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Best, strangest... or maybe just most inappropriate covers of all time?
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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
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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