The Beatles Play the Residents and the Residents Play the Beatles
"The Beatles Play the Residents and the Residents Play the Beatles" | ||||
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Single by the Residents | ||||
A-side | "Beyond the Valley of a Day in the Life" | |||
B-side | "Flying" | |||
Released | 1977 | |||
Genre | Experimental music | |||
Label | Ralph Records | |||
Songwriter(s) | Lennon–McCartney, Harrison, Roy Lee Johnson, Larry Williams, the Residents | |||
The Residents singles chronology | ||||
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"The Beatles Play the Residents and the Residents Play the Beatles" is a 1977 single by the Residents. The A-side, "Beyond the Valley of a Day in the Life", is an audio collage of recordings by the Beatles and John Lennon, with a looped clip from the Beatles' third Christmas record, in which Paul McCartney says "Please everybody, if we haven't done what we could have done, we've tried."[1]
The B-side, "Flying", is a cover of the Beatles song, selected because it (along with "Dig It") is one of the few songs to be credited to all four Beatles. At one point, one of the Residents quotes the clip from the McCartney interview used on the A-side and laughs maniacally.
The single, particularly the B-side, reflects the Residents' boredom with pop music and their tendency to perform deconstructionist covers, perhaps shown most notably on their album The Third Reich 'n Roll.
It was originally released as a 7" single that was limited and numbered to 500 copies, with three different hand-screened sleeves.[2]
Beyond the Valley of a Day in the Life
This track is a collage of recordings by the Beatles, plus one song by John Lennon. In addition to the snippet of dialogue from the 1965 Christmas record, the track contains the following songs:[citation needed]
- "A Day in the Life"
- "The End"
- "Lady Madonna"
- "A Hard Day's Night"
- "Tell Me What You See"
- "God", by John Lennon
- "Her Majesty"
- "Tell Me Why"
- "I Am the Walrus"
- "Blue Jay Way"
- "Can't Buy Me Love"
- "Another Girl"
- "All I've Got to Do"
- "All My Loving"
- "Girl"
- "In My Life"
- "Yellow Submarine"
- "No Reply"
- "I'm a Loser"
- "Mr. Moonlight"
- "Love You To"
- "She Loves You"
- "Hey Bulldog"
- "Bad Boy"
References
Further reading
- The Residents: 'Beyond The Valley Of A Day In the Life' By Jon Savage
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- Meet the Residents
- The Third Reich 'n Roll
- Fingerprince
- Not Available
- Duck Stab!/Buster & Glen
- Eskimo
- Commercial Album
- Mark of the Mole
- The Tunes of Two Cities
- Title in Limbo
- George & James
- The Big Bubble
- Stars & Hank Forever
- God in Three Persons
- Buckaroo Blues
- The King & Eye
- Freak Show
- Our Finest Flowers
- Gingerbread Man
- Have a Bad Day
- Wormwood
- Demons Dance Alone
- 12 Days of Brumalia
- Animal Lover
- Tweedles
- The Voice of Midnight
- The Bunny Boy
- The Ughs!
- Lonely Teenager
- Coochie Brake
- The Ghost of Hope
- Intruders
- Metal, Meat & Bone
- Santa Dog
- "Satisfaction"
- "The Beatles Play the Residents and the Residents Play the Beatles"
- Duck Stab!
- "Santa Dog '78"
- Babyfingers
- Diskomo
- The Commercial Single
- Intermission: Extraneous Music from the Residents' Mole Show
- "It's a Man's Man's Man's World"
- "Kaw-Liga"
- For Elsie
- "Hit the Road Jack"
- The Snakey Wake
- "Santa Dog 88"
- "Don't Be Cruel"
- Prelude to "The Teds"
- Pollex Christi
- The Mole Show Live at the Roxy
- The 13th Anniversary Show Live in the U.S.A.
- Cube E: Live in Holland
- Live at the Fillmore
- Roadworms: The Berlin Sessions
- Wormwood Live
- Freak Show
- Gingerbread Man
- Bad Day on the Midway
- WB: RMX
- The King & Eye: RMX
- The Warner Bros. Album
- Baby Sex
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