spencer
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Edited Jan 25, 2017, 21:04
Re: Best, strangest... or maybe just most inappropriate covers of all time?
Jan 25, 2017, 20:59
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: ) (Rod when he started out w a s good though. Can't be doing with this Faces great/ early RS shite malarkey when it's the same fekkin band. Saw them as I'm decrepit, mebe you didn't, guess time's more on your side. They were bonkersly good live (Peel's fave gig was a Faces one). Plus he was good with Jeff Beck and even Python Lee Jackson. Not usual for me to stick up for the guy, exception here. Not as if it's Hucknall, is it, eh : ) )
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GLADMAN
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Re: Best, strangest... or maybe just most inappropriate covers of all time?
Jan 26, 2017, 18:22
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spencer wrote: : ) (Rod when he started out w a s good though. Can't be doing with this Faces great/ early RS shite malarkey when it's the same fekkin band. Saw them as I'm decrepit, mebe you didn't, guess time's more on your side. They were bonkersly good live (Peel's fave gig was a Faces one). Plus he was good with Jeff Beck and even Python Lee Jackson. Not usual for me to stick up for the guy, exception here. Not as if it's Hucknall, is it, eh : ) )
Don't get me wrong... I like Rod. And Van's made a few dodgy tunes in his time - he did one with Cliff, didn't he? Doesn't get much worse than that. But I thought Rod really destroyed Have I Told You Lately.
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petemcfc
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Re: Best, strangest... or maybe just most inappropriate covers of all time?
Jan 26, 2017, 18:54
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I'll just throw a few more in.
Boney M-Painter Man.
Aztec Camera - Jump.
Faith No More - Easy.
Galaxie 500- Ceremony.
Sex Pistols-No Fun.
Springsteen-Dream Baby Dream.
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GLADMAN
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What about re-recording your old songs and re-issuing... in effect, covering yourself?
Jan 26, 2017, 20:36
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Any thoughts concerning this practice?
Some examples I liked:
1) Plagiarism LP - Sparks
2) Being Boiled - Human League
3) The Mix - Kraftwerk
4) I Told You So - New Order (think the Lost Sirens version is far, far superior)
Some that should have been left well alone:
1) Confusion and Temptation (from Substance) - New Order
2) Don't Stand So Close To Me - The Police (what was that all about?)
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thesweetcheat
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Re: What about re-recording your old songs and re-issuing... in effect, covering yourself?
Jan 26, 2017, 20:42
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Another one they should have left alone: Pretty In Pink
Some of my favourites under this are the four Close Up albums Suzanne Vega did, and Strip and This Never Ending Now by Chameleons.
Reckon the 20 Mothers version of Land Of Fear stands up to the Sunspots EP original.
Am I the only person who likes the original Told You So? :)
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Sin Agog
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Re: What about re-recording your old songs and re-issuing... in effect, covering yourself?
Jan 27, 2017, 00:28
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GLADMAN wrote: Any thoughts concerning this practice?
Some examples I liked:
1) Plagiarism LP - Sparks
2) Being Boiled - Human League
3) The Mix - Kraftwerk
4) I Told You So - New Order (think the Lost Sirens version is far, far superior)
Some that should have been left well alone:
1) Confusion and Temptation (from Substance) - New Order
2) Don't Stand So Close To Me - The Police (what was that all about?)
That reminds me how it would fuck me the fuck off whenever I'd buy one of those comps at the supermarket of acts like The Ink Spots, The Mills Bros, or The Drifters- reliable songsmiths all- only to later find out, rather than being the pristine originals, they were some bollocksed up re-recordings they made in the winter of their lives in the '80s. I guess maybe they signed their rights away in some dodgy deal and wanted to salvage their career back, but those box-sets and comps would fool me every time! I guess that's what I deserved for buying music at a supermarket.
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spencer
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Re: Best, strangest... or maybe just most inappropriate covers of all time?
Jan 27, 2017, 03:38
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Apologies. Misunderstood. Yup.
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Stevo
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Re: What about re-recording your old songs and re-issuing... in effect, covering yourself?
Jan 27, 2017, 13:43
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Home by Caspar Brotzmann Massaker is a live in the studio rerecording of several tracks from his earlier studio lps. & is one of the most sublimely visceral lps ever. Nice heavy guitar psych noise.
Einsturzende Neubautens live versions of the title track from their Haus Der Luege lp may be better than the studio original. THough both are pretty great.
John Coltrane's continual reinvestigations of My Favourite Things which is a broadway song to start with. I think the studio version that most people heard first is 12 minutes, it's grown to 3/4 of an hour by the time he visits Japan in 1966. Also really like the version on the concert released as Afro Blue Impressions.
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Monganaut
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Re: What about re-recording your old songs and re-issuing... in effect, covering yourself?
Jan 27, 2017, 15:39
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thesweetcheat wrote: Reckon the 20 Mothers version of Land Of Fear stands up to the Sunspots EP original.
Am I the only person who likes the original Told You So? :)
No, me too, I love both versions. Cheesy and whimsical though they may be.
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Robot Emperor
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Re: What about re-recording your old songs and re-issuing... in effect, covering yourself?
Jan 27, 2017, 16:16
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Tangerine Dream reissues spring to mind.
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