Tunes Most People Don't Realise are Covers

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Wrong!

wrong that it's shit or that he wrote it?

 

[butchersapron]

Wrong that his version is shit. esp when put up against that dando twat.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Wrong that his version is shit. esp when put up against that dando twat.

I like the pastels version. The Nesmith one sounds really bland. I don't know the Linda Ronstadt version.

 

[Sunspots]

I was rather surprised to discover only yesterday that Randy Newman wrote Mama Told Me Not To Come. (-I always thought it was a Three Dog Night original.)

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Did once hear a conversation between two young goths as to who did the orignal version of "Personal Jesus" - Marilyn Manson or Johnny Cash

Luckily my DM loving husband was not with me to deck them!

 

[Mation]

Ready or Not by the Fugees. Was very disappointed to find it wasn't theirs. Not sure who sang it originally (though wikipedia says it was written by Thom Bell and William Hart, the latter of the Delfonics).

 

[rekil]

Johnny Was.

Istanbul Not Constantinople.

Love Buzz.

 

[Dubversion]

it was a Delfonics song

 

[christonabike]

I've got a version of Papa Was a Rodeo, by John Yoko

Didn't know who it was by originally

It's fookin' ace

 

[rekil]

I didn't know Carole King wrote Pleasant Valley Sunday and Porpoise song.

 

[Sunspots]

i knew beaver patrol was but i can't remember who by - for some reason i have it in my head that it was some band that bobby gillspie was in?!?

It was by The Wild Knights, and it's the only version worth hearing!

On the subject of Primal Scream, I can't fault their choice of covers (Some Velvet Morning, Five Years Ahead Of My Time, Kick Out The Jams, etc), but they NEVER match up to the originals whatsoever.

Which reminds me... For years, I was under the impression that Ramblin' Rose was an MC5 original.

 

[bluestreak]

John Kongos - or something like that.

yup. i only found that one out recently myself.

 

[butchersapron]

Which reminds me... For years, I was under the impression that Ramblin' Rose was an MC5 original.

You lie

 

[Andy the Don]

Manfred Manns, Blinded by the light cover version of the original by Bruce Springsteen from Greeting from Ashbury Park NJ.

 

[butchersapron]

It was by The Wild Knights, and it's the only version worth hearing!

Wylde Knights. Tsk

Minus one on the garage-punk scale.

 

[rekil]

The Crusher (?) Some people I know only know it from The Cramps.

 

[Dr. Furface]

I didn't know Carole King wrote Pleasant Valley Sunday and Porpoise song.

She wrote lots a stuff. She was primarliy a songwriter - she just happened to have a monster selling album once.

 

[Sunspots]

The Bees didn't write A Minha Menina (-and neither did Os Mutantes).

And no, M-People didn't fucking write Itchycoo Park.

 

[rekil]

She wrote lots a stuff. She was primarliy a songwriter - she just happened to have a monster selling album once.

Yeah I know but I just didn't realise she wrote those two until 20 minutes ago. I was convinced they were someone else's.

 

[rekil]

The kids on youtube seem pretty sure that another girl another planet is by blink fuckin 182.

 

[Negativland]

Was 'Black Skinned Blue Eyed Boys' originally by Eddy Grant, does anyone know? I love the Derrick Harriot version.

 

[Sunspots]

Wylde Knights. Tsk

Minus one on the garage-punk scale.

Bollocks, my Pebbles album says 'The Wild Knights'.

Then again, that series got re-issued so many times by so many different companies that I'm not surprised there might be a few errors in the sleevenotes...

 

[Spion]

Just checked my files and I've got 'wild' too

 

[pengaleng]

johnny cash - hurt

I heard some kid once aswell going on about how some other band had totally ripped off marylin mansons tainted love

 

[Dubversion]

johnny cash - hurt

to be honest, i think most people DO know it's a cover

 

[Fez909]

Eric B & Rakim's I Know You Got Soul.

 

[milesy]

I heard some kid once aswell going on about how some other band had totally ripped off marylin mansons tainted love

kids eh? any idiot knows that soft cell did it originally

 

[joevsimp]

kids eh? any idiot knows that soft cell did it originally

what? i suppose you'll be tellin me the pet shop boys didnt write Go West next

 

[Sunspots]

You lie

Eh?

Ramblin' Rose isn't an MC5 original. Apparently, 'Wilkin/Burch' wrote it (-nope, I've never heard of 'em either...). I don't know who sung it originally, but my favourite version is Ted Taylor's amazing falsetto R'n'B version from 1964.

 

[butchersapron]

Eh?

Ramblin' Rose isn't an MC5 original. Apparently, 'Wilkin/Burch' wrote it (-nope, I've never heard of 'em either...). I don't know who sung it originally, but my favourite version is Ted Taylor's amazing falsetto R'n'B version from 1964.

You lie that you didn't know. How could you not. You're not daft like.