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mcnally
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response 25 of 65:
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Jan 23 19:20 UTC 1993 |
I wonder if the "Yesterday" total would be reduced dramatically if one
were to discount all of the muzak covers as not qualifying as music..
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keats
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response 26 of 65:
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Jan 24 15:35 UTC 1993 |
"night on bald mountain"--done first by mussorgsky, but then covered
by rimsky-korsakov.
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katie
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response 27 of 65:
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Jan 24 20:07 UTC 1993 |
Alison Kraus does a nice cover of the Beatles' _I Will_.
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mythago
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response 28 of 65:
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Jan 25 16:51 UTC 1993 |
EBN has an excellent cover single of "We Will Rock You" currently out.
George Bush and Bill Clinton sing a Queen tune to technorap.
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sandeep
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response 29 of 65:
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Feb 2 04:57 UTC 1993 |
My sister got me "Tom's Album" as a joke Christmas gift, but I'll be damned,
it's actually worth listening to. It has, among other tracks, the original
Suzanne Vega version of "Tom's Diner," the cover by DNA, another (imo better)
dance/techno version by n.d.a. Project, a hilarious send-up of it called
"Tom's ?" by Bingo Hand Job, a cool reggae version by Michigan and Smiley,
and foreign language versions, as well asot-so-great rap version.
There's also another send-up of it called "Jeannie's Diner" where the
Tom's Diner theme is set to words recalling "I Dream of Jeannie."
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verhas
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response 30 of 65:
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Feb 5 02:07 UTC 1993 |
one of U2's best songs---Night and Day--a remake of Cole Porter's original.
they sound nothing alike; U2 succeed in making the originally upbeat
(kind of ) song really dark, probing and mysterious. Bono sounds like
he's in pain. it's great.
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krj
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response 31 of 65:
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Feb 13 05:11 UTC 1993 |
"Bingo Hand Job", described in #29, is actually R.E.M.
There's a "Tom's Diner" cover on one of the R.E.M. CD singles released for
the OUT OF TIME album; I think it's the same one credited to B.H.J on
TOM'S ALBUM.
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sandeep
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response 32 of 65:
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Feb 18 21:23 UTC 1993 |
No kidding! That's quite an entertaining piece of trivia....
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vishnu
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response 33 of 65:
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Feb 28 18:02 UTC 1993 |
RE #29- I like R.E.M.'s version of Tom's Diner.
"Baggy trousers ....."
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eric2
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response 34 of 65:
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Mar 2 02:09 UTC 1993 |
I haven't heard REM's Tom's Diner....REM did a really good cover of the Velvet
Underground's "Pale Blue Eyes"...anybody know what that REM song was called
that went something like "I'm alive and living now" as the chorus? It was
never on an album, but I heard it somewhere once and it was really good. I
also like New Order's cover of Joy Division's "Ceremony" even though it
technically isn't a cover.
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katie
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response 35 of 65:
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Mar 3 15:55 UTC 1993 |
I have a cover of "Pale Blue Eyes" by Patti Smith, but it's on a
bootleg.
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mcnally
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response 36 of 65:
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Mar 4 01:55 UTC 1993 |
"Alive and Living Now" isn't an R.E.M. song, it's a Golden Palominos
song with Michael Stipe singing lead vocals. It can be found on the
album "Drunk With Passion" along with some other fine songs. (The Golden
Palominos are a band without any sort of fixed lineup except for constant
member Anton Fier. Famous and not-quite-famous musicians who've appeared
in the band include Syd Straw, Richard Thompson, Nicky Skopelitis, Matthew
Sweet, John Lydon, Bob Mould, Michael Stipe, Amanda Kramer, Jack Bruce,
and many others you wouldn't ordinarily suspect had anything in common.)
Their earlier albums are both (a) out of print, and (b) quite uneven but
if you can find them (or find any of the collections which may still be
in print) they're worth checking out because the good stuff is really good.
"Drunk With Passion" is their latest album and should be quite easy to find.
It's also well worth picking up (I wouldn't even consider "Alive and Living
Now" one of the better tracks on it.. I'm more partial to "A Sigh" and
"Dying From the Inside Out"..)
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vishnu
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response 37 of 65:
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Mar 5 00:59 UTC 1993 |
I personally like R.E.M.'s version of "Love is all Around".
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mcnally
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response 38 of 65:
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Mar 5 01:41 UTC 1993 |
Haven't heard that one but I do enjoy Husker Du's version..
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krj
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response 39 of 65:
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Mar 5 04:58 UTC 1993 |
Schoolkids had DRUNK WITH PASSION as a cutout, so it may not be so easy
to find any more. Hmm, I wonder where my copy ended up...
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mcnally
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response 40 of 65:
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Mar 6 05:28 UTC 1993 |
Hmm.. I know someone else who picked it up as a cutout lately, too.
Also, I didn't see it at Tower when I was there tonight..
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raven
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response 41 of 65:
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Apr 17 19:10 UTC 1993 |
The Dead Kennedys cover Viva Las Vegas (Elvis) to good effect I think
thatt's on Plastic Surget Disasters. Bauhaus covers Bowies Ziggy Stardust
on the CD version of The Skys Gone Out, and it's also on a singles collection.
Husker Du covers the Byrds 8 miles high somewhere, it's worth finding, I
like it as well as the original. The Horseflies cover House of Cards,
which I think is an old jug band tune. The horseflies are worth picking
up if you can find them, they are bluegrass african fusion, and the house
of cards cover features a xylophone. Neil Youngs cover of Four Strong
Winds on Comes a time is quite decent (I think that's an Ivan & Sylvia
song). Where as the Indigo Girls cover of Come on People Now (Smile on
Your Brother), another early 60s folkie song didn't impress me, thoough
I like the rest of the album quite a bit. Also worth mentioning is the
entire cover of album of Louie Louie on Rhino Records, which includes
the classic Black Flag cover of Louie. Finaly the Cowboy Junkies covers
of Hank Willaims Weeping Willow, and V.U.s Sweet Jane are really pretty,
that's on the Trinity Sessions by the way.
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mcnally
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response 42 of 65:
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Apr 19 00:40 UTC 1993 |
The Husker Du cover of "Eight Miles High" is from a single (the B-side
is "Masochism World") and can be found as either the single, on a maxi-
single with "Makes No Sense at All" and "Love is All Around" or on the
SST singles compilation "The 7-Inch Wonders of the World".
Bauhaus covered a number of other tunes. I frequently hear their cover
of Eno's "Third Uncle" on 89X (it bugs me too, since I like the Eno version
much better.)
The Cowboy Junkies tend to cover a lot, especially as bonus tracks on
their CD singles (for instance Neil Young's "Powderfinger" and Bruce
Springsteen's "State Trooper" and Robert Johnson's "Me and the Devil Blues",
all of which can be found as bonus tracks on CD singles of songs from
"The Caution Horses".
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sandeep
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response 43 of 65:
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Oct 12 23:47 UTC 1993 |
in the interest of prompting more tales of interesting covers, let me
comment that Revolting Cocks feature a ...whimsical... industrial version
of Rod Stewart's "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy" on their new album.
The album in total, btw, is nowhere near as strong as the classic
"Beers Steers and Queers" LP.
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arabella
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response 44 of 65:
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Oct 15 13:07 UTC 1993 |
Ken just bought me a new "They Might Be Giants" single that includes
an intriguing cover version of the Allman Brothers' "Jessica."
With saxophones and everything!
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sandeep
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response 45 of 65:
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Oct 15 23:12 UTC 1993 |
Hah! That sounds fun- a good song covered by an absurdist band. What an
excellent combination...I suspect I'll have to check it out.
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sandeep
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response 46 of 65:
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Dec 31 08:57 UTC 1993 |
I already mentioned it on another item, but Sebadoh's bitter cover of
Nick Drake's "Pink Moon" is worth mentioning twice I think, so here it is.
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bruin
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response 47 of 65:
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Apr 8 01:20 UTC 1995 |
I have a copy of Luther Vandross' "Songs", which is all cover songs (in
the following order: "Love The One You're With" (Stephen Stills),
"Killing Me Softly With His Song" (Roberta Flack), "Endless Love" (Diana
Ross & Lionel Richie; Luther's duet is with Mariah Carey), "Evergreen"
(Barbra Streisand), "Reflections" (Diana Ross & Supremes), "Hello"
(Lionel Richie), "Ain't No Stopping Us Now" (McFadden & Whitehead),
"Going In Circles" (Friends of Distinction), "Always And Forever"
(Heat Wave), "Since You've Been Gone" (Aretha Franklin), "All The
(Wo)man I Need" (Whitney Houston), "What The World Needs Now Is Love"
(Dionne Warwick), and "The Impossible Dream" (from the Broadway musical
"Man of La Mancha").
Also, see Gloria Estefan's recent endeavor "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me."
Her first two single releases from the aorementioned CD were "Turn The
Beat Around (Vickie Sue Robinson) and "Everlasting Love" (Robert Knight).
Are these enough good covers, or did I just cover my ass?
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bmoran
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response 48 of 65:
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Apr 8 07:16 UTC 1995 |
Some of my favorites:
Soft Cell - Where did our Love Go?
Was(not was)- Papa was a rollin' stone
Lyle Lovett - Friend of the Devil
OMD - The More I See You
Patty Smith - Gloria
And of course, any version of Louie, Louie!
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bruin
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response 49 of 65:
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Apr 8 12:48 UTC 1995 |
Other good covers:
Naked Eyes - "Always Something There to Remind Me"
Hollies - "Stop In The Name Of Love"
Phil Collins - "A Groovy Kind Of Love"
George Michael - "Killer/Papa Was A Rolling Stone"
Elton John/Kiki Dee - "True Love"
I also was surprised to find that Roy Orbison, and not Nazareth, did the
original version of "Love Hurts."
Also, the New Bedford, MA-based R&B group Tavares had a cover of Hall and
Oates' "She's Gone" that was released as a single before the Hall and Oates
version, which was re-released by Atlantic Records (their original label)
shortly after their breakthrough hit "Sara Smile" on RCA.
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