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I know we've done this before but.....
Posted by niallb on 3 September 2010 - 5:10pm.
this is my absolute fave cover version of all time. The solo HJH original and Ferry's cover are wimpy, whiny and wet when compared to this monster. The difference? Frankie sings the words like he means 'em. He SOUNDS jealous, angry and hurt - all the things the protagonist is supposed to feel but so plainly fails to in the more famous versions.
And the majestic entrance of the horns at 3.'45" is one of the most uplifting moments in rock. Frankie never sang better and his band never played better.
So, not just cover versions that are better than the original. I want your cover versions that mean you just can't listen to the original ever again. Take it away my, Scottish hero.
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has to be this...
No way, Jose.
It's a carbon copy/colour-by-numbers job of The Bobby Fuller Four version, a group I might add that really 'did' live on the edge.
Another carbon copy
I had imagined that the "Start all over again..." bit in Wrong 'Em Boyo was genuine Clash until Peel played the original version showing that it's a note for note / word for word carbon copy. I don't at the moment recall who did the original though.
The Rulers
In a classic piece of automatic spell-checking, the tune is titled "Wrong Embryo" on the Trojan Ska Box Set.
I like both versions.
or this...
Or put the two together...
I'm welling up here...!
I don't
...understand why some folks get sniffy about covers - OK there are some bad ones out there, but mostly I enjoy hearing someone put their own slant on a song. In fact, sometimes they come more from the heart than the originals, as Frankie proves above.
Anyway - my favourites
...and sometimes they can put sugar on shit.
Thank you very much
I hadn't heard of that 'Life on Mars' cover before. It's not a song I thought would be ever covered very well.
I wonder if he'll ever know........
This is one of mine
Simply stunning.
Ella Fitzgerald - Sunshine of Your Love
Big brass and big voice blows yer earwax out
Modettes
I think I was at that Modettes gig at the Marquee in 1981 when I expect they did their very creditable cover of Paint It Black.
Talking of "Paint It Black"...
have this one from Ananda Shankar.
Thelma's version was pretty decent too - although looks like she's got Bill Wyman hiding under her smock.
If I may......
Justin Currie "Strawberry Fields Forever"
good call Niall
I posted that Frankie Miller track on the best British singers thread a while back. Bought the single at a record shop in Glasgow about 30 years ago! You're so right, he really makes it his own.
Jimi wrote this, but Rod took it to another level:
There were chills
- up my spine when I heard this
The whole album is pretty damn good but this is fab.
Quite nice for JBJ
but I was expecting a cover of this when I first saw it!
Tupelo Honey - Dusty Springfield
Pretty damn fine song in the first place - but great version by Dusty Springfield
Nouvelle Vague - Making Plans for Nigel
Like this one a lot, Sheev.
Like this one a lot, Sheev.
this one's cool too
Jolene by Susanna and The Magical Orchestra
This is tremendous
Works the other way too sometimes?
I make no apologies for genuinely believing (admittedly as a teenager) that Tainted Love was a Soft Cell original. And I'd put good money on the assertion that there are many people who still believe that.
Of course now I've heard the original, Marc's version just seems even more insipid than I thought at the time.
It must be.....
Always hated this song
Until I heard Anna Ternheim's version.
funking up The Beatles
'Going back' Nils Lofgren