<p id=”par-1_49″><a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/the-beatles/”>The Beatles</a> have inspired so many covers that it’s mindboggling. Most modern attempts to add something to <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/john-lennon-wanted-thousands-monks-chant-1-song-the-beatles-revolver.html/”>the Fab Four’s sound</a> aren’t impressive. Only one album of Beatles covers from this century is with your time. On top of that, the album is worth listening to again and again.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-1-albums-of-beatles-covers-is-weird-in-the-best-possible-way”>1 albums of Beatles covers is weird in the best possible way</h2>
<p id=”par-2_80″>What do Linkin Park, Aretha Franklin, Katy Perry, <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/petula-clark-sang-john-lennons-give-peace-a-chance.html/”>and Petula Clark</a> have in common? They’ve all released covers of The Beatles. That’s not too surprising because so many artists want to pay tribute to the biggest rock band ever. During the 20th century, some Beatles covers were widely beloved, such as Elton John’s <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/john-lennon-said-the-beatles-lucy-in-the-sky-with-diamonds-desire-someone-like-yoko-ono.html/”>“Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds</a>” and Fiona Apple’s “Across the Universe.” After the year 200, few Fab Four covers garnered much attention or gained critical acclaim.</p>
<p id=”par-3_63″>The best set of Beatles covers in recent years in The Flaming Lips’ album <em>With a Little Help from My Fwends</em>. This cheeky neo-psychedelia album has guest stars, <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/miley-cyrus-covered-the-beatles-lucy-in-the-sky-with-diamonds-awful.html/”>including Miley Cyrus</a>, Moby, and Tegan and Sara. Beyond that, it is a real sonic trip. The production is beyond bizarre, which makes it an entertaining listen for anyone with a taste for the avant-garde.</p>
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<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-how-a-band-turned-a-covers-album-into-a-work-of-art”>How a band turned a covers album into a work of art</h2>
<p id=”par-4_58″><em>With a Little Help from My Fwends</em> twists some of the soundscapes of <em>Sgt. Pepper</em> beyond recognition. Some Fab Four fanatics might take issue with The Flaming Lips’ irreverent approach to the material. However, it lives up to the spirit of the original. The Beatles were not slavishly recreating the past when they made their psychedelic concept album.</p>
<p id=”par-5_60″>Beyond that, <em>Sgt. Pepper</em> doesn’t seem as strange as it did in 1967. <em>With a Little Help from My Fwends</em> boldly defamilairizes us with its source and magaes to make it sound as cutting-edge as the original album once did. It’s a trip through time and space and taste and fuzzy DIY audio mixing that you won’t want to miss.</p>
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<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-what-the-flaming-lips-wayne-coyne-thought-of-the-beatles-sgt-pepper”>What The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne thought of The Beatles; ‘Sgt. Pepper’</h2>
<p id=”par-6_58″>During a 2014 interview with <a href=”https://psmag.com/social-justice/remaking-the-beatles-interview-flaming-lips-wayne-coyne-miley-cyrus-95172/” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>Pacific Standard</a>, The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne discussed his relationship with the Fab Four. “My siblings looked and talked the way [The Beatles] did, they took drugs, and the first thing I remember listening to is <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/john-lennon-compared-the-beatles-strawberry-fields-forever-buddhist-philosophy.html/”>‘Strawberry Fields Forever,’”</a> he said. “But <em>Sgt. Pepper</em>, to me, is an even more direct subconscious trigger. </p>
<p id=”par-7_125″>“The first few months when I was first listening to it, there was one side of the speaker system that didn’t work, and on most of our music my siblings couldn’t tell because so many records were mono,” he added. “And on a song like <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/the-beatles-a-day-in-the-life-banned-bbc-over-1-line.html/”>‘A Day in the Life,’</a> where Lennon’s voice comes in and out of the mix, I could only hear the left speaker. It was amazing: How did he do that? That was part of the appeal for me, that mystery. Listening to it as an adult, it’s funny, it almost doesn’t measure up, because his voice isn’t drifting in and out; it’s drifting side to side. As a child, I’d heard this supreme otherwordly sound—and it was all an accident.”</p>
<p id=”par-8_17″>Coyne managed to create a “supreme otherwordly sound” when he took his own crack at <em>Sgt. Pepper</em>.</p>