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Looking back at past lounge topics, I can’t see that this subject has been covered before;)
Music is another passion of mine – which is your favorite cover version and which is the worst?
Best in my opinion is Annie Lennox’s version of Whiter Shade of Pale……nothing wrong with the original – just think her’s is better.
Worst by a grand national distance is Rolf Harris’s version of Stairway to Heaven – how to murder a classic – I cringe every time I hear it
Best – The Manics version of Suicide is Painless – actually sounds as though they could have written it.
Steps – Tragedy (or it may have been S Club 7). Either way, it was a tragedy<br>
Nice topic SC.
Don’t know about it being the best ever cover version but The Jam’s version of The Small Faces Get Yourself <br>Together (on the ‘Extras’ album) is worth checking out.
Corm – it’s a long time since I heard the Jam’s version of Get Yourself Together but I can’t remember it being as good as the outstanding original – one of Marriott’s best ever vocals. In my opinion, the Small Faces second best song (a brucie bonus to whoever can name the best).
Oh this is a nice thread,
Happy Jack,<br>you don’t mean Ichigoo Park or sommat do ya??<br>SC,<br>Yes I like the Annie Lennox version too.:)    ÂÂÂ
Best – a tie:<br>First Time Ever I Saw Your Face/Stereophonics  [Kelly Jones v Roberta Flack – no contest].
Uptown Girl/Westlife – well I’ve had my belly full of Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley thanks very much.
Worst –  Unchained Melody/Gareth Gates – I mean, come on !! ÂÂÂ
Wish List:
Does Your Mother Know/Eton Road – I will be first in the queue…they best steer clear of the Beatles though…lol!!
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Best:
Derek and the Dominoes (aka Clapton/Allman)’s version of Big Bill Broonzy’s ‘Key to the Highway’
Vic Reeves’ version of Matt Monro’s ‘Born Free’
The Pogues’ version of Ewan MacColl’s ‘Dirty old Town’
Worst:
Robbie Williams’ assassination of Frank Sinatra
Kiri Te Kinawa’s ‘Sidetracks’ album – a ghastly ‘operatic’ cover of standards such as ‘Honeysuckle Rose’ and ‘Shadow of your Smile’. By some way the most unwanted Christmas present I was ever given, ’twas in the local Scope shop by new year.
Not strictly a cover, but Paul McCartney’s attempts at ‘Classical’ stuff is poor, boring and turgid in equal measure.
Anything Hendrix covered.. He made any song he played his own. All along the watchtower being a classic example of that. Not that Bob’s version was bad in the first place.
Sorry to sound hopelessly like the voice of Yoof, but Franz Ferdinand’s cover of What You Waiting For? by Gwen Stefani was rather good.
And I recall being at a We Are Scientists gig when the singer said ‘okay this is a new track, it’s our next B side, it’s a cover. This is Be My Baby.’
To which my reaction was ‘What? You’re not serious…oh God you are serious…hang on…that’s not bad actually…carry on.'<br>Best ever though, Christ, I need to have a think over that one…
(Edited by Zoz at 3:36 pm on Nov. 14, 2006)
Quote: from Aragorn on 12:22 pm on Nov. 14, 2006[br]Anything Hendrix covered.. He made any song he played his own. All along the watchtower being a classic example of that. Not that Bob’s version was bad in the first place.<br>
Aye Jimi: age shall not weary nor the years condemn.
Zim on the other hand would be another qualifier for the worst cover versions award with his dismal album ‘Self Portrait’
…but Joan Baez’ ‘Baez sings Dylan’ is a wonderful set of covers; her haunting rendition of ‘Farewell Angelina’ in particular.
Zoz, quite true but hard is it is to say it No Doubt’s (Gwen’s) version of It’s my life is better than Talk Talk’s (IMHO)
Quote: from wilsonl on 10:00 pm on Nov. 14, 2006[br]Zoz, quite true but hard is it is to say it No Doubt’s (Gwen’s) version of It’s my life is better than Talk Talk’s (IMHO)<br>
<br>No, no, no, no, NO NO NO NO NO and a million times NO, Lee. That hatchet job on a classic 80s track was the final insult in a putrid corpse of a recording career full of pallid ska-punk-rock-electro abominations, that was, and I have been frequently tortured by some and all cuts of the Stefani harridan’s Love Angel Music Baby ever since.
Jeremy<br>(graysonscolumn)<br>
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"Aye Jimi: age shall not weary nor the years condemn"
I’m with you there drone, i’m too young to remember him originally, but i’ve spent hundreds on effects pedals and god knows what else and still can’t get my guitar to sound ilke Jimi’s and he was probably hooked up to a bit of string and an empty tin of beans.. The guys a proper leg-end.. Angel Eyes is another peach of a tune.. I think it’s a cover although I could be wrong (too lazy to check)
Quote: from Aragorn on 11:27 am on Nov. 16, 2006[br]
Angel Eyes is another peach of a tune.. I think it’s a cover although I could be wrong (too lazy to check)
Think you must mean ‘Angel’ which is indeed a peach and was composed by him.
Rod Stewart & the Faces did a decent cover on their album ‘Never a Dull Moment’ from those heady days before Rod started taking himself too seriously and was seduced by the unsavoury combination of Hollywood and Britt Ekland.<br>
(Edited by Drone at 4:27 pm on Nov. 16, 2006)<br>
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Worst is undoubtedly the Scissor Sisters anniliation of "Comfortably Numb". Tore a damn good song to shreds! Ditto all the crap that gets recycled with a "dancebeat" – what is that all about?
Trying to think of any decent covers….the Counting Crows version of Big Yellow Taxi was pretty good and I still prefer the Fine Young Cannibals version of Suspicious Minds although I’m sure I’ll get stoned for that! The Sterophonics Handbags and Gladrags was good too. I don’t really know the original but both the Corrs and Alanis Morrisette’s versions of No Frontiers are good as well – and no-one sings "Hit Me Baby One More Time" like Travis do!
Actually, I love Counting Crows (the band, not the pastime, which is much overrated), but thought that Big Yellow Taxi sucked big time. It’s not the worst though…
For me, the worst cover ever is by an artist I respect but don’t generally like and is of a song lots of people love a lot more than I do (it’s ok, but overplayed). Together, this was a marriage made in absolute hell and seemingly produced by some deaf, dumb and blind kid. I give you:
American Pie by Madonna
Gadzooks, omg, by christ it is verily s-h-i-t-e!!!
<br>The best is harder to pick for me.
Hurt by Johnny Cash is an outstanding interpretation, She’s Leaving Home by Billy Bragg (w/Cara Tivey) is perfectly suited to his voice, and more bizarrely, A Hazy Shade Of Winter by The Bangles is better than the original. I also have a soft spot for The Fatima Mansions’ dirrrty pervy hip-hop version of (Everything I Do) I Do It For You, which has to be heard to be believed!!!<br>
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