The album, entitled This Bird Has Flown - A 40th Anniversary Tribute To The Beatles, features bands covering a song each to make a brand new whole; a track-by-track re-working of the classic album. Tracklisting as follows:
Drive My Car - The Donnas (pictured)
Norwegian Wood - The Fiery Furnaces
You Won't See Me - Dar Williams
Nowhere Man - Low
Think for Yourself - Yonder Mountain String Band
The Word - Mindy Smith
Michelle - Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals
What Goes On - Sufjan Stevens
Girl - Rhett Miller
I'm Looking Through You - Ted Leo
In My Life - Ben Lee
Wait - Ben Kweller
If I Needed Someone - Nellie McKay
Run for Your Life - Cowboy Junkies
No info on an exact release date as yet.
Rubber Soul remake: The Donnas, Fiery Furnaces, Sufjan Stevens...
Rubber Soul remake: The Donnas, Fiery Furnaces, Sufjan Stevens...
SCANDAL!!!1!11one!1
Rubber Soul remake: The Donnas, Fiery Furnaces, Su
Rubber Soul! Fuck me! I wouldn't like to get saddled with having to record a version of three quarters of those songs, which are utter drek.
"If I needed someone"- a demonstration of how an unnecessary middle eight can fuck up even a promising album filler/b-side type track.
"The Word" - 'we are the Beatles. We no longer have to prove ourselves, so suck on the mighty effort that went into writing this, people'
"Girl"- *vomits into tin bucket at sickness of this song* *records results, which are infinitely superior to Rubber Soul*
Goes
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You're right Grockle, those three tracks are crap. Probably some of the worst they recorded.
The thing is, In My Life, Norwegian Wood... tracks like this have never been equalled by the Barbershop Quartet. Sorry, the Beach Boys.
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Not at all, they sunk much farther! Don't forget 'yellow submarine, maxwell's silver hammer, hey jude, penny lane, revolution, the white album, abbey road'
all these are utterly terrible, much worse recordings. Pain and suffering, the musical equivilent of rigging up a sound trigger microphone on a toilet to capture the first splash of diorhea hitting the water. Mmmmm
"The thing is, In My Life, Norwegian Wood... tracks like this have never been equalled by the Barbershop Quartet. Sorry, the Beach Boys."
That's irrelevent, but it's your opinion and you're entitled to it, even though 100% of all people worthy of having ears would have quite a few problems with the idea that a sour little tale of a failed one night stand sung by a prickly scouser with a sore throat could ever equal anything from the Beach Boys, lets say 'good to excellent' recordings.
bon voyage, amigos!
xxx
Rubber Soul remake: The Donnas, Fiery Furnaces, Sufjan Stevens...
That's a healthy mix of bad and good bands. Low doing 'Nowhere Man' sounds good.
Rubber Soul remake: The Donnas, Fiery Furnaces, Sufjan Stevens...
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spooky!
Rubber Soul remake: The Donnas, Fiery Furnaces, Sufjan Stevens...
These both sound fab:
Norwegian Wood - The Fiery Furnaces
Run for Your Life - Cowboy Junkies
* not including If You're Feeling Sinister and 100 Broken Windows. And possibly Crashland's Glued
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Rubber Soul remake: The Donnas, Fiery Furnaces, Sufjan Stevens...
NEEDLESS
Rubber Soul remake: The Donnas, Fiery Furnaces, Sufjan Stevens...
NEEDLESS
Rubber Soul remake: The Donnas, Fiery Furnaces, Sufjan Stevens...
Rubber Soul remake: The Donnas, Fiery Furnaces, Sufjan Stevens...
Cant believe why anyone would want to be involved in it.Rubber Soul is timeless, that album will be just useless
Rubber Soul remake: The Donnas, Fiery Furnaces, Su
By the way, it has to be repeated until they go away: The Donnas will NOT have sex with you if you buy their music. Seriously. Stop buying it.
(In the booklet for my Virgin phone network thing, there's a photo of a big sticker saying "CRASHLAND - The Greatest Band That Never Made It". True story.)
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In fact, it really helps to enjoy their music if you've only ever heard the works of 'Cliff Richard', 'Phil Collins' and 'Rod Stewart'
If these are the benchmarks by which you compare them to, they are indeed a mighty force. If you've actually heard, and listened to albums by a variety of well known and less well known sixties artists, you'll realise they are somewhere between the Dave Clark Five, Hollies and on a very very VERY good day, they sometimes approached the genius that was the Turtles.........stand back and just add hype.
Don't mistake the fact you've known this material all your lives, and the fact the writers of magazines you read are slowly attributing every musical innovation to these jumped up scouse shitbags for some sort of inherent goodness. Use your ears......did the world really need the 'fucking pioneers' to innovate their asses off, (by which I mean plagiarise 'The Scaffold' and make 'maxwell's silver hammer'....Did we really need that? Are their late albums actually any good, or is the post 'sgt peppers' period when they realised they actually didn't have to bother BEING good anymore, because people would buy their fresh turds, stick a candle in it and call it a cake!
Rubbish!!!
Rubber Soul remake: The Donnas, Fiery Furnaces, Sufjan Stevens...
However, I hope someone does the same thing with Revolver and gives Yellow Submarine to Aphex Twin. That would rock.
Rubber Soul remake: The Donnas, Fiery Furnaces, Sufjan Stevens...
Or done a BLACK METAL version. 'Michelle' would sound especially exquisite reworked as a tribute to His Infernal Majesty (Satan, I mean, not the shit hair metal boyband).
Rubber Soul remake: The Donnas, Fiery Furnaces, Sufjan Stevens...
that was...patchy.
i suspect this will be too.
but, come on,
LOW!!!!!
FIERY FURNACES!!!!1!1oneone1!!1!
i can't help being curious...
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seem to remember that Low have covered long, long, long before, with pleasing results, so their version of nowhere man shud be good...
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Drive My Car - The Donnas (pictured)"
Yup.
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But seroisly looks like it could be pretty good
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Rubber Soul remake: The Donnas, Fiery Furnaces, Sufjan Stevens...
But you can't beat Cornershop's Punjabi rendition of Norwegian Wood.
A dissalusioned indie boy writes
I am a spring chicken, a plucky young scamp if you will, a youngun so the comments that follow are not bourne of some half remembered quasi hippie nostalgia trip. I know everyone is entitled to their opinion but I am deeply saddened by some of the comments that have been posted about the beatles on this site. If any of the offenders tried to write good music themselves ( and by that I don't mean apeing your peers or the most obscure bands you can think of) you would realize that the beatles legacy is one of the all time great gifts to humanity. In fact I would wager that alot of the 'now' bands that the people making these comments aspire to are probably beatles fans and didn't get the inspiration for their last record from listening to low fi self indulgent oh so cooler than thou indie nonsense.
So there (blows rasberry)