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Best/worst cover versions
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Thu Sep 30, 2004 4:24 pmby stmichael
So many playlists, so little time.
How do you feel when you hear a favourite song tried out for size by another artist?
Saint Etienne's cover of Neil Young's Only Love Can Break Your Heart is one of my favourites; whereas Robert Palmer (RIP) destroyed Marvin Gaye. Paul Young singing 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' should have earned him a jail sentence; Billy Bragg does a version of the Four Tops' 'Walk Away Renee' that makes me weep.
Any suggestions? 
Posted:
Thu Sep 30, 2004 4:27 pmby woof woof !
Not yet but good topic ,I'll have a think . 
ps what did robert palmer cover of marvin gayes ?
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Thu Sep 30, 2004 4:33 pmby stmichael
woof woof ! wrote:ps what did robert palmer cover of marvin gayes ?
mercy mercy me/ i want you
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Thu Sep 30, 2004 4:34 pmby taff
Ive got a Beatles cover album and theres some beauties on there
Marvin Gaye ticket to ride
She loves you by Peter Sellers
Also in the film For the boys with Bette Midler check out the version of in my life beautiful
I also liked the recent mad world especially as in a band I used to do an accoustic only version of down in the tube station by the jam
I am the walrus by Oasis class
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Thu Sep 30, 2004 4:35 pmby stmichael
taff wrote:She loves you by Peter Sellers
that's pure gold 
Posted:
Thu Sep 30, 2004 4:36 pmby woof woof !
Yesterday by Daffy Duck , it's fkn hilarious
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Thu Sep 30, 2004 4:38 pmby taff
I just wish I was good with computers Id send it to you
If you want Ill burn the CD and send it on Peter Sellers is class but there are some other good tunes
Its called why dont we do it in the road
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Thu Sep 30, 2004 4:59 pmby woof woof !
Counting Crows do a good cover of big yellow taxi and I've got a cover of the beatles "I should have known better " by a ska band called the Skaterlites it is so ropey that its actually quite brilliant ,all the insruments are out of key everyone is playing at their own pace but the beat is there. you can't help but smile at the cheek of these guys. They also had the nerve to retitle the tune "independence anniversary ska "
Posted:
Thu Sep 30, 2004 5:00 pmby Dom1
woof woof ! wrote:Counting Crows do a good cover of big yellow taxi
i like that song its cool
Posted:
Thu Sep 30, 2004 5:05 pmby stmichael
i heard a version of candi staton's "young hearts run free" by easyworld the other week on jo wiley's radio 1 show. it absolutely blew me away.
Posted:
Thu Sep 30, 2004 5:08 pmby Dom1
easyworld?? never heard of them!
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Thu Sep 30, 2004 5:11 pmby woof woof !
no 
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Thu Sep 30, 2004 5:13 pmby Dom1
no
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Thu Sep 30, 2004 6:10 pmby woof woof !
no, me too
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Thu Sep 30, 2004 6:40 pmby greenred
worst has to be "fairytale of New york" by that t.it Ronan Keating.One of the best is "there she goes" by the Las.