Most "Beatle-esque" By Non-Beatles?

The bridge in Sugarloaf's "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You." Hardy, har har.

 

Dave Clark Five - Because
Marshall Crenshall - You're My Favorite Waste Of Time, & Whenever You're On My Mind
Enuff Z'nuff - Time To Let You Go, There Goes My Heart, You Got A Hold Of Me
and of course Julian Lennon - Valotte

 

The Bangles!

 

Indeed................ I really didn't know they wrote it.

 

I agree....but take that away and it is a fantastic record.....gotta love Klaatu !

 

Yeah...the rumor helped them for sure...but the backlash was worse when it was discovered they were not the Beatles....and from what I know, they were not promoting the rumor...they were huddled down trying to make the second album "Hope"...when everything broke. Too bad because they were/are a great band...

 

Panic at the Disco's album, "Pretty Odd." My teenage daughter turned me on to this one, and I think it's great.

 

And...

 

One more:

 

I suspect that without the rumors they wouldn't have got off the ground. They didn't get much airplay, and at the time just one single doing even fair was enough to get mass interest in an album.
From interviews I have read in the past I was left with the impression that the guys in Klaatu pretty much stayed in Canadian backwoods and let the music machine do its' thing without their input other than writing and recording the material.
If course that is just the general image of them I have mostly from conjecture eeked from the interviews.
But I am thinking the band members were simply in no situation to either promote or deny the rumors and were a bit isolated from the media, and that the record label certainly was not about to screw the pooch by making comments that could wreck the free publicity the album was getting.

 

"Sowing The Seeds Of Love" by Tears For Fears.

Tons of Beatles musical references there.

 

How could I forget that one?

They sound *exactly* the same!

 

And wrote it, too.

 

Serious Beatles influences here:

 

Don Kloetzke was a singer/ songwriter in White Duck(they released two lp's in the early seventies). He only got a couple of songs per lp.

 

Hands down winner is OASIS ! By a mile.

 

Man, imagine if they'd kept the original vocals for "Sir Bodsworth Rugglesby" and "Little Neutrino" - the whole album would've sounded like the Beatles' voices!

 

Great points...I love the first two albums and am in the process of obtaining the final three. I want to complete my Klaatu collection. I knew they were not The Beatles, but boy was it fun driving around with friends on warm evenings and blasting that first album...a real mood setter for sure...lots of memories with Klaatu.

 

Where have you heard Sir Bodsworth with original vocals?

 

Both "Bodsworth" and "Neutrino" with Lennon soundalike vocals are on 'Sun Set'.

 

I have the first two and Magentaline or whatever it is called.
It is not much like the first two, but it is still good.
I didn't know they had 5 albums out. hmmmm... gotta look into that....

 

Thanks....will check it out...