"She’s Leaving Home"
http://youtu.be/m9fibYnDcy4 Frank Converse & the Cake doing "She's Leaving Home."(Via BoingBoing)
Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, Starr & Young
DEVIN McKINNEY • Another addition to the growing video library here at your favorite YouTube annex: Neil Young performing a Beatles classic to wind up a recent Dublin date. http://youtu.be/Od5MaiiUjtY Though Neil has never done much to associate himself with the Fabs, this song choice makes sense in at least one regard: I have always felt that the Young-Nitzsche "Expecting to Fly" (from the 1967 Buffalo Springfield Again) was a direct homage to/steal from Sgt. Pepper, particularly its royal finale. (And what about "Broken Arrow," from the same album? Or "Country Girl," from CSNY's Deja Vu? And pretty much the whole of [...]
They Said They Said
ED PARK • I remember seeing the Feelies open for R.E.M. back in 1986 (!), and remember them playing a great cover of "She Said She Said." A recent article in the Times about the group led me to do some wandering, and I came up with a nice snippet of the SSSS cover. (The Feelies, and their various side projects, performed a number of crafty covers, from VU's "What Goes On," off their debut Crazy Rhythms, to Neil Young's "Sedan Delivery" and Patti Smith's "Dancing Barefoot.")While we're in deep-cover territory, here's...a picture of Billy Corgan singing "All You Need Is Love"—I [...]