Best Covers of Beatles Songs

[ToddPence]

^ I'd forgot about that one. I never got the later live albums/DVD's.

I love Kansas.

That was actually not from a live album, but from a studio album called "Always Never the Same" in which they did orchestral versions of many of their studio classics, in addition to the "Rigby" cover. The version of "Dust in the Wind" on this one is AWESOME.

 

[Nowhere Man]

I thought you'd never ask.

Emmylou Harris

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIy2Lz_Evio&feature=feedf

The Dead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eADha2EzH-0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U99KKaiSuYk&feature=related

Phish did the entire "White Album"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_IF_fQXPP0&playnext=1&list=PL3E0AA360987879F2

C.S.N.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wORwlCy3JDI&feature=related

This Guy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgsQddFANBM

These Guys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHvymn6a30k

 

[Australis]

The Zoot - Eleanor Rigby (1970)

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_3IUASoqfM[/yt]

Good Aussie band, interesting version, just get past the minute long intro.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_Z8k5ChsX8[/yt]

Michael Jackson - Come Together
This rocks, pretty hard, no matter what you think of him.

 

[kitkat]

You must have hated the Sgt Pepper Soundtrack and "All This And WWII".

You are correct.

 

[Mistral]

I like some of these, while others...
Across the Universe was, I thought, fantastic. Bought the soundtrack, too.
I looked on Youtube but couldn't find some of the covers I've seen performed.
YES did Obla-di,Obla-da as an encore on tour once that had the audience bouncing, and I saw Pat Benatar do Paperback Writer (the less said, the better) but the one that sticks out is Billy Joel. He was at ASU Activity Center on the Uptown Girl tour and right in the middle of Piano Man he segued into Norwegian Wood. It was amazing. Just amazing.

One other-I saw Clapton perform and he introduced a song by saying he'd been on the phone with a friend before the show. Since the guy was on his mind, he was going to do one of his songs. He performed Strawberry Fields. It was a very sweet, soulful cover, as you can probably imagine.

 

[exodus]

Ray Charles: Elenore Rigby

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-wiHI-GkSU&feature=related

Tina Turner: Help
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT_fafL-_cY&feature=related

Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne & Prince: While My Guitar Gently Weeps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifp_SVrlurY

The Muppets: All Together Now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebL6vu15AI0

 

[kitkat]

Across the Universe was, I thought, fantastic. Bought the soundtrack, too.

Same here. The whole cast was amazing. And, as I said, being such a Beatles snob, it says something that I bought the soundtrack...

 

[oojason]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLvBRxtaL6c

^ maybe not the best cover, but there is a certain emotion in Connery's voice that gives it something special.

 

[Nowhere Man]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLvBRxtaL6c

^ maybe not the best cover, but there is a certain emotion in Connery's voice that gives it something special.

There is a lot of emotion in those lyrics, at least for me. By far the best song ever written on the planet Earth, IMO of course.

 

[exodus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLvBRxtaL6c

^ maybe not the best cover, but there is a certain emotion in Connery's voice that gives it something special.

I like the version Carole King did for the TV show "Providence".

 

[darthraidr]

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eof2c5fTcI8&feature=related[/yt]

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qslZff3ypvM[/yt]

 

[Mooch]

Rufus Wainwright and Fiona Apple both did version of Across the Universe that I think are actually better than the Beatles version:

I'm glad to see others like that Fion Apple cover! That video is crazy widesceen though.

I like the version Carole King did for the TV show "Providence".

That was Chantal Kreviazuk.

 

[crookeddy]

Elvis - Yesterday
http://www.youtube.com/embed/IAYOBiOMKeU

Frank Sinatra - Yesterday
http://www.youtube.com/embed/OTp-alwH74E

Elvis - Something
http://www.youtube.com/embed/iz-_S-v2p6s

Frank Sinatra - Something
http://www.youtube.com/embed/3J9FvFifcoA

Those Sinatra versions are pretty incredible IMO.

 

[exodus]

I like the version Carole King did for the TV show "Providence".

That was Chantal Kreviazuk.

You know, I had looked it up once and it listed it under Carole King.

 

[Owain Taggart]

The late Jeff Healey, surprised this one wasn't mentioned.

That one's one of my favourites, and Jeff Healey's one of my favourite musicians. Just a few days ago in fact, I bought his Live at the Montreux 1999 album. It has an awesome live version of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIHLkupzd3o