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Re: Cover Versions that are better than the Originals
« Reply #1080 on: August 22, 2023, 07:33:39 pm »
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Re: Cover Versions that are better than the Originals
« Reply #1081 on: August 22, 2023, 07:38:17 pm »
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Re: Cover Versions that are better than the Originals
« Reply #1082 on: August 22, 2023, 07:50:00 pm »
Glad you liked it! Here's their cover of Motorhead's Orgasmatron


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Re: Cover Versions that are better than the Originals
« Reply #1083 on: August 22, 2023, 08:10:53 pm »
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Love it. John really knackered his voice recording vocals for that I think.

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Re: Cover Versions that are better than the Originals
« Reply #1084 on: August 22, 2023, 08:14:49 pm »
Love it. John really knackered his voice recording vocals for that I think.
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On February 11 1963, The Beatles made their first album, Please Please Me, and they’d spent a most productive 12 hours recording all but the final track: “Twist and Shout”. John Lennon sang lead, though his voice was shredded from a hard day’s singing on top of a heavy cold. Chain-smoking, drinking milk and sucking cough sweets to soothe his throat, and stripped to the waist, he had just enough in the tank to roar through the song once, in top gear. They tried a second take, but by then Lennon’s tank really was empty.

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Re: Cover Versions that are better than the Originals
« Reply #1085 on: August 29, 2023, 07:01:27 pm »
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Re: Cover Versions that are better than the Originals
« Reply #1086 on: September 10, 2023, 03:37:49 pm »
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Re: Cover Versions that are better than the Originals
« Reply #1087 on: September 10, 2023, 04:09:36 pm »
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That is probably the weirdest thing I have ever seen or heard in my seven decades on this earth.

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Re: Cover Versions that are better than the Originals
« Reply #1088 on: September 10, 2023, 04:11:41 pm »
That is probably the weirdest thing I have ever seen or heard in my seven decades on this earth.

Fucking brilliant!  :lmao
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Re: Cover Versions that are better than the Originals
« Reply #1089 on: September 10, 2023, 04:26:00 pm »
That is probably the weirdest thing I have ever seen or heard in my seven decades on this earth.
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Re: Cover Versions that are better than the Originals
« Reply #1090 on: September 10, 2023, 04:28:32 pm »
Weired and North Korea go hand in hand.

True but I never imagined I would see a uniformed female Nort Korean soldier playing an electric guitar.

An overweight Scion of the Kim dynasty riding a white horse certainly. A guitar playing female squaddie? Never.

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Re: Cover Versions that are better than the Originals
« Reply #1091 on: September 24, 2023, 12:57:52 am »
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Re: Cover Versions that are better than the Originals
« Reply #1092 on: September 24, 2023, 01:42:10 pm »
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What The Fuck?

I know the song is about what happened with Rodney King and the riots, but "Fuck You I won't do what you tell me" isn't something you'd say in North Korea at all if you actually want to stay alive.
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Re: Cover Versions that are better than the Originals
« Reply #1093 on: October 12, 2023, 12:01:02 pm »
i recorded this guy in Edinburgh a few weeks ago. I'm not saying it's better than The Beatles but I love his version of While my guitar gently weeps.

https://youtu.be/m_ZiTFe1I4s?si=5Uy7CzAEflNBFBUF

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Re: Cover Versions that are better than the Originals
« Reply #1094 on: October 12, 2023, 05:25:50 pm »
What The Fuck?

I know the song is about what happened with Rodney King and the riots, but "Fuck You I won't do what you tell me" isn't something you'd say in North Korea at all if you actually want to stay alive.
That's probably because it is fake Rob.  ;D

Well edited though.

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Re: Cover Versions that are better than the Originals
« Reply #1095 on: October 13, 2023, 08:04:06 am »
That's probably because it is fake Rob.  ;D

Well edited though.

Here's another cover of the same song that definitely isn't fake!

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/_LXGja3T4v0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/_LXGja3T4v0</a>

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Re: Cover Versions that are better than the Originals
« Reply #1096 on: October 13, 2023, 08:30:14 pm »
Maybe not better, but a worthy rendition.

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Re: Cover Versions that are better than the Originals
« Reply #1097 on: October 14, 2023, 12:42:04 am »
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Re: Cover Versions that are better than the Originals
« Reply #1098 on: October 14, 2023, 10:58:55 am »
Probably going to upset some people. ;D I love the LP these are from.



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Re: Cover Versions that are better than the Originals
« Reply #1099 on: October 14, 2023, 04:57:28 pm »
Here's another cover of the same song that definitely isn't fake!

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Re: Cover Versions that are better than the Originals
« Reply #1100 on: October 15, 2023, 10:44:44 pm »
1967, I went to see the best band in the neighborhood, The Vagrants.

We didn't know any names, but we'd heard about them. They were contemps of The Rascals but harder.

Show up at our local Club and they've got a fucking B3.  And the lad has Beethoven hair and looks out of the Kinks.

Only Leslie West on guitar as we'd come to find out and a bass player in white shoes.

White shoes.  On a dude.  Would get you stomped by the hitters back in the day, but cool as fuck to us.

Leslie says "We just recorded this, but Aretha Franklin beat us by 3 months."

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Otis released in '65, to no acclaim.  Aretha turned it into a feminist anthem.

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Re: Cover Versions that are better than the Originals
« Reply #1101 on: October 26, 2023, 01:18:32 am »
Japan - I Second That Emotion.

The effeminate futurists, from the Eighties!
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Re: Cover Versions that are better than the Originals
« Reply #1102 on: November 17, 2023, 08:06:17 am »
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Re: Cover Versions that are better than the Originals
« Reply #1103 on: November 24, 2023, 03:48:27 am »
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Arguably.
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Re: Cover Versions that are better than the Originals
« Reply #1104 on: November 24, 2023, 02:42:32 pm »
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Re: Cover Versions that are better than the Originals
« Reply #1105 on: November 24, 2023, 03:35:53 pm »
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Re: Cover Versions that are better than the Originals
« Reply #1106 on: November 24, 2023, 03:51:56 pm »
Last one to end stinks   ;D   ^^^

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Re: Cover Versions that are better than the Originals
« Reply #1107 on: November 27, 2023, 03:31:47 pm »
Maybe not better, but a worthy rendition.

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Brilliant cover version
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Re: Cover Versions that are better than the Originals
« Reply #1108 on: December 27, 2023, 05:17:10 am »
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/WeSC_Y7IRjk&amp;list=RDWeSC_Y7IRjk&amp;start_radio=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/WeSC_Y7IRjk&amp;list=RDWeSC_Y7IRjk&amp;start_radio=1</a>

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Re: Cover Versions that are better than the Originals
« Reply #1109 on: January 5, 2024, 11:07:52 pm »
The slower version of Toxic in Ep8 of the current series of Fargo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AUGWgBt_EM&ab_channel=ThrillerSoundtrackMusic
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Re: Cover Versions that are better than the Originals
« Reply #1110 on: January 5, 2024, 11:34:31 pm »
The slower version of Toxic in Ep8 of the current series of Fargo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AUGWgBt_EM&ab_channel=ThrillerSoundtrackMusic

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Re: Cover Versions that are better than the Originals
« Reply #1111 on: February 14, 2024, 05:42:35 am »
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Re: Cover Versions that are better than the Originals
« Reply #1112 on: February 14, 2024, 11:52:19 am »
Love Gun's version of Cameo's Word Up.
My band plays this version.

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Re: Cover Versions that are better than the Originals
« Reply #1113 on: February 15, 2024, 01:31:49 am »
I also liked that version of Word Up when I was a kid. In retrospect, I wonder if they decided to do that after Faith No More's cover of Easy hit big.

On topic, it won't be to everyone's taste but I prefer this version to the original. It has a haunted epic quality to it:


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Re: Cover Versions that are better than the Originals
« Reply #1114 on: February 15, 2024, 02:13:12 am »
My favorite cover that isn't one of the 'famous ones' has got to be Janis Joplin's version of "To Love Somebody."

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This isn't really a favorite, but one I've always thought was cool. A Swedish rock star took one of Bob Dylan's worst songs ("The Ugliest Girl in the World") and made it unrecognizable (more so than just being, you know, in Swedish).

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/FUi26_rXlQU" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/FUi26_rXlQU</a>

And then one that is definitely not good per se, but that I have an irrational affinity for. A cover of Sandy Posey's "Born a Woman" by a somewhat obscure Belgian punk band called Hubble Bubble, which is now known only as the band where Plastic Bertrand got his start. Give his bio a read for a truly interesting and bizarre story, by the way!

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/e-3JpQGMzjo" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/e-3JpQGMzjo</a>

But seriously, listen to the Joplin song.

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Re: Cover Versions that are better than the Originals
« Reply #1115 on: Yesterday at 01:58:19 pm »
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