Favorite Beatles pastiche?

I agree on "Lies," Huggy. Do you happen to know who wrote it? Allmusic.com credits the Knickerbockers duo of Beau Charles/Buddy Randell, but I also read an item by a San Diego music critic named Gordon Hauptfleisch that credits Seals and Crofts. I find that hard to believe, but stranger things have happened (i.e. Hendrix opening for the Monkees).
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Todd Rundgren and Utopia did an entire album of this called "Deface the Music." It was pretty good; some people love it.

 

Smithereens have a song-for-song cover of Meet the Beatles, which is another matter altogether.

 

XTC were geniuses. A little prissy and English, but geniuses nevertheless. They always reminded me of the Beatles and I never even knew about the Dukes incarnation.

 

Sonic Youth were rumored to have done a song-for-song cover of "The White Album" at one point in the mid-80s, which would have been f'n awesome. Thurston Moore said it was a hoax, but they did a cover of "Back in the USSR" which was never released.

 

Matthew Sweet, and well, almost every band since 1964?

 

Big Star, REM, Crosby Stills & Nash, Gerry & The Pacemakers, Mersey Beat bands, Byrds, just to name a few.

Oh, I forgot Wings!

 

Day after Day
Badfinger

 

Raspberry Beret by Prince could have been the B-side of Hello Goodbye.

(Was Hello Goodbye itself the B-side of Penny Lane? I can't remember)

 

"Strawberry Fields Forever" was the b-side to "Penny Lane."

I had to look up "Hello Goodbye" - its b-side was "I Am The Walrus," which apparently pissed off John.

 

"I Hate It Here" off the new Wilco record has a mid-song guitar chord progression ripped directly (and intentionally) from the Beatles.

 

Judy in Disguise (With Glasses) -- John Fred and his Playboy Band

I was also going to say Day After Day by Badfinger. And does Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey count?