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Great Cover(s)
rage:
I heard a good cover of Sweet Child O' Mine. Luna did it, methinks.
nuisance:
Luna did a good version of Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot's 'Bonnie & Clyde', with Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier guesting. It's the bonus track at the end of 'Penthouse', unless I'm too drunk to think... big ups New Zealand ex-Chills band members.
KharBevNor:
Man, there's too many good covers for me to really go through. My favourite sort of cover is the way covers are used by the better industrial artists, totally skewing the song to give it new meaning, either by changing the lyrics, adding samples, or simple vastly altering the style of delivery. Prime examples might be Coil taking Tainted Love and, with a funerary pace, soul-piercing synth stabs and an incredible video turning it into a song about the tragedy of AIDS, and pretty much everything Laibach have ever touched, for example, their version of War, where after the line 'War! What is it good for...' a choir starts singing the names of big American corporations over bitching industrial beats.
nuisance:
Coil's cover of Tainted Love is an example of someone sounding like they're covering a cover... or at least I can't imagine they would have covered the disco number directly had they not heard Soft Cell's version.
Pure supposition, of course...
Either way, both Coil and Soft Cell have done quite phenomenal, re-defining versions of Tainted Love.
Ah, days laughing out loud at Laibach's One Vision... awesomeness.
There's a reggae version of The Spinners' I'll Be Around by a guy called Otis Gayle which I love as much as the original.
Johnny C:
--- Quote from: Yakob ---Dynamitekid, Live & Let Die is Paul & Linda McCartny.........I'm like 99.99% sure, i never actually heard the original
--- End quote ---
No, it's definitely by Paul McCartney and Wings.
LIVE AND LET DIE-I!
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