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The AV Club lists 18 anti-Beatles songs. (Readers of my other blog might recall a post about Sissy Spacek’s song contra Two Virgins, included on this AV Club list.)
Has anyone heard of this one?
4. The Exterminators, “Beetle-Bomb”The mysterious,
little-known, mostly instrumental group The Exterminators specialized in
the kind of R&B-slanted dance numbers that were huge in the
mid-’60s. An inordinate number of those songs bore ostensibly
anti-Beatles titles, including “Beatle Wig Party,” “Beatle Stomp,” and
“Stomp ’Em Out”—which was perhaps only natural, considering the band’s
name. With “The Beetle-Bomb,” however, The Exterminators got a little
more personal. Parodying “She Loves You” as well as The Fab Four’s
accents (both badly), the suddenly vocal group lays down a generic surf
riff as a backer for its anti-Beatle sentiments: “Hey, old chap, I’m not
putting you on / Here come The Beatles, get the Beetle-Bomb!” Following
that zinger are cracks of the snare drum and hissing from the band
members—intended to sound like someone alternately stepping on bugs and
spraying them with insecticide.
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Not so much an anti-Beatles record, but this is an “anti-the lyrics of the early Beatles” song. Rupert Holmes recorded it in 1975. “I don’t want to hold your hand, I no longer move that slow.” It pretty much encapsulates the mid ’70s dismissal of the “childish” music from ten years before. Of course, nothing the Beatles wrote will ever measure up to the Pina Colada Song.
Full disclosure: I attended a Rupert Holmes concert in 1978, and the contempt he showed for the audience was palpable. Maybe he was having a bad night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdD8Wpf0fcI
Thanks so much for getting that song stuck in my head, Sam! Wow, Holmes’ showing contempt for his audience is . . . weird. I mean, why be a performer if you hate performing? It’s something I’ve always appreciated about Paul McCartney. He gets up on stage and projects enthusiasm for hours. I don’t know how he manages it at his age.
Brad Berwick recorded this diss track “I’m Better Than The Beatles” and proved he wasn’t.
Sample lyric: “I can do this by myself…with them it takes all four”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeK9raStDPs