising Blues and Grunge grind fanned the inferno in
MC5, The Pleasure Seekers, Mott The Hoople, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Chicago, Alice Cooper, T. Rex, Suzi Quatro, Elton John, Aerosmith, Queen, Adrian Belew, Lenny Kravitz, Screaming Trees, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden with Chris Cornell, Stone Temple Pilots with Scott Weiland, Smashing Pumpkins, Collective Soul, Veruca Salt, Queens of the Stone Age, Jet, Gary Clark Jr, and The London Souls.
In 1968, THE BEATLES turned Pop albums into personal statements.
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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