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Drone, I got the wrong song, I was thinking of Gypsy eyes. I think it’s an old blues cover done in the style of jimi. The guitar riff is amazing.. He makes it sound almost as if it’s running through a phaser which it can’t have been because I don’t think they’d invented them at that point.
Oh God, that Madonna cover….
….they haven’t created a punishment harsh enough for that crime yet, which is the only reason I can imagine for her having got away with it!!
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.
 Oh God yes!!!
Sorry Zoz but i so agree with Gray on that one. Classic Talk Talk stuff should NEVER be covered. In fact it should be made illegal to do so.
One recent cover which near made me want to weep was  Ronan sodding Keating covering the Goo Goo Dolls "Iris"  Pure Sacrilege!
Soba – ARGH!!! How could I have forgotten that Keating cover?
Absolutely criminal. The original is gorgeous.
And I didn’t like the No Doubt cover either!!
Quote: from Scottish Jamie on 2:08 pm on Nov. 17, 2006[br]Must back up NV here. "Hurt" covered by Johnny Cash is magnificent !<br>
<br>Can only agree with that. Really, really evocative promo video thereto also.
gc<br>
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Quote: from Shadow Leader on 9:56 pm on Nov. 16, 2006[br]
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!<br>
<br>Several flavours of Hell in there for me, I’m afraid.
"graysonscolumn – tough on Stereophonics, and tough on the causes of Stereophonics."<br>
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Quote: from non vintage on 11:29 pm on Nov. 16, 2006[br]
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!!![/color]
<br>Me too – notwithstanding the fact it was the less-played half of the double A-side with Manic Street Preachers’ safe-as-milk reading of Theme from M*A*S*H, it must count as one of the very strangest (and fab) Top 10 hits of all time!
(No.7, September 1992, before you all scamper off for your editions of British Hit Singles).
That single was one of a handful to promote Ruby Trax, a 40-track double album put together by the NME in 1992 to raise money for charidee and simultaneously celebrate the 40th birthday of the hit parade. It goes for a whole chunk of money on eBay nowadays, but is a proper curio well worth tracking down if you can. Full track listing for the insatiably curious is:
CD ONE
1. Coz I Luv You – Wonderstuff <br>2. When Will I See You Again? – Billy Bragg <br>3. Little Red Rooster – The Jesus and Mary Chain <br>4. Atomic – Mission <br>5. Everything I Do (I Do It for You) – Fatima Mansions <br>6. Stranger in Paradise – Saint Etienne <br>7. Cumberland Gap – The Wedding Present <br>8. (If Paradise Is) Half as Nice – Aztec Camera ft Andy Fairweather Low <br>9. Show You the Way to Go – Dannii Minogue <br>10. Where Do You Go to My Lovely? – Welfare Heroine <br>11. Bad Moon Rising – The Blue Aeroplanes <br>12. Apache – Senseless Things <br>13. Mr Tambourine Man – Teenage Fanclub
CD TWO<br> <br>1. Another Brick in the Wall – Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine <br>2. Maggie May – Blur <br>3. Ashes to Ashes – Tears for Fears <br>4. Rock Your Baby – The House of Love <br>5. I’m a Believer – The Frank and Walters <br>6. Shaddap Your Face – EMF <br>7. Brass in Pocket – Suede <br>8. Ring My Bell – Tori Amos <br>9. Lady Madonna – Kingmaker <br>10. Like a Prayer – Marc Almond <br>11. Don’t You Want Me? – Farm <br>12. I’ve Never Been to Me – Ned’s Atomic Dustbin <br>13. My Sweet Lord – Boy George
CD THREE
1. Voodoo Chile – Jesus Jones <br>2. Sunny Afternoon – Bob Geldof <br>3. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – Johnny Marr and Billy Duffy <br>4. Down Down – Cud <br>5. The Legend of Xanadu – The Fall <br>6. Secret Love – Sinéad O’Connor <br>7. A World Without Love – World Party <br>8. Tainted Love – Inspiral Carpets <br>9. Baby Come Back – Elektric Music (Karl Bartos out of Kraftwerk)<br>10. The Model – Ride <br>11. Vienna – Vic Reeves <br>12. Go Now – Tin Machine <br>13. I Feel Love – Curve <br>14. Suicide Is Painless (Theme from M*A*S*H) – Manic Street Preachers
Real mix of the good, the inspired, the appalling and the utterly indescribable there, and of course there’s only 39 number ones – Vic Reeves had to be difficult!
Jeremy<br>(graysonscolumn)<br>
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Quote: from Soba on 9:13 pm on Nov. 17, 2006[br]<br>  Oh God yes!!!
Sorry Zoz but i so agree with Gray on that one. Classic Talk Talk stuff should NEVER be covered. In fact it should be made illegal to do so.
<br>Next week: Orson bulldoze their way through Life’s What You Make It. :banghead:
gc
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
A good thread.<br>I’d say any recording of a Bob Dylan song would be better than Dylan’s own effort. Top Dylan cover for me would be "Seven Days" by Ron Wood. A real funky number that will appeal to all air guitarists.
I bought the Radio One Live Lounge album the other week…
…high hopes….
…really wish I hadn’t bothered. Already had the aforementioned Franz cover, and frankly beyond that the best track was Coldplay’s live version of The Scientist (presumably recorded before they went completely to sh*t)…
As for the Arctic Monkeys covering a Girls Aloud track, well, it says a lot when you can hear Alex Turner laughing as he sings it.
For anyone curious about the album, I wouldn’t bother!:angry:
Quote: from Soba on 10:13 pm on Nov. 17, 2006[br] One recent cover which near made me want to weep was  Ronan sodding Keating covering the Goo Goo Dolls "Iris"  Pure Sacrilege!<br>
Arrggghhh – haven’ heard it but I can only imagine! Westlife vs The Goos? No contest whatsoever – Westlife are s**t
e!!Like Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen songs also seem to make good cover versions, <br>Hallelujah – Jeff Buckley<br>First We Take Manhattan – Jennifer Warnes<br>Dance Me To The End of Love – Thalia Zedek
Other good covers (in my book,) are; <br>Dust My Broom by Elmore James<br>Mark Kozelek did a whole album of acoustic AC/DC songs which was good. <br>Jambalaya – by Hoyt Axton<br>I See A Darkness by Johnny Cash<br>Superstar by Sonic Youth<br>Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down – Flying Burrito Brothers<br>Sing Me Back Home – The Jayhawks.<br>Cottonfields – Beach Boys<br>Stardust – Willie Nelson
There are too many terrible cover versions to list!
Oh, now I think of it…
Someone did a gorgeous version of Wild Horses by The Rolling Stones…and for the life of me I can’t remember who….
Damn, and indeed blast.
But it was nice.
:)
(I’m not very useful today)
(Edited by Zoz at 7:43 pm on Nov. 20, 2006)
Zoz – Was it the version done by The Flying Burrito Brothers ? Seemed good to me.
I have just remembered another one that I really loved – Mad World by Gary Jules. Loved the original as well but Gary’s version is so different and beautiful. Always good to hear a cover version which does not duplicate the original too much.  ÂÂÂ
Not them SC, female vocalist, American band I believe.
This is going to big me now…:angry:
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