Magical Mystery Tour Covered
Since The Beatles famously haven’t yet licensed their music to be distributed digitally, there’s no point searching for their discography on Spotify. Yet the service is awash with their music in the form of soundalikes, karaoke and cover versions. Some songs have attracted hundreds of difference versions in a range of different genres; others are less popular and yet surprisingly someone has given it a go.
Find linked above Magical Mystery Tour rendered completely in cover versions. Though I would assume it would be possible to recreate all of the albums in this way, I decided to reproduce the Tour because its from a period when each album had a consistent, carefully designed sound, and wanted to see what happened when only the essence of the songs was retained. Also, I live just round the corner from the real Penny Lane.
One track is missing, the instrumental, Flying. The most obvious cover to break out from the album in recent times was Candy Flip’s Starberry Fields Forever, but that’s not on Spotify either. I also refrained from being tempted to add something from the soundtrack to the underrated Across The Universe. Instead, enjoy some metal, folk, dance, pre-school, straight rock, pop, Germany, folk again, indie and Gregorian chants.
Great idea, a pity Flying is missing but I'm pleased to see there's a cover of Blue Jay Way: that was always my favourite "unknown" track from MMT.
ReplyDeleteDo you put your playlists up on any playlist site, or just list them here on your blog?
Just on the blog at the moment. I'll do them on mass at some point.
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