Songs with the 'Be My Baby' drum intro

The Dictators: "Teengenerate".

Didn't Chuck Eddy draw a specific comparison between the JAMC and Poison in Stairway to Hell? This could be the root of it.

Rediscovery: Johnny Kidd and the Pirates' "I Hate Gettin' Up In the Morning," at least when covered by the Squirrels.

(and variations thereof....)

Not to mention "Do It Again".

I'm sure there's a cool one on the new McAlmont & Butler album but I forget which.

Also, "No Dancing" by Elvis Costello

along with "Cut Dead" and "Something's Wrong" too!

"What's A Girl To Do" by Bat For Lashes.

A bunch of Outrageous Cherry songs, I think

Alan Parsons Project: "Don't Answer Me".

Also, Norwegian popsters Popium and Sissy Wish have both used it a lot.

Devil Dogs - Get Down on Your Knees
Jay Reatard - An Ugly Death

The Whore Moans - Rise and Shine (also ends with people singing "Be My Baby")

love to get a copy of the mixtape

Deerhunter: "Vox Humana"

After reading Tom's piece today I thought I'd post a few more many of which use the beat somewhere other than the intro but there we go.

A couple of years ago there was a decent list on Wikipedia but clearly a section on Whigfield's version is more encyclopaedic!

Ruby Suns - 'Kenya Dig It'
The Carpenters - 'Only Yesterday'
Long Blondes - 'New Idols'
The Concretes - 'Say Something New' (as alluded to in 2005)
Supergrass - 'Butterfly'
Deerhoof - 'Matchbox Seeks Maniac'
Hot Hot Heat - 'A Good Day To Die'
Brendon Benson -'The Pledge'
Lucky Soul -'Give Me Love'
Glasvegas - 'Daddy's Gone'
Television Personalties - 'This Angry Silence'
Ravonettes - 'Little Animal'
Au Revoir Simone - 'A Violent Yet Flammable World'
Horrors - 'Who Can Say'
Editors - 'Weight of the World'
Gene - 'Fitting Fit'
Ian Brown - 'Destiny or Circumstance'
Shins - 'Turn On Me'
Gliss -'Morning Light'
Alessi's Ark - 'Memory Box'
Kings of Leon - 'The Bucket'
The Gaslight Anthem - 'Great Expectations'
Concrete Blonde - 'Joey'
The Explorers Club - 'Forever'
Green Day - 'Homecoming'
Pipettes - 'Sex'
R.E.M. - 'Radio Song'
ELO - 'The Way Life's Meant To Be'

A new song with this drum beat is "When Will You Come?" by Wavves

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOCozpgMAgw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inXrH3SwMoQ

Add Still Corners' rather lovely 'Endless Summer' to the pile.

The Cars, "All Mixed Up", very clearly around 1:45 but also other places
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDnvHZO3zSg&feature=player_embedded#at=121

(Thanks to JBR for posting to this thread: Benjamin Orr vs Doug Yule

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azVPDgENSeI

(xp) I probably shouldn't admit this on ILM but I genuinely had no idea the Red House Painters version was a cover.

Pet Shop Boys - Kings Cross

Hefner - The Weight Of The Stars

ABBA could have used this drumbeat to great effect on "Ring Ring".

What about "Glory Days" by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band? It's in the breakdown about 2/3 of the way through the song.

I just did a podcast about this actually: http://soundsfamiliarpodcast.tumblr.com/post/22381881971/sounds-familiar-1-the-drums-from-be-my-baby-and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq6xGdFgNac

There's a whole Wikipedia entry for this:

Songs that use the Be My Baby drum beat

Search Spotify too - I came across someone who put together an even more extensive playlist

'everybody wants something' by the zit remedy is almost entirely made up of the be my baby intro beat

Pixies - Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf)

I remembered this thread when we were doing the poll: Cocteau Twins- "In the Gold Dust Rush".

Surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet, especially this past week:

Badfinger - "Baby Blue"

“If you listen closely,” Blaine says, “I played the same beat on ‘Strangers in the Night’ that I played on ‘Be My Baby,’ just slower and softer.”

The Cure "Kyoto Song"

Not sure what's already been said, but I've got a few:

"Reviens Vite et Oublie" Les Fingers
"Night" and "Glory Days"Bruce Springsteen
"I'd Much Rather Be With the Boys" Rolling Stones
"Is There Something I Should Know" Duran Duran
"Heat of the Moment" Asia
"Domino" Cocteau Twins
In addition to "Just Like Honey", "Cut Dead" and "Sowing Seeds" J&M Chain
"Big Pink Cake" Razorcuts
"Candy" Magnetic Fields
"No Stories" Bartlebees
"Monster" BJM
"Resurrection" Misfits
"A Higher Power" Jens Lekman
"Run" Tillmanns
"A Violent Yet Flammable World" Au Revoir Simone
"Vox Humana" Deerhunter
"Ghost Mouth" Girls
"Perfection as a Hipster" God Help the Girl
"Lewis Takes Action" Owen Prallet
"A Candle's Fire" Beirut
"Baby Don't You Cry" Fergus & Geronimo
"Baby's Wearing Blue Jeans" Mac Demarco
"The Devil" Nadine Shah
"Every Time the Sun Comes Up" Sharon Van Etten
"Tammy Faye" Young People
"Tearing the Posters Down" Dick Diver
"Love, Texas" Marriages

Lansing-Dreiden do this on the first track of their first album, but it's a total fake-out and works perfectly

One of my favorite songs of 2015, "Secrets" by Le Pie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_HkvC9czXk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V-FYolawTw

The Ohio Express "Chewy Chewy" has a nearly perfect "Be My Baby" break including the bass riff just the final chorus (1:23 in the above video)

opening track of the new Suede album does this, admittedly after a minute and a half of orchestral largesse

track 3 of the new mitski album does this, presumably through gritted teeth

afghan whigs, "algiers"

Lisa Prank - Turn It Up

Erich Bachmann - Mercy

Ok I made a short video to show how absolutely weird the @spotify song recommendation engine is. I thought I was going crazy. pic.twitter.com/0OwGvZOQIz

— Walter Hickey (@WaltHickey) July 18, 2018

Au revoir Simone - a violent and flammable world

Candi Staton's wondrous "i'm just a prisoner (of your good loving)" .
― jed_ (jed), Friday, March 18, 2005

Swaps (perfectly mic'd/engineered) rimshots in for snare hits.

Einsturzende Neubauten - "Sand"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn90THdOpd4
The Last Dinner Party - The Feminine Urge

"Greyhound Bus Station" by Plush has this, but not as an intro. More of a mid-song fill, I guess.

Surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet, especially this past week:

Badfinger - "Baby Blue"

Ok I made a short video to show how absolutely weird the @spotify song recommendation engine is. I thought I was going crazy. pic.twitter.com/0OwGvZOQIz
— Walter Hickey (@WaltHickey) July 18, 2018
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, July 18, 2018 4:42 PM

late here, but this isn't "weird" -- it's f'kn accurate of you ask me lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTWdMwAz84I
Tracy Santa - Fly (Nick Drake cover)

that is great

new obsession unlocked

https://www.popmatters.com/tracy-santa-tompo-ringing-2022

Just came across this post and I thought I'd share this Spotify playlist I made 10 years ago of 80 songs with the Be My Baby beat:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/09D1r01YvsiYT0EAMuIDsM

Here's the full tracklist. It's in chronological order, more or less. Enjoy!

The Ronettes “Be My Baby” / Beach Boys “Don’t Worry Baby” / Jan & Dean “Dead Man’s Curve” / Four Seasons “Rag Doll” / The Shangri-Las "Leader of the Pack" / The Zombies “She’s Coming Home” / ? & The Mysterians “I’ll Be Back” / Badfinger “Baby Blue” / Mott The Hoople “Foxy Foxy” / Carpenters “Only Yesterday” / Billy Joel “Say Goodbye to Hollywood” / Elvis Costello “No Dancing” / Meat Loaf “You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth” / Hall & Oates “The Last Time” / The Clash “The Card Cheat” / Roky Erickson “I Walked With A Zombie” / Electric Light Orchestra "Xanadu" / The Shivvers “Why Tell Lies” / Cocteau Twins “In The Gold Dust Rush” / Asia “Heat of the Moment” / The Jesus and Mary Chain “Just Like Honey” / Poison “Cry Tough” / The Cure “Kyoto Song” / Depeche Mode “A Question of Lust” / Pet Shop Boys “King’s Cross” / Melvins “Creepy Smell” / The Stems “She’s Fine” / The Magnetic Fields “Candy” / Tallulah Gosh “Just a Dream” / Manic Street Preachers “Everything Must Go” / Prefab Sprout “A Prisoner of the Past” / The Ladybug Transistor “Windy” / Guided By Voices “Ha Ha Man” / El Perro Del Mar “Oh! What a Christmas” / My Morning Jacket “The Bear” / Hefner “The Weight of the Stars” / The Boys “Brickfield Nights” / The Clientele -“(I Want You) More Than Ever” / The Legends “Your Song” / The Raveonettes - “Little Animal” / Camera Obscura “Eighties Fan” / Jens Lekman “A Higher Power” / Brendan Benson “The Pledge” / Sambassadeur “Great Lengths” / Bat for Lashes “What’s a Girl To Do?” / Lucky Soul “Give Me Love” / Jarvis Cocker “Black Magic” / The Pipettes “Sex” / Johnny Boy “You Are the Generation That Bought More Shoes and You Get What You Deserve” / Super Furry Animals “Run-Away” / Au Revoir Simone “A Violent Yet Flammable World” / The Shins “Phantom Limb” / Ballboy "Avant Garde Music" / She & Him “Sweet Darlin’” / The Long Blondes “New Idols” / Jay Reatard “An Ugly Death” / The Explorers Club “Forever” / The School “All I Wanna Do” / Ruby Suns “Kenya Dig It?” / Deerhunter “Vox Humana” / God Help The Girl “Perfection as a Hipster” / Empire of the Sun “Without You” / Girls “Ghost Mouth” / Devendra Banhart “16th & Valencia Roxy Music” / Gotye “Learnalilgivinalove” / Pains of Being Pure at Heart “Gentle Sons” / Owen Pallet “Lewis Takes Action” / Wavves “When Will You Come” / Best Coast “I Want To” / Wild Nothing “My Angel Lonely” / Lykke Li “Sadness is a Blessing” / Still Corners “Endless Summer” / Cults “Abducted” / La Sera “Never Come Around” / Deer Tick “Hold Your Hand” / MØ “Never Wanna Know” / Afghan Whigs “Algiers” / Sharon Van Etten “Every Time The Sun Comes Up” / Viet Cong “Continental Shelf”

Very cool! Here's another one:

Mrs. Magician - Heaven
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlRfsXbbCAw

(xp) Blimey!