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Wailing Souls — Tomorrow Never Knows
Album: Psychedelic Souls
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Released: 1998
Length: 3:37
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 jpfueler wrote:


Somewhere I have MP3s of several different covers of this. including this one. Leftovers from the days of WinMX



Oh, and checkout the Los Lobos version of this on YouTube. Muy Excellente!
Posted 4 months ago by romangaslan    [ Reply ]
 Shimmer wrote:
anamacha wrote: That would be an obscure group from England called "The Beatles".


I think OP was being cheeky. ;)
Posted 9 months ago by surfool    [ Reply ]
 romangaslan wrote:

Anyone who has the juevos to tackle this Lennon/Beatles masterpiece gets a huge thumbs up from me.



Somewhere I have MP3s of several different covers of this. including this one. Leftovers from the days of WinMX
Posted 9 months ago by jpfueler    [ Reply ]
Anyone who has the juevos to tackle this Lennon/Beatles masterpiece gets a huge thumbs up from me.
Posted 1 year ago by romangaslan    [ Reply ]
 csumby wrote:


I love that version!


Carla Azar also did an excellent cover of this on the Sucker Punch (movie) soundtrack
Posted 1 year ago by fgreene    [ Reply ]
Reggae covers often suck. Just not this bad
Posted 1 year ago by thewiseking    [ Reply ]
 pktinkler2984 wrote:


Which is awesome...and I saw them perform it at the Reading Festival in 1976.  Old man ramblings...…..


O you so lucky!
Posted 1 year ago by csumby    [ Reply ]
 chuck.b.meyers wrote:

There is also a version of this by 801 featuring Eno and Phil Manzanera of Roxy



I love that version!
Posted 1 year ago by csumby    [ Reply ]
This is a great album, full of quirky covers with an excellent feel to it.
Love it!
Posted 1 year ago by Nortonbert    [ Reply ]
 Shimmer wrote:
anamacha wrote: That would be an obscure group from England called "The Beatles".


Phil Manzanera's 801 did a tremendous version of this live.  I had the privilege of seeing them do it at the Reading Festival in 1976...with a very youthful Simon Phillips on drums, and Eno on vocals.  A brilliant take on the original.
Posted 1 year ago by pktinkler2984    [ Reply ]
 dmiley wrote:


John Peel's a ****. '78 good times.



This comment drove me to a search engine. This guy was the gatekeeper of psychedelic and progressive rock in Great Britain, correct? I defer to your obviously more familiar acquaintance with the DJ.
Posted 2 years ago by itsme_bygolly    [ Reply ]
Posted 2 years ago by primeeileen133    [ Reply ]
 pktinkler2984 wrote:


Which is awesome...and I saw them perform it at the Reading Festival in 1976.  Old man ramblings...…..


John Peel's a ****. '78 good times.
Posted 2 years ago by dmiley    [ Reply ]
 chuck.b.meyers wrote:

There is also a version of this by 801 featuring Eno and Phil Manzanera of Roxy



Which is awesome...and I saw them perform it at the Reading Festival in 1976.  Old man ramblings...…..
Posted 3 years ago by pktinkler2984    [ Reply ]
A rocking cover was also done by 801 (Phil Manzanera / Eno / etc) on the live album. (1976)

Posted 3 years ago by bviner    [ Reply ]
the rushed tempo and the Nintendo instrumentation are annoying 
Posted 3 years ago by thewiseking    [ Reply ]
"Blue weedo"? 
Posted 3 years ago by fredriley    [ Reply ]
 yougivememosi wrote:
Didn't the beatles cover this?


ummm....
Posted 3 years ago by phlattop    [ Reply ]
Yet another cool cover of a great song.
Posted 3 years ago by billybob123    [ Reply ]
Blasphemous
Posted 3 years ago by rpdevotee    [ Reply ]
...sure beats Sarah Mclachlin's  version of Blackbird or all those annoying  ukulele   Beatles  covers 
Posted 4 years ago by flatop    [ Reply ]
I thought this was Sting at first and was highly disappointed that he would try to cover a great Beatles tune.  But once I saw that it was Wailing Souls, somehow it seemed OK.
Posted 4 years ago by pinto    [ Reply ]
 yougivememosi wrote:
Didn't the beatles cover this?
 
Posted 4 years ago by LoudshirtsBand    [ Reply ]
Was prepared to dislike this but psychedelic reggae has got me hooked.
Posted 4 years ago by LoudshirtsBand    [ Reply ]
 David_Ernst wrote:
Ugh... play the Beatles' version
 
oder 801

Greetings from Bavaria to all the listeners outside. Stay safe!
Posted 4 years ago by ger-man    [ Reply ]
Ugh... play the Beatles' version
Posted 4 years ago by David_Ernst    [ Reply ]
Interesting... I love the original, but this is fun. And with the title of the album being what it is, I am further intrigued.
Posted 4 years ago by ubuntourist    [ Reply ]
I might be brought to like this were it not played at meth speed!
Posted 5 years ago by Slickamoe    [ Reply ]
dissection
Posted 5 years ago by RabbitEars    [ Reply ]
 TheLongshot wrote:
I never realised that this is a Beatles tune. The version I'm familiar with is on the new Living Colour album...
 

I didn't realize they covered it... lost track of that band. I like their approach, but I think they speed it up too much. But the drumming is great as LC's always is. 
Posted 5 years ago by RabbitEars    [ Reply ]
About the only Beatles cover better than the original is Elton John”s Lucy and even then Lennon was involved but this is well done. Me likey.
Posted 5 years ago by spacemanspiff    [ Reply ]
 chuck.b.meyers wrote:
There is also a version of this by 801 featuring Eno and Phil Manzanera of Roxy

That is unquestionably my favorite cover of TNK.  This Wailing Souls one......not so much. 

Posted 5 years ago by Huck    [ Reply ]
I love this zippy cover to the dull (IMO) original, and the guy's accent is cute. Where's this band from? 8 from the bouncing Nottingham jury 😎
Posted 5 years ago by fredriley    [ Reply ]
good cover of a great Phil Collins cover
Posted 5 years ago by wtango    [ Reply ]
 alain.brault wrote:
Brilliant! This isn't a cover, it's a reinterpretation of a song andn how they felt it.
 
So then, what is a cover exactly?
Posted 5 years ago by tcseeley    [ Reply ]
 studionord wrote:
nice for those who dont know the original from 66...
 
And who WOULD NOT know the original from 66?
Posted 5 years ago by BCarn    [ Reply ]
 rpdevotee wrote:
Insulting and blasphemous
 

Posted 5 years ago by ScottFromWyoming    [ Reply ]
There is also a version of this by 801 featuring Eno and Phil Manzanera of Roxy
Posted 5 years ago by chuck.b.meyers    [ Reply ]
The fact that the original was released in 1966 shows how advanced The Beatles were in their day.
Posted 5 years ago by xray38    [ Reply ]
What a fascinating version of this song!
Posted 5 years ago by sdn    [ Reply ]
Didn't the beatles cover this?
Posted 5 years ago by yougivememosi    [ Reply ]
Insulting and blasphemous
Posted 5 years ago by rpdevotee    [ Reply ]
nice for those who dont know the original from 66...
Posted 5 years ago by studionord    [ Reply ]
Excellent interpretation. Not your standard Reggae cover.
Posted 5 years ago by scrubbrush    [ Reply ]
Brilliant! This isn't a cover, it's a reinterpretation of a song andn how they felt it.
Posted 5 years ago by alain.brault    [ Reply ]
Never normally like covers but this is something so different about this one that I love it. Would John Lennon have approved? I think so.
Posted 6 years ago by cob427uk1    [ Reply ]
I love this quirky version!
Posted 6 years ago by shockwavewriter    [ Reply ]
Love the song; love quirky covers.
 
I'm OK with it!!
Posted 6 years ago by DigitalJer    [ Reply ]
Some Beatle songs can be covered. Not this one. Gonggggggggggggggggggg!
Posted 6 years ago by BCarn    [ Reply ]
Tell me why?
Please.
{#Frown} {#Stop}
I consider this as rudeness.
Beatles are sacred. 
Posted 6 years ago by Smetak    [ Reply ]
Blasphemous...
Please don't play this again
Posted 6 years ago by rpdevotee    [ Reply ]
I normally disagree with Beatles covers but it works!
Posted 6 years ago by jackandmeredith    [ Reply ]
 oldsaxon wrote:
Nice. This is unexpected and wonderful. Proper RP content

 
I was thinking just the same... :-)
Posted 6 years ago by ntoll    [ Reply ]
Nice. This is unexpected and wonderful. Proper RP content
Posted 6 years ago by oldsaxon    [ Reply ]
Dear God, no! Just no.
Posted 6 years ago by handyrae    [ Reply ]
Plain and simple the worst i've heard in a loooong time......
Posted 6 years ago by Roy_Batty    [ Reply ]
The Beatles' version was special! Donovan in his last Boulder show said that he helped them figure out how to use the sitar in Western Music (whereas Ravi Shankar playing Indian ragas on it is another thing), and maybe that's why 👎. I also think the tempo doesn't suit.
Posted 7 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
 thewiseking wrote:
Now, this sucks

 
You are indeed wise in this regard.  PSD.
Posted 8 years ago by flyboy    [ Reply ]
Now, this sucks
Posted 8 years ago by thewiseking    [ Reply ]
I wish they'd play Shark attack...great song by this band. Check out the video..some fine dancin, mann 
Posted 8 years ago by 1wolfy    [ Reply ]
Everybody in my elevators loves this groovy cover...  we be dancing like happy hippies...  love Radio Paradise...
Posted 8 years ago by Lazarus    [ Reply ]
 raga wrote:
This can help to understand how great is the original version

 
{#Shhh}
Posted 8 years ago by whomhow    [ Reply ]
This can help to understand how great is the original version
Posted 8 years ago by raga    [ Reply ]
very cool mix {#Music}
Posted 8 years ago by root0    [ Reply ]
 scarletdancer wrote:
Drum & Bass?  I admit I'm not that well-educated on all these "new-fangled" electronic music styles, but I would describe this as psychedelic ska (with a bit of Animal from the Muppets thrown in.)  Personally, I like it, and I'm a huge Beatles fan. 
 

Me, too. Um, liking it and a huge Beatles fan.
Posted 8 years ago by WonderLizard    [ Reply ]
Drum & Bass?  I admit I'm not that well-educated on all these "new-fangled" electronic music styles, but I would describe this as psychedelic ska (with a bit of Animal from the Muppets thrown in.)  Personally, I like it, and I'm a huge Beatles fan. 


DD joe1 wrote:
This is poor...Drum & Bass on this?....Pah! Best version I heard was Peter Gabrial....if he did cover it!
 


Posted 9 years ago by scarletdancer    [ Reply ]
Absolutely horrendous.... not even amusing like some campy covers heard on RP.
Posted 9 years ago by jagdriver    [ Reply ]
I approve of this remake.
Posted 9 years ago by Sunman    [ Reply ]
Have not heard this version before.  I like it!   {#Daisy}
Posted 9 years ago by scarletdancer    [ Reply ]
Sorry. This is one case in which I just think it's a stupid rendition. To each his own...
Posted 19 years ago by radiojunkie    [ Reply ]
Love it!! :sunny.gif: I am amused by those of you that can not seem to except any other arrnagement to a song that you first heard. The narrow mindedness would kill me. How can you guys live that way?? I don't get it, and I guess you guys don't either, which is sad! :roll:
Posted 19 years ago by pdjpirate    [ Reply ]
eco wrote:
Gabriel did do a version of Strawberry Fields for some compilation album.....
That would be "All This and World War II," which I picked up on vinyl in a cut-out bin many years ago. The album is all Beatles tunes created as the soundtrack to a documentary. Lots of great artists doing some interesting renditions, with the Gabriel cut definitely a standout.
Posted 20 years ago by drjimmy    [ Reply ]
Interesting rendition... A 7.
Posted 20 years ago by trekhead    [ Reply ]
Plleease. No more! This is just one too many bad covers! :headshake:
Posted 20 years ago by Detlaps    [ Reply ]
joe1 wrote:
This is poor...Drum & Bass on this?....Pah! Best version I heard was Peter Gabrial....if he did cover it!
Gabriel never recorded (to my knownledge) a cover for this song. You may have been thinking of the Phil Collins version from Face Value.... Gabriel did do a version of Strawberry Fields for some compilation album.....
Posted 20 years ago by eco    [ Reply ]
spoko wrote:
What is THAT?
Umm. A very aptly named band?
Posted 20 years ago by dave_porter    [ Reply ]
What is THAT?
Posted 20 years ago by spoko    [ Reply ]
All this cover talk gives me an idea COVER DAY Play the orig, then a good cover, and lastly a bad cover for every song
Posted 20 years ago by daveh25    [ Reply ]
Interesting cover, I like it.
Posted 20 years ago by pixidrizzl    [ Reply ]
Jah Man! I have never heard this version.
Posted 20 years ago by smor    [ Reply ]
BillG wrote:
I have software systems that warn me if I'm getting ready to play a song or artist that has been played too recently (& I keep upping the definition of "too recently" all the time) - but it doesn't account for versions of the same song by different artists. I'll need to fix that. -bg
That's just cool. I wondered how two people could keep track of so many songs ....
Posted 20 years ago by edisoncarter    [ Reply ]
Still like Phil Collins' cover best.
Posted 20 years ago by camden_hampden    [ Reply ]
This isn't a bad version at all. But nothing beats the beatles version because it was very experimental at the time. Still a groovin track.
Posted 20 years ago by Drunkenlilacwine    [ Reply ]
IRIE! Turn off your mind, relax and float down to Montego Bay....fun version...never heard it before
Posted 20 years ago by cycleman    [ Reply ]
I never realised that this is a Beatles tune. The version I'm familiar with is on the new Living Colour album...
Posted 20 years ago by TheLongshot    [ Reply ]
Not an entirely bad cover. But, for my money, my favorite cover of this oft-covered classic is Michael Hedges' from "Oracle" - more sparse, and takes the song into some new dark corners. Living Colour's latest album has a decent heavy-edged cover too.
Posted 20 years ago by ft    [ Reply ]
First time I've heard this version -- two thumbs up! Wailing Souls took a great song and put their own stamp on it, for a groovin' result. I agree with the previous poster who surmised that John would like this! (I did think I was having trouble with my connection/stream there for a minute, though -- the electronic wah-wah or whatever you call it sounds just like a faltering MP3 stream...)
Posted 20 years ago by skindy    [ Reply ]
I have to say, every time I hear the original of this song it blows me away. And every time I hear a cover of this song I feel that it at best comes close to the original... and then I wonder why not just hear the original? It seems the "best" covers of this song are near imitations that don't bring much to the table; and those covers that do bring something seem to be gilding the lily. I'm not a huge Beatles fan by any means, but I think the original version of this song is truly magical, and the covers feel like charlatan-trickery; --d
Posted 21 years ago by lindydallas    [ Reply ]
anamacha wrote:
nice! who does the original again? I can't remember where I've heard this before.
That would be an obscure group from England called "The Beatles".
Posted 21 years ago by Shimmer    [ Reply ]
Wow. Hard to imagine a cover coming close in quality to the original, but this one's trying hard. I think John would like.
Posted 21 years ago by Roverfish    [ Reply ]
Okay, not that I trying to be contrarian, but I enjoyed this song, and yes I have heard many, many different versions of Tomorrow Never Knows. But this one was one of the more interesting covers along with one I heard many, many years ago by 801. As to the galaxy of songs that remain to be listened to, and the delay encurred by playing covers of oft-listened tunes, well to that I say \"musicality is in the ear of the beholder.\" I obtain more enjoyment and even revelation from a great cover than I do from listening to a pallid original. I agree with Bill in that you don\'t want to unintentionally fall into a trap of listening to the same tune, no matter how superb it may be. But to me that applies to a treatment of the song by the same group and even by the same group in the same session. Anyone who has ever listened to \"All Along the Watchtower\" will remember that Jimi took a great Dylan song and made it even greater and within that, he had good and not-as-good performances of it. Listening to Jimi at his best doing Watchtower is orders of magnitude in quality better than listening to, oh say Dave Mason, doing that song. (Not that I dislike Mason, it\'s just that his version of it, other than some decent singing, is pretty bland.) That\'s it - I\'m for diversity within repetition. :D - Riff
Posted 21 years ago by riffster    [ Reply ]
Originally Posted by (8?»: I'm not against playing various covers of a song, but hearing a version of Darkness, Darkness or Tomorrow Never Knows everyday is cultural death. I don't know how big the playlist is here, but I'm guessing we only hear a small percentage of it. Repetition displaces diversity. Just look at what it has done to FM.
I have software systems that warn me if I'm getting ready to play a song or artist that has been played too recently (& I keep upping the definition of "too recently" all the time) - but it doesn't account for versions of the same song by different artists. I'll need to fix that. -bg
Posted 21 years ago by William    [ Reply ]
Ja, mon, pass that spliff over here... Much in the psychedelic flavor of the original.
Posted 21 years ago by hobbitt    [ Reply ]
It sounds like Moby and Steel Pulse had a b**tard child...and this is the result.
Posted 21 years ago by MiataDJ    [ Reply ]
A song that\'s very suitable for a new dance/techno version or a great remix. This doesn\'t do it for me, though.
Posted 22 years ago by Johray63    [ Reply ]
Originally Posted by Skid_Mark: Geez, it might as well be: 801 - Tomorrow Never Knows Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows Danielle Dax - Tomorrow Never Knows Jai Uttal - Tomorrow Never Knows/Shivaya Phil Collins - Tomorrow Never Knows Wailing Souls - Tomorrow Never Knows
And your point is? Which of the versions have merit? Maybe rank them? Is there a certain point where frequency of cover versions is in and of itself a bad thing? As for me - WOW! What a great set of music. Fairport, Kate Bush and Beatles from this. Excellent. And finally, this Wailing Souls version of "Tomorrow..." is great. Really moves and grooves. Is this new?
Posted 22 years ago by mperry    [ Reply ]
Originally Posted by (8?»: At least it isn't another Darkness, Darkness.
Geez, it might as well be: 801 - Tomorrow Never Knows Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows Danielle Dax - Tomorrow Never Knows Jai Uttal - Tomorrow Never Knows/Shivaya Phil Collins - Tomorrow Never Knows Wailing Souls - Tomorrow Never Knows
Posted 22 years ago by Skid_Mark    [ Reply ]
nice pace to this remake, snappy!
Posted 22 years ago by dctrpunda    [ Reply ]