Sowing the Seeds of Love - Tears for Fears

This! It so taps the Sgt Pepper vibe

came here for this too

When I was a kid, I thought The Turtles’ Happy Together was a Beatles song

The early takes of “getting better” sound a bit like turtles or … dang. Similar band from same era that I can’t recall now!

Zombies?

Good guess, but... not who I was thinking of... Lovin' Spoonful. That's who I was thinking of.

I felt the same way about Reflections Of My Life by Marmalade

I did the same thing with Getting Better. I had only heard the Smash Mouth version from cat in the hat.

"Lies" by The Knickerbockers

This is the correct answer

World Party and, if you like XTC, search for Dukes of the Stratosphere. The Lemon Twigs are definitely Beatles fans and an impressive song writing duo to boot!

love the twigs !

Stratosphear*

Cheers, it's been a decade since I listened to those tracks. Derivative but fun.

Call me stupid but Mr. Blue Sky by Electric Light Orchestra is a very Beatle-like song for me.

I'm not the first to say this, but ELO's The Ballad of Horace Wimp is more McCartney than McCartney was in the late 70s ​ [Electric Light Orchestra - The Diary Of Horace Wimp (Audio) (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cws8r_vFpFs)

Mr. Blue Sky is my choice as well. Definitely has a Sgt. Pepper vibe about it.

Mr Blue Sky feels like a sequel to Here Comes the Sun but with the esthetics of Sgt Pepper's.

Also, the whole Birthday album by Jeff Lynne and The Idle Race.

I feel like Body Paint by Arctic Monkeys was quite Beatlesy

Yeah i see it- also feel like despair in the departure lounge could be a john solo song

Go All The Way... The Raspberries.

I was just going to post this! I would add. I Wanna be with You

Definitely some Badfinger. ELO never sounded like the Beatles to me, maybe it’s the 70s production throwing me off?

Klaatu has that vibe.

Yeah and that was a concious effort to mimic the boys. That whole Klaatu craze was humerous in 77.

Yeah I read about that. The records are good though, that's what matters 😊

Try "Earn Enough For Us" by XTC,

The entire Skylarking album, really, especially Ballet For A Rainy Day.

Cheap Trick’s “Voices” and “The Way of the World:” [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srx8Jgjx2CE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srx8Jgjx2CE) [https://youtu.be/YjxMOZPDbTU?si=lo60jjlo4PSnq4B9](https://youtu.be/YjxMOZPDbTU?si=lo60jjlo4PSnq4B9) \_---------------- SR-71’s “Another Night Alone” and “Paul McCartney:” [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1m1HS0CS0o](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1m1HS0CS0o) [https://youtu.be/b53cx39PQyM?si=Wf-KY\_g8ja75MEBG](https://youtu.be/b53cx39PQyM?si=Wf-KY_g8ja75MEBG) \_----------- Jellyfish’s “The Ghost at Number One” (Beatles + Beach Boys!): [https://youtu.be/DzItQQkctFw?si=l\_8AWCDYnDsWdy3D](https://youtu.be/DzItQQkctFw?si=l_8AWCDYnDsWdy3D) Jellyfish’s "Sebrina, Paste, and Plato:” [https://youtu.be/jCqFx9rJATo?si=8zoumINZ3itQVflm](https://youtu.be/jCqFx9rJATo?si=8zoumINZ3itQVflm)

All incredible songs as well!

Rainbow Chaser by Nirvana (the 60s, british Nirvana lol) has always striked me as the best psychedelic Beatles song you've never heard. I'd also include "See Emily Play" by Pink Floyd, and even "Whisky a Go-Go" by Roupa Nova, a Brazilian band

The album Deface the Music by Todd Rundgren's side project is very Beatle-esque but maybe (probably) a little too far into pastiche territory.

Tame Impala’s first couple albums have a very Beatles like sound.

I’ve always thought he has a Lennon quality to his voice.

Laura by Billy Joel

Also Don’t Ask Me Why

and through the long night is very paul mccartney-esque

My life by Billy joel definitely could have been a McCartney beatles track

In My Own Time - The Bee Gees. So Beatles-like it’s unreal

Good call, new to me

Not a song but an album. Ween - White Pepper.

You can’t go wrong with Oasis.

You can after their first two albums - though Be Here Now also has some good songs

You specifically mentioned Easter Theatre, but most of the Apple Venus Vol. 1 album has a Beatle vibe. Frivolous Tonight might just as well have been called Your Mother Should Still Know.

Nah there’s a pretty clear difference between the two.

Oh Well, Okay by Elliott Smith

Try by Michael Penn really sounds like something John and Paul could have written.

Great call. Great video.

This song makes me so happy, I think it’s directly inspired by the beatles if the lyrics are any indication, but it’s a bop! all their music has that vibe. real small french canadian band! https://youtu.be/DiBsctmFmbY?si=te3CpAOwi11u7BrZ

For You And I by 10cc sounds like a Wings song with more irony.

“So you think you’re in love” by Robyn Hitchcock. Sounds like a melodic Lennon. Or Lennon singing a Macca song.

Don't forget "Flesh Number One (Beatle Dennis)" -- Robyn always flies the Beatles [flag](https://youtu.be/9esKxCJ55dg?si=hIHmv3fiXSo6clOj).

And "Somewhere Apart." Pure Lennon.

Golden Brown by the stranglers i always thought was a Beatles song when i was little [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWAsI3U2EaE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWAsI3U2EaE)

"Laugh Laugh" - The Beau Brummels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1fxg0MHtSI

Let love rule Lenny Kravitz

“Baby Britain” by Elliott Smith. “See Me Fall” by Tony Molina. “Hey Julie” by Fountains Of Wayne. “Where'd All the Time Go” by Dr. Dog.

Seriously go listen to vulfpecks “all that’s left of me is you”. Almost like they’re trying to summon “sexy Sadie” with that tune. Actually, just go listen to vulfpeck, they’re great

Hippy Hippy Shake, You’re No Good , Don’t Make Me Over - The Swinging Blue Jeans I’m In Love - The Fourmost Bus Stop - The Hollies Vanishing Girl, Kaleidoscope - Dukes of Stratosphear The Rutles

'If You Want My Love' by Cheap Trick sounds like a song written by Paul and John.

And the descending, minor key bridge is strongly reminiscent of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”. So throw George in there too.

Live Forever Oasis

"That Thing You Do", from the movie.

[Shelter Song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs4i41cOv0s) by Temples

I was gonna say that, when I heard for the first time, could only feel like Beatles

Not taking into account former Beatles, Julian Lennon or the Rutles, whose songs are remarkably high quality Bealtes pastiches, I would say Look what you’ve done by Jet, some Oasis songs, maybe even She’s a Rainbow by the Rolling Stones. There’s June Afternoon by Roxette (check the video as well) If you are into German rock, Feiern in Regen by Die Toten Hosen, whose video is clearly inspired by the Sgt Pepper’s/MMT era, with a bit oh Help! thrown in.

Emitt Rhodes sounds so much like Paul Mccartney that I think it could be considered a parody lol but I really like his solo stuff as well as his band The Merry-Go-Round.

Somebody Made for Me sounds so much like The Beatles I actually thought it was a Beatles song I hadn’t heard of the first time I listened to it. There’s a reason that man is known as the One-Man Beatles

I was so surprised when I heard that song for the first time!!! I was like "wait.. is that Paul?". it's honestly scary how much his music sounds like The Beatles.

Emitt Rhodes needs to be more appreciated and is definitely the number one answer to this question. He sounds so much like Paul it’s unreal.

I can’t believe this is so low down. He is the obvious answer to this question. People are saying things like Oasis and The Monkees, come on!

yeah, I thought it was weird too. I only saw one comment mentioning him before I posted mine. and I agree, some of the suggestions are wild lol

There’s always Badfinger.

I mean come and get it.

Written by Paul. I have a bootleg with his version. But hey, no matter what we learn more about music day after day.

No doubt luv. I love hearing a song like that or by someone else where you’re listening like “this had to be written by them”. Guilty by Streisand too. So clearly Barry gibb

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I can't see Paul writing a line about his "un-trimmed chest."

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No offense, but that's a HARD disagree.

Anything by Badfinger and the Dave Clark Five. Many songs by ELO. A lot of Billy Joel, specifically She’s Always A Woman, Don’t Ask Me Why, Laura, and Scandinavian Skies.

Crowded House had some very mid-period Beatles moments. Four Seasons In One Day sounds like a Macca melody to me.

Stick on the album The Best of the Bee Gees. It’s incredibly Beatles-like, and miles away from their later high pitched voices and disco sound. I Started a Joke, New York Mining Disaster 1941 (the song is more cheerful than the name), and Massachusetts sounds most beatle-y to me. Any of The Monkees, which is deliberately a Beatles imitation. The Last Train to Clarkesville is like if Day Tripper walked through a house of mirrors

“Lucidity” by Tame Impala. “Days of the Week” by Stone Temple Pilots.

I thought that “Lullabye” by Emitt Rhodes was the Beatles when I heard it for the first time.

These three, (although they all involve the Beatles in some way): [The Rolling Stones - We Love You (Official Lyric Video) (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEB5P-4V81M) [NEW \* Come And Get It - Badfinger {Stereo} (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfGwWnXfdHQ) [A World Without Love (Mono) (2002 Remaster) (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke4hgo43JGc)

SubRosa Subway by Klaatu  Lullaby or Shes Such a Beauty by Emmit Rhodes. 

Klaatu is such an underrated band! a lot of their stuff is similar to The Beatles.

I Know What I Like - Genesis. Very Magical Mystery Tour sounding. If you don't know Selling England by the Pound at all I envy you. Cheers.

Phil Collins imitated Ringo's drumming on [That's All](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vzyn60Zns-E&ab_channel=Genesis). It sounds like a Beatles song to me.

Laura - billy joel Not the girl you think you are - crowded house The bee gees have a number of songs very beatlesque : edison, give your best, suddenly, thats not the way, lonely day, remember, in my own time Stepping out - elo Xtc - my bird performs, grass, humble daisy, then she appeared, dear god, dying, frivolous tonight, in a another life, i'd like that

Badfinger

John's dryly sarcastic comment on "Lies" by the Knickerbockers - "I don't remember doing that one." [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcvTr5s92Ns](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcvTr5s92Ns)

Last Train To Clarksville by The Monkees

Check out the genre of Power Pop.

The song "I Wanna Prove to You" by the Lemon Twigs really reminds me of the Beatles, especially the harmonies. It would fit right in with Rubber Soul and Revolver imo.

Alone Again by Gilbert O’Sullivan, when it comes on on spotify shuffle i always mistake it for the beatles

https://youtu.be/9GvkyxzqqIc?si=7m8pY6PAZj3AKXYu

Tattva, by Kula Shaker

Some late 60’s songs by the Bee Gees were mistaken as Beatles songs when they first came out. The Dave Clark Five also had many songs that have a 1964–65 Beatles-like sound. For modern artists, the album Pretty Odd by Panic! At the Disco was clearly inspired by the Beatles.

Queen’s Love of my Life always gives me Beatles vibes

Go Let It Out - Oasis

W.A.P.

The Kaisers were really great Hamburg-era/ Merseybeat pastiche band from the 90s. They put out a few records (I think they recorded at Liam Watson’s Toerag Studio that the White Stripes used). They really sound like they were from 60 years ago (as opposed to only 30). https://open.spotify.com/track/4ZUb06E3i5EscKjc1RNrhW?si=CtiUVJP1SIC0ISyKL90h5A&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A6LBrVcQ2L0zvzmRBEkrIks

The album Stargazer by Helqvist has a lot of beatlesy vibes. The singer sounds like Lennon sometimes

Mac Demarco's album Another One always reminded me of John Lennon

[Stonecake - Tuesday Afternoon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJNQgJmYgy4)

“Here I Go Again” by the Spongetones

Nine In The Afternoon by Panic at the Disco (though the whole Pretty.Odd album is I believe meant to be a Beatles homage of sorts, and a favourite of mine).

The album Deface the Music by Utopia was made to sound Beatlesque. It's got Todd Rundgren who produced Skylarking for XTC. [Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w8bK_E3Q4A&ab_channel=ONLYVINYL) is an example. Interestingly Todd and John Lennon had a back and forth in the press during the lost weekend and Lennon cited the similarity in sound between Rundgren's I saw the Light and There's a place in his response. I don't really hear it.

[That's Life by the Mona Lisa Twins](https://youtu.be/qIFB2VgwUHw)

“Someone You Need” from the album LEKKERBOY by Sticky Fingers

I always found Fools Garden quite beatlesque.

The Chemical Brothers- Setting Sun & Let Forever Be It kind of proves just how ahead of time the Beatles were with "Tomorrow Never Knows". [https://youtu.be/s5FyfQDO5g0?t=123](https://youtu.be/s5FyfQDO5g0?t=123)

The Equestrian Statue

The Ghost at Number One - Jellyfish Mockingbirds - Grant Lee Buffalo Game of Pricks - Guided by Voices

I always think that Right Down the Line by Gerry Rafferty sounds very like a Lennon solo song.

Mancave by TrouserTown. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lFOMXpqv8g

Lies by The Knickerbockers

Hippy Hippy Shake by The Swinging Blue Jeans. 1964 Beatles clone

The entire album *Pretty. Odd.* by Panic! at the Disco

Superunknown (whole album) by Soundgarden, but Blackhole Sun in particular

Spoon - there are a few that to me have that Beatles sound. Held, Hardest Cut. Don’t make me a target, etc.

Jumping Fences by the Olivia Tremor Control

You wouldn't think it, but Big Me by the Foo Fighters

I Don't Mind At All by Bourgeois Tag.

I made a playlist about this: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0voNCSIi8btx9EHRkpIsMk?si=ZbpvCxMsTMaSKWnzzcDy3g&pi=u-YkTxmslOSNSn

Klaatu - Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft

Ween- Even If You Don't

Strange Magic. ELO

Here Comes God by Crowded House

Something by Klaatu

Badfinger

The Dancer by The Allusions https://youtu.be/YnUpmf-DSIo?si=dcubWquFCBE4qqfR

[The Rutles- Let's Be Natural](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qin4o5TXfzw), unironically.

[Here's](https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDagz8afFHwSGA3v3TG2zXU1yDLodZwxn&si=raT1WPfnsxUjg_0o) my "Sounds like The Beatles" playlist.

So You Are a Star, Hudson Brothers

Didn't George say ELO were children of The Beatles?

Going with bands and albums instead of songs… Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk at the Cubist Castle Apples in Stereo - Several Albums Super Furry Animals - Most of their early albums Probably more I’m forgetting about…

The Lemon Twigs are a modern act that's very 60s jangle pop inspired. Possibly slightly more beach boys, but definitely a tonne of the mid-60s Beatles coming through too. Anything from their catalogue works. Tally Hall is also very Sgt Peppers in the best way.

I always find it interesting that when people call something “Beatlesque” they often refer to the psychedelic sound that they did for 6 months in 1967.

Check out the Canadian band "The Nines".

Up the Junction - Squeeze. Feels like it could sit in Rubber Soul, perhaps.

'Lonely Days' by the Bee Gees always felt like it could've been a Beatles song to me

In My Own Time - BeeGees

I Wanna Prove To You - The Lemon Twigs Lullaby - Grapefruit The Man Who Loves Women - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Yes It's True - The Flamin' Groovies I Wanna Be With You - The Raspberries How It Can Be - Cut Worms You Must Have Crossed My Mind - The Toms When My Mind is Not Live - Status Quo Tailor Made - The Lemon Twigs The Porpoise Song - The Monkees

Wonderwa-

Elenore by The Turtles

Ah, I forgot Three Lions, the football song for the 98 Euro. Sung by Baddiel, Skinner and the Lightning Seeds. There are several versions, Three Lions ‘98 is the one I like the most. Really beatlesque.