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Why, God, Why?!? or: Sgt. Pepper to be re-recorded
Hear that? That's the sound of Beatles fans groaning in collective agony.
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band turns 40 on June 1 and unfortunately, someone decided a good way to pay tribute to the landmark record would be getting a bunch of bands together to make a cover album. The lineup is still being pulled together but Oasis, the Killers, Travis, Razorlight, the Fratellis, Kaiser Chiefs and James Morrison have been named thus far.
The new versions will be aired in a BBC 2 special. "This will be not only a unique radio event, but a very special musical moment," said Radio 2 controller Lesley Douglas. Insert joke about the range of definitions for "special" here.
To add to the soul-killing fun, the engineer in charge of the original sessions will be sullying the same equipment he used to record the originals on this project. If ever we needed a visit from the ghosts of Lennon and Harrison to help avert guaranteed disaster, now would be the time.
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This is horrid. All those bands could burn and hell and the music world would lose absolutely nothing. Fucking Fratellis. What kind of nonsense hyped to the hilt shit are they?
John Zeiss
jesus, geoff is producing this shit? I thought he had higher standards - i guess nobody wants to sound like wings anymore...
John B
i like oasis. but you could burn the rest and i wouldn't blink an eye. i think china (not the country) likes travis, but i could be wrong.
Mike Krolak
It's a great album, but vastly overrated. Still, this project is just dumb.
Steve Lampiris
Hmm... no offense - but this record is far from overrated
John B
definitely not their best album, though
bobby d.
I adore Travis. Also, I think China (the country) sort of likes Travis, though I could be wrong.I'd be interested in hearing Oasis do a cover of "A Day in the Life," admittedly, but anything by the Killers or Razorlight is pretty cringeworthy. If Johnny Borrell and Brandon Flowers fought a duel and simultaneously shot each other to death, I wouldn't cry for either.
China
the horsemen of the apacolypse are sattling up! this is going to be worse than when Jimmy Page remixed Bonham's 'Moby Dick' solo!!! next thing you know they'll be digitaly inserting Jaba the Hut into Hard Day's Night.
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oasis are a far better band than the tired old beatles. go for it, its bound to sound better than the original
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