The Beatles Bible - Topic: Please Please Me: Remaking A Classic

patbit on Please Please Me: Remaking A Classic

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:18:23 +0100

Watch it on youtube

vonbontee on Please Please Me: Remaking A Classic

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 19:18:57 +0000

Yeah, I read your take on it in the original post, and I admit it made me appreciate their take on the song more "in theory", if not in actuality.

mja6758 on Please Please Me: Remaking A Classic

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:24:56 +0000

I wouldn't say prejudices, vonbontee. I'd say tastes. I rather liked it, but different horses for different courses. I gave an opinion on the whole track by track the day of the broadcast further up this page. Here's my first reaction to I Am Kloot and Chains, quoting myself: "Love it. A great twist on the original. They take it into leather and S&M that The Beatles could barely have imagined before they met Keith Moon!"

vonbontee on Please Please Me: Remaking A Classic

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:06:59 +0000

OK then - I dislike it 28% less knowing that it's an entire band and not just the one individual - but I still find the practice of bandname-as-complete-sentence extremely irritating. (As opposed to individual's-name-as-complete-sentence, which is downright infuriating!) As for the performance itself, it's interesting what they did to the song; but the way they did it - grafting those descending minors onto a cheery 12-bar blues - I found extremely unpleasant. (It seemed to me at first that the chords were borrowed from "A Taste of Honey", for whatever reason.) And the bleak vocal reinforced that. But I ...

Joe on Please Please Me: Remaking A Classic

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:23:29 +0000

I'm with you on most of that, but I Am Kloot (a band, not a person) are normally great - Sky At Night is a marvellous album. Chains was done in their style, so that's why they re-arranged it. I'd rather hear that than a straightforward cover version.

Yeah, Beverley Knight was very good. She's a bit of a powerhouse.

vonbontee on Please Please Me: Remaking A Classic

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 20:57:34 +0000

Finally saw this, disliked most of it (as I expected to!) What the hell was the point of the adding all the string players on half of the songs? Why did Difford & Tilbrook leave out all the excellent instrumental fills and call/response vocals that propelled "Please Please Me" along? Why couldn't Ian Broudie strum his guitar properly? Why would I want to listen to a performer who calls himself I Am Kloot, especially when he rearranges "Chains" into a sour descending-minor ballad? And why does the prattish Mick Hucknall give one of my favourite performances here when ...

bikelock28 on Please Please Me: Remaking A Classic

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 22:23:20 +0000

Didn't hear all of the covers, but I loved the versions of Chains and Twist and Shout. I wasn't mad on Squeeze though, it just didn't sound right. I agree with mja, there was a lot of overused backing vocals, which defated the point a bit and which we could've done without. Still, it was an interesting idea to mark the anniversary. I wonder what John would have thought of it all...

fabfouremily on Please Please Me: Remaking A Classic

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 19:40:03 +0000

Didn´t think it was that great and I found the covers that I saw (I missed a few), except 'There´s A Place' done by Gabrielle Aplin to be quite hard to listen to. Having said that, I really can´t stand covers anyway (generally) so I wasn´t surprised that I didn´t really like them. As for the remark made about 'Do You Want To Know A Secret' being about John´s marriage, I´ve never heard that before, and they didn´t (I don´t think) mention the source, which to me means that it wasn´t a very reliable piece of info.

On the other hand, ...

meanmistermustard on Please Please Me: Remaking A Classic

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 10:28:03 +0000

The only complaints i had were with

Please Please Me and I Saw Her Standing There - both lacking any balls whats so ever.

Twist and Shout - never been a fan of Beverly Knight & too overblown for my taste.

The female backing vocals on Baby Its You were irritating, which was surprising as it was a girlgroup song and it was females doing it, but good otherwise.

Agree that Misery was pleasant and it shouldnt be that way. The Beatles made Misery upbeat yet sad sounding, maybe down to the opening in large part, like John and Paul were just getting thru the day with a false ...

Linde on Please Please Me: Remaking A Classic

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 09:15:15 +0000

I didn't watch the whole thing, as we were actually watching a movie on another channel, so I was zapping between them during the commercial breaks. Only heard the first 3, Anna and Boys.

I only liked There's A Place and Anna (Go to him). I thought I Saw Her Standing There and Please Please Me were really disappointing. I know a cover should be original, but they just left out all the riffs and bits that MAKE the song imo. Plus they couldn't even get the higher notes. It just didn't have that ''thing'' the originals have.

The movie had finished ...

vonbontee on Please Please Me: Remaking A Classic

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 04:14:28 +0000

Mojo Magazine presented a various artists version of Abbey Road also, and included it with an issue a few years ago. Tilbrook showed up on that one too, along with a few guys I like OK (Robyn Hitchcock, Cornershop), a few I don't like (Gomez) and a whole bunch I never heard of. Don't recall it at all, except that I must've hated it - only played it once and tossed it.

mja6758 on Please Please Me: Remaking A Classic

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 03:13:33 +0000

My overall thoughts on the programe? Taking it track by track to begin with. I will listen to each track again before commenting.

Gabrielle Aplin — There's a Place: A beautiful version of a much underrated song. Haven't heard many covers of this, this is a devastatingly good re-reading. Never heard of her before, going off hunting for her original material. What a voice! Her guitar was rather lost against the strings.

Stereophonics — I Saw Her Standing There: Disappointing. I've heard them cover The Beatles better before. Not enough of a twist for me. One of those Beatles I would call ...

pilurini on Please Please Me: Remaking A Classic

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 01:39:21 +0000

No that was the first time I heard it- loved that rendition of it. Loved the documentary about Brian Epstein afterwards too

meanmistermustard on Please Please Me: Remaking A Classic

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:03:55 +0000

Was under a different title but deleted that and made it more general.

I know mja has watched as it was mentioned in another thread but anyone seen it and got any thoughts?

Seems a decent documentary which appears researched properly, avoiding stupid mistakes which often pop up in Beatles programmes and films (well so far - not seen it all yet). The covers are good, not just straight renditions but a few have been retwisted by the artist singing it which is pleasing. And appears as tho the folk there actually knew the songs not just turning up to get on tv.

One ...