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citoyen

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Re: Criminal cover versions
« Reply #125 on: 06 October, 2020, 04:08:40 pm »
If you ever thought that the River City People's cover of California Dreamin' was bad, just wait till you've heard Jose Feliciano's.

I wasn't familiar with the RCP one so just had a listen. God, it's dreadful.

I really don't mind Feliciano's version though - it's his take on Light My Fire that bothers me more.
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Re: Criminal cover versions
« Reply #126 on: 08 October, 2020, 06:50:11 pm »
Peter Gabriel, Heroes.
I fear my mind will never recover (Not deliberate, honestly) from this turgid, plodding bag of shite.

citoyen

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Criminal cover versions
« Reply #127 on: 16 November, 2020, 08:17:21 am »
Just heard a cover of Sham 69’s The Kids Are United on the radio. I respect the motivation behind making it (an anti bullying campaign) but I hope I never hear it again as long as I live.
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Re: Criminal cover versions
« Reply #128 on: 07 December, 2020, 12:50:23 pm »
I heard Cliff Richard's cover of "Here comes the sun" on the radio yesterday. Apparently its form his new album. Not sure exactly how but he managed to suck all the life out of it completely. Dreadful.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Re: Criminal cover versions
« Reply #129 on: 07 December, 2020, 01:04:02 pm »
That really is (allegedly) a criminal cover version...

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Re: Criminal cover versions
« Reply #130 on: 08 December, 2020, 01:04:14 am »
I'm not sure if it strictly meets the criteria of being a cover, but Billy Bragg's “The Lonesome Death Of Rachel Corrie” needs to be tied up in a sack, weighted with bricks and hurled into Barking Creek.
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Re: Criminal cover versions
« Reply #131 on: 29 December, 2020, 12:35:24 pm »
Mary Anne Hobbs on 6music is currently playing a dirgesome cover by Nick Cave of T-Rex's Cosmic Dancer.

Someone really ought to take it outside and shoot it to put it out of its misery.

Can they do the same with his cover of Disco 2000?
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Re: Criminal cover versions
« Reply #132 on: 29 December, 2020, 03:19:26 pm »
Jonas Blue covering Tracy Chapman's 'Fast Car'. It became fairly popular in 2015/2016, with a weird cowboy video. Part of the reason it is so shit is that the original song is sad and a reflection of poverty and lack opportunity, which doesn't really pair up well with tropical house music. The cover even drops the last 2 verses which are sort of the point of the song.

Re: Criminal cover versions
« Reply #133 on: 23 January, 2021, 05:29:02 pm »
Toyah - Sweet Child of Mine

https://youtu.be/iJ1svLRb9EQ

I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

citoyen

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Re: Criminal cover versions
« Reply #134 on: 23 January, 2021, 05:50:33 pm »
Toyah - Sweet Child of Mine

https://youtu.be/iJ1svLRb9EQ

I'm not even going to click on that link. The mere idea of it is quite horrific enough.
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Re: Criminal cover versions
« Reply #135 on: 23 January, 2021, 08:09:51 pm »
Toyah - Sweet Child of Mine

https://youtu.be/iJ1svLRb9EQ

I'm not even going to click on that link. The mere idea of it is quite horrific enough.

It's worse than you imagine :)
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

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Re: Criminal cover versions
« Reply #136 on: 31 January, 2021, 04:43:04 pm »
Toyah - Sweet Child of Mine

https://youtu.be/iJ1svLRb9EQ
Don't like that?try this version:

https://twitter.com/elamin88/status/1354929695750561801?s=19

(Made me laugh a lot. But that is not a musical endorsement. I think I'd rather have a drink with them than Axl Rose. )
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Re: Criminal cover versions
« Reply #137 on: 31 January, 2021, 05:15:00 pm »
Toyah - Sweet Child of Mine

https://youtu.be/iJ1svLRb9EQ



I actually prefer that to the original!

Has anyone seen her Sunday lunch videos? Her and Robert belting out a cover or two. Well worth a watch.

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Re: Criminal cover versions
« Reply #138 on: 31 January, 2021, 05:22:01 pm »
Have we had anything (as in everything) by Tin Tin Out? 
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Re: Criminal cover versions
« Reply #139 on: 31 January, 2021, 05:51:30 pm »
Toyah - Sweet Child of Mine

https://youtu.be/iJ1svLRb9EQ
Don't like that?try this version:

https://twitter.com/elamin88/status/1354929695750561801?s=19

(Made me laugh a lot. But that is not a musical endorsement. I think I'd rather have a drink with them than Axl Rose. )
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Re: Criminal cover versions
« Reply #140 on: 01 February, 2021, 08:23:11 am »
Toyah - Sweet Child of Mine

https://youtu.be/iJ1svLRb9EQ



I actually prefer that to the original!

Has anyone seen her Sunday lunch videos? Her and Robert belting out a cover or two. Well worth a watch.

Yes. Quite the visual experience.

Re: Criminal cover versions
« Reply #141 on: 20 May, 2021, 08:30:47 pm »
"Even Cathy Berberian knows, there's one roulade she can't sing..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1VJnblqlyY

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Re: Criminal cover versions
« Reply #142 on: 20 May, 2021, 11:05:16 pm »
Almost anything by the deeply risible Vanilla Fudge.  DJ Random served up their version of “Eleanor Rigby” the other day:

https://youtu.be/nUx9xC9KSLQ

Compare and contrast with the bluegrass version by The Handsome Family that he gave me 24 hours later:

https://youtu.be/KGv2H4Rws3A
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Re: Criminal cover versions
« Reply #143 on: 21 May, 2021, 09:48:49 am »
Oh I don't know whilst I don't like their Eleanor Rigby I do like their "You Keep Me Hangin' On "

https://youtu.be/R3ChToIvLRM
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Re: Criminal cover versions
« Reply #144 on: 21 May, 2021, 02:06:30 pm »
The only Vanilla Fudge track I've still got in the Babbage Engine hard drive is their rendition of Donovan's "Season of the Witch", and having had a listen to it last night, it comes across as a thrift store version of "Black Sabbath". :demon:

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Re: Criminal cover versions
« Reply #145 on: 21 May, 2021, 04:26:42 pm »
Blimey, Spesh, it must be really bad then!

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Re: Criminal cover versions
« Reply #146 on: 21 May, 2021, 06:47:05 pm »
It's absolutely dreadful.  As is the one off the Al Kooper/Mike Bloomfield/Stephen Stills Super Session album.
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Re: Criminal cover versions
« Reply #147 on: 28 May, 2021, 10:25:13 pm »
Lulu, Mr Tambourine Man  :sick:

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Re: Criminal cover versions
« Reply #148 on: 28 May, 2021, 10:37:56 pm »
Also Cliffy Bastard (TM The Young Ones) and a horde of circa 15 identikit bridesmaids killing Blowin in the wind.
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Re: Criminal cover versions
« Reply #149 on: 29 May, 2021, 03:27:30 am »
Interesting couple of posts, there.  I haven't heard Lulu's Trampoline Man but she does a pretty good job of David Bowie's The Man Who Sold The World, which is helped by the sax riff from DB himself+.  But it is so hard to successfully cover Dylan's more iconic songs because they are almost a gestalt of unusual atructures, odd verse lengths, and attitudes and of course the eccentric singing and guitar-playing (Bob Dylan was a far more proficient guitar player than many people credit him as being).  A Dylan recording is a complete thing not simply a song that he is performing.  It's quite hard to put that over!  Where he has written a straightforward popular song, such as Make You Feel My Love, then covers are more likely to be successful, as in Adele's.  I still think it's a fairly average song, though!  It's fashionable to cite Bob Dylan's endorsement of Jimi Hendrix's version of All Along The Watch Tower but really what I think he was doing there was nodding his approval of Hendrix's guitar-playing, one artist to another.  As a song, I prefer Dylan's version and it's from a wonderful album.  Even Stevie overcooks Blowing In The Wind and I can't imagine Cliff cooking it at all.  Tambourine Man by the Byrds was a great sound, especially with the Rickenbacker 12-string, but it's such a long song that Roger McGinn's voice gets on my nerves after a while - sorry, Roger!  It's obvious that people will want to sing Dylan's songs but I think maybe concerts are the best medium, rather than recordings.  Unless you're Joan Baez - her covers of Dylan are both respectful and beautiful.

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