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     kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1814 Registered: 05-2005 |
As voted by readers of the Observer Monthly. From that listI would have Hurt by Johnny Cash at 1, and Police and Thieves by The Clash at 2. Serious omission, and candidate for No1 - Shipbuilding by Robert Wyatt As usual with The Guardian and The Observer the link to the article doesnt work, so click on http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm and then click on "the first cut isnt always the deepest" | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1782 Registered: 05-2005 |
was Thankyouforlettinmebemyselfagain by Maagazine in there too? | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 806 Registered: 01-2005 |
The Bangles version of Katrina and The Waves "Going Down To Liverpool" from their 1984 album 'All Over The Place' should have been on the list. Their cover of Simon and Garfunkel's "Hazy Shade of Winter" should have also been considered. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1522 Registered: 04-2005 |
And Husker Du's cover of "Eight Miles High." No list is valid without it. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2276 Registered: 03-2006 |
Not a bad list, with the exception of Whitney's "I Will Always Love You", which sucks baby cow turds. The original, by Dolly Parton, is fantastic, but Houston just bombasts the hell out of it. I would've added the Beatles cover of Smokey Robinson's "You Really Got a Hold On Me". Hard to best Smokey, but they do. | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 240 Registered: 05-2005 |
I wonder did they include Whitney Houstink just to watch the complaints flood in? There's no other plausible excuse for including it. I'm stunned at the amount of them that I either at one time, or still, assumed the cover was the original. Agree with you about Shipbuilding - Achingly gorgeous | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 808 Registered: 01-2005 |
Gram and Emmylou's version of "Love Hurts" is the greatest cover of all time. It still sends chills up and down my spine every time I listen to it, and it's been over 32 years since I heard it for the very first time. The only thing bad about it is that Nazareth heard it as well. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 101 Registered: 02-2007 |
The Band's "I Shall Be Released" with Richard Manuel's high falsetto voice. Something other-worldly about it. Speaking of Band, they do great ATlantic City by Springsteen as well. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 299 Registered: 07-2006 |
goin down to liverpool...definitely. add hazy shade of winter to mine. cyndi's "money changes everything" dusty's "anyone who had a heart" i can never think of these things.... oh oh i love suede's "brass in pocket" and james dean bradfield's acoustic "last christmas". though obviously, i love any cover of that song. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1723 Registered: 05-2005 |
That list is 99% mainstream crap. It includes Whitney Houston's abominable version of Dolly Parton's beautiful I Will Always Love You. Roddy Frame's live version of Jump is one of my faveourite ever covers. I love the original too. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 812 Registered: 01-2005 |
Joe, good call on cyndi and dusty. Fairport Convention's cover of "Percy's Song" from their album "Unhalfbricking. Urge Overkill's cover of Neil Diamond's "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon" from Pulp Fiction. Julian Cope's cover of "Five O'Clock World" | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1532 Registered: 04-2005 |
Good call on "Jump," Padraig. The original is catchy, but I'd hardly call it a great song. But Roddy found a great song there--shows how interpretation can sometimes transcend the actual content. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 301 Registered: 07-2006 |
b&s do a good live "jump" too. they did it in melbourne alongside stuart scaling the gargoyles and alcatroves of the forum theatre. | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 247 Registered: 05-2005 |
Japan's version of Second That Emotion. It's actually the version I knew first, and only heard the original later. Obviously, Japan's version is a distant second to the sublime original, but I'll always have a soft spot for it. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 82 Registered: 10-2006 |
"The Surrey with a fringe on top", sung by Lena Horne. or, How a song about a 19th century horse-driven family carriage is really about HOT DIRTY SEX. Well, just about everything Lena sang sounds like that to me... | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 302 Registered: 07-2006 |
i'm the same with japan catherine....i still only know for all tomorrow's parties as a japan song. the "other" one just sounds like a weaker version of a much better one =D | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 817 Registered: 01-2005 |
I only knew of "Kangaroo" and "Holocaust" from This Mortal Coil's covers from the It'll End In Tears album that I bought in 1985. Seven years later when Big Star's Third/Sister Lovers was released by Rykodisc I was blown away by the power of the original versions. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2288 Registered: 03-2006 |
Talk of Big Star reminds me that Alex Chilton has performed some great covers himself. Two that immediately come to mind are: "You've Got a Booger Bear Under There" (Ollie Nightingale) and "My Baby Just Cares For Me" (Nina Simone). One more, not by Alex, Cheap Trick's take on "Ain't That a Shame", originally by that immortal New Orleanian, Mista Domino. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 821 Registered: 01-2005 |
Loved the Nina content and Julie riffing on her at the end of "Before Sunset". | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 304 Registered: 07-2006 |
thanks for the reminder michael - tmc's "kangaroo" is definitely one of my favourite covers, though i do love third as well. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 261 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ups and Downs "Solitary Man" Beatles "Money" (original vinyl version rather than the cd version which is a little stiff) | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 252 Registered: 05-2005 |
Has anyone else covered Kangaroo? I don't think I've heard TMC's version, but when I heard Third/Sisters/Lovers for the first time this summer, I recognised the song as one I loved, but didn't recognise the actual version. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 328 Registered: 01-2006 |
Hey Geoff, have you heard the Sonics' version of Money? Much better than any version of it by the Beatles IMHO...thay also do a mad version of Louie Louie that is in completely the wrong key but sounds great...Did punk start with these guys??? | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 826 Registered: 01-2005 |
Catherine, the TMC version was sung by Gordon Sharp from the Scots band Cindytalk. He also sings on two other songs on the first TMC album. Cindytalk albums might be hard to find/pricey. | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 253 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'll have to investigate that version, and see if it was that one. The timescale would be fairly right anyway. I'm sure it's lurking somewhere out there on the www. For some reason, the notion that it was Pete Wylie has popped into my head - Probably not him, but someone with a similar voice, but not so Pete Wylieish. Sorry, that statement makes sense to me! | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2005 Registered: 05-2005 |
Foggy Dew by Sinead O'Connor and The Chieftains. I have never been a fan of Sinead, but this version of the classic Irish tune is a real goosebumper. Last night, admittedly slightly the worse for wear I must have played this about 7 or 8 times, and each time that last 90 seconds, and especially the last 30, brought a tear to my eye http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emCUQvf9f qQ&feature=related | ||
| Wilson Davey Member Username: Wilson Post Number: 106 Registered: 05-2005 |
Talking of Pete Wylie, what a shame Kylie Minogue didn't marry him. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 954 Registered: 01-2005 |
Blooming Heather by Kate Rusby, which is from her latest album Awkward Annie and is her take on the trad song Wild Mountain Thyme. | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 398 Registered: 05-2005 |
LOL Wilson! You've cheered up my Wednesday-feels-like-Monday morning. Incidentally, wouldn't it be cool if Pete Wylie's sister hooked up with the actor Peter Coyote? She could hypenate her name... | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2013 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kylie Wylie, thats a belter! There must be more, imagine if David Bowie called his son something like Zowie!! Oh, hang on..... | ||
| Wilson Davey Member Username: Wilson Post Number: 114 Registered: 05-2005 |
If only Jason Donavon's dad had been a Donavon fan ? I'll withdraw that... If only Jason Donavan's dad had also "withdrawn"..... | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 147 Registered: 04-2005 |
While we're a little off topic. The England footballer's Gary & Phil Neville's dad is ACTUALLY Neville Neville. Cheers Jon | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1961 Registered: 05-2005 |
I preferred Gary and Phil when they were singing gumbo sould with Aaron and all the other Neville Brothers. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 976 Registered: 01-2005 |
I preferred Gary and Phil when they were singing gumbo sould with Aaron and all the other Neville Brothers......by the fiyo on the bayou under the light of a yellow moon! |