Mantid
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Cover Chains
Sep 17, 2014, 20:21
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Cope's "I Have Always Been Here Before" is ostensibly a cover of Erickson's tune, though he slips in a bit of the Spades' "We Sell Soul" as additional tribute.
Meanwhile, Spacemen 3 cover "We Sell Soul", but add a little "Don't Fall Down".
The Elevators "Don't Fall Down" is a rewritten version of the Spade's "We Sell Soul" (and of course featuring Roky on vocals in both).
Here's a mapping of sorts:
http://gnosticodyssey.wordpress.com/2014/09/17/i-have-always-been-here-before-we-sell-soul-dont-fall-down/
Anyone else have anything like this? I am fascinated by covers, and especially versions like these which veer away from being utterly faithful. Seems like the closest thing we have in modern pop music to traditional folk as it operated... see also traditional American bluegrass often being inspired by Scotish/Irish/British ballads.
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Stevo
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Edited Sep 18, 2014, 15:17
Re: Cover Chains
Sep 18, 2014, 14:55
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I think the Jeffrey Lee Pierce song Get Away included in the Flamingoes e.p. emerged from a version of the very different Flipper song of the same name.
Sally Go Round The Roses goes through a number of different variations from the Jaynettes original which itself sounds like a versionof an older folk song. I love the Great Society version and the Pentangle version's pretty good, Tim Buckley seems to start off improvising on the song and take it somewhere very different. Almost seems to be hypertextualising on it.
I'm just listening to a Nick cave set from his summer US tour which has me thinking of Staggerlee which has gone through a myriad of different versions including some variations on the title. It seemed to be a standard of early blues, was picked up on by Wilson Pickett and others in soul r'n'b days. Now Nick Cave seems to like riding the groove on it where it takes him.
He also used to do I Put A Spell On You which is a number a lot of people have done in very different versions with a lot of extemporisation in.
There's also Gloria which Patti Smith took off into very different places, not sure to what extent she bunged in diferrent songs, Horses also includes her takeoff on Land of 1000 dances. I think both of those songs have had other artists leave their stamp on them through what they do with them that differs wildly from the original
was that what you were looking for?
Stevo
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Mantid
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Re: Cover Chains
Sep 18, 2014, 17:11
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Ah yes, many versions of Stagger Lee out there. "I Truly Understand" is another great ballad. I heard recently a Celtic version of what I would call "Oh the Wind and Rain" (about a jealous girl pushing her sister into a river to drown, a musician finds the corpse and makes an instrument out of the bones)... but in this version the classic refrain never came, and it was a harp instead of a fiddle. Unmistakably the same DNA though.
I wasn't looking for anything in particular I suppose, I just enjoy these things, especially when it goes beyond being a cover and spans 2 songs, as Cope did with I Have Always Been Here Before and Spacemen 3 did with We Sell Soul.
So looking for other examples... but also just making conversation. I get really amped up about music at times and it drives my family/friends mad, so figured where, if not here, to talk about it?
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Sin Agog
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Edited Sep 18, 2014, 17:35
Re: Cover Chains
Sep 18, 2014, 17:34
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Dream Baby Dream's developed a bit of a life of its own. Bruce Springsteen did a bit of a sepulchral cover (have no truck with Springsteen but it wasn't bad- just him and an organ), though my favourite's the excellent, fun-fun noise rock girls' Black Tambourine's cover; the great post-Galaxie 500 band Luna did it credit; then more recently Savages, Neneh Cherry & The Thing, The Arcade Fire & David Byrne, Massive Attack and who knows how many others have tried to tackle the song. I guess it's one of those divinely simple void-filling trax which was preordained to be written, and if it by some freak of nature hadn't, would have left the world just that teensy bit more bereft.
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tiompan
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Re: Cover Chains
Sep 18, 2014, 17:45
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Mantid wrote: Ah yes, many versions of Stagger Lee out there. "I Truly Understand" is another great ballad. I heard recently a Celtic version of what I would call "Oh the Wind and Rain" (about a jealous girl pushing her sister into a river to drown, a musician finds the corpse and makes an instrument out of the bones)... but in this version the classic refrain never came, and it was a harp instead of a fiddle. Unmistakably the same DNA though.
Child ballad 10 .Twa Sisters .
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch010.htm
With huge number of variants with different names ,Minnorie , Cruel Sister , Bows o ' London etc .
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keith a
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Re: Cover Chains
Sep 18, 2014, 22:55
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Brucie's version of DBD is one of my favourites covers ever
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