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Twenty-six hours until the next Shanghaiist Happy Hour ... and we've got our work cut out for us. We have to sort through more than 12 hours of Beatles covers songs — an amount that is illegal in most countries. Thanks to our readers (and BitTorrent) we have unearthed some gems, though, and you can see the entire list as it stands today after the jump (believe it or not, we still hove some downloads cooking). We have no covers of the Beatles song "Rain", which is good because weather.com is calling for clear skies by tomorrow evening (fingers crossed).
Let's refresh your memory on what's going on tomorrow:
When: Friday, June 15, 7 pm to midnight
Where: Abbey Road, 45 Yueyang Lu, near Dongping Lu, in the former French Concession. Tel: 6431-6787
Highlights:
- Drinks 50% off
- Music: Beatles covers galore!
- Free finger food
- Come dressed as a Beatle (or beetle) and get a free drink
- Lots of outdoor seating
- Everyone is invited!
Download the party flyer here.
Drinks:
RMB 15, Draft Carlsberg 0.5
RMB 12, Carlsberg bottle
RMB 12, Tsingtao bottle
RMB 17, House red and white wine
RMB 10, Soft drinks
RMB 20, Vodka/gin and tonic
RMB 20, Rum and soft drink
RMB 20, Whiskey anf soft drink
RMB 20, Cocktails (Sex on the Beach, Pina Colada, Margarita)
FREE finger food:
Vegetables and dip
Satay skewers
Canapes (egg, tuna, olives, ham, cheese)
Tortillas filled with beef sauce, mushroom, and other vegetables
Press the link below to see all the songs we have right now. If you sent in a song and don't see it below, please tell us. And a word of warning: William Shatner's "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" does not go down any better after nine Tsingtaos (we tried it last night).
See you soon!
12 HOURS OF BEATLES COVERS (WE STILL HAVE A BIT OF EDITING DOWN TO DO)
99 Problems — DJ Danger Mouse
A Day In The Life (beatles Cover) — Beck
A Hard Day's Night — Tarantula
Across the Universe — Fiona Apple
Across the Universe — Rufus Wainwright
Across The Universe (Live Beatles Cover) — Suede
All Day Night (A Hard Day's Night) — Sugar Minott
All My Loving — Swingle Singers
All My Loving (The Beatles) — Helloween
Allure — DJ Danger Mouse
And I Love Her — Boney Nem
And I Love Her — Kingdom Come
Because — Elliott Smith
Because — Elliott Smith
Birthday — Swingle Singers
Blackbird — Elliott Smith
blackbird — foo fighters
Blackbird — R Sweat And The Paragons
Blackbird — Sarah McLachlan
Blackbird I Will — Swingle Singers
Blackened the USSR — Beatallica
Carry That Weight — Dobbie Dobson
Change Clothes — DJ Danger Mouse
Come Together — Aerosmith
Come Together — The Israelites
Come Together (Beatles Cover) — Jeff Buckley
Come Together (The Beatles) — Gotthard
Come Together (The Beatles) — Pride & Glory
Come Together (The Beatles) — Soundgarden
Come Together (The Beatles) — Trouble
Day Tripper — Domain
Day Tripper — Ocean Colour Scene
Day Tripper — Otis Redding
Day Tripper — Swingle Singers
Day Tripper — Whitesnake
Day Tripper (medley) — Type O Negative
Dear Prudence — Siouxsie & The Banshees
December 4th — DJ Danger Mouse
Dirt Off Your Shoulder — DJ Danger Mouse
Don't let me down — Crown Of Thorns
Don't Let Me Down — Stereophonics
Dont Let Me Down — Marcia Griffiths
Drive My Car — Elmo
Drive my car — Humble pie
Drive My Car — Swingle Singers
Eleanor Rigby — Atmosfear
Eleanor Rigby — B B Seaton
Eleanor Rigby — Eddie "Fingers" Ojeda
Eleanor Rigby — Godhead
Eleanor Rigby — Pain
Eleanor Rigby — Ray Charles
Eleanor Rigby — Snake Charmer
Eleanor Rigby — Thrice
Encore — DJ Danger Mouse
Fool on the Hill — Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 -
The Fool On The Hill — Swingle Singers
For No One — Elliott Smith
For No One (Lennon-Mccartney) — Arjen Anthony Lucassen
Get Back — Anonymously Yours
Get Back (Live Beatles Covers) — Richie Sambora
Gimme Shelter — HOLY SOLDIER
Give Me Love — (VBR) Elliott Smith
Give Me Love — Elliott Smith
Golden Slumbers — Ben Folds
Goodnight — Swingle Singers
Got to Hide Your Love Away — Oasis
Happiness Is A Warm Gun — Breeders
Happy Xmas (War Is Over) — John Holt
Hard Dayz Nite — Shameless
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother — Gotthard
Help — Waltari
Help! — Howie Day
Helter Skelter — Edge Of Sanity
Helter Skelter — Motley Crue
Helter Skelter [#] — Aerosmith
Here Comes The Sun — Dawn Penn
Here Comes The Sun — Riot
Here, There And Everywhere — Emmylou Harris
Hey Jude — The Dynamites
Hey Jude — Rico And The Rudies
Hey Jude — Wilson Pickett
Hold It Together Now — dj BC and the Beastles
I Am The Walrus — Cry Wolf
I Am The Walrus — Jackyl
I Am the Walrus — Styx
I Am The Walrus — Swingle Singers
I Feel Fine Right Now (ext) — dj BC and the Beastles
I Me Mine — Elliott Smith
I Want You (She's So Heavy) — Coroner
I Will — John Holt
I'm Looking Through You — The Wallflowers
I'm Only Sleeping — Elliott Smith
I'm Only Sleeping — The Vines
Imagine — A Perfect Circle
Imagine — Susan Cadogen
Imagine (acoustic) — Live
In My Life — Chantal Kreviazuk
In My Life — Jackie Robinson
Interlude — DJ Danger Mouse
Isn't it a Pity (George Harrison) — Elliott Smith
Isnt It A Pity — Nicky Thomas
It Wont Be Long (Beatles cover) — Franz Ferdinand
Jealous Guy — Elliott Smith
Julia — Chocolate Genius
Julia — Waltari
Justify My Thug — DJ Danger Mouse
Lady Madonna — The Crystalettes
Lady Madonna — Gondwana (Chile)
Lady Madonna — Swingle Singers
Let It Be — The Mohawks
Let It Be — Nick Cave
Let It Be — The Soulettes
Lovely Rita — Fats Domino
Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds — The Black Crowes
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds — William Shatner
Mad World Forever — dj BC and the Beastles
Moment of Clarity — DJ Danger Mouse
Mother Nature's Rump — dj BC and The Beastles
Mother Nature's Son — Sheryl Crow
My 1st Song — DJ Danger Mouse
My Love — Ken Boothe
My Sweet Lord — Crown Of Thorns
My Sweet Lord — Fitzroy Sterling
My Sweet Lord — Keith Lynn
No Remorseful Reply — Beatallica
Norwegian Wood — Marshall Williams
Norwegian Wood — Swingle Singers
Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) — Cornershop
Nowhere Man — Paul Westerberg
Ob La Di Ob La Da — The Heptones
Ob La Di Ob La Da — Joyce Bond
Ob La Di, Ob La Da (live beatles cover) — No Doubt
Penny Lane — Swingle Singers
Public Service Announcement — DJ Danger Mouse
Revolution — Arch Rival
Revolution — Elliott Smith
Revolution — Grandaddy
Revolution — Running Wild
Revolution — Swingle Singers
Revolution — Trixter
Root Down Reprise — dj BC and The Beastles
Rose Parade — Elliott Smith
She Came In Through The Bathroom Window — Joe Cocker
She Came in Trough the Bathroom Window — Mimi Maura
She's Leaving Home — Tori Amos
Something — Bob Dylan
Something — Elliott Smith
Something — Phyllis Dillon
SOMETHING — TWENTY 4 SEVEN
Strawberry Fields Forever — Ben Harper
Strawberry fields forever — Candy Flip
Strawberry Fields Forever — King's Singers
Strawberry Fields Forever — Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Strawberry Fields Forever — Noel & Gem
Strawberry Fields Forever — Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet
Strawberry Fields Forever — Peter Gabriel
Strawberry Fields Forever — Redd Kross
Strawberry Fields Forever — The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Strawberry Fields Forever — Swingle Singers
Strawberry Fields Forever — Todd Rundgren
strawberry fields forever — Tomorrow
Strawberry Fields Forever — Various Artists
Strawberry Fields Forever — XTC
Strawberry Fields Forever (Con Deborah Harry) — Los Fabulosos Cadillacs
Strawberry Fields Forever (The Beatles cover) — Root
Strawberry Fields Forever / My Monkey ( Beatles Live Cover ) — Marilyn Manson
Sure-Bla-Di Shot-Bla-Da — dj BC and the Beastles
Taxman — Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
Ticket To Ride — Carpenters
Ticket To Ride — Swingle Singers
Tommorrow Never Knows — Phil Collins
Tomorrow Never Knows — Our Lady Peace
Tomorrow Never Knows — Trouble
Tripper Trouble — dj BC and the Beastles
Twist And Shout (Beatles Cover) — Nirvana, Sonic Youth & REM
Two of Us — Aimee Mann, Michael Penn
We Can Work It Out — Heather Nova
We Can Work It Out — Stevie Wonder
What More Can I Say — DJ Danger Mouse
Whatcha Want, Lady? — dj BC and The Beastles
When I'm Sixty-Four — Swingle Singers
While My Guitar Gently Weeps — Jeff Healey Band
While My Guitar Gently Weeps — Spineshank
With A Little Help From My Friends — Kick Axe
With a little Help from my friends — Knorkator
With a Little Help from My Friends [Live] — Joe Cocker
Word To The Mic — dj BC and The Beastles
World Without Love — Del Davis
Yellow Submarine — Roots Manuva
Yer Blues — Elliott Smith
Yesterday — Grass
Yesterday — Rage
Yesterday — Ray Charles
Yesterday — Swingle Singers
Yesterday — Tyrone Taylor
You Can't Do That — Nilsson
You Never Know — Errol Dunkley
You Wont See Me — Ernie Smith
You've Got to Hide Your Love Away — Eddie Vedder
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Does DJ Danger Mouse really count as Beatles covers?
Very little of the Beatles is recognizable in those mashups. But if you're going to include mashups, how about The Beachles?
Though I guess that wouldn't really play too well at a happy hour, the two of them just have a weird connection in my mind.
Albert,
This is not the final list. Most of the mashups probably won't make it, and neither will the dreadful Swingle Singers. I had never heard of the Beachles -- I can only assume it is a mashup of the Beatles and Beachwood Sparks.
See you tomorrow.
Dan
"Tortillas filled with beef sauce, mushroom, and other vegetables"
Either there's a comma missing between those words, or I'll stick to veggies :)
Beatles and the Beachboys. :-)
Never heard of the Beachwood Sparks before.
The Beachwood Sparks?! hahaha who the hell are the Beachwood Sparks
is it possible that after two years some readers still don't get dan's dry sense of humour (and can't follow links)?
That's assuming every reader on the site has been following Shanghaiist for two years. Fair enough, though.
Just downloaded this:
Hmm, I've got the John Lennon tribute concert by Shanghai bands from the Ark Livehouse last year. But only on CD, not MP3.
'The Jam" have covered 'Rain". It was on their "creation direction reaction" best of boxset - Disk 5, song 12. Good cover too...
speaking of mashups, still cr for dj BC to make the cut
speaking of mashups, still crossing my fingers for dj BC to make the cut