I keep name-dropping Beatallica. If you've ever heard a Beatles song, and you've ever heard a Metallica song, you owe it to yourself to get over to http://www.myspace.com/beatallica and check it out.
Note that I didn't say anything about having intentionally listened to either of those bands, or having enjoyed them when you did. If you have, you'll like it more, but this can be appreciated even by those with only a passing-and-adversarial interest in those bands.
Beatallica occupies similar mental space to Dred Zeplin, The Red Elvises, and Weird Al.
Except, you know, it's Metal. And it's the Beatles. Somehow, beautifully, painfully, melded together.
And they never drop character. They don't wink at the camera. They just rock on, sounding for all the world like the actual band Metallica playing Beatles songs, with no irony or cuteness, but maybe a little too much beer. For an entire album.
My favorite track is "For Horsemen".
Several years back, there was this really dark period of my life where I listened to the Beatles "For No One" multiple times a day. It's this bittersweet song about a couple getting divorced sung from the perspective of the unsuspecting shell-shocked idiot who thinks his soon-to-be-ex still loves him. A couple weeks ago I heard this trash-metal version of it (by, Beatallica, duh) and just start laughing. Like forgetting-to-breathe-, rolling-on-the-floor-, and/or trying-to-sing-along-but-you-can't-because-your'e-, laughing. "Oh my god! I can't believe I was ever that depressed!" Thank you, Beatallica.
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p.s.: emusic sucks. Use iTunes.
p.s.: iTunes sucks. Pirate the album and mail the band cash.
Piracy sucks. Kidnap the band, and force them to perform for you in your basement dungeon.
Or you could just buy the tracks direct from the artists via their website, leaving out iTunes or other middlemen.
My eMusic comment was because of a minor bad experience there yesterday. Netflix gave me 35 free eMusic downloads. I thought "great, I've got a list of over 100 tracks I've been wanting to download from iTunes when I have the money. I'll go get a bunch of 'em from eMusic."
Wrong! Only 3 of my 100+ tracks were available on eMusic.
To get any value out of eMusic, you not only have to be a lot cooler an trendier than me (and admittedly, most people are), but you also have to not care one bit about the history or context of music. If the track predates 2005, you're barking up the wrong website.
Okay, I'm being harsh. On the plus side, they had a surprisingly good selection of CVB (but still no Key Lime Pie) and Frank Black (the Pixies guy, not the Lance Henrickson character in that Millenium show), and decent TMBG coverage (including an eMusic exclusive album, though more than half the tracks have since appeared on other albums elsewhere).
But pretty much everything else I searched for resulted in only "String Tribute to" and "Karaoke" albums. Karaoke Floyd. Talk about comfortably numb...
And no Beatallica! the bastards.
Kinda punk meets Load era Metalica. I hate Load Metalica. If they were playing a club I was at I'd hang, probably wouldn't buy their music...of course I've always hated the Beatles.
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