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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Artist = The Residents
A-side = "Beyond The Valley Of A Day In The Life"
B-side = "Flying"
Released = 1977
Format = 7"
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Genre = Experimental music
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Label = Ralph Records
Writer = Lennon/McCartney, Harrison, Roy Lee Johnson, The Residents
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Last single = "Satisfaction" (1976)
This single = "The Beatles play The Residents and The Residents play The Beatles" (1977)
Next single = "Santa Dog '78" (1978)
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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 a collage of Beatles recordings, with a looped clip of a Beatles Christmas record in which Paul McCartney says "Please everybody, if we haven't done everything we could have done we tried."

The B-side, "Flying", is a cover of the Beatles song, selected because it was the only song 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.

Beyond The Valley Of A Day In The Life

This track is a collage of recordings by the Beatles. The track contains the following songs:

*A Day in the Life
*The End
*Tell Me What You See
*God
*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
*Yellow Submarine
*No Reply
*I'm a Loser
*Mr. Moonlight
*Love You To
*She Loves You
*Hey Bulldog

All these songs can be heard in the track plus the Beatles Christmas record mentioned before.


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