It's Beatles Covers Review Episode 8, and it's an April Fools Special! Don't worry, it's not a prank, but I am doing something different. This time I'm reviewing a cover of Eleanor Rigby that I myself recorded. The second part of Season 1 of BCR will return in late-June/early-July.
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I know some of you are going to argue with me over this. You might say the biggest mistake in film history was anyone handing Ed Wood some money, the invention of “Smell-O-Vision” or, at the time of writing, the handing of a TMNT reboot over to Michael Bay
You might say that those are the worst, but I disagree. Ed Wood, however terrible, can be incredibly entertaining. And although the others, in my opinion, have no redeeming qualities, they will make the movie studios a “fuckload” of money, which I believe is the technical term. No, the biggest mistake has nothing to do with the above. It does involve Robert Zemeckis though…
In 2011, Zemeckis’ film studio, ImageMovers Digital, released the movie Mars Needs Moms through Disney. As you probably remember (it was only last year), it was a complete and total failure, both commercially and critically, and is currently the biggest box office bomb in history, not adjusting for inflation. If you haven’t seen the movie, and I can’t really blame you for not doing so, you should know that the film used the motion-capture computer animation that was seen previously in films like The Polar Express and A Christmas Carol (the Jim Carrey one). While the animation looks very realistic, there’s just something off about it, looking kinda creepy. Mainly in the face.
No, the biggest mistake is not that Disney/Zemeckis approved it, although it always seemed like a stupid movie, who’s advertising (at the time) did absolutely nothing to help it. No, the mistake is this. At the time, Zemeckis was planning (and gotten approval) to do a 3D remake of Yellow Submarine, the animated movie from 1968 which starred the Beatles. Now as you may know, I am a “Beatles fanatic” and, when I heard about the remake, I appropriately wet my little panties in anticipation.
It was hoped the remake would be released in-time for the 2012 London Olympics, the cast already chosen. However, when Mars Needs Moms failed and Zemeckis’ friend at Disney, former Chairman Dick Cook, left, the project was scrapped, the reason given the lack of faith in the motion capture technology and it’s ability to make movies that will earn lots of moolah. All okay so far, I guess.
Although you can justify the rationale behind Disney cancelling the movie (and, subsequently Zemeckis being unable to sell it to anyone else), I still call bullshit. You could slap ‘The Beatles’ on anything and it would sell. A brief look on ebay.com yielded a few interesting pieces:
A (stained) Beatles table clothe, selling for $850
Yellow Submarine slippers, $50
Ringo Starr’s drumsticks. $80,000!
If you need something, any old piece of tat, look for it and you will find one with The Beatles stamped right on there
This is why it was, in my opinion, the biggest mistake in film history. Disney could’ve gotten me to animate it for free, used clips of the horrors of the Holocaust as advertising and cast 26 harmonious-farting chimpanzees as the voice actors and the movie would have made 100 times the budget instantly. You know why? Well, because The Beatles are kinda universal. Going back to the Michael Bay TMNT, that’ll make money because the Turtles were everywhere in the 80s (with the same tat-magnet ability as The Beatles) and, even though it’s probably gonna be terrible, curious people and people with nothing better to do will see it. People will see it just to see how bad it’ll be. And it will make a shit load of cash.
As I said, The Beatles were universal. Every country, every town, every house in the world that has music, everyone has at least heard of The Beatles. Except for maybe a small minority of the population of the world who didn’t know who Paul McCartney was when he performed at the last Grammys, but they’ve probably gone for a bath with their pet toaster by now.
So there’s the reason why it was stupid for the production side, but what about consumers? Well, the cast had already been decided, the highlights being comedian Peter Serafinowicz as Paul and (apparently) David Tennant as the Blue Meanie. If you haven’t seen The Peter Serafinowicz Show, he does a sketch called “Ringo Remembers” which is AMAZING. In one episode he played Paul as well as Ringo, and his impression is spot-on. Tennant, of course, was the 10th Doctor and was AWESOME (although I prefer Smith).
As I said earlier, Zemeckis has since tried to bring it to other companies, like Dreamworks, but nobody would touch it, and there hasn’t been any news on it in a long while. Which is incredibly depressing. However there is hope. It was announced in the last few days that the original Yellow Submarine will be re-released, digitally enhanced frame-by-frame, on May 28th on Blu-Ray and DVD. I already have the movie on DVD (1999 official release) so I’ll be buying it on Blu-Ray. Hopefully there’ll be a special edition with cool things, like the Help! special edition from a few years back. And that will earn billions upon billions of moneys. And then, hopefully, the biggest mistake in film history will be righted.
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Today I’m going to review the new Paul McCartney album, Kisses on the Bottom (I’ll explain later), which was released today (this review was written on 7th February).
The album is McCartney’s 15<sup>th</sup> studio solo album. The idea behind the album was for McCartney to revisit songs from his youth. The album is mainly covers of old jazz songs, McCartney only contributing vocals for most songs, enlisting the help of Diana Krall and jazz producer Tommy LiPuma. The album was published by McCartney’s own company, MPL.
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It's episode 7 and it seems I don't particularly enjoy this cover... huh. Watch me go 'mad' at poor, helpless Zooey Deschanel and some guy called M.Ward, apparently it's all the rage for douchebags to only use one letter in their first names.
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It's episode 5 and technical difficulties are no more!.... ah bollocks, I just jinxed it, didn't I? Anyway, this week I talk about Justin Bieber's live cover of Let It Be from Dick Clark's New Years Eve celebration! As always, you can contact me here, or via email,
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Episode four of Beatles Covers Review and already, technical difficulties are plaguing the show!(explanation in the video) This is a first for the relatively young show, a top 5! This time it's the Top 5 People Who Should NEVER Cover the Beatles! For any feedback, please contact me at
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Episode 3 of a still-weekly show! This time I'm talking about Jonathan Coulton and his cover of I Will (originally on "The Beatles" aka the White Album)
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Episode 2 in a (apparently) weekly series. This time I'm talking about Anna (Go To Him), a song covered by The Beatles, originally by Arthur Alexander.
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Hi, I'm JotaKa. I'm a rocker by birth and grew listening to rock discs and long plays by the dozen. Theme month continues, as it is the Ex-Beatle Debut Month!
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The Beatles. The Fab Four. The greatest band of all time. No other group has had and sustained the level of popularity and success they've had. With over 200 songs, it was hard to narrow down (besides a few obvious ones).
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Welcome back for the final part of this miniseries looking at Beatles landmarks in the city of Liverpool, The Beatles home town. In this part we’re going to look at modern landmarks and the way in which the city has paid homage to its most famous sons.
The first landmark we’ll look at is The Cavern Club. The city centre venue that was home to some of The Beatles early gigs, both before and after the residential in Hamburg. The basement venue was also host to a variety of big name acts prior to hitting the big time, including The Kinks, The Who, The Rolling Stones & John Lee Hooker. Sadly the original was closed and filled in to allow the construction of an underground railway line. The new Cavern opened in 1984, occupying half the space of the original and designed to mimic the original as closely as possible.
Despite being a major tourist destination, it still operates as a club and still plays host to live music. Paul McCartney himself returned to the cavern to play the last gig of the millennium in 1999. There is also a statue of John Lennon outside the cavern as well as the wall of fame, a wall with engraved bricks featuring each artist to have played the cavern. (Jonathan King and Gary Glitter’s bricks were both removed following a petition)
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Welcome to part 2 of G.B. Talks About... Beatles landmarks in Liverpool. This week we’re looking at landmarks that inspired two of The Beatles most famous songs. The songs in question were both from The Magical Mystery Tour album so before we go into the main subject matter I’d like to mention the Magical Mystery Tour bus featured on the album cover and in the promo video to I am the Walrus. The bus is in service in Liverpool and is used for tours of many of the landmarks I’ve mentioned in this series. The Magical Mystery Tour operates every day in Liverpool (save for Christmas Eve, Christmas day & New Year’s Day).
Damnit, cant think of a decent witty opening. Erm, hi there everybody! Im G.B. and im trying something new by sharing my writing with a community like the one here at thatguywiththeglasses. My writing up until this point has only been accessable by my circle of friends and family or by my teachers, but im starting to enjoy casual writing as a hobby and thought i'd take a bold step in sharing with the public. What am I going to write about? Anthing and everything will probably be the most appropriate answer to this. I dont have a specialist subject that I want to focus on because in all honesty, If I do choose a specialist subject to write about i'll end up losing interest after a while.
Now you're probably thinking to yourselves, wow this is a pointlessly long winded intro. You're probably also thinking, well why do that here? Fair question, and one I shall answer before I get too deep into this. I, like the rest of you, am a big fan of this site. TGWTG is home to some amazing, talented people who never fail to entertain and yet in some cases inform me at the same time. One of the commonly overlooked factors of TGWTG however is the community. Be it those who leave comments on videos, those who post on the forums or those who actually contribute to the site in some other way, shape or form. Its rare that a community exists that can be so loyal to contributors they enjoy, yet also be able to give honest, constructive criticism on their work. This has allowed those who do contribute to continually improve their craft and produce the best possible material.
I hope to acheive similar results here. Now dont get me wrong, im not big headed enough to try and say that im going to get a fanbase based on this blog. All im trying to suggest is that I have some things that i'd like to write about and that i'd like to share. If you the reader likes it then great, but if you have any suggestions that could improve this blog or my writing style in general then I am more than happy to take them into consideration. Now aside from introducing myself and explaining why I choose to write on TGWTG, I do have something to talk about so i'll stop the intro now and get down to business.
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