Covers I like as well as the original

ice nine · Post by **ice nine** » Sun Jun 29, 2003 5:21 pm

Mrs. Robinson - Lemonheads
All Along the Watchtower - Micheal Hedges
For No One- Rickie Lee Jones
Blackbird - Dionne Farris
Til There Was You - Beatles
Last Train To Clarksville - Cassandra Wilson
Sunday Morning Comin' Down- Shaun Mullins
Time After Time - Tuck & Patty
Wild Horses - The Sundays
What A Wonderful World - Victoria Williams
Crazy Mary - Pearl Jam
Expressway To Your Heart - Breakfast Club

Of course there is 'My Funny Valentine', but was it ever recorded in the studio and not live?

Boy With A Problem · Post by **Boy With A Problem** » Sun Jun 29, 2003 5:30 pm

Ice -

"Valentine" was the b-side of "Oliver's Army" - I first had it on the "Taking Liberties" lp.

A couple of my all-time favorite covers (where I like the original too)

Husker Du - Eight Miles High
The Clash - Police & Thieves, I Fought The Law

Tim(e) · Post by **Tim(e)** » Sun Jun 29, 2003 5:43 pm

Satisfaction - Devo
Satisfaction - The Residents
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance - Regurgitator
My Way - Sid Vicious
My Funny Valentine - EC
Anything at all done by Eugene Chadbourne Jnr as himself (especially his Roger Miller medley)
Anything at all done by Eugene Chadbourne Jnr in his other guise as Shockabilly (especially his Jimi Hendrix covers)

Boy With A Problem · Post by **Boy With A Problem** » Sun Jun 29, 2003 5:46 pm

Tim(e) -

What would you recommend by Eugene Chadbourne as a starting cd to buy? I've got his disc with Camper Van Beethoven and honestly I don't listen to it that much. I saw him about 15 years ago playing with CVB and the bunch of them blew me away.

Tim(e) · Post by **Tim(e)** » Sun Jun 29, 2003 7:10 pm

Boy With A Problem wrote:Tim(e) -

What would you recommend by Eugene Chadbourne as a starting cd to buy? I've got his disc with Camper Van Beethoven and honestly I don't listen to it that much. I saw him about 15 years ago playing with CVB and the bunch of them blew me away.

These are probably far less melodic (coherent?) than anything he has done with Camper Van Beethoven, but I would recommend:

LSD C&W - the History of the Chadbourne's in America
There'll be no Tears Tonight.

I am afraid I am not sure how easy/hard these are to find or whether they are even on CD (mine are vinyl), but I recommend you look for them.

You might also want to check at a web site dedicated to the man:
Eugene Chadbourne's House of Chadula.

lapinsjolis · Post by **lapinsjolis** » Sun Jun 29, 2003 8:37 pm

'Open Up Your Heart and Let the Sun Shine In'-Frente!

SweetPear · Post by **SweetPear** » Mon Jun 30, 2003 5:25 am

This thread should be covers you love from songs that you hated. (So says my husband.) That is the appeal of the cover. (He said that too.)ANYWAY......

Tim(e) wrote:Satisfaction - Devo
My Way - Sid Vicious
My Funny Valentine - EC

Excellent, Tim(e)!

I'll add to that:
I just Don't Know What To Do With Myself - EC
Mrs. Robinson - The Lemonheads (I know that one was already mentioned)
My Generation - GreenDay
Close To Me - The GetUp Kids
I Will Survive - Cake (very cool)
Kiss -Tom Jones
Hello, I love You - Adam and the Ants
She - Anthrax ( Kiss not EC)
Faith - Limp Bizkit
Baker Street - Foo Fighters

I have to add also, the ENTIRE Ramones tribute CD, I think it's called Happy Family. I don't have it here in front of me but there isn't a lame cover on it. Chrissie Hynde, GreenDay, Garbage, Pearl Jam, U2, Rob Zombie, Pete Yorn, Kiss, Tom Waits, Offspring, Marilyn Manson, Red Hot Chili Peppers, John Frishante (sp?)......fantastic!

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Mon Jun 30, 2003 6:03 am

Satisfaction-Cat Power
Believe-Macha Bedhead
Get Into the Groove(y)-Sonic Youth

SweetPear · Post by **SweetPear** » Mon Jun 30, 2003 6:53 am

Like that last one, MBA.

After all I went on about the Ramones, I went and forgot Joey Ramones cover of What A Wonderful World.

It don't get much cooler than Joey Ramone doin Louis Armstrong.

pophead2k · Post by **pophead2k** » Mon Jun 30, 2003 12:39 pm

Gloomy Sunday by our man
Superstar by Sonic Youth
King of the Road by REM
Black Diamond by the Replacements
Mary Tyler Moore Theme by Husker Du
Dancing Queen by U2
Girl You'll be a Woman Soon by Urge Overkill
Lost Cause by Me

Poppet · Post by **Poppet** » Mon Jun 30, 2003 12:54 pm

lapinsjolis wrote:'Open Up Your Heart and Let the Sun Shine In'-Frente!

LOVE Frente!

how about:

Bizarre Love Triangle - Frente!

snagged it offthe web, can't remember where. Frente! website maybe?

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Mon Jun 30, 2003 12:58 pm

Cactus - David Bowie (prefer this to the original, and the two other covers on Heathen are great too).

I love the way The Specials took ska classics, often Prince Buster, like Al Capone or Judge Dread, and refashioned them into something totally new, like Gangsters or Stupid Marriage. They must have read a lot of T S Eliot's essays at school.

Goody2Shoes · Post by **Goody2Shoes** » Mon Jun 30, 2003 1:24 pm

lapinsjolis wrote:'Open Up Your Heart and Let the Sun Shine In'-Frente!

I know that song!

In the same vein, the Ramones' cover of 'Spider-man' is lots of fun. When my daughter was a baby, it would put her to sleep!

so lacklustre · Post by **so lacklustre** » Mon Jun 30, 2003 3:09 pm

I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but I love Siouxie and The Banshees' Helter Skelter.

Jackson Doofster · Post by **Jackson Doofster** » Mon Jun 30, 2003 3:37 pm

SLL

Do you think thyat Helter Skelter inspired Playground Twist?

I loved that song.

costellopunk · Post by **costellopunk** » Mon Jun 30, 2003 4:55 pm

i'm seconding bowie's cactus and cake's i will survive and adding:

happiness is a warm gun-the breeders
fairytale of new york-no use for a name
i can't forget-the pixies
trouble-kristen hersh
i don't wanna grow up, california sun, and take it as it comes-the ramones
needle in the hay-bad astronaut
avalanche-nick cave
stepping stone-minor threat
take this job and shove it-dead kennedys
achin to be-pinhead gunpowder
head like a hole-devo
television man-man or astroman?
surrender-less than jake

plus pretty much everything me first and the gimmie gimmies have done.

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Mon Jun 30, 2003 5:41 pm

CP: interesting that you second Cactus. Isn't a diehard FB fan like you more likely to dismiss such a cover? I know you have very good taste, but am somehow surprised. It really rocks though, now? And the words come across so well. I can see that prison cell and that dress.

Jackson Doofster · Post by **Jackson Doofster** » Mon Jun 30, 2003 5:58 pm

2 Cohen covers:

First we Take Manhattan - REM

Chelsea Hotel - Lloyd Cole

Best EC cover: Brilliant Disguise

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Mon Jun 30, 2003 6:02 pm

Alright Doof! I think that BD cover is OK, but not a classic. Quite bold to do it country style, but the original is still miles better, no?

Jackson Doofster · Post by **Jackson Doofster** » Mon Jun 30, 2003 6:06 pm

Seem to be following you around the board Mr Westinghouse dude.

Agree that it's not in the same league as BS's version, but I still love it.

costellopunk · Post by **costellopunk** » Mon Jun 30, 2003 11:03 pm

otis, i think anyone with ears would love that cover. i love a good cover song and very little is off limits in my mind. i even adore gwen stefani covering almost blue. it's about the music more than any kind of allegiance to specific singers.

girl out of time · Post by **girl out of time** » Tue Jul 01, 2003 12:01 am

-take me for a little while/ dave edmunds
-baby don´t you do it/the who
-tears of rage/ joan baez
-with a little help from my friends/ joe cocker
- you´re no good/ betty everett
-hurt/ johnny cash
-aretha franklin/ bridge over troubled water
-jose feliciano/ light my fire
-trapped/bruce springsteen
-i can´t stand up for falling down/ elvis costello
-tainted love/ soft cell
-satellite of love/ u2
-sorrow/ david bowie
-96 tears/ the stranglers

bambooneedle · Post by **bambooneedle** » Tue Jul 01, 2003 2:45 am

The Stranglers also did that cover of Bacharach's Walk On By. Don't know too much about them, but they did have some really good sophisticated songs (Golden Brown, Skin Deep, Always The Sun etc) and also some real crap yobbo-sounding ones (Nice In Nice, Big In America, etc) -- can anyone point to an obvious explanation for this disparity?

I haven't heard this but would love to -- Suzanne Vega just did Beyond Belief in Budapest (she's long been an EC fan). I read about it on one of her road journal entries from her website. She's also recently done Dylan's It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding). http://www.suzannevega.com/discus/messa ... 1055860324

Jackson Doofster · Post by **Jackson Doofster** » Tue Jul 01, 2003 2:49 am

Bamboo

The Stranglers cover was very strange and pleasantly different at the time. Now it just annoys the hell out of me. The doodly finish seems to go on forever...

JD

bambooneedle · Post by **bambooneedle** » Tue Jul 01, 2003 2:59 am

It does seem to go on, doesn't it? I first heard it from a greatest hits compilation, before i knew it was by Burt, and I just thought there was something about that song (it was good!). Only later did I find out, and from then on paid closer attention to anything by The Burtster.