Mick Hucknall and the Stereophonics to rerecord the first Beatles album!

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http://www.nme.com/news/the-beatles/68229

this is why drones strikes were invented

what the everloving fuck

We are living in an age of genius

Strangling the 50th anniversary canon love-in at birth. I like it.

this thread would be ripe for the game of trying to come up with a worse combination - "x and x to record x" - but honestly can't see how you'd top this

Kenny G and Sting rerecord 'Fear of a Black Planet'.

Edie Brickell and Sugar Ray rerecord Pet Sounds

Axl Rose and Skrillex rerecord 'Songs for Swingin Lovers'.

Chris De Burgh and Ash rerecord From Elvis In Memphis

Bono and Dangermouse rerecord Yeti

alt-j and psy rerecord tago mago

Stevie Nicks and INXS rerecord British Steel

Sufferin' succotash!!

"The re-creation of 'Please Please Me' promises to be one of Radio 2's stand-out moments of 2013. Hearing those tracks brought to life again with a contemporary twist will have the network buzzing as much as the original did."

NO! JUST, NO! What is... the fu... but fucki... wha... oh, fucking hell man.

'as much as the original did' makes my head explode

Are they going to dress up and look the part too? Who is going to be 'George Martin' on this session, anyone know?

Noel Gallagher and Beady Eye re-record Revolver... lord knows they had many fucking attempts at it.

this is the most amazing thing

I really hope the end result is 35 minutes of fart noises

xp yeah wouldn't that be 'every fucking Oasis album ever'?

plz plz plz let "a contemporary twist" mean a dubstep bridge

brings back memories of Hue Ad Cry, The Christians etc doing Sgt Pepper

http://www.sonicyouth.com/mustang/lp/comp18b.jpg

plz plz plz let "a contemporary twist" mean a dubstep bridge

― Bel-Air the Fresh Prince, sitting in a chair (DJP), Thursday, January 17, 2013 7:49 PM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"The world is treating me BAAAAAAD... Misery!" wubwubwubwubwubwubwub...

...UNSUSTAINABLE

Or maybe they'll get Bubbler Ranx (the guy who does the "rap" on Peter Andre's 'Mysterious Girl') out of musical retirement, march him from the Carphone Warehouse he apparently works at now to the studio to go "OH BABY GIRL! BUBBLER RANX PON DE MIC!" over all the tracks.

Egads. I believe I have Defended the Indefensible: Mick Hucknall before now (on the basis that the hatred dude got was entirely disproportionate to his inoffensive records, presumably because of his gingerness, and also bcz Blood & Fire Records was a good thing) but no more.

Yeah I started thinking he had a point in the 90's with the Blood + Fire re-issues, it led me to believe at least he was a man of taste.

you guys know its not *just* Hucknall and the Stereophonics right? there's going to be loads of different bands, each of the bands is doing a track each.

Stop intruding upon our reality!

acts including The Pigeon Detectives, Frank Turner and Scouting For Girls

what song should Mumford and Sons do?

Mel & Kim record Beatles For Sale with Harry Secombe

can we get Candy Flip back for this

acts including The Pigeon Detectives, Frank Turner and Scouting For Girls

Yeah, I'm going to stick with the idea it's just Mick and the Stereophonics.

Bros should be involved

Yeah, it's part of a BBC radio season about the golden age of the album. Some details...

The needle drops on the season on Tuesday 5 February with a three-part BBC4 series, The Great Album Showdown, in which Danny Baker will argue the toss over which are the best albums in pop, rock and R&B with guests such as Boy George, Mica Paris, Grace Dent, David Hepworth, Martin Freeman, Jeremy Clarkson and Trevor Nelson.

Jo Whiley will also join the debate on Radio 2, inviting listeners' to nominate their favourite LPs – there will also be an online poll to fin Radio 2's Best Album.

With them till they got to Jo Whiley.

Jeremy Clarkson on the best albums in pop *sound of toilet flushing*

*BBC4 xp lol

Bros should be involved

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, January 17, 2013 9:23 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"A taste of honey! Arrruuwwooooohhhh! Tasting much sweeter than wine! A rum dim dum dum dehhhh!"

hahaha

SAW should just take over this whole shebang

mumford and sons should do a skiffle version of sounds of silence

xpost:

The Reynolds Girls of course staying out of it, since they'd rather jack and all...

people should not be allowed to do things i don't like

xpost:

Which is what they ended up with! Hahahahaha!

I would be everything I own on Joss Stone being involved in this project. She's always the go-to belter for this sort of thing.

"The girl from the Flake advert"

Random ILXors.. oh

Feel they need to call up Josh D for this

http://www.eastgateshoppingcentre.com/Vicinitee.Assets/Images/News/josh.jpg

Ed Sheeran and Wretch 32 to re-record Enter The Wu-Tang

Jessie J to cover You Only Live Twice for new Bond movie starring Danny Dyer.

Maverick Sabre to tour as Fela Kuti.

Big Boi & Mumford & Sons. They really did nearly connect recently, watch this space.

we should poll this vs. the original. we should do it now

tbh, mick hucknall kinda brought it as the singer for the Faces in place of Rod Stewart

brought what

"it" aka "his penis"

ty

So he brought HIMSELF along, then?

he usually does

a penis is prob a good replacement for Rod Stewart if you think about it

I don't wanna think about it! :D

Whole rows of people egging Ronnie Wood onto greater guitaring heights while waiting for the new flame to come...

it gets funny, I promise

What, the great penis Mick Hucknall jizzing everywhere, covering whole rows of people in ectoplasm... bouncing around the stage on his massive ballbag!?

hilarity i tells you

I could not think of a worse way to spend an evening }:|

says you

ugh, the beatles

ugh, jizz

can't believe somebody's going to ruin this shitty album

Wand Erection and Fearne Cotton rerecord 'The Velvet Underground & Nico'.

Hucknall should replace the lyrics of whatever song he's doing with the entirety of this:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2006/feb/05/magazine.features7

That is the greatest thing I have ever read.

People are racist about redheads in a way they'd never dare to be about black or Asian people.

^^^ Always love this one.

Gordon's done a brilliant job. Anyone who can forget what it was like under Major is a fool. But Labour need to be brave with the social and moral issues. Tony Blair's a friend. I've said to him, 'You should have waited on Iraq'. He listens.

Kitty Brucknell + They Might Be Giants rerecord 'The Marble Index'.

Steve Brookstein and Terris rerecord Marquee Moon.

Tom Jones told me only a few singers have got the pipes and he's right. He has. Sinatra did. I have.

That interview is amazing. What a thing it must be to live life so utterly convinced of your greatness.

Journey South and Chico Slimani rerecord Hot Chocolate's greatest hits.

Joe Pasquale and Black Lace rerecord Trout Mask Replica

just play the LP at 45rpm.

Take That rerecord 'Metal Machine Music'.

...with Michael Barrymore.

How is this legal? On human rights grounds if nothing else.

The US Army needs more terrible albums to play at Middle Eastern caves where insurgents might be holed up.

Hucknall's totally one of those guys that was in some third tier punk band before he got famous right?

yes

stereophonics are the worst band to have ever existed.

xp The Frantic Elevators

I feel like the Hunchback of Notre Dame
I feel like the Hunchback of Notre Dame
I feel like the Hunchback of Notre Dame
I feel like the Hunchback of Notre Dame
I'm an ugly sod but it's not my fault
I'm an ugly sod but it's not my fault
I'm an ugly sod but it's not my fault
I'm an ugly sod but it's not my fault

ILX needs to pre-cover Mick Hucknall and the Stereophonics rerecording the first Beatles album - NOW!!

also would pay serious money for some of the pairings in thread, in partic Kenny G & Sting covering PE.

Could make it an annexe to the forthcoming BeatILXs set.

for the record the best thing he ever had a hand in, was this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4xSsQNrrC8

the beatle's

thx for the info

also...i didn't know that holding back the years was a frantic elevators song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeQb_V2W-JA

harkening back to the Guardian piece upthread can I just

*PUPPET HEAD*

(falls to floor laughing)

dick fucknall

xposts yeah, the single sleeve had that easy-listening totem of himself with a pistol in his gob..

That interview is amazing. What a thing it must be to live life so utterly convinced of your greatness.

― bizarro gazzara, Friday, January 18, 2013 12:03 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

...and this is ultimately the reason I dislike Mick Hucknall. Not because of his music, not because of his appearance, just because the guy comes across as being painfully arrogant into himself a little too much. He's always quick to namedrop some vintage soul star or other who claims he has a great voice, or how many "total babes" he ploughed at the height of his fame.

puppet head
puppet head
puppet head

...and this is ultimately the reason I dislike Mick Hucknall. Not because of his music, not because of his appearance, just because the guy comes across as being painfully arrogant into himself a little too much. He's always quick to namedrop some vintage soul star or other who claims he has a great voice, or how many "total babes" he ploughed at the height of his fame.

― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Friday, January 18, 2013 12:21 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

how i react to this characterization hinges on whether or not hucknall actually uses the word "ploughed" in interviews because if so he is a hero

He doesn't, sadly :/

more's the pity

Mick Hucknall and Stereophonics to rerecord They Might Be Giants (1986).

They Might Be Giants to rerecord Mick Hucknall and the Stereophonics' rerecording of the first Beatles album.

The Bootleg Beatles to rerecord Simply Red's 'Stars'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JfXzvCrn9c

Kenny G and Sting rerecord 'Fear of a Black Planet'.

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Ronan Keating and Alisha's Attic rerecord Loveless

Lou Reed and Metallica rerecord 'ILX Pre-Covers LULU'.

whoa

I think the world just tilted on its axis!

C'mown!

Scott Walker rerecords Having Fun With Elvis On Stage.

.. penny drops re: Bisch Bosch!

Justin Bieber rerecords the entire discography of GG Allin.

(the guy threw up on stage, he's already got a head start)

Justin Bieber doing GG Allin would be hilarious, though. It looks like we're moving from "worst possible album rerecording" to "amusing pairings", which is a whole other thing...

A whole other thing, but the dividing line is pretty narrow.

Egads. I believe I have Defended the Indefensible: Mick Hucknall before now (on the basis that the hatred dude got was entirely disproportionate to his inoffensive records, presumably because of his gingerness, and also bcz Blood & Fire Records was a good thing) but no more.

― a panda, Malmö (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, January 17, 2013 3:44 PM (2 days ago)

xp Anyway, to bring it back to the worst side of the line.
Robson & Jerome rerecord all the greatest hits of The Righteous Brothers (not just that one song from that movie).

Mark King and Ben Volpeliere-Pierrot to sing US Maple: Talker as part of the Don't Look Back series

Justin Bieber to remake Don't Look Back (the dylan movie)

Bob Dylan to remake Never Say Never (the bieber movie)

Musicians including Stereophonics and Mick Hucknall are attempting to recreate The Beatles' 10-hour recording session for their debut album Please Please Me to mark its 50th anniversary.

The Liverpool band recorded almost all of the record in one day-long recording session on 11 February 1963.

BBC Radio 2 will broadcast live footage of the stars working on the 10 tracks at London's Abbey Road Studios.

Gabrielle Aplin and I Am Kloot will also be part of the sessions.

Chart topping newcomer Aplin was the first to arrive at the legendary studio, with Radio 2 breakfast DJ Chris Evans and Welsh rockers the Stereophonics arriving in the same car minutes later.

IT'S HAPPENING NOW!!!

BBC Radio 2 will broadcast live footage of the stars working on the 10 tracks at London's Abbey Road Studios. Mick Hucknall having a massive diva tantrum when it turns out that a bunch of ego-inflated rockstars can't cut this shit in 10 hours.

If someone could just rush down to Abbey Road and hammer crooked planks of wood across all the doors and windows, so many problems would be solved...

"Day 35 -- tempers flaring. Cocaine supplies ran out some days ago. We are forced to eat Hucknall's ego for sustenance, but there's enough to last for at least a month."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p014q0lb/live

people who have to get dressed up for the recording studio are the saddest imo, that link is the inferno

Our colleagues at BBC News are live blogging the shock resignation of the Pope. In 2008 the Vatican, of course, forgave John Lennon for this interview "How does a Beatle live ?" with Evening Standard reporter ; Maureen Cleave. Later coverage of this piece gave rise to the "Bigger than Jesus" controversy. The Vatican in 2008 concluded that Lennon was "showing off".

this is why drones strikes were invented

Perfect first comment, love you VG.

~40 years is pretty fast for an organisation that took several hundred years to acknowledge that the Earth revolves around the Sun and not the other way round.

Of course Stuart "I could bore for England" Maconie is there.
http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BC0qOBhCEAE0cmk.jpg
Although I thought this would have been too modern for him...

Old fart totally out of touch with what an early 21st century audience wants to hear, standing next to Stuart Maconie, etc..

I'd like to think that the Pope deliberately chose today to resign just to piss off Mick Hucknall.

I'm thinking back to when I first came across the Stereophonics... it was when I was listening to the Brit Awards 1997 on the radio, and during one of the breaks, the DJ (I forgot who it was - Jo Whiley sounds likely though) played 'A Thousand Trees'. Incredible to think that they got quite a deal of hype around the time of 'A Thousand Trees'/'Local Boy In The Photograph', but around the time of 'Mr Writer' it was clear that most folks were losing interest. Their commercial peak was undoubtedly Performance And Cocktails, but I remember hearing their first album and thinking "hmm... this is a bit samey/patchy".

I'm feeling that near-total American solidarity about having zero idea what Stereophonics sound like

I am so envious of you right now! I had to put up with listening to a lot of Stereophonics when I still lived at home thanks to my sister.

I would give anything to not know what 'A Thousand Trees', 'Local Boy in Photograph', and 'Mr Writer'* sound like.

(* AKA "boo hoo a critic said mean things about me")

Actually, there was a woman I was keen on once, until I found out she was a Stereophonics fan.

I'm feeling that near-total American solidarity about having zero idea what Stereophonics sound like

Meat and potatoes rock, where the meat is Burger King horseburgers and the potatoes are reconstituted starch.

Horseburgers? This isn't even dogburgers. And the mashed potatoes are day old wallpaper paste.

Kind of like a British Train.

the stereawfulnics

Kind of like a British Train.

Nah, that's almost praise on a sliding scale.

I'm not familiar with Train, so I just listened to one of their songs. The one with the grape/wine farm in the video. Teeth-grittingly awful.

I'm so sorry, I didn't intend for anyone to listen to Train!

An irl case of Train in vain

xp No, it's OK. Listening to shitty music now and then makes me appreciate good music more.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Nirvana_around_1992.jpg/220px-Nirvana_around_1992.jpg
"I listened to Train,
now I complain"

Actually, there was a woman I was keen on once, until I found out she was a Stereophonics fan.

― "Did you see the sign on my car park that said 'Dead King Storage'?" (snoball), Monday, 11 February 2013 15:14 (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

read this in the voice of Major from Fawlty Towers

An irl case of Train in vain

inclined to feel good about Stereophonics if they eventually cleared a path for this lol

Meat and potatoes rock, where the meat is Burger King horseburgers and the potatoes are reconstituted starch.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, February 11, 2013 3:18 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is very much OTM. There's nothing wrong with "meat and potatoes rock" when the meat and the potatoes are of high quality.

according to my friend M Hucknall is now in the building to watch Kraftwerk do whatever album they're doing tonight

http://www.pocketmoneygpt.com/images/shout/emoticons/spy-emoticon.jpg