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There have been many epic fails when bands and celebrities try and cover a Beatles song. However, there are a few exceptions. Here is a list of some of my favourite Beatles covers that I think are as good if not better than the originals.

18 - Long, Long, Long - Low

17 - Blackbird - Crosby, Stills & Nash




16 - Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey - Fats Domino




15 - Nowhere Man - Mamas and the Papas




14 - Sun King - Gomez




13 - Because - Elliott Smith




12 - This Boy - Sean Lennon & Rufus Wainwright




11 - Getting Better - Fionn Regan

10 - I Call Your Name - Mamas and the Papas




9 - Here Comes The Sun - Nina Simone




8 - We Can Work It Out - Stevie Wonder




7 - Strawberry Fields Forever - Ben Harper




6 - Nowhere Man - Low




5 - She Said, She Said - The Black Keys




4 - I Wanna Hold Your Hand - Al Green




3 - Across the Universe - Rufus Wainwright




2 - Dig A Pony - St. Vincent




1 - Come Together





The Beatles, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr

1. Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams





2. Jack Johnson - Brushfire Fairytales




3. Ben Harper - Diamonds on the Inside




4. Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde





5. Adam Green - Friends of Mine




6. The Strokes - Is This It




7. G. Love & Special Sauce - Yeah, It's that Easy




8. Jack Johnson - Sing-a-longs and Lullabies for the film 'Curious George'




9. Ryan Adams - Gold




10. Matt Costa - Songs We Sing




11. Jack Johnson - On and On




12. Donavon Frankenreiter - Donavon Frankenreiter




13. Money Mark - Brand New by Tomorrow




14. Animal Liberation Orchesta - Fly Between Falls




15. Jack Johnson - Sleep Through the Static




16. James Morrison - Undiscovered




17. Ben Harper - Lifeline




18. Gisbert zu Knyphausen - Gisbert zu Knyphausen




19. M. Ward - Hold Time




20. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited




21. Dave Brogan - Thunderbird Sun Transformation




22. The Strokes - Room on Fire




23. Stephen Fretwell - Magpie




24. Josh Rouse - 1972




25. John Mayer - Continuum




26. G. Love & Special Sauce - Philadelphonic




27. Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst





28. Ryan Adams - Rock N Roll




29. Matthew Gair - And She whispered I told You So...





30. Ben Harper and Relentless 7 - White Lies for Dark Times




31. Ron Sexsmith - Exit Strategy of the Soul




32. Zach Gill - Zach Gill and Friends




33. Mason Jennings - In the Ever




34. Julian Casablancas - Phrazes for the Young




35. Ben Kweller - Ben Kweller




36. Ben Folds - Songs for Silverman





37. florian ostertag - The Constant Search




38. Mayer Hawthorne - A Strange Arrangement




39. David Ford - Songs for the Road





40. Neil Halstead - Oh! Mighty Engine





41. Nick Drake - Pink Moon




42. Adam Green - Garfield




43. Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Facing Future




44. Marc Broussard - Carencro




45. Amos Lee - Amos Lee




46. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning




47. Tomte - Heureka




48. Augustana - All the Stars and Boulevards




49. The Verve - Urban Hymns




50. Ben Lee - Awake is the New Sleep

this is what happens when you are raised in the bible belt, start booking punk shows at 14, and move to the east coast at 18.


12 Stones

Aa
Aces and Eights
Adam Norris Ban
A Good Day to Die
Alela Diane
Ali Harter
The American Spirits
AnAkA
Andeline
The Apollos
A River Forth
Audio Adrenaline

Bari Caywood
Ben Harper
Big Dismal
Blitzen Trapper
Black Eyed Peas
Bishop Allen
Bloc Party
Buffalo

Calexico
Cerebral Ballzy
Charles Dunn
Chase Kerby
The Closer
Cold Dog Soup
The Color Violet
Cooper Couch
CSNVTT!
Cyanide Child

Dan Deacon
Daniel Walcher
David Sankey
Day After July
Dear Augustine
Dead Bugs
The Deathset
Deerhoof
Deerhunter
Drink Up Buttercup
Dylan Hammett

Edinbergh
Edith Frost
Ed Schrader
Eisley
ephraim
Esquire
Evangelicals
Excess Enemy
Ezra

Facundo
Falling Up
Final Contact
Fourth Grade Goodbyes
Foxfire Bluegrass
Funeral Feast

The Gang
Girl Talk
Grand Buffet
God In a Machine
Gone Like Yesterday

Heath Nieves
Heartbreaks Kill Heroes
Hero 9
Hoobastank

inVain
Infamous
Iron & Wine

Japanther
Jake Morisy
Jeff Hanson
Jon Crocker

Killian's Angels
Knights Templar
Kawnar
The Keepaway
Knights Templar
KRAK ATTACK

Leopard Skin Resistance
Linkin Park
Love Begotten
Loveless

Mainstay
Maps & Atlases
Matt & Kim
mayola
MGMT
Minutes Too Far
Moment of Zen
Montego Bay
Mr. Jones & The Shitheads
Mutemath
Mussels
The Misled

The Nancys
Never So Far
Newsboys
The Nightwatchman
Ninjasonik
No Age
No Polite Lies
The Nurses

The Old Haunts
Overflow

Patience in Suffering
PDA
People in Planes
Phil Wriker
Pigpen's Mess
Pillar
Pitter Splatter
planning ahead
P.O.D.
Project 86

Red Light Knights
Robots In The Sky
Rockisland Blvd.
The Roustabouts

Samantha Crain
The Same
The Sass
Saved By Dawn
The Secret Handshake
Session Eight
The Scarlet Letter
Scubatank
Skillet
Smallwood
Smoosh
Soul Arson
Spider and the webs
Subseven
Sudden Sorrows
Suicide
The Stars Can Kill
Stealing Utah
Story of the Year

The Toadies
Today and Tomorrow
Too Few Forgotten
Topless
Totally Michael
These Walls Are Oceans
Third Day
Third Grade Scuffle
This Side Up
The Tremula
Triangle Row
Trip C
Truedoxology
True Till Death
Truh

U2
Undercover Rabbi

The Villins
The Violence
VultureMoose

The Wedding
The Western Front
Westgate
What Lies Beneath
White Star City
working class hero

Zach-Mo
The Zen Okies

First, make a list of your top-20 artists overall. Then, for each of these artists, add the 8 most similar artists to your list. Delete any duplicates, count up the number of entries on your list and this will give you some idea of how eclectic your listening habits are. A score of 9 represents an extremely unvaried musical taste while a 160 represents an extremely varied one.

Jack Johnson

1 Donavon Frankenreiter
2 Matt Costa
3 Animal Liberation Orchestra
4 Zach Gill
5 Ben Harper
6 John Mayer
7 G. Love & Special Sauce
8 Jason Mraz

Beans on Toast

9 Frank Turner
10 Kid Harpoon
11 Chris T-T
12 Jay Jay Pistolet
13 Laura Marling
14 Jeremy Warmsley
15 Johnny Flynn
16 Emmy the Great

Bad Religion

17 Pennywise
18 NOFX
19 Lagwagon
20 Descendants
21 Anti-Flag
22 Millencolin
23 Good Riddance
24 No Use for a Name

A Day to Remember

25 The Devil Wears Prada
26 Attack Attack!
27 Four Year Strong
28 A Skylit Drive
29 Set Your Goals
30 Asking Alexandria
31 I See Stars
32 Silverstein

Billy Talent

33 Pezz
34 Rise Against
35 Sum 41
36 Zebrahead
Anti-Flag
37 Green Day
38 The Offspring
39 Three Days Grace

Frank Turner

Beans On Toast
40 The King Blues
41 Chuck Ragan
Chris T-T
42 Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
43 Dave House
44 Mumford & Sons
45 Jonah Matranga

The John Butler Trio

46 Xavier Rudd
47 The Beautiful Girls
48 Powderfinger
49 Dispatch
50 Blue King Brown
51 Bernard Fanning
52 The Waifs
53 Ben Harper

Wax Tailor

54 Chinese Man
55 Blockhead
56 Le Peuple de l'Herbe
57 Doctor Flake
58 Sporto Kantes
59 Birdy Nam Nam
60 Waldeck
61 The Herbaliser

Incubus

62 Foo Fighters
63 Audiovent
64 Audioslave
65 311
66 Chevelle
67 A Perfect Circle
68 Deftones
69 Alien Ant Farm

Chimaira

70 DevilDriver
71 Lamb of God
72 Machine Head
73 God Forbid
74 Unearth
75 Bleed the Sky
76 Shadows Fall
77 Divine Heresy

Joshua Radin

78 William Fitzsimmons
79 Schuyler Fisk
80 The Weepies
81 Cary Brothers
82 Meiko
83 Matt Nathanson
84 Joshua James
85 Ingrid Michaelson

Lagwagon

86 Bad Astronaut
87 No Use for a Name
Good Riddance
88 Pulley
89 Strung Out
NOFX
90 No Fun At All
Pennywise

Pearl Jam

91 Eddie Vedder
92 Temple of the Dog
93 Alice in Chains
94 Mother Love Bone
95 Soundgarden
96 Mad Season
97 Stone Gossard
98 Screaming Trees

Avenged Sevenfold

99 Bullet For My Valentine
100 Atreyu
101 The Confession
102 Trivium
103 Eighteen Visions
104 All That Remains
105 Killswitch Engage
106 Escape the Fate

Seether

107 Shinedown
108 Staind
109 Breaking Benjamin
110 Three Days Grace
111 Puddle of Mudd
112 Crossfade
113 Alter Bridge
114 Saliva

Common Rider

115 Against All Authority
117 Operation Ivy
118 The Suicude Machine
119 The Arrogant Sons of Bitches
120 Big D and the Kids Table
121 MU330
122 Bomb the Music Industry!
123 Slapstick

Queens of the Stone Age

124 Desert Sessions
125 Eagles of Death Metal
126 Kyuss
127 The Crooked Vultures
128 Mundo Generator
129 Masters of Reality
130 Fatso Jetson
131 Fu Manchu

Donavon Frankenreiter

Jack Johnson
Animal Liberation Orchestra
Matt Costa
The Beautiful Girls
132 G. Love
133 Pete Murray
G. Love & Special Sauce
Ben Harper

Millencolin

Pennywise
Lagwagon
No Use for a Name
No Fun At All
NOFX
Pulley
Bad Religion
134 Satanic Surfers

Rage Against the Machine

135 One Day as a Lion
Audioslave
136 Zach De La Rocha
137 The Nightwatchman
138 Street Sweeper Social Club
139 Red Hot Chili Peppers
140 Limp Bizkit
141 Tool

141 out 160 isn't bad, would of been better with 160 obviously

IZIA, Wu-Tang Clan, Suprême NTM, Assassin, Nirvana, IAM, Bob Marley & The Wailers, La Spirale, Django Reinhardt, Squarepusher, The Prodigy, Necro, Ill Bill, Cypress Hill, Craig Armstrong, Heather Nova, La Coka Nostra, Scala & Kolacny Brothers, Keny Arkana, Bérurier Noir, Birdy Nam Nam, System of a Down, dead prez, Le Peuple de l'Herbe, Beastie Boys, Busta Rhymes, Alpha & Omega, House of Pain, Seth Gueko, Aphex Twin, Profecy, DJ Krush, Prefuse 73, R.A. the Rugged Man, Rage Against the Machine, Laurent Garnier, Dead Can Dance, Kool Keith, High Tone, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Erik Truffaz, Portishead, Wax Poetic, Johnny Cash, Foreign Beggars, Lady Sovereign, Sinéad O'Connor, Vitalic, Radikal Dub Kolektiv, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Jan Garbarek, Svinkels, Love Spirals Downwards, KRS-One, Dave Clarke, DJ Cam, The Doors, Clint Mansell, Lisa Gerrard, Fat Jon, Les Gourmets, The Beatles, Johannes Heil, KoЯn, Sleater-Kinney, Wax Tailor, B-Real, J Dilla, Filastine, Two Fingers, Asian Dub Foundation, Eminem, Jefferson Airplane, Autumn's Grey Solace, Gym Class Heroes, Shpongle, Herbie Hancock, Radiohead, Rockin' Squat, Mike Patton, Björk, Esbjörn Svensson Trio, Waldeck, Millencolin, Massive Attack, This Ascension, Lordz of Brooklyn, Ensemble Badila, Snoop Dogg, The Problemaddicts, Dub Syndicate, Groundation, Wolf Myer Orchestra, Beth Orton, Oh No, Edward "Kid" Ory, The Offspring, Venetian Snares, Alexander Kowalski, Rageous Gratoons, Noir Désir, Ben Harper, Nas, Ideal J, Verbose, Micropoint, The Black Seeds, Metallica, General Elektriks, Buraka Som Sistema, The Chemical Brothers, Thom Yorke, Lisa Gerrard & Pieter Bourke, Ayọ, EZ3kiel, Amon Tobin, Mano Negra, King of Conspiracy, Bob Marley, Moondog, 25G, Jimi Hendrix, Bauchklang, Moderat, Sigur Rós, DJ Muggs & Planet Asia, Louis Armstrong, Son Doobie, Tryo, Kronos Quartet, Iration Steppas, Looptroop, Mysa, Nine Inch Nails, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Olympic Gramofon, Leftfield, Fairy, Joy Division, 2Pac, Peace Orchestra, Eek-A-Mouse, Snowgoons, Heiko Laux, The Temptations, Le Trio Joubran, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Guru, Flunk, Earl Hines, Erykah Badu, Burning Spear, Mary Lou Williams, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Oi Va Voi, 80kidz, Infected Mushroom, Animal Collective, The Quantic Soul Orchestra, NOMAK, Year of No Light, Horace Andy, The Cinematic Orchestra, Red Snapper, Nneka, Leila, NOFX, Lucky Thompson, Cal Tjader, Le Klub des 7, Jeff Buckley, Manu Chao, Wagon Christ, Drummers of the Societe Absolument Guinin, Barney Wilen, Ol' Dirty Bastard, UNKLE, Erik Truffaz & Sly Johnson, The Blue Stars, Underworld, Shurik'N, Arsonists, Madeleine Peyroux, The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, Nostalgia 77, Terry Callier, Medine, Fingathing, Big Daddy Kane, Macka B, Keith Jarrett Trio, Iration Steppas Meet D. Rootical, De La Soul, Chali 2na, Lee "Scratch" Perry & The Upsetters, John Coltrane, DJ Food, Sergent Garcia, Rockamovya, Antonio Vivaldi, Notorious B.I.G., Sidney Bechet et Claude Luter, Tracy Chapman, Angélique Kidjo, EPMD, Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals, St. Germain, Daft Punk, Fat Freddy's Drop, Fatboy Slim, Johnny Clarke, RJD2, René Thomas, Soul Assassins, Deftones, Kaophonic Tribu, Linkin Park, The Skatalites, Muse, Belleruche, Sunflower Caravan, Les Reines Prochaines, DJ Shadow, Mass Hysteria, múm, Кочани Оркестар, Israel Vibration, Jurassic 5, Gelka, Lionel Hampton, Lost in Hildurness, Hilight Tribe, Shadow Dancer, Elek Bacsik, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Tânia Ârab, Troublemakers, William Orbit, Plastikman, The Specials, CunninLynguists, dead prez & DJ Green Lantern, Mansfield.TYA, Thievery Corporation, Raphael Saadiq, Smooth, Kery James, DJ Muggs vs. GZA/Genius, Love Is Colder Than Death, Miss Kittin & The Hacker, YAS, Chet Baker, Pendulum, Claude Bolling, Hubert Rostaing, Georges Brassens, Refractory, Scarface, Bill Coleman, Funkdoobiest, Telefon Tel Aviv, Lightning Bolt, Morcheeba, DJ Mitsu The Beats, Tricky, Hafdís Huld, Sidsel Endresen & Christian Wallumrød & Helge Sten, Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse, Akhenaton, Alif Tree, Tiken Jah Fakoly, Maurice Meunier, TAT, Carl Craig & Moritz von Oswald, Stéphane Grappelli, Black Uhuru, Kid Loco, Common, Ellen Allien, Roots Manuva, Joris Voorn, Method Man, Jah'licious, Hux Flux, Toots Thielemans, Blockhead, Rokia Traoré, Max Romeo, Cœur de Pirate, Method Man & Redman, RND, Volta & FX909, Venetian Snares & Speedranch, The Rolling Stones, BHASS Project, Orchestre National de Jazz, Pink Floyd, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Michel Legrand, Sayag Jazz Machine, Emilie Simon, Late Night Fruit, Buddy Banks, Pan•American, Booba, DJ Muggs vs. Planet Asia, The Kumba Mela Experiment, Jeff Mills, Ulytau, ZAMAN 8 & Hafez Modir, Ematom, Harmonic 313, Freestylers, The Gladiators, Control Machete, The Bush Chemists, Twista, Orange Street, The Roots, Michael Jackson, Los Hermanos, Dub Incorporation, RZA, The Ananda Shankar Experience and State of Bengal, Da Taz, Thelonious Monk, Limp Bizkit, Mr. Oizo, 雅-miyavi-, Ella Fitzgerald, Sex Pistols, AC/DC, Minty Fresh Beats, Gus Gus, Gideon, Themselves, Parabellum, K2R Riddim, Easy Star All-Stars, Rhythm & Sound, The Toraia Orchestra Of Algiers, Lee "Scratch" Perry & King Tubby, Keziah Jones, Ataraxia, TTC, Immortal Technique, Coldcut, A Tribe Called Quest, Lali Puna, Rhoda Scott & Kenny Clarke, Iron Maiden, Dizzy Gillespie, Pierre Michelot, Umek, Miles Davis, Gang Starr, DJ Muggs, Orbital, OutKast, Anthony Rother, Donald Byrd Quintet, Diego, Igorrr, Raekwon, Pharoahe Monch, Dream Theater, Anoushka Shankar, Sonny Criss, The Smashing Pumpkins, K's Choice, Massive Attack vs. Mad Professor, The Herbaliser, Blakroc, Lenny Kravitz, Cujo, Cosma, Killarmy, Big Punisher, Jamiroquai, Charles Mingus, Missak, Burial, Bernard Peiffer and his Saint-Germain-des-Prés Orchestra, Albert Nicholas, Édith Piaf, Mix Master Mike, Maceo Parker, Rae & Christian, Steel Pulse, Hocus Pocus, Opeth, Dee Nasty, Tom Waits, DJ Fresh, Manu le Malin, Khoiba, Animaltek, Peter Tosh, Steppenwolf, Alter Ego, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Boards of Canada, Red Hot Chili Peppers9, Bernard Zacharias et ses solistes, Ill Bill & Necro, Sublime, Crystal Distortion, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, GZA/Genius, Salmonella Dub, Harold Nicholas et son Orchestre, Grems, Missy Elliott, Sammy Price & Lucky Thompson, The Herbaliser Band, Ghostface Killah, Cranes, Slaine, Necro & Ill Bill, Lars Klein, Outlines, Saïan Supa Crew, John Dahlbäck, Junior Murvin, Delinquent Habits, Dubians, Arom & Gourmets Beatclub, Afu-Ra, Slide Hampton, Agoria, 2Pac & The Outlawz, Archive, The Alchemist, Somogo, Toots and The Maytals, Philip Glass, Ray Charles, Sia, Marcel et son Orchestre, Trust, Aretha Franklin, Sinsemilia, Public Enemy, Buck Clayton, James Brown, Zenzile & High Tone, The Streets, Adam F, Oscar Peterson, The Abyssinians, Improvisators Dub, Yuksek, Alanis Morissette, Alici, CAKE, Up, Bustle and Out, Art Blakey, Scan X, DMX, Etikal Lab, Lady B, Keith Jarrett, David Carretta, Cocteau Twins, Lhasa de Sela, Jacques Brel, Charlie Singleton, Dimitri from Paris, Bonobo, Emmanuel Top, CéU, Kosheen, Jungle Brothers, Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Nada Surf, Cercle Rouge, Monolake, Marilyn Manson, Rachid Taha, Alain Goraguer, Dub Pistols, Jimmy Archey, Pat Metheny, Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass, Jimmy Riley, Wailing Souls, Taigaz, Air, Triston Palmer, Donald Byrd, Promoe, Ice Cube, Gang Gang Dance, Barbara Morgenstern, Technasia, Dubmood, Josh Wink, Eddy Louiss, Africa Combo & Bugge Wesseltoft.

10 Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights

09 Alcest- Souvenirs d'un autro monde

08 Ulver- Shadows of the Sun

07 José González - In Our Nature

06 Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala

05 Britta Persson - Top Quality Bones And A Little Terrorist

04 Ben Harper - Lifeline

03 Elvis Perkins -Ash Wednesday

02 Clint Mansell - The Fountain (Orginal Soundtrack)

01 Feist - The Reminder

Perché c'eravamo e mi hai trovata... Non è poco...

Queen Under Pressure Ben Harper
Can't we give ourselves one more chance
Why can't we give love that one more chance
Why can't we give love give love give love give love give love give love give love give love give love
'Cause love's such an old fashioned word
And love dares you to care for
The people on the edge of the night
And love dares you to change our way of
Caring about ourselves
This is our last dance
This is ourselves
Under pressure

1000: (2006-12-14 20:30:49): Mattafix - Clear and Present Danger
2000: (2007-01-17 22:45:44): Lovage - Stroker Ace
3000: (2007-04-09 18:47:50): Ben Harper - Crying Won't Help You Now
4000: (2007-05-05 20:08:26): Elliott Smith - Easy Way Out
5000: (2007-06-21 18:15:50): The Cat Empire - The Chariot
6000: (2007-09-11 09:31:04): London Symphony Orchestra - Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade - The Sea and Sindbad's Ship
7000: (2007-11-13 12:12:10): J.J. Johnson - Willie Chase
8000: (2007-12-29 22:22:25): Beat Junkies - Intro
9000: (2008-05-12 22:33:43): Ben Harper - Everything
10000: (2008-06-24 13:51:21): Scottish National Orchestra - Ein Heldenleben - The Hero's Retirement From The World And The Fulfilment Of His Life
11000: (2008-09-15 10:05:28): Fanfare Ciocărlia - Sirba De La Monastiera
12000: (2008-12-14 18:06:19): Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra - Sym # 5 Mvt 1
13000: (2009-07-08 17:59:35): Easy Star All-Stars - An Airbag Saved My Dub
14000: (2009-08-27 16:02:50): Bonobo - Pick Up

gotcha by anniversary tracks grabber