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GLADMAN 950 posts |
Jan 21, 2017, 18:16
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carol27 wrote: Johnny Cash Desperado Personal Jesus Hurt Yeah, that's right. Just before he died. Gore could've written it specially for him
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thesweetcheat 6214 posts |
Jan 21, 2017, 18:18
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That's a great list. A few from me: A Certain Ratio - Shack Up Bauhaus - Telegram Sam Belly - It's Not Unusual The Breeders - So Sad About Us Cabaret Voltaire - Here She Comes Now Johnny Cash - Hurt/Personal Jesus Nick Cave - Stagger Lee Client - White Wedding The Creatures - Right Now Darkstar - Gold (You Remind Me Of Gold) Electrelane - I'm On Fire Eno - I'm Set Free The Fall - Mr Pharmacist/Black Monk Theme The Fatima Mansions - Long About Now The Flying Lizards - Money PJ Harvey - Highway 61 Revisited Kristin Hersh - Pennyroyal Tea/Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey Rowland S Howard - Life's What You Make It Jesus & Mary Chain - Kill Surf City/Surfin USA Ladytron - Oops Oh My Hannah Peel - Sugar Hiccup Pet Shop Boys - The Last To Die Sisters Of Mercy - Emma The Slits - I Heard It Through The Grapevine
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thesweetcheat 6214 posts |
Jan 21, 2017, 18:25
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Toni Torino wrote: A Love From Outer Space - The Asphodells Private Life - Grace Jones Shipbuilding - Robert Wyatt Heat Wave - The Jam Black Steel - Tricky Oh yeah, they're good ones. The Jam did some great R'n'B/mod/soul covers, Get Yourself Together; And Your Bird Can Sing; Big Bird
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thesweetcheat 6214 posts |
Jan 21, 2017, 18:25
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Markoid wrote: So many by The Fall. "I'm A Mummy"
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carol27 747 posts |
Edited Jan 21, 2017, 18:59
Jan 21, 2017, 18:47
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QUOTSA Everybody's Gonna Be Happy & Needle in the Camels Eye. Doors Backdoor Man & Whiskey Bar/ Alabama Song Bonzos Jollity Farm Hendrix All Along the Watchtower We've Got a Fuzzbox & We're Going to Use It Spirit in the Sky Guns n Roses Live & Let Die ( against my better nature I might add) Siouxsie Helter Skelter & Dear Prudence BowWowWow I Want Candy Joy Division Sister Ray Fine Young Cannibals Suspicious Minds Madonna Ray of Light Sinead Nothing Compares to You Gary Jules Mad World Elliott Smith Because Grace Jones everything! Warm Leatherette Fun Boy Three Summertime & It Ain't What You Do... Jeff Buckley The Way Young Lovers Do & Corpus Christi Carol & of course Hallelujah Sisters of Mercy Gimme Gimme Gimme a Man After Midnight Blancmange The Day Before You Came White Stripes Death Letter & the mighty Jack White I'm Shakin'
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petemcfc 119 posts |
Jan 21, 2017, 18:48
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Mazzy Star-Blue Flower. The Vaselines-You Think Your A Man, On a Vaselines front,Nirvana-Mollys Lips, Does Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Fives' lift of Liquid Liquids' Caravan for White Lines count? Grace Jones-La Vie en rose. The Cramps-She Said. Davy Graham-Both Sides Now. Sandie Shaw-Your Time Is Gonna Come. Voice of the Beehive-I think I Love You. World Of Twist-Shes a Rainbow. Prince-Crimson and Clover. Placebo-Running Up The Hill. Nouvelle Vague,anything off their 3 albums but I'll go for Blister in the Sun. Onwards.
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thesweetcheat 6214 posts |
Jan 21, 2017, 18:49
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carol27 wrote: We've Got a Fuzzbox & We're Going to Use It Spirit in the Sky Don't forget their version of Bohemian Rhapsody. Also, all the Frank Sidebottom Queen covers.
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carol27 747 posts |
Jan 21, 2017, 18:52
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thesweetcheat wrote: carol27 wrote: We've Got a Fuzzbox & We're Going to Use It Spirit in the Sky Don't forget their version of Bohemian Rhapsody. Also, all the Frank Sidebottom Queen covers. Works of genius:)
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Stevo 6664 posts |
Jan 21, 2017, 23:37
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Membranes version of Voodoo Chile always seemed deliciously wrong. The country covers that the meat puppets put on their hardcore era 1st mini lp. Distorto versions of Bob Nolan songs written for the Sons of the pioneers. There's a lot more on the cd of the lp too. The MC5 reformatting The Troggs I Want You for KOTJ. Also what they did with Ray Charles' I Believe To My Soul which begat Black To Comm. The Birthday party's version of Loose. & what ever other Stooges stuff they did. John Coltrane taking broadway songs apart and building something totally new out of them and influencing modal jamming in rock in the prcoess. Nina Simone's reinvention of several very white folky singer songwriter songs in the late 60s. There's a lotof it on the Sugar iN My Bowl compilation i have. Fairport convention on the first 4 lps, especially Unhalfbricking though i hate the French language Dylan rewrite. Jefferson Airplane Other Side of this Life and Good Shepherd. Also the Great Society's reimagining of Sally Go Round the Roses. Cabaret Voltaire's Here She Comes Now which is really creepy plus tehior No Escape. Roberta Flack doing That's No way to Say goodbye with a breakbeat on her first lp First Take which has several similar sublime covers. I wish somebody would compile the God Machine e.p.s cos they all had great song reimaginings. several other things which will come back to me later.
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Monganaut 2375 posts |
Jan 22, 2017, 03:53
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I could go on forever with this, but off the top of me head some of my faves are..... Liars - The Chain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYRmpy-AtdM Bauhaus - Rosegarden Funeral Of Sores (Live Version) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk9A8tJPbCQ Cabaret Voltaire - No Escape https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ-RPQtj4pM Sid Presley Experience - Cold Turkey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwGmIUPY3Is 16 Horsepower - Sinnerman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLiB1qYUbe0 The Sonics - Louie Louie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhM5k_EGzaQ Patti Smith - My Generation (live) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEG1-tINSIQ Sonic Boom - Hall Of Mirrors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKHiUtZidU8 Bowie - White Light https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8wQdyMzu0I Human League - Rock N Roll Pt2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfajBcmphVs Banshees - Dear Prudence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6rrTROoZIw Sisters Of Mercy - 1969 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhsdd2Wqu9I Nick Cave - Avalanche https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPPO2zdPxyU Mudhoney - Urban Geurilla https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHkR6kTE1ok Primal Scream - Know Your Rights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC7gTDRgdKc Grace Jones - She Lost Control https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N64I_7HibVE Broadcast - 60/40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R9nIiTMXuc Papercranes - Blue Jeans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8Op-wpLpYo Rocket From The Tombs - Foggy Notion (live) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7MZ1qK_MuY Loop - Rocket U.S.A. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7JTjqAmmxQ The Cramps - Primitive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOUrxk5nNvA Sonic Youth - Hot Wire My Heart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ5Px213bTs Three Johns - 20th Century Boy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyKeqtCWa2k T-Rex - Summertime Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2HFVY__BQY Rapeman - Just Got Paid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABiKcjM3wXE Creedence Clearwater Revival - Heard It Through The Grapevine (full version) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBOFA5JZQzs Goldfrapp - Boys Will Be Boys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBmxemcwcAk Julian Cope - Non Alignment Pact https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmjsT263_-U Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy - California Über Alles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrOtFnILi7U Kendra Smith - Bold Marauder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6gE5RDQAbI Supergrass - Condition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqF46bQxnnE The Birthday Party - Loose (Live 1981) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QrSTiFFXSE Run-DMC - Walk This Way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B_UYYPb-Gk The Jesus & Mary Chain - Ambition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtTOze39Foo Galaxie 500 - Listen, The Snow Is Falling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX-o3rN99pI The Mission - Wishing Well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZT--waCI4w World Domination Enterprises - I Can't Live Without My Radio That wouldn't make a bad playlist...might have to cobble one together.
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