I agree. I hate to admit it, but I kind of prefer all the Across the Universe over the originals. The modern touches really show a modern audience just how great these songs were. Like listening to someone covering Beethoven on an electric guitar.
Chords (partly for my own reference): Verse / Intro: D Em7 Gadd9 D Em7 A Bm A G D E7 G D Chorus: Fadd9 Cadd9 G Fadd9 Cadd9 G (not sure about the last line, it's mostly fine with no chord or an extended G)
bostonlucy I had just never been introduced to them. I obviously knew of them but I hadn't heard a lot of their songs. I did know and love this one before but this rendition is so beautiful and I can actually sing it. So many of The Beatles songs are not in a good range for a female singer so it was nice to have lots of female renditions to sing along to from the movie.
bostonlucy I never thought they were all that either. Just a movement :) however th movie brings more talent not just the same sound it was my idea at age 9 20ish years ago to do a beatles movie just like this. I was mad lol
I saw Ringo Starr in the fall with his All Starr Band. It was incredible. But mostly, I went to see Todd Rundgren. :) My friend from elementary school and I tried to create a Grease stage show. It never did pan out. We couldn't find a Danny. Ha ha ha... We still laugh about it 30 years later.
@@homonnaizsolt Oh it's good, really good. Amazing in fact, it's just Irish Trad music sounds different, I don't know how to explain it. I guess growing up with it all my life, I am just used to it.
I know u posted a yr ago, just to let u know this song helped through the worst time in my life...that was five yrs ago when my best friend, My Father passed away..it can still bring tears to my eyes.
I've never seen this movie.... but my mom mentioned it and I had to check out the music and it's better then she described :D I want to see it now.... bad
+SylviaMarie13 well i thought something like that too and i believe they are all supposed to be characters based on important musicians, like janis joplin, jimi hendrix.. just watch it closely, you'll understand lol.
I'm pretty sure they weren't reducing him to that. It's just, you know, they were talking about singing, and he's a lead character in Moulin Rouge... Which is a musical.
i personally love this version more. likely because this unfortunately was the first time I heard this song. so the original version sounds weird andntoo fast. this hauntingly slow melodic version, is beautiful.
+Cass Winchester its sad when people say this is their favorite movie and then are like "who are the Beatles" it like really dude there are so many Beatle references in the movie other than the music and names like even some of the lines and like their last performance being on a rooftop like the beatles and don't let me down was the last song the beatles performed and it was performed on a rooftop ike in the movie
@AgentDemonEyes I agree- this is a derivative work, based on something that was brilliant that came before. It both stands on the shoulders of giants and becomes something of its own, beautiful in its own right. If we never had covers, if we never could appreciate anything other than an original, we would never be able to hear This Land is Your Land other than sung by Woodie Guthrie and Eva Cassidy would have never been able to have sung the blues.
@AgentDemonEyes Woodie Guthrie is...unique. He takes some getting used to and seems to be an acquired taste for most folks I have spoken to. Imitation is the greatest form of flattery, they say. If something is appreciated enough that it lasts the decades the Beatles' songs have, they are going to be covered and reinterpreted as times change. Without that, songs are forgotten. There are reasons why movies, songs, and plays from the 1940s aren't redone- they don't resonate with people today.
