Friday, November 14, 2014
FRIDAY AROUND-THE-HORN.
• Here's a video from the audience of that Springsteen-Grohl-Brown performance of "Fortunate Son" that had the dummies dribbling this week. Something no one asked, though: was it a good cover? Well, it was a nice matey sing-along (why no one was booing and yelling "Have you forgotten 9/11", I can't guess) but pretty uninspired, unless you think the best thing you can do with a cover is get everyone to go, "Wooo, I know that song." The covers I like put a little spin on the ball -- else, why bother with a do-over? If the performer has enough personality, he or she can keep the spirit and even much of the arrangement of the original and still make it their own -- like Lucinda Williams' "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)" (warning: the live versions of this on YouTube aren't very good). To me, though, the best is what The Residents do to "Viva Las Vegas": At first listen it may seem like one of their goofy glosses, but I think they really pulled something mysterious and poignant out of it. Or put it in. (UPDATE. Oooh, lots of fun covers in comments!)
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Let's not forget The Vandals' take on "Heartbreak Hotel"
ReplyDeleteEd - That's a nifty version; reminds me of something but I can't think of what. Mexican Radio, possibly, as well as Repo Man. I could see driving across the Nevada desert to this music.
ReplyDeleteI've always had a soft spot for the DK's cover, myself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT72CgEJQNQ
Or John Cale's:
ReplyDeleteIf you want a good Bruce cover, check out the work he and the band did this past tour with "Stayin' Alive."
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n1GT-VjjVs
Dread Zeppelin always put a little spin on the ball
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfJvrH7iQ3c
ReplyDeleteMe, too, but the DK's take some liberties with the lyrics.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I generally agree that covers should be something other than a note for note recreation, I do have a soft spot for well done cover versions which recreate the original. Like this:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81jVdeTKiD4
The Civil Wars did a bunch of covers, some more successful than others. Their version of The Romanitics (!) Talking In Your Sleep peels off the pop veneer to expose the creepy stalkertastic ballad underneath:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TchNCdGTRfo
A good cover is Zeppelin's "Dazed and Confused". Here is the original version that nobody knows.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTsvs-pAGDc
As French composer Claude Debussy said, “Music is the space between the notes.” Nobody knows that better than this Cat.
ReplyDeleteDrive-By Truckers do a pretty good throw-away version of Jim Carroll's "People Who Died".
ReplyDeleteFurther proof of cats as Zen Masters.
ReplyDeleteThey updated it for the Eighties.
ReplyDeleteOnce upon a time in the country, we had musicians doing covers of songs that came out in the same year, and both original and cover would chart. Like Grazin' in the Grass which charted under Hugh Masakella and when done by Friends of Distinction.
ReplyDeleteSleater-Kinney don't add a ton new to "Fortunate Son," but their cover is pretty ripping. Corin Tucker has a great voice for it.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5v_m5JAuBY
Holy shit. In other news, I just noticed that Patti Smith will be playing at a Vatican Christmas concert.
ReplyDeleteS/K could sing "Happy Birthday" and I'd be a heppy, heppy "kat".
ReplyDeleteI make a gift of this to you.
ReplyDeletehttp://youtu.be/FFRkvER5Yl4
this puts a lump in my throat every time.
ReplyDeleteI like this alright. What fun it must have been to be East Bay Ray back then.
ReplyDeleteThis is Wow, as is his life story at Wikipedia.
ReplyDeleteMr. Ra would approve.
ReplyDeleteI had the pleasure of seeing Col. Bruce at a tiny joint about a month ago. He's a really southern legend.
ReplyDeleteJohnny Cash was fucking awesome.
ReplyDeleteTalk about obscure and incongruous covers...Doc Severinson covering In the Court of the Crimson King.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJhBBLJwwGE&feature=player_embedded
"Jim, Jake, and Joan" as in Joan Rivers! Ya. And Jimmy Page seems like an asshole in this particular story.
ReplyDeleteThat's wonderfully Seventies.
ReplyDeleteWow, that's great
ReplyDeleteSounda good
ReplyDeleteThe whole band came off as asinine in most stories, when they wen't coming all over the master bed in the back of their flying trailer:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.messynessychic.com/2013/07/10/im-with-the-band-on-their-private-jet/
Along those same lines...
ReplyDeletehttp://youtu.be/ZEjGgkRbuxI
I had heard about this, but never heard it before now.
...!
ReplyDeleteDead Kennedys covers? Love their version of I fought the law.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dB_ubVAnGw
She did a great cover herself.* Her Gloria has the original beat cold.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxygqSTO1lQ
(*No not "Smells like teen spirit")
Nice! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteSteve (Lawrence) and Eydie (Gormet) have one as well. Not sure who got there first!
It's a rock swings and roundabouts situation
ReplyDeleteBest Paycheck cover, ever.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRWiltjvOYk
Go The Dougs!
ReplyDeleteThe Doug Anthongy All Stars do "Heard it Through the Grapevine
Covering a tune should strip it to its essence.
ReplyDeletehttp://youtu.be/iv7pwrWdfp4
DESTROY EXCESS NOTES!!
Zep stole an awful lot of music and never credited the original writers/musicians. Dan Akroyd is particularly fond of playing Zep's cover of an old blues song and then following it with the original recording--and noting that Page and Plant claim to have written the piece in the liner notes of the album.
ReplyDeleteFor some reason the opening of this arrangement makes me think of Lee Van Cleef.
ReplyDeleteBuck Owens instrumental of Faded Love. About as pure honky-tonk as you're ever gonna hear.
ReplyDeleteI'm only seeing the embed code, not the actual graphic. Did I miss something?
ReplyDeleteI thik you just copy the share URL not the special embed one.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBNfZqCdi6I
ReplyDeleteTry another one. Neil's version of Oh Lonesome Me
ReplyDeletehttp://youtu.be/xN3Jt8C-F0A
Faded Love. Take 2:
ReplyDeletehttp://youtu.be/uG-JC05gv5M
Many thanks! Delayed reaction, but it's finally there.
ReplyDeleteOh man. Put a quarter in me and I could do this all day...
ReplyDeleteCat Power, Satisfaction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W97TF9PCKWg
Butthole Surfers, Hurdy Gurdy Man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76yWZcsgwF8
Flaming Lips, What a Wonderful World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jimPve_BzU
Not bad, though the Slits' version will always be my favorite.
ReplyDeleteYou know, I run into this notion a lot online regarding Zeppelin. It's a position usually made by people wishing to be
ReplyDeleteseen as an old blues expert. Of course anyone in the music business sees these claims as mostly ludicrous. Zeppelin's versions were usually radically different than the source piece, with the exception of some directly lifted lyrics. Blues were historically passed from person to person, this was the norm. You heard it, tweaked it, made it your own and passed it on to the next. Jimmy Page’s only crime was assuming the blues model was still relevant in times of multi-million dollar contracts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBer24IsEc0
ReplyDeleteI can't keep up with all the cool, highbrow covers. How about some musical cheez-whiz: Erasure covering ABBA?
ReplyDeleteWarning: If you watch this video, you will not be able to unsee it. Also, I want to burn the rap part in the middle. I want to burn it with fire.
http://youtu.be/CN-M6lf2mtU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KzP4bC1Ypg&list=PLJZH8sevmMq6NvgD9_ucuptwBxaQnAGAw
ReplyDeletehttp://postmodernjukebox.com/
Here's one of my favorite unusual covers. It's a cover of Billy Idol's White Wedding done in a slow, sad, folksy way with banjo accompaniment. It can even bring a tear to your eye if you're the emotional type.
ReplyDeleteNo kidding!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2PDLzJ1xzQ
If there's one thing I'm most definitely not, it's an expert on music. I like some, don't like others, and that's about as far as my knowledge extends.
ReplyDeleteMaybe "radically different" is enough of a difference; maybe it's not. I don't know. But I have heard Akroyd going on about this on House of Blues.
Good stuff.
ReplyDeleteI especially like that cover of Satisfaction. I'm definitely gonna get an MP3 of that one.
Not bad, but not even close to PJ & Bjork:
ReplyDeletehttp://youtu.be/kK02kW1mKkk
I love this cover ESPECIALLY the Buju Banton part
ReplyDeleteSob...Disqus hates me.
ReplyDeleteI have two although not particularly obscure, fit Roy's criteria well:
ReplyDeleteNIN, Physical (You're so):
http://youtu.be/5YPNhXrBlWk
and Cowboy Junkies, Sweet Jane:
http://youtu.be/x4XVJj4jER4
Actually, I think Andy Bell and Vince Clarke do a great ABBA. I'm unable to look away from their homage to the original video. (Though I still hate the dated obligatory 90s rap insert.)
ReplyDeleteAnother from the 60s. Sergio Mendes and Brazil 66 doing Wichita Lineman. There's a story about one of the singers but I cant remember offhand what it is.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3PZ4Edlr3Y
This might be a matter of degree--ranging from self-effacing promotion of the early greats to outright rip-offs. Most of the blues revivalists gave credit where it was due, and noted their changes.
ReplyDeleteThere is a big difference between borrowing a riff a few notes long, with a wink and a nod to the original composer (Jaco Pastorius would frequently throw in little rock and roll riffs into his bass solos when in concert--they served as in-jokes) and a transcribed bar after bar after bar theft of the material without credit to the originator (which is probably the substance of the current suit against Led Zeppelin by Randy California's heirs).
Musicians understand the difference between borrowing and theft.
this is a fave.
ReplyDeleteIt hates all of humanity.
ReplyDeleteThis goes in the collection for sure.
ReplyDeleteOne of the singers married Herb Alpert. She didn't speak Portuguese when she first started singing with Mendez.
ReplyDeleteSturgill Simpson singing "The Promise" by Way Out West. I about drove off the road when I figured out what he was pulling off here. (And Metamodern Sounds in Country Music is one of my absolute favorite albums of the year. It reads like Waylon Jennings' unfinished works without losing its own identity.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eWJmN8D820
Maybe that's it! I am spending altogether too much time on this project today.
ReplyDeleteAny cover by the Afghan Whigs, but this is pretty awesome:
ReplyDeletehttp://youtu.be/cvA0DHP96x0
Basically horrible I must say...
ReplyDeleteAs a semi-literate, words mean something to me, & a straight cop of lyrics should be acknowledged, w/ the possible exception of answer songs.
ReplyDeleteLebenty-zillion yrs. ago I knew a band who gave one of their techs full co-songwriting credit for supplying one five-word line.
Course if LZ had done that one of the Chess family would've kept the money anyway.
And, after the Whigs broke up, Greg Dulli started the Twilight Singers, but picked right up where he left off with this:
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I'll see your Erasure and raise you one Boone:
ReplyDeleteThere are so many covers better than the originals. Wilson Pickett's cover of "Sugar Sugar", Al Green singing "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart".
ReplyDeleteThen there's this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4WGsMplGxU
(Oh, and Del McCoury's version of "1952 Vincent Black Lightning)
A brass band cover a techno classic:
ReplyDeletehttp://youtu.be/VkrbwOC2CNc
One more, an afro-beat Duran Duran cover:
ReplyDeletehttp://youtu.be/M02hwKOYW3w
John Phillips gave Michelle half the credit for California Dreaming (which supposedly amounted to a million bucks in the end) just for writing down the words. Given how wasted he usually was, I figure she probably deserved it.
ReplyDeleteI also like 'backdated' covers, where you record a retro version of a modern song and then fool people that the modern version is actually the cover.
ReplyDeletehttp://youtu.be/pF1nq012EsI
OMG I have one that sounds like that. Disco Evita! They didn't speak English either!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxHrBO9FaS0&list=PLoA9S2AqlyS1EaUFD5Z770oOh9k-aPGd0
Kinda odd that Randy, who was aware of the controversy, did nothing. And now, 40 years after the fact his estate has opted to cash in. Very odd I think.
ReplyDeleteAnd "bar for bar", seriously? It's not a wildly unique progression to start with but they are only similar at best.
Upding for the sheer terribleness of that.
ReplyDeleteTo be fair, it would be hard to top Sleater-Kinney's cover of Fortunate Son I saw them do in Dolores Park about 15 years ago.
ReplyDeleteDig in!
ReplyDeleteNot all of her covers album is great, but I love what she did with "Are Tou Experienced".
ReplyDeleteI'll see your Erasure and raise you one Boone--an entire album of fizzling farts:
ReplyDeleteThis is so elemental. Love it
ReplyDeleteRoger Miller of Mission Of Burma did a cool Syd Barrett-like cover of "Space Is The PlCe".
ReplyDeleteDisqus is being uncooperative and won't embed the image. Trying again....
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swEnwb_IBhM
ReplyDeleteWell, Rod stole this one too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex9jWJ5V014
ReplyDeleteThere's also Husker Du's interpretation of the Byrds classic.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeqyCwAeT3I
One of my all time favorites. When I sing along with this I am like dissolved in a puddle at the end. If I was playing guitar at the same time I think I would be dead.
ReplyDeleteSeu Jorge and Almaz covering Kraftwerk:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr4Pk-AawVk
In the spirit of covers better than originals, I might like this one better than Doris Day...
ReplyDeleteSly and the Family Stone: Que Sera Sera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQZNkzP4kYw
Jimmy Smith does Funky Broadway
ReplyDeletehttp://youtu.be/e-tRllr3j8c
Dig the album cover.
Ghastly.
ReplyDeleteBlues songs were also historically lifted (in the other sense of the word) from African-American musicians with no credit of money given. The best you can say is Page/Plant weren't the only people who did this.
ReplyDeleteOne of my fave covers of Oops I Did It Again -
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfBQ3bNNwHs
Ooh, Kraftwerk covers!
ReplyDeletehttp://youtu.be/X-ygv1CKzAk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7RCb2Gwnmc
For the past while, Beck's been running "Record Club", where he and his pals of the moment record an earlier record in its entirety in about 24 hrs. The results are often quite cool. F'rinstance -
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMERAf3OgZM
Methinks the Alicuratti could do this all weekend, don't you?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Ao-iNPPUc
This isn't complete without some Moog covers:
ReplyDeletehttp://youtu.be/VyW_VkOTo2k
http://youtu.be/8wy-0YThliY
Because the original wasn't headfucky enough...
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4
Page saw it as an homage to the Masters. If he was attempting to steal music why in the world would he retain the exact same well known song titles? Is he the worst thief in history? Seriously, he isn't that stupid.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate the effort nonetheless. I've been a Disqus victim too many times myself.
ReplyDeleteYes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0uBiDbsT0A
ReplyDeleteDevil Went Down to Georgia in Klezmervision!
(With bonus riff lifting!)
I usually hate Hendrix covers, but Idris uses the original as the jumping off point for a completely rocking jazz-funk jam.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvxq7KZoLBM
Fine. Page was a special snowflake who saw taking another artist's work as an homage.
ReplyDeleteEveryone else who took an artist's work without crediting it was a thief. Better?
While we're doing Britney Spears, I've always loved Local H's cover of "Toxic": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4-JlZbDCNg
ReplyDeleteSo why is this all coming to light now -- a whopping 43 years after the
ReplyDeleterelease of "Stairway"? Mick Skidmore, who manages California's trust,
said, "Nobody had any money, and they thought the statute of limitations
was done." Apparently, California was so low on cash he would play
sitar in an Indian restaurant in exchange for food.
Revenge for that:
ReplyDeletehttp://youtu.be/rXOgKDBwUfM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkKDlfSApQU
ReplyDeleteNo collection of "Satisfaction" covers is complete without the Devo version (the one from the 45, vastly superior to the album version IMO). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEZCQWs60LI
ReplyDeleteIt was hard to pick just ONE of the great covers by Señor Coconut, but here's his take on Smoke On The Water.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn9k1I645a4
No doubt!
ReplyDeleteHow about Ministry/NIN covering Sabbath?
ReplyDeletehttp://youtu.be/Xjho-zVgDXo
Ok, then how about a mariachi version of Crazy Train?
http://youtu.be/g_5y5KrBoO8
That cover is devastating. Great stuff.
ReplyDeleteCovers is it? This cover of Yakety Yak by an enigmatic German band called The Drapers is a thing of surreal beauty. http://youtu.be/3zzy3qOTocY
ReplyDeleteOk, then how about a mariachi version of Crazy Train?
ReplyDeletehttp://youtu.be/g_5y5KrBoO8
Great cover. I used to play this on the radio, back in my college DJ days.
ReplyDeleteAnd a steel drum Gary Numan cover:
ReplyDeletehttp://youtu.be/AR3q0IrpWlM
Es muy loco. Es muy bueno.
ReplyDeleteHere's Sonic Youth covering Neil Young.
ReplyDeletehttp://youtu.be/q2ovGHzvuWw
And this gem: Dinosaur Jr. deconstructs The Cure's Just Like Heaven and make it theirs. I remember the disbelief and joy I felt the first time I heard this, very stoned on a late Sunday night in 1989.
ReplyDeletehttp://youtu.be/FJLOr8S2d2E
Robert Palmer covering Gary Numan's cyberpunk "I Dream Of Wires" and doing a damn good job of it, too:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko1GtT8lJmg
How the fuck did I never hear of these guys before? Fucking AWESOME.
ReplyDeleteNo discussion of Led Zeppelin covers should be without this. http://youtu.be/rAM1MKi7bNU
ReplyDeleteNo Satisfaction collection is complete without the Residents:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuCXpESnodk
Palmer's pre-MTV albums have some great covers, "Pressure Drop" among them. Doesn't hurt that the backing band on a lot of them is Little Feat.
ReplyDeleteOr this.
ReplyDeletehttp://youtu.be/Teg_zbhKCMk
There's a Korean lady who does a pretty good Hendrix. http://youtu.be/NfOHjeI-Bns
ReplyDeleteFrom the realm of unlikely covers, here is Ministry doing an acoustic cover of the Grateful Dead. http://youtu.be/fGwMmwppLh4
ReplyDeleteNo embedding, but the always awesome WFMU has a compilation of cover versions of Black Sabbath's "War Pigs"; the Faith No More cover is my favorite.
ReplyDeleteOff their "The Real Thing" album, circa 1989. http://youtu.be/w4oZXfrf18Y
ReplyDeleteIf you like Sabbath covers, see also http://youtu.be/uh0fa64RP4Y
ReplyDeleteThat'll teach me.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I just heard of these guys about a week ago; this video was making the rounds on Facebook. That violinist is their secret weapon.
ReplyDeleteloving a bunch of these. This is a guilty pleasure of mine:
ReplyDeletehttp://vimeo.com/9053147
A Grace Jones cover? |bows low| I am not worthy.
ReplyDeleteRonstadt's cover of "Walk Away, Renee" makes me swoon.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSXfMQuiqwg
Followed on to "Around the World" this guy is fabulous!
ReplyDeleteThe Persuasions: Let It Be
ReplyDeleteTo be honest, the Persuasions' entire catalog, afaict, is covers. And pretty much every one is an improvement. If you like a capella, doowop, gospel sound, there's none better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDT8SfBH28U
I was just about to post 1000 Homo DJs. Props, L Bob.
ReplyDeleteYou saying we don't?
ReplyDeleteThe Gourds: Gin and Juice (Bluegrass cover of Snoop Dogg)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4hGSR5njZE
That's When In Rome.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNc5o9TU0t0
ReplyDeleteThat would be with the exception of the multiple courts that have awarded royalties to the owners of the copyrights of the directly lifted lyrics. But I'm sure you're much more of an expert on the relevant law than them.
ReplyDeleteEight miles high: Husker Du:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeqyCwAeT3I
Outstanding choice. Wish I had thought of it first.
ReplyDeleteand the album version:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBKyBlJ_JN8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHRFZFmEq9o is what I think of when I think of cover versions that cast a completely new light on a song
ReplyDeleteDamn, should have read the whole thread before I posted.
ReplyDeleteSon of a bitch, I should have thought of this, too. I love this so, so much. No less an authority than Lou Reed said it was ""the best and most authentic version I have ever heard."
ReplyDeleteWhat's the difference between a cover and a standard? Anyway. http://youtu.be/z3y3f1VfkuQ
ReplyDeleteDid someone say "Pressure Drop?" Here's a non-ska/reggae version.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p03E7Ktvhs
And speaking of non-reggae covers of reggae classics,
ReplyDeleteJerry Garcia and Dave Grisman covering Jimmy Cliff's "Sitting In Limbo"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QCJ9mflho8
Alright, one more and I'll stop spamming, but who covers the fucking B-52s? Nobody, that's who. Except these guys. http://youtu.be/pYulEKYcCgo
ReplyDeleteKind of a cover: "Skank in Bed"
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1NhR0lA2M4
Speaking of Gary Numan covers...
ReplyDeleteFoo Fighters: Down In the Park
(There's a Marilyn Manson cover as well. I don't care for it.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpBd2TB06Uo
Because flute:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9GS3SofhdU
Abso-fucking-lutely.
ReplyDeletePardon the promotion, but one of my favorite local bands here in Las Vegas does nothing but surf-guitar instrumental covers of various metal, punk, or hiphop songs. Often accompanied by a burlesque dancer.
ReplyDeleteSo, Here is Thee Swank Bastards (ft. Svandora LaVey) doing The Dead Kennedys' "Police Truck", instrumental.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22T_JhA4pLo
W O W
ReplyDeleteSo the guy who wrote "Dazed and Confused" also wrote the Dr Pepper jingle "I'm a Pepper . . ." and the Army's "Be all that you can be" Interesting.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkDH1xNN9wI
ReplyDeleteWhat a talented cat!
ReplyDeleteBrilliant stuff.
ReplyDeleteLove it
ReplyDeleteLast week, I discovered that "Pablo Picasso" was covered by this guy:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69Ro_QC2V9U
And these folks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_CCbENmNaI
Whodathunkit?
He's one of those gentleman thieves that used to crop up in pulp stories and an occasional movie. Too bad David Niven's not alive to play him.
ReplyDeleteThis one brings another to my mind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vyoL63r50k
ReplyDeleteWho gives a shite. You pussy
ReplyDeleteYou are an idiot
ReplyDeleteAre you a Jew? Boy you are ugly
ReplyDeleteHey Jew Bag
ReplyDeleteWhere's your butt hurt boi friend Kordo? I'd kick both your asses at the same time. You are a bald pussy
ReplyDeleteThis version of this song has been killing me for about 25 years.
ReplyDeleteThis is much more likely, and for me it is the version of this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDgPZScj5Ak&list=RDUDgPZScj5Ak#t=9
ReplyDeleteAnd if you're really serious about Kraftwerk covers, Strictly Kev from DJ Food has a series of at least six mixtapes of Kraftwerk covers, samples, and emphemera:
ReplyDeletehttps://soundcloud.com/strictly/kraftwerk-kover-kollection-vol
Ooooh, just skipping around, I like what's going on around minute 14-16.
ReplyDeleteAnd a steel drums Joy Division cover:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bLuaKkZxaQ
I raised you to feast on the warm blood of the living, not to behave in this ignorant and rude fashion; you are a disgrace to the house of Barlow!
ReplyDeleteI was introduced to M. Coconut via his album of Kraftwek covers; this is my personal favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilA6JQKPgTw
ReplyDeleteI was going to make a Debussy/pussy pun, but it seemed doomed to be misunderstood.
ReplyDeleteGotta join in the fun here. Behold, David Bowie's Pixies cover.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te2-zTHSzCk
The Residents influenced a shocking number of artists, including Primus. But yeah, that "Viva Las Vegas" had me thinking of Wall of Voodoo too.
ReplyDeleteOf course the DKs weren't the first punk band to take on that song.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKIzjF25sP8
What can I say? Kids today.
ReplyDeleteYou want Black Sabbath covers, do you?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9AvEpg8BwM
Thank you, mortal; perhaps some evening you could invite me into your domicile and together could discuss the vicissitudes of the young and laugh at the follies of the living at leisure?
ReplyDeleteOkay, there's already so much great stuff up here that I'll be listening to it all for days to come, if not weeks. Still, one more before I depart for the night. Back in her alt-country days the divine Neko Case covered Scott Walker. The good one.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md4wXiTbnQ4
Been listening to a lot of Blondie these past couple of days. The Tide is High is a cover of an old Paragons tune... love the weird "Star Wars" spoof here.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppYgrdJ0pWk
Here's audio for the original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQXqkiKXiHc
Shane MacGowan covers Neil Diamond:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaWMLUgeluc
Notable mainly because Cáit O'Riordán is playing bass here.
Huh, it's the troll equivalent of the type of drunk you find loitering outside the entrances of bars, swaying and directing profanity-laden threats at anyone walking by: "Whatta yuh lookin' at, mu'fuckah? Kick yer ass. . ."
ReplyDeleteThat's an awesome version... the only thing it's missing is that weird little car thing.
ReplyDeleteI prefer the Foo Fighters to Nirvana... hands down.
And yeah, I know it was for one of those "Idol" type shows, but Sandra Dahlberg did a creditable cover of Vargtimmen:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJzW2Vde5aU
Her interpretation is especially impressive considering that the wolf is typically seen as a symbol of male lust and aggression, as conveyed in the original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow712WkL6HA
OK, I'll play.
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