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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.)
(Gulp) I’ll get that right to you, boss.
Me likey Forsyth’s stuff.
And Seymour Chwast! Seymour Chwast!
I don’t have the strength to review Baby’s In Black. All I can say is it would make a lovely animated film, maybe a short National Board Of Canada film, if such a board existed in the states.
Veering crazily off topic here, but speaking of covers, when is a cover not a cover? I’m thinking of Peter Paul & Mary’s “I Dig Rock ‘n Roll Music” which was always on the radio in the late ’60s/early ’70s. I heard it constantly. I think the DJs loved the novelty of it. You dullbloggers seem to be younger than me, so I’m not even certain if you’ve heard it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdX5Ly9WBT0
After the imitation Mamas & Papas, trippy, whispery (and hilarious) Donovan imitation, they launch into a brief Beatles tribute that captures the Magical Mystery Tour/Yellow Submarine phase.
There have been many Beatle-influenced bands, copykats, covers, etc., but I’ve never heard one focus so specifically on the early ’67 Pepper vocal/backwards guitar/granny megaphone sound before, and with an original song.
If you’ve heard this song a million times, forgive me. I heard it recently on the car radio. I had completely forgotten about it (after hearing it several times a week forty years ago and growing thoroughly sick of it) and for some reason it now sounds completely fresh and charming to me. Must be my senescent brain gradually unspooling. I can feel it unspool as I type this.
– Hologram Sam