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BEATLESQUE SONGS
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matched to its covers, clones, + cousins,
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The most comprehensive matching of Beatles songs to the songs they inspired ever made.
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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:
1970-esque +
Father John Misty; Weyes Blood;
Elliott Smith; Lenny Kravitz.
Music Player:
1970-esque +
BEATLESQUE Songs: 1970-esque +
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of alternative Beatles sounds!
Donny Hathaway! Traffic! Bowie!
Badfinger! Black Sabbath! ELO! Faces!
Elton! Al Green! Raspberries! America!
Dennis Wilson! The Rutles! World Party!
Replacements! U2! Ramones!
Pogues! Smithereens! Crowded House!
Lenny Kravitz! Jayhawks! Rembrandts!
Sloan! Oasis! Aimee Mann! Cardigans!
Chris von Sneidern! Myracle Brah! Vines!
White Stripes! Guided By Voices! LEO!
Lucky Jim! Tracy Bonham! Jason Falkner!
Alice Smith! Arctic Monkeys! Adele!
Alabama Shakes! The Autumn Defence!
Libertines! Fistful Of Mercy! Tobias Jesso!
Beck! Portugal, The Man! Mikal Cronin!
• 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., 1970, 1972, 1993, 2004, 2008, etc.
• And the Playlist finishes with the three Reunion songs, "Free As A Bird", "Real Love", and "Now And Then".
The Playlist matches each of these songs to its children, in this order...
• LET IT BE (May 1970):
• "Two Of Us"
• "Dig A Pony"
• "Across The Universe"
• "I Me Mine"
• "Dig It"
• "Let It Be"
• "Maggie Mae"
• "I've Got A Feeling"
• "One After 909"
• "The Long And Winding Road"
• "For You Blue"
• "Get Back"
• "Free As A Bird" (Dec 1995)
• "Real Love" (March 1996)
• "Now And Then" (Nov 2023)
2) BEATLESQUE Songs:
How Their Influence Never EndsLET IT BE (1970)
• The LET IT BE album
is the last album, although it isn't.
• Recorded in early 1969, the back-to-basics GET BACK sessions fell apart, and the majesterial ABBEY ROAD followed as their true cohesive swan song.
• Phil Spector (some say over-)produced this compilation as the band dissolved in May 1970, creating an unintended coda.
• Never meant to be The Grand Finale, the album nonetheless retains much of the rootsy jam spirit of its intent, while still being lifted to glory by John's spectral "Across The Universe" (from '68) and Paul's "Let It Be" and "Long And Winding Road".
• George debuts his slide Blues style, Ringo keeps their egos on time, and MVP Billy Preston suffuses Soul and camraderie with his keys.
• Viewed initially as the hangover to the honeymoon of their career, with the healing passage of time the rawness of its Blues belts, Boogie jams, and Piano hymns earned appreciation, and presaged similar raw and tense classics from EXILE ON MAIN STREET to 3rd/SISTER LOVERS, from TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT to SHOOT OUT THE LIGHTS, from TUSK to THE WALL, from SANDINISTA to IN UTERO.
Leads To:
▶ Boogie Rock, Blues Rock, Piano Rock, Gospel Rock, Pub Rock, Roots Rock, Americana, Alt Country, Lo Fi, Indie Folk, Freak Folk.
▶ Rock docs, Behind-The-Scenes, 'Behind The Music', Rock Biofilms.
Beyond time, place, or genre, musical artists have continuously made specific homages reflecting the 1970 sounds of The Beatles.
(All bold names are heard on the Music Player)
• ROCK
The ragged glory of this final album had profound impact on subsequent works by The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Hollies, Traffic, The Beach Boys with Dennis Wilson, King Crimson, Spirit, Black Sabbath, The Next Morning, Linda Hoyle, Pacific Gas And Electric, Faces, Derek And The Dominos, Pappo's Blues (Argentina), Elton John, Suzi Quatro, Gene Simmons, Lenny Kravitz, and Alabama Shakes.
The Slovenian band Laibach made the Industrial tribute record LET IT BE, re-interpreting all of this album.
• SOUL
Its Gospel anthems and soulful Blues earned amens from artists as varied as Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Edwin Starr, Wilson Pickett, The Chambers Brothers, The Staple Singers, Billy Preston, King Curtis, Donny Hathaway, Doris Troy, The Staple Singers, The Fifth Dimension, Bill Withers, Al Green, Boney M, The Streets, and Childhood.
• FOLK
Singer Songwriter then became the vanguard of personal expression in the early-'70s, from Simon And Garfunkel, Jackie De Shannon, Bread, and America, onward to Indie Folkers like Jeffrey Gaines, The Jayhawks, and Wilco.
• BALLAD
The piano anthem.
"A Day In The Life" > "Hey Jude" > "Let It Be" > "Long And Winding Road" > "Imagine" > "Maybe I'm Amazed" =
board balladeers like Jimmy Webb, Lô Borges (Brazil), Billy Joel, Lucky Jim, Alela Diane, Father John Misty, Tobias Jesso Jr, and Weyes Blood.
• HEIRS
The baton was now handed off to their lineage, transported and transformed across time by The Aerovons, Badfinger, Sleepy Hollow, Electric Light Orchestra, The Rutles, The Toms, The Smithereens, Crowded House with the Finn Brothers, The Rembrandts, Chris von Sneidern, The Grays with Jason Falkner, Oasis with Liam Gallagher, Elliott Smith, Sloan, Cotton Mather, Cloud Eleven, Swag, Myracle Brah, The Strypes (Ireland), Beady Eye, Three Hour Tour, Dr. Dog, Pugwash, The Autumn Defense, and Yorick van Norden.
• FAM
The love you made gets equaled by the love your children relay, as conveyed here by Julian Lennon and by Fistful of Mercy with Dhani Harrison.
• BEAT POP
The pulse still pumped through a diaspora of cousins, like Les Bel Canto (Canada), The Raspberries, Derrek and Lon Van Eaton, Prix, Dave Edmunds, The Times, The Young Fresh Fellows, Teenage Fanclub, The Rembrandts, Supergrass, Velvet Crush, Fastball, Vinyl Kings, The Singles, and Cirrone (Italy).
• GARAGE
Its DIY edge and raw gumption energized apostates like Ramones, The Tearaways, Električni Orgazam (Serbia), The Replacements*, The White Stripes, Barrence Whitfield, and The Gurus.
*(who brashly made an album also called LET IT BE)
• PSYCHE
The infinite rung through opened minds for thirdsightseers like Love, Velvet Underground, Kula Shaker, of Montreal, The Apples In Stereo, Dungen (Sweden), Echobrain, Ko And The Knockouts, Sitcom Neighbor, Fay Hallam, Cupid's Carnival, Turn Me On Dead Man, The Proper Ornaments, HOLY, Mikal Cronin, and Cupid's Carnival.
• INDIE
Raw, true, sundry.
Enter the Independents: David Bowie, U2, Eurythmics, Elliot Easton, World Party, The Pogues, Love And Rockets, The Bats (New Zealand), Aimee Mann, Ween, Mercury Rev, Ride, Paul Weller, Beck, Guided By Voices, Blur, The Cardigans, Inger Lorre, Chocolate Genius, Tracy Bonham, Hooverphonic, Rita Lee (Brazil), Los Fabulosos Cadillacs (Argentina), Coldplay, Regina Spektor, The Libertines, Arctic Monkeys, Portugal The Man, and L.E.O..
on behalf of the group and ourselves,
and I hope we passed the audition."
• The REUNION songs
are the coda to The Beatles that the band deserved in 1970.
• Note to naysayers: the final period Beatles recording, "I Me Mine" (Jan 1970), was by George, Paul, and Ringo. And many other classic songs had only 3 or 2 or even 1 member on them.
• Truly, "Let It Be" had turned into a elegant elegy for the band, as they sounded in 1969.
• The understated (and deeply unappreciated) grace of "Free As A Bird" and "Real Love" is how they integrate the solo hallmarks that followed through 1970 and 1971: John and Paul's solo piano anthems, George's slide guitar, and hearing all of four them sing in verse turns.
They would've made these songs then, and they came back and they did.
• The songs are hauntingly beautiful and rank with the best efforts they ever did. They were made by family as a gift to us with love, and they are wonderful.
Thank you, brothers, for everything.
By 1970, THE BEATLES had left us a canon unsurpassed, and the challenge to step up.
And as time passed, the responses have never stopped...
• 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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