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I have just been listening to Coil's cover version of 'Tainted Love'. I knew the Soft Cell and Marilyn Manson versions and wondered what other artists covered it - after checking on wiki, it looks like it has been covered 39 times!
So this started me thinking about cover versions - does anyone know any particularly good or bad ones? I think that it's rare that a cover sounds more inspired than the original but it's always interesting to listen to.
(shamefully I know the Christmas season starts for me when I start to play Mariah Carey's and then MCR's versions of 'All I want for Christmas is you')
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15-10-2008, 17:55
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GOOD:
Marilyn Manson - Tainted Love (Soft Cell)
Billy Idol - Mony Mony (Tommy James & The Shondells)
Colin James - Into The Mystic (Van Morrison)
Brooks & Dunn - My Maria (B.W. Stevenson)
BAD:
Peal Jam / Eddie Vedder - Last Kiss (Wayne Cochran & the C.C. Riders)
Celine Dion and Anastacia - Shook Me All Night Long (AC/DC)
Guns n’ Roses - Live and Let Die (Paul McCartney and Wings)
But if I were to take more time, I could add dozens more to each list. :
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15-10-2008, 18:06
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The only ones that come to mind are Devo's cover of Satisfaction (originally by the Rolling Stones, o' course) and Johnny Cash covering the Mercy Seat by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds. Both of which I like, personally.
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I dislike Marilyn Manson and his covers, a lot. So I guess that can be my bad cover mention.
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chess mess Wrote:edit:
I dislike Marilyn Manson and his covers, a lot. So I guess that can be my bad cover mention.
Hey chess mess,
I had to have a little chuckle to myself at your comment. Truth be told I
DO NOT like Manson either. I can easily count the number of songs I "don't mind" by him on one hand, but those tracks came over time. Let me explain, my oldest daughter just LOVES Marilyn Manson, and over the years, as "Mom" I have sat and listened to his music a number of times with my daughter, as my way of bonding with my "then" teenager. :
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Occasionally a cover can outshine the original. Here's one that comes to mind:
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah [Leonard Cohen]
But of course covers aren't meant to be better than the original just a new take on it. I like it best when the cover artist fully makes the song their own. Johnny Cash excels at this.
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Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah [Leonard Cohen]
Jeff Buckley's death was the real great musical tragedy of the 90s, forget Cobain.
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[SIZE=2]Good Versions[/SIZE]
[SIZE=2]Johnny Was - Stiff Little Fingers (live version from 'Hanx') (Bob Marley)[/SIZE]
Tom Sawyer - MSI (Rush)
[SIZE=2]Basin Street Blues â Julie London (Louis Armstrong). [/SIZE]
I don't like the arrangement so much but her voice is just beautiful.
Jack The Ripper - White Stripes (Screamin' Lord Sutch)
and as for Hallejullah, I must agree with Iota -
Iota Wrote:Rufus Wainwright's cover's better.
Bad Versions
Song 2 - My Chemical Romance (Blur)
Whiskey In The Jar - traditional Irish - Thin Lizzy did a great version - but Metallica!
I Fought The Law - Dead Kennedys (The Clash)
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CMB1888 Wrote:I Fought The Law - Dead Kennedys (The Clash)
FYI,
I Fought the Law is a Sonny Curtis song. I think the first to perform it was the Bobby Fuller Four.
