Heavy Beatles Covers
(Play Playlist)
A vast majority of human beings alive on planet earth today and 99.99% of popular music critics would tell you that the Beatles are the most influential band in popular music history.
The number of times Beatles songs have been recorded by other artists is astounding and throngs of musicians mark the band as a major influence. The Beatles song "Yesterday" is cited by many to be the most covered song in popular music history and although there is no way to prove such a statement I would not bet money against the assumption.
The Beatles had 17 number one songs on the British singles chart and 20 number one hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in America. Even more than this 17 cover versions of Beatles songs have hit the top 40 chart in America with Elton John's version of "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" hitting #1.
In 1966, John Lennon said "Lack of feeling in an emotional sense is responsible for the way some singers do our songs. They don't understand and are too old to grasp the feeling. Beatles are really the only people who can play Beatle music." I'm not sure what John would think of all the Beatles covers floating around today were he alive, but I have to think he would find the immense numbers flattering.
The amazing thing about the influence of the Beatles is that it spans across just about any music genre you can think of. You can find full albums of Beatles covers done in the styles of jazz, bluegrass, rock, electronica, bossa nova, Gregorian chants, Cuban, classical, soul, children's, blues and this doesn't even begin to scratch the surface. For this playlist I wanted to pick songs on the heavier end of the spectrum.
These 10 covers are filled with electric guitars and guts. Please add your favorite hard rock or metal Beatles covers to the comments and tell us why we should check 'em out.
The Heavy Beatles Covers Playlist
1. "Day Tripper" by Jimi Hendrix
2. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" - THE HELL YEAHS
3. "Eleanor Rigby" - Godhead
4. "Happiness is a Warm Gun" - Mother Superior
5. "All My Loving" - Helloween
6. "I Want To Tell You" - Ted Nugent
7. "Revolution" - Stone Temple Pilots
8. "Hey, Bulldog" - Alice Cooper
9. "Back In The USSR" - Lemmy Kilmister
10. "I Feel Fine" - Billy Idol
Come Together - Aerosmith - Despite being featured in one of the worst films of all time this was one of the first, if not the first, Beatles songs to receive a "heavy" treatment. Aerosmith rocks this out and its still getting radio play some 25+ years later.
Probably the most (in)famous cover of "Helter Skelter" is Mötley Crüe's (Shout at the Devil).
Jeff Martin (Racer X) covered "I Am The Walrus" on his solo album Fool.
Not exactly heavy in a metal sense, but Michael Stanley did a very heavy (in a dark sense) cover of "Eleanor Rigby" (Eighteen Down).
My favorite heavy metal cover is Trouble's version of "Tomorrow Never Knows" from Plastic Green Head.
And two very good versions of "Day Tripper" were done by Whitesnake (Trouble), and probably the heaviest (in a doom sense) example I can think of overall would be Type O Negative's cover of it from World Coming Down (one of the heaviest downer albums ever).
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