If you're like me, you like the Beatles.

What?

This is Ace posting?

What next--if you're like me, you think Woodstock was the bestest concert ever?

If you're like me, the assassination of John Kennedy was a seminal event in which all hope for Western Civilization just died and light went out of the world.

If you're like me, M*A*S*H* is quintessential TV comedy.

Who is this baby-boomer imposter?

(Alright, so "Hey, Jude" is okay, and some of the White Album aint too bad, but c'mon. The Beatles are the essence of over-rated.)

Just really got into them in HS and first year of college.

Lot of good songs, man.

I am so digging "For Horsemen" you would not fucking believe it.

I'm not kidding-- I think this is fucking rock and roll gold.

Fully agree on all counts, Ace, esp. re: "For Horsemen." And the guy has Hetfield's style down cold. Simply brilliant.

And I don't know that they're overrated. I think their overplayed songs are overloved and overrated, but, hey, Help!, Rubber Soul, Revolver, and the White Album are awesome. So's Abbey Road (if, yes, overplayed).

You just have to avoid the ultra-overplayed Sgt Pepper and some of the really crappy shit they did like "The Long and Winding Road."

Their early stuff is good too-- again, keeping away from the obvious shit like "I Wanna Hold Your Hand." "I'm a Loser"? Kick ass.

Allah,

I'm glad someone agrees. I know this is supposed to be a joke, but I am honestly digging it.

I like the reassurance that I am not going completely insane.

First, thanks for the links Ace!

And second, I actually liked the "Sgt. Hetfields" version too.

The thing that disapponted me the most (and prompted the post in the first place)?

The lack of discernable cowbell on Everybody's Got a Ticket To Ride Except for Me and My Lightning!!!!

This band could make it, if only they would explore the studio space a little more....

yeah... cowbell needed.

Well, I've found one clunker: "And I'm Evil" ("And I Love Her"/Some famous Metallica song I cannot name at the moment). Sucks. Skip it.

Some of the songs sound a bit more like punk than metal, but that's a quibble. As for my own Beatle worship, I got into them in sophomore year of college and never looked back. I've actually sat through this without being stoned. A labor of love, believe me.

Dude, some friends and I went to NY (we weren't in NY in college) and we fucking wasted a night watching LASER BEATLES AT THE FUCKING HAYDEN PLANETARIUM.

Ohhhh God. That's the most embarassing thing I've ever revealed here.

(not stoned or tripping, either. I think we maybe had a couple of beers.)

I'm listening to them all again now and trying to figure out which is the best synthesis of the two styles. I'm leaning towards "Sandman" but find myself returning to "Blackened in the USSR". Hard to appreciate the latter unless you know the Metallica song on which it's based, though.

Uuuuuurk. I wish I'd stayed at the soft-core geekery of the D&D thread.

LOL...Ace, I had a similar experience. When I was in High School I spent a night watching a "Pink Floyd Laser Show" at Stone Mountain State Park in Georgia.

Seriously...they shot all these lasers at the huge granite visages of Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee. Why? Who knows. But at some point I truly believed that if the Civil War had a soundtrack, Dark Side of the Moon would have been it.

Allah,

I love Help!. Of course, you are talking to a guy who was first in line to see the re-release of A Hard Day's Night, and who owns a copy of Magical Mystery Tour on VHS and Let it Be on Laserdisc, even though I can't play either.

So I might be a bit biased.

I think the Sgt Hetfield and the For Horsemen are the best two. of the covers.

You need to check out "We Can Hit the Lightz" if only for the middle eight, to hear him do the "there's no ti-i-i-i-ime" line in the Hetfield voice. Hysterical.

I enjoy the completely gratuitous insertions of "Fucking" and "Fuckin' A," of course.

"When I find myself in times of trouble
Hybrid children come to me"

"When glowing chaos underground people
living in the world agree....

And tho he has been sleeping
there is still a chance that he will see
He is the thing that should not
let it be".

Let it be, Let it Be, Hybrid children watch the sea."

LOL. It's like a lyrical tribute to Cthulu.

I'm revising my list. "The Thing that should not let it be" is in the top 3.

But then I always was a sucker for McCartney's ballads.

The fun didn't last long as Sony sued these chaps for several infringement issues. Of course.

Um, Ace, you realize that that's based off Metallica's song "The Thing That Should Not Be" which is already about Cthulhu. The all of the Lovecraft-based phrases are taken directly from the original.

That being said, this is my favorite of the bunch.

ACE - In the Ogre fight which weenie are you? Are you the fat, bald guy with the dress or the cheering section with the dress?

Pretty sure the crawling chaos is Nyarlathotep. Loose shit going on here.

You can bet he's the big geek in the helmet, 72V.

No helmet = loose shit, you know?

So, is this excruciating video going to become a regular feature, like the cowbell? Might come in handy whenever the Dems make a particularly boneheaded countermove against Bush&Co. "I demand Senate hearings on the Gannon Affair! Lightning!-Lightning!-Lightning!!"

stukom,

Thanks, I wondered about that later.

By the way, Lovecraft has become mainstream, folks. Did you know he's now in the official "Library of America"--along with Emerson and Thoreau?

It's true.

Blackened the USSR so far is my fav. The guy nails Hetfield perfectly. It strikes me as Dead Kennedys meet Weird Al.

I first heard about Cthulu on Metallicas "Ride the Lightning" album on the song "The Call of Ktulu" I had no idea what it was about but it was a good song. I had to wait until much later and the internet before I was able to look up what the hell "ktulu" was. I'm still not really sure, but apparently metallicas orginal bassist was a Lovecraft fan and dropped references to his writing into several early metallica songs

"Blackened the USSR" is an odd melange. Allah is right - you have to know the song on which it's based, but it's actually based on a bunch of songs. After the "Hey Jude" synth intro, they do a wierd combination of "Blackened" and "Disposable Heros." Apparently they didn't feel too constrained to stick with two sources per song.

Also, "Four Horsemen" is my all-time favorite (and paradoxically, the only one worth listening to on their entire first album), but the Beatallica re-make completely sucks.

Take my eyes off the ball for just a sec, and Ace is doing Cthulhu with Allah. TANJ.