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Sin Agog

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Re: Cover versions that are better than the originals

Apr 11, 2014, 22:29

triangles wrote:

Jokerman Caetano Veloso
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOPNUX7KiS8

I really like that. What's his later stuff like? I've avoided anything Veloso did since about 1980 as I was perhaps given a bum steer from a friend who told me that he went soft and worldy from then on out. As I love everything he did up to that point without exception, in retrospect I think that's hardly likely. There must be some gems I'm missing.

Anyway, it's up to you whether you think they're actually better, but you've got to admire the gall of a band naming themselves The Better Beatles and making a record full of half-baked, anomic Beatles covers that sounds like the four most prominent members of the I Don't Like The Beatles, Smeg Off Society (IDLTBSOS) were forced to do Beatles covers at gunpoint. Penny Lane, Eleanor Rigby.

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