I love the song, and like and respect the artists here, but is it just me or did that pretty much just suck?

My favorite cover of that tune is still those wacky Slovenian fascists Laibach (new window). And they even include a babe too.

Fairy trifecta in play

Moby embodies the fake, self-important, pseudo-intellectual, non-creative attention whore that John Lennon despised. If he were here today, I like to think he'd treat Moby the way he treated Paul McCartney in the '70s.

I really don't care much for most Beatles covers. That being said, Fiona Apples' cover of Across the Universe is actually pretty good.

Beatles covers? How about Steve Hillage's version of "It's All Too Much"?

Too bad there seems to be no footage anywhere of 801 (Manzanera & Eno) doing TNK (Tomorrow Never Knows)...

I just don't like it.

Wainwright was too loud the entire time, Moby was creepy and unnecessary, Sean Lennon would've been sufficient but his voice is still a bit too nasal to carry a tune like this.

E for effort.

That was awful.

They didn't even play it correctly, they completely left out measures of 5/4.

Confabulat: I love the song, and like and respect the artists here, but is it just me or did that pretty much just suck?

My favorite cover of that tune is still those wacky Slovenian fascists Laibach (new window). (new window)And they even include a babe too.

Hear hear

Beatles covers? How about Steve Hillage's version of "It's All Too Much"?

I listened to the first minute, it sounded good. It didn't have the opening note that Harrison had though.
I think that is the best opening note on any Beatle song.

Merry Christmas to all my fellow Beatles fans.

To hell with every one of you farkers who thinks the Beatles have no place in history.

Rufus is the only artist in this trio I really respect. And the cover rocked until Moby and Sean cut in. Oh well. Across the Universe is still one of my top 5 favorite Beatles songs.

Third_Uncle_Eno:

THIS


Yeah, wouldn't you kill to see that? Pretty sure it wasn't filmed, sadly.

You should check out Manzanera's site; he signs every CD you order off of it: 801 Live with an extra song or two, Quiet Sun, and another live (sans Eno) 801 recording, mainly "Listen Now" material... plus all his solo stuff.

These are the "artists" of this generation ?

Get your collective off-key, no range, poor timbre, constant volume, non-harmonizing, weak guitar playing butts off my lawn.

BonesJackson: I really don't care much for most Beatles covers. That being said, Fiona Apples' cover of Across the Universe is actually pretty good.

Agreed. That's the only Beatles cover I can think of that I actually liked. Everything else just pales in comparison to the real thing.

So...everybody here's into Laibach?

/backs away
//Do not threaten me with your level-9 wizard

Ruby7: So...everybody here's into Laibach?

/backs away
//Do not threaten me with your level-9 wizard

Peace, love and the judgement day became nerdy at some point?
I must've missed a memo..

Guru. Guru. {roll the "R"s} c'mon do it with Me. You know You want to. Guru. Gurrru.
I feel SO spiritual. Guru. Guru.

cambie
To hell with every one of you farkers who thinks the Beatles have no place in history.

wow. bitter much? even a Beatles-hater such as myself can't deny their place in history (they spearheaded a gloriously fortuitous convergence of commerce, technology and art and, to be fair, did it extremely well). i just wish some of the black folk whose work they mined pretty heavily during their early years could have been better-recognized--and, I suppose, that's society's doing more than anyone else.

to hell with you, cambie, for being so benighted by your mindless, drooling devotion to your idea of what John Lennon might want that you can't see the beauty in this admittedly-flawed performance.

. This is an actual GOOD version of this song, by Finoa Apple (new window)

The version with Moby, Rufus, and Sean could do without MOBY. He is a self-serving DJ who hides behind a mixing board and cannot sing.

athoughtcomes: cambie
To hell with every one of you farkers who thinks the Beatles have no place in history.

wow. bitter much? even a Beatles-hater such as myself can't deny their place in history (they spearheaded a gloriously fortuitous convergence of commerce, technology and art and, to be fair, did it extremely well). i just wish some of the black folk whose work they mined pretty heavily during their early years could have been better-recognized--and, I suppose, that's society's doing more than anyone else.

to hell with you, cambie, for being so benighted by your mindless, drooling devotion to your idea of what John Lennon might want that you can't see the beauty in this admittedly-flawed performance.

You guys are both making this too complicated. The Beatles made good music that a lot of people like. Some people don't like it, whatever their reasons. So what?

The Bowie version is the best, better than the original IMHO.