spencer
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Edited Jan 22, 2017, 19:52
Re: Best, strangest... or maybe just most inappropriate covers of all time?
Jan 22, 2017, 19:51
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um...for starters (this IS a good topic and all following on Youtube, I think) This Mortal Coil - Song To The Siren.... Bush and Gabriel - Another Day .... Harper - North Country .... Neil Young - Girl From The North Country .... take your pick of any number of Johnny Cash on American Recordings .... Richard Thompson - She Moved Through The Fair .... Richard Thompson - Shenandoah .... Low - Long Long Long .... Van - I Just Wanna .... Grateful Dead - Werewolves of London .... Spirit - The Times They Are A- Changing .... Spirit - Walking The Dog .... Kapt Kopter - Day Tripper .... Robert Wyatt - Strange Fruit ... where the hell do you stop with The Byrds - Bells Of Rhymney's a fave ...sorry , top of head spurge of consciousness, could go onandon...
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Popel Vooje
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Edited Jan 23, 2017, 16:34
Re: Best, strangest... or maybe just most inappropriate covers of all time?
Jan 22, 2017, 19:53
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Schneider TM / KPT Michigan - There is a Light that Never Goes Out
(or "The Light 3000" as they've re-titled it).
I actually prefer this to the original.
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sanshee
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Re: Best, strangest... or maybe just most inappropriate covers of all time?
Jan 22, 2017, 19:55
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Robert Wyatt's cover of 'Strange Fruit'.
A 'middle class white man' shouldn't carry this off so well, but he does.
Even though a white man wrote it.
Nina Simone totally owns Dylan's 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues', The Beatles' 'Revolution' and Randy Newman's 'Baltimore'.
Turns them all on their heads.
She of course does 'Strange Fruit', which exudes with pain, anger, defeat, and defiance all at once, and that voice just pins you where you happen to be.
But Wyatt's version remains my favourite.
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Sin Agog
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Re: Best, strangest... or maybe just most inappropriate covers of all time?
Jan 22, 2017, 19:59
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Really dig the Ukrainians' ep of Smiths covers put through the Eastern/Central-European folk blender (meaning, a lot of mandolins): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZPtnuPKyu4
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spencer
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Re: Best, strangest... or maybe just most inappropriate covers of all time?
Jan 22, 2017, 20:06
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Agreed
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Paul Higgins
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Edited Jan 22, 2017, 20:13
Re: Best, strangest... or maybe just most inappropriate covers of all time?
Jan 22, 2017, 20:06
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SHIRLEY BASSEY - LIGHT MY FIRE
LEMONHEADS - LUKA
DON FLEMING & TOM SMITH - DIZZY
ANNETTE PEACOCK - DON'T BE CRUEL
BLUE CHEER - SUMMERTIME BLUES
LOOP - MOTHER SKY
BIG BLACK - THE MODEL
BONGWATER - YOU DON'T LOVE ME YET
RTX - NATURES WAY
ROYAL TRUX - MONEY FOR NOTHING
THE KILLS - DESPERADO
LINK WRAY - AIN'T THAT LOVIN' YOU BABE
TAV FALCO & THE PANTHER BURNS - OH, HOW SHE DANCES
MARK LANEGAN - WHERE DID YOU SLEEP LAST NIGHT?
R.E.M. - KING OF THE ROAD
THAT PETROL EMOTION - DANCE YOUR ASS OFF
PIXIES - IN HEAVEN
THE CLASH - BRAND NEW CADILLAC
DELROY WILSON - HALF WAY UP THE STAIRS
LEE RENALDO - STEPHANIE SAYS
ST. ETIENNE - ONLY LOVE CAN BREAK YOUR HEART
LOVE - HEY JOE
THE WHITE STRIPES - PARTY OF SPECIAL THINGS TO DO
COULD GO ON WITH THESE FOREVER (PROBABLY FORGOT LOADS OF OTHER GOOD ONES)
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spencer
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Re: Best, strangest... or maybe just most inappropriate covers of all time?
Jan 22, 2017, 20:17
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Chieftains 4: sigh. A record with memories, why I don't own now. Derek Bell RIP: sigh#2 ...on a tangent, check out Bob James's Women Of Ireland: cheese praps, but good cheese. Plus a fine guitar solo.
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Stevo
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Re: Best, strangest... or maybe just most inappropriate covers of all time?
Jan 22, 2017, 20:34
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I Only Have Eyes For You by Flamingoes and Mercury Rev.
Sand, Morning Dew, Je t'aime by Einsturzende Neubauten. Possibly also Armenia, not sure how much is original though.
Most the ones Thin White Rope did.
Bourgeois Blues by Panther Burns.
Train Kept A Rollin by Johnny Burnette Rock'n'Roll Trio, Yardbirds, Led Zep. Recently becoming familiar with jump blues original by Tiny Bradshaw.
I'm Movin On by Ray Charles and the Stones version I heard first.
Baby Please Don't Go by Billy Riley, Them and Amboy Dukes.
Louie Louie by Kingsmen, Black Flag.
Catman by Birthday Party.
I Put A Spell on You by Bad Seeds, Scientists.
Gloomy Sunday by The Associates.
Dolphins by Tim Buckley in various versions.
QMS various Bo Diddley covers.
MC5 It's A Man's Man's Man's World. Grateful Dead also did it well.
My Little Red Book by Love.
Knockin On Heaven's Door Television.
Most of Bob Dylan's First lp.
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spencer
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Just thinking..
Jan 22, 2017, 21:09
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..this topic's turning into one fuck of a good Youtube playlist..or a comp CD box. This place still has EARS 'despite it all'...
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Stevo
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Re: Best, strangest... or maybe just most inappropriate covers of all time?
Jan 22, 2017, 21:37
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Couple i forgot just then.
Gun Club Preachin The Blues, Black Hole (sounds like one of the Jefferson Airplane epics), Fire Of Love
Power Tools Unchained Melody
Pretty Things Roadrunner
Zombies Summertime, also sublime by Billy Stewart
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