Covers, part 35
The site Cover Me features the tracks of Let It Be, each done by a different band...
Twelve Apostles of Rock
While buying an obscure album of Beatles covers from Weirdo Records (www.weirdorecords.com ), I was intrigued by their "Top Tens & Stuff" section. Here they post top ten lists by staff members and customers, ranging from "Ten Greatest Jazz Artists" to "Favorite Hip-Hop Instrumentals." One of the lists is "Twelve Apostles of Rock," posted by Gordon Marshall in November 2009.Like most personal best-of lists, Marshall's includes the pretty-much-expected (James Brown, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix) the less-expected (Brian Eno, Bob Marley, Morissey), and the surprising (Holgar Czukay of Can, Robert Wyatt of Soft Machine, and Christian Vander of Magma). Here are his [...]
The Shins
KoreAm magazine directs me to Shin Joon Hyung, now 73, the "Godfather of Korean Rock." It's a fascinating story, and now there's a compilation available stateside called Beautiful Mountains and Rivers. "The anthology’s 14 tracks and 32-page liner notes detail his genre-spanning career, from his early attempts to channel Elvis Presley under the moniker Jackie Shin, the stage name he used while playing for U.S. troops in Korea; to his formation of South Korea’s first rock band ADD4 after hearing the Beatles..." ! There are Add4 tracks on YouTube (of course)—check out this one, particularly the "yeah yeah yeah"s at :39, right [...]
You’re an intellectual giant…
I am pro-John when it comes to that Emerson interview...but what does it mean that this Pet Shop Boys song keeps springing to mind?
Another kind of cover
Rabid Rabbit #8 (available here) features 30 different artists, each visually interpreting one song from The Beatles in a two-page format. Interesting constraint: the lyrics are not quoted anywhere. Some artists attempt literal illustrations of things described in the song; others have more impressionistic takes.Speaking of comics, which Dullblogger is going to write about Baby's in Black?(Thanks to the talented Forsyth Harmon.)
Ah! Girl.
DEVIN McKINNEY • No reason.
Beatle Photo Blog
Yee-up. In the course of trying to find the horrific Macca fan painting immortalized in "The Compleat Beatles" referenced by commenter J.R. Clark, I stumbled across this really neat blog specializing in photos of our Fabs. Enjoy, but browse at your own risk. You'll lose some time. Like, a day. Another Beatle photo blog I like is the memorably titled "Paul McCartney, Sex Gladiator."