Great songs that use the Bo Diddley Beat (that aren't Bo Diddley songs)

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Hahahahaha, you can't check to see if we've done this before.

1. Yo La Tengo, "Sudden Organ"

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 31 August 2006 22:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Was the number two the last time you did this "Not Fade Away"?

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Friday, 1 September 2006 01:16 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't remember ever seeing this asked before! So, uh, no.

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Friday, 1 September 2006 01:36 (eighteen years ago) link

3. King Rocker, Generation X

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 1 September 2006 08:39 (eighteen years ago) link

4. Will Young, Switch It On

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 1 September 2006 08:40 (eighteen years ago) link

5. The Electric Prunes, Get Me to the World On Time

― Samuel K.B. Amphong (Dada), Friday, 1 September 2006 08:41 (eighteen years ago) link

6. Hello - New York Groove

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 1 September 2006 08:41 (eighteen years ago) link

david bowie 'up the hill backwards'
guns'n'roses 'mr brownstone'

― dave q, Friday, 1 September 2006 10:33 (eighteen years ago) link

9. Hamilton Bohannon - Disco Stomp
10. I suppose I ought to mention "Faith" by George Michael, or perhaps the version they used for the Scottish Milk Marketing Board ad campaign which went "'Cos I gotta have milk-a milk-a milk-ah."

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 1 September 2006 11:04 (eighteen years ago) link

I Want Candy

This has definitely been done before :)

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 1 September 2006 13:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Not here it hasn't.

12. Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 1 September 2006 13:25 (eighteen years ago) link

13. The Fall, Dice Man

― Samuel K.B. Amphong (Dada), Friday, 1 September 2006 13:36 (eighteen years ago) link

14. Moe Tucker, "Hey Mersh!"

― I Am Curious (George) (Slight Return) (Rock Hardy), Friday, 1 September 2006 13:49 (eighteen years ago) link

"i've had it" by the gories is one of their few songs that doesn't use the bo diddley beat, but it SOUNDS like it does

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 1 September 2006 14:03 (eighteen years ago) link

10b. Somewhere out there in internets there is a mash-up of George Michael's "Faith" and Talib Kweli's "Never Been In Love". THAT.

― nklshs (nklshs), Friday, 1 September 2006 17:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Johnny Otis - Castin My Spell, Willie and the Hand Jive

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 1 September 2006 18:51 (eighteen years ago) link

"Big Yellow Taxi" = wtf? that is not the Bo Diddley rhythm.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 1 September 2006 18:51 (eighteen years ago) link

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