Sgt. Petsound's Lonely Hearts Club Band
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Sgt. Petsound's Lonely Hearts Club Band | ||
by The Beachles (Clayton Counts) | ||
Released | September, 2006 | |
Genre | mash-up | |
Length | 69:21 | |
Professional reviews | ||
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The Beachles Sgt. Petsound's Lonely Hearts Club Band is a track-for-track mash-up of The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds with The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by Clayton Counts, posted on his blog. It received favorable mentions in Entertainment Weekly and USA Today, as well as blogs around the world. Sometime around September 8th, 2006, Counts received a cease and desist order from EMI's attorneys. Notably, the letter included a demand for Counts to hand over the IP addresses of everyone who downloaded or streamed the songs, even if they were streamed from one of the hundreds of other websites linking to them. Counts removed the songs, but refused to give up the IPs and fired back with a lengthy missive on his blog.[1] This prompted a response in the alternative press, in addition to further exposure from news outlets such as the Associated Press and Rolling Stone, which resulted in a letter-writing campaign and a boycott of EMI and Capitol Records on behalf of Mr. Counts.
The tracks are available from many torrent sites and Clayton Counts even linked to the tracker site isoHunt as a place to still download The Beachles after his cease and desist letter.
[edit] Track listing
- Wouldn’t Sgt. Petsound Be Nice?
- You Still Believe in My Friends
- That’s Not Lucy
- Don’t Talk (Get Better)
- I’m Fixing It, Dayhole
- She’s Going Away for Awhile
- Being for the Benefit of Sloop John B!
- God Only Knows What I’d Be Within You
- I Know There’re Sixty-Four Answers
- Today, Rita
- I Just Wasn’t Made for Good Mornings
- Sgt. Petsound’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprieve)
- A Day in the Life of Caroline
- Runout Groove
[edit] External links
- The Beachles, Clayton Counts' blog post
- Meet the Beachles, Entertainment Weekly article
- EMI wants millions and your IP address in revenge for Beachles, BoingBoing post from Friday, September 8, 2006
- Beachles: Noise mashup of Beatles and Beach Boys, BoingBoing post from Sunday, September 3, 2006
- AP Download of the Week, Associated Press article
- Clayton Makes Enemies, Boston Herald article