Author Topic: Criminal cover versions (Read 44795 times)

Peter · « **Reply #75 on:** 07 May, 2012, 06:42:24 pm »

ESL, you are too unkind. This version is streets ahead of the original: they can all play and you can't hear any inadequate vocals or inane lyrics. And the choreography is superb - men with legs apart, women with knees together, so imaginative!

You are just a revisionist paper tiger (but thanks for drawing our attention to this video!)

Exit Stage Left · « **Reply #76 on:** 07 May, 2012, 07:32:28 pm »

Quote from: Peter on 07 May, 2012, 06:42:24 pm

ESL, you are too unkind. This version is streets ahead of the original: they can all play and you can't hear any inadequate vocals or inane lyrics. And the choreography is superb - men with legs apart, women with knees together, so imaginative!

You are just a revisionist paper tiger (but thanks for drawing our attention to this video!)

There's a longer and if anything, jollier, version set in a ship repair shed in Kirkenes in Norway.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npRlB3BfRus&feature=related

padbeat · « **Reply #77 on:** 09 May, 2012, 03:19:16 pm »

Unfortunately our office's dictatorship of the masses ensures Radio 2 is on all day, every day, and I've just heard the most shockingly bad version of The Man Who Sold The World. Oh, god, that was shockingly bad, and we all saw the hand of Cowell in the process. Imagine my surprise when it turned out to be Lulu, recorded in 1974, and produced by Bowie. Deeply, deeply unimpresed.

But while I'm on the subject, Mrs PB was watching Britain's Got Talent the other night - I just happened to be in the room, I promise! There was a Vanessa Mae-clone being extolled for her originality for dressing up in a too-short skirt and playing a plastic fiddle whilst throwing her hair around a lot. That was bad enough, but then she broke into a instrumental cover version of the Foo Fighers' Best of You.

I'm a tolerent man, and I really don't generally mind what Mrs PB watches, but I remembered that there was a documentary about aeroplane crashed that I just absolutely positively had to watch on Channel 5 for the next 5 minutes.

Piracy doesn't kill music. Simon Cowell does.

tiermat · « **Reply #78 on:** 09 May, 2012, 03:22:08 pm »

Hopefully this will make up for you having to endure the Lulu version

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/fregObNcHC8&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/fregObNcHC8&rel=1</a>

padbeat · « **Reply #79 on:** 09 May, 2012, 04:48:13 pm »

Ahhh ... that's more like it!

citoyen · « **Reply #80 on:** 09 May, 2012, 05:10:36 pm »

Quote from: Kirst on 02 May, 2012, 05:58:38 pm

Quote from: ferret on 29 April, 2012, 05:35:42 pm
Floyds comfortably numb by the scissor sisters, they should be shot on site
Scissor Sisters are eleven billionty times better than the Floyd.

Probably the best thing about the Scissor Sisters version of Comfortably Numb is that Floyd fans hate it so much.

d.

mattc · « **Reply #81 on:** 09 May, 2012, 05:53:15 pm »

Probably the best thing about the Scissor Sisters is that they are Floyd fans.

LindaG · « **Reply #82 on:** 13 May, 2012, 10:05:54 am »

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/JgLpfMJT7w4&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/JgLpfMJT7w4&rel=1</a>

How can you manage to sanitise such a dark song? Nasty.

Scissor sisters aren't so bad.

plum · « **Reply #83 on:** 13 May, 2012, 11:21:45 am »

I've never been able to make up my mind about Nouvelle Vague.

LindaG · « **Reply #84 on:** 13 May, 2012, 03:16:58 pm »

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/XvAoMKtR7qM&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/XvAoMKtR7qM&rel=1</a>

What Difference Does It Make - Stranded Horse.

Where's the anger? The pain? The Johnny Marr riff?

This must be the blandest song on the menu, with what you've done to it.

pcolbeck · « **Reply #85 on:** 13 May, 2012, 05:31:17 pm »

She's married to Ryan Adams king of dark and moody songs. I have never managed to work that one out.

Quote from: Lindagordinho on 13 May, 2012, 10:05:54 am

How can you manage to sanitise such a dark song? Nasty.

mattc · « **Reply #86 on:** 09 June, 2012, 12:18:24 pm »

Ever Fallen in Love ... (the Buzzcocks song, hope I've got the title right!)
as murdered in a current car advertising campaign. I refuse to name the brand on principle

PaulF · « **Reply #87 on:** 12 September, 2012, 06:30:29 am »

Just heard Duran Duran's insipid version of Lay, Lady Lay. I think we have a winner!

mattc · « **Reply #88 on:** 02 December, 2012, 06:49:41 pm »

Soft Cell - Hey Joe

OMFG. Don't bother googling it, it will hurt your brain.

(Thank you tom Robinson on 6Music, who I suspect had tongue in cheek as he back-announced it ... )

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #89 on:** 02 December, 2012, 07:19:35 pm »

Quote from: PaulF on 12 September, 2012, 06:30:29 am

Just heard Duran Duran's insipid version of Lay, Lady Lay. I think we have a winner!

Have you heard their version of White Lines?

rogerzilla · « **Reply #90 on:** 02 December, 2012, 09:10:44 pm »

The ITV Christmas trailer uses a cover of "Wonderful Christmastime" by Paul McCan'tsinganymore, which actually manages to be worse than the original.

CAMRAMan · « **Reply #91 on:** 02 December, 2012, 10:40:46 pm »

Slade's "classic", only, yes it IS possible, worse...

clarion · « **Reply #92 on:** 03 December, 2012, 08:21:54 am »

An impressive piece of work.

citoyen · « **Reply #93 on:** 04 December, 2012, 04:18:52 pm »

I am currently being subjected to the Wurzels Christmas album on the office stereo. Yes, that's right - all your favourite festive classics, with a rollicking West Country twist.

It's actually worse than you can possibly imagine. Especially the version of Fairytale Of New York, which I can only imagine was commissioned by the prison guards at Abu Ghraib.

Even Ronan Keating's version is preferable.

d.

Jaded · « **Reply #94 on:** 04 December, 2012, 04:35:37 pm »

Band on the run.

Oaky · « **Reply #95 on:** 04 December, 2012, 10:42:24 pm »

Ooh arr ooh arrr ayy!!!

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #96 on:** 05 December, 2012, 07:05:59 am »

Quote from: citoyen on 04 December, 2012, 04:18:52 pm

I am currently being subjected to the Wurzels Christmas album on the office stereo. Yes, that's right - all your favourite festive classics, with a rollicking West Country twist. .

That sounds fantastic. SRSLY.

citoyen · « **Reply #97 on:** 05 December, 2012, 05:49:19 pm »

Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 05 December, 2012, 07:05:59 am

Quote from: citoyen on 04 December, 2012, 04:18:52 pm
I am currently being subjected to the Wurzels Christmas album on the office stereo. Yes, that's right - all your favourite festive classics, with a rollicking West Country twist. .
That sounds fantastic. SRSLY.

I'm sure you're sincere in your belief that you would enjoy it, but I can assure you that its charm wears off very quickly.

d.

rogerzilla · « **Reply #98 on:** 22 December, 2012, 03:07:33 pm »

Gabrielle Aplin’s cover of The Power of Love from the John Lewis advert. The song was never that great, but at least the original was well-produced and the piano at the end just about redeemed it. The new version is insipid pap.

mattc · « **Reply #99 on:** 10 October, 2013, 07:12:59 pm »

Sweet Dreams - performed adequately by Bat For Lashes.

But it sounded rather like Annie Lennox, did nothing new, and was altogether ... just not as good.

Pointless. Hardly criminal, but a waste of airtime. Bah.

Author Topic: Criminal cover versions (Read 44795 times)

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