TRIBUTE TO THE FAB FOUR - THE PPC WHITE ALBUM (2007)

In 2007, i started the "Fab Four Experience" for the blog i used to contrbute with. The revisited "White Album" was part of that Experience. Year 2008 is the 40th anniversary of the first mop tops "Apple" album. The ones who are buying "Mojo" every month should have listened by now to the first part of the classic release recovered. So, after a few requests made by some blog readers and old mates, i've posted again the 9th part of the "Fab Four Experience" just in time to celebrate the anniversary and compare my collection with Mojo's one.

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TRIBUTE TO THE BEATLES - WITHOUT THE BEATLES (1996)

Released in 1996 by Joachim A. Reinbold for JARMUSIC, this project was planned some time before the great new Beatles (Anthology) boom. Along with the regular CD edition, the album was also released as a limited edition LP coupled with a 7" bonus (5 songs not available on the cd edition). More differences between both editions can be heard on some songs ("Baby You're a Rich Man" and "Helter Skelter") which were edited for the cd release. A 20-page booklet was inserted with the LP + 2 postcards. Details of the booklet and info about the bands featured on the tribute can be found on the R. Stevie Moore website. The Colin's Hermits (aka XTC) song first appeared on this tribute.

Joachim A. Reinbold wrote: "It's certainly nothing exciting to hear the 93rd version of "yesterday" or "with a little help from my friends" by famous superstars with no own ideas. Yet this compilation is something special, and i really like to thank all of you for your contributions i was happy to find in the mail during the past 12 months! I really hope that plenty of listeners out there will enjoy these fab four jewels presented in a fascinating variety of interpretations."

Peter Rosendale did the wonderful "Satanic Majesty" painting, Harald Fischer and Mick Dillingham are responsible for the drawings used in the booklet, the collage for this was put together by Joachim.

Special note: Please read carefully this about the Four Stiltons track if you hear some surface noise
Recorded ca. 1954, original 7" dusted by Terence a. Burrows (aka the great Yukio Yung)
"Oh Darlin'" was recorded on a ap-308764yy manufactured by the akron petrochemicals. This was pretty much a microphone attached to a colchester bantam lathe. The ap-308764yy was first built in 1946, and was commonly found in american fairgrounds throughout the 1950s. Elvis used a similar model (the ap-30892zz) to make his first recording - a gift for his mother. The acetate of "Oh Darlin'" was doctored using the sonic solutions processing system.

Bands (Songs)
Yukio Yung (Free as a Bird) / R. Stevie Moore (Getting Better) / Gonzo Salvage Company (Can't Buy Me Love) / Colin's Hermits (I Am the Walrus) / John A. Roberts (Dear Prudence) / The Creams (Yesterday) / Martin Newell (Baby You're a Rich Man) / The Out-of-Towners (Think for Yourself) / Bevis Frond (You Never Give Me Your Money) / Paul Bevoir (Eleanor Rigby) / Matmosphere (Yer Blues) / Todd Dillingham (Helter Skelter)

Bonus Tracks (7" ep)
Alan Jenkins (Yellow Submarine) / R. Stevie Moore (And Your Bird Can Sing) / The Four Stiltons (Oh Darlin') / The Cleaners From Venus (Day Tripper) / Wicz (There's A Place)

TRIBUTE TO THE FAB FOUR - SGT PEPPER (2009)

Penultimate volume of the "Fab Four Experience". No need to introduce one of the most famous rock albums of all-time. But i can't help myself to quote Bob Segarini : "I loved The Beatles up to Sgt Pepper, then they ruined pop what could be forever, but it's never too late to hope..."(Gotta Have Pop - 1978)

Special note: The cover version of "When I'm 64" could sound weird to a lot of readers, as i made a special mix with the Julian Lennon version recorded in 2002 for an advertisement and the Fab Four's Yellow Submarine mix. For your info, i'm not the first one who ever did this, but i made it myself.

ZS (86 mb)

Happy New Year

TRIBUTE TO THE FAB FOUR - 1 (2012)

As you may remember, during the past few years, i made some tributes to the original albums of The Fab Four. So, on this New Year's Day, here's another compilation covering "1".

"1" was a compilation album by The Fab Four, released in 2000. The album featured virtually every number-one single released in the United Kingdom and United States from 1962 to 1970. Issued on the 30th anniversary of the band's break-up, it was their first compilation available on one Compact Disc.

No bands featured here on this collection were on those previous PPC tributes.

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TRIBUTE TO THE FAB FOUR - REVOLVER (2009)

In 2007, i started the "Fab Four Experience". So far, i've made 8 volumes (all available on PPC, search for "fab four" in the blog dialog box), and after an overlong 7 months hiatus, it is time for me to start the end of that "experience ". "Revolver" (the 7th album) is considered by many Power Pop aficionados as the best Fab Four album. I used one of the original draw of Klaus Vormann for the front artwork.

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TRIBUTE TO THE FAB FOUR - 1965 (aka.. For Sale) (2008)

If you're familiar with the PPC blog, you can remember all the previous Fab Four albums revisited. Actually i posted the fifth part "Socorro!" before this one just because i had no worthy cover of "What You're Doing". So i asked Thierry from William Pears' fame to record a brand new version of that song for this tribute. Today, i can post the fourth part of the Fab Four Tributes Series courtesy of William Pears.

Special note: The booklet artwork is based upon the scarce french sleeve of the fourth album, 1965 was the name of that LP.

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THOSE BYRDS HAVE FLOWN (A Byrdsian Tribute) (2011)

"Although they only attained the huge success of the Fab Four and Brian's band for a short time in the mid-'60s, time has judged the Byrds to be nearly as influential as those groups in the long run. The jangling, 12-string guitar sound of leader Jim McGuinn's Rickenbacker has been permanently absorbed into the vocabulary of rock. The Byrds influenced Dylan and the Moptops almost as much as Bob and the Fab Four had influenced the Byrds. The Byrds' innovations have echoed nearly as strongly through subsequent generations, in the work of innumerable bands that feature those jangling guitars and dense harmonies".Richie Unterberger

So, after the Beatlesque collections (2007 and 2011) and the Brian Wilsonesque compilation, this is my first tribute to the sound of the jangling guitars of the Byrds.

ZS (201 mb)

 

Special note: This Byrdsian tribute comes with the usual set of PPC artwork (booklet + tray, inner, inlay and disc)

Click on pix for details of the bands

TRIBUTE TO THE FAB FOUR - LET IT BE (2009)

At last, here's the very last Fab Four album revisited and brought to you by the PPC blog, it took more than a couple of years to cover the whole Fab Four official discography ( i won't include the "Yellow Submarine" episode on purpose). For many of us "Let it Be" wasn't the best of the lot, but without this fab band the PPC blog wouldn't have never existed.

ZS (101 mb)

THE WOODS - THE LOST ALBUM (1988)

The Fabulous Knobs were one of the most sought after Comboland bar and party bands of the early 80's. Their 1981 album was the first local hit for regional label, Moonlight Records and heavily promoted by record chain Record Bar. Added to the mix was Dave Adams (Glass Moon) who played keyboards on the recording sessions and occasionally live as well.

Without a major record label behind them, The Fabulous Knobs survived until 1984 when Debra left the band. The group renamed themselves The Woodpeckers and added Dan Baird as lead singer. After a year, Dan left to join The Georgia Satellites and kept a song Terry Anderson wrote for the Knobs called "Battleship Chains". This song would be the second national hit for The Georgia Satellites giving both the Satellites and Terry a well needed pay check and a gold record to hang on their wall. After the demise of The Satellites, Terry gave Dan Baird another national hit, this time as a solo artist with the song "I Love You Period" .

Terry Anderson, David Enloe and and Jack Cornell continued as The Woods and released their sole album "It's Like This". It was originally out on Twin Tone Records, and then the british label Demon (home of Nick Lowe and Elvis Costello) licensed it. Though Twin Tone never released this classic album in CD format, Demon made it available to the digital world. Today, you can order it from Twin Tone (it was remastered in 2003).

David Enloe died of liver disease in 2007 (myspace tribute page), Terry Anderson is now with The Yayhoos (kind of supergroup with Dan Baird, Eric Ambel and Keith Christopher), but he is also playing with his old-mate Jack Cornell in The Olympic Ass-Kickin' Team.

Special note: In 1988, The Woods recorded a follow-up to "It's Like This", it is now referred as "The Lost Album". So, it was changing hands in tape format but has never been officially released. I got a copy of this "Lost Album" a few years ago courtesy of a very smart person who was able to handle it first. Thank you to my old mate, so i'm only guilty of the exclusive ppc artwork included with these 11 songs...and for the ones wondering about the songs, yes, "It's All Too Much" is a cover of the legendary fab four's classic.

Songs
Let's Talk / Loudmouth / Get Drunk / Time High / She Won't Call Back Tonight / Worse For The Wear / I Love You Period / She Looks A Lot Like You / Put Me Back Up On The Shelf / Cry In My Sleep / It's All Too Much

TRIBUTE TO THE FAB FOUR - WITH THE B...S (2007)

Ten months after the first LP, "With The B...s" was a sequel of the highest order with an equal ratio of covers-to-originals. The legendary photo sleeve will remain one the best ever made, many times copied (slightly revamped here). Again, 13 artists cover the full-length album, the 14th (Devil In His Heart by The Donays) being the original version of the song covered by the Fab Four.

Notes
"It Won"t Be Long" was covered by The Quick in 1976 and later by Redd Kross using the arrangements originally made by The Quick.
Dwight Twilley's "Money" is the 12" promo version, different from the one that can be found on the CD reissue of the "Twilley/Scuba Divers" (Raven Records).

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TRIBUTE TO THE FAB FOUR - ABBEY ROAD (2007)

10th part of the Fab Four Experience, the last album ever recorded by the moptops with the amazing side 2. One of the most tightly constructed opus of the fab four legacy.

ZS (112 mb)

TRIBUTE TO THE FAB FOUR

RUBBER SOUL UK (2008) vs RUBBER SOUL USA (2019)

In 2008, i made a Rubber Soul tribute based upon the UK edition of the album, and while i was checking the audio quality of the 2008 Tribute and using better audio files, it came to my mind it could be nice to make a new version of the tribute, but instead of using the UK album again, i decided that the basis would be now the US edition which has a slightly different track listing. So the UK version has been re-upped and the US version is shared here for the first time on PPC.

RUBBER SOUL USA

 

ZS (81 mb)

 

RUBBER SOUL UK

Originally posted in 2008 (June 7th)

full details here 

ZS (92 mb)

VARIOUS - SOME SOUNDALIKES (2010)

I guess you all remember Dave Edmunds paying tribute to the Phil Spector's Wall of Sound, or how many bands have contributed to the Beatlesque history of Power Pop and some other artists searching for the perfect harmonies of Brian Wilson, even The Fab Four did this with "Paperback Writer". All those bands have something in common, the love and respect for these forerunners. So instead of covering some classic tunes, they wrote original songs, mixed and produced them in the spirit of the bands we all love.

This new 2CD PPC collection is my humble try at compiling the homages recorded by the bands featured here. Of course, some of you won't hear what i've heard, but you won't deny the L.E.O.'s song might be one of the best songs Jeff L. has never written, or that Marc B., Bob D., Elvis C. can be heard without being really featured. Some other acts have included partial references to their heroes - this is how Roy Wood's Wizzard can be heard with some glitter stomp in the same song, i could write and on and on, but where would be the fun of discovering the tributes hidden in the songs. Enjoy.

NOTE: ZS allows parallel downloads

Lossy: ZS1 + ZS2 (361 mb)

Lossless:
CD1: ZS1 + ZS2 + ZS3 + ZS4 (595 mb) (links down)
CD2: ZS1 + ZS2 + ZS3 + ZS4 (567 mb) (links down)

Click on pix for details

THE COMPLETE PPC TRIBUTES TO THE FAB FOUR (2006-2012)

Back in december 2006, "Magical Mystery Tour" was the first homemade tribute to one of the Fab Four albums, then the other albums followed until January 2012 with the "One" collection.

Before re-upping, I've made some minor changes, replacing the songs featured on two different compilations ( "Please Please Me" / Blog Masters Vol.1 and "Blog Masters Vol. 2"/"One" ) and changing a song on HDN.

1. Please Please PPC: ZS - Details here (09/22/2007)
   
2. With The PPC: ZS - Details here (09/22/2007)
   
3. A Hard Day's PPC: ZS - Details here (09/22/2007)
   
4. PPC For Sale: ZS - Details here (03/20/2008)
   
5. Help! PPC: ZS - Details here (01/08/2008)
   
6.  Rubber UK PPC: ZS - Details here (06/07/2008)
   
7. Rubber USA PPC: ZS - Details here (05/14/2019) 
8. Revolver PPC: ZS - Details here (02/19/2009)
   
9. Sgt. PPC's: ZS - Details here (06/07/2009)
   
10. Magical Mystery PPC: ZS - Details here (2006)
    
11. The White PPC: ZS - Details here (08/20/2008)
    
12. PPC Road: ZS - Details here (08/29/2008)
    
13. Let It PPC: ZS - Details here (07/28/2009)
    
14. PPC Blog Masters Vol 1: ZS - Details here (05/25/2007)
    
15. PPC Blog Masters Vol 2: ZS - Details here (05/25/2007)
    
16. Yellow Songbook PPC: ZS - Details here (08/11/2010)
    
17. "1": ZS - Details here (01/01/2012)

TRIBUTE TO THE FAB FOUR - YELLOW SUBMARINE SONGTRACK (2010)

Last July 2009, i posted the "PPC Blog L.I.B" stating there wouldn't be any "Tribute to Y.S." on the purpose that the original album was impossible to cover, just because of the orchestral side 2. But, as a matter of fact, i had the 1999's"Y.S. Songtrack" CD, and i thought there could be an opportunity to revisit this CD edition. So, here's the "PPC Blog YSS" with its complete artwork included.

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TRIBUTE TO THE FAB FOUR - RUBBER SOUL UK (2008)

1965 saw the release of Rubber Soul, it was a major leap forward as much musically (folk, sitar, fuzz) as artistically with a seminal artwork that would influence quite a lot of bands of the era. The title is a wordplay on "Plastic Soul". It was the expression that black musicians were using to describe The Rolling Stones. Here is at last the 6th part of the Fab Four Experience revisited. A brand new PPC exclusive.

ZS (92 mb)

TRIBUTE TO THE FAB FOUR - A HARD D... N... (2007)

Third part of the Fab Four Experience. This was their third album but also their first release filled with 13 original songs. This was the peak of the Beatlemania sound covered by some well known artists, but also by other bands you might like to dig.

ZS (77 mb)

TRIBUTE TO THE FAB FOUR - SOCORRO! (2007)

Fifth part of the Fab Four Experience. This was their second motion picture. Fourteen songs, ten of which written by the dynamic duo, plus two songs penned by l'angelo mysterioso and two covers.

Special Note: Originally, I made this tribute for a now-defunct blog. I included the two different front covers (UK and USA).

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MEET THE BEATLESQUE (2007)

Today we have so many tribute bands just covering Beatles tunes but try to remember a few years ago when the bands were trying hard to be the Beatles by writing their own material. How many times do you have heard or read this "it sounds so very like the Beatles". All over the past few years many have tried, a few were successful but here's a small selection of artists who have had a Beatlesque moment, whether consciously or not. Beatlesque means bearing a definite resemblance, often to a specific Beatle song. To be truly Beatlesque,a record must wear that influence openly. Candidates are plentiful and this 2cd set is insufficient. Some well-known bands were left off (all of the 60's bands, but also Oasis, World Party or somebody else). No matter, these (even the most heard and overheard, as ELO or Cheap trick) will do. Maybe you won't hear the Beatles influences about some songs, maybe one is more Tottenham/DC5 than Mersey/Beatles, maybe another is more this or that...who cares....i'm just a Fab Four fan. And The Rutles had to be on both cd's, definitely. Beatlesque songs are frequently gorgeous, and must not be despised. The Beatles made their music so full of heart...Imagine you'll even be able to listen to a song called Beatlesque...Now let's try to find out the songs quoted, borrowed... or not borrowed. Enjoy". (thanks to Paul Du Noyer).

 

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LAS CANCIONES DE LOS BEATLES - CAMPOS DE FRESAS (1995)

A tribute to the Fab Four featuring 16 spanish bands. It was first released in 1995 until it was quickly withdrawn due to some legal matters. Then, it was later reissued with 14 bands (the Los Brujos & Nando Gonzalez songs having been removed). This original edition is now out of print.

ZS (373 mb)

Click on pix for the details of the bands involved