- From Faith Current: “The Sacred Ordinary: St. Peter’s Church Hall” - May 1, 2023
- A brief (?) hiatus - April 22, 2023
- Something Happened - March 6, 2023
I must admit that I love a good Beatles mashup, and after Stephen Kroninger shared the following one today, I thought: “What are the best Beatles mashups? This sounds like a job for the Dullblog Commentariat!”
Put your faves in the comments; if I like ’em, I’ll move ’em to this post.
The one below’s a bit of a cheat, given that The Monkees were the best Beatles impression Hollywood songwriters could create. But I like it.
A bit awkward in places, but the guitar break makes it for me.
This one actually made me like the melody of “For No One” even more, which I didn’t think was possible.
I listened to this one and thought, “Wow. Music has really changed.”
I couldn’t resist this one.
I could go on all day, and I know I’m forgetting some…Put any worthies in the comments.
Related posts:
The Beatles and Richard Avedon: Two Outtakes
Like the new Comments?
A Secret History of The Beatles?
The Beatles on Stella Street
The Never-Ending Beatles Trivia Quiz Challenge — Question #1
The Beatles and National Lampoon: “Magical Misery Tour” (1971)
Recent Comments
Thinking of Linking
"Hey Bulldog" by Fanny
Comment Policy
Cilla Black Sings Alfie
The Beatles and Fantasy Football?
Have we had a post on best Beatles covers actually? I know Paul once said his favourites were generally by black artists, and I couldn’t agree more – the grooves on Wilson Pickett’s Hey Jude and Stevie Wonder’s We Can Work It Out are so strong I *almost* like them as much as the originals.
Anyone have any Beatles covers they prefer to the originals?
I can’t say I like it more than the original, but today on The Beatles Channel, I heard “Come Together” by Ike and Tina Turner for the first time. It was damn good!
I prefer EWF’s Got to Get You Into My Life, which is saying something because I love the original.
I agree with you, Michael. I’ve read Paul really loves it too.
Another gem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIcpJFQDa64
These were fun! I’d heard “Whole lotta Helter Skelter” before, and I like it a lot. I’ve never heard the rest though. I liked “Paperback Believer”, and “You Only Live Tomorrow.” I never knew Nancy Sinatra sang that!!
Not a mashup, but an excellent cover:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KmvANzwRWk
A reunion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Kvdzio8X8
The Beatles Remixers did a great mashup of Marvin Gaye’s “Got To Give It Up” and “You Won’t See Me.” Sadly, I can’t find it anywhere to post a link to it.
I also really like the version of “Live And Let Die” that Byron Lee and the Dragonaires did (it’s on the “We Can Work It Out” covers compilation album).
To the point of incorporating part of the horn line in Wings’ Concert for Kampuchea performance of the song.
Great post
.
What about this mashup?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72wpSfMimt8
OMG! I love this!! Excellent!
I really like the subject of this post.
.
Here it is another enterteining mashup… The Beatles ft. The Beatles
Maybe I forgot to put the link in my last comment… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClU04Cjybg0
About 5 years ago there was a short lived music podcast called Mash Up. Each episode featured a different artist and was 45 minutes or so of continuous music. It wasn’t very good, more curiosity pieces really, but from memory The Beatles episode had
Octopuses Garden/ Heart of glass
I saw her standing there/ Enter sandman
Come together/ I love rock and roll/ insane in the membrane
Eleanor Rigby/ around the world
A pretty good Let it be/ no woman no cry and a terrible In my Life with a song I didn’t know.
There’s at 3 more I can’t remember. I think the podcast is still available on I-tunes
As for covers, my fave is Every little thing done by Yes. Very original and unusual interpretation.
Least fave is XTC doing Strawberry Fields. An exact copy. Probably an homage – don’t wreck what is brilliant, but I like to think that Paul and John, as creatives, would be more interested in an original take rather than a direct ripoff.
This has always been one of my favorites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_lL66CRDQ8
In amoralto web, by chance I found this mashup of “Soldier Of Love” and “Cathy’s Clown” by The Beatles themselves: https://amoralto.tumblr.com/post/168053055657/january-24th-1969-apple-studios-london-an
There are some really good mashups of “Sympathy for the devil” and “Hey Jude”, mostly cos they’re both in the same key. Annoyingly, the one I wanted to post isn’t on YouTube and is only available on an unshareable weird URL.
If you search for “sympathy for Jude”, you’ll get a few different mashups of the same name.
Not a mashup, but a solo guitar medley:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mucZneRUfu8
Sort of a live, onstage mashup with the Everly Brothers doing a Beatles song and Gerry & The Pacemakers doing Phil & Don covers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3wzkQlPMh8
A very entertaining performance
I really like this mashup of the Beatles/Massive Attack. “Golden Teardrops”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GtzaV3Tkk0
Not a mashup, but a Duke Ellington medley of Beatle tunes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oCnFvz8YKc