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Bands Who Give Good Cover Version

Flaming Lips give good cover - brilliant version of After The Goldrush, and their version of Seven Nation Army makes the original seem bereft without the siren. Sure they've done others too which I've enjoyed.
 
onemonkey said:
I wish cake did more cover versions because their versions of perhaps and i will survive are both brilliant
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I seem to remember they covered Jolene on another album, but didn't reach the heights of I Will Survive.I don't dislike the original but their version is so much more sleazy, downbeat and bitter (I should have changed my fucking lock...)
 
strummerville said:
there was a brilliant I think Brazillian cover of Come as you are on a Giles peterson comp a few years back done as a strange bossanova, cant remember who by.
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It's by Dani Siciliano - AKA Mrs Matthew Herbert - and you can find it on her album 'Likes'
 
Difference and defference = good cover

strummerville said:
Nouvelle Vague. And I know I'm a bit of an obsessive but The Clash always gave excellent covers, Police and Thieves, Brand New Cadillac, Armegedion Times, Police On My Back anyone? For anyone between the age of 35-45 they were an education.
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This tends to be a controversial view but I agree that Brand New Cadillac is an excellent cover, as is Police and Thieves. The original BNC by Vince Taylor is pretty good (it's an obscure rock n roll classic). Choice of song to cover is a bit of an art . Then doing something unique with it rather than simply copying it is a requirement for a decent cover. Elvis did just that - he chose fantastic material that might have disappeared into obscurity otherwise - and covered them with great deference to the original whilst adding his/their (Scotty etc) own unique interpretation. The above by the Clash do just that.

A recent hit by The Darkness was a cover of This Town Aint Big Enough by the Sparks. It represets an excellent choice in one sense - a great pop tune that is becoming fairly obscure. It has deference to the original insofar as it copies it and includes a Spark in the video. But it is shit since it is merely a poor copy of the original with a bit of crap guitar.

The cover of Teenage Kicks by some boy band recently was criminal. A poor choice because the original is perfect and nothing was added to it, but a lot of the energy was subtracted. A poor copy, really awful.
 
The Fall: Mr Pharmacist; Lost in Music; F-o'ldin Money; White Lightning are all winners.

The last great version of Jolene was by Susanna and the Magic Orchestra.
 
jbob said:
The Fall: Mr Pharmacist; Lost in Music; F-o'ldin Money; White Lightning are all winners.

The last great version of Jolene was by Susanna and the Magic Orchestra.
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I was gonna say The Fall - also for Monks covers and I Can Hear The Grass Grow on the new album offafa the Move, yeah, they've got it covered.
 
jbob said:
The Fall: Mr Pharmacist; Lost in Music; F-o'ldin Money; White Lightning are all winners.

The last great version of Jolene was by Susanna and the Magic Orchestra.
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Second post: hey jbob we joined at the same time and we're both minor posters in this world of heavy threading!!

*gets himself off to bed*
 
Kid_Eternity said:
Hah hah hah, good example of someone who doesn't get metal! :D :p
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don't i get metal? all that time spent at metal gigs (Slayer, Metallica, Motorhead, all those) all wasted? The years i spent listening to nothing BUT Metal?

well, KE, the scales have fallen from my eyes.

I might refer you to any number of people who 'get metal' who also thought Garage Inc was bollocks.
 
Dubversion said:
don't i get metal? all that time spent at metal gigs (Slayer, Metallica, Motorhead, all those) all wasted? The years i spent listening to nothing BUT Metal?

well, KE, the scales have fallen from my eyes.

I might refer you to any number of people who 'get metal' who also thought Garage Inc was bollocks.
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Relax, it was just a joke. I know people that love it (both the newer covers and the original Garage Days..) and I know people that think it's crap. I think it's pretty fucking cool (especially Astronomy!). :cool:
 
Dubversion said:
sorry, my response wasn't entirely as outraged as it sounded either, i just forgot to smiley it up :)
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No worries, Monday morning and all that...*goes in search of coffee* :)
 
My current fave cover is the Jose Gonzales version of "Hearbeats" which as everybody knows was originally done by the superb Swedish outfit The Knife.

I'm really into my Nordic electro-pop, as some of you may remember, but The Knife are way ahead, they're the new Sugarcubes and she's probably going to be the new Bjork, but hopefully without the dull backing tracks Nellee Hooper wrote in about ten minutes.

If you wish to be thoroughly entertained, and you enjoy the Gonzales version of "Heartbeats", then you could do worse than try and find a copy of the Rex The Dog mix of The Knife's original.

In fact I think Nordic pop in general is worth it's own thread.

So I'm going to start one.
 
Christ, there's probably a threadsworth of shit covers by metal bands. There was one point where it became almost compulsory for bands to prove their 'punk' credentials - Garage Days (which was shit apart from Last Caress) yeah, but there was also GnR Spaghetti Incident (tho hopefully Charlie Harper got a few quid out of it) which also included a cover of those punk kings Nazareth. Skid Row did Psychotherapy and a truly execrable version of Little Wing; the list is endless.

I'd put Poison Idea up there as a Band Who Give Good Cover Version though -Pajama Party is a blinding album of covers. And you can't lose with a lead singer called Pig Champion.
 
Sweet FA said:
but there was also GnR Spaghetti Incident (tho hopefully Charlie Harper got a few quid out of it)
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if memory serves, he was about the only songwriter on there who hadn't sold his publishing for fuck all years ago, and did wonderfully out of it :)
 
Awwwww. Gawd bless 'im an' keep 'im. He's 142 you know.

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Galaxie 500 - 'don't let our youth go to waste' and 'transmission'

an example of genius covering genius (as opposed to mediocrity covering genius for a bit of reflected glory)

and johnny cash doing 'I see a darkness'

and dinosaur jr doing the flying burrito brothers

and snuff doing the jingle from the shake n vac advert
 
mancboy said:
Galaxie 500 - 'don't let our youth go to waste' and 'transmission'

an example of genius covering genius (as opposed to mediocrity covering genius for a bit of reflected glory)
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agreed, absolutely genius. They did another Richman one was well i think, but i can't remember which.
 
Dubversion said:
agreed, absolutely genius. They did another Richman one was well i think, but i can't remember which.
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Just checked the CD collection but can't find another cover of a Richman tune - must be rare cos I've got most of their stuff. Will have to track that down. Just put on their cover of 'isn't it a pity' by george harrison cos i realised i haven't heard it in a fucking age. They picked good covers, did that band.
 
Fakebook by Yo La Tengo is a great album of covers versions. They also did a fantastic cover of Needle of Death by Bert Jansch.
 
beesonthewhatnow said:
Tori Amos has done a cover of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" which is fantastic :)
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Ah, yes, the lovely Tori.

She also did "Wrapped Around Your Finger" by the Police, and "Purple Rain" by Prince, and my favourite of all her covers is "I'm On Fire" by Springsteen - sends shivers down yer spine, that one does.
 
Nirvana did loads of good covers:

Love Buzz (first single - I think the original was Shocking Blue?)
Molly's Lips (Vaselines)
Son of a Gun (Vaselines)
Turnaround (Devo)
and then all teh great ones on Unplugged. His version of Where Did You Sleep and Man Who Sold The World were particularly chilling. Bone-curdlingly beautiful stuff. You won't get music as rare and stark as that on mainstream MTV very often.
 
Any one mention killdozer yet?

edit: well timed keiron. balls. Ok, how about edit name in here in a sec. nomeansno, fantastic versiion of manic depression.
 
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