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Title: Great Cover(s)
Post by: DavidGrohl on 01 Sep 2006, 10:36: This was shown on a local Chicago News channel, where I first heard it.

It's an AMAZING accoustic cover of Hey Ya by OutKast. Give it a listen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ioKEDgnfs8&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Emyspace%2Ecom%2F

Brilliant . . god damn . . .
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Post by: Mikendher on 01 Sep 2006, 10:38: I agree; I've been looking for an mp3 of it for the longest time.
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Post by: DavidGrohl on 01 Sep 2006, 10:39: Give me your e-mail and I'll send it to you.
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Post by: TrueNeutral on 01 Sep 2006, 10:41: I love what you did with Baker Street, Dave.
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Post by: ALoveSupreme on 01 Sep 2006, 11:05: Covers of that song stopped being clever at least 2 months after it came out.

Good voice, though. I'll check the band out.

Quote from: Mikendher
I agree; I've been looking for an mp3 of it for the longest time.

mp3 link (http://trafficsau.de/stuff/heyya.mp3) Save as, etc.
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Post by: lbarbs on 01 Sep 2006, 11:57: Has anyone heard Tily and The Wall's 'Hey Ya'?

Also Show of Hands' cover of Radiohead's Green Plastic Trees
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Post by: Valrus on 01 Sep 2006, 12:09: I know it's obvious, but Jeff Buckley's "Hallelujah." I just heard the original recently, and it must have taken a brilliant musical mind to realize that there was a great song buried in that shit.

Also, the cover of Hey Ya that the OP linked to was brilliant.
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Post by: Omnicide on 01 Sep 2006, 12:43: Issac Hayes' version of Walk On By kicks alot of arse. To think he used to be cool....
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Post by: Thrillho on 01 Sep 2006, 12:47: Don't get me started on great covers.

Too late, you've got me started. I actually have a 12-song playlist (that being my standard template) of my favourite covers. They are thusly:

SikTh - Tupelo (Nick Cave)
Editors - Orange Crush (REM)
Happy Mondays - The Boys Are Back In Town (Thin Lizzy)
Warren Suicide - Yer Blues (The Beatles)
Guns 'n' Roses - Live And Let Die (Paul McCartney, possibly with Wings?)
Lostprophets - Cry Me A River (Justin Timberlake)
Metallica - Tuesday's Gone (Dire Straits possibly?)
Radiohead - Be Quiet And Drive (Deftones)
Nick Cave - Disco 2000 (Pulp)
Johnny Cash - In My Life (The Beatles)
The Beatles - Twist and Shout (I don't know the originator, but I know the Isley brothers did a version)
Rage Against The Machine - Maggie's Farm (Bob Dylan)
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Post by: MSI101 on 01 Sep 2006, 14:36: Quote from: DynamiteKid
Don't get me started on great covers.
Metallica - Tuesday's Gone (Dire Straits possibly?)

Not quite, Tuesday's gone is Lynyrd Skynyrd.:)
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Post by: BeoPuppy on 01 Sep 2006, 15:34: One of the greatest covers ... mainly because it was completely out of left field for me, I think is Cradle Of Filth's version of 'Devil Woman' by Cliff Richard.

Loved that.

Also ... Skyclad's Emerald ... yummie.
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Post by: Will on 01 Sep 2006, 15:37: Converge's cover of "Clean" by Depeche Mode was pretty awesome...surprisingly close to the original, as well...
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Post by: Storm Rider on 01 Sep 2006, 16:06: Testament's cover of Metallica's Holier than Thou actually made that song good.
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Post by: Will on 01 Sep 2006, 16:39: I'm always partial to hardcore covers of shitty 80's new wave...

Botch's cover of Rock Lobster was great...also love Dillenger Esc Plan's cover of Rebel Yell...
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Post by: Kai on 01 Sep 2006, 16:42: Did you just refer to the B52's as "Shit 80's New Wave"? The hell dude. The B52's are fucking ace.
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Post by: Will on 01 Sep 2006, 17:08: I realized the error of my ways, but I forgot to preview...

Actualy, Billy Idol isn't shitty either, Billy Idol is THE shit...

Sorry, everybody...I am ashamed
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Post by: Audhumla on 01 Sep 2006, 23:52: Quote from: BeoPuppy
One of the greatest covers ... mainly because it was completely out of left field for me, I think is Cradle Of Filth's version of 'Devil Woman' by Cliff Richard.

Loved that.

100% agreement level reached.

Otyg did a pretty nice version of Holy Diver
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Post by: Thrillho on 02 Sep 2006, 06:46: Quote from: MSI101
Quote from: DynamiteKid
Don't get me started on great covers.
Metallica - Tuesday's Gone (Dire Straits possibly?)

Not quite, Tuesday's gone is Lynyrd Skynyrd.:)

Those are two bands I tend to get mixed up because I don't give much of a shit about either of them. But they really don't sound much alike. What the fuck.
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Post by: amok on 02 Sep 2006, 08:52: Apoptygma Berzerk - Fade To Black. Should be sacrilege, but sounds ace.
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Post by: Jenno on 02 Sep 2006, 09:11: Iron & Wine - Such Great Heights

I think I actually like this better than the original. Sam Beam is dreamy...
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Post by: elcapitan on 03 Sep 2006, 01:22: The Herd's version of A Walk In The Light Green (I Was Only Nineteen). They put together a cover for Triple J's Like A Version show, but it became so damn popular that they recorded a video and added it to repressings of their album The Sun Never Sets. I saw them play on Wednesday night, and this was an absolute highlight.

The Original (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7TXBuVUQJw).
The Cover (http://www.elefanttraks.com/chooser.cfm?view=gallery&currentCat=18&article=176).
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Post by: Ravenbomb on 03 Sep 2006, 19:14: Quote from: Valrus
I know it's obvious, but Jeff Buckley's "Hallelujah." I just heard the original recently, and it must have taken a brilliant musical mind to realize that there was a great song buried in that shit.

Did Jeff Buckley's version come before John Cale's or after? Because I've heard it both ways
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Post by: southern_dan on 03 Sep 2006, 19:53: clair bowdwiths (spelling) cover of fall at your feet by the finn brothers blew me away, first heard it sitting in my hotel room up north, been in love with it ever since.

come to think of it the whole cover album "she will have her way" is fantastic, i recommend it to anyone that enjoys a good mix of female vocals.
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Post by: jcknbl on 03 Sep 2006, 20:59: This is going to piss someone off but...

I adore the Cardigan's cover of Iron Man. They turn it into this sad, wonderfully human pop song. I shiver listening to it.
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Post by: Scytale on 03 Sep 2006, 22:46: Opeth's version of Remember Tomorrow, I've heard a lot of shitty Iron Maiden cover's but this is easily the best. Mikael's vocals are simply amazing.
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Post by: elcapitan on 04 Sep 2006, 01:07: Quote from: southern_dan
come to think of it the whole cover album "she will have her way" is fantastic, i recommend it to anyone that enjoys a good mix of female vocals.

Oh hell yeah. Sarah Blasko's cover of Don't Dream It's Over floors me every time.
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Post by: Cartilage Head on 04 Sep 2006, 14:53: That "Hey Ya" cover is pretty good! I alsolike the original song by them.. I'd like to check them out further.

Anyway, I really like the cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide" by Billy Corgan, even though it's a little unconventional.
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Post by: Merkava on 04 Sep 2006, 15:06: I prefer the Dixie Chicks version.
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Post by: oscard on 04 Sep 2006, 21:15: The Eloi covering Caribou by the Pixies. One of my favorite renditions of the song.
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Post by: greenMonkey on 05 Sep 2006, 15:03: The Bad Plus' covers of Iron Man and Chariots of Fire are possibly the most absurd and awesome covers I have ever heard.
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Post by: alic3sw0nd3rland on 05 Sep 2006, 19:20: I was quite obsessed with Final Fantasy's cover of "Peach Plum Pear" by Joanna Newsom for a while. I also really love TV on the Radio's cover of "Mr. Grieves" by the Pixies.
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Post by: Lukeypoo on 05 Sep 2006, 19:21: I don't how familiar any of you are with Final Fantasy (the solo project/band not the game) but he does a cover of Bloc Party's - This Modern Love that is out of this world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFXJKp-NgR8&mode=related&search=

His name's Owen Pallett, he played with Arcade Fire for funeral and has dipped his toes in quite a few excellent Canadian bands. Enjoy!

*EDIT*
As soon as I post this, someone just ahead of me posts a Final Fantasy cover that he likes, coincidence!?!? Yup.
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Post by: Hat on 05 Sep 2006, 23:54: I really adore Between The Buried and Me's cover of Bicycle Race. It's not particularly adventurous or out there, but it is a fun screw around with a fun tune, so it is pretty inevitable fun will result.
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Post by: nuisance on 06 Sep 2006, 06:36: The Sinatra cover on the Junior Boys' latest, 'So This Is Goodbye' is pretty stunning. Seems to be completely sincere, which is just as well.

Someone mentioning Stereolab in the post-rock thread reminded me that (Ui + Stereolab = ) Uilab's 'St Elmo's Fire' has a high wickedness factor...
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Post by: GamerMunkie on 06 Sep 2006, 08:11: I'm partial to The Scissor Sister's cover of "Take Me Out" by Franz Ferdinand
And also No Doubt's cover of "Come On Eileen"
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Post by: soak on 06 Sep 2006, 18:05: Quote from: hey_there_fatty
... I really like the cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide" by Billy Corgan, even though it's a little unconventional.

That's one of my favourites as well as Eagles of Death Metal's Stuck in the Metal With You.
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Post by: Will on 06 Sep 2006, 18:07: I haven't hear any of the BTBAM covers album...is it worth checking out?
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Post by: lbarbs on 07 Sep 2006, 04:13: Forgot to mention - Ukulele Orchastra of Great Britain - an awesome and hilarious cover band.
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Post by: McTaggart on 07 Sep 2006, 04:47: Just this morning on triplej Ben Folds did a prepared piano cover of Such Great Heights. Bot sure whether I loved it because it was great or because of the prepared piano though... don't think it matters.
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Post by: pat101 on 07 Sep 2006, 05:40: Shatner doing Common People is classic.
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Post by: Hat on 07 Sep 2006, 11:29: Quote from: 10101110
I haven't hear any of the BTBAM covers album...is it worth checking out?

I quite enjoyed it, considering I don't even like the band much to begin with. They also do a pretty decent cover of Kickstart My Heart on it which I actually prefer to the original.

Speaking of Ben Folds, his cover of "Bitches aint shit" was fucking hilarious. Oh, and Rush doing Summertime Blues wasn't too shabby either.
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Post by: Will on 07 Sep 2006, 11:45: I love the cover of "Tiny Dancer" that Ben Folds did on the Ben Folds Live album...no disrespect to any Elton John fans, but I think Ben's version was a million times better
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Post by: Cartilage Head on 07 Sep 2006, 14:38: OH. Also, Gary Jules covering Tears For Fears' Mad World.

Velvet Revolver covering Pink Floyd's Money wasn't too bad either! it was pretty sweet hearing Slash bust out Gilmour's solo!
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Post by: Thrillho on 08 Sep 2006, 08:59: Quote from: hey_there_fatty
OH. Also, Gary Jules covering Tears For Fears' Mad World.

Velvet Revolver covering Pink Floyd's Money wasn't too bad either! it was pretty sweet hearing Slash bust out Gilmour's solo!

I can't decide what I think of that cover.
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Post by: Trollstormur on 08 Sep 2006, 09:54: Modest Mouse did a cover of Slayer's South of Heaven that's really fucking wierd.
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Post by: OllieA on 08 Sep 2006, 14:31: I like Cake's 'I Will Survive' and I had a thing for Jimmy Eat World's 'Firestarter' in my younger days.
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Post by: Spike on 08 Sep 2006, 15:35: The Smashing Pumpkins did a cover of Thin Lizzie's dancing in the moonlight. I have grown quite fond of it.
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Post by: Gothmog_Dave on 08 Sep 2006, 16:31: Johnny Cash - Hurt (originally by Nine Inch Nails)
Scissor Sisters - Take Me Out (originally by Franz Ferdinand)

The above two covers are, I believe, infinitely better than the originals.
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Post by: Kai on 08 Sep 2006, 16:38: The Tears For Fears version of Mad World is ever so much better than Jules' cover.
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Post by: Will on 08 Sep 2006, 16:50: I second the Johnny Cash cover of Hurt...I like the NIN version, but damn...Johnny's version just sends chills down my spine. The video is intense as all hell...
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Post by: Johnny C on 09 Sep 2006, 13:13: If you can play m4a files (i.e. have iTunes) then I suggest you go here (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=8E1162F15AD2BFE1) for Biz Markie singing "Bennie And The Jets," originally by Elton John. It is a good decision.
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Post by: Will on 09 Sep 2006, 13:23: I can't believe I forgot one of my personal favorite covers; The Deftones version of Sade's "No Ordinary Love." Simply brilliant, so 'twas.

/likes a lot of the Deftones covers.
//also likes slashies
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Post by: ielerol on 09 Sep 2006, 14:18: Quote from: pat101
Shatner doing Common People is classic.

seconded. seconded SO HARD.

The Ditty Bops covering The Everly Brothers' "Bye-Bye Love" may be the happiest breakup song ever recorded. I didn't think they could outdo my love of all things Simon & Garfunkel, but I cannot resist it.

I'm not crazy about Imogen Heap or Footloose, but I really enjoy Frou Frou's version of "Holding Out For A Hero."

brilliance: (http://junk.haughey.com/tedleo-sinceubeengone.mp3) Ted Leo singing "Since U Been Gone"
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Post by: sketchyjoe on 10 Sep 2006, 19:26: Ted Leo - Dirty Old Town
Apocalypse Hoboken - Pop Goes the World
The Vindictives - Rubber Bullets
Rage Against the Machine - Renegades of Funk
Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
Joe Strummer and Johnny Cash - Redemption Song
Johnny Cash - The Mercy Seat
Richard Cheese - Yellow
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Post by: Will on 10 Sep 2006, 20:22: Quote from: sketchyjoe

Johnny Cash - The Mercy Seat

While we're talking about Nick Cave covers, the cover of "God Is In The House" by the Paperchase is pretty excellent...I don't know how, but somehow that band manages to make everything they do sound creepy. Nick Cave's version of this song was pretty cynical and all, but the Paperchase cover just makes me want to curl myself into the fetal position and whimper for my mother...
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Post by: El Opium on 10 Sep 2006, 20:36: Steel Pole Bathtub doing "What I Need" by The Cars because I love noise-rock bands doing covers that completly wreck the original.
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Post by: AlexAttack on 10 Sep 2006, 22:56: Quote from: bachelorchow
i'm going to commit indie suicide and admit my love of Bodyjar's beer-swilling on-every-snowboarding-game-soundtrack-ever cover of Simon and Garfunkles Hazy Shade of Winter. It was on a compilation I bought when I was 14 and it was the height of the whole Xtreme thing and i still love it. sigh...i miss 1998

I still like Bodyjar. They also covered Coolidge by Descendents and Rascist Friend by They Might Be Giants which were both pretty cool.
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Post by: Yakob on 14 Sep 2006, 17:14: Dynamitekid, Live & Let Die is Paul & Linda McCartny.........I'm like 99.99% sure, i never actually heard the original

I actually like quite a few covers GNR did...........Knocking on Heaven's Door (Bob Dylan), Since I Don't Have You (some 50's band, never heard the original) and Sympathy For The Devil (The Rolling Stones) are all excellent

Oh, and I like some punk covers of shit pop songs like Presidents of the USA's Video Killed The Radio Star and Me First and the Gimme Gimme's I Believe I Can Fly.........(shut up, I'm 14)
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Post by: Bassist159 on 22 Sep 2006, 07:20: Quote from: amok
Apoptygma Berzerk - Fade To Black. Should be sacrilege, but sounds ace.
Their live cover of Enjoy the Silence is actually pretty good, too, not counting the pointlessly long intro.

The Shroud's cover of Sister of Mercy's Alice is amazingly good, and this is coming from someone who really cannot stand the "violin, cello, and a weak female vocalist" style goth bands. I guess it also falls in the "should be sacriledge, comes out good" catagory.

I'd say Grendel's Zombie Nation 2k5 wins in comparison to the original, but I don't know if the original counts as music to begin with.
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Post by: Scandanavian War Machine on 22 Sep 2006, 12:10: Metallica's cover of "Stone Cold Crazy" by Queen is freaking kick ass, both versions of the song are.
that song was written to be covered by Metallica, i swear.

i also enjoy NoFX's cover of Don Mclean's "Vincent." i like NoFX, i like Don Mclean, i like Vincet Van Gogh......what's not to like?
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Post by: rage on 23 Sep 2006, 04:20: I heard a good cover of Sweet Child O' Mine. Luna did it, methinks.
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Post by: nuisance on 23 Sep 2006, 08:53: 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.
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Post by: KharBevNor on 23 Sep 2006, 10:54: 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.
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Post by: nuisance on 23 Sep 2006, 16:28: 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.
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Post by: Johnny C on 23 Sep 2006, 18:09: Quote from: Yakob
Dynamitekid, Live & Let Die is Paul & Linda McCartny.........I'm like 99.99% sure, i never actually heard the original

No, it's definitely by Paul McCartney and Wings.

LIVE AND LET DIE-I!
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Post by: Yakob on 26 Sep 2006, 16:18: Oops, my bad. The writing credits went to Paul & Linda, so I only assumed
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Post by: Recent Vintage on 30 Sep 2006, 17:47: Richard Cheese & Lounge Against the Machine version of Down With the Sickness blew me away.

Also Cash's Hurt was much better than the originial.
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Post by: Bassist159 on 30 Sep 2006, 20:29: C-Drone Defect manages to make "It's a Sin" into a rather heavy, very angry aggrotech song. Also, Ministry doing "Lay Lady Lay" is at least laughable, if not very enjoyable.
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Post by: IronOxide on 30 Sep 2006, 22:35: Quote from: Recent Vintage on 30 Sep 2006, 17:47
Richard Cheese & Lounge Against the Machine version of Down With the Sickness blew me away.

I do love me some Richard Cheese, although I may prefer his version of "Smoke Two Joints".
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Post by: KharBevNor on 01 Oct 2006, 02:53: Quote from: nuisance on 23 Sep 2006, 16:28
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...

Well, Marc Almond is in the video...
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Post by: whatno on 01 Oct 2006, 03:23: my favorite cover songs.. http://erkman.multiply.com/music/item/29