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shifter2009
Joined: 03 Sep 2006
Location: wisconsin
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| Cash and Strummer doing Redemption Song is just awesome. I dunno about better but a different kind of awesome. |
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HapKi
Joined: 10 Dec 2004
Location: TALL BUILDING-SEOUL
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| Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 8:21 am Post subject: |
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English Beat's "Tears of a clown" by Smoky Robinson
Jonny Cash's "Personal Jesus" by Depeche Mode
Talking Heads "Take me to the river" by Al Green
Jane's Addiction's "Rock and Roll" by Velvet Underground
REM's "There she goes again" by Lou Reed
Blind Melon's "Three is the magic number" by School House Rock |
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Woland
Joined: 10 May 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 9:33 am Post subject: |
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Three Dylan covers by women that I think are better than the orginal:
Nanci Griffith - Spanish Boots of Spanish Leather
Shawn Colvin - You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
Sertab Erener - Another Cup of Coffee
(Note the Griffith and Colvin tracks come from cover albums they did; Griffith's cover of John Prine's The Speed of the Sound Loneliness (with Prine singing backup) is better than the original as well.)
Another by a man: Leon Russell doing The Ballad of Hollis Brown
Couple of good Springsteen covers:
John Wesley Harding - Jackson Cage
The Mavericks - All That Heaven Will Allow
JWH also does a great cover of Madonna's Like a Prayer, while the Maverick's Raul Malo did a cover of Something Stupid with Trisha Yearwood that beat the Sinatras' original as well as the Nicole Kidman/Robbie whatshisface version.
The Neville Brothers' cover of Louis Jordan's Run Joe, not least because it updates the crime in the song from telling fortunes to selling cocaine.
Taj Mahal's cover of Hank Williams' Mind Your Own Business (Steve Goodman runs a close second here).
But the all time best is Elvis Costello and the Attractions covering Leon Payne's Psycho - done just dead enough to be really, really scary. |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 2:19 pm Post subject: |
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| HapKi wrote: |
Blind Melon's "Three is the magic number" by School House Rock |
Now you're just making stuff up. |
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Kim Jong Jordan
Joined: 13 Mar 2004
Location: The Internet
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| Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 4:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Miles Davis - "Someday My Prince Will Come" |
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mnhnhyouh
Joined: 21 Nov 2006
Location: The Middle Kingdom
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| Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:03 pm Post subject: |
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A new one for me, PJ Harvey doing the Stone's I Cant Get No (Satisfaction).
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Greekfreak
Joined: 25 May 2003
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| Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:07 am Post subject: |
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Eddie Vedder's version of the Who's "I'm One" (with the Who backing him) is pretty good.
Elvis' cover of Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline".
Ani Difranco does a mean "When You Were Mine" by Prince.
Prince does the best version of "Just My Imagination (Running Away From Me)" ever.
Hank Williams III's version of "Cocaine Blues".
Slowdive's "Some Velvet Morning". |
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DRAMA OVERKILL
Joined: 12 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 3:09 am Post subject: |
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| Dinosaur Jr. covering Peter Frampton's "Show Me the Way", and covering the Cure's "Just Like Heaven"... |
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swetepete
Joined: 01 Nov 2006
Location: a limp little burg
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| Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Cat Power doing "Wonderwall" on the John Peel show. |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 1:16 am Post subject: |
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| HapKi wrote: |
| Jonny Cash's "Personal Jesus" by Depeche Mode |
I agree JC's version rocks.
THIS one however is even better!
http://www.box.net/shared/4ou4mr4m76 |
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Swiss James
Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 11:34 pm Post subject: |
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| 7 pages and no-one mentioned Aretha Franklin doing "Respect"? |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 5:23 am Post subject: |
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Seven pages and no one has mentioned probably the best cover artist of recent decades: Linda Ronstadt. She's made a career of choosing interesting songs from artists in a huge variety of genres and succeeded at covering them faithfully but often with more emotion than the original.
Take a listen to her 'Walk Away Renee' with Ann Savoy (a Cajun singer), done originally by The Left Banke.
But my all time favorite cover is Joan Baez's version of Dylan's 'Tears of Rage'. Chilling.
Who does the clearest version of 'All I Really Want To Do'? I'd like to use it in class sometime for a fun lesson in rhymes.
I ain't lookin' to compete with you,
Beat or cheat or mistreat you,
Simplify you, classify you,
Deny, defy or crucify you.
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you. |
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ChopChaeJoe
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 6:32 am Post subject: |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
Who does the clearest version of 'All I Really Want To Do'? I'd like to use it in class sometime for a fun lesson in rhymes.
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That would be bob dylan, boy. |
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HapKi
Joined: 10 Dec 2004
Location: TALL BUILDING-SEOUL
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hogwonguy1979
Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: the racoon den
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| Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 5:21 am Post subject: |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
Six bloody pages and no one mentions the greatest cover-better-than-original I know of:
Canadian Paul Anka wrote and performed the English version of "My Way" and it sucked royally, really hurts one's ears if you hear his version, but when masterly covered by Frank Sinatra it became a classic. |
Gypsy Kings did this one in Spanish, pretty good actually
Not sure how name this one, either Springsteen or Patti Smith "Because the Night" they co-wrote it , Natile Merchant also did it pretty well
Jimmy Buffett does "Brown Eyed Girl" and "Southern Cross" fairly good
Got to agree Madonnas version of "American Pie" is the WORST cover ever done. Whats worse is a collegue of mine actually played it for his students. They must of done something really bad to deserve that one |
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