Lemonade Posted October 20, 2008 Report Share Posted October 20, 2008 I watched the movie Backbeat the other day (the one about the Beatles in Hamburg) for the first time in years and I got quite a surprise when the credits rolled and the names of the musicians who had recorded all the music rolled past. They didn't use any Beatles recordings (as they were just playing covers at that time) so they put a band together to record versions of all the songs the Beatles were covering at that time. And what a band it was: (bear in mind this was in 1993).Rather than re-create the period sounds, iconoclastic, rebellious musicians were recruited (as a producer noted, The Beatles' pre-recording stage act was "the punk of its day"). This was done to better convey the way the music came across to the audience, at the time.Dave Pirner (Soul Asylum): vocals Greg Dulli (The Afghan Whigs): vocals Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth): guitar Don Fleming (Gumball): guitar Mike Mills (R.E.M.): bass guitar Dave Grohl (Nirvana): drums Backbeat (film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted October 20, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2008 In fact I just found this on Youtube:YouTube - Backbeat Band - Money & Long Tall Sally (1994) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surfer_Rosa Posted October 20, 2008 Report Share Posted October 20, 2008 Aaaah. I've had a cover of Twist and Shout that said it was by Nirvana, Sonic Youth and REM on my computer for ages, but never known where it came from, or why it didn't have any of those band's singers on it. Now it all makes sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monster Zero Posted October 21, 2008 Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 Great film and soundtrack, I have the CD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
french_disko Posted October 21, 2008 Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 Funnily enough, I bought this CD a few months back on amazon for a couple of quid. Also worth investigating is the velvet goldmine soundtrack - 1. Needle In The Camel's Eye - Brian Eno 2. Hot One - Shudder To Think 3. 20Th Century Box - Placebo 4. 2 Hb - The Venus In Furs 5. T.V. Eye - Wylde Rattz 6. Ballad Of Maxwell Demon - Shudder To Think 7. The Whole Shebang - Grant Lee Buffalo 8. Ladytron - The Venus In Furs 9. We Are The Boys - Pulp 10. Virginia Plain - Roxy Music 11. Personality Crisis - Donna Mathews, Teenage Fanclub 12. Satellite Of Love - Lou Reed 13. Diamond Meadows - T. Rex 14. Bitter's End - Andy Mackay, Paul Kimble 15. Baby's On Fire - The Venus In Furs 16. Bitter-Sweet - The Venus In Furs 17. Velvet Spacetime - Carter Burwell 18. Tumbling Down - The Venus In Furs 19. Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me) - Cockney Rebel, Steve Harley Amazon.co.uk ReviewDirector Todd Haynes's celebration of the sex, drugs, and rock & roll of the British glam era of the early 1970s, Velvet Goldmine, would be nothing without the music that inspired it. A few unusual absentees (no Bowie, Iggy Pop, or New York Dolls?), but folks such as Brian Eno, Roxy Music, Lou Reed, and T-Rex are represented. Several covers from the glam era are performed without much deviation by two supergroups: the Venus in Furs, featuring members of England's elite--Bernard Butler, and Thom Yorke of Radiohead; and Wylde Ratz, featuring Mark Arm of Mudhoney, Ron Asheton of the original Stooges, and Thurston Moore and Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth. Strongest are the originals submitted to the film: Shudder to Think tame their own experimental excesses to put forth two glam-worthy originals with "Hot One" and "Ballad of Maxwell Demon", and Pulp deliver "We Are the Boys", which runs amuck with the dramatic stage power of the finest glam. --Rob O'Connor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afro Droid Posted October 21, 2008 Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 Didn't Greg Dulli produce the soundtrack too? He's a genius. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigsby Posted October 23, 2008 Report Share Posted October 23, 2008 Yeah, remember quite a fuss being made about it at the time. There were of course old recordings of The Beatles that they could have used but they hardly ever used to allow films and TV to use their songs back then (They seem to be more lax now), and I seem to recall that they weren't that keen on the film being made anyway.Think I went to see it at the cinema. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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