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Cover better then the original????
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10/2/2007 1:19 AM
Also liked the Arctic Monkey's acoustic cover of that Girls Aloud tune.....can't put finger on the name of it now. Didn't like their cover at Glasto though of Diamonds are Forever........
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10/9/2007 5:48 AM
Johnny Cash and Elliott Smith, though already mentioned, really had the knack of hitting paydirt with other artists' material-they both have too many good covers to mention, but I reserve fond spots for Cash's version of I Hung My Head (Sting) and Smith's version of Waterloo Sunset (the Kinks).
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10/9/2007 7:41 AM
Posted By Protein biscuit on 02 Oct 2007 1:19 AM
Also liked the Arctic Monkey's acoustic cover of that Girls Aloud tune.....can't put finger on the name of it now. Didn't like their cover at Glasto though of Diamonds are Forever........





Love Machine - brilliant, expecially like the way they crack up laughing at the end of it!
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10/17/2007 2:19 AM
Was listening to the first Bpitch Control "Camping" compilation again the other day and was reminded of Sascha Funkes cover of the Bros tune "When will I be famous", hahahaha, cheesy brilliance.
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11/7/2007 7:21 AM
Sometime shockingly bad songs take on a new lease of life with a new, coincidental or sarcastic owner. Off the top of my playlist, I submit Travis's "Baby, one more time", Ronson's "Toxic" and in fact any song "by" Britney that has been released by someone with more than negative musical talent. Also the Charlatan's "The Only One I Know", although I guess looking at it, it was only the chorus that was cribbed, it always seemed like "their" best delivered lyric until I played back that old LP, and all my childhood illusions fell away.

Oooooh - Happy Mondays, Staying Alive! Better than the second best thing ever.

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11/7/2007 7:29 AM
Sometime shockingly bad songs take on a new lease of life with a new, coincidental or sarcastic owner. Off the top of my playlist, I submit Travis's "Baby, one more time", Ronson's "Toxic" and in fact any song "by" Britney that has been released by someone with more than negative musical talent. Also the Charlatan's "The Only One I Know", although I guess looking at it, it was only the chorus that was cribbed, it always seemed like "their" best delivered lyric until I played back that old LP, and all my childhood illusions fell away.

Oooooh - Happy Mondays, Staying Alive! Better than the second best thing ever.

And valiant effort award goes to Australian Idol! Damien Leith for Crying.

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11/7/2007 7:43 AM
Posted By jsmall on 07 Nov 2007 7:29 AM
Sometime shockingly bad songs take on a new lease of life with a new, coincidental or sarcastic owner. Off the top of my playlist, I submit Travis's "Baby, one more time", Ronson's "Toxic" and in fact any song "by" Britney that has been released by someone with more than negative musical talent. Also the Charlatan's "The Only One I Know", although I guess looking at it, it was only the chorus that was cribbed, it always seemed like "their" best delivered lyric until I played back that old LP, and all my childhood illusions fell away.

Oooooh - Happy Mondays, Staying Alive! Better than the second best thing ever.

And valiant effort award goes to Australian Idol! Damien Leith for Crying.

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What.The.Fuck?????????????

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11/8/2007 4:25 AM
Posted By jsmall on 07 Nov 2007 7:29 AM
Sometime shockingly bad songs take on a new lease of life with a new, coincidental or sarcastic owner. Off the top of my playlist, I submit Travis's "Baby, one more time",

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Nope, the cliched "ironic" cover version thing is not big or clever. I mean sometimes a song is covered in humorous way, but for a cover to be any good, you have to be able to find something good in the original. Travis cover of "Hit me one more time", which is actually a very straightforward cover, just done accoustically, is good because at the core of it, it's actually a decent little pop song, it's just that Britney is possibly one of the worst pop vocalist ever and the production on the "original" is too in your face.
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11/8/2007 4:40 AM
Posted By PARTON on 14 Sep 2007 6:09 AM
CCR doin heard through the grape vine....excellent.....




Haven't stopped listening to this song now, brilliant!
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11/8/2007 4:48 AM
The Fall's version of "Lost in Music" is pure class, as is Paul Anka's take on "Black Hole Sun"
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11/8/2007 5:53 AM
What, wasn't Crying a cover?
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11/9/2007 11:54 PM
Posted By Binokular on 08 Nov 2007 4:25 AM
Posted By jsmall on 07 Nov 2007 7:29 AM
Sometime shockingly bad songs take on a new lease of life with a new, coincidental or sarcastic owner. Off the top of my playlist, I submit Travis's "Baby, one more time",

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Nope, the cliched "ironic" cover version thing is not big or clever. I mean sometimes a song is covered in humorous way, but for a cover to be any good, you have to be able to find something good in the original. Travis cover of "Hit me one more time", which is actually a very straightforward cover, just done accoustically, is good because at the core of it, it's actually a decent little pop song, it's just that Britney is possibly one of the worst pop vocalist ever and the production on the "original" is too in your face.




I'm not sure. If someone (e.g Max Martin) writes a good song, and it deserves better, why not cover it. The Britney version is bad, the Travis version isn't, even if it is slightly tongue in cheek. If it is a straightforward cover, then it's definitely not "ironic", a word I consciously avoided - maybe a touch sarcastic but mainly in the way that someone who is good at something can seem sarcastic to someone who's not. I may be mad, but I'm not stupid. I guess the disagreement comes from my use of 'song' to mean a specific interpretation rather than the concept as a whole, for which I apologise. In a thread about covers it is probably the wrong way to go.

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11/10/2007 2:04 AM
To avoid any more controversy, I thought of another better cover that no-one could argue about - Gasmask, by They Might be Giants.

And The Pogues, Dirty aul' Town

Then it strikes me, White Stripes - I just don't know what to do with myself. And I lapse into unconsciousness.

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11/12/2007 3:32 AM
The Happy Mondays cover of "Step on"
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6/11/2008 7:25 AM
Cuds cover of Lola and Glen Hansard cover of Cry me a river
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6/11/2008 8:16 AM
"Also liked the Arctic Monkey's acoustic cover of that Girls Aloud tune.....can't put finger on the name of it now" - the original is WAY better. There's a brilliant demo version of it on one of the Pop Justice's albums.


The Scissor Sisters' 'Comfortably Numb' is also better than the Pink Floyd original.
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6/11/2008 9:56 AM
The Scissor Sisters' 'Comfortably Numb' is also better than the Pink Floyd original

You should be muted indefinitely for that. It sounds like the bee gees on speed.
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6/11/2008 11:24 AM
Posted By PARTON on 11 Jun 2008 9:56 AM
The Scissor Sisters' 'Comfortably Numb' is also better than the Pink Floyd original

You should be muted indefinitely for that. It sounds like the bee gees on speed.




motion carried...it was/is woeful

joyrider - rush hour

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6/12/2008 2:24 AM
No way, the Pink Floyd version sucks compared to SS.
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6/12/2008 3:08 AM
Posted By UnaRocks on 11 Jun 2008 8:16 AM
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The Scissor Sisters' 'Comfortably Numb' is also better than the Pink Floyd original.




Van Morrisons version for The Departed is by far the best!
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