I can't see this thread ever having an end. It's a living entity. So at some milestone point, are you going to produce a The Mess Picks list? With your personal favorites? There's gotta be something in it for you after all of this hard work!
I have been thinking about that as well. At some point, I think that I should post a list with my favourite cover of each Beatles song. Maybe it would be interesting to put together an imaginary Beatles cover album series? I am also very interested in seeing other forum members choices of their favourite covers. Hopefully a few people will wade through the list and listen to a few, and then post their favourites.
Thanks for posting these, I have added them to the list. That Scribblers article was actually very interesting.
Here's one that came with an Uncut Magazine George Harrison tribute CD a few years ago. I've played this to Beatles loving friends and family who haven't had a clue what song it is until half way through. I really like this one (even though this isn't my style of music!)-
my updated list additions improved sorting on song title spelling corrections more duplicates removed general cleanup http://beatlescovers.bizerks.com/ - listed by artist name http://beatlescovers.bizerks.com/covers.htm - listed by song title
Hi theMess, Here are couple I don't think you have covered as yet Blackbird - Lincoln Mayorga & Distinguished Colleagues - From "The Missing Linc Volume 2" The next one is a complete in concert recording of The Beatles (White Album) released on CD in Australia but available online. The four lead singers are Tim Rogers (You Am I), Phil Jamieson (Grinspoon), Chris Cheney (The Living End) and Josh Pyke. Act 1 Back In The U.S.S.R. Chris Cheney Dear Prudence Phil Jamieson Glass Onion Chris Cheney Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da Tim Rogers Wild Honey Pie Tim Rogers The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill Tim Rogers While My Guitar Gently Weeps Chris Cheney Happiness Is A Warm Gun Tim Rogers Martha My Dear Josh Pyke I'm So Tired Phil Jamieson Blackbird Josh Pyke Piggies Tim Rogers Rocky Racoon Josh Pyke Don't Pass Me By Phil Jamieson Why Don't We Do It In The Road? Chris Cheney I Will Phil Jamieson Julia Josh Pyke Act 2 Birthday Chris Cheney Yer Blues Phil Jamieson Mother Nature's Son Josh Pyke Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey Tim Rogers Sexy Sadie Phil Jamieson Helter Skelter Chris Cheney Long, Long, Long Josh Pyke Revolution 1 Tim Rogers Honey Pie Phil Jamieson Savoy Truffle Chris Cheney Cry Baby Cry Josh Pyke Revolution 9 (1 minute version) Good Night Tim Rogers Encores – The Ensemble Revolution Hey Bulldog Come Together Cheers Mark
http://thebeatlescompleteonukulele.bandcamp.com/track/birthday-elissa-schreiner Birthday - Elissa Schreiner http://consequenceofsound.net/2013/11/the-beatles-45-years-of-the-white-album/ 01. BACK IN THE USSR GRAHAM COLTON, SINGER-SONGWRITER 02. DEAR PRUDENCE CHRIS RYAN, BASSIST FOR DEER TICK 03. GLASS ONION CAMERON MATTHEWS, VOCALIST FOR BEAR CEUSE 04. OB-LA-DI, OB-LA-DA MAX BLAU, STAFF WRITER FOR CREATIVE LOAFING 05. WILD HONEY PIE JENNINGS CARNEY, VOCALIST AND BASSIST FOR PONTIAK DUSTY JERMIER, BASSIST FOR WOODEN SHJIPS 06. THE CONTINUING STORY OF BUNGALOW BILL A.C. NEWMAN, SINGER-SONGWRITER 07. WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS DEAN WAREHAM, SINGER-SONGWRITER, COMPOSER 08. HAPPINESS IS A WARM GUN Twin Shadow Remix SKY FERREIRA, SINGER-SONGWRITER 09. MARTHA MY DEAR ZACH HART, FOUNDER OF WE LISTEN FOR YOU 10. I’M SO TIRED JOSH TERRY, STAFF WRITER FOR CONSEQUENCE OF SOUND 11. BLACKBIRD ELIZA SKINNER, COMEDIAN AND WRITER 12. PIGGIES DAVID HARRIS, EDITOR FOR SPECTRUM CULTURE MIKE MILOSH, SINGER-SONGWRITER 13. ROCKY RACCOON TIM COHEN, SINGER-SONGWRITER FOR MAGIC TRICK 14. DON’T PASS ME BY MARC WITH A C, SINGER-SONGWRITER 15. WHY DON’T WE DO IT IN THE ROAD? ZACK WEIL, VOCALIST AND GUITARIST FOR OOZING WOUND 16. I WILL IAN O’NEILL, VOCALIST AND GUITARIST FOR DEER TICK 17. JULIA KELCEY AYER, VOCALIST AND MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST FOR LOCAL NATIVES . 18. BIRTHDAY TIERNEY TOUGH, VOCALIST AND KEYBOARDIST FOR THE PAUSES 19. YER BLUES STEVEN HYDEN, STAFF WRITER FOR GRANTLAND 20. MOTHER NATURE’S SON ADAM KIVEL, MANAGING EDITOR FOR CONSEQUENCE OF SOUND 21. EVERYBODY’S GOT SOMETHING TO HIDE… LEE BUFORD, DRUMMER FOR THE BODY 22. SEXY SADIE KENNITH B. INGE, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER FOR DEAD END HIP HOP 23. HELTER SKELTER MICHAEL C. POWELL, WRITER FOR AD HOC AND THE DECIBEL TOLLS 24. LONG, LONG, LONG JOHN MCCAULEY, VOCALIST AND GUITARIST FOR DEER TICK 25. REVOLUTION 1 MICHAEL ROFFMAN, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF FOR CONSEQUENCE OF SOUND 26. HONEY PIE NIXON BOYD, GUITARIST AND VOCALIST FOR HOLLERADO 27. SAVOY TRUFFLE DEAP VALLY 28. CRY BABY CRY JONATHAN MEIBURG, SINGER-SONGWRITER FOR SHEARWATER 29. REVOLUTION 9 JEREMY KOLOSINE, SINGER-SONGWRITER FOR FUTURISK 30. GOOD NIGHT ASHLEY ERIKSSON, SINGER-SONGWRITER FOR LAKE PAULA MEJIA, FREELANCE WRITER FOR ROLLING STONE, SPIN, NOISEY, AND ROOKIE
http://www.allmusic.com/album/let-it-beatles-les-meilleurs-du-zouk-chantent-les-beatles-mw0002128643 J M Harmony feat: Gilles Floro-Let It Be J M Harmony feat: Carine Sinai-Help J M Harmony feat: Jean-Louis Morville-Girl J M Harmony feat: Marius Priam-Day Tripper J M Harmony feat: Dan Haseltine / Jean-Michel Rotin-And I Love Her J M Harmony feat: Olivier Jean-Alphonse-Imagine J M Harmony feat: Joel Zabulon-Yesterday J M Harmony feat: Diego Pelaez-Drive My Car J M Harmony feat: X-Five-Let It Be
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_McCartney 1. "Maybe I'm Amazed" Billy Joel 2. "Things We Said Today" Bob Dylan 3. "Band on the Run" Heart 4. "Junior's Farm" Steve Miller 5. "The Long and Winding Road" Yusuf Islam (aka Cat Stevens) 6. "My Love" Harry Connick Jr. 7. "Wanderlust" Brian Wilson 8. "Bluebird" Corinne Bailey Rae 9. "Yesterday" Willie Nelson 10. "Junk" Jeff Lynne 11. "When I'm Sixty-Four" Barry Gibb 12. "Every Night" Jamie Cullum 13. "Venus and Mars/Rock Show" Kiss 14. "Let Me Roll It" Paul Rodgers 15. "Helter Skelter" Roger Daltrey 16. "Helen Wheels" Def Leppard 17. "Hello, Goodbye" The Cure featuring James McCartney 18. "Live and Let Die" Billy Joel 19. "Let It Be" Chrissie Hynde 20. "Jet" Robin Zander and Rick Nielsen 21. "Hi Hi Hi" Joe Elliott 22. "Letting Go" Heart 23. "Hey Jude" Steve Miller 24. "Listen to What the Man Said" Owl City 25. "Got to Get You Into My Life" Perry Farrell 26. "Drive My Car" Dion 27. "Lady Madonna" Allen Toussaint 28. "Let 'Em In" Dr. John 29. "So Bad" Smokey Robinson 30. "No More Lonely Nights" The Airborne Toxic Event 31. "Eleanor Rigby" Alice Cooper 32. "Come and Get It" Toots Hibbert with Sly & Robbie 33. "On the Way" B.B. King 34. "Birthday" Sammy Hagar 1. "C Moon" (Amazon exclusive) Robert Smith 2. "Can't Buy Me Love" Booker T. Jones 3. "P.S. I Love You" Ronnie Spector 4. "All My Loving" (Target exclusive) Darlene Love 5. "For No One" (Best Buy exclusive) Ian McCulloch 6. "Put It There" (Amazon exclusive) Peter, Bjorn and John 7. "Run Devil Run" (Target exclusive) Wanda Jackson 8. "Smile Away" (Best Buy exclusive) Alice Cooper
Adrian Belew covered "Blackbird" on a compilation disk Same for "Come and Get It". (It's a Beatle song : see Anthology 3) He performed "Across The Universe " live during his solo shows and recorded for a live album that hasn't been released yet) Julian Lennon recorded "When I'm 64" for a comercial.
Thanks. I already had the songs from the Art of McCartney album, from when it was announced, but I did not have the others.
This is a fairly obscure one. Soul/Rock/Funk Violinist Don "Sugarcane" Harris with an epic cover of "Eleanor Rigby" from his 1971 LP, "Fiddler On The Rock."
