Beatles Cover Project: PLEASE PLEASE ME

First in a series of cover versions, by album, in order. I hope it gets easier. I hope the covers get better.

I Saw Her Standing There THE TUBES


Misery KENNY LYNCH


Anna (Go to Him) Arthur Alexander (original recording artist)


Chains THE COOKIES (original recording artist)


Boys THE SHIRELLES (Original recording artist)


Ask Me Why LES LIONCEAUX (Je Suis Fou)


Please Please Me MATT DUSK


Love Me Do DAVID BOWIE


P.S. I Love You

Baby It's You THE SHIRELLES (original recording artist)


Do You Want to Know a Secret BILLY J. KRAMER & THE DAKOTAS


A Taste of Honey HERB ALPERT AND THE TIJUANA BRASS BAND


There's a Place THE SMITHEREENS


Twist and Shout TOP NOTES (original recording artist)

Wilco-The Whole Love live stream

Happy birthday, John Lennon! To celebrate, I give you my Lennon top 5.

#5 I Feel Fine. The opening riff is amazing, the energy, especially in the Shea video represents the touring Beatles at their best.



#4 Don't Let Me Down. Sometime I watch this and wonder if they could've ever had any idea that this would be the last set they played together? To see them smiling and interacting makes me think they didn't. Triumphant and tragic.



#3 Help! To me, the melody starts to mature, a sign that John was growing up. The long hair reminds us that RUBBER SOUL arrived just 4 months after HELP! was released.



#2 Instant Karma! This video hints at the great things he was capable of on his own. Too bad the primal scream therapy hadn't kicked in. Love this video, from BBC's TOP OF THE POPS.



#1 Strawberry Fields Forever. Even without lyrics, the song would remind us that 'nothing is real.' But when Lennon's poetry is applied to the Beatles music on the verge of their SERGEANT PEPPER breakthrough, it's magic on magnetic tape.



Honorable mentions: (Started off as two songs, but the list kept growing. Sorry.)
Hey Bulldog

Dear Prudence

In My Life

Happy Xmas!(War is Over)

A Day in the Life

Whatever Gets You thru the Night

Across the Universe

You've Got to Hide Your Love Away

THE MUSIC AND PRESTON BLACK, Nirvana, Music Source Studios, Seattle, WA 1991-01-01

NEVERMIND at 20.
Me at 37.
I was a senior in high school.
Already owned a bunch of flannel, for some reason.
Good-bye, Poison, Skid Row, Warrant...
In love.
In a band.
Still waiting for the next big thing.

Download the show at Sugarmegs. www.archive.org/serve/Nirvana1991-01-01/Nirvana1991-01-01.wma Vocals are real low in the mix, but overall sound quality is good.

Nirvana
1991-01-01
Music Source Studios
Seattle, WA, US
01. Aneurysm
02. Oh, The Guilt
03. Radio Friendly Unit Shifter
04. On A Plain
05. All Apologies
06. Even In His Youth
07. Token Eastern Song

Generation: DAT(x) > WAV > FLAC > Your Copy CDR(1)

Lenght: 27 minutes 20 seconds

Comment: This has some digital noise in a few songs from the DAT.
DAT generation is most likely a DAT(3) or a DAT(4).
This is a vast sound improvement from the existing ANA(1),
but it suffers from the same cuts so it's virtually the same edit.
The biggest difference other than sound that's noteworthy is a complete "Even In His Youth."

Encoded by BS
Do not sell or encode to MP3!

HELLBENDER excerpt!

Working my way through revisions on HELLBENDER, the follow-up to THE DEVIL AND PRESTON BLACK and came across one of my favorite passages. To me, this passage embodies the spirit of the book, which is to West Virginia and wilderness as THE DEVIL AND PRESTON BLACK is to music. I'm very excited to be posting it here.

And what're the thistles for?

You'll see. Trust me.

Hellbender Excerpt