Cover Versions

[Karl_b]

You sir, are a top class gent.

 

Funny at the start when they are trying to get it going and hitting mad chords but I still like it; very brave attempt.

 

I hadnt heard the original so just downloaded it. Very very brave in tackling that .

 

Downloaded a lot of We Are Scientists stuff a week or so back, and Im really impressed by them. The first couple of things I heard didnt really have a big impact but I was told to download Cash Cow and The Scene is Dead, superb.

 

On a sidenote, I got the Dirty Pretty Things album today and its ace. Really good, you can see who really had the talent in the Libertines.

[Stu Monty]

I hadnt heard the original so just downloaded it. Very very brave in tackling that .

 

Downloaded a lot of We Are Scientists stuff a week or so back, and Im really impressed by them. The first couple of things I heard didnt really have a big impact but I was told to download Cash Cow and The Scene is Dead, superb.

 

On a sidenote, I got the Dirty Pretty Things album today and its ace. Really good, you can see who really had the talent in the Libertines.

 

 

What's that lyric about Doherty in the current single?

 

"I gave you the midas touch and you turn round and rip out my heart"

 

Or something like that. I liked it.

[Karl_b]

Dirty Pretty Things - Bang Bang You're Dead

 

I knew all along

That I was right at the start

About the seeds of the weeds

That grew in your heart

 

Self satisfaction for the factions

Who formed to tear us apart

Oh I gave you the Midas touch

As you turned round to scratch out my heart

 

Oh what did you expect?

Oh tell me what did you expect?

To lay it on my head?

So is it all upon my head?

 

Bang bang you're dead!

Oh I'm so easily lead

Bang, bang, you're de-e-ead!

Put all those rumours to bed

Bang, bang you're dead

 

I knew all along

But I was loathed to believe

There was nothing but spite

Fury and lies in the words that you weave

 

Bring our illusion to a conclusion

With all our unsold dreams

Put it to bed, kick it in the head

Oh won't they just let it be

 

Bang bang you're dead!

Oh I'm so easily lead

Bang, bang, you're de-e-ead!

Put all those rumours to bed

Bang, bang you're dead

 

Bang bang bang bang you're dead

[rondeco]

Teenage Fanclub - here comes your man

 

I gotta listen to that. Any ideas where, big hat?

[Spy Bee]

Dirty Pretty Things - Bang Bang You're Dead

I thought that was original. Who recorded it first?

[cochcaer]

Good cover on Hype Machine of Orange Crush by Editors.

[Karl_b]

I thought that was original. Who recorded it first?

 

I dont get you.

[Owen]

Oooh, I've just found a cover of 'Against All Odds' - that one from some 80's movie that goes "So take a look at me noooooow, there's just an empty space" by The Postal Service. All electronicy and cool.

[Karl_b]

I dont get you.

 

How slow am I? Too slow to edit thats how slow.

 

D'oh.

[Karl_b]

The whole RATM - Renegades album is class.

[biggit]

Frank Zappa - Murder by Numbers (Sting)

 

FZ's versions of I Am The Walrus and Stairway to heaven were excellent, as was his live version of Ring Of Fire.

 

JC was supposed to appear on stage with the '88 band, but June got ill. Great shame, I'd have loved to have heard my two favourite musicians playing together - as it was it ended up as an excuse for making lots of Anusol jokes.

[Uncle_Meat]

FZ's versions of I Am The Walrus and Stairway to heaven were excellent, as was his live version of Ring Of Fire.

 

JC was supposed to appear on stage with the '88 band, but June got ill. Great shame, I'd have loved to have heard my two favourite musicians playing together - as it was it ended up as an excuse for making lots of Anusol jokes.

 

 

Another corking Zappa cover or two has just popped into my head as well.

 

Purple Haze by Hendrix (obviously), and Happy Together by The Turtles as on the Fillmore East live album from '71.

 

To be fair, Zappas Happy Together did have Flo and Eddie on vocals at the time, so not quite a cover in the pure sense of the word, featuring the 2 original vocalists as it did....

[Guest TK-421]

Oooh, I've just found a cover of 'Against All Odds' - that one from some 80's movie that goes "So take a look at me noooooow, there's just an empty space" by The Postal Service. All electronicy and cool.

 

That sounds lushty.

[Owen]

That sounds lushty.

 

Lushty = Good?

 

Pm me your email and I'll try sending it.

[Guest TK-421]

Cheers mate that's top banana

[cochcaer]

Have a listen to Nada Surf's cut of There Is A Light That Never Goes Out.

http://myoldkyhome.blogspot.com/2006/05/there-is-light-that-never-goes-out.html

[Spy Bee]

Corin (sp?) Bailey Ray did a cover of Razorlights Girl with the Golden Touch. That was pretty fucking good!

[aws]

Nice easy question so fastest fingers first:

 

Which cover formed the basis of a Kop chant in the late 60s?

 

Original and cover artist please.

[aws]

YNWA, Gerry and his macetakers. Can't remember who the original one was, totally gone blank. From a musical.

 

I doubt you meant this one though.

 

No.Try again.

[Guest GreggeryPeccary]

FZ's versions of I Am The Walrus and Stairway to heaven were excellent, as was his live version of Ring Of Fire.

 

Also the 88 tour's Texas Motel Medley - Norwegian Jim (Norwegian Wood) / Lousiana Hooker With Herpes (Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds) / Texas Motel (Strawberry Fields Forever).

[Big Noel]

Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley

Last Kiss by Pearl Jam

Say Hello Wave Goodbye by David Gray

Rusty Cage by Johnny Cash

Twist and Shout by The Beatles

Jolene by The White Stripes

Strawberry Fields Forever by Ben Harper

 

 

Can't believe it took until the 52nd post for Jolene to get a mention.

[biggit]

Also the 88 tour's Texas Motel Medley - Norwegian Jim (Norwegian Wood) / Lousiana Hooker With Herpes (Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds) / Texas Motel (Strawberry Fields Forever).

 

Welcome you nocturnal gregarious wild swine you.

 

Good call - Sunshine of Your Love on 'Best Band You never Heard In Your Life' is another one '... I'll stay with you 'til disease all dried up ...' - excellent stuff

[Guest TK-421]

I've stumbled across a splendid cover of the Cheers theme tune by Wedding Present.

[aws]

Nice easy question so fastest fingers first:

 

Which cover formed the basis of a Kop chant in the late 60s?

 

Original and cover artist please.

 

 

Sky fans.

[Guest molbyscorchio]

Pulp - Whiskey In The Jar

Aimee Mann- Nobody Does It Better