It’s safe to say that I have more Beatles cover albums in my collection than official Beatles albums.\u00a0 (I have to make that distinction, as I have a nice sized collection of bootleg albums.)\u00a0 And over the years, I’ve bought some absolute junk.<\/p>\n
I have no idea when I picked up Vincent DiCola’s Artistically Beatles<\/i>.\u00a0 It may have been something I found at Big Lots.\u00a0 I remember when a new music store opened at the mall, and they had a rack of budget CDs; perhaps it was on that rack and one day I found it.\u00a0 Unlike other albums in my collection, I have no firm memories of this.<\/p>\n
DiCola is a Hollywood session musician, probably best known for scoring Transformers: The Movie<\/i>.\u00a0 Artistically Beatles<\/i> isn’t junk.\u00a0 It’s actually a very competent album.\u00a0 However, it is also a very surprising take on the Beatles, radically reinventing ten of their songs in an 80s synthpop style.\u00a0 The result is something that wouldn’t sound out of place on a soft rock or adult contemporary station next to Steve Winwood’s “Higher Love” or Boy Meets Girl’s “Waiting for a Star to Fall.”\u00a0 I won’t say anything here is a “gem,” but there are nice versions of “Something,” “You Never Give Me Your Money,” and “Norwegian Wood.”<\/p>\n
A curiosity in my collection, DiCola’s Artistically Beatles<\/i> is there for those rare moments when I need to imagine Rodimus Prime and Galvatron battling it out to the music of the Beatles.\u00a0 Roll out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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