Reply to: Cover versions

[darmstadt]

I was listening to "It is the business of the future to be dangerous" the other day, and that has a cover of Gimmie Shelter, done in a very Hawkwind way.

Like this:

[VectraMan]

I was listening to "It is the business of the future to be dangerous" the other day, and that has a cover of Gimmie Shelter, done in a very Hawkwind way.

[Doggy Styles]

Many years ago I saw a documentary on My Way, and it rounded off with the Sex Pistols version.

Still a favourite.

Yes, that was a cracker.

[Sysman]

My fave cover version has always been Walk on By , by the Stranglers.

Many years ago I saw a documentary on My Way, and it rounded off with the Sex Pistols version.

Still a favourite.

[Pogle]

My fave cover version has always been Walk on By , by the Stranglers.
I also prefer the Futureheads version of Hounds of Love to Kates original - Much to Mr P's disgust

[minestrone]

People Get Ready by the Impressions/Curtis Mayfield -> Bob Marley.

That's a good one.

[minestrone]

I love the chiffons reworking of Harrison's my sweet lord.

The original...

Mind you he also stole wonderwall from oasis.

[minestrone]

4 minutes and a second.

Just listened.

[minestrone]

Not a cover version as such but when the temptations were delivered the lines of pappa was a rolling stone by the song writers one of the band went fruit loop as his dad died on the third of September.

Song has the longest introduction of any non instrumental song in the US charts I believe.

[minestrone]

Cat Stevens and peace train was a good one.

10,000 maniacs pulled it from the album after Islam went on a rant about Rushdie.

Robertson: You don't think that this man deserves to die?
Y. Islam: Who, Salman Rushdie?
Robertson: Yes.
Y. Islam: Yes, yes.
Robertson: And do you have a duty to be his executioner?
Y. Islam: Uh, no, not necessarily, unless we were in an Islamic state and I was ordered by a judge or by the authority to carry out such an act - perhaps, yes.
[Some minutes later, Robertson on the subject of a protest where an effigy of the author is to be burned]
Robertson: Would you be part of that protest, Yusuf Islam, would you go to a demonstration where you knew that an effigy was going to be burned?
Y. Islam: I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing

Kind of at odds with

Now I've been crying lately,
thinking about the world as it is
Why must we go on hating,
why can't we live in bliss

[minestrone]

Jimi's version of all along the watchtower has to be up there.

Oh feck yes.

[doodab]

Jimi's version of all along the watchtower has to be up there.

[minestrone]

Twist and Shout was the big cover version, gave the beatles a credence in America after the Isley brothers version.

The Isley brother have a fantastic cover version album called "givin' it back"

The housemartins covered caravan of love and I cannot complete the loop back to the beatles.

[v8gaz]

My two favourite covers

"Into the Groove(y)" by Ciccone Youth (Sonic Youth/Mike Watt) - YouTube

Magazine - Goldfinger - YouTube

And Devo's Satisfaction, of course.

[gingerjedi]

I always liked the Lulu cover of Man Who Sold The World.

I think I was influenced by her hat in the video.

I thought the Nirvana version was the original until I heard Bowie playing it at the Isle of Wight Festival.