Sgt. Petsound's Lonely Hearts Club Band Explained

Sgt. Petsound's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Type:remix
Longtype:(mash-up)
Artist:The Beachles (Clayton Counts)
Cover:Sgt. Petsound's Lonely Hearts Club Band (remix album).png
Released:September 2006
Genre:mash-up
Length:69:21

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 was released under the pseudonym "The Beachles" and received favorable mentions in Entertainment Weekly and USA Today, as well as blogs around the world. Sometime around September 8, 2006, Counts received a cease and desist order from EMI's attorneys.[1] Notably, the letter included a demand for Counts to hand over the IP addresses of everyone who downloaded or streamed the songs.[2] Counts removed the songs, but refused to give up the IPs and fired back with a lengthy missive on his blog.[3] [4] The incident drew the attention of the Associated Press and Rolling Stone, and resulted in a letter-writing campaign and a boycott of EMI and Capitol Records on behalf of Counts.

Counts linked to the tracker site isoHunt as a place to still download the album after his cease and desist letter.

Track listing

  1. "Wouldn't Sgt. Petsound Be Nice?" 2:44
  2. "You Still Believe in My Friends" 2:54
  3. "That's Not Lucy" 4:43
  4. "Don't Talk (Get Better)" 6:54
  5. "I'm Fixing It, Dayhole" 7:22
  6. "She's Going Away for Awhile" 2:20
  7. "Being for the Benefit of Sloop John B!" 6:34
  8. "God Only Knows What I'd Be Within You" 5:34
  9. "I Know There're Sixty-Four Answers" 7:05
  10. "Today, Rita" 3:44
  11. "I Just Wasn't Made for Good Mornings" 7:17
  12. "Sgt. Petsound's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprieve)" 3:57
  13. "A Day in the Life of Caroline" 4:49
  14. "Runout Groove" 3:24

Son of a Beachle

In 2021, a media folder on Clayton Count's blog was discovered containing an unfinished sequel to Sgt. Petsound's Lonely Hearts Club Band titled Son of a Beachle. This album was originally meant to contain 32 tracks, but only 11 of said tracks were ever made. Son of a Beachle uses many more samples than its predecessor, and goes for a more humorous approach.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Plasketes . George . Play it Again: Cover Songs in Popular Music . 2010 . Routledge . 978-0754668091 . 209–210.
  2. Web site: Cory Doctorow. EMI wants millions and your IP address in revenge for Beachles. https://web.archive.org/web/20061105012633/http://www.boingboing.net/2006/09/08/emi_wants_millions_a.html. November 5, 2006. September 8, 2006.
  3. News: Salas. Randy A.. Sites told to cease and desist. Minneapolis-Star Tribune. September 26, 2006. 2E.
  4. Web site: The Beachles. claytoncounts.com. April 16, 2017.